MODERN INDIA part 5
401. Who had scrapped the partition of Bengal?
(a) Lord Hardinge
(b) Lord Mountbatten
(c) Lord Lytton
(d) Lord Wellesley
Ans: (a)
402. Mahatma Gandhi had been present at the Round Table
Conference(s) held in London.
(a) Third
(b) Second
(c) First
(d) All of the above
Ans: (b)
403. The founder-president of India idependence League was
(a) Rash Behari Bose
(b) Subhas Chandra Bose
(c) MK Gandhi
(d) Motilal Nehru
Ans: (a)
404. In which year was the partition of Bengal scrapped?
(a) 1908
(b) 1911
(c) 1923
(d) 1931
Ans: (b)
405. The State, from among the following, which was not annexed
by the 'doctrine of lapse' is
(a) Baghat
(b) Gwalior
(c) Sambalpur
(d) Satara
Ans: (b)
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406. Lord Mountbatten had held detailed discussions on the
approaching partition of India with
(a) Mohammed Ali Jinnah
(b) Jawaharlal Nehru
(c) Mahatma Gandhi
(d) All of the above
Ans: (d)
407. What benefits did the Poona Pact offer to the depressed
classes?
(a) 44 seats in the central legislature
(b) 20% reservation in the provincial legislature
(c) 18% seats in the central legislature and 148 seats in the
provincial legislature
(d) 50% reservation in the ICS
Ans: (c)
408. The Battle of Plassey is a particularly important event in
Indian history because
(a) The Nawab of Bengal lost in it
(b) It enabled the British to have power in Bengal
(c) It laid the foundation for British rule in India
(d) It enabled the British to reap higher trade profits
Ans: (c)
409. Whom would you associate with the Censorship of the Press
Act 1794?
(a) Charles Metcalfe
(b) Andrew Frazer
(c) Lord Wellesly
(d) Lord Auckland
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Ans: (c)
410. Who had founded the Deccan Educational Society?
(a) Dadabhai Naoroji
(b) CR Das
(c) Swami Vivekananda
(d) Mahadeva Govind Ranade
Ans: (d)
411. Champaran, the site of Gandhi's first experiment in
Satyagraha, is located in the state of
(a) Bihar
(b) Kerala
(c) Gujarat
(d) Punjab
Ans: (a)
412. On which date was the announcement formally made that
India and Pakistan would be made free?
(a) May 2, 1947
(b) June 3, 1947
(c) July 4, 1947
(d) August 5, 1957
Ans: (b)
413. In which year did the Indian National Congress hold its first
meeting in Bombay?
(a) 1832
(b) 1844
(c) 1885
(d) 1890
Ans: (c)
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414. Who among the following had observed, upon Gandhi's
assassination. "None will believe that a man like this body
and soul ever walked on this earth"?
(a) Bertrand Russel
(b) Nelson Mandela
(c) Albert Einstein
(d) Leo Tolstoy
Ans: (c)
415. Infanticide was completely banned by the
(a) Bengal Regulation Act XVII of 1829
(b) Sharda Act, 1930
(c) Bengal Regulation Act XXI of 1795
(d) Minto-Morley reforms
Ans: (c)
416. Who had introduced the Indian Universities Act 1904?
(a) Lord Ripon
(b) Lord Hardinge
(c) Lord Curzon
(d) Lord Auckland
Ans: (c)
417. The Prarthana Samaj had been established by
(a) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
(b) Keshub Chandra Sen
(c) Swami Vivekananda
(d) MN Roy
Ans: (b)
418. With which of the following was Annie Besant Associated?
(a) Ramakrishna Mission
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(b) Arya Samaj
(c) ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness)
(d) Theosophical Society
Ans: (d)
419. The Arya Samaj Movement had been started by
(a) Swami Dayanand
(b) Devendranath Tagore
(c) Swami Vivekananda
(d) Keshub Chandra Sen
Ans: (a)
420. The Ilbert Bill introduced In Lord Ripon's reign is
significant because
(a) it limited the Britishers political authority
(b) it put restrictions on the vernacular press
(c) it debarred Indians from entering the civil services
(d) it removed racial discrimination from the judicial services
Ans: (d)
421. Madame HP Blavatsky had laid the foundation of the
Theosophical Society in the year
(a) 1853
(b) 1864
(c) 1875
(d) 1886
Ans: (c)
