1. In which region freedom movement of India 8.

The zaminders of India were found generally :

started at earliest ?
(a) helpful towards freedom movement (b)
(a) Punjab (b) Maharasthra (c) Bengal against freedom movement
(d) Gujrat
(c) indifferent towards freedom movement (d)
2. Which one helped towards launch of First War of None of these
Indian independence in 1857 ?

(a) Zamindary system (b) Subsidiary

alliance (c) Doctine of lapse (d) None of 9. Sir Hyde East, who was a pioneer of expansion
these of education in India, was :

3. 'Poverty and Un-British Rule in India' was (a) Chancellor of Calcutta University
authored by :
(b) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
(a) R. C. Dutta (b) G. V. Joshi (c) Ram
Mohan Roy (d) None of these (c) Educaton Secretary of British India

4. The Pioneer of 'Drain Theory' who authored (d) None of these

Economic History of India, was :
10. Which one has not been correctly matched
(a) R. C. Dutta (b) G. V. joshi (c) Ram regarding year of establishment ?
Mohan Roy (d) None of these
(a) Sanskrit College : 1823 (b) Roorkee
5. During the British rule the foreign trade of India Engineering College : 1849
remained :
(c) Presidency college : 1853 (d) Calcutta
(a) Balanced (b) Favourable (c) Unfavourable University : 1865
(d) None of these
11. Which had highest effect towards freedom
6. During British rule India used to have more movement in India ?
export in relation to import to have trade surplus to
be invested in : (a) Economic exploitation (b) Political
oppression
(a) Indi (b) England (c) Wars (d) None of these
(c) transportation development (d)
7. During the period of British rule in India the expansion of education
cottage industries of India began to face closure
for : 12. Who used to publish 'Sambad Kaumudi' ?

(a) Shortage of demand in India (b) import of (a) Ram Mohan Roy (b) Iswar Chandra Vidya
cheap machine made Items Sagar (c) Dwaraka Nath Tagore (d) None of
these
(c) forcible closure of industries by British
rulers (d) None of these 13. Raja Ram Mohan Roy wrote a book on
'Monothism' in :

(a) English (b) Bengali (c) Persian (d) Sanskri

14. Which one is not true about the life of Raja 21. Who authored 'War of Indian Independence of
Rammohan Roy ? 1857' ?

(a) He served under British rulers (a) V. D. Shavarkar (b) Dababhai Nauroji
(c) Subhas Chandra Bose (d) None of these
(b) He established Vedanta College
22. Permanent Settlement adversely affected the
(c) He was against the philosophy vedas interest of the :

(d) He died at Bristol of England (a) Zaminders (b) businessmen (c)

tenants (d) None of these
15. Which one of the following associations was
not set up in Calcutta/kolkata ? 23. The Sir William Hunter Commission to enquire
about educational system was set up in 1882 by :
(a) Zamindary Association (b) British India
Association (a) Lord Ripon (b) Lord Lytton (c) Lord
Mayo (d) None of these
(c) Indian Association (d) Indian National
Congress 24. The Parthana Samaj was established by Keshab
Chandra Sen in 1867 in :
16. During the period of the 'Sepoy Mutiny' around
what percentage of the members of Armed forces (a) Calcutta (b) Allahabad (c) Bomba (d) None
under the British rulers of India were of European of these
origin ?

(a) 20 (b) 30 (c) 40 (d) 50

25. The 'Suddhi' programme was introduced by :
17. In a day of which month in 1857 AD Mangal
Pande revolted at Barrackpore ? (a) Swami Sraddhananda (b) Dayanand
Saraswati (c) Lala Lajpat Rai (d) None of
(a) February (b) March (c) June (d) None these

18. During the period of Sepoy Mutiny, Nana Sahib 26. Indians had higher sense of nationalism from :
declared himself as the Peshwa of :
(a) American freedom Movement (b) French
(a) Nagpur (b) Gwalior (c) Kanpur (d) None Revolution

19. Who described Lakshmi Bai of Jhansi as the (c) Russian Revolution (d) all of these
'best and bravest' of the rebels ?
27. Which one has not been correctly matched ?
(a) Sir Henry Lawrence (b) Sir Hugh Rose
(c) R. C. Majumder (d) None of these (a) Dayanand Saraswati : Satartha Prakash

20. Sepoy Mutiny activist who was caught and (b) Surendranath Banerjee : A National in
executed was : Making

(a) Nana Saheb (b) Kunwar Singh (c) (c) Deena Bandhu Mitra : Neel Darpan
TantiaTopi (d) lakshmi Bai
(d) Michael Madhusudhan Dutta : Sitaram
28. The first Bengali weekly 'Samachar Darpan' was (a) Canada (b) Australia (c) New
started in 1818 from : Zealand (d) Nigeria

