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1. The Governor General during the Sepoy Mutiny:
(a) Delhousie
(b) Canning (Ans)
(c) William Bentick
(d) Warren Hastings
2. After 1857, who among the following announced at a Durbar at Allahabad, the assumption of the Government of India by the Sovereign of Great Britain ?
(a) Lord Canning (Ans)
(b) Sir John Lawrence
(c) Lord Mayo
(d) Lord Northbrook
3. Who said ‘Patriotism is religion and religion is love for India’?
(a) Raj Narain Bose
(b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(c) Swami Vivekananda (Ans)
(d) Acharya Vinoba Bhave
4. The Viceroy during INA Trial :
(a) Mountbatten
(b) Linlithgo
(c) Wellington
(d) Wavell (Ans)
5. Who among the following was the editor of ‘Deenabandhu’ ?
(a) Dadabhai Navroji
(b) Jotiba Phule (Ans)
(c) Robert Knight
(d) Manmohan Ghosh
6. The first Indian to join the ICS :
(a) Surendranath Bannerjee
(b) Manmohan Ghosh
(c) S.P. Sinha
(d) Satyendranath Tagor (Ans)
7. Swami Vivekananda born in :
(a) 1831
(b) 1844
(c) 1863 (Ans)
(d) 1848
8. The Viceroy when Gandhiji launched Civil Disobedience Movement in 1930 :
(a) Wellington
(b) Chelmsford
(c) Reading
(d) Irwin (Ans)
9. In which year Gandhiji announced his decision to resign from Congress ?
(a) 1933
(b) 1934 (Ans)
(c) 1935
(d) 1936
10. The Viceroy who made August Offer :
(a) Wellington
(b) Wavell
(c) Linlithgo (Ans)
(d) Mountbatten
11. An Indian revolutionary who was a professor of Sanskrit in the Universities of Berkeley and Stanford died in Philadelphia :
(a) Shyamji Krishna Varma
(b) Lala Hardayal (Ans)
(c) Taraka Nath Das
(d) Bhai Parmanand
12. Indian Broadcasting Corporation was renamed in 1936 as :
(a) Akashvani
(b) Nabhovani
(c) Doorvani
(d) All India Radio (Ans)
13. Who was born in 1866 may 9 ?
(a) Atmaram Pandurang
(b) B.G. Tilak (Ans)
(c) G.K. Gokhale
(d) Gopal Hari Deshmukh
14. A leading British Parliamentarian and politician admitted that the revolt of 1857 was a National Revolt’ not a’ Military Mutiny’ ?
(a) Lord Dalhousie
(b) Lord Canning
(c) William Gladstone
(d) Benjamin Disraeli (Ans)
15. During 1940s, Nanasaheb Ramchandra Patil founded parallel government named Pratil Sarkar in the 150 villages in :
(a) Bengal
(b) Bihar
(c) Maharashtra (Ans)
(d) Orissa
16. Who was not a founder member of Muslim League in 1906 ?
(a) Agha Khan
(b) Mohsinul Mulk
(c) M.A. Jinnah (Ans)
(d) Nawab Salimulla
17. Who was preferred by Pheroz Shah Mehta in his place when he resigned from Central Legislative Assembly in 1901 ?
(a) G.K. Gokhle (Ans)
(b) K.T. Telang
(c) D.E. Wacha
(d) B.G. Tilak
18. The India lOffice, a British government Department was created in :
(a) 1858 (Ans)
(b) 1859
(c) 1861
(d) 1877
19. Whose words are these ” The Congress is tottering to its fall and one of the greatest ambitions while in India to assist it to a peaceful demise”:
(a) Dufferin
(b) Curzon (Ans)
(c) Minto II
(d) Hardingell
20. Mrs. Annie Besant set up Home Rule League in September 1916 with its seat at :
(a) Pune
(b) Kolkata
(c) Adayar (Ans)
(d) Delhi
21. Pondicherry was the main base on the coromandel coast of the :
(a) English East India Company
(b) French East India Company (Ans)
