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1.The first Indian leader to undergo 6.D Savarkar was born in

imprisonment was [A] 1885
[A] C Vijaraghavachari [B] 1883
[B] B G Tilak [C] 1888
[C] Bipin Chandra Pal [D] 1870
[D] Dadabhai Nauroji Correct Answer
Correct Answer [B] 1883
[A] C Vijaraghavachari 7.Mohammed Ali Jinnah was born in
2.Name the philosopher who believed [A] Lahore
that freedom is the keynote of [B] Bombay
spiritual life? [C] Delhi
[A] Gopalakrishna Gokhale [D] Karachi
[B] Nehru Correct Answer
[C] Ambedkar [D] Karachi
[D] Vivekananda 8.In which year Mohammed Ali- Jinnah
Correct Answer was elected to the Imperial
[D] Vivekananda Legislative Council from Bombay?
3.Who is the chief exponent of Two [A] 1910
nation theory [B] 1914
[A] Vivekananda [C] 1919
[B] Gokhale [D] 1924
[C] Gandhiji Correct Answer
[D] Mohammed Ali Jinnah [A] 1910
Correct Answer 9.Tilak regarded that Swaraj was not
[D] Mohammed Ali Jinnah only a right but a
4.The doctrine of Hindutva was [A] Justice
expounded by [B] Dharma
[A] V.D.Savarkar [C] power
[B] Tilak [D] Status
[C] Gandhiji Correct Answer
[D] Nehru [B] Dharma
Correct Answer 10.Sree Narayana Guru was born in :
[A] V.D.Savarkar [A] Sivagiri
5.The theory of ‘Cultural Nationalism’ [B] Aruvipuram
was expounded by [C] Chempazanthi
[A] Gokhale [D] Kollam
[B] Vivekananda Correct Answer
[C] Savarkar [C] Chempazanthi
[D] Nehru
Correct Answer
[A] Gokhale
11.SNDP Yogam was formed in the year [C] Sree Narayana Guru
[A] 1903 [D] Mahathma Gandhi
[B] 1896 Correct Answer
[C] 1908 [C] Sree Narayana Guru
[D] 1914 18.Who condemned Gandhism as a
Correct Answer reactionary social philosophy?
[A] 1903 [A] Gopalakrishna Gokhale
12.The doctrine of Ramarajya was [B] M.N.Roy
expounded by [C] Nehru
[A] Tilak [D] Lohia
[B] Gokhale Correct Answer
[C] Gandhiji [B] M.N.Roy
[D] Nehru 19.Independent India was founded by :
Correct Answer [A] Gopalakrishna Gokhale
[C] Gandhiji [B] Tilak
13.Who is the “Champion of [C] M.N. Roy
Secularism?” [D] Jayaprakas Narayanan
[A] Jinnah Correct Answer
[B] Nehru [C] M.N. Roy
[C] Savarkar 20.Doctrine of Total Revolution was
[D] Tilak expounded by
Correct Answer [A] Jayaprakas Narayanan
[B] Nehru [B] M.N Roy
14.Who regarded the villages as the [C] Gandhiji
centre of Indian economic [D] Tilak
organization? Correct Answer
[A] Gandhiji [A] Jayaprakas Narayanan
[B] Vivekananda 21.Radical Democratic party was
[C] Raja Ram Mohan Roy organised by
[D] Tilak [A] Lohia
Correct Answer [B] M.N.Roy
[A] Gandhiji [C] Jayaprakash Narayanan
15.Gandhism is not merely a political [D] Tilak
creed it is Correct Answer
[A] A programme of action [B] M.N.Roy
[B] A message 22.Who is the champion of the doctrine
[C] theory of ‘social revolution through human
[D] Working class movement Revolution’?
Correct Answer [A] M.N.Roy
[B] A message [B] Lohia
16.Name the important work of V.D. [C] Jayaprakash Narayanan
Savarkar. [D] Nehru
[A] Princess Correct Answer
[B] Politics [C] Jayaprakash Narayanan
[C] Freedom struggle 23.Jinna’s Two –nation Theory was
[D] Hindutva adopted on
Correct Answer [A] 1935
[D] Hindutva [B] 1940
17.Who is regarded as the pragmatic [C] 1925
social reformer? [D] 1947
[A] Nehru Correct Answer
[B] Thilak [B] 1940
24.The concept of four pillar state was 29.All Indian Muslim League was started
advocated by in:
[A] Lohia [A] 1960
[B] M.N.Roy [B] 1906
[C] Nehru [C] 1921
[D] Ambedker [D] 1928
Correct Answer Correct Answer
[A] Lohia [B] 1906
25.Who considered Jinnah as an 30.Glimpses of world History’ was
ambassador of Hindu-Muslim unity? written by
[A] Gandhiji [A] Nehru
[B] Tilak [B] Gandhiji
[C] Sarojini Naidu [C] Thilak
[D] Vivekananda [D] Ambedkar
[C] Sarojini Naidu [A] Nehru
26.Jinnah’s two nation theory was 31.Who is the author of Discovery of
adopted as the India?
[A] Lahore Resolution [A] Gandhiji
[B] Karachi Resolution [B] Vivekananda
[C] Dacca Declaration [C] Nehru
[D] Bombay resolution [D] Gokhale
[A] Lahore Resolution (1940) [C] Nehru
27.Azad Muslim conference’ was formed 32.The fundamental principles of
in Pancha-shila were laid down in the
[A] 1929 year;
[B] 1940 [A] 1961
[C] 1941 [B] 1955
[D] 1947 [C] 1954
Correct Answer [D] 1950
[A] 1929 Correct Answer
28.Name the political leader who [C] 1954
supported two nation theory 33.R. Ambedker was born in
[A] Gandhiji [A] 1891
[B] Gokhale [B] 1893
[C] Jinnah [C] 1898
[D] Tilak [D] 1901
[C] Jinnah [A] 1891
34.A public meeting was held on 13th of_______.

April 1919 at _______ in a smallpark [A] Mohammad Ali Jinnah
enclosed by buildings on all sides to [B] Sri Aurabindo
protest against the Rowlett Act. [C] Motilal Nehru
[A] Jallianwala Bagh [D] Mahatma Gandhi
[B] Uttar Pradesh Correct Answer
[C] Mumbai [D] Mahatma Gandhi
[D] Delhi 40.The Kheda Satyagraha and
Correct Answer Champaran agitation in 1918 was
[A] Jallianwala Bagh one of _______ first significant steps to
35.Brigadier-General _______ with his achieve Indian independence.
British troops entered the park at [A] Rabindranath Tagore’s
Jallianwala Bagh , closed the [B] Gandhiji
entrance of the park and commanded [C] Motilal Nehru’s
his army to fire on the gathered [D] Mohammed Ali Jinnah’s
people without any warning. Correct Answer
[A] Reginald Dyer [B] Gandhiji
[B] Sir Stafford Cripps 41.Mahatma Gandhi on August 8, _______
[C] Sir Claude Auchinleck gave the call for Quit India
[D] General Sir Rob Lockhart. Movement.
[A] Reginald Dyer [B] 1920
36.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was [C] 1930
born on 2nd October_______ [D] 1940
[B] 1859 [A] 1942
[C] 1889 42._______ called on all Congressmen and
[D] 1900 Indians to maintain discipline via
Correct Answer nonviolence and Do or Die in order
[A] 1869 to achieve ultimate freedom.
37.Gandhiji came back to India from [A] Mahatma Gandhi
South Africa, in the year_______. [B] Motilal Nehru
[A] 1914 [C] Bal Gangadhar Tilak
[B] 1915 [D] Sri Aurobindo
[C] 1916 Correct Answer
[D] 1917 [A] Mahatma Gandhi
Correct Answer 43.On 9th of August, 1942, Mahatma
[B] 1915 Gandhi and the entire Congress
38._______, who led the Congress party, Working Committee were arrested
introduced Mahatma Gandhi to the in_______.
concerns in India and the struggle of [A] UP
the people. [B] Delhi
[A] Tej Bahadur Sapru [C] Ahmedabad
[B] Rabindranath Tagore [D] Mumbai
[C] Mohammad Ali Jinnah Correct Answer
[D] Gopal Krishna Gokhale [D] Mumbai
Correct Answer 44.In 1946, upon persuasion of_______,
[A] Tej Bahadur Sapru Mahatma Gandhi reluctantly
39.A series of non-violence campaigns of accepted the proposal of partition
Civil Disobedience Movement were and independence offered by the
launched by the Indian National British cabinet, in order to evade a
Congress under the leadership civil war.
[A] Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel [C] Gujarat

