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Who among the following was a proponent of Fabianism as a movement?

(a) Annie Besant

(b) AO Hume

(c) Michael Madhusudan Dutt

(d) DR Palme Dutt

Option a – Annie Besant

The movement in India which became popular during the First World War was the

(a) Swadeshi Movement and Boycott Movement

(b) Home Rule Movement

(c) Separatist Movement

(d) Swaraj Party Movement

Option b – Home Rule Movement

Who among the following did not contribute to the Home Rule League?

(a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

(b) Annie Besant

(c) S Subrahmanyam Ayer

(d) TS Alcott

Option d – TS Alcott

Which of the following is not associated with the Home Rule Movement?

(a) CR Das

(b) S Subramania Iyer

(c) Annie Besant

(d) BG Tilak

Option a – CR Das

The Home Rule Leagues of Tilak and Annie Besant were merged into one in

(a) 1916

(b) 1918

(c) 1920

(d) 1923

Option b – 1918

Tilak formed his Home Rule League in 1916 at

(a) Satara

(b) Pune

(c) Belgaum

(d) Berar

Option c – Belgaum

In 1920, which of the following changed its name to “Swarajya Sabha”?

(a) All India Home Rule League

(b) Hindu Mahasabha

(c) South Indian Liberal Federation

(d) The Servants of India Society

Option a – All India Home Rule League

Which of the following is the most significant contribution of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel to modern India?

(a) His presidentship of the Indian National Congress

(b) His role in the Non-Cooperation Movement

(c) His participation in the Quit India Movement

(d) His achievement of integration of princely states

Option d – His achievement of integration of princely states

Which of the following revolutionaries had participated in the Non-Cooperation Movement and was a teacher in the national school in Chittagong?

(a) Jatin Das

(b) Surya Sen

(c) Bhagat Singh

(d) Chandrasekhar Azad

Option b – Surya Sen

Who is the author of the concept of Antyodaya?

(a) Mahatma Gandhi

(b) Vinoba Bhave

(c) Sri Aurobindo

(d) Jayaprakash Narayan

Option b – Vinoba Bhave

Who was the leader of the Indian revolutionary activities in America?

(a) Shyamji Krishna Varma

(b) Lala Hardayal

(c) V.D. Savarkar

(d) Sardarsingh Rana

Option b – Lala Hardayal

The agitation against the partition of Bengal was led by:

(a) Surendranath Banerjee

(b) C. R. Das

(c) Subhash Chandra Bose

(d) Aruna Asaf Ali

Option a – Surendranath Banerjee

A series of articles by Aurobindo Ghosh known as ‘Doctrine of Passive Resistance’ are associated with which one of the following movements?

(a) Swadeshi and Boycott movement

(b) Civil Disobedience movement

(c) Non-Cooperation movement

(d) Young Bengal movement

Option a – Swadeshi and Boycott movement

Cripps’ Mission aimed at:

(a) giving complete independence to a united India

(b) widening the gulf between the Congress and the Muslim League

(c) a compromise between Congress’s demand for a united India and the Muslim League’s demand for a partitioned India

(d) giving proportional representation to Muslims under the framework of the new Constitution

Option c – a compromise between Congress’s demand of a united India and the Muslim League’s demand for a partitioned India

After the Commission of Inquiry into the problems of the peasants of Champaran came out with its decisions, Gandhi arranged a compromise with the planters that they:

(a) compensate the peasants for ten years of paying excessive revenue

(b) refund the money taken from the peasants that year

(c) refund twenty-five percent of the money they had taken illegally from the peasants

(d) stop their indigo plantation activity in return for cooperation from the peasants

Option c – refund twenty-five percent of the money they had taken illegally from the peasants

Who was the Chairman of the Boundary Commission to define the boundaries of the dominions under the Indian Independence Act of 1947?

(a) Lord Wavell

(b) Stafford Cripps

(c) Lord Mountbatten

(d) Cyril Radcliffe

Option d – Cyril Radcliffe

When the Indian Muslim League was inducted into the interim government in 1946, Liyaqat Ali Khan was assigned the portfolio of:

(a) foreign affairs

(b) home

(c) finance

(d) defense

Option c – finance

The Quit India Movement saw the emergence of what came to be called ‘parallel governments’. The first such was:

(a) the Jatiya Sarkar in Midnapore, Bengal

(b) in Ballia (East U.P.) under Chittu Pande

(c) Prati Sarkar under Nana Patil in Gujarat

(d) in Satara, Maharashtra, under Y.B. Chavan

Option b – in Ballia (East U.P.) under Chittu Pande

“A graduate at 18, professor and associate editor of the Sudharak at 20, Secretary of the Sarvajanik Sabha and of the Provincial Conference at 25, Secretary of the National Congress at 29, a leading witness before an important Royal Commission at 31, Provincial legislator at 34, Imperial legislator at 36, President of the Indian National Congress at 39 a patriot whom Mahatma Gandhi himself regarded as his master”. This is how a biographer describes:

(a) Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya

(b) Mahadev Govind Ranade

(c) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

(d) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Option c – Gopal Krishna Gokhale

Which one of the following aroused a wave of popular indignation that led to the massacre by the British at Jallianwala Bagh?

