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 MOST FREQUENTLY ASKE QUESTION IN PSC
 
1. The person who gave the call " Dilli Chalo "
Subhash Chandra Bose
2. The I.N.A was formed in :
Singapore
3. Ajantha Paintings depict scences from the 
Jathaka tales
4. Who is called the " Second Ashoka" 
Kanishka
5. Which king abolished " Jazia "
Aurangazeb
6. Who established the first Indian Empire ?
Chandragupta Maurya
7. Provincial Autonamy :
1937 (Lord Lin-Lith-Go)
8. Puna Pact :
1932(Lord Wellington)
9. Gandhi-Irvin Pact :
1931 (Lord Irvin)
10. Third War of Panipat was in the year ?
1761
11. who was known as" Deena-bandhu" ?
C F Andrews
12. SIKH GURUS :
1)Guru Nanak 2)G.Angad 3)G.Amardas 4)G.Ramdas 5)G.Arjundev 6)G.Hargovind 7)G.HarRai 8)G.Harkishan 9)G.TejBahadur 10)G.GovindSing
13. Diarchy system :
1919
14. Indian council act/Minto morli reforms :
1909 (Lord minto II)
15. Queens proclamation : 
1858 (Lord caning)              
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Important years  related with Mahatma Gandhi

1869 - Born at Porbandar
1891 - Sailed from Bombay for England
1893 - Sailed for South Africa to become lawyer for an Indian firm
1894 - Organised Natal Indian Congress
1901-1902 - Attended Indian National Congress meeting in Calcutta
1904 - Established  Indian Opinion, a weekly
1906 - First satyagraha campaign in Johannesburg
1908 - his first imprisonment
1914 - Left South Africa
1919 - Rowlatt Act
1920 - Elected president of All-India Home Rule League
1921 - Presided at bonfire of foreign cloth in Bombay, Mass Civil Disobedience
1924 - Presided over Congress session at Belgaum as president
1929 - Congress session at Lahore declared 'complete independence' and a boycott of the legislature   and declared January 26 as National Independence Day
1930 - Broke salt law by picking salt up at seashore
1931 - Gandhi-Irwin (Viceroy) Pact signed, Civil Disobedience ended
1933 - Began weekly publication of Harijan in place of Young India
1934 - Launched All-India Village Industries Association
1942 - ongress passed "Quit India" resolution - the final nation-wide satyagraha campaign - with Gandhi as leader
1946 - Conferred with British Cabinet Mission in New Delhi
1947 - Fasted for three days to stop communal violence in Calcutta
1948 - Assassinated in 78th year at Birla House by Nathuram Vinayak Godse

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