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Modern Indian History
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1. Who organized the Satyagraha Sabha whose members took a pledge to disobey the Rowlatt Act?
1930
Surya Sen
Mahatma Gandhi
Rash Bihari Bose
2. In the interim govt formed in 1946 - the vice-president of executive council was
Rakhsha Bandhan Day
Sir Mohammad Iqbal
Dr. RadhaKrishnan
Depressed classes
3. 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
Controversial measures of Viceroy Lord Mountbatten:
To wreck the reform from within by
Women
4. Khan Bahadur Khan
World peace and International Co-operation
Delhi Darbar 1911
Rohilkhand (1857 revolution)
The Buddha
5. '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.
Jawahar Lal Nehru
1940A.D.
Alberuni
Ibn Batuta
6. The historic Lucknow session of INC in 1916 was presided over by_________
The method by which power was to be transferred from British to Indian hands
Mahatma Gandhi
Ambika Charan Majumdar
11
7. In which year All India Muslim League was founded?
She integrated the Tribal movement with civil disobedience movement
Advisor to the Sec of State for India
Rash Bihari Bose
1906A.D.
8. Gandhiji gave the title of 'SARDAR
Bardolli Satyagraha
To protest against the arrest of their popular leaders - Dr.Saifuddin Kitchlew and Dr. Satyapal
Bhagat Singh & Batukeshwar Dutt
1940A.D.
9. Both the transfer of power and the partition of India were hurled through in____days
Shooting down the sons of Bahadur Shah
72
World peace and International Co-operation
Removed fear of the Britishers from the minds of the people
10. Where did the sepoys break out in revolt on 10th May - 1857?
Sir Mohammad Iqbal
Meerut
72
Home rule movement
11. The HSRA movement ended with the death of...
Surya Sen
Delhi Darbar 1911
Valentine Chirol
Chandrashekhar Azad
12. The earliest public association to be formed in modern India in 1837 was:a) The Bengal British Indian Society
Adoption of Fundamental Rights
The Landholders Society
Kotah
Ibn Batuta
13. According to the provisions of which of the following acts - Burma was separated from the British Indian Administration?
Govt of India Act 1935
31st December - 1929
Nana Saheb
Lucknow (1857 revolution)
14. Who was instrumental in founding the National Committee in 1938 for drawing up a plan for economic development on the basis of industrialization?
Subhas Chandra Bose
1st Muslim President of INC
The Muslim League
Meerut
15. Badaruddin Tyabji
1st Muslim President of INC
Lahore session
Gen Bakth Khan
Prajamandals
16. 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.
Alauddin Khilji
Vishnuvardhana
The observance of Direct Action Day by Muslim League
To wreck the reform from within by
17. Chittagong Armory raid was organized by...
World peace and International Co-operation
North American History - to connote an assembly of people
Increased
Surya Sen
18. The university Grants Commission was constituted in 1953 A.D. which among the followmg first recommended for it?
Radha Krishan Commission - 1948
1st Muslim President of INC
Subhas Chandra Bose
Rohilkhand (1857 revolution)
19. 'Decay is inherent in all component beings. Work out your own salvation with deligence.
Kaiser-e-Hind
The Buddha
Kanpur (1857 revolution)
To save the Ottoman empire and preserve the Khalifate
20. The Civil Disobedience Movement was started by Mahatma Gandhi in the year
Rash Bihari Bose
Shooting down the sons of Bahadur Shah
1930
Dr. R C Majumdar
21. Lahore session of Congress - 1929
World peace and International Co-operation
Bardolli Satyagraha
Lucknow (1857 revolution)
Purna Swaraj Resolutions
22. 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
Adoption of Fundamental Rights
The correct chronological sequence of the following stages in the political life of Gandhiji?
Lucknow (1857 revolution)
23. The title given by British govt to the Mahatma Gandhiji which he surrendere during the Non-Cooperation Mov was
To protest against the arrest of their popular leaders - Dr.Saifuddin Kitchlew and Dr. Satyapal
Controversial measures of Viceroy Lord Mountbatten:
Kaiser-e-Hind
1st English President of INC
24. The leaders of the 1857 revolt who sent 3 letters to King Napolean III of France during the rebellion was
Govt of India Act 1935
Purna Swaraj Resolutions
Nana Saheb
9 December - 1946
25. 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.
