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• Who started the Bhoodan Movement?

1. Swami Vivekananda

2. Mahatma Gandhi

3. Acharya Vinoba Bhave

4. Jayaprakash Narayan

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• Which of the following is correctly matched?

1. New India - M.K. Gandhi

2. Young India - Annie Besant

3. Yugantar - Aurobindo Ghosh4. Kesari - B.G. Tilak

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9/5/2014

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• Who was called by the British rulers as the

leader of Indian unrest?

1. Subhas Chandra Bose

2. Bal Gangadhar Tilak

3. M.K. Gandhi

4. Gopal Krishna Gokhale

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• Who gave the motto Back to the Vedas?

1. Swami Dayanand Saraswati

2. Ramkrishna Paramhansa

3. Swami Vivekananda4. Raja Ram Mohan Roy

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• The most effective contribution made byDadabhai Naoroji to the cause of Indian NationalMovement was that he

1. Brought the problems of Indians to the notice ofthe British

2. Stressed the need for eradication of all the socialevils before anything else.

3. Interpreted the ancient Indian texts and

restored the self - confidence of Indians.4. Exposed the economic exploitation of India by

the British

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• Muslim League first demanded partition of

India in

1. 1916

2. 1940

3. 1946

4. 1906

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• Which of the following was not founded by Dr.

B.R. Ambedkar?

1. Samaj Samata Sangh

2. Peoples Education Society

3. Depressed Classes Institute

4. Deccan Education Society

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• Which of the following was a

recommendation of Hunter's Commission ?

1. Women's education

2. Introduction of civic education at college

university level

3. New regulation for the organized senates

system

4. Gradual withdrawal of state support from

higher education

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9/5/2014

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• Who amongst the following is associated with

the Local Self-Government Act?

1. William Bentick

2. Ripon

3. Dalhousie

4. Cornwallis

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• Who advocated the policy of abolishing

princely states in free India?

1. Mahatma Gandhi

2. C.Rajagopalachari

3. Jawaharlal Nehru

4. Vallabhbhai Patel

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• Which of the following was a continous

movement based on the philosophy of

Gandhiji, and not a specific movement?

1. Quit India Movement

2. Swadeshi Movement

3. Civil Disobedience Movement

4. Non-Cooperation Movement

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• Ancient Monuments Preservation Act was

passed during the Viceroyalty of

1. Lansdowne

2. Ripon

3. Curzon

4. Minto

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• Who was the Chairman of Boundary

Commission to define the boundaries of the

dominions under the Indian Independence Act

of 1947?

1. Stafford Cripps

2. Cyril Radcliffe

3. Lord Mountbatten4. Lord Wavell

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• Which of the following is the most significant

contribution of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel to

modern India?

1. His Presidentship of Indian National Congress

2. His participating in Quit India Movement

3. His role in Non-Cooperation Movement

4. His achievement of integration of princely

states

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• The Chauri-Chaura incident (during Non-

Cooperation Movement) relates to

1. Large scale looting of government property

by Congress workers

2. A major offensive by underground

revolutionaries

3. Massive police firing on unarmed Satyagrahis4. The burning of a police post by a mob

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• Who among the following is known as the

Heroine of 1942 Quit India Movement?

1. Suchitra Kriplani

2. Aruna Asaf Ali

3. Sarojini Naidu

4. Dr. Annie Besant

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• Who amongst the following was involved in

the Alipore Bomb case?

1. S.N. Banerjea

2. Bipin Chandra Pal

3. Aurobindo Ghosh

4. Jatin Das

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• Who was the first European to translate the

Bhagwad Gita into English ?

1. Sir Alexander Cunningham

2. William Jones

3. Charles Wilkins

4. James Prinsep

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• Which of the following universities was not

established by Lord Dalhousie?

1. Calcutta

2. Bombay

3. Delhi

4. Madras

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• Who said, I therefore want freedom

immediately, this very night, before dawn if it

can be had?

1. Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru

2. Dr. Rajendra Prasad

3. Annie Besant

4. Mahatma Gandhi

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• Who was the first Indian to pass the Indian

Civil Service?


2. Surendranath Banerjee

3. D.N. Wacha

4. Dadabhai Naoroji

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• The title Punjab Kesari was conferred on

1. Lala Lajpat Rai

2. Ranjit Singh

3. Sardar Baldev Singh4. Bhagat Singh

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• Seeds of Indian participating in the Legislative

Council of the Governor General of India are

embodied in the

1. Indian Councils Act, 1892


3. Government of India Act, 1919


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• The theory of economic drain of India during

British imperialism was propounded by

1. R.C. Dutt

2. M.K. Gandhi

3. Dadabhai Naoroji

4. Jawaharlal Nehru

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• Which one of the following upheavals took

place in Bengal immediately after the Revolt

of 1857?

1. Indigo Disturbances

2. Sanyasi Rebellion

3. Patna Disturbances

4. Santal Rebellion

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• The affairs of East India Company came into

the hands of the British Crown under

1. Regulating Act

2. Pitt's India Act

3. Govt. of India Act

4. Cabinet Mission Plan

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• Theosophist, educationist and Indian national

leader. This description fits

1. Srinivasa Shastri

2. Annie Besant

3. Shyama Prasad Mookherji

4. Madan Mohan Malviya

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• Who was the leader of Poona Sarvajanik

Sabha founded in 1870?

1. Justice Ranade

2. S.N. Banerjee

3. Ferozeshah Mehta

4. K.T. Telang

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• The Forward Bloc was formed by

1. B.R. Ambedkar

2. P.C. Joshi

3. Subhash Chandra Bose

4. Acharya Narendra Dev

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• The Supreme court in British India was

established under

1. The Charter Act of 1813

2. Regulating Act of 1773


4. Pitt's India Act of 1784

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• Arya Samaj was started by



3. Raja Ram Mohan Roy


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• The first to start a joint stock company trade

with India were the

1. Danish

2. Dutch

3. Portuguese

4. French

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• Who among the following was associated with

the Home Rule Movement from Madras in

1922?

1. C. Rajagopalachari

2. Mahatma Gandhi

3. T. Prakasham

4. Annie Besant

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• Non Cooperation Movement started in :

1. 1870

2. 1921

3. 19424. 1920

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• The Lucknow Pact of 1916 was made between

1. The Hindus and the Muslims

2. The Congress and the Muslim League

3. The moderates and extremists

4. The British and the Indians

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• The year 1943 is important because

1. World War II ended.

2. Quit India Resolution was passed.

3. Azad Hind Fauj was formed.4. Dandi March was organised by Mahatma

Gandhi

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• Who is known as the Grand Old Man of India?

1. Dadabhai Naoroji

2. Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

3. Lala Lajpat Rai


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• Which one of the following is not correctly

matched?

1. Lord Rippon-Local Self Government

2. Thomas Munro-Ryotwari System

3. Holt Mackenzie-Mahalwari Settlement in

Northern India

4. Lord Cornwallis-Subsidiary System

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• Legalisation of widow remarriage in India was

first secured by

1. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

2. Pandit Ramabai

3. Maharishi Karve

4. K. Natarajan

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• In 1917, at Champaran, the government

forced farmers to undertake

1. Opium cultivation

2. Indigo cultivation

3. Land ceiling

4. Hallow cultivation

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• The Simon Commission was concerned with

1. Famines

2. Higher education

3. Constitutional reforms

4. Reforms in princely states

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• The first national leader to attack the Salt Tax

in Indian Legislature was

1. Mahatma Gandhi

2. Dadabhai Naoroji

3. Pherozeshah Mehta

4. G.K. Gokhale

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• From where did Mahatma Gandhi start his

historic Dandi March?