(a) Calcutta (b) Srerampore (c) 35. Indian leader who attended all the three Round
Howrah (d) None of these Table Conferences held in London was :

29. Margaret Nobel, popularly known as Sister (a) M. K. Gandhi (b) B. R. Ambedkar (c)
Nivedita, was of : Sarojini Naidu (d) None of these

(a) English origin (b) Irish origin (c) 36. Which one has not been correctly matched ?
French origin (d) American origin
(a) Champaran Satyagraha :1917
30. Which one has not been correctly matched ?
(b) Kaira or Kheda Satyagraha : 1918
(a) Atmiya Sabha : Rammohan Roy
(c) Moplah Rebellion : 1921
(b) Satya Shondhak Samaj : Jyotirao Govindrao
Phule (d) Bardoloi Satyagraha : 1929

(c) Samaj Samata Sangh : B. R. Ambedkar 37. Which one was not an aspects of Gandhi-Irwin
Pact of 1931 ?
(d) Tatvabodhini Sabha : Dwaraka Nath Tagore
(a) Withdrawal of civil Disobedience Movement
31. The book 'Taufat-ul-Muwahidin' or 'A Gift to launched by Gandhiji in 1930
Monotheists' was authored by :
(b) Participation of the Congress Party in the
(a) Rammohah Roy (b) Abul Kalam Azad Second Round Table Conference
(c) M.G.Ranade (d) None of these
(c) Release of all Satyagrahi prisoners by the
British rulers

(d) Decision to accord 'Dominion' status for

India
32. Satyashodhak Samaj was set up for the
upliftment of the conditions of : 38. Gandhi-Irwin Pact was signed in March, 1931
and Gandhiji attended the Second Round Table
(a) Peasants (b) workers (c) Lower caste Conference in London in 1931 starting in :
people (d) None of these
(a) September (b) October (c)
33. A Congress Committee led by Motilal Nehru November (d) December
demand 'Dominion' Status for India in 1928 during
the reign of : 39. Gandhiji was arrested and sent to Yedarva
prison of Poona in 1932 during the reign of :
(a) Lord Chelmsford (b) Lord Irwin (c)
Lord Linlithgow (d) None of these (a) Lord Irwin (b) Lord Willingdon (c)
Lord Linlithgow (d) None of these
34. Which colony of Britain was not enjoying
Dominion status when Congress leaders of India 40. In August, 1928 an all party Conference was
was willing to have this Status ? arranged in :
(a) Lahore (b) Allahabad (c) Lucknow (d)Bombay (a) 1939 (b) 1940 (c) 1941 (d) None of
these
41. British Prime Minister Mr. Ramsay Macdonald
announced Communal Award in : 49. Who was not associated as a member of the
Cabinet Mission ?
(a) 1931 (b) 1932 (c) 1933 (d) None of
these (a) Sir Stafford Cripps (b) A. V. Alexander
(c) Lord Pethick Lawrence (d) Lord Chelmsford
42. On the basis of Government of Indian Act of
1935, Congress Ministries were formed in majority 50. When the Cabinet Mission came to India from
of Indian provinces in : London then Chief of the British rulers of India was
:
(a) 1936 (b) 1937 (c) 1938 (d) None
of these (a) Lord Wavell (b) Lord Linlithgow (c)
Lord Mountbatten (d) None of these
43. Poona Pact was signed in 1932 mainly between
Gandhiji and : 51. Rajaji Formula put forward by C.
Rajagopalachari was in :
(a) Mohammed Ali Jinnah (b) Lord
Willingdon (c) B. R. Ambdkar (d) None of (a) 1943 (b) 1944 (c) 1945 (d) None of
these these

44. In 1938 Subhas Chandra Bose was chosen as 52. Which one has not been correctly matched ?
the President of All India Congress in Congress
session held at : (a) Debendranath Tagore set up Tatvabodhini
Sabha
(a) Lucknow (b) Haripura (c) Tripura
(d) None of these (b) The pioneer of young Bengal Movement was
Henry Vivian Derozio
45. Pattabhi Sitaramayya was defeated by Subhas
Chandra Bose for the post of the Congress (c) Adi Brahmo Samaj was organised by
President in Conference held in : Keshab Chandra Sen

(a) Tripuri (b) Calcuta (c) Haripura (d) (d) The pioneer of Aligarh Movement was Sir
None of these Syed Ahmed

46. Lord Wavell arranged a all party conference in 53. In which year the Deccan Peasant uprising
1945 at : happened mainly in Maharashtra ?

