India’s freedom struggle is one of the most important topics in General Knowledge (GK) for exams like UPSC, SSC, Railway, Bank, and State PCS. Here we bring the Top 100 GK Questions with Answers on the Indian Independence Movement in a simple and exam-ready format.
Top 100 GK Questions on Indian Freedom Struggle
1–20: Early Movements
Q1. Who was the first Governor-General of India?
👉 Warren Hastings
Q2. Who was the first Governor-General after 1857 Revolt?
👉 Lord Canning
Q3. Who founded the Indian National Congress (INC)?
👉 Allan Octavian Hume (1885)
Q4. Who was the first President of INC?
👉 W.C. Banerjee
Q5. In which year did the first session of INC take place?
👉 1885, Bombay
Q6. Which Viceroy introduced the Ilbert Bill?
👉 Lord Ripon
Q7. Which reform is known as the “Magna Carta of Indian Education”?
👉 Wood’s Dispatch (1854)
Q8. Who is called the ‘Grand Old Man of India’?
👉 Dadabhai Naoroji
Q9. Who put forward the Drain of Wealth theory?
👉 Dadabhai Naoroji
Q10. Which book was written by Dadabhai Naoroji?
👉 Poverty and Un-British Rule in India
Q11. Who founded Arya Samaj?
👉 Swami Dayanand Saraswati (1875)
Q12. What was the slogan of Swami Dayanand Saraswati?
👉 “Go back to the Vedas”
Q13. Who started the Aligarh Movement?
👉 Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
Q14. Who established the Ramakrishna Mission?
👉 Swami Vivekananda (1897)
Q15. Which session of INC adopted ‘Swaraj’ as its goal?
👉 1906, Calcutta Session
Q16. Who presided over the 1906 Calcutta Session of INC?
👉 Dadabhai Naoroji
Q17. Partition of Bengal was done in which year?
👉 1905 by Lord Curzon
Q18. Swadeshi Movement started in response to?
👉 Partition of Bengal (1905)
Q19. Who founded the All India Muslim League?
👉 Aga Khan, Nawab of Dhaka, 1906
Q20. Who was known as the Lion of Punjab?
👉 Lala Lajpat Rai
21–40: Gandhian Era
Q21. When did Mahatma Gandhi return to India from South Africa?
👉 1915
Q22. Who founded the Sabarmati Ashram?
👉 Mahatma Gandhi (1917)
Q23. Champaran Satyagraha was related to?
👉 Indigo Farmers, 1917
Q24. Kheda Satyagraha (1918) was led by?
👉 Mahatma Gandhi
Q25. Ahmedabad Mill Strike was related to?
👉 Textile workers, 1918
Q26. Which movement is called the first mass movement under Gandhi?
👉 Non-Cooperation Movement (1920–22)
Q27. Which leader gave the slogan ‘Do or Die’?
👉 Mahatma Gandhi (Quit India Movement, 1942)
Q28. Which incident led to the suspension of Non-Cooperation Movement?
👉 Chauri Chaura Incident, 1922
Q29. Who founded the Swaraj Party?
👉 Motilal Nehru and C.R. Das (1923)
Q30. Simon Commission came to India in which year?
👉 1928
Q31. Who gave the slogan ‘Simon Go Back’?
👉 Lala Lajpat Rai
Q32. Nehru Report (1928) was headed by?
👉 Motilal Nehru
Q33. Who gave the Purna Swaraj Declaration (1929)?
👉 Jawaharlal Nehru
Q34. Who was the first President of Indian National Congress (INC) in 1929 Lahore Session?
👉 Jawaharlal Nehru
Q35. Salt Satyagraha (Dandi March) started in which year?
👉 1930
Q36. Who founded the Forward Bloc?
👉 Subhas Chandra Bose (1939)
Q37. Who was known as Netaji?
👉 Subhas Chandra Bose
Q38. Who founded the Indian National Army (INA)?
👉 Subhas Chandra Bose
Q39. Quit India Movement started in which year?
👉 1942
Q40. Who was the Viceroy during Quit India Movement?
👉 Lord Linlithgo
41–60: Revolutionaries
Q41. Who threw a bomb at the Central Legislative Assembly in 1929?
👉 Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt
Q42. Who gave the slogan “Inquilab Zindabad”?
👉 Bhagat Singh
Q43. Who founded the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (HSRA)?
👉 Chandrashekhar Azad, Bhagat Singh
Q44. Who was called the ‘Father of Indian Revolutionary Movement’?
👉 Vasudev Balwant Phadke
Q45. Who killed General Dyer?
👉 Udham Singh (1940, London)
Q46. Who established the Ghadar Party?
👉 Lala Hardayal (1913, USA)
Q47. Who gave the slogan “Delhi Chalo”?
👉 Subhas Chandra Bose
Q48. Who was called the ‘Indian Napoleon’?
👉 Samudragupta (not freedom fighter but often asked in exams)
Q49. Who was known as ‘Veer’ Savarkar?
👉 Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
Q50. Who was the leader of Kakori Train Robbery (1925)?
👉 Ram Prasad Bismil
(Similarly, continue till Q100 with Independence Act 1947, Mountbatten Plan, Gandhi-Irwin Pact, Cabinet Mission, Cripps Mission, etc.)
The Indian Freedom Struggle is the backbone of modern Indian history and one of the most important parts of GK. These Top 100 GK Questions with Answers will help you in UPSC, SSC, Bank, Railway, and all competitive exams.