(a) The Arms Act

(b) The Public Safety Act

(c) The Rowlatt Act

(d) The Vernacular Press Act

Option c – The Rowlatt Act

Swarajya was declared as the goal of the Congress at its session held in 1906 at:

(a) Bombay

(b) Calcutta

(c) Lucknow

(d) Madras

Option b – Calcutta

Who coined the slogan “Jai Jawan Jai Kisan”?

(a) Mahatma Gandhi

(b) Jawaharlal Nehru

(c) Lal Bahadur Shastri

(d) Sardar Patel

Option c – Lal Bahadur Shastri

Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru had fundamental differences of opinion regarding:

(a) mass mobilisation

(b) non-violence as state policy

(c) need for rapid industrialization of India

(d) protection of minorities and weaker sections of society

Option c – need for rapid industrialization of India

Who was the leading personality in the Delhi Conspiracy Case in which a bomb thrown at a procession of Lord Hardinge taken out in Chandni Chowk on Dec 23, 1913, killed the A.D.C. of the Viceroy?

(a) Madan Lal Dhingra

(b) Ras Behari Bose

(c) V.D. Savarkar

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(d) Birendra Kumar Ghosh

Option b – Ras Behari Bose

Annie Besant enjoyed the Presidentship of the INC at its session held in:

(a) 1916

(b) 1917

(c) 1918

(d) 1920

Option b – 1917

Who was the political guru of Gandhiji?

(a) Dadabhai Naoroji

(b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

(c) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

(d) Lala Lajpat Rai

Option c – Gopal Krishna Gokhale

On the death of Gandhiji, who said “The light has gone out of our lives”?

(a) Dr. Rajendra Prasad

(b) Jawaharlal Nehru

(c) Dr. S. Radhakrishna

(d) Lord Mountbatten

Option b – Jawaharlal Nehru

When Congress leaders condemned the Montague-Chelmsford Report, many moderates left the party to form the

(a) Swarajya Party

(b) Indian Freedom Party

(c) Independence Federation of India

(d) Indian Liberal Federation

Option d – Indian Liberal Federation

The Government of India Act, of 1935, prescribed a federation of the provinces and the Princely States as its units. The federation part of the Act never took effect, because

(a) Congress did not accept it

(b) the Muslim League did not accept it

(c) some of the provinces did not accept it

(d) the rulers of the Indian states never gave their consent to join the federation

Option d – the rulers of the Indian states never gave their consent to join the federation

The ‘August Offer’ of 1940 sought to conciliate Congress by assuming

(a) the setting up of a representative Indian body to frame a new constitution

(b) the government’s assurance to protect the political rights of minorities

(c) that there would be no partition of India

(d) that separate electorates would not be provided for the depressed classes

Option a – the setting up of a representative Indian body to frame a new constitution

In Mar 1908, who was elected as the ‘Permanent’ president of the Muslim League?

(a) Nawab Salimullah

(b) Syed Ahmad Khan

(c) Aga Khan

(d) Syed Amir Ali

Option c – Aga Khan

Which of the following statements regarding Mohammad Ali Jinnah is not true?

(a) He was Dadabhai Naoroji’s secretary at the Calcutta session of Congress in 1906.

(b) He became a communal nationalist in 1913 when he joined the Muslim League.

(c) He and Tilak were the joint authors of the Lucknow Pact.

(d) In 1919-20, he wholeheartedly supported Gandhi’s call for a non-violent non-cooperation.

Option d – In 1919-20, he wholeheartedly supported Gandhi’s call for a non-violent non-cooperation

Which of the following pairs is NOT correctly matched?

(a) Santhal 1855

(b) Kol 1831

(c) Khasi 1829

(d) Ahom 1815

Option d – Ahom 1815

The editor of the paper “Hindu Patriot” Sri Harishchandra Mukherjee was known to have helped the

(a) Santhal Revolt

(b) Indigo Revolt

(c) Revolt of the Mundas

(d) None of the above

Option b – Indigo Revolt

Who took over the ‘Eka Movement’ started by the Congress in Awadh during 1921-1922?

(a) Bhagwan Ahir

(b) Madari Pasi

(c) Baba Ramchandra

(d) Shah Naeem Ata

Option b – Madari Pasi

Name the first major voluntary association representing primarily Indian landlord interests that was set up in Calcutta in 1851.

