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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
Subhas Chandra Bose
1st English President of INC
Depressed classes
The method by which power was to be transferred from British to Indian hands
2. Subhas Chandra Bose was re-elected president of INC at the Tripuri session in 1939 by defeating
a) Nana Saheb b) Begum Hazrat Mahal
Lucknow (1857 revolution)
Dr. Pattabhi Sitaramayya
Ambika Charan Majumdar
3. The statement that 'If by worshipping stones one can find God - I shall worship a mountain
Meerut
Nabagopal mitra
Kabir
Advisor to the Sec of State for India
4. The Civil Disobedience Movement was started by Mahatma Gandhi in the year
Mohd. Ali - Shaukat Ali
Sudra Varna
1930
Telengana
5. On 23rd
Dr. R C Majumdar
Lahore session
To protest against the arrest of their popular leaders - Dr.Saifuddin Kitchlew and Dr. Satyapal
Controversial measures of Viceroy Lord Mountbatten:
6. The INC gave upits ideal of united India & accepted partition - because
Ibn Batuta
World peace and International Co-operation
The INC leaders felt that -partition is a lesser evil than civil war
Kabir
7. The 'call of deliverance day
Tantia Tope
Mirza Galib
11
The Muslim League
8. The word 'Congress
There was merger of INC and National Conference
North American History - to connote an assembly of people
9 December - 1946
Belgaum 1924
9. Gandhiji gave the title of 'SARDAR
31st December - 1929
Bardolli Satyagraha
The observance of Direct Action Day by Muslim League
The Muslim League
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
Full Democracy
Kaiser-e-Hind
Alauddin Khilji
Narayan Guru
11. Lord Dalhousie tried to snatch away the remaining geory of the Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah-II by
Home rule movement
Lahore session
Asking him to vacate the Red Fort and move to a humber place
Meerut
12. Dadabhai Naoroji
Balagangadhar Tilak
Removed fear of the Britishers from the minds of the people
1st Parsi President of INC
The Muslim League
13. On the suggestion of Ravindranath Tagore The date of partition of Bengal oct 16 - 1905 was celebrated as
Rakhsha Bandhan Day
Mirza Galib
Congress-League Pact
Asking him to vacate the Red Fort and move to a humber place
14. W C Bannerjee
East Bengal & Bengal
The INC leaders felt that -partition is a lesser evil than civil war
World peace and International Co-operation
1st Anglo-Christian INC president
15. Mahatma Gandhi presided over the annual session of INC for only once at
Belgaum 1924
Nana Saheb
1st English President of INC
The leaders were arrested
16. What did the Mountbatten plan relate to?
1st Parsi President of INC
The method by which power was to be transferred from British to Indian hands
Swadeshi
Home rule movement
17. The objective of the new policy of 'Council Entry
To wreck the reform from within by
Rakhsha Bandhan Day
The Landholders Society
1906A.D.
18. According to the provisions of which of the following acts - Burma was separated from the British Indian Administration?
Kaiser-e-Hind
Prajamandals
Home rule movement
Govt of India Act 1935
19. 'Service was his portion in life
Alberuni
a) Nana Saheb b) Begum Hazrat Mahal
Sudra Varna
Kaiser-e-Hind
20. Who discovered Balgangadhar Tilak as the Father of Indian Unrest?
Valentine Chirol
Ibn Batuta
Diwan Maniram Putti
Depressed classes
21. Badaruddin Tyabji
Swadeshi
1954A.D.
Valentine Chirol
1st Muslim President of INC
22. 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.
72
Nana Saheb
Valentine Chirol
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
Govt of India Act 1935
Controversial measures of Viceroy Lord Mountbatten:
Monserrate
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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
Surendranath Bannerjee and Ananda Mohana Bose
Kanpur
The Russo-Japanese War 1905
Ibn Batuta
25. What was the net gain of Non-co-operation Movement?
Ibn Batuta
Asking him to vacate the Red Fort and move to a humber place
Lucknow (1857 revolution)
Removed fear of the Britishers from the minds of the people
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
Adoption of Fundamental Rights
Slavery was not prevalent in India in the extreme from as he be had seen in Greece
Govt of India Act 1935
Dr. R C Majumdar
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
Sir Stafford Cripps - Lord Pethic-Lowrence - A.V. Alexander
1940A.D.
