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Modern Indian History
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1. The army of emperor Bahadur Shah in Delhi was commanded by...
Subhas Chandra Bose
Increased
Alauddin Khilji
Gen Bakth Khan
2. Balagangadhar Tilak was given the epithet of ' LOKMANYA ' during
1946A.D.
Home rule movement
Lahore session
Chandrashekhar Azad
3. Which of the following leaders of 1857 revolt escaped to Nepal and whose subsequent movements were never known thereafter?
Sudra Varna
Bernier
a) Nana Saheb b) Begum Hazrat Mahal
1st Parsi President of INC
4. Lord Dalhousie tried to snatch away the remaining geory of the Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah-II by
Asking him to vacate the Red Fort and move to a humber place
Kaiser-e-Hind
Vishnuvardhana
Rash Bihari Bose
5. The INC gave upits ideal of united India & accepted partition - because
Ibn Batuta
Mirza Galib
The correct chronological sequence of the following stages in the political life of Gandhiji?
The INC leaders felt that -partition is a lesser evil than civil war
6. The word 'Congress
North American History - to connote an assembly of people
Diwan Maniram Putti
Alberuni
Nabagopal mitra
7. In 1934 - Gandhi withdrew from all political activities and made a country wide tour covering a distance of 12 -504 miles. This tour is known as
Rohilkhand (1857 revolution)
Advisor to the Sec of State for India
Harijan Yatra
Russian Revolution of 1917 - Rise in cost of living
8. Who discovered Balgangadhar Tilak as the Father of Indian Unrest?
The Muslim League
Valentine Chirol
To wreck the reform from within by
Kanpur
9. On the suggestion of Ravindranath Tagore The date of partition of Bengal oct 16 - 1905 was celebrated as
Ibn Batuta
Vishnuvardhana
Meerut
Rakhsha Bandhan Day
10. The university Grants Commission was constituted in 1953 A.D. which among the followmg first recommended for it?
Radha Krishan Commission - 1948
Govt of India Act 1935
Home rule movement
Sir Mohammad Iqbal
11. Megasthenese States
Nana Saheb
The method by which power was to be transferred from British to Indian hands
Slavery was not prevalent in India in the extreme from as he be had seen in Greece
Radha Krishan Commission - 1948
12. Which of the following was responsible for the large scale communal riots during and after August 1946 especially ' Great Calcutta Killings
The observance of Direct Action Day by Muslim League
Bihar (1857 revolution)
Balagangadhar Tilak
The Muslim League
13. During 1857 revolt -the British after capturing Delhi what was their most Brutal act( by General Hudson -commander in chief of the English troops)?
Delhi Darbar 1911
The Buddha
Shooting down the sons of Bahadur Shah
Bardolli Satyagraha
14. Lucknow session of Congress - 1916
Congress-League Pact
Surendranath Bannerjee and Ananda Mohana Bose
Increased
Dr. RadhaKrishnan
15. 'Why should the neglected state of this land create uneasiness in our minds and why should we expend our money and time to vender it fruitful ? We may be deprived of it in a single moment - and our exertions would benefit neither ourselves nor our ch
Bernier
Vishnuvardhana
1906A.D.
Alauddin Khilji
16. The earliest public association to be formed in modern India in 1837 was:a) The Bengal British Indian Society
The Landholders Society
Slavery was not prevalent in India in the extreme from as he be had seen in Greece
The leaders were arrested
World peace and International Co-operation
17. Karachi session of Congress - 1931
Adoption of Fundamental Rights
Alberuni
Harijan Yatra
Radha Krishan Commission - 1948
18. Who organized the Satyagraha Sabha whose members took a pledge to disobey the Rowlatt Act?
Mahatma Gandhi
1906A.D.
Radha Krishan Commission - 1948
Surendranath Bannerjee and Ananda Mohana Bose
19. Champaran -Kheda - Ahmedabad mill strike - Non-Cooperation Movement
North American History - to connote an assembly of people
The correct chronological sequence of the following stages in the political life of Gandhiji?
Surendranath Bannerjee and Ananda Mohana Bose
Nabagopal mitra
20. 'I issue such order to the people as I consider to be beneficial for them and the State. I do not know whether they are permitted by the Shariat or not
Shooting down the sons of Bahadur Shah
Alauddin Khilji
The observance of Direct Action Day by Muslim League
She integrated the Tribal movement with civil disobedience movement
21. Every pearl in the Royal crown is but the crystallized drop of blood fallen from the tearful eyes of the Poor Peasant. The above remark about the poverty of the Indian Peasants during the Delhi sultanate was made by
Kanpur
Ibn Batuta
Kaiser-e-Hind
Bihar (1857 revolution)
22. Who of the following founded a National society - a national paper - a national school and a national Gymnasium and made the word ' National ' popular in the later half of 19th century?
Shooting down the sons of Bahadur Shah
Lahore session
Nabagopal mitra
72
23. Where did the rebels of 1857 revolt massacre alarge number of Englishmen and women after promising them safe conduct?
Kanpur
East Bengal & Bengal
a) Nana Saheb b) Begum Hazrat Mahal
1st Anglo-Christian INC president
24. Consider the following passage : 'His records proclaim him as a feudatory of the emperor Somesvara III. He was his capitals at Talakad in the South and Bankpura in the North. It was in A. D. 1137 that he performed the great ceremony of Tulapurusha.