422. Who had conceived and founded the Ramakrishna Mission?
(a) Swami Muktananda
(b) Annie Besant
(c) CR Das
(d) Swami Vivekananda
Ans: (d)
423. The Dandi March undertaken by Gandhi was
(a) Aroutine March
(b) Apart of the Quit India Movement
(c) Apart of the Civil Disobedience Movement
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(d) Ademonstration of Congress power
Ans: (c)
424. With which of the following would you associate Jyotiba
Phule?
(a) Satya Shodhak Mandal
(b) Theosophical Society
(c) Tattvabodhini Samaj
(d) Dharma Sabha
Ans: (a)
425. What was Jagat Seth's claim to fame in Bengal? He was the
(a) Diwan of Siraj-ud-Daulah
(b) Leading popular poet
(c) Biggest banker in Bengal
(d) Commander of the Nawab's troops
Ans: (c)
426. The reformer from Maharashtra popularly known as
'Lokhitavadi' (For the well of others) was
(a) MG Ranade
(b) Gopal Hari Deshmukh
(c) Pt Ramabai
(d) GK Gokhale
Ans: (b)
427. What did Raja Ram Mohan Roy actively seek reforms in?
(a) Promoting intercaste marriages
(b) Teaching the Vedas in schools
(c) Ending the practice of Sati
(d) Building more temples
Ans: (c)
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428. Who was the first leader to preside over the INC?
(a) Ananda Charlu
(b) S Subramanya Iyer
(c) WC Banerji
(d) Surendranath Bannerjee
Ans: (c)
429. The roots of the 1857 revolt lay in
(a) Blatantly discriminatory policies
(b) Exploitative land revenue policy
(c) The policy of greased cartridges
(d) All of the above
Ans: (d)
430. Where had civil rebellions against the British initially
started?
(a) Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh
(b) Bengal and Bihar
(c) Odisha
(d) Madras and Calcutta
Ans: (a)
431. Lord Cornwallis had introduced the ______ land tenure
system.
(a) Zamindari
(b) Ryotwari
(c) Mahalwari
(d) Inamdari
Ans: (a)
432. Swami Dayananda had translated the _______ into Hindi.
(a) Rig Veda ad Yajur Veda
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(b) Four Vedas
(c) Sama Veda and Atharva Veda
(d) Sama Veda and Yajur Veda
Ans: (a)
433. 'AI Hilal' was a newspaper launched for propagating
nationalism by
(a) Syed Ahmed Khan
(b) Mahatma Gandhi
(c) Abul Kalam Azad
(d) DE Wacha
Ans: (c)
434. The Asiatic Society had been established in Calcutta by
(a) TB Macaulay
(b) Sir William Jones
(c) GK Gokhale
(d) Annie Besant
Ans: (b)
435. The most Important cause for the outbreak of the Ghadar
revolution was the
(a) Commencement of World War I
(b) Hanging of Kartar Singh Sarabha
(c) Komagata Maru Incident
(d) Arrest of Lala Hardayal
Ans: (c)
436. The Shuddhi Movement, involving the conversion of non-
Hindus to Hinduism, was started by
(a) Swami Vivekanand
(b) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
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(c) Swami Dayanand Saraswati
(d) Aurobindo Ghosh
Ans: (c)
437. Who was the first to raise the slogan 'Inquilab zindabad'?
(a) Bhagat Singh
(b) M Kelappan
(c) Veer Savarkar
(d) Shankaran Nair
Ans: (a)
438. By whom among the following was the Paramdham Ashram
established?
(a) Acharya Kripalani
(b) Swami Vivekananda
(c) Acharya Vinoba Bhave
(d) Ramakrishna Paramhansa
Ans: (c)
439. From which year did the Muslim League start demanding a
separate nation for the Muslims?
(a) 1942
(b) 1940
(c) 1929
(d) 1919
Ans: (b)
440. Who had propounded the Theory of Economic Drain of
India during British Imperialism?