(a) Poona (b) Lucknow (c) Shimla (d) None (a) 1875 (b) 1895 (c) 1915 (d) None of these

47. The Congress adopted 'Quit India Movement' 54. Who was the President of first All India Kishan
resolution after the arrival : Sabha at Lucknow in 1936 ?

(a) Simon Commission (b) Cripps Mission (a) N. G. Ranga (b) Gauri Shankar Mishra
(c) Cabinet Mission (d) None of these (c) Swami Sahajanand (d) None of these

48. In which year the Provincial Congress

Ministries resigned and the Muslim League
observed 'Deliverance Day' ?
55. The first newspaper of India 'The Bengal (c) She was elected first women Congress
Gazette' by James Augusts Hickey had first President in 1917 AD
publication in :
(d) She was associated with the Non-
(a) 1780 (b) 1795 (c) 1815 (d) None of these Cooperation Movement

56. Who started publication of 'Mirat-ul-Akbar' ? 63. The Indian National Trade Union Congress
(INTUC) was organised by :
(a) Raja Rammohan Roy (b) Sir Syed
Ahmed (c) Mazhar-ul-Huq (d) None of these (a) Mahatma Gandhi (b) Sardar Vallabhai
Patel (c) Motilal Nahru (d) None of these
57. The Bardoli Satyagraha held in 1928 against the
increase of land tax rate by : 64. Who led the formation of the Radical
Democratic Party ?
(a) 15% (b) 22% (c) 26% (d) 30%
(a) M. N. Roy (b) Lala Lajpat Rai (c) N. M.
58. Which one has not been correctly matched ? Joshi (d) None of these

(a) Kesari : B. G. Tilak (b) Voice of India : 65. Which one of the following districts was mainly
Dadabhai Nouroji associated with 'Chuar' rebellion ?

(c) Bengalee : S. N. Banerjee (d) Indian Mirror (a) Burdwan (b) Murshdabad (c)
: G. K. Gokhale Midnapore (d) None of these

59. Who, among the following served in the post of 66. Sidhu and Kanhu were associated with :
the Congress President ?
(a) Ho rebellion (b) Santal rebellion (c)
(a) Allen Octavian Hume (b) Bal Gangadhar Sanyasi rebellion (d) None of these
Tilak (c) Ramesh Chandra Dutta (d) None of
these 67. Farazi rebellion led by Haji Shariatullah
happened mainly in the district of :
60. Shimla Conference organised by Lord Minto
was arranged in : (a) Dhaka (b) Chittagong (c) Maldaha

(a) 1906 (b) 1907 (c) 1908 (d) None of (d) Faridpur
these
68. Begam Hazrat Mahal was an important leader of
61. Though the Muslim League was organised in Sepoy Mutiny in :
Dhaka in 1906 but the activities of this organisation
were mainly in the areas of : (a) Lucknow (b) Kanpur (c) Bareilly (d) None

(a) Maharashtra (b) Delhi (c) Calcutta (d) UP 69. Who stated, "Political freedom is the breath of a
nation" ?
62. Which one is not true about Annie Beasant ?
(a) B. G. Tilak (b) Aurobindo Ghosh (c)
(a) She organised Theosophical Society Swami Viveknanda (d) None of these

(b) She organised 'Home Rule League' in 70. Which one was not organised by V.D.Savarkar ?
Madras
 (a) Mitra Mela (b) Abhinav Bharat (c) 77. Jallianwala Bagh massacre happened in
Yugantar (d) None of these Amritsarin 1919 on :

71. The 'Gardar Party' was organised in USA but its (a) 6th April (b) 9th April (c) 13th April
activities led by Lala Hardyal used to be operated (d) 17th April
from :
78. Which one of the following has not been
(a) Tokyo (b) Singapore (c) Barlin (d) Paris correctly matched ?

