1. Constructive Programme is otherwise known as construction of A) Hind Swaraj B) Parliamentary Swaraj C) Swaraj D) Poorna Swaraj

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1 MINUTES 1. Constructive Programme is otherwise known as construction of A) Hind Swaraj B) Parliamentary Swaraj C) Swaraj D) Poorna Swaraj 2. Name the author of the book The Kingdom of God is Within You A) Tolstoy B) Gandhi C) Vinoba Bhave D) Thoreau 3. The difference between Sarvodaya and Communism is A) Both in the means and the ends B) Not in the ends but in the means C) In the ends but not in the means D) None of these 4. Which idea of Thoreau impressed Gandhi? A) Bread labour B) Civil disobedience C) Passive resistance D) Home rule 5. Famous book of Ruskin that influenced Gandhi A) Unto This Last B) Economic History of India C) Small is Beautiful D) A Joy for Ever 6. T.M Bondaraf was the person who stressed on A) Non violence B) Celibacy C) Bread labour D) Love of neighbour 7. Who among the following believed strongly in non- retaliation A) Thoreau B) Tolstoy C) Ruskin D) Subhash Chandra Bose 8. One of these is not an ashram vow A) Truth B) Non violence C) Celibacy D) Retaliation 9. Ahimsa is the means; is the end A) Truth B) Celibacy C) Fearlessness D) Tolerance acres of land was given for Tolstoy Farm free of any charges by A) General Smuts B) Mr.Kallenbach C) Mr.Polak D) Dr.Jameson 11. Economic equality is the master key to A) Non violent independence B) Civil disobedience C) Non cooperation D) Ramaraj 1

2 12. Centralization of a system is inconsistent with the A) Non violent structure of a society B) Present Indian Society C) Nehruian Model D) Globalization 13. On 26 th March 1974, a group of female peasants in Reni village in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand, India changed the face of environmentalism through A) Narmada Antholan B) Chipko movement C) Total revolution D) Green Movement 14. Name of the ecofeminist who is one of the leaders of anti-globalization movement A) Annie Besant B) Sarojini Naidu C) Vandana Shiva D) Ramachandra Guha 15. Democracy must in essence mean the art and science of mobilizing the entire physical, economic and spiritual resources of all the various sections of the people in the service of the common good of all. Who said this? A) Gandhiji B) Abraham Lincoln C) Vinoba Bhave D) Jayaprakash Narayan 16. Basic education is otherwise known as A) Indigenous education B) Nai Talim C) Montessori D) Gandhian model of education 17. The meaning of utilitarian formula is A) Good of the last man B) Greatest good of needy C) Greatest good of all D) Greatest good of greatest number 18. Gandhi considered untouchability as A) An evil in Indian society B) A curse on Hinduism C) A bliss on casteism D) A necessary evil 19. To Gandhi, Adult education means A) Political education B) Farmer education C) Learning 3Rs D) Education of village elders regards political power as the chief tool of public welfare and renders people more and more dependent on the state. A) Raj-niti B) Lok-niti C) Gram swarajya D) Swaraj 21. Departure from the vow of asatya is departing from a second vow A) Brahmacharya B) Non possession C) Vegetarianism D) Ahimsa 2

3 22. Who gave Gandhi the book Unto This Last for reading? A) Ruskin B) Tolstoy C) Mr.Polak D) Kallenbach 23. Truth (God) can be reached only through A) Love B) Courage C) Greed D) Bread labour 24. Wives should not be dolls and objects of indulgence, but should be treated as honoured comrades in common service. Whose words are these? A) Karl Marx B) Vinoba Bhave C) M.K.Gandhi D) Mao zedong 25. Jayaprakash Narayan is known for his call for A) Total revolution B) Spiritualization of sarvodaya C) Gramdan D) Politicisation of Swaraj 26. Non- violence is the weapon of A) The strong B) The educated C) The weak D) The enlightened 27. A lawyer s work has the same value as the barber s in as much as all have the same right of earning their livelihood. These words convey the idea of A) Importance of Bread labour B) Importance of intellectual labour C) Relevance of socialism D) Dignity of labour 28. Satyagraha was first tried in India at A) Ahmedabad B) Champaran C) Kheda D) Bardoli 29. Meaning of sarvodaya is A) Welfare of all B) Welfare of the enemy C) Greatest good of greatest number D) Good of the last 30. Which part of the Bible attracted Gandhiji the most? A) Old Testament B) Sermon on the Mount C) New Testament D) The Last Supper 31. For one who follows the doctrine of ahimsa, there is no room for A) An enemy B) Love C) Friendship D) Care 3