(c) Dutch East India Company
(d) Danish East India Company
22. Under whose Chairmanship Indian Education Commission 1882 was appointed ?
(a) Charles Wood
(b) Lord Curzon
(c) W.W. Hunter (Ans)
(d) Lord Lytton
23. After the demise of which leader, Gandhiji was emerged as the eminent leader of the Indian National congress ?
(a) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
(b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak (Ans)
(c) Lala Lajpath Rai
(d) Feroz Shah Mehta
24. Revolutionary youth Madanlal Dhingra shot dead :
(a) Michael O’Dyer
(b) General Dyer
(c) Lord Curzon
(d) Curzon Wylie (Ans)
25. During Quit India movement, Tamralipta Jatiya Sarkar (Tamralipta National Government) was formed in :
(a) Maharashtra
(b) Bengal (Ans)
(c) Orissa
(d) Bihar
26. Who was the Viceroy when the first Factory Act was introduced ?
(a) Mayo
(b) Ripon (Ans)
(c) Lytton
(d) Dufferin
27. Which modern historian opined that “the so called First National War of Independence of 1857 is neither First, nor National, nor War of Independence”. ?
(a) S.N. Sen
(b) Tara Chand
(c) R.C. Majumdar (Ans)
(d) K.K.Dutta
28. ‘My one man army’ who made this remark about Gandhiji ?
(a) Nehru
(b) Lord Mountbatten (Ans)
(c) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
(d) Clement Atlee
29. The British introduced the railways in India in order to :
(a) promote heavy industries
(b) facilitate British commerce and administrative control (Ans)
(c) move food stuff in case of famine
(d) enable Indians to move freely within the country
30. Who among the following wrote the book ‘Bahuvivah’ ?
(a) Raja Ram Mohun Roy
(b) Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar (Ans)
(c) Pandita Rambai
(d) Rabindranath Tagore
31. In 1905, Bhavani Mandir was published by :
(a) B. G. Tilak
(b) Aurobindo
(c) Sachin Sanyal
(d) Barindrakumar Ghosh (Ans)
32. Appointment of an Educational Commission under Sir William Hunter in 1882 was during the period of :
(a) Lytton
(b) Ripon (Ans)
(c) Mayo
(d) Dufferin
33. Which session of the Indian National Congress decided to reorganise Provincial Congress Committees on the basis of linguistic areas :
(a) 1920 Nagpur (Ans)
(b) 1911 Kolkata
(c) 1916 Lucknow
(d) 1924 Belgaum
34. The Viceroy who made the ‘Deepavali Declaration’:
(a) Wellington
(b) Chelmsford
(c) Linlithgo
(d) Irwin (Ans)
35. The first secretary of Punjab Naujawan Sabha was :
(a) Ajith Singh
(b) Lajpath Rai
(c) Bhagat Singh (Ans)
(d) Thilak
36. All India Hindu Maha Sabha was setup in 1915 under the presidentship of :
(a) Sahajanand
(b) Maharaja of Kasimbazar (Ans)
(c) Lajpath Rai
(d) M.M. Malavya
37. Who codified the RSS doctrine in his booklet ‘We’ ?
(a) Savarkar
(b) N.V. Godse
(c) M.S. Golwalker (Ans)
(d) None of these
38. The word ‘Swaraj’ was first used in the Congress platform in the 1906 session of :
(a) Pune
(b) Lucknow
(c) Surat
(d) Kolkata (Ans)
39. “Christianity wins its prosperity by cutting throats of its fellow mean” Who said this ?
(a) Dayanand
(b) Vivekananda (Ans)
(c) Ram Krishna Paramhansa
(d) Gandhihi
40. Simla Conference (1945) was held during the period of :
(a) Linlithgo
(b) Wavell (Ans)
(c) Mountbatten
(d) Irwin
41. Who was elected the first president of the Indian Liberal Federation (1918) ?
(a) S.N. Bannerjee (Ans)
(b) M.M. Malavya
(c) C.R. Das
(d) Motilal Nehru
42. Who was the leader of the 1857 Revolt at Bareilly :
(a) Lakshmi Bhai
(b) Tantya Tope
(c) Kunwar Singh
(d) Khan Bahadur (Ans)
43. When India celebrated independence on August 15, 1947 Gandhiji was in :
(a) New Delhi
(b) Lahore
(c) Pune
(d) Kolkata (Ans)
44. ‘Sudharak’ was a newspaper by :
(a) G.K. Gokhale (Ans)