Dr. R C Majumdar
Surendranath Bannerjee and Ananda Mohana Bose
To wreck the reform from within by
26. As a result of the Poona Pact the number of seats reserved for the Depressed classes out of general electorate seats were
Mahatma Gandhi
Increased
Purna Swaraj Resolutions
Women
27. Which one was not a principle of the Panchsheel?
World peace and International Co-operation
Telengana
Rakhsha Bandhan Day
Govt of India Act 1935
28. 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
Tantia Tope
Vishnuvardhana
11
29. Megasthenese States
Slavery was not prevalent in India in the extreme from as he be had seen in Greece
Ibn Batuta
Rakhsha Bandhan Day
The observance of Direct Action Day by Muslim League
30. W C Bannerjee
1st Anglo-Christian INC president
Monserrate
Home rule movement
Swadeshi
31. The leader of the 1857 revolt in Assam was?
Kaiser-e-Hind
1st Muslim President of INC
Diwan Maniram Putti
Subhas Chandra Bose
32. Subhas Chandra Bose was re-elected president of INC at the Tripuri session in 1939 by defeating
Bihar (1857 revolution)
Dr. Pattabhi Sitaramayya
1st English President of INC
The method by which power was to be transferred from British to Indian hands
33. 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:
The leaders were arrested
Sudra Varna
The Muslim League
34. After the partition of Bengal - two new provinces which came into existence were?
1st Anglo-Christian INC president
East Bengal & Bengal
Controversial measures of Viceroy Lord Mountbatten:
Depressed classes
35. During 1857 revolt -the British after capturing Delhi what was their most Brutal act( by General Hudson -commander in chief of the English troops)?
There was merger of INC and National Conference
9 December - 1946
Kanpur (1857 revolution)
Shooting down the sons of Bahadur Shah
36. The historic importance of the second session of INC held in Calcutta 1886 was that
There was merger of INC and National Conference
Nana Saheb
Dr. R C Majumdar
72
37. 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
The Russo-Japanese War 1905
Kabir
Increased
Mirza Galib
38. 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?
11
No one
Nabagopal mitra
Women
39. The day Mahatma Gandhi launched the Non-Cooperation movement - a great national leader died. He was_________
Kaiser-e-Hind
Ambika Charan Majumdar
Balagangadhar Tilak
Surya Sen
40. The unique contribution of Rani Gaidinlu's Naga movement was that
Sir Stafford Cripps - Lord Pethic-Lowrence - A.V. Alexander
11
She integrated the Tribal movement with civil disobedience movement
1st English President of INC
41. members of the Cabinet Mission?
9 December - 1946
Sir Stafford Cripps - Lord Pethic-Lowrence - A.V. Alexander
Bhagat Singh & Batukeshwar Dutt
Tantia Tope
42. '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.
Jawahar Lal Nehru
Rakhsha Bandhan Day
Surendranath Bannerjee and Ananda Mohana Bose
Russian Revolution of 1917 - Rise in cost of living
43. Panchsheel was declared by India and China in...
The Muslim League
1954A.D.
Surya Sen
Bardolli Satyagraha
44. On 23rd March 1940 - the Pakistan Resolution was passed by the All India Muslim League at its
Lahore session
Sudra Varna
Nabagopal mitra
Women
45. The Indian Association and National Conference both were founded by...
East Bengal & Bengal
Balagangadhar Tilak
Surendranath Bannerjee and Ananda Mohana Bose
Telengana
46. '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
Controversial measures of Viceroy Lord Mountbatten:
Mirza Galib
Slavery was not prevalent in India in the extreme from as he be had seen in Greece
47. On the suggestion of Ravindranath Tagore The date of partition of Bengal oct 16 - 1905 was celebrated as
Alauddin Khilji
Depressed classes
Rakhsha Bandhan Day
The Landholders Society
48. Lucknow session of Congress - 1916
Congress-League Pact
Full Democracy
1906A.D.
To save the Ottoman empire and preserve the Khalifate
49. Champaran -Kheda - Ahmedabad mill strike - Non-Cooperation Movement
Radha Krishan Commission - 1948
72
Asking him to vacate the Red Fort and move to a humber place
The correct chronological sequence of the following stages in the political life of Gandhiji?
50. Who was the famous Urdu poet who witnessed the massacre of male civilians of Delhi by the British soldiers?
Sudra Varna
Mirza Galib
East Bengal & Bengal
Jawahar Lal Nehru
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