(a) Dadabhai Naoroji
(b) Jawaharlal Nehru
(c) Sarojini Naidu
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(d) Mahatma Gandhi
Ans: (a)
441. Which of the following upheavals took place In Bengal
Immediately after the revolt of 1857?
(a) Santhal rebellion
(b) Indigo disturbances
(c) Sanyasi rebellion
(d) Pabna disturbances
Ans: (b)
442. Identify the body among the following that was not founded
by Dr B R Ambedkar?
(a) Samaj Samato Sangh
(b) People's Education Society
(c) Deccan Education Society
(d) Depressed Classes Institute
Ans: (c)
443. The _____ were the first Europeans to start a Joint stock
company trade with India?
(a) French
(b) Portuguese
(c) Danish
(d) Dutch
Ans: (b)
444. Who was the first European to translate the Bhapad Gita
into English?
(a) Alexander Cunningham
(b) William Jones
(c) James Prinsep
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(d) Charles Wilkins
Ans: (d)
445. The Cripps Offer was regarded as a 'post dated cheque' by
(a) Nehru
(b) Jinnah
(c) Gandhi
(d) Rajaji
Ans: (c)
446. Which of the following was not contained in the Cripps
Offer?
(a) Dominion Status to India
(b) Constituent Assembly
(c) Control of Defence of India by the Indian National
Government
(d) Right to take part in highest Counsels
Ans: (c)
447. The Cripps Mission visited India in the year
(a) 1940
(b) 1942
(c) 1945
(d) 1946
Ans: (b)
448. As per 'August Offer 1940' the Constitution of India would
be drawn by
(a) House of Commons
(b) House of Lords
(c) Princely States
(d) Indians
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Ans: (d)
449. The Governor of the East India Company was
(a) appointed by the monarch of England
(b) appointed by the British Parliament
(c) elected by the members of the East India Company
(d) nominated by the Mughal Emperor
Ans: (c)
450. The exclusive right of trading between ______ was granted
to the East India Company.
(a) North America and South America
(b) Red Sea and Caspian Sea
(c) The Cape of Good Hope and the Straits of Magellan
(d) France and Poland
Ans: (c)
451. The Charter for the establishment of the East India
Company was granted by
(a) Queen Elizabeth I
(b) Queen Anbolin
(c) Queen Mary
(d) Queen Victoria
Ans: (a)
452. The East India Company was established in the year
(a) 1607 AD
(b) 1600 AD
(c) 1700 AD
(d) 1669 AD
Ans: (b)
453. When the East India Company was established India was
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ruled by
(a) a Mughal Emperor
(b) a Gupta Emperor
(c) a Mauryan Emperor
(d) a Sunga Emperor
Ans: (a)
454. The first Governor General of Bengal was
(a) Warren Hastings
(b) Clive
(c) Canning
(d) Minto
Ans: (a)
455. Gandhi wanted the students to spend their vacations in
(a) Studies
(b) Social service
(c) Games
(d) Rebellious deeds
Ans: (b)
456. Upon whom was the title 'Punjab Kesari' conferred?
(a) Bhagat Singh
(b) Sardar Baldev Singh
(c) Lala Lajpat Rai
(d) Ranjit Singh
Ans: (c)
457. Who had observed that "Political freedom is the life-breath
of a nation"?
(a) BG Tilak
(b) Annie Besant
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(c) Sri Aurobindo Ghose
(d) Rabindranath Tagore
Ans: (c)
458. Who had strongly advocated the policy of abolishing
princely states m free India?
(a) Mahatma Gandhi
(b) Jawaharlal Nehru
(c) C Rajagopalachari
(d) Vallabhbhai Patel
Ans: (c)
459. Who among the following had authored the book,
'At the
Feet of Mahatma Gandhi'?
