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Q.1
Who among the following did not attend the First Round Table Conference?
MK Gandhi
Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru
Dr Ambedkar
C V Chintamani
Q.2
Who among the following was famous for framing the education minute?
Lord Elgin
Lord Macaulay
Sadler
None of these
Q.3
Mahatma Gandhi returned to India from__________ in January 1915
South Africa
England
USA
Russia
Q.4
Which of the following Congress leader rejected the 'August Offer' of 1940?
Lord Wavell
Lord Linlithgow
Sir George Stanley
Lord Willingdon
Q.5
The 19th Century reawakening in India was confined to the
Priestly class
Upper middle class
Rich peasantry
Urban Landlords
Q.6
Who among the following reformer associated with the passing of the Widow Remarriage Act?
Swami Vivekananda
Raja Rammohan Roy
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
Ramakrishna Paramahansa
Q.7
To which personality Mahatma Gandhi gave the title "Deen Bandhu"?
Sri Aurobindo
CF Andrews
Vinoba Bhave
CR Das
Q.8
Who had given out the political message or 'India for the Indians'?
P. A. Charlu
Dayananda Saraswati
AO Hume
Swami Vivekananda
Q.9
The Battle of Wandiwash was fought between
The Nizam of Hyderabad and the French
The English and the French
The English and Hyder Ali
The Nawab of Carnatic and the English
Q.10
The partition of Bengal was occurred in __________
1804
1805
1904
1905
Q.11
In May 1933, Mahatma Gandhi began a fast of 21 days
to appeal to the Hindus to throw open the temples and public wells to the Harijans
to launch a campaign against untouchability
for his own purification and that of his associates for greater commitment to the cause of the Harijans
For all the above
Q.12
Which one of the following was the first English ship that came to India?
Elizabeth
Bengal
Red Dragon
Mayflower
Q.13
The Indian tricolour was unfurled for the first time by Jawaharlal Nehru
At the ramparts of the red ford in 1947
On the bank of Ravi at Lahore in 1929
When India became a democratic republic in 1950
When The Government of India Act was passed in 1935
Q.14
In 1939 Subhash Chandra Bose was elected as President of the Congress Party defeating
Pattabhi Sitharamayy
Jawaharlal Nehru
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
VB Patel
Q.15
Bicameral Legislature was first provided to India by the
Pitt's India Act
Government of India Act of 1935
Government of India Act of 1919
Council Act of 1861
Q.16
The communal electorate was introduced for the first time in India in
1919
1935
1906
1909
Q.17
The reformer from Maharashtra popularly known as 'Lokhitavadi' (For the well of others) was
MG Ranade
Gopal Hari Deshmukh
Pt Ramabai
GK Gokhale
Q.18
The Congressmen who wanted to contest the elections under the Act of 1919 and enter the legislature, formed a party (1923) called
Swaraj Party
Congress Swarajya Party
Nationalist Party
Liberal Party
Q.19
As a result of the elections held in early 1937 under the Act of 1935 the Congress formed ministries in provinces
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Q.20
The Objective of Non-alignment of India's foreign policy means
To stand in isolation from world affairs
To judge every international issue on its own merit
To interfere in the internal matters of a country
Not to help any country
Q.21
Servants of India Society was founded in
England
India
America
Burma
Q.22
Provision was made in the Act of 1773, for the office of a Governor-General of
India
Fort William
Madras
Bombay
Q.23
What benefits did the Poona Pact offer to the depressed classes?
44 seats in the central legislature
20% reservation in the provincial legislature
18% seats in the central legislature and 148 seats in the provincial legislature
50% reservation in the ICS
Q.24
Who declared that he would talk of religion only when he succeeded in removing poverty and misery from the country, for religion could not appease hunger?
Swami Vivekananda
Mahatma Gandhi
Jawaharlal Nehru
Dadabhai Naoroji
Q.25
The President of the Constituent Assembly was
Dr. BR Ambedkar
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Jawahar Lal Nehru
Vallabhbhai Patel
Q.26
Who ruled that pilgrims could wear yellow clothes - the colour of the garments Sri Buddha wore
P. K. Kesavan
Govindan Vaidyar
P. K. Divakara Panicker
Sree Narayana Guru
Q.27
Which of the following leaders did not attended the First Round Table Conference?
