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Modern Indian History
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. On 23rd
Surendranath Bannerjee and Ananda Mohana Bose
Delhi Darbar 1911
Alberuni
Lahore session
2. 'No one is allowed to marry outside his own caste - or to exchange are profession or trade for another or to follow more than business.
Alberuni
The INC leaders felt that -partition is a lesser evil than civil war
Bhagat Singh & Batukeshwar Dutt
Govt of India Act 1935
3. The title given by British govt to the Mahatma Gandhiji which he surrendere during the Non-Cooperation Mov was
Kaiser-e-Hind
Subhas Chandra Bose
Bihar (1857 revolution)
She integrated the Tribal movement with civil disobedience movement
4. 'There was little sympathy in spite of loud professions of loyalty. Moderate and extremist alike learnt with satisfaction of German Victories. There was no love for Germany of course - only the desire to see our rulers humbled.
The Landholders Society
Ibn Batuta
Jawahar Lal Nehru
North American History - to connote an assembly of people
5. Chittagong Armory raid was organized by...
Govt of India Act 1935
Asking him to vacate the Red Fort and move to a humber place
Surya Sen
Bernier
6. Champaran -Kheda - Ahmedabad mill strike - Non-Cooperation Movement
Sir Mohammad Iqbal
The correct chronological sequence of the following stages in the political life of Gandhiji?
Mohd. Ali - Shaukat Ali
Shooting down the sons of Bahadur Shah
7. Begum Hazrat Mahal
The Muslim League
Lucknow (1857 revolution)
Ambika Charan Majumdar
1930
8. The historic Lucknow session of INC in 1916 was presided over by_________
The correct chronological sequence of the following stages in the political life of Gandhiji?
Kanpur (1857 revolution)
Ambika Charan Majumdar
The Buddha
9. Where did the sepoys break out in revolt on 10th May - 1857?
The Russo-Japanese War 1905
Badruddin Tyaibji
Meerut
The leaders were arrested
10. The objective of the new policy of 'Council Entry
To wreck the reform from within by
Harijan Yatra
The Russo-Japanese War 1905
Tantia Tope
11. Dhondu Pant
Swadeshi
Kanpur (1857 revolution)
Ambika Charan Majumdar
The method by which power was to be transferred from British to Indian hands
12. George Yule
1st English President of INC
Surya Sen
Gen Bakth Khan
No one
13. The unique contribution of Rani Gaidinlu's Naga movement was that
There was merger of INC and National Conference
Kanpur
She integrated the Tribal movement with civil disobedience movement
1940A.D.
14. The day Mahatma Gandhi launched the Non-Cooperation movement - a great national leader died. He was_________
There was merger of INC and National Conference
Lahore session
1st Anglo-Christian INC president
Balagangadhar Tilak
15. 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
Delhi Darbar 1911
Lucknow (1857 revolution)
Harijan Yatra
The observance of Direct Action Day by Muslim League
16. The earliest public association to be formed in modern India in 1837 was:a) The Bengal British Indian Society
a) Nana Saheb b) Begum Hazrat Mahal
To protest against the arrest of their popular leaders - Dr.Saifuddin Kitchlew and Dr. Satyapal
The Landholders Society
The leaders were arrested
17. Who discovered Balgangadhar Tilak as the Father of Indian Unrest?
9 December - 1946
Tantia Tope
1st English President of INC
Valentine Chirol
18. After the passing of Govt of India Act 1935 -the total number of provinces in British India became
Bhagat Singh & Batukeshwar Dutt
9 December - 1946
11
Sir Mohammad Iqbal
19. Lord Dalhousie tried to snatch away the remaining geory of the Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah-II by
Alberuni
Bernier
Asking him to vacate the Red Fort and move to a humber place
The leaders were arrested
20. 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.
World peace and International Co-operation
Telengana
Vishnuvardhana
Nabagopal mitra
21. 'Decay is inherent in all component beings. Work out your own salvation with deligence.
Purna Swaraj Resolutions
Controversial measures of Viceroy Lord Mountbatten:
Ambika Charan Majumdar
The Buddha
22. Where did the rebels of 1857 revolt massacre alarge number of Englishmen and women after promising them safe conduct?
Vishnuvardhana
Bernier
The INC leaders felt that -partition is a lesser evil than civil war
Kanpur
23. The army of emperor Bahadur Shah in Delhi was commanded by...
Gen Bakth Khan
Sir Stafford Cripps - Lord Pethic-Lowrence - A.V. Alexander
Alberuni
Depressed classes
24. The 'call of deliverance day
Congress-League Pact
31st December - 1929
The Muslim League
Lahore session
25. '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
Kanpur (1857 revolution)
Monserrate
The Russo-Japanese War 1905
1946A.D.