4 32. To Gandhi, Khadi is the symbol of A) Universal Unity B) Worker s unity C) Unity of Indian humanity D) Farmer s Unity 33. Who is the author of the book Poverty and Un-British Rule in India? A) R.C.Dutt B) Dadabhai Naoroji C) Jawaharlal Nehru D) Pyarelal 34. Aparigra ha, one of the ashram vows means A) Non- possession B) Non -violent action C) Possessiveness D) Truth 35. That Government is best that governs the least. Who said this? A) Thoreau B) Gandhi C) Tolstoy D) Vinoba Bhave 36. Sarvodaya does not mean good Government or majority rule, it means freedom from government, it means decentralisation of power. Who said this? A) R.R.Diwakar B) Jayaprakash Narayan C) Vinoba Bhave D) Gandhiji 37. Sarvodaya Samaj was started at A) Ahmedabad B) Bombay C) Sabarmati D) Wardha 38. Gandhiji expressed his ideas while in South Africa through the daily A) Navajivan B) Harijan C) Indian Opinion D) Young India 39. Gandhi was born in the year A) 1869 B) 1881 C) 1859 D) J.C.Kumarappa is the author of the book A) Small is Beautiful B) Towards New Horizon C) Gandhian Economics D) Economy of Permanence 41. Sovereignty of the people based on pure moral authority is A) State B) Ramaraj C) Sarvodaya D) Panchayat Raj 42. Control of all the organs of sense is A) Brahmacharya B) Swadharma C) Individual Swaraj D) Possessiveness 43. Gandhi translated which of the following letter of Tolstoy into Gujarati? A) Letter to a Hindoo B) Letter to Mahatma C) Letter to Indians D) Letter to Thoreau 4

5 44. The book Light of Asia is written by A) Sr.Nivedita B) Sir Edwin Arnold C) Annie Besant D) Vivekananda 45. Your food must be just enough to keep your mind and body in good order. Who said this? A) Gandhiji B) Ruskin C) Vinoba Bhave D) Tolstoy 46. Whose words did make Gandhi think of the importance of manual labour? A) Vivekananda B) Gokhale C) Ruskin D) Thoreau 47. Wholesome and balanced diet is an indispensable part of A) Simple life B) Nature cure C) Happiness D) Non- violent life 48. Who is the author of the book Nonkilling Global Political Science? A) Glenn.D.Paige B) Joan Galtung C) David Gee D) Gene Sharp 49. M.K.Gandhi was the youngest child of A) Putalibai B) Mangal Gandhi C) Remabai D) Devadas Gandhi 50. At the age of thirteen, Gandhi A) Had Upanayanam B) Went to Bombay C) Married Kasturba D) Completed schooling 51. Gandhi regarded this book as the greatest work in devotional literature A) The Kingdom of God is Within You B) Ramayana of Tulasidas C) Bhagavadgita D) The Bible 52. To political power is not an end, but one of the means of enabling people to better their conditions in every department of life A) Vinoba Bhave B) Gene Sharp C) Gandhiji D) Rajiv Gandhi 53. Gandhi considered the lowest point of degeneration of varnashramadharma as A) Absence of untouchability B) Practice of untouchability C) Absence of spiritual freedom D) Practice of exploitation 5

6 54. Gandhi was convinced that under the system of village swaraj, in the political process could be ensured.. A) The greatest good B) Dignity of people C) Maximum participation of the people D) Minimum participation of the people 55. Machinery is the chief symbol of A) Sarvodaya B) Socialism C) Capitalism D) Modern civilization 56. Who formed Santhi Sena in 1957? A) J.C.Kumarappa B) Vinoba Bhave C) Jayaprakash Narayan D) Jawaharlal Nehru 57. Absence of structural violence is called A) Positive peace B) Negative peace C) Inner peace D) Outer peace 58. Non-co operation movement in India was formally started in the year A) 1930 B) 1921 C) 1915 D) Self-rule, freedom, independence beyond political independence are the characteristics of A) Satyagraha B) Swaraj C) Swadeshi D) Sarvodaya 60. I learned the lesson of non-violence (satyagraha) from my wife These words are said by A) Jayaprakash Narayan B) Vinoba Bhave C) M.K.Gandhi D) Jawaharlal Nehru 61. Village democracy is that model of governance that makes the principles of democracy percolate to the A) Last man B) First woman C) Best man D) Immediate neighbour 62. Dadabhai Navoroji is one of the major sources of influence on Gandhi in framing his A) Idea of Swaraj B) Idea of brain drain C) Educational ideas D) Economic ideas 63. If national life becomes so perfect as to become self regulated, no representations become necessary. Such a state according to Gandhi is a A) Direct democracy B) State of enlightened anarchy. C) Village swaraj D) Ideal village 6

