SSC CHSL 2016 - Tier I Exam - GS Questions Asked 1st Shift,
7th Jan 2017
General Awareness Questions:
1. Tectonia grandis is the scientific name of- Teak plant
2.Rukmani Devi is related to which classical dance- Bharatnatyam
3.Chemical name of Baking Soda-Sodium hydrogen carbonate
4.Taj Mahal was built in the memory of-Mumtaj
5. Deepika Kumari related to which sport- Archery
6.First filmfare award winning actor- Dilip Kumar
7.How many time can PM be elected-Unlimited
8. UNICEF goodwill ambassador-Priyanka Chopra
9. Tehri Dam is constructed on which river-Baghirathi
10. Elephanta caves are located at- Mumbai(Maharashtra)
11. Use of barometer and his inventor-Evangelista Torricelli, used to measure the
atmospheric pressue
12. Percentage of oxygen in river waterPersonal Information:
Real Name - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Date and Place of Birth : Oct. 2, 1869 and Porbandar, Gujarat (Note: UNO declared Oct 2 as
"International Non-Violence Day")
Father: Karamachand Gandhi
Mother: Putali Bai
Political Guru: Gopal Krishan Gokhale
Political Guru: Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Private Secretary: Mahadev Desai.
Literary Influence on Gandhi: John Ruskins Unto the Last, Emerson, Thoreau, Leo Tolstoy, the Bible
and the Gita.
Literary Works: Hind Swaraj (1909), My Experiments with Truth (Autobiography, 1927)-reveals events
of Gandhis life upto 1922.
As an Editor: Indian Opinion: 190315 (in English & Gujarati, for a short period in Hindi & Tamil),
Harijan: 1919-31 (in English, Gujarati and Hindi),
Other Names: Mahatma (Saint) - by Rabindranath Tagore, 1917; Malang Baba/Nanga Faqir (Naked
Saint) - by Kabailis of Noth-West Frontier, 1930; Indian Faqir/Traitor Faqir-by Winston Churchill, 1931;
Half-naked Saint by- Franq Mores, 1931; Rashtrapita (the Father of the Nation)- by Subhash Chandra
Bose, 1944.
Important Year & Events:
1893: Departure of Gandhi to South Africa.
1904: Foundation of Indian Opinion (magazine) and Phoenix Farm, at Phoenix, near Durban.
1906: First Civil Disobedience Movement (Satyagaraha) against Asiatic Ordiannce in Transvaal.
1907: Satyagraha against Compulsory Registration and Passes for Asians (The Black Act) in Transvaal.
1908: Trial and imprisonment-Johanesburg Jail (First Jail Term).
1910: Foundation of Tolstoy Farm (Later-Gandhi Ashrama), near Johannesburg.
1914: Awarded Kaisar-i-Hind for raising an Indian Ambulance Core during Boer wars
1915: Arrived in Bombay (India) on 9 January 1915; Foundation of Satyagraha Ashrama at Kocharab
near Ahmedabad (20 May). In 1917, Ashrama shifted at the banks of Sabarmati;
1916: Abstain from active politics (though he attended Lucknow session of INC held in 2630
December, 1916, where Raj Kumar Shukla, a cultivator from Bihar, requested him to come to
Champaran.)
1917: Gandhi entered active politics with Champaran campaign to redress grievances of the cultivators
oppressed by Indigo planter of Bihar (April 1917). Champaran Satyagraha was his first Civil
Disobedience Movement in India.
1918: cooperation Movement. In Febuary 1918, Gandhi launched the struggle in Ahmedabad which
involved industrial workers. Hunger strike as a weapon was used for the first time by Gandhi during
Ahmedabad struggle. In March 1918, Gandhi worked for peasants of Kheda in Gujarat who were facing
difficulties in paying the rent owing to failure of crops. Kheda Satyagraha was his first Non
1919: Gandhi gave a call for Satyagraha against the Rowlatt Act on April 6, 1919 and took the
command of the nationalist movement for the first time (First all-India Political Movement), Gandhi
returns Kaisar-i-Hind gold medal as a protest against Jallianwala Bagh massacre-April 13, 1919; The
All India Khilafat Conference elected Gandhi as its president (November 1919, Delhi).
1920-22: Gandhi leads the Non-Cooperation and Khilafat Movement (August 1, 1920Febuary 1922),
Gandhi calls off Movement (Feb. 12, 1922), after the violent incident at Chauri-Chaura on Febuary 5,
1922. Non-Co-operation Movement was the First mass based politics under Gandhi.
192527 : Gandhi retires from active politics for the first time and devotes himself to constructive
programme of the Congress; Gandhi resumes active politics in 1927.
193034: Gandhi launches the Civil Disobedience Movement with his Dandhi march/Salt Satyagraha
(First Phase: March 12, 1930March 5, 1931; Gandhi-Irwin Pact: March 5, 1931; Gandhi attends
the Second Round Table Conference in London as sole representative of the Congress: September 7December. 1, 1931; Second Phase: January 3, 1932-April 17, 1934).
193439: Sets up Sevagram (Vardha Ashram).
194041: Gandhi launches Individual Satyagraha Movement.
1942: Call to Quit India Movement for which Gandhi raised the slogan, Do or Die (Either free India
or die in the attempt), Gandhi and all Congress leaders arrested (August 9, 1942).
194244: Gandhi kept in detention at the Aga Khan Palace, near Pune (August 9, 1942-May, 1944).
Gandhi lost his wife Kasturba (Febuary 22, 1944) and private secretary Mahadev Desai; this was
Gandhis last prison term.
1946: Deeply distressed by theory of communal violence, as a result Muslim Leagues Direct Action
call, Gandhi travelled to Noakhali (East Bengal-now Bangladesh) and later on to Calcutta to restore
communal peace.
1947: Gandhi, deeply distressed by the Mountbatten Plan/Partition Plan (June 3, 1947), while staying in
Calcutta to restore communal violence, observes complete silence on the dawn of Indias Independence
(August, 15, 1947). Gandhi returns to Delhi (September 1947).
1948: Gandhi was shot dead by Nathu Ram Godse, a member of RSS, while on his way to the evening
prayer meeting at Birla House, New Delhi (January 30, 1948).