26. Fueled the intensity of the labour movements in India in the Frist Quarter of the 20th Centuary
1st Anglo-Christian INC president
Rash Bihari Bose
Russian Revolution of 1917 - Rise in cost of living
Women
27. The provision for separate electorate for which of the following communities ' in the communal Award<1932> made Gandhiji undertake a fast unto death
Depressed classes
North American History - to connote an assembly of people
No one
Govt of India Act 1935
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
a) Nana Saheb b) Begum Hazrat Mahal
Lahore session
To protest against the arrest of their popular leaders - Dr.Saifuddin Kitchlew and Dr. Satyapal
Controversial measures of Viceroy Lord Mountbatten:
29. 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
1st Anglo-Christian INC president
Kabir
Asking him to vacate the Red Fort and move to a humber place
Ibn Batuta
30. The Indian Association and National Conference both were founded by...
Radha Krishan Commission - 1948
9 December - 1946
Surendranath Bannerjee and Ananda Mohana Bose
Full Democracy
31. The statement that 'If by worshipping stones one can find God - I shall worship a mountain
Full Democracy
Kabir
Shooting down the sons of Bahadur Shah
2nd in 193l A.D.
32. Who among the following is considered to be the father of the Idea of Pakistan?
Controversial measures of Viceroy Lord Mountbatten:
Sir Mohammad Iqbal
Harijan Yatra
The Landholders Society
33. Lahore session of Congress - 1929
Bhagat Singh & Batukeshwar Dutt
Purna Swaraj Resolutions
Sir Mohammad Iqbal
Govt of India Act 1935
34. Which - among the following - Round Table Conferences held in London - was attended by M.K. Gandhi as the sole representative of the Congress?
2nd in 193l A.D.
Meerut
Adoption of Fundamental Rights
Bihar (1857 revolution)
35. With the capture of which of the following rebels in April 1858 - could be said as the end of 1857 revolt?
Tantia Tope
1954A.D.
1st Muslim President of INC
Kotah
36. The Muslim league demanded a separate home land for the Indian Muslims openly for the first time at its annual session held in Lahore in the year
The Buddha
Nabagopal mitra
The method by which power was to be transferred from British to Indian hands
1940A.D.
37. Mahatma Gandhi presided over the annual session of INC for only once at
Diwan Maniram Putti
The Muslim League
Belgaum 1924
Bhagat Singh & Batukeshwar Dutt
38. Madan lal Dhingra murdered Curzon Wyllie in London - who was a ____________
1954A.D.
Increased
Mahatma Gandhi
Advisor to the Sec of State for India
39. The popular movements in various princely states were launched by the local organizations known as
North American History - to connote an assembly of people
Alauddin Khilji
1930
Prajamandals
40. What was the net gain of Non-co-operation Movement?
Removed fear of the Britishers from the minds of the people
Kanpur
Bernier
Congress-League Pact
41. Subhas Chandra Bose was re-elected president of INC at the Tripuri session in 1939 by defeating
a) Nana Saheb b) Begum Hazrat Mahal
1st Parsi President of INC
Harijan Yatra
Dr. Pattabhi Sitaramayya
42. 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
a) Nana Saheb b) Begum Hazrat Mahal
Meerut
Nabagopal mitra
43. The revolutionaries who were arrested in the assembly bomb case were
Russian Revolution of 1917 - Rise in cost of living
Lahore session
Bhagat Singh & Batukeshwar Dutt
1940A.D.
44. The Civil Disobedience Movement was started by Mahatma Gandhi in the year
1930
Kotah
Bihar (1857 revolution)
The leaders were arrested
45. 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
Jawahar Lal Nehru
Ambika Charan Majumdar
North American History - to connote an assembly of people
Dr. R C Majumdar
46. Why did the crowd had gathered at JallianwalahBagh - Amritsar on Apr 13 - 1919
Shooting down the sons of Bahadur Shah
To protest against the arrest of their popular leaders - Dr.Saifuddin Kitchlew and Dr. Satyapal
Dr. R C Majumdar
North American History - to connote an assembly of people
47. Megasthenese States
Slavery was not prevalent in India in the extreme from as he be had seen in Greece
Women
No one
Rohilkhand (1857 revolution)
48. The concept of national education was propounded during the course of the _______ movement
Dr. Pattabhi Sitaramayya
Swadeshi
1940A.D.
1st Anglo-Christian INC president
49. Who were the leaders of Khilafat Movement?
She integrated the Tribal movement with civil disobedience movement
Mohd. Ali - Shaukat Ali
72
Russian Revolution of 1917 - Rise in cost of living
50. Which one was not a principle of the Panchsheel?
Congress-League Pact
Bhagat Singh & Batukeshwar Dutt
Increased
World peace and International Co-operation