72. In which session of the Congress Party held in (a) 'Anandmath' of Bamkim Chandra was
Surat the Congress became divided into two published in 1882
groups ?
(b) Swami Vivekananda delivered lecture at
(a) 21st (b) 22nd (c) 23rd (d) 24th Chicago in 1893

73. Bal Gangadhar Tilak organised 'Home Rule (c) Dramatic Performance Control Act was
League' at ? imposed in 1876

(a) Mumbai (b) Poona (c) Delhi (d) None (d) Vernacular Press Act was imposed in 1888

74. Which is not true about Lucknow Session of 79. The first Jute mill was set up in 1855 by
Congress in 1916 : Geoerge Aucland in :

(a) Moderates and Extremist resolved their (n) Howrah (b) Rishra (c) Naihati (d)
differences in this session None of these

(b) The Congress and the Muslim League 80. Jamsedji Tata established Tata Iron and Stell
signed Lucknow Pact after the session Company (TISCO) in :

(c) B. G. Tilak and Annie Beasant emerged as (a) 1905 (b) 1906 (c) 1907 (d) None of
important figures of Congress party these

(d) This session demanded 'Dominion Status' 81. Who was the Chief of National Council of
for India Education formed In 1906 AD ?

75. Who was the first Indian to qualify in the Indian (a) Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee (b) Sir Gurudas
Civil Service Exam held in London ? Banerjee (c) Aurobindo Ghosh (d) None of
these
(a) Satyendrqa Nath Tagore (b) B. L.
Gupta (c) Subhas Chandra Bose (d) None of 82. With which news magazine Keshab Sen was not
these associated ?

76. In which year the Civil Service Examination was (a) Sulabh Samachar (b) Balak Bandhu (c)
held simultaneously in England and India for the Naba Bidhan (d) None of these
first time ?
83. Hindu College set up in 1817 AD became known
(a) 1920 (b) 1922 (c) 1924 (d) None as Presidency College in :
of these
 (a) 1845 (b) 1853 (c) 1865 (d) None of (a) 45 years (b) 43 years (c) 41 years
these (d) 39 years

84. In which year Ramkrishna Mission was set up 92. Which one of the Statements was not made by
by Swami VIvekananda ? Swami Vivekandnda ?

(a) 1895 (b) 1896 (c) 1897 (d) 1898 (a) Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is
reached
85. The book 'Indian Renaissance' was authored by
: (b) Motion is the sign of life

(a) Swami Vivekananda (b) M. G. Ranade (c) Back to Vedas

(c) C. F. Andrews (d) None of these
(d) Freedom was deserved only by the bold and
86. Swami Dayanand Swaraswati organised the the brave.
'Arya Samaj' in 1875 in:
93. 'Hindu Patriot' which extensively reported on
(a) Gujarat (b) Punjab (c) Maharashtra oppression done to Indigo cultivators was edited
(d) None of these by :

87. Who was not associated with the organization (a) Deena Bandhu Mitra (b) Harish Chandra
of 'Hindu Mela' ? Mukherjee (c) James Long (d) None of these

(a) Rajnarayan Basu (b) Nabagopal 94. Indigo rebellion was started by Vishnu Charan
Mitra (C) V. D. Savarkar (d) None of these Biswas and Digambar Biswas in 1859 in :

88. 'Parthana Samaj' was organised in 1867 by : (a) Mednapore (b) Murshidabad (c)
Nadia (d) None of these
(a) Devendra Nath Tagore (b) Atmaram
Pandurang (c) M. G. Ranade (d) None of 95. The Indigo issues stopped in India after
these artificial indigo was started to be manufactured in
1891 in :
89. The concept of 'Man Making religion' was
advocated by : (a) Britain (b) France (c) Germany (d)
None of these
(a) Swami Dayanand (b) Swami
Vivekananda (c) Swami Sahajanand (d) 96. Available information indicated that 'Neel
None of these Darpan' was actually translated in English by :

90. Which book was not authored by Swami (a) James Long (b) Madhusudan Dutta
Vivekandnda ? (c) Sisir Kumar Ghosh (d) None of these

(a) Rajyoga (b) Jnanyoga (c) 97. The main cause of the Indigo Movement in 1859
Paribrajak (d) Bharat Pathik was :

91. Swami Vivekananda died in 1902 AD at an age (a) Political (b) Social (c) Economic
of around : (d) None of these

98. Which one has not been correctly matched :

 (a) Indian Mirror : Keshab Chandra Sen 105. On the day of the 1st partition of Bengal in
1905, Rabindranaih Tagore called to observe 'Rakhi
(b) The Bengalee : Surendranath Banerjee Bandhan' festival the date was :

(c) Hindu Patriot : Sisir Kumar Ghosh (a) 12th October (b) 16th October (c) 4th
November (d) 22nd November
(d) Sangbad Pravakar : Iswar Gupta
106. Which one has not been correctly matched ?
99. 'White Mutiny' against the provisions of the
Ilbert Bill happened in 1883 during the reign of : (a) Modern Review : Ramanand Chatterjee