7 64. To Gandhi, Village swaraj is a A) Village commune B) Panchayat C) Complete republic D) Village socialism 65. Industrialism for Gandhi is a A) Curse for mankind B) Bliss to mankind C) Bliss for employees D) Maximum happiness 66. Gandhi was not against machinery, but was against A) Indiscriminate use of machinery B) Profit making machinery C) Big machines D) Dependency on foreign machines 67. What was the age of Gandhi when he resorted to Bhramacharya? A) 49 years B) 70 years C) 60 years D) 37 years 68. Hind Swaraj teaches A) Hatred to western civilization B) Gospel of love in place of hate C) Post modernism D) Post colonialism 69. Hate is dangerous and is injurious both to the hater and the hated. Who said this? A) Jesus Christ B) M.K.Gandhi C) Vinoba Bhave D) Rev.Dr.Martin Luther King (Junior) 70. Jawaharlal Nehru called it the livery of India s freedom. It was about A) Iron and steel industries B) Five Year Plans C) Khadi D) Industrialization 71. Trusteeship formula was drafted by A) Professor Dantwala B) M.K.Gandhi C) Zakir Hussain D) Jayaprakash Narayan 72. Vaikom satyagraha was in the year A) 1924 B) 1940 C) 1915 D) successsful satyagraha was against oppressive land revenue programme A) Champaran B) Kheda C) Vaikom D) Bardoli peasants 7

8 74. A copy of the final draft of the Trusteeship formula, before publication was sent to A) Jawaharlal Nehru B) G.D.Birla C) J.R.D. Tata D) Lord Mountbatten 75. To Gandhi, objective of education is A) Higher level of intellectual growth B) All-round drawing out of the best in child and man C) Cultivation of patriotism D) Personality development 76. Gandhi was opposed to the divorce of A) Profit from economic activity B) Politics from economics C) Ethics from economics D) Consumerism from happiness 77. Who prepared Gandhian plan? A) M.K.Gandhi B) Shriman Narayan C) J.C.Kumarappa D) Pyarelal 78. Gene Sharp is the author of the book A) Light of Asia B) Gandhi Wields the Moral Power C) Hind Swaraj D) Unto This Last 79. Sabarmati Ashram was first known as A) Gandhi Ashram B) Swadeshi Ashram C) Satyagraha Ashram D) Sarvodaya Ashram 80. Where is Sevagram located? A) Naokhali B) Bombay C) Ahmedabad D) Wardha 81. Gandhi selected as the first individual satyagrahi A) Sardar Vallabhai Patel B) Dr.B.R. Ambedkar C) Vinoba Bhave D) Jawaharlal Nehru 82. Gandhi s observation about the foundation of education in India laid by Macaulay is that: A) It enslaved Indians B) It liberated Indians C) It helped for self-rule D) None of these 83. Gandhi condemned modern civilization as the: A) Spirit of capitalism B) Spirit of Christianity C) Spirit of it is evil D) Spirit of exploitation 8

9 84. International Decade for a culture of Peace and Non violence for the Children of the World A) B) C) D) The State represents violence in a concentrated and organized form Whose words are these? A) Henry David Thoreau B) Tolstoy C) Vinoba Bhave D) M.K.Gandhi 86. The first condition that is necessary for the success of satyagraha is A) Complete knowledge of the problem B) Detachment from the result of action C) Detachment from the problem D) The satyagrahi should not have any hatred in his heart against the opponent 87. Picketing is a only when it is absolutely non- violent A) Adharma B) Karma C) Dharma D) Swadharma 88. The real meaning of economic equality according to Gandhi and Marx A) To each according to his need B) To each according to his desire C) To each according to his greed D) To each according to his want 89. Gandhi found from experience that the observance of celibacy becomes comparatively easy if one acquires mastery over the A) Desire B) Palate C) Greed D) Consumerism 90. The phrase, Military- Industrial complex was immortalised by A) Dwight D. Eisenhower B) Mao Zedong C) V.I. Lenin D) Indira Gandhi 91. Passive resistance is a , it has nothing to do with the active principle of love. A) Positive thing B) Negative thing C) People s power D) None of these is opposed to truth and therefore it is based on violence. A) Love B) Secrecy C) Non exploitation D) Courage 93. Lok-niti, or a democratic standard of values, is the essence of A) Participatory Democracy B) Effective citizenship C) Direct democracy D) Grama swaraj 9