[B] Rajguru [D] Delhi
[C] Sukhdev Correct Answer
[D] Mohammed Ali Jinnah [D] Delhi
Correct Answer 50.Congress leaders, like Lokamanya
[A] Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Tilak and Mahatma Gandhi, viewed
45.During the First World War, _______ the _______ as an opportunity to bring
joined the central powers against about Hindu-Muslim unity against
Britain. British.
[A] America [A] Khalifat Movement
[B] Greece [B] Khudai Khidmatgars
[C] France [C] Peasant movement
[D] Turkey [D] Womens’ movement
[D] Turkey [A] Khalifat Movement
46.A Khilafat Committee was formed 51._______ visited Malabar in 1921, giving
under the leadership of Mahammad a further impetus to the Khalifat
Ali, _______ Maulana Azad and Hasrat movement.
Mohini to organise a Country-wide [A] Gandhiji
agitation. [B] Motilal Nehru
[A] Shaukat Ali [C] Bal Gangadhar Tilak
[B] Qutubuddin Ahmad [D] Sri Aurobindo
[C] Shamsuddin Hussain Correct Answer
[D] Mohammed Ali Jinnah [A] Gandhiji
Correct Answer 52.A tragic episode namely the Moppila
[A] Shaukat Ali Rebellion or the Malabar Rebellion
47.The main object of Khilafat occurred in ____.
Movement was to force the _______ [A] 1911
Government to change its attitude [B] 1919
towards Turkey and to restore the [C] 1920
Sultan. [D] 1921
[A] British Correct Answer
[B] Austrian [D] 1921
[C] American 53.After the notice had expired the Non-
[D] Serbian Cooperation movement was
Correct Answer launched formally on 1st August
[A] British of_______
48.October 17, _______ was observed as [A] 1915
Khilafat Day, when the Hindus [B] 1916
alongwith Muslims in fasting [C] 1918
observed hartal on that day. [D] 1920
[B] 1909 [D] 1920
[C] 1916 54.At the _______ Session on September,
[D] 1919 1920 the program of the Non-
Correct Answer Cooperation movement was started.
[D] 1919 [A] Punjab
49.An All India Khilafat Conference was [B] Calcutta
held at _______ on November 23, 1919 [C] Delhi
with Gandhi as its president. [D] Lahore
[A] Calcutta Correct Answer
[B] Punjab [B] Calcutta
55.The programs of _______ involved the 59.The educational boycott was most
surrender of titles and offices and successful in _______ under the
resignation from the nominated leadership of Chitta Ranjan Das and
posts in the government body. Subhas Chandra Bose.
[A] Non-cooperation [A] Bihar
[B] Khudai Khidmatgars [B] Bombay
[C] Labour movement [C] Bengal
[D] Womens’ movement [D] Madras.
[A] Non-cooperation [C] Bengal
56._______ strictly advised the Non-Co- 60.In the second Round Table
operators to observe truth and non- Conference, _______ was appointed as
violence. the representative of the Congress,
[A] Tilak which was convened from 1st
[B] Motilal Nehru September to 1st December in the
[C] Gandhiji year1931.
[D] Sri Aurobinda [A] Gandhiji
Correct Answer [B] B.R.Ambedkar
[C] Gandhiji [C] Annie Besant
57.The decision taken in Calcutta [D] Maulana Azad
Session was supported in the _______ Correct Answer
Session of the Congress on [A] Gandhiji
December 1920. 61._______ announced “Communal
[A] Nagpur Award” on August 4, 1932.
[B] Bengal [A] Ramsay Macdonald
[C] Andhra [B] Qutubuddin Ahmad
[D] Karnataka [C] Shamsuddin Hussain
Correct Answer [D] Mohammad Ali Jinnah
[A] Nagpur Correct Answer
58._______ along with Ali Brothers went to [A] Ramsay Macdonald
a nationwide tour during which he 62._______ said that ‘There is no god
addressed the Indians in hundreds of higher than truth’.
meetings. [A] Mahatma Gandhi
[A] CR Das [B] Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari
[B] Motilal Nehru [C] Hakim Ajmal Khan
[C] Gandhi [D] Abbas Tyabji
[D] J.M Sengupta Correct Answer
Correct Answer [A] Mahatma Gandhi
[C] Gandhi
63._______ adopted the methods of [B] Congress

Satyagraha in his fight against the [C] CPI
racial discrimination of the American [D] CSP
authorities in 1950. Correct Answer
[A] Martin Luther King [A] Muslim League
[B] Motilal Nehru 69.The central teaching of Gandhi’s
[C] B.R.Ambedkar thought is :
[D] Mahatma Gandhi [A] truth
Correct Answer [B] love
[A] Martin Luther King [C] religion
64.Whose autobiography was titled ‘My [D] spirituality
Experiments with Truth?’ Correct Answer
[A] Mahatma Gandhi [A] truth
[B] Motilal Nehru 70.Gandhi understood the facts of non-
[C] C. Rajagopalachari violence from the teachings of:
[D] Rajendra Prasad [A] Buddhism and Jainism
Correct Answer [B] Advaita
[A] Mahatma Gandhi [C] Christianity
65.The Lahore Congress of 1929 was [D] Islam
monumental in the political career of Correct Answer
_______ as well as the history of India’s [A] Buddhism and Jainism
freedom struggle. 71._______ ranked the first among the
[A] Jawaharlal Nehru influences which moulded Gandhi.
[B] B.R.Ambedkar [A] Upanishads
[C] K. Damodaran [B] Quran
[D] Mahatma Gandhi [C] Bible
Correct Answer [D] Gita.
[A] Jawaharlal Nehru Correct Answer
66._______ was born on 23rd Jan, 1897 in [D] Gita
Cuttack, Orissa, India. 72._______ is considered as the most
[A] Subhas Chandra Bose important teaching of Gandhi.
[B] B.R.Ambedkar [A] Love of humanity
[C] Krishna Pillai [B] Love of God
[D] N.C.Sekhar [C] Truth is God
Correct Answer [D] God is love
[A] Subhas Chandra Bose Correct Answer
67._______ became the president of the [C] Truth is God
Haripura Indian National Congress 73.Truth to Gandhi is not an
against the wishes of Gandhiji in epistemological presupposition but
1938. an
[A] Subhas Chandra Bose [A] psychological notion
[B] Qutubuddin Ahmad [B] ontological implication
[C] Shamsuddin Hussain [C] epistemological notion
[D] Maulana Shaukat Ali [D] none of these
[A] Subhas Chandra Bose [C] epistemological notion
68.Direct Action Day ‘Hartal’ called by 74.According to Gandhi nothing is exist
the _______ on August 16, 1946 to get in reality expect:
rid of ‘British slavery and [A] love
contemplated future caste-Hindu [B] goodness
domination’. [C] beauty
[A] Muslim League [D] truth
Correct Answer [C] Poor as God

[D] truth [D] none of these
75.The essential nature of God is Correct Answer
described by Gandhi by the phrase: [B] God is poor
[A] Sarveswaran 82.According to Gandhi ‘service of the
[B] Svarupan poor is the :
[C] Satchidananda [A] service of society
[D] Iswara [B] service of humanity
Correct Answer [C] service of God
[C] Satchidananda [D] service of the society
76._______ Upanishad made a deep Correct Answer
influence upon Gandhi [C] service of God
[A] Mandukhya 83.Harijan means:
[B] Chandokhya [A] God of people
[C] Isavasym [B] God’s people
[D] Brahadaranya [C] People’s God
Correct Answer [D] God and people
[B] Chandokhya Correct Answer
77.To Gandhi _______ is the aim of life. [C] People’s God
[A] self-realization 84.Gandhi said, “For me there can be no
[B] freedom politics without_______.”
[C] liberation [A] Service
[D] independence [B] religion
Correct Answer [C] will
[A] self-realization [D] none of these
78.Tolstoy’s _______ made much Correct Answer
impression upon Gandhi. [A] Service
[A] Unto This Last 85.Gandhi believed in the sovereignty of
[B] Enlightens the people based on pure _______.
[C] The Kingdom of God within You [A] rational authority
[D] None of these [B] political wisdom.
Correct Answer [C] moral authority
[C] The Kingdom of God within You [D] knowledge
79.The Guajarati translation of the ‘Unto Correct Answer
this Last’ is called: [D] knowledge
[A] Harijan 86.By the term Panchyat Raj, Gandhi
[B] Sarvodya means:
[C] Navajeevan [A] Federation of decentralised rural
[D] Swadesi communities
Correct Answer [B] Federation of rural communities
[C] Navajeevan [C] Federation of decentralised
80.Who wrote the essay “Civil communities
Disobedience”? [D] none of these
[A] Thoreau Correct Answer
[B] Gandhi [C] Federation of decentralised
[C] Ruskin Bond communities
[D] Tolstoy 87.Quit India Movement is also known as
Correct Answer _______
[B] Gandhi [A] August movement
81.“Daridra Narayana” means: [B] May Movement
[A] Poor God [C] July Revolution
[B] God is poor [D] None of the above.
Correct Answer 93.Jaya Prakash Narayan is associated

[A] August movement with _______.
88.INA was formed in _______ [A] Socialism
[A] 1942 [B] Communism
[B] 1940 [C] Naxalism
[C] 1941 [D] None
[D] 1943 Correct Answer
Correct Answer [A] Socialism
[A] 1942
89._______ was associated with INA. 94.First Indian to use the word
[A] C.R. Das ‘Swarajya’
[B] Abul Kalam Azad [A] Raja Ram Mohan Rai
[C] S.C Bose [B] Mahatma Gandhi
[D] J.L. Nehru [C] Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Correct Answer [D] Swami Vivekananda
[C] S.C Bose Correct Answer
90.Ambedkar adopted _______. [C] Bal Gangadhar Tilak
[A] Hinduism 95.All India Harijan Sangha was
[B] Islam established by Mahatma Gandhi in
[C] Buddhism the year
[D] Christianity [A] 1935
[C] Buddhism [C] 1920
91.Gitanjali is the work of _______. [D] 1927
[A] Tagore Correct Answer
[B] Nehru [B] 1932
[C] SC Bose 96.In which place did Satyagraha first
[D] None started by Mahatma Gandhi
Correct Answer [A] Delhi
[A] Tagore [B] Calcutta
92.Motilal Nehru is associated [C] Baroda
with_______. [D] Champaran
[A] Swaraj party Correct Answer
[B] HSRA [D] Champaran
[C] INA 97.Who was the first to address
[D] None Mahatma Gandhi as the “Father of
Correct Answer Nation”
[A] Swaraj party [A] Subhas Chandra Bose
[B] Rabindranath Tagore
[C] B G Tilak
[D] JL Nehru
Correct Answer
[A] Subhas Chandra Bose
98.Dandi March was began on the date [C] Karachi,1931

