Daily Quiz: UPSC Prelims Marathon – January 28, 2019

• The first woman president of INC was Mrs Annie Besant.
• The first Indian woman president of the INC was Mrs Sarojini Naidu.
• The first Englishman to become the president of INC was George Yule
• The first Muslim president of the INC was BadruddinTayabji.
• The president of INC at the time of India’s independence was Acharya JB Kriplani.

Organization Year/Place Founder/s:

Landholder’s Society: (1838/Calcutta): Dwarkanath Tagore

British India Society (1839/London): William Adams

Bengal British India Society: (1843/Calcutta):George Thomson

British India Association: (1851/Calcutta):Devendranath Tagore & Radhakant Deb

Madras Native Association: (1852/Madras):

Bombay Association: (1852/Bombay): Dadabhai Naoroji & Dinshaw Wacha

East India Association: (1866/London): Dadabhai Naoroji

London Indian Society: (1865/London): Feroz Shah Mehta, Badruddin Tyyabji, W. C. Banerji and Manmohan Ghosh

Indian National Association: (1867/London): Mary Carpentar

Poona Sarvajanik Sabha: (1867/Poona): M.G. Ranade, G.V. Joshi and Chiplankar

Indian Society: (1872/London): Anand Mohan Bose

India League: (1875/ Calcutta): Sisir Kumar Ghosh

Indian Association: (1876/Calcutta): Anand Mohan Bose and Surendra Nath Banerji

National Conference: (1883): Anand Mohan Bose and Surendra Nath Banerji

Madras Mahajan Sabha: (1884/Madras): M. Viraghavacharya, G. Subramaniya Aiyar and P. Anand Charlu Indian National Union 1884 A.O. Hume

It asserts that entertainment is a desired effect of performance arts but not the primary goal, and that the primary goal is to transport the   individual in the audience into another parallel reality, full of wonder, where he experiences the essence of his own consciousness, and reflects on spiritual and moral questions. This is similar to the Sufi’s views on music, chanting and its spiritual potential to connect with the divine.

Junagadh was the only state where referendum was held after partition of India, in 1948.
Thus, option b is the correct answer.

Statement 1 is incorrect because it is celebrated across Sikkim and marks the Sikkimese new year
Important Learning:
Losoong is one of those big and small colorful carnivals celebrated in Sikkim as Sikkimese New Year.
It is a popular festival among Bhutias and Lepchas.
Bhutias are the indigenous people of the Sikkim. Lepchas refers to the aboriginal inhabitant community of Sikkim, who live mostly in North Sikkim.
Until a few decades, this celebration was confined to the specific group of people called Bhutias. Later, the celebration spread to Lepchas, who are now considered the dominating tribal community of the state.
The major attraction of Losoong is the Cham Dance. This dance is also influenced from the Tibetan Culture.
Similar to Bhaang, Chhaang is a part of Losoong. It is domestically made liquor. This drink is made in every house and offered to god.

• Indian (National) Social Conference was founded by M.G. Ranade and RaghunathRao. It was virtually the social reform cell of the Indian National Congress. Its first session was held in Madras in December 1887. The Conference met annually as a subsidiary convention of the Indian National Congress, at the same venue, and focused attention on social reform. The Conference advocated intercaste marriages and opposed kulinismand polygamy. It launched the famous “Pledge Movement” to inspire people to take an oath to prohibit child marriage.
• Congress Socialist Party -1934 -Narenddra Dev, J.P. Narayan and MinooMasani

• The Faraizi Movement was founded by HajiShariatullah, which became very popular among the Muslim peasantry in various districts of Bengal during the British Rule.
• After the death of Shariatullah, his son, DuduMiyan became the leader of Faraizi Movement
• Oppressive Policy of the Company towards Muslim Tenants was the major reason behind the eruption of Faraizi Movement.