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Modern Indian History
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1. Who was the first Muslim to preside over the session of Indian National Congres?
Badruddin Tyaibji
Bardolli Satyagraha
The Muslim League
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2. Which of the following were the main objectives for the Khilafath Movement?
The correct chronological sequence of the following stages in the political life of Gandhiji?
1st Parsi President of INC
Jawahar Lal Nehru
To save the Ottoman empire and preserve the Khalifate
3. Which one was not a principle of the Panchsheel?
Bernier
North American History - to connote an assembly of people
World peace and International Co-operation
Nana Saheb
4. The most important centre of Revolt of 1857 in Rajasthan was
Bardolli Satyagraha
Lahore session
Kotah
Bhagat Singh & Batukeshwar Dutt
5. The brain behind the bomb attack an Viceroy Lord Hardinge at Chandni chowk - Delhi in Dec 1912 was
Rash Bihari Bose
Mirza Galib
Full Democracy
1st English President of INC
6. Karachi session of Congress - 1931
Russian Revolution of 1917 - Rise in cost of living
Shooting down the sons of Bahadur Shah
Adoption of Fundamental Rights
Advisor to the Sec of State for India
7. The INC gave upits ideal of united India & accepted partition - because
The INC leaders felt that -partition is a lesser evil than civil war
Meerut
Radha Krishan Commission - 1948
No one
8. The revolutionaries who were arrested in the assembly bomb case were
Bhagat Singh & Batukeshwar Dutt
Bihar (1857 revolution)
World peace and International Co-operation
Mirza Galib
9. Who was the famous Urdu poet who witnessed the massacre of male civilians of Delhi by the British soldiers?
Alauddin Khilji
Kabir
Mirza Galib
Telengana
10. Who worked for the upliftment of Ezhavazas in Kerla in 20th century?
Alauddin Khilji
Advisor to the Sec of State for India
Narayan Guru
The Landholders Society
11. Who organized the Satyagraha Sabha whose members took a pledge to disobey the Rowlatt Act?
Sir Stafford Cripps - Lord Pethic-Lowrence - A.V. Alexander
She integrated the Tribal movement with civil disobedience movement
Depressed classes
Mahatma Gandhi
12. The unique contribution of Rani Gaidinlu's Naga movement was that
Nana Saheb
Lahore session
She integrated the Tribal movement with civil disobedience movement
Alberuni
13. The concept of national education was propounded during the course of the _______ movement
Lahore session
Kaiser-e-Hind
Swadeshi
Harijan Yatra
14. 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
Chandrashekhar Azad
Dr. R C Majumdar
Mirza Galib
Ambika Charan Majumdar
15. Who was instrumental in founding the National Committee in 1938 for drawing up a plan for economic development on the basis of industrialization?
To wreck the reform from within by
Subhas Chandra Bose
Narayan Guru
Depressed classes
16. '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
Balagangadhar Tilak
Bernier
1940A.D.
Lucknow (1857 revolution)
17. The objective of the new policy of 'Council Entry
To wreck the reform from within by
Surya Sen
World peace and International Co-operation
Nabagopal mitra
18. As a result of the Poona Pact the number of seats reserved for the Depressed classes out of general electorate seats were
Women
Increased
Belgaum 1924
1946A.D.
19. How did the British Government react to the Wardha Resolution?
The Buddha
Kabir
Telengana
The leaders were arrested
20. The Civil Disobedience Movement was started by Mahatma Gandhi in the year
Radha Krishan Commission - 1948
The method by which power was to be transferred from British to Indian hands
Jawahar Lal Nehru
1930
21. Lahore session of Congress - 1929
Sir Mohammad Iqbal
Purna Swaraj Resolutions
To wreck the reform from within by
East Bengal & Bengal
22. Dadabhai Naoroji
Monserrate
1st Parsi President of INC
The Landholders Society
No one
23. A novel and remarkable feature of the Civil Disobedience movement was the widespread participation of
Women
North American History - to connote an assembly of people
Monserrate
Alberuni
24. What did the Mountbatten plan relate to?
North American History - to connote an assembly of people
The Buddha
The method by which power was to be transferred from British to Indian hands
Ibn Batuta
25. The university Grants Commission was constituted in 1953 A.D. which among the followmg first recommended for it?
Belgaum 1924
Rash Bihari Bose
Radha Krishan Commission - 1948
Kaiser-e-Hind
26. W C Bannerjee
1st Anglo-Christian INC president
Kanpur
To protest against the arrest of their popular leaders - Dr.Saifuddin Kitchlew and Dr. Satyapal
Bardolli Satyagraha
27. In which year All India Muslim League was founded?
1906A.D.