1. Chauri Chaura

2. Sabarmati Ashram

3. Dandi

4. Champaran

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• The first railway started in India under the

Governor-Generalship of

1. Lord Dalhousie

2. Lord Canning

3. Lord Cornwallis

4. Lord Hastings

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• Gandhiji started Satyagraha movement in

1919 in protest against the

1. Simon Commission

2. Champaran wrongs

3. Colonial exploitation of India

4. Enactment of Rowlatt Act

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• The English Weekly edited by Mahatma

Gandhi was

1. Young India

2. Kesari

3. Bombay Chronicle

4. Comrade

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• Indian sepoys in the Bengal army revolted

because

1. The British tried to make them use the

greased catridges

2. The British passed the General Service

Enlistment Act.

3. The British officers ill-treated them.4. The British discontinued the payment of field

allowance.

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• Who was the founder of the Muslim League in

India?

1. Nawab Salimulla

2. Sir Syed Ahmad Khan

3. None of these

4. M.A. Jinnah

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• Where did Mahatma Gandhi first try the

weapon of Satyagraha?

1. South Africa

2. Champaran

3. Dandi

4. Bardoli

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• Uplift of the backward classes was the main

programme of the

1. Prarthana Samaj

2. Arya Samaj

3. Ramakrishna Mission

4. Satyashodhak Samaj

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• The first main British Parliament Act regarding

East India Company's administration in India

was

1. Rowlatt Act

2. Charter Act of 1913

3. Pitts India Act

4. Regulation Act

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• The British Governor General, who formulated

the policy of Subsidiary Alliance with regard to

Indian powers was

1. Lord Wellesley

2. Warren Hastings

3. Lord William Bentick

4. Lord Dalhousie

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• The Indian states that were annexed by

invoking the Doctrine of Lapse included

1. Mysore, Satara and Bhavnagar

2. Jhansi, Nagpur and Travancore

3. Jhansi, Nagpur and Satara

4. Jhansi, Satara and Mysore

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• The founder of Boy Scouts and Civil Guides

Movement in India was

1. Robert Montgomery

2. Charles Andrews

3. Baden Powell

4. Richard Temple

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• Who among the following could not be

captured by the British in 1857?

1. Nana Saheb

2. Bahadur Shah II

3. Tantia Tope

4. Mangal Pandey

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• The British law which provoked Mahatma

Gandhi to crusade for the Asians in South

Africa was called

1. The Apartheid Act

2. The Blacks Registration Act

3. The Asiatic Registration Act

4. The Coloured's Licence Act

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• The practice of Sati was declared illegal by

1. Lord Ripon

2. Lord Cornwallis

3. Raja Rammohan Roy


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• The Congress split into moderates and

extremists in the session at

1. Surat

2. Ahmedabad

3. Lucknow

4. Madras

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• Permanent Revenue System of Lord Cornwallis

proved oppressive to the tenants because

they were

1. Asked to pay under military pressure

2. Exploited by the zamindars

3. Forced to produce more

4. Asked to pay yearly revenue in advance

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• The Rowlatt Act led to

1. Economic reforms in U.P.

2. Communal riots in Bengal

3. Massacre at Amritsar4. Social legislation in Madras

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• The first session of Indian National Congress

was held at

1. Surat

2. Calcutta

3. Lahore

4. Bombay

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• Quit India Movement started after the failure

of

1. Cripps proposal

2. None of these

3. Simon recommendation

4. Cabinet Mission

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• During the British rule, first partition of Bengal

was done in

1. 1903

2. 1905

3. 1908

4. 1885

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• Who was the first Indian to become the

member of British Parliament?

1. D.N. Wacha

2. Badruddin Tyabji

3. Dadabhai Naoroji

4. W.C. Banerjee

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• Who was the Governor General of India when

the Indian National Congress was formed?

1. Lord Cornwallis

2. Lord Lytton

3. Lord Mountbatten

4. Lord Dufferin

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• Vallabhbhai Patel was born at

1. Borsad

2. Ahmedabad

3. Nadiad4. Baroda

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• Satyagraha Ashram was established by who

among the following?

1. Lokanayak Jayaprakash Narayan

2. Mahatma Gandhi


4. Acharya Kripalani

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• Which was the first newspaper to be

published in India?

1. Bengal Chronicle

2. Bengal Gazette

3. The Hindu

4. Bombay Samachar

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• Who conceived the idea of Pakistan?

1. Mohd. Ali Jinnah

2. Chowdhary Rahmat Ali

3. H.S. Suharwardhy

4. Asaf Ali

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• The Gandhi - Irwin Pact proclaimed the

suspension of

1. Dandi March

2. None of these


4. Non Cooperation Movement

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• The importance of Gandhiji's Non-

Cooperation Movement was that

1. It showed the ability and the willingness of

the people in general to endure.

2. None of these

3. Non-violence was employed for the first time

as an effective weapon of mass movement.4. It was a great movement on a large scale.

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• Luckhnow Pact of 1916 is significant in the

history of Indian National Movement because

1. None of these

2. It ended separate electorates for Hindus and

Muslims

3. It decide India's non participating in World

War I.

4. Both the groups of Congress men settled

their disputes

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• The title of Governor - General was changed

to that of Viceroy in the year

1. 1905 A.D.

2. 1858 A.D.

3. 1917 A.D.

4. 1885 A.D

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• Who among the following first propounded

the idea of basic education?


2. Mahatma Gandhi

3. Dayanand Saraswati

4. Jawaharlal Nehru

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• General Dyer who was responsible for

Jallianwala Bagh massacre was shot dead by

1. Udham Singh

2. Sohan Singh Bhakna

3. Hasrat Mohani

4. V.V.S. Iyer

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• In 1930 Mahatma Gandhi started Civil

Disobedience Movement from

1. Sabarmati

2. Wardha

3. Dandi

4. Sevagram

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• The immediate cause for precipitation of the

Sepoy Mutiny of 1857 was

1. Disparity in salaries of native sepoys and

British soldiers

2. The rumour of use of catridges greased with

cow fat

3. Spread of Christianity4. Doctrine of Lapse

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• Before Delhi, where was the capital of India

during the British India?

1. Lucknow

2. Bombay

3. Patna

4. Calcutta

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• What did Gandhiji do to practise the ideals of

truth and non-violence in 1916 ?

1. He started an all-India Satyagrahs.

2. He founded Sabarmati Ashram near

Ahmedabad

3. He founded the Gujarat Vidyapeeth


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• The Indian National Congress adopted the

resolution of Poorna Swaraj (complete

independence) at its session held at

1. Calcutta

2. Karachi

3. Allahabad

4. Lahore

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• Who among the following was a prominent

officer of the Azad Hind Fauj?

1. Shah Nawaz Khan

2. Aruna Asaf Ali


4. DR. M.A. Ansari

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• Which of the following statements is not

correct?

1. Swami Dayanand Saraswati established the

Arya Samaj.

2. Mahatma Gandhi was born in Gandhinagar.

3. Dr. Annie Besant was a theosophist

4. The international headquarter of the

Theosophical Society is in Madras.

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• After 1853, a very large amount of the British

capital was invested in

1. Coal mining

2. Railways

3. Tea plantation

4. Jute mills

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• Which of the following was written by Raja

Rammohan Roy?

1. Tuhfatul Muwahiddin

2. Mother India

3. Kiratarjuniya

4. Brahma Samhita

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9/5/2014

44

• The split between the extremists and the

moderates took places in the sessions Indian

National Congress held at

1. Bombay

2. Calcutta

3. Surat

4. Lahore

9/5/2014 86iQue / GK-CA

2019181716151413121110987654321EndQuestion No.: 85

• The Viceroy upon whom a bomb was thrown

but he did not change his attitude towards the

Indians, was

1. Lord Chelmsford

2. Warren Hastings

3. Lord Hardinge

4. Lord Curzon

9/5/2014 87iQue / GK-CA

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9/5/2014

45

• Vande Mataram was first published in

1. Anand Math

2. Gitanjali

3. Kesari

4. Harijan

9/5/2014 88iQue / GK-CA

2019181716151413121110987654321EndQuestion No.: 87

• What was the name of the periodical

published by Mahatma Gandhi during his stay

in South Africa?