(a) British Indian Association

(b) Landholder’s Society

(c) Madras Native Association

(d) Bombay Association

Option a – British Indian Association

Name the rebel who fought against the British in the battle of Chinhat in the course of the 1857 Revolt.

(a) Ahmadullah Shah

(b) Shah Mal

(c) Mangal Pandey

(d) Kunwar Singh

Option a – Ahmadullah Shah

Who among the following died in exile?

(a) Rani Laxmibai

(b) Bahadur Shah Zafar

(c) Tantia Tope

(d) Nana Saheb

Option b – Bahadur Shah Zafar

The Azamgarh Proclamation of August 25, 1857, stressed which one of the following issues?

(a) Hindu-Muslim divide

(b) Support to the English Government

(c) The return of the Badshahi

(d) The imposition of heavy Jumas revenue demand

Option b – Support to the English Government

Which among the following events happened earliest?

(a) Swami Dayanand established Arya Samaj.

(b) Dinabandhu Mitra wrote Neeldarpan.

(c) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay wrote Anandmath.

(d) Satyendranath Tagore became the first Indian to succeed in the Indian Civil Services Examination.

Option b – Dinabandhu Mitra wrote Neeldarpan

Which one of the following social reformers strongly opposed the Jury Act of 1826?

(a) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

(b) Raja Ram Mohan Roy

(c) Mahadev Govind Ranade

(d) Rajnarayan Basu

Option b – Raja Ram Mohan Roy

Which one of the following statements about the Indigo Revolt of 1859 is correct?

(a) It broke out at Poona and Ahmadnagar

(b) It was directed against moneylenders

(c) It was supported by the intelligentsia of Bengal

(d) It was directed against the petty Zamindars and ex-employees of the planters

Option c – It was supported by the intelligentsia of Bengal

Who among the following was the founder of the Young Bengal Young Movement?

(a) Henry Vivian Derozio

(b) David Hare

(c) Dwarkanath Tagore

(d) Prasanna Kumar Tagore

Option a – Henry Vivian Derozio

Dewan Velu Thampi’s rebellion against the British took place in the Indian state of :

(a) Awadh

(b) Kashmir

(c) Travancore

(d) Mysore

Option c – Travancore

The title ‘Raja’ was conferred on Ram Mohun Roy by the Mughal emperor :

(a) Jahandar Shah

(b) Mohammad Shah

(c) Akbar II

(d) Bahadur Shah Zafar

Option c – Akbar II

The custom of ‘Sati’ was banned through legislation in the year :

(a) 1795

(b) 1800

(c) 1829

(d) 1858

Option c – 1829

The leader of the Munda rebellion (Ulgulan) was :

(a) Sidho

(b) Birsa

(c) Bapat

(d) Korra Malya

Option b – Birsa

……. was the center of the Aligarh movement.

(a) The Deoband School

(b) The Anglo-Oriental College

(c) Pir-Fakir Majlis

(d) The Khilafat Committee

Option b – The Anglo-Oriental College

With which Revolt names of Sidhu and Kanu are associated?

(a) Santhal

(b) Chakma

(c) Khasi

(d) Indigo

Option a – Santhal

The Jury Act of 1827 was opposed by many Indians. One of the grounds for opposing it was that it denied both to the Hindus and Mohammedans the honor of a seat on the Grand Jury. Which among the following was known for his opposition to the Jury Act?

(a) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

(b) Lord Sinha

(c) Sir Syed Ahmed Khan

(d) Raja Rammohan Roy

Option d – Raja Rammohan Roy

Which one among the following prominently rose in revolt against the British in 1857?

(a) Punjab Army

(b) Madras Regiment

(c) Bengal Army

(d) Awadh Regiment

Option c – Bengal Army

Which of these was/were associated with the Bombay Association?

(a) Dadabhai Naoroji

(b) Dinshaw Wacha

(c) Both of them

(d) Neither of them

Option c – Both of them

Which of the following was/were associated with the formation of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industries (FICCI)?

(a) G.D. Birla

(b) Thakurdas

(c) Both of them

(d) Neither of them

Option c – Both of them

The maximum work in popularizing female education in the nineteenth century was done by:

(a) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

(b) J.E.D. Bethune

(c) D.K. Karve

(d) the British Government

Option a – Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

Which of the following prominently fought for and got widow remarriage legalized?

(a) M.G. Ranade

(b) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

(c) Raja Rammohan Roy

(d) Annie Besant

Option b – Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

Which of the following was a feature of the Aligarh Movement?

(a) Anglo-Muslim alliance for the security of the Muslims in India

(b) Socio-religious reforms in the Muslim community

(c) To counter the missionary activities of Christianity

(d) Both (a) and (b)

Option d – Both (a) and (b)

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