(b) Gandhiji
(c) M.G. Ranade
(d) B.G. Tilak
45. Who started the journal ‘Kudi Arasu’ in 1929 to propagate his ideas ?
(a) Ramaswami Naicker (Ans)
(b) Annadurai
(c) Chidambaram Pillai
(d) Subramanya Bharati
46. Who called Gopala Krishna Gokhale ‘the Diamond of Inida, Jewel of Maharashtra, Prince of Workers’ ?
(a) Gandhiji
(b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak (Ans)
(c) Pheroz Shah Mehta
(d) M.G. Ranade
47. Who compared Curzon to Aurangazeb ?
(a) V. A. Smith
(b) Lane Pool
(c) G.K. Gokhale (Ans)
(d) V.D. Savarkar
48. “God is of no use to the hungry belly’ – Whose words are these ?
(a) Vivekananda
(b) Dayanand
(c) Guru Nanak
(d) Ram Krishna Paramhansa (Ans)
49. Who was Popularly known as the “Christian Viceroy’ ?
(a) Wellington
(b) Irwin (Ans)
(c) Wavell
(d) Linlithgo
50. The word ‘National’ was added to the name of Congress during the Nagpur session of :
(a) 1891 (Ans)
(b) 1892
(c) 1897
(d) 1899
51. Who was the president of the Socialist Conference held at Patna in 1934:
(a) J.P. Narayan
(b) Minu Masani
(c) Acharya Narendradev (Ans)
(d) J.B. Kripalani
52. Who edited ‘Abhudaya’ ?
(a) S.N. Bannerjee
(b) M.M. Malavya (Ans)
(c) C.R. Das
(d) Jawaharlal Nehru
53. What was called by Gandhiji as his ‘two lungs’ ?
(a) Truth and Non-violence (Ans)
(b) Khadi and Charkha
(c) Prayer and Satyagraha
(d) Turth and Khadi
54. In which year Gandhiji attended the Congress session for the first time ?
(a) 1899
(b) 1900
(c) 1901 (Ans)
(d) 1902
55. Which was published from Allahabad by M.M. Malavya ?
(a) Indian Mirror
(b) Hindustani
(c) The Leader (Ans)
(d) National Herald
56. The Viceroy who refused to meet the Congress deputation led by its president in 1904 ?
(a) Curzon (Ans)
(b) Dufferin
(c) Rippon
(d) Lytton
57. The venue of Satyagraha by Gandhiji to protest against Jallianwallabagh massacre :
(a) Pune
(b) Mumbai (Ans)
(c) Ahmedabad
(d) New Delhi
58. Who was the secretary of Dadabhai Navroji in 1906 session of INC ?
(a) D.E. Wacha
(b) Aurobindo Ghosh
(c) Pheroz Shah Mehta
(d) M.A. Jinnah (Ans)
59. The political guru of K. Kamaraj :
(a) Annadarai
(b) Ramaswami Naicker
(c) S. Satyamurti (Ans)
(d) T.M. Nair
60. What was the real name of Sarala Behn, who was a disciple of Gandhiji ?
(a) Madelein Slade
(b) Catherine Mary Heilman (Ans)
(c) Mira Richard
(d) Margaret Noble
61. Netaji founded Forward Bloc in :
(a) 1939 (Ans)
(b) 1941
(c) 1942
(d) 1943
62. Who proposed financial support to Vivekananda for his voyage to Chicago ?
(a) Maharaja of Jodhpur
(b) Maharaja of Khetri (Ans)
(c) Maharaja of Kasimbazar
(d) Maharaja of Vizianagar
63. The Viceroy when the First World War was started :
(a) Minto II
(b) Hardinge II (Ans)
(c) Chelsmsford
(d) Linlithgo
64. Who was selected as the first Satyagrahi when Gandhiji launched individual satyagraha in 1940 ?
(a) Abbas Tyabji
(b) Sarojini Naidu
(c) Vinoba Bhave (Ans)
(d) Jawaharla Nehru
65. Gandhiji established …….. in Johennesberg in 1910.
(a) Phoenix settlement
(b) Tolstoy Farm (Ans)
(c) Ruskin Farm
(d) Gokhale Farm
66. Bombay Stock Exchange was established in :
(a) 1875 (Ans)
(b) 1876
(c) 1878
(d) 1880
67. The Dev Samaj founded in 1887 had it headquarters at :
(a) Calcutta
(b) Belur
(c) Lahore (Ans)
(d) Bombay
68. Mulsim League observed ‘Direct Action Day’ in :
(a) 1945
(b) 1946 (Ans)
(c) 1944
(d) 1947
69. Who among the following helped the British during the 1857 mutiny and received as a reward a pension of Rs.200 per month ?