M. K. Gandhi
Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru
Dr. Ambedkar
Y. Chintamani
Q.28
Bhulabhai Desai's most memorable achievement was his defence of the India National Army (I.N.A.) personnel at the Red fort Trial towards the end of
1943
1944
1945
1946
Q.29
The Bombay Association, the first political association in Bombay presidency was founded by __________ in 1852
Dadabhai Naoroji
Pulinbehari Sarkar
Amaresh Chakravarty
Prankrishna Parija
Q.30
The Secretary of State for India was given powers by
The Act of 1909
The Act of 1919
The Act of 1858
The Act of 1861
Q.31
Who said that the constant 'drain of wealth' from India was responsible for India's economic miseries?
BC Pal
BP Wadia
Dadabhai Naoroji
GS Arundale
Q.32
The Communist Party of India was founded in 1921 by
Hiren Mukherjee
SM Joshi
MN Roy
RC Dutt
Q.33
Which of the following statement relates the Dadabhai Naoroji's definition of 'Drain of Wealth'?
Those resources of the country were being utilized in the interest of Britain
That a part of India's national wealth or total annual product was being exported to Britain for which India got no material return
That the British industrialists were being given an opportunity to invest in India under the protection of the imperial power
That the British goods were being imported into the country making it poorer day by day
Q.34
In 1848, an incident took place in his life that later sparked off the dalit-revolution in the Indian society. Jyotirao was invited to attend a wedding of one of his __________friends
Brahmin
Christian
Pulaya
Nayar
Q.35
'August Offer' was issued by __________
Crown
Parliament
Viceroy
Secretary of State
Q.36
The Government of India, 1919 is also known as
Morley - Minto Reforms
Montague - Chelmsford Reforms
Regulating Act
Pitts India Act
Q.37
The author of 'A Nation in the Making' was
SN Banerjee
Mahatma Gandhi
Hume
Tilak
Q.38
Under pressure from his family, Nanu married__________, the daughter of a traditional village doctor
Kaliamma
Kaliamma
Rohini
Meenkshi Amma
Q.39
Who was the founder of the, Ghadar Party?
Basant Kumar Biswas
Sohan Singh Bhakna
Ram Prasad Bismil
Bhagat Singh
Q.40
'AI Hilal' was a newspaper launched for propagating nationalism by
Syed Ahmed Khan
Mahatma Gandhi
Abul Kalam Azad
DE Wacha
Q.41
The founder-president of Indian Independence League was
Rash Behari Bose
Subhas Chandra Bose
MK Gandhi
Motilal Nehru
Q.42
Jyotiba Phule, popularly known as Baba Phule, was a social reformer in Maharashtra. Which of the following is not true about him
He was the first to raise his voice against Brahmans in Maharashtra in the 1870s
Phule through his book Ghulamagiri (1872) and his organization Satyashodhak Mandal, proclaimed the need to save the lower castes from the hypocritical Brahmans and their scriptures
His Satyashodhak Mandal contained both an elite based conservative trend and a genuine mass-based radicalism
The urban educated Marathas were his most ardent followers
Q.43
The Nehru Report of 1928 with proposals for constitutional reforms had been prepared by
Motilal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru
Kamla Nehru
All of the above
Q.44
Which scripture was called his 'mother' by Gandhiji?
Ramayana
The New Testament
Bhagwat Gita
The Holy Quran
Q.45
Which of the following was established first?
Banaras Hindu University
University of Bombay
Aligarh Muslim University
University of Allahabad
Q.46
Of the following who transferred the capital from Murshidabad to Monghyr?
Mir Kasim
Mir Jaffar
Siraj-ud-Daulah
Mir Mudan
Q.47
Who was the Nawab when Dalhousie annexed Awadh in 1854?
Nasiruddin Mahmud Shah
Wajid Ali Shah
Sirajud daulla
Alivardi Khan
Q.48
Which one among the following pairs of battle is correctly matched?
The 2nd battle of Tarain : Defeat of Jaichand of Kannauj by Muhammad Ghori
The first battle of Panipat : Defeat of Sikander Lodi by Babur
The battle of Chausa : Defeat of Humayun by SherShah
The battle of Khanwa : Defeat of Rana Pratap by Akbar
Q.49
The famous resolution on Non-Cooperation under the inspiration of Mahatma Gandhi was adopted in a special session of Congress held at Calcutta in
September 1920.
December 1922.
October 1924.
November 1925.
Q.50
Annie Besant joined The Theosophical Society on 21 May __________
1867
1878
1879
1889
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