The Simon Commission which came to India in February 1928 was boycotted because

(1) all its members were Englishmen

(2) at that time a large number of nationalist leaders were in prison

(3) the chairman, Sir John Simon was very unpopular

(4) the Montague-Chelmsford Reforms had failed

Who was the Chairman of the Partition Council?
(1) M. A. Jinnah
(2) Lord Mountbatten
(3) Jawaharlal Nehru
(4) V. P. Menon

Gandhi’s inspiration for Civil Disobedience came from the writings of

(1) Henry David Thoreau
(2) David Ricardo
(3) Henry Kissinger
(4) Bertrand Russell

The idea of Pakistan was first conceived by
(1) Muhammad Iqbal
(2) M. A. Jinnah
(3) Shaukat Ali
(4) Aga Khan

Who is generally acknowledged as the pioneer of local self-government in modern India?

(1) Ripon                                     (2) Mayo
(3) Lytton                                     (4) Curzon

‘Sati’ was abolished by
(1) Lord Ripon
(2) Warren Hastings
(3) Lord Cornwallis
(4) William Bentinck

Mohan Das Karamchand Gandhi was called as ‘Mahatma’ by
(1) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(2) Motilal Nehru
(3) Jawaharlal Nehru
(4) Rabindra Nath Tagore

The ‘Mohammadan Anglo-Oriental College’ later became the

(1) Osmania University
(2) Jamia-Milia Muslim University
(3) Baraktullah University
(4) Aligarh Muslim University

‘Poorna Swaraj’ (Complete Independence) was declared to be the goal of the Indian National Congress in its Session of

(1) Lucknow, 1916
(2) Lahore, 1929
(3) Tripuri, 1939
(4) Lahore, 1940