(a) Lord Ripon (b) Lord Lytton (c) Lord (b) Indian World : Pritish Ch. Roy
Mayo (c) None of these
(c) Dawn : Satish Ch. Mukherjee
100. Who considered the Indian National Congress
as 'a microscopic minority of the people' ? (d) Bengalee : Bhupendra nath Dutta

(a) Lord Duffraine (b) Lord Curzon (c) 107. 'Dawn Society' was established by :
Lord Ripon (d) None of these
(a) Aurobindo Ghosh (b) Rashbehari
101. Who criticised Congress Conference as Ghosh (c) Satish Chandra Mukherjee (d)
'Circus for three days' ? None of these

(a) Lord Curzen (b) Lala Lajpat Rai (c) 108. The 'Sandha' news magazine was published
Ashwini Kumar Dutta (d) Subhas Bose by :

102. Which one has not been correctly matched : (a) Bamkim Chandra Chatterjee (b) Brahma
Bandhab Upadhyay
(a) New India : Bipin Chandra Paul
(c) Monoranjan Guhathakurata (d) None of
(b) Bangadarshan : Harish Ch.Mukherjee these

(c) Sanjivani : Krishna Kumar Mitra 109. Who stated 'I will Unsettle the Settled Fact'
regarding the 1st partition of Bengal ?
(d) Bandemataram : Aurobindo Ghosh
(a) Surendranath Banerjee (b) Aurabimln
103. Badruddin Tayabjee was chosen as the third Ghosh (c) Subhas Chandra Bose (d) None of
President of Indian National Congress in these
Conference held in 1887 in :
110. In which year Satish Chandra Basu organised
(a) Allahabad (b) Lucknow (c) Madras 'Anusilan Samity' ?
(d) Pune
(a) 1902 AD (b) 1906 AD (c) 1909 AD
104. By division of Bengal in 1905 new Province (d) None of these
created was :
111. On which day of 1908 AD, Khudiram Basu was
(a) East Bengal (b) Bengal (c) East hanged to death in Majaffarpur jail ?
Bengal and Assam (d) None of these
 (a) 30th April (b) 16th May (c) 17th June 119. Labour leader Singaravellu organised First
(d) 11th August labour day in India on 1st May of :

112. Rashbihari Bose bombed towards Lord (a) 1922 (b) 1923 (c) 1924 (d) None of
Hardinge in 1912 AD when he was serving as a these
Forest Research Officer in :
120. Who organised the Communist Party of India
(a) Delhi (b) Lucknow (c) Dehradun in Teshkent of Soviet Union ?
(d) None of these
(a) Manabendranath Roy (b) Sripad Amrit
113. Who was considered as the "Father of militant Dange (c) P. C. Joshi (d) None of these
nationalism" in India by the Historian Ramesh
Chandra Majumder ? 121. Who was the Chief of British rulers of India
when First War of Indian Independence or Sepoy
(a) V. D. Savarkar (b) M. N. Roy (c) Mutiny happened in India ?
Vasudev B. Fadke (d) Aurobindo Ghosh
(a) Lord Dalhousie (b) Lord Canning (c)
114. Who was hanged to death in London for killing Lord Elgin (d) None of these
Sir Curzon Willy in 1909 ?
122. In which place the Sepoy Mutiny was initiated
(a) Madan Lai Dhingra (b) Narayan at the earliest ?
Despande (c) V. D. Savarkar (d) None of
these (a) Meerat (b) Nagpur (c)
Barrackpore (d) None of these
115. J. M. Chatterjee organised a secret militant
outfit in Saharanpur of : 123. Who among the following, were against the
Sepoy Mutiny ?
(a) Maharashtra (b) Uttar Pradesh (c)
Punjab (d) None of these (a) Farmers (b) Zaminders (c) Deposed
rulers (d) None of these
116. Hindustan Republic Association was
organised in 1912 by : 124. After the end of the Sepoy Mutiny the Mughal
emperor 2nd Bahadur Shah was :
(a) Jogesh Chandra Chatterjee (b) Chandra
Sekhar Azad (c) Basant Biswas (d) None of (a) Killed (b) Exiled (c) Put for Trial
these (d) None of these

117. Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, Rajguru, Batukeshwar 125. Which one of the following Acts, was passed
Dutta were hanged to death in relation to : as a consequence of the 1st War of Independence
or Sepoy Mutiny ?
(a) Lahore Conspiracy case (b) Merat
Conspiracy case (c) Nasik Conspiracy case (d) (a) Charter Act (b) Indian Council Act
None of these (c) Indian Administration Act (d) None of these.