1. Afrikaner

2. Indian Opinion

3. Lord Indian Opinion

4. Navjivan

9/5/2014 89iQue / GK-CA

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9/5/2014

46

• The Home Rule Movement in India was

started by

1. S.N. Banerjee and W.C. Banerjee

2. Annie Besant and Gokhale

3. Mahatma Gandhi and Motilal Nehru

4. Annie Besant and Tilak

9/5/2014 90iQue / GK-CA

2019181716151413121110987654321EndQuestion No.: 89

• Which of the following was an empire

Communist journal of M.N. Roy?

1. Kishan Sabha

2. Vanguard

3. The Worker

4. Anushilan

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9/5/2014

47

• Who among the following was the leader of

the moderates?

1. B.G. Tilak

2. Annie Besant

3. C.F. Andrews


9/5/2014 92iQue / GK-CA

2019181716151413121110987654321EndQuestion No.: 91

• The office of the Secretary of State for India

was created by the

1. Morley - Minto Reforms, 1908

2. Montague- Chelmsford Reforms



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9/5/2014

48

• What was the chief characteristic of

Government of India Act, 1935?

1. Unitary Government at Centre

2. None of these

3. Interim Indian Government at Centre

4. Federal Government at Centre

9/5/2014 94iQue / GK-CA

2019181716151413121110987654321EndQuestion No.: 93

• Whom did Mahatma Gandhi describe as pure

as crystal, as brave as a lion and the most

perfect man in the political field?

1. B.G. Tilak

2. Motilal Nehru

3. C.R. Das

4. G.K. Gokhale

9/5/2014 95iQue / GK-CA

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9/5/2014

49

• Which of the following statements regardingQuit India Movement is correct?

1. The movement paved the way for Britishseriously considering granting freedom toIndia.

2. The Muslims did not participate in themovement.

3. It was entirely a non-violent movement.

4. The upper middle class did not show interestin this movement.

9/5/2014 96iQue / GK-CA

2019181716151413121110987654321EndQuestion No.: 95

• The greatest evil that arose out of British

policies with regard to Indian agriculture, was

the

1. Emergence of the money lenders

2. None of these

3. Transformation of the peasant cultivators

into tenants at will.

4. Improverishment of the peasantry

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9/5/2014

50

• Which Governor General abolished the system

of dual government established by Robert

Clive and established the Company's control

over Bengal?

1. Warren Hastings

2. Lord Wellesley

3. Sir Charles Metacalfe4. Lord Cornwallis

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2019181716151413121110987654321EndQuestion No.: 97


1. Pararthana Samaj : Dayanand Saraswati

2. Brahmo Samaj : Jyotiba Phule

3. Satya Shodhak Mandal : Keshab Chandra Sen4. Sri Narayan Dharma Paripalana Yogam :

Narayana Guru

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9/5/2014

51

• Lala Lajpat Rai was assulted by the British

during

1. The protest against the Simon Commision

2. The First war of Indian Independence

3. The salt Satyagraha

4. The Civil Disobedience Movement

9/5/2014 100iQue / GK-CA

2019181716151413121110987654321EndQuestion No.: 99

• The song Jana-Gana-Mana composed by

Rabindranath Tagore, was first published in

January 1912 under the title of

1. None of these

2. Rashtra Jagrati

3. Bharat Vidhata

4. Tatva Bodhini

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9/5/2014

52

• Which of the following is not a form of

Gandhian Satyagraha?

1. Civil Disobedience

2. Hijrat

3. Hunger strike

4. Non - Cooperation

9/5/2014 102iQue / GK-CA

2019181716151413121110987654321EndQuestion No.: 101

• The famous song Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram

was sung during Dandi march by the renowed

musician

1. Mallikarjun Mansur

2. Krishna Rao Shankar Pandit

3. Onkar Nath Thakur

4. Digambar Vishnu Paluskar

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2019181716151413121110987654321EndQuestion No.: 102



9/5/2014

53

• The Home Rule Movement started by Annie

Besant aimed at

1. Boycotting foreign goods

2. Attaining self rule for India

3. Educating the Indian masses

4. Agitating against the British monopoly in

administration

9/5/2014 104iQue / GK-CA

2019181716151413121110987654321EndQuestion No.: 103

• Which of the following revolutionary leaders

organised an attack on the armoury of

Chittagong?

1. Surya Sen

2. Jatin Das

3. C.R. Das

4. Chandrashekhar Azad

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9/5/2014

54

• The Prime Minister of Britain at the time of

India's independence was

1. Ramsay Macdonald

2. Lord Mountbatten

3. Clement Attlee

4. Wintson Churchill

9/5/2014 106iQue / GK-CA

2019181716151413121110987654321EndQuestion No.: 105

• British merchants were willing to invest in

railways and mines but not in cotton textiles

industry. The reason was

1. Competition from the Indians

2. None of these

3. Lack of Technology

4. Lack of raw material

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9/5/2014

55

• Cripps Mission aimed at

1. Giving proportional representation to theMuslims under the framework of the newConstitution

2. A compromise between Congress demand ofunited India and Muslim League's demand for apartitioned India.

3. Giving complete independence to united India.4. Widening the gulf between the Congress and

the Muslim League

9/5/2014 108iQue / GK-CA

2019181716151413121110987654321EndQuestion No.: 107

• The Revolt of 1857 affected Several town in

Bihar. Which of the following entries gives the

correct sequence of the outbreak of the revolt

in different towns of Bihar?

1. Jagdishpur, Patna, Rohini, Muzaffarpur

2. Rohini, Patna, Muzaffarpur, Jagdishpur

3. Muzaffarpur, Patna, Jagdishpur, Rohini

4. Patna, Muzaffarpur, Rohini, Jagdishpur

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9/5/2014

56

• The first Governor - General of Bengal was

1. Lord Clive

2. Warren Hastings

3. Lord Wellesley

4. Lord Cornwallis

9/5/2014 110iQue / GK-CA

2019181716151413121110987654321EndQuestion No.: 109

• Who declared: The only hope for India is from

the masses. The upper classes are physically

and morally dead?


2. Mahatma Gandhi



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9/5/2014

57

• Which of the following is not a provision of theCharter Act of 1853?

1. Governor General was given the power to vetothe bills passed by the Legislative Council.

2. A provision was made for an open competitiveexamination for recruitment to Indian CivilServices

3. None of these4. Under third Act, a legislative Council for India

was created.

9/5/2014 112iQue / GK-CA

2019181716151413121110987654321EndQuestion No.: 111

• Who said the following of the Indian National

Congress:A safety valve for the escape of great

and growing forces generated by our own

actions was urgently needed?

1. A.O. Hume

2. Annie Besant

3. Lord Curzon

4. Lord Rippon

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9/5/2014

58

• Whom did Lord Wavell invite to make

proposal for formation of an interim

government?

1. Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad

2. Mahatma Gandhi

3. Jawaharlal Nehru

4. M.A. Jinnah

9/5/2014 114iQue / GK-CA

2019181716151413121110987654321EndQuestion No.: 113

• Why were the Indians dissatified with the

Simon Commission?

1. It recommended that Dyarchy in the

provinces should be abolished.

2. There was no Indian member in the

Commission.

3. Indians never wanted the review of the

working of the Act of 1919.

4. None of these

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9/5/2014

59

• Who was responsible for the introduction of

English as the official language in India?


2. Marquess of Dalhousie

3. Allan Octavian Hume

4. Sir Charles Wood

9/5/2014 116iQue / GK-CA

2019181716151413121110987654321EndQuestion No.: 115

• Which of the following institutions was not

founded by Mahatma Gandhi?

1. Phoenix Ashram

2. Sevagram Ashram

3. Sabarmati Ashram

4. Vishwa Bharati

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9/5/2014

60

• The major difference between the moderates

and the extremists in the Congress session of

1907 was regarding

1. Satyagraha

2. Education

3. Swaraj

4. Boycott

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2019181716151413121110987654321EndQuestion No.: 117

• Who was known as the Liberator of the Press?