of [D] Faizpur,1936
[A] 12th March, 1930 Correct Answer
[B] 15th March, 1928 [C] Karachi,1931
[C] 15th April, 1932 4.Which among the following Viceroys
[D] 30th March, 1932 was associated with the ‘Ilbert Bill
Correct Answer Controversy’?
[A] 12th March, 1930 [A] Lord Curzon
[B] Lord Lytton
99.Which farm established by Mahatma [C] Lord Ripon
Gandhi in Natal, South Africa [D] Lord Hard
[A] Phoenix Farm Correct Answer
[B] Tolstoy Farm [C] Lord Ripon
[C] Sabarmati Ashram 5.Subhash Chandra Bose was re-elected
[D] None of the above the President of INC at the Tripuri
Correct Answer Session in 1939 by defeating
[A] Phoenix Farm Gandhiji’s candidate:
100.Who is considered as the chief [A] Dr. Rajendra Prasad
architect of Taj Mahal? [B] J.B.Kriplani
[A] Mir Abd-ul Karim [C] Pattabhi Sitaramaiyya
[B] Ustad-Ahmad Lahori [D] Nellie Sengupta
[C] Makramat Khan Correct Answer
[D] Ustad Isa [C] Pattabhi Sitaramaiyya
Correct Answer 6.The pioneer of Communism in India
[B] Ustad-Ahmad Lahori was:
[A] S.A. Dange
Part II [B] M.R. Jayakar
[C] M.N. Roy
1.In which year, the Danish East India [D] Nalin Gupta
Company was formed? Correct Answer
[A] 1614 [C] M.N. Roy
[B] 1615 7.Which among the following great
[C] 1616 revolutionaries was the brain behind
[D] 1617 the ‘Chittagong Armoury Raid’?
Correct Answer [A] Ganesh Ghosh
[C] 1616 [B] Chandrashekhar Azad
2.Warren Hastings was appointed as the [C] Surya Sen
Governor of __________ in 1772. [D] Lala Hardayal
[A] Bengal Correct Answer
[B] Madras [C] Surya Sen
[C] Bombay 8.The revolutionary organization
[D] Delhi ‘Abhinav Bharat Society’ was
Correct Answer founded in 1904 by:
[A] Bengal [A] Bhagat Singh
3.The resolutions on Fundamental Rights [B] Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
and National Economic Policy were [C] Barindra Kumar Ghosh
passed in which of the following [D] Pulin Behari Das
sessions of the Indian National Correct Answer
Congress? [B] Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
[A] Belgaum,1934 9.Who among the following was
[B] Lahore,1929 popularly known as the ‘Frontier
Gandhi’?
[A] Hasrat Mohani [C] William Bentinck

[B] Maulana Abul Kalam Azad [D] Charles Metcalfe
[C] Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan Correct Answer
[D] Iqbal Khan [B] Warren Hastings
Correct Answer 15.The only session of Indian National
[C] Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan Congress which was presided by
10.Which Indian mass movement began Mahatma Gandhi was held at:
with the famous ‘Dandi March’ of [A] Belgaum
Mahatma Gandhi? [B] Faizpur
[A] Khilafat Movement [C] Allahabad
[B] Non-Cooperation Movement [D] Karachi
[C] Civil Disobedience Movement Correct Answer
[D] Quit India Movement [A] Belgaum
Correct Answer 16.What was the name of the first
[C] Civil Disobedience Movement newspaper to announce the partition
11.Who presided over the Karachi of Bengal on July 6th, 1905?
Session of Indian National Congress [A] Swaraj
where the resolutions on [B] Sanjivani
Fundamental Rights and National [C] Kalantar
Economic Policy were passed? [D] Anandabazar Patrika
[A] Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Correct Answer
[B] Jawahar Lal Nehru [B] Sanjivani
[C] Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Explanation: Sanjivani was started by
[D] Subhash Chandra Bose KK Mitra
Correct Answer 17.In which country Indian
[C] Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Independence Committee was
12.Who founded the association formed during the British Era?
‘Naujawan Bharat Sabha’ to help [A] France
foster revolution against the British [B] UK
Raj by gathering together worker [C] Germany
and peasant youth in 1928? [D] USA
[A] Chandra Shekhar Azad Correct Answer
[B] Surya Sen [C] Germany
[C] Bhagat Singh Explanation: Indian Independence
[D] V.D.Savarkar Committee was also known as the
Correct Answer Berlin committee and was formed in
[C] Bhagat Singh Germany in 1914 during world war I
13.‘New India’ and ‘Commonweal’ news- by Indian students and political
papers were started by : activists. Important activists were Dr.
[A] Madan Mohan Malviya Dhiren Sarkar, Chanji Kersasp, N.S.
[B] S.Subramaniyam Iyer Marathe, Dr.J.N. Dasgupta,
[C] Annie Besant C.Padmanabhan Pillai.
[D] Lala Lajpat Rai 18.In which year, Land Holder’s society
Correct Answer was established in India?
[C] Annie Besant [A] 1806
14.In the tenure of which Governor- [B] 1828
General an attempt was made for the [C] 1838
first time to codify Hindu and Muslim [D] 1850
customary laws? Correct Answer
[A] Lord Cornwallis [C] 1838
[B] Warren Hastings Explanation: In 1838, Land Holder’s
society was founded in Calcutta.
19.Under which among the following [B] Bal Gangadhar Tilak

acts, Civil Services started in India? [C] Mahatma Gandhi
[A] Charter Act 1813 [D] Dadabhai Naoroji
[B] Charter Act 1833 Correct Answer
[C] Charter Act 1853 [A] Raja Rammohan Roy
[D] Charter Act 1793 25.Who among the following gave the
Correct Answer safety valve theory for Indian
[B] Charter Act 1833 National Congress?
Explanation: In 1853, the civil [A] Bal Gangadhar Tilak
services became an open competition [B] Lala Lajpat Rai
however the exams were conducted [C] Bipin Chandra Pal
in London only. [D] MN Roy
20.Which among the following is called Correct Answer
the Magna Carta of English [B] Lala Lajpat Rai
education? Explanation: Lala Lajpat Rai used the
[A] Wood’s Despatch safety valve theory in “Young India” in
[B] Hartog Committee Report 1916 and said that it was a product of
[C] Minute on Indian Education the brain of Lord Dufferin.
[D] None of the above 26.Who among the following was the
Correct Answer first Non-Congress chief minister of
[A] Wood’s Despatch India?
Indian National Movement Notes for [A] Indulal Yagnik
WBCS [B] NG Ranga
21.Who among the following founded [C] EMS Naboodiripad
the Depressed Classes Mission of [D] Shankar Dayal Sharma
India? [C] EMS Naboodiripad
[A] Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar Correct Answer
[B] Vitthal Ramji Shinde [C] EMS Naboodiripad
[C] Annabhau Sathe 27.Which among the following was the
[D] Shantabai Kamble immediate cause of the Quit India
Correct Answer Movement?
[B] Vitthal Ramji Shinde [A] Withdrawal of British from South
22.Who among the following was the East Asia
founder of the Paris Indian Society? [B] Failure of Cripps Mission
[A] S R Rana [C] Failure of August Offer
[B] Bhikaji Kama [D] Arrest of Mahatma Gandhi
[C] Taraknath Correct Answer
[D] Lala Hardayal [B] Failure of Cripps Mission
Correct Answer 28.Who among the following said that
[B] Bhikaji Kama “The Rowlatt Act is a Preventive
23.Which among the following Murder“?
organizations published the journal [A] Mahatma Gandhi
called Indian Sociologists? [B] Lala Lajpat Rai
[A] India House [C] Edwin Samuel Montagu
[B] Ghadar Party [D] Jawahar Lal Nehru
[C] British Indian Association Correct Answer
[D] Berlin Committee [C] Edwin Samuel Montagu
Correct Answer 29.Which among the following cities saw
[A] India House the first instance of Satyagraha in
24.Who among the following is called India?
the father of Nationalism in India? [A] Surat
[A] Raja Rammohan Roy [B] Kheda
[C] Champaran [C] Dr. Bhimrao Amedkar

[D] Ahmedabad [D] Jawahar Lal Nehru
[D] Ahmedabad [B] J B Kriplani
30.Which among the following was the 36.In the name of which among the
First Revolutionary organization of following Mughal emperors, the East
Bengal? India Company struck the first coins
[A] Hindustan Socialist Party in India?
[B] Anushilan Samiti [A] Jahangir
[C] India House [B] Farrukhsiyar
[D] Jugantar Party [C] Muhammad Shah
Correct Answer [D] Jahandar Shah
[B] Anushilan Samiti Correct Answer
31.“NEW LAMPS FOR OLD” was written [B] Farrukhsiyar
by? 37.In which of the following session of
[A] Bipin Chandra Pal Indian National Congress Dadabhai
[B] Aurobindo Ghosh Naoroji was elected president for the
[C] Bal Gangadhar Tilak first time?
[D] Ashwani Kumar [A] Bombay
Correct Answer [B] Calcutta
[B] Aurobindo Ghosh [C] Lucknow
32.Who among these is thought of as a [D] Karachi
Pioneer of Economic Nationalism? Correct Answer
[A] Madan Mohan Malviya [B] Calcutta
[B] R.C. Dutt 38.Who among the following had
[C] Bipin Chandra Pal established a branch of the Muslim
[D] G.K. Gokhale League in London?
Correct Answer [A] Aga Khan
[B] R.C. Dutt [B] Amir Ali
33.In which year, Liaquat–Nehru Pact [C] Mohammad Ali Jinnah
was signed? [D] Chaudhary Liaqat Ali
[B] 1949 [B] Amir Ali
[C] 1950 39.Who among the following had
[D] 1955 translated the famous drama Neel
Correct Answer Darpan in English?
[C] 1950 [A] Madhusudan Datta
34.At which among the following places, [B] Dinabandu Mitra
National Flag was hoisted for the [C] Harish Chandra Mukherjee
First time in India? [D] Sisir Kumar Ghose
[A] Lucknow Correct Answer
[B] Nagpur [A] Madhusudan Datta
[C] Kolkata 40.Which among the following
[D] Delhi organizations was established and
Correct Answer led by Latika Ghosh, during the
[C] Kolkata freedom struggle of India?
35.Who among the following was the [A] Mahila Rashtriya Sangha
President of the Indian National [B] Rashtriya Stree Sabha
Congress at the time of [C] Nari Satyagraha Samiti
Independence? [D] Women’s association of Bengal
[A] Dr. Rajendra Prasad Correct Answer
[B] J B Kriplani [A] Mahila Rashtriya Sangha
Indian National Movement Notes for [C] Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