118. Indian Republican Army was organised by : 126. In which year Rail connection between
Calcutta and Bombay started ?
(a) Rash Behari Bose (b) Masterda Surya
Sen (c) Jatindranath Mukherjee (d) None of (a) 1862 (b) 1865 (c) 1870 (d) None of
these these
127. In which year Rail connection between Madras (a) Moulana Abul Kalam Azad (b) Sir Syed
and Bombay started ? Ahmed (c) Mohammad Ali Jinnah (d)
Choudhary Rahamat Ali
(a) 1862 (b) 1865 (c) 1871 (d) None of
these 133. Which one of the following has not been
correctly matched ?
128. Which one of the following industries did not
emerge in India within 19th century ? (a) Bankim Chandra : Ananda Math

(a) Jute (b) Textile (c) Iron (d) Engineering (b) Deenabandhu Mitra : Neel Darpan

129. Hunter Commission, headed by Sir William (c) Dwijendra Lai Roy : Mebar Patan
Hunter was set up in 1882 and the report was
submitted in 1884 for submitting recommendations (d) Rabindranath Tagore : Bartaman Bharat
in the areas of :
134. Bartaman Bharat was authored by :
(a) Industries (b) Education (c)
Autonomy of Local bodies (d) None of these (a) Swami Vivekananda (b) Bankim Chandra
(c) Deenabandhu Mitra (d) Dwijendra Lai Roy
130. Which one of the following has not been
correctly matched ? 135. The song 'Bande Mataram' was composed by :

(a) Raja Rammohan Ray : Brahma Samaj (a) Vivekananda (b) Bankim Chandra (c) D. L.
Roy (d) None of these
(b) Swami Dayananda Saraswati : Arya Samaj
136. The song 'Sare Jahan Se Achha Hindustan
(c) Keshab Chandra Sen : Parthana Samaj Hamara ...' was composed by :

(d) Madan Mohan Malavia : Vedic Samaj (a) R. N. Tripathi (b) Allama Iqbal (c)
Mirza Galib (d) None of these

137. Which one of the following Newspapers did

131. Which one of the following has not been not helped the Indian National Movement during
correctly matched ? the British period ?

(a) Aligarh University : Sir Syed Ahmed (a) Amrita Bazar Patrika (b) Dainik
Basumati (c) Indian Mirror (d) The Times of
(b) Maratha Hindu University : Madan Mohan India
Malavia
138. Sisir Kumar Ghosh was associated with :
(c) Ramakrishna Mission : Swami Vivekananda
(a) Amritabazar (b) Ananda Bazar (c)
(d) Visvabharti University : Rabindranath Basumati (d) None of these
Tagore
139. Which one of the following Newspaper
132. Who among the following, at first stated about changed from Bengali to English overnight to avoid
'Two Nations Theory' between the Hindus and censorship imposed under Vernacular Press Act ?
Muslims of India ?
 (a) Amritabazar Patrika (b) Dainik 148. Who among the following I.C.S. Officer was
Basumati (c) Indian Mirror (b) Ananda Bazar removed from service by the British rulers ?

140. Who among the following, imposed Vernacular (a) Satyendranath Tagore (b) Romesh Dutt
Press Act ? (c) Behari Lal Gupta (d) Surendranath
Bannerjee
(a) Lord Litton (b) Lord Ripon (c) Lord
Duffrin (d) None of these 149. What is the new name of Rippon College ?

141. What was the former name of present daily (a) Surendranath College (b) Presidency
'The Statesman' ? College (c) ashutosh college (d) None of these

(a) Indian Mirror (b) Indian Patriot (c) 150. Who Presided in the first Session of Indian
Friend of India (d) None of these National Congress ?

142. Newspaper 'Friend of India' was started by : (a) Allen Octavian Hume (b) Motilal Nehru
(c) W. C. Bannerjee (d) None of these
(a) Robert Night (b) Suresh Chandra
Majumdar (c) Prafulla Kumar Sarkar (d) None 151. Who was the Chief of the British rulers of
of these India, during the time when Indian National
Congress was formed in 1885 ?
143. Which one of the following Associations was
constituted at the earliest ? (a) Lord Ripon (b) Lord Duffrin (c) Lord
Dalhousie (d) None of these
(a) Landholders Society (b) British India
Association (c) Indian League (d) Indian 152. 'Ilbert Bill' was proposed during the period of :
National Congress
(a) Lord Ripon (b) Lord Lansdowne (c)
144. In which year Landholders Society was set up Lord Elgin (d) None of these
by Prince Dwarakanath Tagore
153. Who presided over the Second Session of
(a) 1838 (b) 1852 (c) 1875 (d) 1885 Indian National Congress ?