(a) Agha Khan
(b) Chirag Ali
(c) Radhakant Deb
(d) Syed Ahmed Khan (Ans)
70. In the last months of Gandhiji’s life, he fasted to end bloody clashes between Muslims and Hindus in which two cities ?
(a) Lahore and Karachi
(b) Mumbai and Delhi
(c) Kolkata and Dhaka
(d) Kolkata and Delhi (Ans)
71. The Viceroy who conceded to the demand of separate electorate to Muslims :
(a) Dufferin
(b) Rippon
(c) Hardinge
(d) Minto II (Ans)
72. The venue of Round Tabel Conference :
(a) Kolkata
(b) London (Ans)
(c) New Delhi
(d) Glasgow
73. The year of Sharda Act :
(a) 1925
(b) 1926
(c) 1928
(d) 1929 (Ans)
74. “Hamdard’ was launched by :
(a) Jinnah
(b) Syed Ahmed Khan
(c) B.R. Ambedkar
(d) Muhammad Ali (Ans)
75. Which one of the following was not one of the three who was invited to take part in the Round Table Conference in 1930 ?
(a) Sarojini Naidu
(b) Jehanara Shah Nawaz
(c) Radhabhai Subbaroyan
(d) Kasturba Gandhi (Ans)
76. Who repealed the Vernacular Press Act ?
(a) Differin
(b) Mayo
(c) Ripon (Ans)
(d) Hardinge II
77. At the earlier stage backward classes movement means ?
(a) Antirulers movement
(b) Harijan movement
(c) Non-Brahmin movement (Ans)
(d) Santal movement
78. ‘Mookanayak’ was started by :
(a) MG Rande
(b) BR Ambedkar (Ans)
(c) GG Agarkar
(d) Atmaram Pandurang
79. In the year 1946, who among the following joined the viceroy’s executive council with the finance Portfolio ?
(a) Liaqat Ali Khan (Ans)
(b) Mohammad Ali Jinnah
(c) Nawab Salimullah
(d) Shaukat Ali
80. Who accompanied Bhagat Singh to bomb Central Legislature in Delhi ?
(a) Raj Guru
(b) Sukh Dev
(c) Chandrasekhar Azad
(d) Batukeswar Dutt (Ans)
81. Who organised Translation Society in 1864 which later became ‘the Aligarh Scientific Society’ ?
(a) Agha Khan
(b) Salimulla Khan
(c) Syed Ahmed Khan (Ans)
(d) Syed Ahmed Brelvi
82. Who was the Viceroy when Reserve Bank of India was formed in 1935 ?
(a) Reading
(b) Irwin
(c) Wellington (Ans)
(d) Wavell
83. During whose tenure as the Viceroy of India were the great martyrs Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru handed ?
(a) Lord Chelsmford
(b) Lord Minto
(c) Lord Curzon
(d) Lord Irwin (Ans)
84. Who was the spokesman of untouchables in the Round Table Conference ?
(a) V.R. Shinde
(b) B.R. Ambedkar (Ans)
(c) Sarojini Naidu
(d) Tej Bahadur Sapru
85. The Viceroy of India during the Delhi Durbar of 1877 :
(a) Wellesley
(b) Lytton (Ans)
(c) Dufferin
(d) Curzon
86. ‘Karm Yogi’ was started by :
(a) V.D. Savarkar
(b) Aurobindo Ghosh (Ans)
(c) Annie Besant
(d) Sarojini Naidu
87. Who was the Chairman of the Partition Council ?
(a) Mountbatten (Ans)
(b) M.A. Jinnah
(c) Jawaharlal Nehru
(d) V.P. Memon
88. Who authored ‘Nil Darpan’ (1858 – 59) ?
(a) Prem Chand
(b) Dinabandhu Mitra (Ans)
(c) Banking Chandra
(d) Tagor
89. Who opened a widow home at Pune, formed a widow remarriage association, married to a widow in 1893 and in 1916 founded a Woen’s University in Bombay ?