WBCS [D] Ganga Kishore Bhattacharya
41.Who committed the most daring Correct Answer
murder of Sir Curzon Wyllie in 1907 [A] Raja Rammohan Roy
in a public meeting in London? 47.Who among the following brought
[A] B.N. Dutta the first Printing Machine in India?
[B] M.L. Dhingra [A] Portuguese
[C] Sardar Ajit Singh [B] French
[D] S.C. Chatterjee [C] Dutch
Correct Answer [D] British
[B] M.L. Dhingra Correct Answer
42.Who among the following repealed [A] Portuguese
the Vernacular Press Act? 48.Which among the following was the
[A] Lord Lytton apex court in India during the British
[B] Lord Ripon Era?
[C] Lord Dufferin [A] Federal Court
[D] Lord Lansdowne [B] Presidency Supreme Court
Correct Answer [C] Privy Council
[B] Lord Ripon [D] Supreme Court of England
43.In which year, Submarine Telegraphy Correct Answer
System was opened between India [C] Privy Council
and Europe? 49.Which of the following Sikh Guru is
[A] 1860 known to have completed the
[B] 1862 Harmandir Sahib?
[C] 1865 [A] Guru Arjun Dev
[D] 1880 [B] Guru Ram Das
Correct Answer [C] Guru Har Gobind
[C] 1865 [D] Guru Amar Das
44.In which of the following sessions, the Correct Answer
concession was given by congress to [A] Guru Arjun Dev
the Muslim League in acceptance of 50.Who among the following formed the
separate electorates in 1916? group” Brothers of India”?
[A] Calcutta [A] Annie Besant
[B] Lucknow [B] George Feuerstein
[C] Allahabad [C] H.S. Olcott
[D] Lahore [D] Alan Watts
[B] Lucknow [A] Annie Besant
45.After the failure of which among the
following movements, the Swaraj
Party was formed?
[A] Quit India Movement
[B] Non-cooperation Movement
[C] Civil disobedience Movement
[D] Swadeshi Movement
Correct Answer
[B] Non-cooperation Movement
46.Who among the following published
leaders Sambad Kaumudi”?
[A] Raja Rammohan Roy
[B] Dayanand Saraswati
51.In which of the following countries was passed in 1878 by Lord Lytton.
“Subhash Chandra Bose” organized According to this Act,
the” Tiger Legion”? the vernacular or the
[A] Singapore local newspapers could not print any
[B] Germany material or information that could
[C] Japan incite people against British rule.
[D] Italy 57.When the East India Company came
Correct Answer into existence, England was ruled by
[B] Germany the_________.
52.The Treaty of Surat was in the year [A] Hanoverians
_________. [B] Stuarts
[A] 1475 [C] Normans
[B] 1575 [D] Tudors
[D] 1775 [B] Stuarts
Correct Answer 58.Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati was
[D] 1775 an important Hindu religious scholar,
53.Under the Government of India reformer, and founder of the
_________, the British Crown assumed _________.
direct administration of India in the [A] Arya Samaj
new British Raj. [B] Brahma Samaj
[A] Act of 1658 [C] Ramakrishna Mission
[B] Act of 1758 [D] Theosophical society
[C] Act of 1858 Correct Answer
[D] Act of 1947 [A] Arya Samaj
Correct Answer 59.Who founded India House in London
[C] Act of 1858 and guided other revolutionaries.
54.The policy of the Doctrine of lapse [A] Sri Aurobindo
was introduced by _________. [B] Lokmanya Tilak
[A] Lord Wellesley [C] Shyamji Krishna Varma
[B] Lord William Bentinck [D] Bhagat Singh
[C] Lord Macaulay Correct Answer
[D] Lord Dalhousie [C] Shyamji Krishna Varma
Correct Answer 60.Satyarth Prakash was written by
[D] Lord Dalhousie _________.
55.The Indian National Congress was [A] Lala Lajpat Rai
formed _________. [B] Lala Hardyal
[A] 1885 [C] Dayanand Saraswati
[B] 1887 [D] Raja Ram Mohan Roy
[D] 1895 [C] Dayanand Saraswati
Correct Answer Indian National Movement Notes for
[A] 1885 WBCS
56.The Vernacular Press Act was passed 61.In ______, Jyotiba Phule formed the
in _________. Satya Shodhak Samaj (Society of
[A] 1878 Seekers of Truth).
[B] 1881 [A] 1773
[C] 1888 [B] 1853
[D] 1898 [C] 1873
Explanation: Vernacular Press Act [C] 1873
62.Who founded as Mohammedan [C] Prasanna Kumar Tagore

Anglo-Oriental College (MAOC) at [D] Rajkamal Sen
Aligarh in 1875? Correct Answer
[A] Sir Saiyad Ahmed Khan [A] Annie Besant
[B] Mirza Mohammad 67.Who started the Young Men’s Indian
[C] Maulana Qasim Nanotvi Association in 1914?
[D] Maulana Abdullah Ansari [A] Annie Besant
Correct Answer [B] Swarnakumari Devi
[A] Sir Saiyad Ahmed Khan [C] Devendranath Tagore
63.In India, the Wahabi movement was [D] Rabindranath Tagore
started by_________. Correct Answer
[A] Syed Ahmed of Rai Bareilly [A] Annie Besant
[B] ViIayet Ali 68.Who started the Sharda Sadan in
[C] Mohammad Ali Bombay?
[D] Jahan Dad Khan [A] Ramabai Saraswati
Correct Answer [B] Sarala Devi Chaudhurani
[A] Syed Ahmed of Rai Bareilly [C] Lord Edwin Montague
64.Whose speeches at the World’s [D] Dorothy Jinarajadasa
Parliament of Religions held in Correct Answer
September 1893 made him famous [A] Ramabai Saraswati
as an ‘orator by divine right’ and as a 69._________ formed the Arya Mahila
‘Messenger of Indian wisdom to the Samaj in Pune?
Western world’. [A] Ramabai Saraswati
[A] Swami Vivekananda [B] Swarnakumari Devi
[B] Sri Ramakrishna [C] Lord Chelmsford
[C] Chandra Sekhar Deb [D] Annie Besant
[D] Shyama Charan Sen Correct Answer
Correct Answer [A] Ramabai Saraswati
[A] Swami Vivekananda 70.Author of Poverty and Un-British
65.The Theosophical Society is an Rule in India is_________.
organization formed in _________ to [A] Romila Thapar
advance the spiritual principles and [B] Irfan Habib
search for Truth known as [C] S.C.Ghosh
Theosophy. [D] Naoroji Dadabhai
[B] 1843 [D] Dadabhai Naoroji
[C] 1845 71.Who is the author of ‘Social
[D] 1875 Background of Indian Nationalism’?
Correct Answer [A] Akshay Ramanlal Desai
[D] 1875 [B] Dharam Kumar
Explanation: The Theosophical [C] Ray Chaudhuri
Society was officially formed in New [D] K.Rajayyan
York City, United States, on 17 Correct Answer
November 1875 by Helena Petrovna [A] Akshay Ramanlal Desai
Blavatsky, Colonel Henry Steel 72.Who was the first Viceroy of India?
Olcott, William Quan Judge, and [A] Robert Clive
others. [B] William Bentick
66.’A Study in Consciousness’ was [C] Lord Dalhousie
written by _________. [D] Lord Canning
[A] Annie Besant Correct Answer
[B] Mrinal Gore [D] Lord Canning
73.Who was the first Governor-General [C] 1906

of India? Explanation: Founder: Nawab Khwaja
[A] Warren Hastings Salimullah
[B] William Bentinck 78.The Ganapati festival was started in
[C] Lord Dalhousie _______.
[D] Lord Canning [A] 1792
[B] William Bentinck [C] 1893
74.Who of the following Governor [D] 1904
Generals is associated with the Correct Answer
Subsidiary Alliance System? [C] 1893
[A] Lord Cornwallis 79.The inauguration of the Ganapati and
[B] Lord Wellesley Shivaji Festivals was done by _________
[C] Lord Mayo [A] Tilak
[D] Lord Dalhousie [B] Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya
Correct Answer [C] Shyamaprasad Mukherjee
[B] Lord Wellesley [D] J.N. Mukherjee
75.Who preached the idea of Home Rule Correct Answer
through his two newspapers – the [A] Tilak
Kesari and the Maratha? 80.The partition of Bengal had to be
[A] Gokhale annulled in _________
[B] Annie Besant [A] 1907
[C] Tilak [B] 1911
[D] Jawaharlal Nehru [C] 1928
[C] Tilak Correct Answer
Explanation: Tilak started two [B] 1911
weeklies, Kesari (“The Lion”) Indian National Movement Notes for
in Marathi and Mahratta in English WBCS
(sometimes referred as ‘Maratha‘ in 81._________ is remembered as the ‘Grand
Academic Study Books) in 1880–81 old man of India’.
with Gopal Ganesh Agarkar as the [A] Ranade
first editor [B] Dadabhai Naoroji
76.Hindu Mahasabha was founded in [C] Pulinbehari Sarkar
_________. [D] Amaresh Chakravarty
[B] 1906 [B] Dadabhai Naoroji
[C] 1915
[D] 1925
Correct Answer
[C] 1915
Explanation: Founder: Madan Mohan
Malaviya
77.Muslim League established in
December _________.
[A] 1901
[B] 1902
[C] 1906
[D] 1946
Correct Answer
82.Who edited the journal of Poona Correct Answer