1. Bentick

2. Hastings

3. Macaulay4. Metcalfe

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9/5/2014

61

• Which school of religion started in 1867, was

basically anti-British?

1. Deoband

2. Wahabi

3. Farazi

4. Aligarh

9/5/2014 120iQue / GK-CA

2019181716151413121110987654321EndQuestion No.: 119

• According to Mountbatten Plan, which of the

following provinces was not to be included in

the Indian dominion?

1. Bihar

2. Bombay

3. Madras

4. Sind

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9/5/2014

62

• The author of Hind Swaraj was

1. M.K. Gandhi

2. V.D. Savarkar

3. Swami Sharddhanand

4. B.G. Tilak

9/5/2014 122iQue / GK-CA

2019181716151413121110987654321EndQuestion No.: 121

• King George V visited India during the

viceroyalty of

1. Lord Curzon

2. Lord Reading

3. Lord Rippon

4. Lord Hardinge

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9/5/2014

63

• Who after the Constitutional deadlock due to

the Quit India Movement, gave the call - Back

of Cripps?


2. Mahatma Gandhi

3. Rajendra Prasad

4. Jawaharlal Nehru

9/5/2014 124iQue / GK-CA

2019181716151413121110987654321EndQuestion No.: 123

• Who founded the Indian National Social

Congress in 1887?

1. B.G. Tilak

2. G.K. Gokhale

3. M.G. Ranade

4. Ram Prasad Bismil

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9/5/2014

64

• Who was named as Mira Behn by Mahatma

Gandhi?

1. Annie Besant

2. Kamla Devi

3. Maria Montessouri

4. Madeline Slade

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2019181716151413121110987654321EndQuestion No.: 125

• By which law did the British Crown take over

the power to rule over India from the East

India Company?

1. Magna Carta of Rights


3. None of these

4. Ilbert Bill

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9/5/2014

65

• Who among the following was not associated

with Home Rule Movement?

1. Annie Besant


3. M.A. Jinnah


9/5/2014 128iQue / GK-CA

2019181716151413121110987654321EndQuestion No.: 127

• Who among the following was not one of the

revolutionaries abroad who added a new

dimension to our struggle for freedom?

1. Chidambaran Pillai

2. Raja Mahendra Pratap

3. Raja Mahendra Pratap

4. Maulana Barkatullah

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9/5/2014

66

• Who among the following characterised the

Revolt of 1857 as a conspiracy?

1. G.B. Malleson

2. T.R. Holmes

3. Sir John Kaye

4. Sir Lawrence

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2019181716151413121110987654321EndQuestion No.: 129

• In whose regime during the British period was

Samachar Darpan the first vernacular paper,

published?

1. Marquess of Hastings

2. Lord Curzon

3. Lord Minto


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9/5/2014

67

• Non-Cooperation Movement was passed in

which session of Indian National Congress?

1. Kanpur

2. Bombay

3. Nagpur

4. Calcutta

9/5/2014 132iQue / GK-CA

2019181716151413121110987654321EndQuestion No.: 131

• Who commented that Cripps Mission was a

post-dated cheque on a crashing bank?

1. Mahatma Gandhi

2. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

3. Jawaharlal Nehru


9/5/2014 133iQue / GK-CA

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9/5/2014

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• Mahatma Gandhi gave the call Do or Die

during the


2. Khilafat Movement


4. Non-cooperation Movement

9/5/2014 134iQue / GK-CA

2019181716151413121110987654321EndQuestion No.: 133

• Who introduced the system of Civil Services?

1. Lord Hardinge

2. Warren Hastings

3. William Bentick4. Lord Dalhousie

9/5/2014 135iQue / GK-CA

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9/5/2014

69

• Lala Lajpat Rai did not write in

1. English

2. Hindi

3. Urdu

4. Punjabi

9/5/2014 136iQue / GK-CA

2019181716151413121110987654321EndQuestion No.: 135

• All the three Round Table Conferences were

held in

1. London

2. Calcutta

3. Manchester

4. Bombay

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9/5/2014

70

• According to the Poona Pact signed in 1932,

1. Hindus and Muslims patched up their

differences

2. None of these

3. The strategy for elections was made

4. A joint electorate for the Scheduled castes

with the Hindus was suggested

9/5/2014 138iQue / GK-CA

2019181716151413121110987654321EndQuestion No.: 137

• Those who joined Mahatma Gandhi during

the Champaran struggle included

1. Rajendra Prasad and Anugraha Narayan Sinha

2. Mahadev Desai and Maniben Patel

3. Vallabh bhai Patel and Vinobha Bhave

4. Jawaharlal Nehru and Rajendra Prasad

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9/5/2014

71

• Who amongst the following Englishmen was

fellow of Gandhiji in South Africa?

1. None of these

2. C.F. Andrews

3. Polak

4. Peterson

9/5/2014 140iQue / GK-CA

2019181716151413121110987654321EndQuestion No.: 139

• Jallianwala Bagh Massacre took place in the

city of

1. Bombay

2. Lahore

3. Hyderabad

4. Amritsar

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9/5/2014

72

• The first Bengali political drama which

presented the story of the brutality of English

indigo planters was

1. Neel Darpan

2. Rast Goftar

3. Shome Prakash

4. Indian Social Reformer

9/5/2014 142iQue / GK-CA

2019181716151413121110987654321EndQuestion No.: 141

• The Dual Government introduced by Robert

Clive in Bengal was a failure because

1. He was not a good administrator

2. Local people rose against Clive

3. Power was divorced from responsibility

4. The home government did not encourage it

9/5/2014 143iQue / GK-CA

2019181716151413121110987654321EndQuestion No.: 142



9/5/2014

73

• The first Indian university opened in 1857 was

in

1. Banaras

2. Calcutta

3. Bombay

4. Madras

9/5/2014 144iQue / GK-CA

2019181716151413121110987654321EndQuestion No.: 143

• Sharada Act deals with

1. Intercaste marriage

2. Child Marriage

3. Polygamy4. Widow remarriage

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9/5/2014

74

• Who was the Governor-General when the

Great Mutiny of 1857 broke out?

1. Lord Dalhousie

2. Lord Canning

3. Lord Hardinge

4. Lord Ripon

9/5/2014 146iQue / GK-CA

2019181716151413121110987654321EndQuestion No.: 145

• What is not ahimsa according to Gandhiji?

1. It is tolerating the wrong.

2. It is truth.

3. It is a positive state of love.4. It is doing good even to the evil doer.

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9/5/2014

75

• The Indian National Congress represented the

views of the microscopic minority in India.

This contention was maintained by

1. Lord Curzon

2. Lord Dufferin

3. Lord Lansdowne

4. Lord Ripon

9/5/2014 148iQue / GK-CA

2019181716151413121110987654321EndQuestion No.: 147

• Which one of the following was the mostimmediate factor for the spread of Swadeshiand boycott of foreign goods during the firstdecade of the present century?

1. Curzon's Partition of Bengal2. Curzon's plan to curb the growing popularity

of the Indian National Congress

3. Curzon's design to curtail the sphere of localself government

4. Curzon's attempt to control the universities

9/5/2014 149iQue / GK-CA

2019181716151413121110987654321EndQuestion No.: 148



9/5/2014

76

• The Quit India Movement started at

1. Lahore on July 7, 1942

2. Bombay on Aug 8, 1942

3. Wardha on Aug 7, 1942

4. Delhi on Aug 15, 1942

9/5/2014 150iQue / GK-CA

2019181716151413121110987654321EndQuestion No.: 149

• Who among the following was the leader of a

number of anti-British revolts in Sambalpur?

1. Sayyid Ahmad Barelvi

2. Utirat Singh

3. Surendra Sai

4. Kattabomman

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9/5/2014

77

Answers

9/5/2014 iQue / GK-CA 152

302928272625242322212019181716151413121110987654321End

• Who started the Bhoodan Movement?


