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1. What was the name of the old Hindu custom wherein a widow would immolate herself upon her husband's funeral pyre?
2. Who created the Hindu sect called 'Brahmo Samaj', a form of neo-Hinduism, and is sometimes called the 'father of modern India'?
3. Members of which religious group helped the British put down the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857?
4. In 1835, who envisaged the essentially racist view that Indians could become 'a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinion, in morals, and in intellect'?
5. What is the degrading term for an 'English-styled Indian' during the period of British rule?
6. Who, in 1885, suggested founding the Indian National Congress?
7. He was the friend and mentor of Gandhi and, as the leader of the moderate native Indian politicians, became president of the Indian National Congress in 1905. Who was he?
8. What did the term 'swaraj' mean to Indians during the period of British rule?
9. Who was the first Indian Nobel Prize winner?
10. What was the name of the Indian politician of the early 20th century who was deemed 'Lokamanya' (Honored by the People) in honor of his acts of extreme Indian nationalism?
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