Question Discussion & Solution

The correct answer is Mumbai.

Key Points

• On 8 August 1942 at the All-India Congress Committee session in Bombay, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi launched the 'Quit India' movement.
• The next day, Gandhi, Nehru, and many other leaders of the Indian National Congress were arrested by the British Government. 
• The Quit India Movement, also known as the August Movement, was a movement launched at the Bombay session of the All-India Congress Committee by Mahatma Gandhi during World War II, demanding an end to British rule in India.

Additional Information

• The slogan 'Quit India' was given by Yusuf Meherally.
• The viceroy during the Quit India movement was Lord Linlithgow.
• During the 'Quit India' movement, Mahatma Gandhi gave the slogan 'Do or Die' 

The correct answer is Indian Struggle - Subhas Chandra Bose.

Key Points

• The Indian Struggle, 1920–1942 is a two-part book by the Indian nationalist leader Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose that covers the 1920–1942 history of the Indian independence movement to end British imperial rule over India. 
  • In 1927 Katherine Mayo, a foreign journalist, visited India.
  • She wrote a book called 'Mother India'.
  • It was about Indian civilization, culture, and life. She saw only sheer ignorance and filth in India and nothing good or decent.
  • People who were opposed to the freedom of India had given money for the publication of Miss Mayo's book.

Additional Information

• The India Divided book was written by Dr. Rajendra Prasad.
  • Rajendra Prasad was an Indian independence activist, lawyer, scholar, and subsequently, the first president of India, in office from 1950 to 1962.
  • He joined the Indian National Congress during the Indian Independence Movement and became a major leader from the region of Bihar and Maharashtra. 
• India Wins Freedom is an enlightening account of the partition from the author, Maulana Azad’s perspective.
  • It includes his personal experiences when India became independent and his ideas on freedom and liberty.
  • The book takes the form of an autobiographical narrative and goes over the happenings of the Indian Independence movement.
• In response to that book, Lala Lajpat Rai wrote the book unhappy India book.
  •  In this book, Lala Lajpat Rai gave a fitting reply to the false propaganda of Miss Mayo.
  • In this book, Lala Lajpat Rai compared Indian society with the contemporary USA and Britain. 

• Lothal is one of the places of Indus Valley Civilization located presently in India.
• It is located near Saragwala, a village in the Ahmedabad district of the state Gujarat.
• The word Lothal means “the mount of the dead”.

Rishabhdev was the first Tirthankara of the Jains.

• He was born to King Nabhi Raja and Queen Marudevi at Ayodhya in the Ikshvaku clan.
• Mahavira (6th century bce) was the last Tirthankara to appear.

The correct answer is Surat

Key Points

• The East India Company arrived first at Surat, India in 1608 in the ship Hector commanded by William Hawkins.
• The British established their first Indian factory at Surat (1612).
• Within a few years had established a permanent factory there.
• Surat was the port used by the textile manufacturers of Gujrat and was the most important center for the overseas trade of the Mughal Empire.
• A factory was eventually established at Surat in 1612 when the Portuguese fleet was defeated by the English.

Additional Information

• Cochin: The earliest account of Cochin is derived from the records made by the Chinese traveler, Ma Huan.
  • At the beginning of the XVI century, Cochin was the seat of the Portuguese in India, including the time of the capture of Goa in 1510.
  • Cochin was the first princely state to join India willingly after Independence.
• Calicut: Vasco da Gama sailed on a mission to reach India and open a sea route from Europe to the East.
  • He made numerous stops in Africa before reaching Calicut in 1498.