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August 9, 2023

Identify who has said this quote:-“The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.”

(A) Mahatma Gandhi
(B) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(C) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
(D) Rabindra Nath Tagore

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ANSWER-A

Identify who is being credited for saying these lines:-” A war based on Satyagraha is always of two kinds. One is the war we wage against injustice and the other we fight against our own weaknesses”.

(A) Mahatma Gandhi
(B) Sardar Vallabh bhai Patel
(C) Annie Besant
(D) Sarojini Naidu

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ANSWER-B

Identify the Author of these lines :-”We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action”.

(A) Sarojini Naidu
(B) Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose
(C) B.R. Ambedkar
(D) Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru

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ANSWER -A

Identify who said this- "Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career

(A) Mahatma Gandhi
(B) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(C) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
(D) Annie Besant

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ANSWER-C

Identify who said this- Men, money and material cannot by themselves bring victory or freedom. We must have the motive-power that will inspire us to brave deeds and heroic exploits

(A) Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose
(B) G K Gokhale
(C) Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
(D) M G Ranade

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ANSWER-A

Identify who is being credited for saying these lines:-” A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows”.

(A) Annie Besant
(B) G K Gokhale
(C) M G Ranade
(D) Allan Octavian Hume

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ANSWER-A

Which of the following British GG/VICEROY is credited with these lines:-”As long as we rule India, we are the greatest power in the world. If we lose it, we shall drop straight away to a third-rate Power”.

(A) Lord William Bentick
(B) Lord Curzon
(C) Lord Birkenhead
(D) Lord Linlithgow

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ANSWER- B

Identify who is being credited for saying these lines:-”You can not bring unity to a country by Imposing Uniformity”

(A) C. Rajagopalachari
(B) S. Vallabh bhai patel
(C) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
(D) Atal Behari Vajpayee

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Answer:- A

Identify who is being credited for saying these lines:-“I love India a little more than my own country.”

(A) Lord Mayo
(B) Lord Dufferin
(C) Warren Hastings
(D) William Bentick

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Answer:- C

Warren Hastings was the most curious and learned about Indian culture and famously declared: “I love India a little more than my own country.” He was fluent in Bengali, had good working knowledge of Urdu and Persian, and pioneered the revival of Sanskrit, rescuing it from the narrow confines of a corrupt Brahmin priesthood.

Identify who is being credited for saying these lines:-‘The bones of the cotton weavers are bleaching the plains of India’

(A) Lord Dufferin
(B) Warren Hastings
(C) William Bentick
(D) Dalhousie

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ANSWER-C

‘The bones of the cotton weavers are bleaching the plains of india’, said William Bentick, the Governor General of India, in 1834 to highlight the plight of cotton weavers in India caused by the British policy towards tradtitional urban Indian handicrafts

Identify who is being credited for saying these lines:-‘“You cannot have a good social system when you find yourself low in the scale of political rights nor can you be fit to exercise political rights and privileges, unless your social system is based on reason and justice. You cannot have a good economic system when your social arrangements are imperfect. If your religious ideas are low and grovelling, you cannot succeed in the social, economic or political spheres. This inter-dependence is not an accident but the law of our nature.”

(A) Ishwar Chand Vidyasagar
(B) M G Ranade
(C) Pandita Ramabai
(D) Annie Besant

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ANSWER:- B

Who among the following is known to have said these lines:- “To attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming, first and foremost, at political freedom is the very height of ignorance and futility”

(A) Bipin Chandra pal
(B) Sri Aurobindo
(C) C R Das
(D) Subhash Chandra Bose

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ANSWER- B

Who among the following is known to have said these lines:-”Each nation has its own peculiar method of work. Some work through politics, some through social reforms, some through other lines. With us, religion is the only ground along which we can move”

(A) Sri Aurobindo
(B) C R Das
(C) Swami Vivekanand
(D) Mahatma Gandhi

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ANSWER-C

Identify who said this- “Just consider how terrible the day of your death will be Others will go on speaking and you will not be able to argue back”.

(A) Swami Vivekanand
(B) Mahatma Gandhi
(C) Bal shastri Jambhekar
(D) Raja Ram Mohun Roy

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ANSWER-D

Who among the following is known to have said these lines:- "Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark."

(A) Swami Vivekanand
(B) Mahatma Gandhi
(C) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
(D) Rabindra Nath Tagore

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ANSWER- D