145. In which year Indian National Congress was (a) Dadabhai Naoroji (b) Badruddin
set up by Allen Octavian Hume ? Tayabji (c) Gorge Yule (d) None of these.

(a) 1838 (b) 1852 (c) 1875 (d) 1885 154. Who among the following was not an extremist
leader ?
146. Which one of the following Associations was
set up by Surendranath Bannerjee ? (a) Balgangadhar Tilak (b) Lala Lajpat
Rai (c) Bipin Chandra Pal (d) Dadabhai
(a) Indian League (b) Indian Association Nauroji
(c) Mahajan Sabha (d) Indian National Union
155. Who led Swadeshi movement against the 1st
147. In which year Indian Association was set up Partition of Bengal in 1905 ?
by Surendranath Bannerjee ?
(a) Arabinda Ghosh (b) Ashwini Kumar
(a) 1852 (b) 1875 (c) 1876 (d) 1885 Dutta (c) Surendra Nath Banerjee (d) None
of these
156. In which city Muslim League was formed in 163. In which modern state of India 'Bagha Jatin'
1906 through encouragement given by British rul- was killed in an armed encounter with the British
ers to press for demand to retain Partition of Security Force ?
Bengal ?
(a) West Bengal (b) Orissa (c) Bihar
(a) Lucknow (b) Karachi (c) Dhaka (d) Uttar Pradesh
(d) None of these
164. In which year Gandhiji returned to India from
157. In which place the announcement to revoke South Africa ?
the order of 1st Partition of Bengal was done ?
(a) 1910 (b) 1915 (c) 1920 (d) None
(a) Dhaka (b) Calcutta (c) Delhi (d) of these
None of these

158. Who led the formation of 'Anusilan Samity' in

Bengal ?

(a) Aurobindo Ghosh (b) Barindra Kumar 165. Who was chosen as first Woman President of
Ghosh (c) Satish Chandra Basu (d) Bipin Indian National Congress ?
Behari Ganguly
(a) Annie Beasant (b) Sarojini Naidu (c)
159. In which year the Anusilan Samity was formed Vijay Laxmi Pandit (d) None of these
by Satish Chandra Basu to organise terrorist
movement in Bengal ? 166. In which year Annie Beasant, a woman of
European origin became President of Indian
(a) 1901 (b) 1911 (c) 1921 (d) 1931 National Congress ?

160. In a place of which one of modern State, (a) 1885 (b) 1895 (c) 1905 (d) 1917
Prafulla Chaki and Khudiram Bose threw bomb
upon a car to kill a British officer in 1908 ? 167. In which year Sarojini Naidu, a woman of
Indian origin become President of Indian National
(a) West Bengal (b) Uttar Pradesh (c) Congress ?
Bihar (d) None of these
(a) 1895 (b) 1905 (c) 1917 (d) 1925
161. Who among the following, organised
Extremist/Terrorist group to fight against the 168. Which one of the following happened at the
British rulers, in India at the earliest ? earliest ?

(a) Basudev Balvant Fadke (b) Vinayak (a) Morley-Minto Reforms

Damodar Sarvakar (c) Lala Lajpat Rai (d)
Lala Hardayal. (b) Montagu-Chemlsford Reforms

162. Who was the prime accused in 'Lahore (c) Rowlatt Act
conspiracy Case' ?
(d) Jalliwanwallabagh Massacre
(a) Rashbehari Bose (b) Manabendra Nath
Roy (c) Madan Lai Dhigra (d) None of these. 169. Khalifat Movement led by Mohammed Ali and
Swakat Ali were started during 1919-20 to protect
the interest of :
 (a) India (b) Persia (c) Turkey (d) None 178. "Red Shirt" (Lai Kurta) Party was formed in :

170. who was the Chairman of the Khilafat (a) Uttar Pradesh (b) NWFP (c)
Movement Committee ? NEFP (d) None of these