Sarvajanik Sabha? [B] Orissa
[A] Gokhale 87.In Bengal, the headquarters of East
[B] W.C.Banerjee India Company was located at
[C] Ranade [A] Fort St David
[D] S.N.Banerjee [B] Fort William
Correct Answer [C] Fort St George
[A] Gokhale [D] None of the above
Explanation: After graduation in Correct Answer
1884, Gokhale joined the Deccan [B] Fort William
Educational Society founded by 88.Goa was captured by the Portuguese
Ranade. He served the society for in-
twenty years in various capacities as a [A] 1479 AD
schoolmaster, a professor, and [B] 1575 AD
principal of Fergusson College, Poona. [C] 1510 AD
He also edited the quarterly journal of [D] 1600 AD
the Poona Sarvajanik Sabha. Correct Answer
83.The partition of Bengal was occurred [C] 1510 AD
in _________. 89.The First Governor-General of Bengal
[A] 1804 was
[B] 1805 [A] Robert Clive
[C] 1904 [B] William Bentinck
[D] 1905 [C] Wellesley
Correct Answer [D] Warren Hastings
Explanation: The partition [D] Warren Hastings
separated the largely Muslim eastern 90.Sati was declared illegal and
areas from the largely Hindu western punishable by
areas on 16 October 1905 after being [A] Lord William Bentinck
announced on 19 July 1905 by the [B] Lord Ripon
Viceroy of India, Curzon. [C] Lord Canning
84.The Mohamedan Association was [D] Lord Dalhousie
founded in _________ in 1856. Correct Answer
[A] Calcutta [A] Lord William Bentinck
[B] Adayar 91.The first session of the All India
[C] Madras Congress held in Bombay in 1920,
[D] Maharashtra was presided over by
Correct Answer [A] J L Nehru
[A] Calcutta [B] VV Giri
85.The Hindu Pioneer started in _________ [C] Lala Lajpat Rai
[A] 1827 [D] MM Joshi
[C] 1834 [C] Lala Lajpat Rai
[D] 1838 92.Who founded Ferguson College at
Correct Answer Pune in 1885
[D] 1838 [A] Deccan Educational Society
86.Where did the British first open their [B] Bharatiya Sewak Samaj
factories in the Eastern part of India? [C] Samaj Sewa Sangh
[A] Assam [D] Theosophical Society
[B] Orissa Correct Answer
[C] Bihar [A] Deccan Educational Society
[D] Sikkim
93.First English newspaper in India Correct Answer

[A] The Bengal Gazette [C] Surendranath Banerjee
[B] The Calcutta Gazette 100.The first Indian leader to undergo
[C] The Bengal Journal imprisonment was
[D] The Bombay Herald [A] C Vijaraghavachari
Correct Answer [B] B G Tilak
[A] The Bengal Gazette [C] Bipin Chandra Pal
94.Who wrote the book “Babuvivah”? [D] Dadabhai Nauroji
[A] Raja Rammohan Rai Correct Answer
[B] Pandit Rambai [A] C Vijaraghavachari
[C] Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
[D] Rabindranath Tagore Part III
Correct Answer
[C] Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar 1. Mangal Pandey was a sepoy at
95.Who first translated Bhagavad Gita [A] 34th Bengal Native Infantry
to English [B] Madras Light Cavalry
[A] William Jones [C] 5th Royal Gurkha Rifle
[B] Charles Wilkins [D] None of the above
[C] Alexander Cunningham Correct Answer
[D] John Marshall [A] 34th Bengal Native Infantry
Correct Answer 2. Which one is the first fort
[B] Charles Wilkins constructed by the British in India
96.Who was the Governor-General [A] Fort William
when the first census was held? [B] Fort St George
[A] Lord Mayo [C] Fort St Angelo
[B] Lord Lytton [D] Fort St David
[C] Lord Auckland Correct Answer
[D] Sir John Napier [B] Fort St George
Correct Answer 3. The second battle of Panipat, 1556
[A] Lord Mayo fought between
97.Who was the Viceroy of India when [A] Babur and Lodi
the Rowlatt Act was Passed [B] Maratha and Durrani
[A] Lord Irwin [C] Akbar and Hemu
[B] Lord Reading [D] Mughal and British
[C] Lord Chelmsford Correct Answer
[D] Lord Wavell [C] Akbar and Hemu
Correct Answer 4. Who wrote the biography of Akbar –
[C] Lord Chelmsford “Akbarnama” (Book of Akbar)
98.Who introduce English as an official [A] Abul Fazl
language [B] Shaikh Mubarak
[A] Lord William Bentinck [C] Abd al-Qadir Bada’uni
[B] Sir Charles Wood [D] Abdul Hamid Lahori
[C] Dalhousie Correct Answer
[D] Allan Octavian Hume [A] Abul Fazl
Correct Answer 5. Vande Matram was first sung at the
[B] Sir Charles Wood session of the Indian National
99.Who was the founder of the Indian Congress im
Association [A] 1896
[A] Dadabhai Naoroji [B] 1892
[B] Bal Gangadhar Tilak [C] 1886
[C] Surendranath Banerjee [D] 1947
[D] AO Hume Correct Answer [A] 1896
6. The first Muslim to be elected 11. Who had said, “Let’s go back to the
President of the Indian National Vedas?
Congress was [A] Vivekananda
[A] Abul Kalam Azad [B] Dayanand Saraswati
[B] R.[A]Kidwai [C] Ram Mohan Roy
[C] Badruddin Tyabji [D] Ramakrishna Paramhansa
[D] Mohammad Ali Correct Answer
Correct Answer [B] Dayanand Saraswati
[C] Badruddin Tyabji 12. In which year, the first census was
7. Who amongst the following was the conducted in India?
first woman President of the Indian [A] 1884
National Congress? [B] 1872
[A] Annie Besant [C] 1881
[B] Mira Behn [D] 1856
[C] Sarojini Naidu Correct Answer
[D] Kasturba Gandhi [B] 1872
Correct Answer 13. In which region freedom movement
[A] Annie Besant of India started at earliest?
8. The viceroy who invited the [A] Punjab
delegates of the Indian National [B] Maharashtra
Congress to a garden Party in 1886 [C] Bengal
was: [D] Gujrat
[A] Lord Canning Correct Answer
[B] Lord Mayo [C] Bengal
[C] Lord Liton 14. The zamindars of India were found
[D] Lord Dufferin generally:
Correct Answer [A] helpful towards the freedom
[D] Lord Dufferin movement
9. Which one of the following was the [B] against the freedom movement
most immediate factor for the spread [C] indifferent towards the freedom
of Swadeshi? movement
[A] Curzon’s attempt to control the [D] None of these
universities Correct Answer
[B] Curzon’s design to curtail the [B] against freedom movement
sphere of local self-government 15. Which had the highest effect on the
[C] Curzon’s partition of Bengal freedom movement in India?
[D] Curzon’s plan to curb the growing [A] Economic exploitation
popularity of the Indian National [B] Political oppression
Congress [C] transportation development
Correct Answer [D] expansion of education
[C] Curzon’s partition of Bengal Correct Answer
10. The political methods of the [D] expansion of education
moderates can be summed up as 16. Raja Ram Mohan Roy wrote a book
[A] extra-parliamentary means on ‘Monotheism’ in:
[B] constitutional agitation within the [A] English
four walls of the law [B] Bengali
[C] petitions [C] Persian
[D] resolutions and speeches [D] Sanskrit
[B] constitutional agitation within the [C] Persian
four walls of the law 17. During the period of Sepoy Mutiny,
Nana Sahib declared himself as the
Peshwa of: [B] 1906 AD

[A] Nagpur [C] 1909 AD
[B] Gwalior [D] None of these
[C] Kanpur Correct Answer
[D] None [A] 1902 AD
Correct Answer 24. On which day of 1908 AD, Khudiram
[C] Kanpur Basu was hanged to death in
18. The Indian National Trade Union Muzaffarpur jail?
Congress (INTUC) was organized by: [A] 30th April
[A] Mahatma Gandhi [B] 16th May
[B] Sardar Vallabhai Patel [C] 17th June
[C] Motilal Nehru [D] 11th August
[D] None of these Correct Answer
Correct Answer [D] 11th August
[B] Sardar Vallabhai Patel 25. Rash Bihari Bose bombed towards
19. Which one of the following district Lord Hardinge in 1912 AD when he
was mainly associated with the was serving as a Forest Research
‘Chuar’ rebellion? Officer in:
[A] Burdwan [A] Delhi
[B] Murshidabad [B] Lucknow
[C] Midnapore [C] Dehradun
[D] None of these [D] None of these
[C] Midnapore [C] Dehradun
20. Who criticized Congress Conference 26. Hindustan Republic Association was
as ‘Circus for three days’? organized in 1912 by:
[A] Lord Curzon [A] Jogesh Chandra Chatterjee
[B] Lala Lajpat Rai [B] Chandra Sekhar Azad
[C] Ashwini Kumar Dutta [C] Basant Biswas
[D] Subhas Bose [D] None of these
[C] Ashwini Kumar Dutta [B] Chandra Sekhar Azad
21. Badruddin Tayabjee was chosen as
the third President of Indian
National Congress in Conference
held in 1887 in
[A] Allahabad
[B] Lucknow
[C] Madras
[D] Pune
Correct Answer
[C] Madras
22. ‘Dawn Society’ was established by:
[A] Aurobindo Ghosh
[B] Rashbehari Ghosh
[C] Satish Chandra Mukherjee
[D] None of these
Correct Answer
[C] Satish Chandra Mukherjee 27. Who organized the Communist Party
23. In which year Satish Chandra Basu of India in Tashkent of the Soviet
organized ‘Anusilan Samity’? Union?
[A] 1902 AD [A] Manabendranath Roy
[B] Sripad Amrit Dange
[C] P. C. Joshi [B] G. V. Joshi