(a) JB Kripalani
(b) Rajendra Prasad
(c) Jayaprakash Narayan
(d) Vinoba Bhave
Ans: (b)
460. The socialist group in the INC during, the 1930s had been
led by
(a) Bipin Chandra Pal
(b) Rajendra Prasad
(c) Lala Lajpat Rai
(d) Subhas Chandra Bose
Ans: (d)
461. The first Indian who was elected to the leadership of the
Communist International was
(a) SADange
(b) SS Joshi
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(c) MN Roy
(d) PC Joshi
Ans: (c)
462. According to Gandhi, ahimsa could not be construed to
mean
(a) truth
(b) a positive state of law
(c) tolerance of the wrong and unjust
(d) doing good even to the evildoers
Ans: (c)
463. Which nationalist had stoutly preached "Be proud that you
are an Indian, proudly claim I am an Indian"?
(a) MK Gandhi
(b) Lala Lajpat Rai
(c) Swami Vivekanand
(d) Jawaharlal Nehru
Ans: (c)
464. Who had, while fasting in the prison, written to the British
governor,
"The individual must die so that the nation may
live. Today, I must die so that India may win freedom and
glory"?
(a) Jatin Das
(b) Lala Lajpat Rai
(c) MK Gandhi
(d) SC Bose
Ans: (a)
465. Mahatma Gandhi had been joined m the Champaran
struggle by
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(a) Vallabhbhai Patel and Vinoba Bhave
(b) Rajendra Prasad and Anugraha Narayan Sinha
(c) Mahadev Desai and Maniben Patel
(d) Rajendra Prasad and Jawaharlal Nehru
Ans: (d)
466. The first Bengali Drama, written to highlight the brutality of
the British indigo planters, was
(a) Rast Goftar
(b) Neel Darpan
(c) Shome Prakash
(d) None of the above
Ans: (b)
467. The Constituent Assembly was formed on the
recommendations of the
(a) Government of India Act, 1935
(b) Cabinet Mission Plan
(c) Cripps' Mission
(d) Mountbatten Plan
Ans: (b)
468. Rani Laxmi Bai died fighting the British in the Battle of
(a) Jhansi
(b) Kanpur
(c) Gwalior
(d) Kalpi
Ans: (c)
469. Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose had proclaimed the formation
of the Provisional Government of Independent India (Azad
Hind I in 1943 in
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(a) Vienna
(b) Rangoon
(c) Tokyo
(d) Singapore
Ans: (d)
470. Who among the following was impeached in the UK for his
actions in India?
(a) Lord Wavell
(b) Lord Ripon
(c) Lord Hastings
(d) Lord Cornwallis
Ans: (c)
471. Which of the following periods is considered as the
revolutionary era in Indian history?
(a) 1857-60
(b) 1857-1947
(c) 1857-90
(d) 1845-1947
Ans: (c)
472. Who had first sought the legalisation of widow remarriage in
India?
(a) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
(b) Badruddin Tyabji
(c) Ishwar Chandra Vidayasagar
(d) Swami Dayanand Saraswati
Ans: (c)
473. Ram Prasad Bismil had been associated with the case?
(a) Alipore bomb
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(b) Kanpur conspiracy
(c) Kokori bomb
(d) Meerut conspiracy
Ans: (c)
474. The inaugural issue of Bombay Darpan, a Marathi weekly,
was published on November 12, 1832 started by a publisher-
reformer named
(a) Jagannath Shankar
(b) Vishnu Shastri
(c) Bal Shastri
(d) Krishna Shastri
Ans: (c)
475. Gandhi had been provoked into crusading for the lot of the
Asians in South Africa by the British law called the Act.
(a) Apartheid
(b) Blacks' Registration
(c) cl Asiatic Registration
(d) Subcitizens' Licence
Ans: (c)
476. Who was the founder of the Boy Scouts and Civil Guides
Movement in India?
(a) Richard Temple
(b) Baden Powell
(c) Charles Andrew
(d) Robert Montgomery
Ans: (b)
477. The first session of Indian National Congress was held in
(a) Surat
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(b) Calcutta
(c) Bombay
(d) Lahore
Ans: (c)
478. What was the name of the English weekly edited by
Mahatma Gandhi?