(a) Mohammed Ali (b) Swakat Ali (c) 179. In which place stores of arms and
Mahatma Gandhi (d) None of these ammunitions of British Security force were looted
by a group led by Surya Sen ?
171. In which year Non-Cooperation Movement was
initiated ? (a) Midnapore (b) Dhaka (c)
Chittagong (d) None of these
(a) 1920 (b) 1922 (c) 1924 (d) None
of these 180. By whom Bardoli Movement was organised
and led ?
172. Who was not associated with formation of
'Swarajya Dal" ? (a) Mahtma Gandhi (b) Motilal Nehru
(c) Ballavbhai Patel (d) None of these
(a) Gandhiji (b) C. R. Das (c) Motilal
Nehru (d) None of these 181. In which year Allinda Juddha (Corridor Battle)
happened in Calcutta Secretariat ?
173. In which year Swarajya Dal was formed by
Chitta Ranjan Das and Motilal Nehru (a) 8th December,1928 (b) 8th
December,1930 (c) 8th December,1932 (d )
(a) 1905 (b) 1911 (c) 1923 (d) 1925 None of these

174. In which year Simon Commission came to 182. In which place First Round Table Conference
India from England ? was arranged ?

(a) 1922 (b) 1924 (c) 1926 (d) 1928 (a) Calcutta (b) Delhi (c) London (d) None

175. In which year Congress Party took resolution 183. In which year Communal Award was
to have complete freedom (i.e 'Purna Swaraj') for announced by British rulers ?
India ?
(a) 1930 (b) 1932 (c) 1934 (d) None
(a) 1928 (b) 1930 (c) 1929 (d) 1932 of these

176. Which day was declared as the Independence 184. Who among the following died for continuing
Day for India in the Lahore Session held in 1929 ? indefinite fast ?

(a) 26th January of 1930 (b) 26th January of (a) Jatin Das (b) Bhagat Singh (c)
1935 (c) 26th January of 1940 (d) 26th Janu- Sukhdev (d) Rajguru
ary, 1950
185. Who killed a British Officer in London ?
177. In which year Gandhiji organised 'Dandi
March' from Sabarmati Ashram to Dandi Sea Shore (a) Lai Hardayal (b) Madan Lai Dhingra
in Gujrat agaisnt ban on salt production imposed (c) Damodar Chapekar (d) None of these
by British rulers ?

(a) 1928 (b) 1930 (c) 1932 (d) None

186. In which year elections were held to elect (a) 9th July, 1942 (b) 9th August, 1942 (c)
representatives for the Provincial Assemblies on 9th September, 1942 (d) None of these
the basis of Government of India Act. 1935 ?
194. In which year Bengal faced high famine
(a) 1936 (b) 1937 (c) 1938 (d) None condition ?
of these
(a) 1942-43 (b) 1943-44 (c) 1944-45 (d) None
187. In which year Subhas Bose had to resign the
post of Congress President after being elected ? 195. In which year the Cabinet Mission arrived in
India from England ?
(a) 1937 (b) 1938 (c) 1939 (d) 1940
(a) 1944 (b) 1945 (c) 1946 (d) None
188. In which year Muslim League took resolution
to have a separate land for Indian Muslims ? 196. In which place large number of Navy
personnel of Indian origin revolted on 18th
(a) 1938 (b) 1940 (c) 1942 (d) None of these February, 1946 ?

189. In which year Subhas Bose escaped from his (a) Calicut (b) Madras (c) Bombay
house arrest in his Elgin Road Residence of (d) None of these
Kolkata and went to Germany via Afghanistan ?
197. In which month 'Direct Action' Day was
(a) 1941 (b) 1942 (c) 1943 (d) None of these observed by the Muslim League in 1946 ?

190. In which year Wavell Plan was announced by (a) July (b) August (c) September (d) October
British rulers ?
198. In which day of 1946, an Interim Government
(a) 1943 (b) 1944 (c) 1945 (d) None of these was formed under the leadership of Pandit Jawhar
Lai Nehru in India in order to arrange Indian
191. Which one of the following groups of island freedom ?
was named a 'Saheed Dweep' by INA leader Netaji
Subhas Bose ? (a) 2nd July (b) 2nd August (c) 2nd
September (d) 2nd October
(a) Andamans (b) Nicobars (c)
Lakshadweep (d) None of these 199. Who was chosen as Governor General of Free
India in 1947 ?
192. In which year Cripps Mission led by Sir
Stafford Cripps, a member of British Council of (a) Rajendra Prasad (b) C.
Ministers and expert in constitutional affairs, Rajagopalachari (c) Lord Mountbatten (d)
proposed to arrange Dominion Status and some None of these
other political advantages for the Indians after the
end of the on-going Second World War came to 200. Who was Governor General of Indian origin in
India ? Free India ?

(a) 1940 (b) 1941 (c) 1942 (d) None of (a) C. Rajagopalachari (b) Dr. Rajendra
these Prasad

193. In which day 'Quit India Movement' was (c) Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (d) None of
started ? these