Purna Swaraj Resolutions
Kotah
Congress-League Pact
28. The word 'Congress
Shooting down the sons of Bahadur Shah
North American History - to connote an assembly of people
Nabagopal mitra
Slavery was not prevalent in India in the extreme from as he be had seen in Greece
29. Balagangadhar Tilak was given the epithet of ' LOKMANYA ' during
Home rule movement
Dr. RadhaKrishnan
The INC leaders felt that -partition is a lesser evil than civil war
Dr. Pattabhi Sitaramayya
30. After the passing of Govt of India Act 1935 -the total number of provinces in British India became
Alauddin Khilji
2nd in 193l A.D.
Diwan Maniram Putti
11
31. What was the net gain of Non-co-operation Movement?
Kotah
No one
Prajamandals
Removed fear of the Britishers from the minds of the people
32. The first tri-colour flag was hoisted on...
31st December - 1929
Dr. RadhaKrishnan
Lahore session
Nana Saheb
33. The most important international event which influenced the course of the Indian National Movement during the early 20th century was:a) The Russian Revolution 1917
Vishnuvardhana
Sir Mohammad Iqbal
Sudra Varna
The Russo-Japanese War 1905
34. Badaruddin Tyabji
Kanpur
Diwan Maniram Putti
1st Muslim President of INC
There was merger of INC and National Conference
35. Megasthenese States
Kanpur (1857 revolution)
The correct chronological sequence of the following stages in the political life of Gandhiji?
The Muslim League
Slavery was not prevalent in India in the extreme from as he be had seen in Greece
36. 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
Advisor to the Sec of State for India
Increased
Surendranath Bannerjee and Ananda Mohana Bose
Controversial measures of Viceroy Lord Mountbatten:
37. 'Service was his portion in life
The Buddha
Alberuni
Sudra Varna
Sir Mohammad Iqbal
38. The leader of the 1857 revolt in Assam was?
2nd in 193l A.D.
Diwan Maniram Putti
To protest against the arrest of their popular leaders - Dr.Saifuddin Kitchlew and Dr. Satyapal
Monserrate
39. Kunwar Singh
Congress-League Pact
Rash Bihari Bose
Dr. R C Majumdar
Bihar (1857 revolution)
40. The provision for separate electorate for which of the following communities ' in the communal Award<1932> made Gandhiji undertake a fast unto death
Nana Saheb
Bernier
Depressed classes
The Buddha
41. On 23rd March 1940 - the Pakistan Resolution was passed by the All India Muslim League at its
Lahore session
1st Anglo-Christian INC president
Tantia Tope
Bihar (1857 revolution)
42. On 23rd
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1st Anglo-Christian INC president
The Landholders Society
Lahore session
43. Which of the following leaders of 1857 revolt escaped to Nepal and whose subsequent movements were never known thereafter?
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Dr. R C Majumdar
a) Nana Saheb b) Begum Hazrat Mahal
To wreck the reform from within by
44. The leaders of the 1857 revolt who sent 3 letters to King Napolean III of France during the rebellion was
Nana Saheb
Surendranath Bannerjee and Ananda Mohana Bose
Advisor to the Sec of State for India
The INC leaders felt that -partition is a lesser evil than civil war
45. members of the Cabinet Mission?
1st Anglo-Christian INC president
1954A.D.
Chandrashekhar Azad
Sir Stafford Cripps - Lord Pethic-Lowrence - A.V. Alexander
46. 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
Russian Revolution of 1917 - Rise in cost of living
Kanpur (1857 revolution)
Harijan Yatra
Bina Das
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.
Removed fear of the Britishers from the minds of the people
Vishnuvardhana
Monserrate
The correct chronological sequence of the following stages in the political life of Gandhiji?
48. The day Mahatma Gandhi launched the Non-Cooperation movement - a great national leader died. He was_________
Balagangadhar Tilak
Mahatma Gandhi
Women
Kanpur (1857 revolution)
49. 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?
Balagangadhar Tilak
Nabagopal mitra
Rakhsha Bandhan Day
Kanpur
50. Both the transfer of power and the partition of India were hurled through in____days
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Nabagopal mitra
Narayan Guru
To save the Ottoman empire and preserve the Khalifate