(a) Young India
(b) Kesari
(c) Bombay Chronicle
(d) Resurgent India
Ans: (a)
479. The Woods Despatch of 1854 resulted in the
(a) Founding of several Indian universities
(b) Introduction of the postal system
(c) Establishment of the education system
(d) Abolition of child marriage
Ans: (c)
480. The first national leader to decry the salt tax in the Indian
legislature was
(a) G K Gokhale
(b) M K Gandhi
(c) J L Nehru
(d) Netaji S C Bose
Ans: (a)
481. The British attitude towards granting India independence
changed partly owing to the
(a) Change in the government of the UK
(b) Impact of World War II
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(c) Growing tide of Indian Nationalism
(d) All of the above
Ans: (d)
482. An emigre (a person or thing who/which has emigrated)
communist journal brought out by M N Roy was
(a) Anushilan
(b) The Worker
(c) Kisan Sabha
(d) Vanguard
Ans: (d)
483. Which reforms Act had created the office of the secretary of
state for India?
(a) Montague-Chelmsford Reforms
(b) The Government of India Act, 1858
(c) The Indian Councils Act, 1861
(d) Minto-Morley Reforms, 1908
Ans: (b)
484. After the year 1853, a substantial amount of British capital
had been invested in
(a) Tea Plantations
(b) The Railways
(c) Coal Mining
(d) Jute Mills
Ans: (b)
485. The Indian National Congress had adopted the famous
Poorna Swaraj (Complete Independence) resolution at its
session held at
(a) Karachi
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(b) Allahabad
(c) Lahore
(d) Calcutta
Ans: (c)
486. In which year was the title of Governor general chanced to
that of the Viceroy?
(a) 1858
(b) 1861
(c) 1878
(d) 1885
Ans: (a)
487. The name of the periodical published by Gandhi during his
stay in South Africa was
(a) Navjivan
(b) India Gazette
(c) Afrikaner
(d) Indian Opinion
Ans: (d)
488. The revolutionary leader who had organized an attack on
the armoury of Chittagong was
(a) Surya Sen
(b) Jatin Das
(c) Chandra Shekhar Azad
(d) CR Das
Ans: (a)
489. The Government of India Act of 1935 had divided India into
______ provinces.
(a) 5
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(b) 8
(c) 11
(d) 14
Ans: (c)
490. The system of civil services had been introduced into India
by
(a) Lord Ripon
(b) Lord Dalhousie
(c) Lord Bentick
(d) Lord Hastings
Ans: (c)
491. Whom had Gandhi named as Mira Behn?
(a) Annie Besant
(b) Kamla Devi
(c) Indira Gandhi
(d) Madeline Slade
Ans: (d)
492. The Mountbatten plan did not envisage the inclusion of the
____ province in the Indian dominion.
(a) Bihar
(b) Sind
(c) Madras
(d) Bombay
Ans: (b)
493. The process of the introduction of education in English had
been initiated in India by Lord
(a) Curzon
(b) Bentick
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(c) Hastings
(d) Macaulay
Ans: (d)
494. Which of the following institutions was not founded by
Gandhi?
(a) Sevagram Ashram
(b) Ramakrishna Mission
(c) Phoenix Ashram
(d) Sabarmati Ashram
Ans: (b)
495. Which of the following Act(s) was/were passed in 1856?
(a) The Religious Disabilities Act
(b) The Hindu Widow Remarriage Act
(c) Both the above
(d) None of the above
Ans: (c)
496. The first interim government during the British rule in India
was formed in
(a) September, 1945
(b) November, 1945
(c) September, 1946
(d) January, 1947
Ans: (c)
497. The first vernacular paper, Samachar Darpan, was
published during the tenure of
(a) Lord Hastings
(b) Lord Minto
(c) Lord metcalfe
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(d) Lord Macaulay
Ans: (a)
498. Gandhi had given out the stirring call of 'Do or Die' during
the ______ Movement.
(a) Non-cooperation
(b) Khilafat
(c) Civil Disobedience
(d) Quit India
Ans: (d)
499. In which year was Burma separated from India?
(a) 1863
(b) 1902
(c) 1937
(d) 1947
Ans: (c)
500. How many volunteers had accompanied Gandhi on the
famous Dandi March of March 12, 1930?
(a) 13
(b) 44
(c) 78
(d) 108
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