[D] None of these [C] Ram Mohan Roy
Correct Answer [D] None of these
[A] Manabendranath Roy Correct Answer
28. Who was theChief of British ruler of [A] R. C. Dutta
India when the First War of Indian 34. During the British rule the foreign
Independence or Sepoy Mutiny trade of India remained :
happened in India? [A] Balanced
[A] Lord Dalhousie [B] Favourable
[B] Lord Canning [C] Unfavourable
[C] Lord Elgin [D] None of these
Correct Answer [B] Favourable
[B] Lord Canning 35. During British rule India used to have
29. In which year Subhas Bose had to more export in relation to import to
resign the post of Congress President have trade surplus to be invested in :
after being elected? [A] India
[A] 1937 [B] England
[B] 1938 [C] Wars
[C] 1939 [D] None of these
Correct Answer [B] England
[C] 1939 36. During the period of British rule in
30. In which region freedom movement India the cottage industries of India
of India started at earliest? began to face closure for :
[A] Punjab [A] Shortage of demand in India
[B] Maharasthra [B] import of cheap machine-made
[C] Bengal Items
[D] Gujrat [C] forcible closure of industries by
Correct Answer British rulers
[C] Bengal [D] None of these
31. Which one helped towards the Correct Answer
launch of the First War of Indian [B] import of cheap machine-made
independence in 1857? Items
[A] Zamindary system 37. The zamindars of India were found
[B] Subsidiary alliance generally :
[C] Doctrine of lapse [A] helpful towards the freedom
[D] None of these movement
Correct Answer [B] against the freedom movement
[C] Doctrine of lapse [C] indifferent towards the freedom
32. ‘Poverty and Un-British Rule in India’ movement
was authored by : [D] None of these
[A] R. C. Dutta Correct Answer
[B] G. V. Joshi [B] against freedom movement
[C] Ram Mohan Roy 38. Sir Hyde East, who was a pioneer of
[D] None of these expansion of education in India, was :
Correct Answer [A] Chancellor of Calcutta University
[A] R. C. Dutta [B] Chief Justice of the Supreme
33. The Pioneer of ‘Drain Theory’ who Court
authored Economic History of India, [C] Education Secretary of British
was : India
[A] R. C. Dutta [D] None of these
Correct Answer [C] Indian Association

[B] Chief Justice of the Supreme [D] Indian National Congress
Court Correct Answer
39. Which one has not been correctly [D] Indian National Congress
matched regarding the year of the 45. During the period of the ‘Sepoy
establishment? Mutiny’ around what percentage of
[A] Sanskrit College : 1823 the members of Armed forces under
[B] Roorkee Engineering College : the British rulers of India were of
1849 European origin?
[C] Presidency college : 1853 [A] 20
[D] Calcutta University : 1865 [B] 30
Correct Answer [C] 40
[D] Calcutta University : 1865 [D] 50
40. Which had the highest effect on Correct Answer
freedom movement in India? [A] 20
[A] Economic exploitation 46. In a day of which month in 1857 AD
[B] Political oppression Mangal Pande revolted at
[C] transportation development Barrackpore?
[D] expansion of education [A] February
Correct Answer [B] March
[D] expansion of education [C] June
41. Who used to publish ‘Sambad [D] None
Kaumudi’? Correct Answer
[A] Ram Mohan Roy [B] March
[B] Iswar Chandra Vidya Sagar 47. During the period of Sepoy Mutiny,
[C] Dwaraka Nath Tagore Nana Sahib declared himself as the
[D] None of these Peshwa of :
Correct Answer [A] Nagpur
[A] Ram Mohan Roy [B] Gwalior
42. Raja Ram Mohan Roy wrote a book [C] Kanpur
on ‘Monotheism’ in : [D] None
[A] English Correct Answer
[B] Bengali [C] Kanpur
[C] Persian 48. Who described Lakshmi Bai of Jhansi
[D] Sanskrit as the ‘best and bravest’ of the
Correct Answer rebels?
[C] Persian [A] Sir Henry Lawrence
43. Which one is not true about the life [B] Sir Hugh Rose
of Raja Ram Mohan Roy [C] R. C. Majumder
[A] He served under British rulers [D] None of these
[B] He established Vedanta College Correct Answer
[C] He was against the philosophy [B] Sir Hugh Rose
Vedas 49. Sepoy Mutiny activist who was
[D] He died at Bristol of England caught and executed was :
Correct Answer [A] Nana Saheb
[C] He was against the philosophy [B] Kunwar Singh
Vedas [C] Tantia Tope
44. Which one of the following [D] Lakshmi Bai
associations were not set up in Correct Answer
Calcutta/Kolkata? [C] Tantia Tope
[A] Zamindary Association 50. Who authored ‘War of Indian
[B] British India Association Independence of 1857’?
[A] V. D. Savarkar National in Making

[B] Dababhai Nauroji [C] Deena Bandhu Mitra: Neel Darpan
[C] Subhas Chandra Bose [D] Michael Madhusudhan Dutta:
[D] None of these Sitaram
[A] V. D. Savarkar [D] Michael Madhusudhan Dutta:
51. Permanent Settlement adversely Sitaram
affected the interest of the : 57. The first Bengali weekly ‘Samachar
[A] Zaminders Darpan’ was started in 1818 from :
[B] businessmen [A] Calcutta
[C] tenants [B] Serampore
[D] None of these [C] Howrah
[C] tenants Correct Answer
52. The Sir William Hunter Commission [B] Serampore
to enquire about educational system 58. Margaret Nobel, popularly known as
was set up in 1882 by : Sister Nivedita, was off:
[A] Lord Ripon [A] English origin
[B] Lord Lytton [B] Irish origin
[C] Lord Mayo [C] French origin
[D] None of these [D] American origin
[A] Lord Ripon [B] Irish origin
53. The Prarthana Samaj was established 59. Which one has not been correctly
by Keshab Chandra Sen in 1867 in : matched?
[A] Calcutta [A] Atmiya Sabha: Rammohan Roy
[B] Allahabad [B] Satya Shondhak Samaj: Jyotirao
[C] Bombay Govindrao Phule
[D] None of these [C] Samaj Samata Sangh: B. R.
Correct Answer Ambedkar
[C] Bombay [D] Tatvabodhini Sabha: Dwaraka
54. The ‘Suddhi’ program was introduced Nath Tagore
by: Correct Answer
[A] Swami Sraddhananda [D] Tatvabodhini Sabha: Dwaraka
[B] Dayanand Saraswati Nath Tagore
[C] Lala Lajpat Rai
[D] None of these
Correct Answer
[B] Dayanand Saraswati
55. Indians had a higher sense of
nationalism from :
[A] American freedom Movement
[B] French Revolution
[C] Russian Revolution
[D] all of these
Correct Answer
[A] American freedom Movement
56. Which one has not been correctly
matched?
[A] Dayanand Saraswati: Satartha
Prakash
[B] Surendranath Banerjee: A
60. The book ‘Taufat-ul-Muwahidin’ or [D] Bardoloi Satyagraha : 1929

‘A Gift to Monotheists’ was authored 66. Which one was not an aspect of the
by : Gandhi-Irwin Pact of 1931?
[A] Rammohan Roy [A] Withdrawal of civil Disobedience
[B] Abul Kalam Azad Movement launched by Gandhiji in
[C] M.G.Ranade 1930
[D] None of these [B] Participation of the Congress
Correct Answer Party in the Second Round Table
[A] Rammohan Roy Conference
61. Satyashodhak Samaj was set up for [C] Release of all Satyagrahi prisoners
the upliftment of the conditions of : by the British rulers
[A] Peasants [D] Decision to accord ‘Dominion’
[B] workers status for India
[C] Lower caste people Correct Answer
[D] None of these [D] Decision to accord ‘Dominion’
Correct Answer status for India
[C] Lower caste people 67. Gandhi-Irwin Pact was signed in
62. A Congress Committee led by Motilal March 1931 and Gandhiji attended
Nehru demand ‘Dominion’ Status for the Second Round Table Conference
India in 1928 during the reign of : in London in 1931 starting in :
[A] Lord Chelmsford [A] September
[B] Lord Irwin [B] October
[C] Lord Linlithgow [C] November
[D] None of these [D] December
[B] Lord Irwin [A] September
63. Which colony of Britain was not 68. Gandhiji was arrested and sent to
enjoying Dominion status when Yervada prison of Poona in 1932
Congress leaders of India was willing during the reign of :
to have this Status? [A] Lord Irwin
[A] Canada [B] Lord Willingdon
[B] Australia [C] Lord Linlithgow
[C] New Zealand [D] None of these
[D] Nigeria Correct Answer
Correct Answer [B] Lord Willingdon
[D] Nigeria
64. Indian leader who attended all the
three Round Table Conferences held
in London was :
[A] M. K. Gandhi
[B] B. R. Ambedkar
[C] Sarojini Naidu
[D] None of these
Correct Answer
[B] B. R. Ambedkar
65. Which one has not been correctly
matched?
[A] Champaran Satyagraha :1917
[B] Kaira or Kheda Satyagraha : 1918
[C] Moplah Rebellion : 1921
[D] Bardoloi Satyagraha : 1929
Correct Answer
69. In August 1928 an all-party [C] Haripura

Conference was arranged in : [D] None of these
[A] Lahore Correct Answer
[B] Allahabad [A] Tripuri
[C] Lucknow 75. Lord Wavell arranged an all-party
[D] Bombay conference in 1945 at :
Correct Answer [A] Poona
[C] Lucknow [B] Lucknow
70. British Prime Minister Mr. Ramsay [C] Shimla
Macdonald announced Communal [D] None of these
Award in : Correct Answer
[A] 1931 [C] Shimla
[B] 1932 76. The Congress adopted the ‘Quit India
[C] 1933 Movement’ resolution after the
[D] None of these arrival :
Correct Answer [A] Simon Commission
[B] 1932 [B] Cripps Mission
71. On the basis of the Government of [C] Cabinet Mission
Indian Act of 1935, Congress [D] None of these
Ministries were formed in the Correct Answer
majority of Indian provinces in: [B] Cripps Mission
[A] 1936 77. In which year the Provincial
[B] 1937 Congress Ministries resigned and the
[C] 1938 Muslim League observed
[D] None of these ‘Deliverance Day’?
[B] 1937 [B] 1940
72. Poona Pact was signed in 1932 [C] 1941
mainly between Gandhiji and : [D] None of these
[A] Mohammed Ali Jinnah Correct Answer
[B] Lord Willingdon [B] 1940
[C] B. R. Ambedkar 78. Who was not associated as a member
[D] None of these of the Cabinet Mission?
Correct Answer [A] Sir Stafford Cripps
[C] B. R. Ambedkar [B] A. V. Alexander
73. In 1938 Subhas Chandra Bose was [C] Lord Pethick Lawrence
chosen as the President of All India [D] Lord Chelmsford
Congress in Congress session held at Correct Answer
: [D] Lord Chelmsford
[A] Lucknow 79. When the Cabinet Mission came to
[B] Haripura India from London then Chief of the
[C] Tripura British rulers of India was :
[D] None of these [A] Lord Wavell
Correct Answer [B] Lord Linlithgow
[B] Haripura [C] Lord Mountbatten
74. Pattabhi Sitaramayya was defeated [D] None of these
by Subhas Chandra Bose for the post Correct Answer
of the Congress President in [A] Lord Wavell
Conference held in: 80. Rajaji Formula put forward by C.
[A] Tripuri Rajagopalachari was in :
[B] Calcutta [A] 1943
[B] 1944
[C] 1945 86. The Bardoli Satyagraha held in 1928

