Modern Indian History

1. Which Governor-General remarked: “the peasantry of his (Tipu’s) dominions are protected and their labour encouraged and rewarded”?
(a) Wellesley (b) John Shore
(c) Hastings (d) Cornwallis
Answer (D)

2. Which European traveller noted: “A Hindu woman can go anywhere alone, she need never fear the impertinent looks and jokes “?
(a) Abbe J.A. Dubios
(b) John Clarke
(c) Max Muller
(d) Halliday
Answer (A)

3. Which of the foreign invaders took away Shah Jahan’s peacock throne?
(a) Ahmad Shah Abdali
(b) Zaman Shah
(c) Shah Shuja (d) Nadir Shah
Answer (D)

4. Who was the subahdar of Bengal when the British set up a factory at Hughli?
(a) Shah Shuja (b) Man Singh
(c) Shaista Khan
(d) Mir Jumla
Answer (A)

5. Which Governor-General was responsible for the Europeanisation of Indian Civil Services?
(a) Hastings (b) John Shore
(c) Cornwallis (d) LordWellesley
Answer (C)

6. Whose comments were these “No civilised government ever existed on the face of the earth which was more corrupt, more perfidious, and more rapacious than the government of East India Company from the years 1765-1784”?
(a) Cornwell Lewis
(b) P.E. Roberts
(c) Sullivan
(d) Malleson
Answer (A)

7. Which medieval writer commented: “The kingdom ofBengal has a hundred gates opened for entrance but not one for departure”?
(a) Tavernier (b) Manucci
(c) Bernier (d) Peter Mundy
Answer (C)

8. The leader of the KukaMovement who was perhaps the first person to adopt the policy of non-cooperation against the British was
(a) Dina Singh
(b) Arjun Singh
(c) RamSingh
(d) Harkishan Singh
Answer (C)

9. Who was the Governor-General who discontinued the practice of giving gifts to Bahadur Shah, the Mughal emperor?
(a) Hardinge (b) Dalhousie
(c) Canning (d) Ellenhorough
Answer (D)

10. Who was the nationalist leader, first to call the Revolt as an organised war for national independence?
(a) VD. Savarkar
(b) J.L. Nehru
(c) Lajpat Rai
(d) Subhash Chandra Bose
Answer (A)

11. Which college was established by Lord Wellesley for the education of Civil Servants?
(a) Fort George (b) Fort Xavier
(c) Fort William (d) Fort David
Answer (C)

12. Which of the religious reformers refused to - perform the Antyeshti Sanskara of his father?
(a) Keshav Chandra Sen
(b) Devendranath Tagore
(c) RamMohan Roy
(d) Gopal Hari Deshmukh
Answer (B)

13. The social reformer of Maharashtra who became member of the Poona Municipality in 1876
(a) Jyotiba Phule (b) B.R. Ambedkar
(c) M.G. Ranade (d) VS. Chiplunkar
Answer (A)

14. In which state did students burn foreign cloth in 1896 as part of Swadeshi campaign?
(a) Bengal (b) Maharashtra
(c) Oudh (d) Berar
Answer (B)

15. Who said: “The main objective of founding of Congress was to save the British empire fromdanger”?
(a) Lala Lajpat Rai
(b) V.D. Savarkar
(c) Aurobindo Ghosh
(d) Bipan Chandra Pal
Answer (A)

16. Who declared that the partition was “to invest the Mohammadans in Eastern Bengal with a unity which they have not enjoyed since the day of the Old Mussalman Viceroys and Kings”?
(a) Minto (b) Risley
(c) Curzon (d) Morley
Answer (C)

17. Who declared in 1906 that the goal of the Indian national movement was “selfgovernment or Swaraj like that of the United Kingdomor the Colonies”?
(a) Dada Abdulla
(b) Aurobindo Ghosh
(c) Dadabhai Naoroji
(d) Bipin Chandra Pal
Answer (C)

18. Who led the Muslim delegation to the viceroy in 1906?
(a) S.A. Khan (b) Salimullah Khan
(c) Aga Khan (d) Zafar Khan
Answer (C)

19. The Congress passed the resolution on swaraj, swadeshi, national education and boycott of foreign goods in its session.
(a) 1906 (b) 1903
(c) 1909 (d) 1904
Answer (B)

20. When did Gandhi declare that the Khilafat question overshadowed that of the constitutional reforms and the Punjab wrongs?
(a) 1917 (b) 1921
(c) 1919 (d) 1920
Answer (D)

21. Who said, “The essence of Gandhiji’s teaching was fearlessness.... not merely body courage but the absence of fear fromthe mind?
(a) Mahadev Desai
(b) Jawaharlal Nehru
(c) Indulal Yagnik
(d) Purushottam Das Tandon
Answer (B)

22. The raids on government armouries at Chittagong. Maimensingh and Barisal was conducted under the leadership of:
(a) Surya Sen (b) Jatin Das
(c) Sachin Sanyal
(d) Batukeshwar Dutt
Answer (A)

23. In which of its sessions did the Congress decide to boycott the Simon Commission “at every stage and in every form”?
(a) Madras (1927)
(b) Lahore (1929)
(c) Lucknow (1916)
(d) Karachi (1931)
Answer (A)

24. Who led a peasant movement against the government’s land revenue policy in the North West Frontier Province?
(a) Congress
(b) Socialist Party
(c) Communist Party
(d) Khudai Khidmatgars
Answer (D)

25. Who was the leader of the Swaraj Party in the Central Provinces?
(a) GB. Pant (b) S. Vidyarthi
(c) S.V Tambe (d) D.Majumdar
Answer (C)

26. Which commission was also known as ‘WhiteMen Commission’?
(a) Rand Commission
(b) Simon Commission
(c) Robertson Commission
(d) Butler Commission
Answer (B)

27. Who declared in 1942 that the aim of British policy in India was “the earliest possible realisation of self-government in India”?
(a) LordWavell
(b) Stafford Cripps
(c) Winston Churchill
(d) Penthic Lawrence
Answer (B)

28. Where were J.L Nehru. Abdul Kalam Azad, G.B. Pant, Aruna Asaf Ali, etc imprisoned during the Quit India Movement?
(a) Golconda Fort
(b) Ahmadnagar Fort
(c) Gwalior Fort
(d) Red Fort
Answer (B)

29. Who called the Quit India Movement as ‘Student-FannerMiddle class Revolt’?
(a) Jawaharlal Nehru
(b) Subhash Chandra Bose
(c) Abul Kalam Azad
(d) Dr. Amba Prasad
Answer (D)

30. Where did some soldiers of Air Force stage a hartal against the British government on 20 January, 1946?
(a) Lahore (b) Delhi
(c) Bombay (d) Karachi
Answer (D)