2. Mahatma Gandhi

3. Acharya Vinoba Bhave4. Jayaprakash Narayan

9/5/2014 153iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 1



9/5/2014

78


1. New India - M.K. Gandhi

2. Young India - Annie Besant

3. Yugantar - Aurobindo Ghosh

4. Kesari - B.G. Tilak

9/5/2014 154iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 2

• Who was called by the British rulers as the

leader of Indian unrest?

1. Subhas Chandra Bose


3. M.K. Gandhi


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Question No.: 3



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• Who gave the motto Back to the Vedas?


2. Ramkrishna Paramhansa



9/5/2014 156iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 4

• The most effective contribution made byDadabhai Naoroji to the cause of Indian NationalMovement was that he

1. Brought the problems of Indians to the notice ofthe British

2. Stressed the need for eradication of all the socialevils before anything else.

3. Interpreted the ancient Indian texts andrestored the self - confidence of Indians.

4. Exposed the economic exploitation of India bythe British

9/5/2014 157iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 5



9/5/2014

80

• Muslim League first demanded partition of

India in

1. 1916

2. 1940

3. 1946

4. 1906

9/5/2014 158iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 6

• Which of the following was not founded by Dr.

B.R. Ambedkar?

1. Samaj Samata Sangh

2. Peoples Education Society

3. Depressed Classes Institute

4. Deccan Education Society

9/5/2014 159iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 7



9/5/2014

81

• Which of the following was a

recommendation of Hunter's Commission ?

1. Women's education

2. Introduction of civic education at college

university level

3. New regulation for the organized senates

system4. Gradual withdrawal of state support from

higher education

9/5/2014 160iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 8

• Who amongst the following is associated with

the Local Self-Government Act?

1. William Bentick

2. Ripon

3. Dalhousie

4. Cornwallis

9/5/2014 161iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 9



9/5/2014

82

• Who advocated the policy of abolishing

princely states in free India?

1. Mahatma Gandhi

2. C.Rajagopalachari

3. Jawaharlal Nehru

4. Vallabhbhai Patel

9/5/2014 162iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 10

• Which of the following was a continous

movement based on the philosophy of

Gandhiji, and not a specific movement?


2. Swadeshi Movement


4. Non-Cooperation Movement

9/5/2014 163iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 11



9/5/2014

83

• Ancient Monuments Preservation Act was

passed during the Viceroyalty of

1. Lansdowne

2. Ripon

3. Curzon

4. Minto

9/5/2014 164iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 12

• Who was the Chairman of Boundary

Commission to define the boundries of the

dominions under the Indian Independence Act

of 1947?

1. Stafford Cripps

2. Cyril Radcliffe

3. Lord Mountbatten

4. Lord Wavell

9/5/2014 165iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 13



9/5/2014

84

• Which of the following is the most significant

contribution of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel to

modern India?

1. His Presidentship of Indian National Congress

2. His participating in Quit India Movement

3. His role in Non-Cooperation Movement

4. His achievement of integration of princelystates

9/5/2014 166iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 14

• The Chauri-Chaura incident (during Non-

Cooperation Movement) relates to

1. Large scale looting of government property

by Congress workers

2. A major offensive by underground

revolutionaries

3. Massive police firing on unarmed Satyagrahis

4. The burning of a police post by a mob

9/5/2014 167iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 15



9/5/2014

85

• Who among the following is known as the

Heroine of 1942 Quit India Movement?

1. Suchitra Kriplani

2. Aruna Asaf Ali

3. Sarojini Naidu

4. Dr. Annie Besant

9/5/2014 168iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 16

• Who amongst the following was involved in

the Alipore Bomb case?

1. S.N. Banerjea


3. Aurobindo Ghosh

4. Jatin Das

9/5/2014 169iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 17



9/5/2014

86

• Who was the first European to translate the

Bhagwad Gita into English ?

1. Sir Alexander Cunningham

2. William Jones

3. Charles Wilkins

4. James Prinsep

9/5/2014 170iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 18

• Which of the following universities was not

established by Lord Dalhousie?

1. Calcutta

2. Bombay

3. Delhi

4. Madras

9/5/2014 171iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 19



9/5/2014

87

• Who said, I therefore want freedom

immediately, this very night, before dawn if it

can be had?

1. Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru

2. Dr. Rajendra Prasad

3. Annie Besant

4. Mahatma Gandhi

9/5/2014 172iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 20

• Who was the first Indian to pass the Indian

Civil Service?


2. Surendranath Banerjee

3. D.N. Wacha

4. Dadabhai Naoroji

9/5/2014 173iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 21



9/5/2014

88

• The title Punjab Kesari was conferred on

1. Lala Lajpat Rai

2. Ranjit Singh

3. Sardar Baldev Singh

4. Bhagat Singh

9/5/2014 174iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 22

• Seeds of Indian participating in the Legislative

Council of the Governor General of India are

embodied in the





9/5/2014 175iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 23



9/5/2014

89

• The theory of economic drain of India during

British imperialism was propounded by

1. R.C. Dutt

2. M.K. Gandhi

3. Dadabhai Naoroji

4. Jawaharlal Nehru

9/5/2014 176iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 24

• Which one of the following upheavals took

place in Bengal immediately after the Revolt

of 1857?

1. Indigo Disturbances

2. Sanyasi Rebellion

3. Patna Disturbances

4. Santal Rebellion

9/5/2014 177iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 25



9/5/2014

90

• The affairs of East India Company came into

the hands of the British Crown under

1. Regulating Act

2. Pitt's India Act

3. Govt. of India Act

4. Cabinet Mission Plan

9/5/2014 178iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 26

• Theosophist, educationist and Indian national

leader. This description fits

1. Srinivasa Shastri

2. Annie Besant

3. Shyama Prasad Mookherji

4. Madan Mohan Malviya

9/5/2014 179iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 27



9/5/2014

91

• Who was the leader of Poona Sarvajanik

Sabha founded in 1870?

1. Justice Ranade

2. S.N. Banerjee

3. Ferozeshah Mehta

4. K.T. Telang

9/5/2014 180iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 28

• The Forward Bloc was formed by

1. B.R. Ambedkar

2. P.C. Joshi

3. Subhash Chandra Bose4. Acharya Narendra Dev

9/5/2014 181iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 29



9/5/2014

92

• The Supreme court in British India was

established under


2. Regulating Act of 1773


4. Pitt's India Act of 1784

9/5/2014 182iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 30

• Arya Samaj was started by



3. Raja Ram Mohan Roy4. Swami Vivekananda

9/5/2014 183iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 31



9/5/2014

93

• The first to start a joint stock company trade

with India were the

1. Danish

2. Dutch

3. Portuguese

4. French

9/5/2014 184iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 32

• Who among the following was associated with

the Home Rule Movement from Madras in

1922?


2. Mahatma Gandhi

3. T. Prakasham

4. Annie Besant

9/5/2014 185iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 33



9/5/2014

94

• Non Cooperation Movement started in :

1. 1870

2. 1921

3. 1942

4. 1920

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Question No.: 34

• The Lucknow Pact of 1916 was made between

1. The Hindus and the Muslims

2. The Congress and the Muslim League

3. The moderates and extremists4. The British and the Indians

9/5/2014 187iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 35



9/5/2014

95

• The year 1943 is important because

1. World War II ended.

2. Quit India Resolution was passed.

3. Azad Hind Fauj was formed.

4. Dandi March was organised by Mahatma

Gandhi

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Question No.: 36

• Who is known as the Grand Old Man of India?

1. Dadabhai Naoroji


3. Lala Lajpat Rai4. C. Rajagopalachari

9/5/2014 189iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 37



9/5/2014

96

• Which one of the following is not correctly

matched?

