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UPPCS Modern History Gap Sheet: Titles and Slogans of Leaders.
UPPCS has asked 24 of these. 8 have not been asked yet. Lock the first list, then read the second: it holds what UPPCS has not used yet.
First, the concept
A title usually records one moment: Bardoli's women made Patel 'Sardar'; Bose called Gandhi 'Father of the Nation' on radio from Singapore (1944). Remember the moment, not just the title.
Slogans travel: 'Inquilab Zindabad' was coined by Hasrat Mohani and made famous by Bhagat Singh. UPPCS likes exactly this gap between who coined and who popularised.
✅ Already asked (24)
Titles
- Lokmanya · Bal Gangadhar Tilak; Chirol called him 'father of Indian unrest'
- Deshbandhu · C. R. Das
- Deenbandhu · C. F. Andrews
- Punjab Kesari / Sher-e-Punjab · Lala Lajpat Rai
- Frontier Gandhi / Badshah Khan · Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
- Sardar and Iron Man of India · Vallabhbhai Patel; 'Sardar' from Bardoli (1928)
- Netaji · Subhas Chandra Bose
- Mahatma; Father of the Nation · Gandhi; 'Mahatma' popularised by Tagore; 'Father of the Nation' by Bose (1944)
- Grand Old Man of India · Dadabhai Naoroji
- Mahamana · Madan Mohan Malaviya
- Father of the Indian Renaissance · Raja Ram Mohan Roy
- Andhra Kesari · T. Prakasam
- Mother of the Indian Revolution · Madame Bhikaji Cama
- Bihar Kesari · Shri Krishna Sinha, first Chief Minister of Bihar
Slogans
- 'Swaraj is my birthright and I shall have it' · Tilak
- 'Do or Die' · Gandhi, Quit India 1942
- 'Inquilab Zindabad' · Coined by Hasrat Mohani; Bhagat Singh made it famous
- 'Dilli Chalo', 'Jai Hind', 'Give me blood and I will give you freedom' · Subhas Chandra Bose; 'Jai Hind' suggested by Abid Hasan
- 'Simon Go Back' · 1928 protests; Yusuf Meherally is credited
- 'Quit India' · Coined by Yusuf Meherally
- 'Vande Mataram' · Bankim Chandra Chatterjee; slogan of the Swadeshi movement
- 'Saare Jahan Se Achha' · Muhammad Iqbal (1904)
- 'Go back to the Vedas' · Swami Dayanand Saraswati
- 'Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached' · Swami Vivekananda
❌ Not asked yet (8)
Items marked 'asked in other exams' have come in UPSC or other state exams, not yet in UPPCS.
🔒 8 items not asked yet
Titles: 5 · Slogans: 3
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⚠️ 'Inquilab Zindabad' was coined by Hasrat Mohani, not Bhagat Singh. 'Quit India' and 'Simon Go Back' are credited to Yusuf Meherally, not Gandhi. Bose, not Nehru, first called Gandhi 'Father of the Nation'.
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