(a) M.G. Ranade
(b) Prof.D.K. Karve (Ans)
(c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(d) G.V. Joshi
90. In which Round Table Conference Gandiji attended ?
(a) First
(b) Second (Ans)
(c) Third
(d) None of these
91. In which journal, the autobiography of Mahathma Gandhi was published for the first time ?
(a) Young India
(b) Harijan
(c) Navjeevan (Ans)
(d) Satyagrahi
92. The Federal Court of India was brought into existence in 1937 during the reign of :
(a) Wavell
(b) Reading
(c) Linlithgo (Ans)
(d) Mountbatten
93. Who denounced Congress as a ‘microscopic minority’ ?
(a) Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
(b) Lord Dufferin (Ans)
(c) Lord Curzon
(d) Theodore Beck
94. In which session the Indian National Congress adopted the resolution on Fundamental Rights ?
(a) Madras (1927)
(b) Lahore (1929)
(c) Karachi (1931) (Ans)
(d) Faizpur (1936)
95. Who authored Gandhiji’s favorite prayer ‘Vaishnava Janato’ ?
(a) Tagor
(b) Vishnu Diagambar Paluskar
(c) Narasimha Mehta (Ans)
(d) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
96. The publication launched by the British Committee of INC in 1890:
(a) Pioneer
(b) National Herald
(c) India (Ans)
(d) Vanguard
97. Which is the last one in the chronological order ?
(a) Cripps Mission
(b) Quit India Movement
(c) August Offer (Ans)
(d) Individual Satyagraha
98. Who was the Viceroy when the Indian Independence Act was given royal assent on 18th July, 1947 ?
(a) Wavell
(b) Linlithgo
(c) Mountbatten (Ans)
(d) Reading
99. The last Viceroy of India :
(a) Wavell
(b) C. Rajagopalachari
(c) Mountbatten (Ans)
(d) Wellington
100. Who said “The British rule was a bleeding drain from India” ?
(a) M.G. Ranade
(b) R.C. Dutt
(c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(d) Dadabhai Naoroji (Ans)
101. Who is related to Gadkari Revolt 1944 ?
(a) Krishna Daji Pandit
(b) Haji Shariat Ullah
(c) Alluri Sitaram Raju (Ans)
(d) Birsa Munda
102. Gandiji ended his fast in Yervada prison which he started after the Communal Award of Ramsay Mc Donald :
(a) Lahore Pact
(b) Poona Pact (Ans)
(c) Lucknow Pact
(d) Shimla Pact
103. Gandhiji got Barrister at Law from :
(a) India
(b) America
(c) England (Ans)
(d) South Africa
104. The Viceroy during the Chauri Chaura incident :
(a) Hardinge II
(b) Reading (Ans)
(c) Wellington
(d) Chelmsford
105. ‘Comrade’ was started by :
(a) Muhammad Ali (Ans)
(b) Maulana Azad
(c) Syed Ahmed Khan
(d) Gandhiji
106. First Marathi monthly “Digdarshan” was published by :
(a) Balshastri Jambhekar (Ans)
(b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(c) K.T. Telang
(d) Pheroz Shah Mehta
107. Fourth kerala visit of gandhiji was in ?
(a) 1934 (Ans)
(b) 1948
(c) 1938
(d) 1942
108. Which Princely State resembled ‘Ramrajya’ according to Gandhiji ?
(a) Baroda
(b) Gwalior
(c) Mysore (Ans)
(d) Patiala
109. He was born with a withered arm and no left hand. He was appointed Viceroy of India in 1926. Name this person :
(a) Reading
(b) Irwin (Ans)
(c) Linlithgo
(d) Wavell
110. Whom Gandhiji declared as his political heir ?
(a) Acharya Vinoba
(b) Rajagopalachari
(c) Jawaharlal Nehru (Ans)
(d) None of these