1. Lord Rippon-Local Self Government

2. Thomas Munro-Ryotwari System

3. Holt Mackenzie-Mahalwari Settlement in

Northern India

4. Lord Cornwallis-Subsidiary System

9/5/2014 190iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 38

• Legalisation of widow remarriage in India was

first secured by

1. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

2. Pandit Ramabai

3. Maharishi Karve

4. K. Natarajan

9/5/2014 191iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 39



9/5/2014

97

• In 1917, at Champaran, the government

forced farmers to undertake

1. Opium cultivation

2. Indigo cultivation

3. Land ceiling

4. Hallow cultivation

9/5/2014 192iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 40

• The Simon Commission was concerned with

1. Famines

2. Higher education

3. Constitutional reforms4. Reforms in princely states

9/5/2014 193iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 41



9/5/2014

98

• The first national leader to attack the Salt Tax

in Indian Legislature was

1. Mahatma Gandhi

2. Dadabhai Naoroji

3. Pherozeshah Mehta

4. G.K. Gokhale

9/5/2014 194iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 42

• From where did Mahatma Gandhi start his

historic Dandi March?

1. Chauri Chaura

2. Sabarmati Ashram

3. Dandi

4. Champaran

9/5/2014 195iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 43



9/5/2014

99

• The first railway started in India under the

Governor-Generalship of

1. Lord Dalhousie

2. Lord Canning

3. Lord Cornwallis

4. Lord Hastings

9/5/2014 196iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 44

• Gandhiji started Satyagraha movement in

1919 in protest against the

1. Simon Commission

2. Champaran wrongs

3. Colonial exploitation of India

4. Enactment of Rowlatt Act

9/5/2014 197iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 45



9/5/2014

100

• The English Weekly edited by Mahatma

Gandhi was

1. Young India

2. Kesari

3. Bombay Chronicle

4. Comrade

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Question No.: 46

• Indian sepoys in the Bengal army revolted

because

1. The British tried to make them use the

greased catridges

2. The British passed the General Service

Enlistment Act.

3. The British officers ill-treated them.

4. The British discontinued the payment of field

allowance.

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Question No.: 47



9/5/2014

101

• Who was the founder of the Muslim League in

India?

1. Nawab Salimulla

2. Sir Syed Ahmad Khan

3. None of these

4. M.A. Jinnah

9/5/2014 200iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 48

• Where did Mahatma Gandhi first try the

weapon of Satyagraha?

1. South Africa

2. Champaran

3. Dandi

4. Bardoli

9/5/2014 201iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 49



9/5/2014

102

• Uplift of the backward classes was the main

programme of the

1. Prarthana Samaj

2. Arya Samaj

3. Ramakrishna Mission

4. Satyashodhak Samaj

9/5/2014 202iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 50

• The first main British Parliament Act regarding

East India Company's administration in India

was

1. Rowlatt Act

2. Charter Act of 1913

3. Pitts India Act

4. Regulation Act

9/5/2014 203iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 51



9/5/2014

103

• The British Governor General, who formulated

the policy of Subsidiary Alliance with regard to

Indian powers was

1. Lord Wellesley

2. Warren Hastings


4. Lord Dalhousie

9/5/2014 204iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 52

• The Indian states that were annexed by

invoking the Doctrine of Lapse included

1. Mysore, Satara and Bhavnagar

2. Jhansi, Nagpur and Travancore

3. Jhansi, Nagpur and Satara

4. Jhansi, Satara and Mysore

9/5/2014 205iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 53



9/5/2014

104

• The founder of Boy Scouts and Civil Guides

Movement in India was

1. Robert Montgomery

2. Charles Andrews

3. Baden Powell

4. Richard Temple

9/5/2014 206iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 54

• Who among the following could not be

captured by the British in 1857?

1. Nana Saheb

2. Bahadur Shah II

3. Tantia Tope

4. Mangal Pandey

9/5/2014 207iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 55



9/5/2014

105

• The British law which provoked Mahatma

Gandhi to crusade for the Asians in South

Africa was called

1. The Apartheid Act

2. The Blacks Registration Act

3. The Asiatic Registration Act

4. The Coloured's Licence Act

9/5/2014 208iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 56

• The practice of Sati was declared illegal by

1. Lord Ripon

2. Lord Cornwallis

3. Raja Rammohan Roy4. Lord William Bentick

9/5/2014 209iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 57



9/5/2014

106

• The Congress split into moderates and

extremists in the session at

1. Surat

2. Ahmedabad

3. Lucknow

4. Madras

9/5/2014 210iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 58

• Permanent Revenue System of Lord Cornwallis

proved oppressive to the tenants because

they were

1. Asked to pay under military pressure

2. Exploited by the zamindars

3. Forced to produce more

4. Asked to pay yearly revenue in advance

9/5/2014 211iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 59



9/5/2014

107

• The Rowlatt Act led to

1. Economic reforms in U.P.

2. Communal riots in Bengal

3. Massacre at Amritsar

4. Social legislation in Madras

9/5/2014 212iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 60

• The first session of Indian National Congress

was held at

1. Surat

2. Calcutta

3. Lahore

4. Bombay

9/5/2014 213iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 61



9/5/2014

108

• Quit India Movement started after the failure

of

1. Cripps proposal

2. None of these

3. Simon recommendation

4. Cabinet Mission

9/5/2014 214iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 62

• During the British rule, first partition of Bengal

was done in

1. 1903

2. 1905

3. 1908

4. 1885

9/5/2014 215iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 63



9/5/2014

109

• Who was the first Indian to become the

member of British Parliament?

1. D.N. Wacha

2. Badruddin Tyabji

3. Dadabhai Naoroji

4. W.C. Banerjee

9/5/2014 216iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 64

• Who was the Governor General of India when

the Indian National Congress was formed?

1. Lord Cornwallis

2. Lord Lytton

3. Lord Mountbatten

4. Lord Dufferin

9/5/2014 217iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 65



9/5/2014

110

• Vallabhbhai Patel was born at

1. Borsad

2. Ahmedabad

3. Nadiad

4. Baroda

9/5/2014 218iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 66

• Satyagraha Ashram was established by who

among the following?

1. Lokanayak Jayaprakash Narayan

2. Mahatma Gandhi


4. Acharya Kripalani

9/5/2014 219iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 67



9/5/2014

111

• Which was the first newspaper to be

published in India?

1. Bengal Chronicle

2. Bengal Gazette

3. The Hindu

4. Bombay Samachar

9/5/2014 220iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 68

• Who conceived the idea of Pakistan?

1. Mohd. Ali Jinnah

2. Chowdhary Rahmat Ali

3. H.S. Suharwardhy4. Asaf Ali

9/5/2014 221iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 69



9/5/2014

112

• The Gandhi - Irwin Pact proclaimed the

suspension of

1. Dandi March

2. None of these


4. Non Cooperation Movement

9/5/2014 222iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 70

• The importance of Gandhiji's Non-

Cooperation Movement was that

1. It showed the ability and the willingness of

the people in general to endure.

2. None of these

3. Non-violence was employed for the first

time as an effective weapon of mass

movement.

4. It was a great movement on a large scale.

9/5/2014 223iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 71



9/5/2014

113

• Luckhnow Pact of 1916 is significant in the

history of Indian National Movement because

1. None of these

2. It ended separate electorates for Hindus and

Muslims

3. It decide India's non participating in World

War I.4. Both the groups of Congress men settled

their disputes

9/5/2014 224iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 72

• The title of Governor - General was changed

to that of Viceroy in the year

1. 1905 A.D.

2. 1858 A.D.

3. 1917 A.D.

4. 1885 A.D

9/5/2014 225iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 73



9/5/2014

114

• Who among the following first propounded

the idea of basic education?