Controversial measures of Viceroy Lord Mountbatten:
Bernier
28. Who was the famous Urdu poet who witnessed the massacre of male civilians of Delhi by the British soldiers?
Rakhsha Bandhan Day
Mirza Galib
Lucknow (1857 revolution)
Harijan Yatra
29. The brain behind the bomb attack an Viceroy Lord Hardinge at Chandni chowk - Delhi in Dec 1912 was
72
To protest against the arrest of their popular leaders - Dr.Saifuddin Kitchlew and Dr. Satyapal
Lucknow (1857 revolution)
Rash Bihari Bose
30. In which year All India Muslim League was founded?
1906A.D.
To wreck the reform from within by
Rash Bihari Bose
Chandrashekhar Azad
31. Chittagong Armory raid was organized by...
Adoption of Fundamental Rights
Surya Sen
Lucknow (1857 revolution)
The correct chronological sequence of the following stages in the political life of Gandhiji?
32. Who was the first Muslim to preside over the session of Indian National Congres?
Increased
Badruddin Tyaibji
Vishnuvardhana
1st Anglo-Christian INC president
33. Lucknow session of Congress - 1916
Advisor to the Sec of State for India
Prajamandals
Congress-League Pact
Govt of India Act 1935
34. Who worked for the upliftment of Ezhavazas in Kerla in 20th century?
Subhas Chandra Bose
Narayan Guru
To protest against the arrest of their popular leaders - Dr.Saifuddin Kitchlew and Dr. Satyapal
Belgaum 1924
35. Faizpur session of Congress - 1936
Sir Stafford Cripps - Lord Pethic-Lowrence - A.V. Alexander
Full Democracy
Kanpur (1857 revolution)
The observance of Direct Action Day by Muslim League
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?
1st English President of INC
Meerut
She integrated the Tribal movement with civil disobedience movement
Nabagopal mitra
37. After the passing of Govt of India Act 1935 -the total number of provinces in British India became
11
72
Rash Bihari Bose
The observance of Direct Action Day by Muslim League
38. Who organized the Satyagraha Sabha whose members took a pledge to disobey the Rowlatt Act?
Controversial measures of Viceroy Lord Mountbatten:
Kotah
1st Anglo-Christian INC president
Mahatma Gandhi
39. As a result of the Poona Pact the number of seats reserved for the Depressed classes out of general electorate seats were
Delhi Darbar 1911
11
Belgaum 1924
Increased
40. Who among the following is considered to be the father of the Idea of Pakistan?
East Bengal & Bengal
Sir Mohammad Iqbal
Dr. RadhaKrishnan
Prajamandals
41. On 23rd March 1940 - the Pakistan Resolution was passed by the All India Muslim League at its
31st December - 1929
Badruddin Tyaibji
Lahore session
Swadeshi
42. The concept of national education was propounded during the course of the _______ movement
Swadeshi
Advisor to the Sec of State for India
Vishnuvardhana
Adoption of Fundamental Rights
43. A women revolutionary - who while receiving her degree at the convocation of the university of Calcutta from the Governor of Bengal was
Ambika Charan Majumdar
Bina Das
Dr. RadhaKrishnan
Alberuni
44. Karachi session of Congress - 1931
Dr. Pattabhi Sitaramayya
The INC leaders felt that -partition is a lesser evil than civil war
Adoption of Fundamental Rights
Tantia Tope
45. Which one was not a principle of the Panchsheel?
Shooting down the sons of Bahadur Shah
World peace and International Co-operation
Sudra Varna
Home rule movement
46. Panchsheel was declared by India and China in...
Mahatma Gandhi
She integrated the Tribal movement with civil disobedience movement
1st Muslim President of INC
1954A.D.
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.
Vishnuvardhana
Mohd. Ali - Shaukat Ali
11
1940A.D.
48. The unique contribution of Rani Gaidinlu's Naga movement was that
The Buddha
Bernier
She integrated the Tribal movement with civil disobedience movement
Home rule movement
49. The university Grants Commission was constituted in 1953 A.D. which among the followmg first recommended for it?
Badruddin Tyaibji
Belgaum 1924
Sir Mohammad Iqbal
Radha Krishan Commission - 1948
50. Why did the crowd had gathered at JallianwalahBagh - Amritsar on Apr 13 - 1919
To wreck the reform from within by
To protest against the arrest of their popular leaders - Dr.Saifuddin Kitchlew and Dr. Satyapal
Chandrashekhar Azad
Surya Sen