[D] None of these against the increase of land tax rate
Correct Answer by :
[B] 1944 [A] 15%
81. Which one has not been correctly [B] 22%
matched [C] 26%
[A] Debendranath Tagore set up [D] 30%
Tatvabodhini Sabha Correct Answer
[B] The pioneer of the young Bengal [B] 22%
Movement was Henry Vivian Derozio 87. Which one has not been correctly
[C] Adi Brahmo Samaj was organized matched?
by Keshab Chandra Sen [A] Kesari: B. G. Tilak
[D] The pioneer of the Aligarh [B] Voice of India: Dadabhai Nouroji
Movement was Sir Syed Ahmed [C] Bengalee: S. N. Banerjee
Correct Answer [D] Indian Mirror: G. K. Gokhale
[C] Adi Brahmo Samaj was organized Correct Answer
by Keshab Chandra Sen [D] Indian Mirror: G. K. Gokhale
82. In which year the Deccan Peasant 88. Who, among the following served in
uprising happened mainly in the post of the Congress President?
Maharashtra? [A] Allen Octavian Hume
[A] 1875 [B] Bal Gangadhar Tilak
[B] 1895 [C] Ramesh Chandra Dutta
Correct Answer [C] Ramesh Chandra Dutta
[A] 1875 89. Shimla Conference organized by
83. Who was the President of the first Lord Minto was arranged in :
All India Kishan Sabha at Lucknow in [A] 1906
1936? [B] 1907
[A] N. G. Ranga [C] 1908
[B] Gauri Shankar Mishra [D] None of these
[C] Swami Sahajanand Correct Answer
[D] None of these [A] 1906
Correct Answer 90. Though the Muslim League was
[C] Swami Sahajanand organized in Dhaka in 1906 the
84. The first newspaper of India ‘The activities of this organization were
Bengal Gazette’ by James Augusts mainly in the areas of :
Hickey had the first publication in : [A] Maharashtra
[A] 1780 [B] Delhi
[B] 1795 [C] Calcutta
[C] 1815 [D] Uttar Pradesh
Correct Answer [D] Uttar Pradesh
[A] 1780 91. Which one is not true about Ms.
85. Who started the publication of Annie Besant?
‘Mirat-ul-Akbar’? [A] She organized the Theosophical
[A] Raja Rammohan Roy Society
[B] Sir Syed Ahmed [B] She organized ‘Home Rule League’
[C] Mazhar-ul-Huq in Madras
[D] None of these [C] She was elected the first women
Correct Answer Congress President in 1917 AD
[A] Raja Rammohan Roy
[D] She was associated with the Non- [C] Bareilly

Cooperation Movement [D] None of these
[D] She was associated with the Non- [A] Lucknow
Cooperation Movement 98. Who stated, “Political freedom is the
92. The Indian National Trade Union breath of a nation”?
Congress (INTUC) was organized by : [A] B. G. Tilak
[A] Mahatma Gandhi [B] Aurobindo Ghosh
[B] Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel [C] Swami Vivekananda
[C] Motilal Nehru [D] None of these
Correct Answer [B] Aurobindo Ghosh
[B] Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel 99. Which one was not organized by V.
93. Who led the formation of the Radical D. Savarkar?
Democratic Party? [A] Mitra Mela
[A] M. N. Roy [B] Abhinav Bharat
[B] Lala Lajpat Rai [C] Yugantar
[C] N. M. Joshi [D] None of these
Correct Answer [C] Yugantar
[A] M. N. Roy 100. The ‘Ghadar Party’ was
94. Which one of the following districts organized in the USA but its
were mainly associated with ‘Chuar’ activities led by Lala Hardyal used to
rebellion? be operated from :
[A] Burdwan [A] Tokyo
[B] Murshdabad [B] Singapore
[C] Midnapore [C] Berlin
[D] None of these [D] Paris
[C] Midnapore [C] Berlin
95. Sidhu and Kanhu were associated
with : Part IV
[A] Ho rebellion
[B] Santal rebellion 1. In which session of the Congress
[C] Sanyasi rebellion Party held in Surat the Congress
[D] None of these became divided into two groups?
Correct Answer [A] 21st
[B] Santal rebellion [B] 22nd
96. Farazi rebellion led by Haji [C] 23rd
Shariatullah happened mainly in the [D] 24th
district of : Correct Answer
[A] Dhaka [C] 23rd
[B] Chittagong 2. Bal Gangadhar Tilak organized
[C] Malda ‘Home Rule League’ at :
[D] Faridpur [A] Mumbai
Correct Answer [B] Poona
[D] Faridpur [C] Delhi
97. Begam Hazrat Mahal was an [D] None of these
important leader of Sepoy Mutiny in : Correct Answer
[A] Lucknow [B] Poona
[B] Kanpur 3. Which is not true about Lucknow
Session of Congress in 1916 :
[A] Moderates and Extremist resolved [D] Vernacular Press Act was
their differences in this session imposed in 1888
[B] The Congress and the Muslim 8. The first Jute mill was set up in 1855
League signed Lucknow Pact after the by George Auckland in :
session [A] Howrah
[C] B. G. Tilak and Annie Beasant [B] Rishra
emerged as important figures of [C] Naihati
Congress party [D] None of these
[D] This session demanded ‘Dominion Correct Answer
Status’ for India [B] Rishra
Correct Answer 9. Jamsedji Tata established Tata Iron
[D] This session demanded ‘Dominion and Steel Company (TISCO) in :
Status’ for India [A] 1905
4. Who was the first Indian to qualify in [B] 1906
the Indian Civil Service Exam held in [C] 1907
London? [D] None of these
[A] Satyendra Nath Tagore Correct Answer
[B] B. L. Gupta [C] 1907
[C] Subhas Chandra Bose 10. Who was the Chief of National
[D] None of these Council of Education formed In 1906
Correct Answer AD?
[A] Satyendra Nath Tagore [A] Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee
5. In which year the Civil Service [B] Sir Gurudas Banerjee
Examination was held simul- [C] Aurobindo Ghosh
taneously in England and India for [D] None of these
the first time? Correct Answer
[A] 1920 [C] Aurobindo Ghosh
[B] 1922 11. With which news magazine Keshab
[C] 1924 Sen was not associated?
[D] None of these [A] Sulabh Samachar
Correct Answer [B] Balak Bandhu
[B] 1922 [C] Naba Bidhan
6. Jallianwala Bagh massacre happened [D] None of these
in Amritsar in 1919 on : Correct Answer
[A] 6th April [C] Naba Bidhan
[B] 9th April
[C] 13th April
[D] 17th April
Correct Answer
[C] 13th April
7. Which one of the following has not
been correctly matched?
[A] ‘Anandmath’ of Bamkim Chandra
was published in 1882
[B] Swami Vivekananda delivered a
lecture at Chicago in 1893
[C] Dramatic Performance Control
Act was imposed in 1876
[D] Vernacular Press Act was imposed
in 1888
Correct Answer
12. Hindu College set up in 1817 AD [A] Swami Dayanand

became known as Presidency [B] Swami Vivekananda
College in : [C] Swami Sahajanand
[A] 1845 [D] None of these
[C] 1865 [B] Swami Vivekananda
[D] None of these 19. Which book was not authored by
Correct Answer Swami Vivekananda?
[B] 1853 [A] Rajyoga
13. In which year Ramkrishna Mission [B] Jnanyoga
was set up by Swami Vivekananda? [C] Paribrajak
[A] 1895 [D] Bharat Pathik
[C] 1897 [D] Bharat Pathik
[D] 1898 20. Swami Vivekananda died in 1902 AD
Correct Answer at an age of around :
[C] 1897 [A] 45 years
14. The book ‘Indian Renaissance’ was [B] 43 years
authored by : [C] 41 years
[A] Swami Vivekananda [D] 39 years
[B] M. G. Ranade Correct Answer
[C] C. F. Andrews [D] 39 years
[D] None of these 21. Which one of the Statements was not
Correct Answer made by Swami Vivekananda?
[C] C. F. Andrews [A] Arise, awake, and stop not till the
15. Swami Dayanand Swaraswati goal is reached
organised the ‘Arya Samaj’ in 1875 [B] Motion is the sign of life
in: [C] Back to Vedas
[A] Gujarat [D] Freedom was deserved only by
[B] Punjab the bold and the brave.
[C] Maharashtra Correct Answer
[D] None of these [C] Back to Vedas
Correct Answer 22. ‘Hindu Patriot’ which extensively
[B] Punjab reported on oppression done to
16. Who was not associated with the Indigo cultivators was edited by:
organization of ‘Hindu Mela’? [A] Deena Bandhu Mitra
[A] Rajnarayan Basu [B] Harish Chandra Mukherjee
[B] Nabagopal Mitra [C] James Long
[C] V. D. Savarkar [D] None of these
Correct Answer [B] Harish Chandra Mukherjee
[C] V. D. Savarkar
17. ‘Prarthana Samaj’ was organized in 23. Indigo rebellion was started by
1867 by : Vishnu Charan Biswas and Digambar
[A] Devendra Nath Tagore Biswas in 1859 in
[B] Atmaram Pandurang [A] Midnapore
[C] M. G. Ranade [B] Murshidabad
[D] None of these [C] Nadia
[B] Atmaram Pandurang Correct Answer
18. The concept of ‘Man Making religion’ [C] Nadia
was advocated by :
24. The Indigo issues stopped in India Correct Answer