2. Mahatma Gandhi

3. Dayanand Saraswati

4. Jawaharlal Nehru

9/5/2014 226iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 74

• General Dyer who was responsible for

Jallianwala Bagh massacre was shot dead by

1. Udham Singh

2. Sohan Singh Bhakna

3. Hasrat Mohani

4. V.V.S. Iyer

9/5/2014 227iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 75



9/5/2014

115

• In 1930 Mahatma Gandhi started Civil

Disobedience Movement from

1. Sabarmati

2. Wardha

3. Dandi

4. Sevagram

9/5/2014 228iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 76

• The immediate cause for precipitation of the

Sepoy Mutiny of 1857 was

1. Disparity in salaries of native sepoys and

British soldiers

2. The rumour of use of catridges greased with

cow fat

3. Spread of Christianity

4. Doctrine of Lapse

9/5/2014 229iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 77



9/5/2014

116

• Before Delhi, where was the capital of India

during the British India?

1. Lucknow

2. Bombay

3. Patna

4. Calcutta

9/5/2014 230iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 78

• What did Gandhiji do to practise the ideals of

truth and non-violence in 1916 ?

1. He started an all-India Satyagrahs.

2. He founded Sabarmati Ashram near

Ahmedabad



9/5/2014 231iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 79



9/5/2014

117

• The Indian National Congress adopted the

resolution of Poorna Swaraj (complete

independence) at its session held at

1. Calcutta

2. Karachi

3. Allahabad

4. Lahore

9/5/2014 232iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 80

• Who among the following was a prominent

officer of the Azad Hind Fauj?

1. Shah Nawaz Khan

2. Aruna Asaf Ali


4. DR. M.A. Ansari

9/5/2014 233iQue / GK-CA

Question No.:81



9/5/2014

118

• Which of the following statements is not

correct?

1. Swami Dayanand Saraswati established the

Arya Samaj.

2. Mahatma Gandhi was born in Gandhinagar.

3. Dr. Annie Besant was a theosophist

4. The international headquarter of theTheosophical Society is in Madras.

9/5/2014 234iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 82

• After 1853, a very large amount of the British

capital was invested in

1. Coal mining

2. Railways

3. Tea plantation

4. Jute mills

9/5/2014 235iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 83



9/5/2014

119

• Which of the following was written by Raja

Rammohan Roy?

1. Tuhfatul Muwahiddin

2. Mother India

3. Kiratarjuniya

4. Brahma Samhita

9/5/2014 236iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 84

• The split between the extremists and the

moderates took places in the sessions Indian

National Congress held at

1. Bombay

2. Calcutta

3. Surat

4. Lahore

9/5/2014 237iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 85



9/5/2014

120

• The Viceroy upon whom a bomb was thrown

but he did not change his attitude towards the

Indians, was

1. Lord Chelmsford

2. Warren Hastings

3. Lord Hardinge

4. Lord Curzon

9/5/2014 238iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 86

• Vande Mataram was first published in

1. Anand Math

2. Gitanjali

3. Kesari4. Harijan

9/5/2014 239iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 87



9/5/2014

121

• What was the name of the periodical

published by Mahatma Gandhi during his stay

in South Africa?

1. Afrikaner

2. Indian Opinion

3. Lord Indian Opinion

4. Navjivan

9/5/2014 240iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 88

• The Home Rule Movement in India was

started by

1. S.N. Banerjee and W.C. Banerjee

2. Annie Besant and Gokhale

3. Mahatma Gandhi and Motilal Nehru

4. Annie Besant and Tilak

9/5/2014 241iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 89



9/5/2014

122

• Which of the following was an empire

Communist journal of M.N. Roy?

1. Kishan Sabha

2. Vanguard

3. The Worker

4. Anushilan

9/5/2014 242iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 90

• Who among the following was the leader of

the moderates?

1. B.G. Tilak

2. Annie Besant

3. C.F. Andrews


9/5/2014 243iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 91



9/5/2014

124

• Whom did Mahatma Gandhi describe as pure

as crystal, as brave as a lion and the most

perfect man in the political field?

1. B.G. Tilak

2. Motilal Nehru

3. C.R. Das

4. G.K. Gokhale

9/5/2014 246iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 94

• Which of the following statements regardingQuit India Movement is correct?

1. The movement paved the way for Britishseriously considering granting freedom to

India.2. The Muslims did not participate in the

movement.

3. It was entirely a non-violent movement.

4. The upper middle class did not show interestin this movement.

9/5/2014 247iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 95



9/5/2014

125

• The greatest evil that arose out of British

policies with regard to Indian agriculture, was

the

1. Emergence of the money lenders

2. None of these

3. Transformation of the peasant cultivators

into tenants at will.4. Improverishment of the peasantry

9/5/2014 248iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 96

• Which Governor General abolished the system

of dual government established by Robert

Clive and established the Company's control

over Bengal?

1. Warren Hastings

2. Lord Wellesley

3. Sir Charles Metacalfe

4. Lord Cornwallis

9/5/2014 249iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 97



9/5/2014

126


1. Pararthana Samaj : Dayanand Saraswati

2. Brahmo Samaj : Jyotiba Phule

3. Satya Shodhak Mandal : Keshab Chandra Sen

4. Sri Narayan Dharma Paripalana Yogam :

Narayana Guru

9/5/2014 250iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 98

• Lala Lajpat Rai was assulted by the British

during

1. The protest against the Simon Commision

2. The First war of Indian Independence

3. The salt Satyagraha

4. The Civil Disobedience Movement

9/5/2014 251iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 99



9/5/2014

127

• The song Jana-Gana-Mana composed by

Rabindranath Tagore, was first published in

January 1912 under the title of

1. None of these

2. Rashtra Jagrati

3. Bharat Vidhata

4. Tatva Bodhini

9/5/2014 252iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 100

• Which of the following is not a form of

Gandhian Satyagraha?

1. Civil Disobedience

2. Hijrat

3. Hunger strike

4. Non - Cooperation

9/5/2014 253iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 101



9/5/2014

128

• The famous song Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram

was sung during Dandi march by the renowed

musician

1. Mallikarjun Mansur

2. Krishna Rao Shankar Pandit

3. Onkar Nath Thakur

4. Digambar Vishnu Paluskar

9/5/2014 254iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 102

• The Home Rule Movement started by Annie

Besant aimed at

1. Boycotting foreign goods

2. Attaining self rule for India

3. Educating the Indian masses

4. Agitating against the British monopoly in

administration

9/5/2014 255iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 103



9/5/2014

129

• Which of the following revolutionary leaders

organised an attack on the armoury of

Chittagong?

1. Surya Sen

2. Jatin Das

3. C.R. Das

4. Chandrashekhar Azad

9/5/2014 256iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 104

• The Prime Minister of Britain at the time of

India's independence was

1. Ramsay Macdonald

2. Lord Mountbatten

3. Clement Attlee

4. Wintson Churchill

9/5/2014 257iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 105



9/5/2014

130

• British merchants were willing to invest in

railways and mines but not in cotton textiles

industry. The reason was

1. Competition from the Indians

2. None of these

3. Lack of Technology

4. Lack of raw material

9/5/2014 258iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 106

• Cripps Mission aimed at

1. Giving proportional representation to theMuslims under the framework of the newConstitution

2. A compromise between Congress demand ofunited India and Muslim League's demand for apartitioned India.

3. Giving complete independence to united India.

4. Widening the gulf between the Congress andthe Muslim League

9/5/2014 259iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 107



9/5/2014

131

• The Revolt of 1857 affected Several town in

Bihar. Which of the following entries gives the

correct sequence of the outbreak of the revolt

in different towns of Bihar?

1. Jagdishpur, Patna, Rohini, Muzaffarpur

2. Rohini, Patna, Muzaffarpur, Jagdishpur

3. Muzaffarpur, Patna, Jagdishpur, Rohini4. Patna, Muzaffarpur, Rohini, Jagdishpur

9/5/2014 260iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 108

• The first Governor - General of Bengal was

1. Lord Clive

2. Warren Hastings

3. Lord Wellesley4. Lord Cornwallis

9/5/2014 261iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 109



9/5/2014

132

• Who declared: The only hope for India is from

the masses. The upper classes are physically

and morally dead?


