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Modern Indian History

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1. The provision for separate electorate for which of the following communities ' in the communal Award<1932> made Gandhiji undertake a fast unto death






2. Subhas Chandra Bose was re-elected president of INC at the Tripuri session in 1939 by defeating






3. The statement that 'If by worshipping stones one can find God - I shall worship a mountain






4. The Civil Disobedience Movement was started by Mahatma Gandhi in the year






5. On 23rd






6. The INC gave upits ideal of united India & accepted partition - because






7. The 'call of deliverance day






8. The word 'Congress






9. Gandhiji gave the title of 'SARDAR






10. '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






11. Lord Dalhousie tried to snatch away the remaining geory of the Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah-II by






12. Dadabhai Naoroji






13. On the suggestion of Ravindranath Tagore The date of partition of Bengal oct 16 - 1905 was celebrated as






14. W C Bannerjee






15. Mahatma Gandhi presided over the annual session of INC for only once at






16. What did the Mountbatten plan relate to?






17. The objective of the new policy of 'Council Entry






18. According to the provisions of which of the following acts - Burma was separated from the British Indian Administration?






19. 'Service was his portion in life






20. Who discovered Balgangadhar Tilak as the Father of Indian Unrest?






21. Badaruddin Tyabji






22. Which - among the following - Round Table Conferences held in London - was attended by M.K. Gandhi as the sole representative of the Congress?






23. 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






24. 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






25. What was the net gain of Non-co-operation Movement?






26. 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






27. 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






28. Who was the famous Urdu poet who witnessed the massacre of male civilians of Delhi by the British soldiers?






29. The brain behind the bomb attack an Viceroy Lord Hardinge at Chandni chowk - Delhi in Dec 1912 was






30. In which year All India Muslim League was founded?






31. Chittagong Armory raid was organized by...






32. Who was the first Muslim to preside over the session of Indian National Congres?






33. Lucknow session of Congress - 1916






34. Who worked for the upliftment of Ezhavazas in Kerla in 20th century?






35. Faizpur session of Congress - 1936






36. 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?






37. After the passing of Govt of India Act 1935 -the total number of provinces in British India became






38. Who organized the Satyagraha Sabha whose members took a pledge to disobey the Rowlatt Act?






39. As a result of the Poona Pact the number of seats reserved for the Depressed classes out of general electorate seats were






40. Who among the following is considered to be the father of the Idea of Pakistan?






41. On 23rd March 1940 - the Pakistan Resolution was passed by the All India Muslim League at its






42. The concept of national education was propounded during the course of the _______ movement






43. A women revolutionary - who while receiving her degree at the convocation of the university of Calcutta from the Governor of Bengal was






44. Karachi session of Congress - 1931






45. Which one was not a principle of the Panchsheel?






46. Panchsheel was declared by India and China in...






47. 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.






48. The unique contribution of Rani Gaidinlu's Naga movement was that






49. The university Grants Commission was constituted in 1953 A.D. which among the followmg first recommended for it?






50. Why did the crowd had gathered at JallianwalahBagh - Amritsar on Apr 13 - 1919