10 94. The good of the individual is contained in good of all. Gandhi received this idea from the book A) Unto This Last B) Duties of Man C) Bhagavad Gita D) A New Crusade 95. A will bring about fundamental changes in the social, economic, political, cultural, educational and moral spheres A) Total revolution B) Cultural revolution C) Spiritual revolution D) Bhoodan movement 96. A proper balance of animal, human and plant life, their relationships being symbiotic ie, one of mutually beneficial association, is the salient feature of A) Deep ecology B) Socialist system of economy C) Spiritual ecology D) Gandhi s system of economy. 97. Gandhi regarded as a gospel of selfless action A) Unto This Last B) Quran C) Bhagavad Gita D) Bible 98. One of the following who regarded the mainstream economics a dismal science. A) John Ruskin B) Thomas Carlyle C) Henry Thoreau D) Tolstoy 99. The word that gives the Biblical meaning of peace A) Shalom B) Santhi C) Amen D) None of these 100. This struggle was for the establishment of certain civic rights denied to the untouchable castes. A) Kheda satyagraha B) Vaikom satyagraha C) Bardoli satyagraha D) Salt satyagraha 101. What is the basic assumption of satyagraha about the human nature? A) Essentially freedom loving B) Essentially political and spiritual C) Essentially spiritual, rational and good D) Essentially Democratic 102. The sarvodaya social order emphasises on A) Equality at economic and spiritual level B) Equality at all levels C) Equality at spiritual level D) Equality at political and spiritual levels 103. Who said there is no path to peace, peace is the path? A) Johan Galtung B) Rev. Martin Luther King Junior C) M.K.Gandhi D) Vinoba Bhave 10

11 104. A totalitarian philosophy of government that glorifies the state and nation and assigns to the state control over every aspect of national life is called. A) Sarvodaya B) Communism C) Fascism D) Democracy 105. When swaraj becomes a reality in each individual village, we call it A) Gramraj B) Village democracy C) Inclusive governance D) Panchayati Raj 106. To each according to one s need relates to the vow A) Swadeshi B) Tolerance C) Aparigraha D) Control of palate 107. Non-exploitation in Gandhi s economic ideas is consistent with the vow of A) Non-violence B) Truth C) Physical labour D) Non-stealing 108. In Gandhian scheme of production, technology used should be to A) Increase the productivity of worker B) Increase profit C) Increase production D) Reduce greed of the capitalist 109. In economic sphere, Gandhi was opposed to conspicuous consumption A) On social as well as economic grounds B) On moral as well as economic grounds C) On political as well as economic grounds D) On economic as well as development grounds 110. Gandhi s economic model stresses on employment generation than output, as his concern is about A) Massive poverty B) Rural Development C) Economic self sufficiency D) Khadi 111. Main contributions of J.D. Sethi to Gandhian Studies is in the sphere of A) Gandhian Political Ideas B) Gandhian Philosophy C) Gandhian Economics D) Gandhian Ideas on Education 112. Vinoba Bhave implemented Gandhian vow of non possession through A) Bhoodan movement B) Brahmacharya C) Shantisena D) Spirituality 113. Centrality of manual work is an important element of A) Constructive programme B) Higher education C) Nai Talim D) Adult education 11

12 114. Gandhi felt that the best and most easy way to relate education to the social, political and cultural life of a country is to impart it in the A) Mother tongue B) National language C) English D) Through craft 115. Who among the following is 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner and one of the most celebrated satyagrahis of today? A) Nelson Mandela B) Amartya Sen C) Sunderlal Bahuguna D) Aung San Suu Kyi 116. To civilization in the real sense of the term consists not in the multiplication but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants. A) Gandhiji B) Tolstoy C) Vinoba Bhave D) Thoreau 117. Name the author of the book Politics of Non-violent Action A) Gene Sharp B) Johan Galtung C) Louis Fischer D) Jayaprakash Narayan 118. Poorna Swaraj was accepted as the objective of Congress in the A) Bombay session B) Calcutta session C) Lahore session D) Lucknow session 119. Peace is not only absence of war but also A) Presence of love, compassion and justice B) Absence of physical violence C) Disarmament initiatives D) Absence of inner violence 120. Who observed that Gandhi embraced Christ but rejected Christianity? A) Vinoba Bhave B) Louis Fischer C) Mahadev Desai D) Kallenbach ****************** 12