2. Mahatma Gandhi



9/5/2014 262iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 110

• Which of the following is not a provision of theCharter Act of 1853?

1. Governor General was given the power to vetothe bills passed by the Legislative Council.

2. A provision was made for an open competitiveexamination for recruitment to Indian CivilServices

3. None of these

4. Under third Act, a legislative Council for Indiawas created.

9/5/2014 263iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 111



9/5/2014

133

• Who said the following of the Indian National

Congress:A safety valve for the escape of great

and growing forces generated by our own

actions was urgently needed?

1. A.O. Hume

2. Annie Besant

3. Lord Curzon4. Lord Rippon

9/5/2014 264iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 112

• Whom did Lord Wavell invite to make

proposal for formation of an interim

government?

1. Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad

2. Mahatma Gandhi

3. Jawaharlal Nehru

4. M.A. Jinnah

9/5/2014 265iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 113



9/5/2014

134

• Why were the Indians dissatified with the

Simon Commission?

1. It recommended that Dyarchy in the

provinces should be abolished.

2. There was no Indian member in the

Commission.

3. Indians never wanted the review of theworking of the Act of 1919.

4. None of these

9/5/2014 266iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 114

• Who was responsible for the introduction of

English as the official language in India?


2. Marquess of Dalhousie

3. Allan Octavian Hume

4. Sir Charles Wood

9/5/2014 267iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 115



9/5/2014

135

• Which of the following institutions was not

founded by Mahatma Gandhi?

1. Phoenix Ashram

2. Sevagram Ashram

3. Sabarmati Ashram

4. Vishwa Bharati

9/5/2014 268iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 116

• The major difference between the moderates

and the extremists in the Congress session of

1907 was regarding

1. Satyagraha

2. Education

3. Swaraj

4. Boycott

9/5/2014 269iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 117



9/5/2014

136

• Who was known as the Liberator of the Press?

1. Bentick

2. Hastings

3. Macaulay

4. Metcalfe

9/5/2014 270iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 118

• Which school of religion started in 1867, was

basically anti-British?

1. Deoband

2. Wahabi

3. Farazi

4. Aligarh

9/5/2014 271iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 119



9/5/2014

137

• According to Mountbatten Plan, which of the

following provinces was not to be included in

the Indian dominion?

1. Bihar

2. Bombay

3. Madras

4. Sind

9/5/2014 272iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 120

• The author of Hind Swaraj was

1. M.K. Gandhi

2. V.D. Savarkar

3. Swami Sharddhanand4. B.G. Tilak

9/5/2014 273iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 121



9/5/2014

138

• King George V visited India during the

viceroyalty of

1. Lord Curzon

2. Lord Reading

3. Lord Rippon

4. Lord Hardinge

9/5/2014 274iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 122

• Who after the Constitutional deadlock due to

the Quit India Movement, gave the call - Back

of Cripps?


2. Mahatma Gandhi

3. Rajendra Prasad

4. Jawaharlal Nehru

9/5/2014 275iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 123



9/5/2014

140

• By which law did the British Crown take over

the power to rule over India from the East

India Company?

1. Magna Carta of Rights


3. None of these

4. Ilbert Bill

9/5/2014 278iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 126

• Who among the following was not associated

with Home Rule Movement?

1. Annie Besant


3. M.A. Jinnah


9/5/2014 279iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 127



9/5/2014

142

• In whose regime during the British period was

Samachar Darpan the first vernacular paper,

published?

1. Marquess of Hastings

2. Lord Curzon

3. Lord Minto


9/5/2014 282iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 130

• Non-Cooperation Movement was passed in

which session of Indian National Congress?

1. Kanpur

2. Bombay

3. Nagpur

4. Calcutta

9/5/2014 283iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 131



9/5/2014

143

• Who commented that Cripps Mission was a

post-dated cheque on a crashing bank?

1. Mahatma Gandhi

2. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

3. Jawaharlal Nehru


9/5/2014 284iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 132

• Mahatma Gandhi gave the call Do or Die

during the


2. Khilafat Movement


4. Non-cooperation Movement

9/5/2014 285iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 133



9/5/2014

144

• Who introduced the system of Civil Services?

1. Lord Hardinge

2. Warren Hastings

3. William Bentick

4. Lord Dalhousie

9/5/2014 286iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 134

• Lala Lajpat Rai did not write in

1. English

2. Hindi

3. Urdu4. Punjabi

9/5/2014 287iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 135



9/5/2014

145

• All the three Round Table Conferences were

held in

1. London

2. Calcutta

3. Manchester

4. Bombay

9/5/2014 288iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 136

• According to the Poona Pact signed in 1932,

1. Hindus and Muslims patched up their

differences

2. None of these

3. The strategy for elections was made

4. A joint electorate for the Scheduled castes

with the Hindus was suggested

9/5/2014 289iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 137



9/5/2014

146

• Those who joined Mahatma Gandhi during

the Champaran struggle included

1. Rajendra Prasad and Anugraha Narayan Sinha

2. Mahadev Desai and Maniben Patel

3. Vallabh bhai Patel and Vinobha Bhave

4. Jawaharlal Nehru and Rajendra Prasad

9/5/2014 290iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 138

• Who amongst the following Englishmen was

fellow of Gandhiji in South Africa?

1. None of these

2. C.F. Andrews

3. Polak

4. Peterson

9/5/2014 291iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 139



9/5/2014

147

• Jallianwala Bagh Massacre took place in the

city of

1. Bombay

2. Lahore

3. Hyderabad

4. Amritsar

9/5/2014 292iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 140

• The first Bengali political drama which

presented the story of the brutality of English

indigo planters was

1. Neel Darpan

2. Rast Goftar

3. Shome Prakash

4. Indian Social Reformer

9/5/2014 293iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 141



9/5/2014

148

• The Dual Government introduced by Robert

Clive in Bengal was a failure because

1. He was not a good administrator

2. Local people rose against Clive

3. Power was divorced from responsibility

4. The home government did not encourage it

9/5/2014 294iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 142

• The first Indian university opened in 1857 was

in

1. Banaras

2. Calcutta

3. Bombay

4. Madras

9/5/2014 295iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 143



9/5/2014

149

• Sharada Act deals with

1. Intercaste marriage

2. Child Marriage

3. Polygamy

4. Widow remarriage

9/5/2014 296iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 144

• Who was the Governor-General when the

Great Mutiny of 1857 broke out?

1. Lord Dalhousie

2. Lord Canning

3. Lord Hardinge

4. Lord Ripon

9/5/2014 297iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 145



9/5/2014

150

• What is not ahimsa according to Gandhiji?

1. It is tolerating the wrong.

2. It is truth.

3. It is a positive state of love.

4. It is doing good even to the evil doer.

9/5/2014 298iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 146

• The Indian National Congress represented the

views of the microscopic minority in India.

This contention was maintained by

1. Lord Curzon

2. Lord Dufferin

3. Lord Lansdowne

4. Lord Ripon

9/5/2014 299iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 147



9/5/2014

151

• Which one of the following was the mostimmediate factor for the spread of Swadeshiand boycott of foreign goods during the firstdecade of the present century?

1. Curzon's Partition of Bengal

2. Curzon's plan to curb the growing popularityof the Indian National Congress

3. Curzon's design to curtail the sphere of localself government

4. Curzon's attempt to control the universities

9/5/2014 300iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 148

• The Quit India Movement started at

1. Lahore on July 7, 1942

2. Bombay on Aug 8, 1942

3. Wardha on Aug 7, 19424. Delhi on Aug 15, 1942

9/5/2014 301iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 149



9/5/2014

• Who among the following was the leader of a

number of anti-British revolts in Sambalpur?

1. Sayyid Ahmad Barelvi

2. Utirat Singh

3. Surendra Sai

4. Kattabomman

9/5/2014 302iQue / GK-CA

Question No.: 150

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