1. Who instituted
Scientific Society in 1863 to create a scientific temperament among the Muslims
and to make the Western knowledge available to Indians in their own language?
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
2. The Aligarh
Institute Gazette, an organ of the Scientific Society was started in March
………….. and succeeded in transforming the minds in the traditional Muslim
Society.
1866
3. In 1875, Sir
Syed founded the Madarsatul Uloom in …………….
Aligarh
4. Who founded as
Mohammedan Anglo Oriental College (MAOC) at Aligarh in 1875?
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
5. Sir Syed
breathed his last on Sunday, 27th March ……………
1898
6. Swami
Vivekananda, known in his pre-monastic life as ……………
Narendra Nath Datta
7. Swami
Vivekananda was born in an affluent family in …………. on 12 January 1863.
Kolkata
8. Swami
Vivekananda’s father, …………., was a successful attorney with interests in a wide
range of subjects.
Vishwanath Datta
9. Swami
Vivekananda graduated from …………. University.
Calcutta
10. In November
1881, Narendra went to meet ………….. who was staying at the Kali Temple in
Dakshineshwar.
Sri Ramakrishna
11. Who founded
the Ramakrishna Mission?
Swami Vivekananda
12. Swami
Vivekananda attended the World’s Parliament of Religions held in Chicago in
………………
1893
13. Vivekananda
felt that the Parliament would provide the right forum to present his Master’s
message to the world, and so he decided to go to America. Another reason which
prompted Swamiji to go to America was to seek financial help for his project of
uplifting the masses. Swamiji, however, wanted to have an inner certitude and
divine call regarding his mission. Both of these he got while he sat in deep
meditation on the rock-island at ……………
Kanyakumari
14. Whose speeches
at the World’s Parliament of Religions held in September 1893 made him famous
as an ‘orator by divine right’ and as a ‘Messenger of Indian wisdom to the
Western world’.
Swami Vivekananda
15. When
Ramakrishna Mission founded?
1897
16. In early 1898
Swami Vivekananda acquired a big plot of land on the western bank of the Ganga
at a place called Belur to have a permanent abode for the monastery and
monastic Order originally started at Baranagar, and got it registered as
Ramakrishna Math after a couple of years.
Belur
17. ‘Education is
the manifestation of the perfection already in man’. Who said?
Swami Vivekananda
18. The
Theosophical Society is an organization formed in ………….. to advance the
spiritual principles and search for Truth known as Theosophy.
1875
19. The
Theosophical Society was officially formed in New York City, United States, in
November 1875 by Helena Blavatsky, Henry Steel Olcott, William Quan Judge and
others.
New York
20. After a few
years Olcott and Blavatsky moved to India and established the International
Headquarters at Adyar, in ……………...
Madras
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