Vishnuvardhana
2nd in 193l A.D.
Rohilkhand (1857 revolution)
1st Anglo-Christian INC president
25. Dhondu Pant
Kanpur (1857 revolution)
Adoption of Fundamental Rights
Lahore session
Depressed classes
26. Which of the following were the main objectives for the Khilafath Movement?
There was merger of INC and National Conference
31st December - 1929
Surendranath Bannerjee and Ananda Mohana Bose
To save the Ottoman empire and preserve the Khalifate
27. members of the Cabinet Mission?
1930
Adoption of Fundamental Rights
Kabir
Sir Stafford Cripps - Lord Pethic-Lowrence - A.V. Alexander
28. Partitioning of Bengal & Punjab - Acceptance of Governor Generalship of Independent India Union - Advancing the date of transfer of power from June 1948 to August 1947 - Holding referendum in NWFP
Controversial measures of Viceroy Lord Mountbatten:
Telengana
Govt of India Act 1935
Advisor to the Sec of State for India
29. 'Amongst his great nobles he (the king) was so predominant that none dare lift his head too high but with the humble classes he was benevolent and debonair - willingly giving them audience and hearing their petitions. He was pleased to accept their p
Monserrate
Bihar (1857 revolution)
Chandrashekhar Azad
Home rule movement
30. Which - among the following - Round Table Conferences held in London - was attended by M.K. Gandhi as the sole representative of the Congress?
The method by which power was to be transferred from British to Indian hands
Harijan Yatra
2nd in 193l A.D.
Delhi Darbar 1911
31. Chittagong Armory raid was organized by...
Surya Sen
Govt of India Act 1935
Subhas Chandra Bose
1st English President of INC
32. Both the transfer of power and the partition of India were hurled through in____days
Women
Mahatma Gandhi
The leaders were arrested
72
33. The historic importance of the second session of INC held in Calcutta 1886 was that
The INC leaders felt that -partition is a lesser evil than civil war
Mohd. Ali - Shaukat Ali
There was merger of INC and National Conference
Bihar (1857 revolution)
34. After the passing of Govt of India Act 1935 -the total number of provinces in British India became
1940A.D.
The leaders were arrested
Home rule movement
11
35. 'Service was his portion in life
Sudra Varna
The Buddha
1st English President of INC
Subhas Chandra Bose
36. The first tri-colour flag was hoisted on...
Sir Stafford Cripps - Lord Pethic-Lowrence - A.V. Alexander
North American History - to connote an assembly of people
1930
31st December - 1929
37. In the interim govt formed in 1946 - the vice-president of executive council was
Asking him to vacate the Red Fort and move to a humber place
Bernier
Dr. RadhaKrishnan
Rohilkhand (1857 revolution)
38. As a result of the Poona Pact the number of seats reserved for the Depressed classes out of general electorate seats were
1st Anglo-Christian INC president
To protest against the arrest of their popular leaders - Dr.Saifuddin Kitchlew and Dr. Satyapal
Increased
Lucknow (1857 revolution)
39. Kunwar Singh
Mohd. Ali - Shaukat Ali
Sudra Varna
Mirza Galib
Bihar (1857 revolution)
40. In which year All India Muslim League was founded?
Rash Bihari Bose
Mohd. Ali - Shaukat Ali
Rohilkhand (1857 revolution)
1906A.D.
41. What did the Mountbatten plan relate to?
Alauddin Khilji
Nabagopal mitra
The method by which power was to be transferred from British to Indian hands
72
42. The provision for separate electorate for which of the following communities ' in the communal Award<1932> made Gandhiji undertake a fast unto death
Gen Bakth Khan
Depressed classes
The method by which power was to be transferred from British to Indian hands
The INC leaders felt that -partition is a lesser evil than civil war
43. Madan lal Dhingra murdered Curzon Wyllie in London - who was a ____________
Diwan Maniram Putti
Bardolli Satyagraha
Advisor to the Sec of State for India
1946A.D.
44. According to the provisions of which of the following acts - Burma was separated from the British Indian Administration?
1940A.D.
Kabir
Govt of India Act 1935
Bernier
45. Fueled the intensity of the labour movements in India in the Frist Quarter of the 20th Centuary
Russian Revolution of 1917 - Rise in cost of living
Rohilkhand (1857 revolution)
Depressed classes
Chandrashekhar Azad
46. The modern Indian historian who has written 'it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the so called First National war of Independence was neither first nor national nor a war of independence
1946A.D.
Narayan Guru
Bhagat Singh & Batukeshwar Dutt
Dr. R C Majumdar
47. According to the Cabinet Mission an Interim National Government was formed at the Centre and the Constituent Assembly held its First Session on...
9 December - 1946
1st Anglo-Christian INC president
1906A.D.
Lahore session
48. The most important centre of Revolt of 1857 in Rajasthan was
Kotah
Sir Mohammad Iqbal
Full Democracy
Depressed classes
49. Who worked for the upliftment of Ezhavazas in Kerla in 20th century?
Narayan Guru
Nana Saheb
Kaiser-e-Hind
Kanpur (1857 revolution)
50. Who was instrumental in founding the National Committee in 1938 for drawing up a plan for economic development on the basis of industrialization?
No one
Subhas Chandra Bose
1st Parsi President of INC
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