after artificial indigo was started to [A] Lord Duffraine
be manufactured in 1891 in : 30. Who criticised Congress Conference
[A] Britain as ‘Circus for three days’?
[B] France [A] Lord Curzon
[C] Germany [B] Lala Lajpat Rai
[D] None of these [C] Ashwini Kumar Dutta
Correct Answer [D] Subhas Bose
[C] Germany Correct Answer
25. Available information indicated that [C] Ashwini Kumar Dutta
‘Neel Darpan’ was actually translated 31. Which one has not been correctly
in English by : matched :
[A] James Long [A] New India: Bipin Chandra Paul
[B] Madhusudan Dutta [B] Bangadarshan: Harish
[C] Sisir Kumar Ghosh Ch.Mukherjee
[D] None of these [C] Sanjivani: Krishna Kumar Mitra
Correct Answer [D] Bandemataram: Aurobindo Ghosh
[B] Madhusudan Dutta Correct Answer
26. The main cause of the Indigo [B] Bangadarshan : Harish
Movement in 1859 was : Ch.Mukherjee
[A] Political 32. Badruddin Tayabjee was chosen as
[B] Social the third President of Indian
[C] Economic National Congress in Conference
[D] None of these held in 1887 in:
Correct Answer [A] Allahabad
[C] Economic [B] Lucknow
27. Which one has not been correctly [C] Madras
matched : [D] Pune
[A] Indian Mirror: Keshab Chandra Correct Answer
Sen [C] Madras
[B] The Bengalee: Surendranath 33. By division of Bengal in 1905 new
Banerjee Province created was :
[C] Hindu Patriot: Sisir Kumar Ghosh [A] East Bengal
[D] Sangbad Pravakar: Iswar Gupta [B] Bengal
Correct Answer [C] East Bengal and Assam
[C] Hindu Patriot : Sisir Kumar Ghosh [D] None of these
28. ‘White Mutiny’ against the Correct Answer
provisions of the Ilbert Bill happened [C] East Bengal and Assam
in 1883 during the reign of : 34. On the day of the 1st partition of
[A] Lord Ripon Bengal in 1905, Rabindranath Tagore
[B] Lord Lytton called to observe the ‘Rakhi
[C] Lord Mayo Bandhan’ festival the date was:
[C] None of these [A] 12th October
Correct Answer [B] 16th October
[A] Lord Ripon [C] 4th November
29. Who considered the Indian National [D] 22nd November
Congress as ‘a microscopic minority Correct Answer
of the people’? [B] 16th October
[A] Lord Duffraine 35. Which one has not been correctly
[B] Lord Curzon matched?
[C] Lord Ripon [A] Modern Review: Ramanand
[D] None of these Chatterjee
[B] Indian World: Pritish Ch. Roy [C] Dehradun

[C] Dawn: Satish Ch. Mukherjee [D] None of these
[D] Bengalee: Bhupendra Nath Dutta Correct Answer
Correct Answer [C] Dehradun
[D] Bengalee : Bhupendra Nath Dutta 42. Who was considered as the “Father
36. ‘Dawn Society’ was established by : of militant nationalism” in India by
[A] Aurobindo Ghosh the Historian Ramesh Chandra
[B] Rashbehari Ghosh Majumder?
[C] Satish Chandra Mukherjee [A] V. D. Savarkar
[D] None of these [B] M. N. Roy
Correct Answer [C] Vasudev B. Fadke
[C] Satish Chandra Mukherjee [D] Aurobindo Ghosh
37. The ‘Sandha’ news magazine was Correct Answer
published by : [C] Vasudev B. Fadke
[A] Bamkim Chandra Chatterjee 43. Who was hanged to death in London
[B] Brahma Bandhab Upadhyay for killing Sir Curzon Willy in 1909?
[C] Monoranjan Guhathakurata [A] Madan Lai Dhingra
[D] None of these [B] Narayan Despande
Correct Answer [C] V. D. Savarkar
[B] Brahma Bandhab Upadhyay [D] None of these
38. Who stated ‘I will Unsettle the Correct Answer
Settled Fact’ regarding the 1st [A] Madan Lai Dhingra
partition of Bengal? 44. M. Chatterjee organised a secret
[A] Surendranath Banerjee militant outfit in Saharanpur of :
[B] Aurabimln Ghosh [A] Maharashtra
[C] Subhas Chandra Bose [B] Uttar Pradesh
[D] None of these [C] Punjab
[A] Surendranath Banerjee Correct Answer
39. In which year Satish Chandra Basu [C] Punjab
organized ‘Anusilan Samity’? 45. Hindustan Republic Association was
[A] 1902 AD organised in 1912 by :
[B] 1906 AD [A] Jogesh Chandra Chatterjee
[C] 1909 AD [B] Chandra Sekhar Azad
[D] None of these [C] Basant Biswas
[A] 1902 AD Correct Answer
40. On which day of 1908 AD, Khudiram [B] Chandra Sekhar Azad
Basu was hanged to death in
Majaffarpur jail?
[A] 30th April
[B] 16th May
[C] 17th June
[D] 11th August
Correct Answer
[D] 11th August
41. Rashbihari Bose bombed towards
Lord Hardinge in 1912 AD when he
was serving as a Forest Research
Officer in:
[A] Delhi
[B] Lucknow
46. Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, Rajguru, [C] Barrackpore

Batukeshwar Dutta were hanged to 52. Who among the following, were
death in relation to : against the Sepoy Mutiny?
[A] Lahore Conspiracy case [A] Farmers
[B] Merat Conspiracy case [B] Zamindars
[C] Nasik Conspiracy case [C] Deposed rulers
[D] None of these [D] None of these
[A] Lahore Conspiracy case [B] Zaminders
47. Indian Republican Army was 53. After the end of the Sepoy Mutiny
organised by : the Mughal emperor 2nd Bahadur
[A] Rash Behari Bose Shah was :
[B] Masterda Surya Sen [A] Killed
[C] Jatindranath Mukherjee [B] Exiled
[D] None of these [C] Put for Trial
[B] Masterda Surya Sen Correct Answer
48. Labour leader Singaravellu organised [B] Exiled
First labour day in India on 1st May 54. Which one of the following Acts, was
of : passed as a consequence of the 1st
[A] 1922 War of Independence or Sepoy
[B] 1923 Mutiny?
[C] 1924 [A] Charter Act
[D] None of these [B] Indian Council Act
Correct Answer [C] Indian Administration Act
[B] 1923 [D] None of these.
49. Who organized the Communist Party Correct Answer
of India in Tashkent of the Soviet [B] Indian Council Act
Union? 55. In which year Rail connection
[A] Manabendranath Roy between Calcutta and Bombay
[B] Sripad Amrit Dange started?
[C] P. C. Joshi [A] 1862
[D] None of these [B] 1865
[A] Manabendranath Roy [D] None of these
50. Who was the Chief of British rulers Correct Answer
of India when the First War of Indian [C] 1870
Independence or Sepoy Mutiny 56. In which year Rail connection
happened in India? between Madras and Bombay
[A] Lord Dalhousie started?
[B] Lord Canning [A] 1862
[C] Lord Elgin [B] 1865
[D] None of these [C] 1871
[B] Lord Canning Correct Answer
51. In which place the Sepoy Mutiny was [C] 1871
initiated at the earliest? 57. Which one of the following
[A] Meerat industries did not emerge in India
[B] Nagpur within 19th century?
[C] Barrackpore [A] Jute
[D] None of these [B] Textile
Correct Answer
[C] Iron 62. Which one of the following has not

[D] Engineering been correctly matched?
Correct Answer [A] Bankim Chandra: Ananda Math
[D] Engineering [B] Deenabandhu Mitra: Neel Darpan
58. Hunter Commission, headed by Sir [C] Dwijendra Lai Roy: Mebar Patan
William Hunter was set up in 1882 [D] Rabindranath Tagore: Bartaman
and the report was submitted in Bharat
1884 for submitting Correct Answer
recommendations in the areas of: [D] Rabindranath Tagore : Bartaman
[A] Industries Bharat
[B] Education 63. Bartaman Bharat was authored by :
[C] Autonomy of Local bodies [A] Swami Vivekananda
[D] None of these [B] Bankim Chandra
Correct Answer [C] Deenabandhu Mitra
[B] Education [D] Dwijendra Lai Roy
59. Which one of the following has not Correct Answer
been correctly matched? [A] Swami Vivekananda
[A] Raja Rammohan Ray: Brahma 64. The song ‘Bande Mataram’ was
Samaj composed by :
[B] Swami Dayananda Saraswati: Arya [A] Vivekananda
Samaj [B] Bankim Chandra
[C] Keshab Chandra Sen: Prarthana [C] D. L. Roy
Samaj [D] None of these
[D] Madan Mohan Malavia: Vedic Correct Answer
Samaj [B] Bankim Chandra
Correct Answer 65. The song ‘Sare Jahan Se Achha
[D] Madan Mohan Malavia : Vedic Hindustan Hamara …’ was composed
Samaj by :
60. Which one of the following has not [A] R. N. Tripathi
been correctly matched? [B] Allama Iqbal
[A] Aligarh University: Sir Syed [C] Mirza Galib
Ahmed [D] None of these
[B] Maratha Hindu University: Madan Correct Answer
Mohan Malavia [B] Allama Iqbal
[C] Ramakrishna Mission: Swami 66. Which one of the following
Vivekananda Newspapers did not helped the
[D] Visvabharti University: Indian National Movement during
Rabindranath Tagore the British period?
Correct Answer [A] Amrita Bazar Patrika
[B] Maratha Hindu University : [B] Dainik Basumati
Madan Mohan Malavia [C] Indian Mirror
61. Who among the following, at first [D] The Times of India
stated about ‘Two Nations Theory’ Correct Answer
between the Hindus and Muslims of [D] The Times of India
India? 67. Sisir Kumar Ghosh was associated
[A] Moulana Abul Kalam Azad with :
[B] Sir Syed Ahmed [A] Amritabazar
[C] Mohammad Ali Jinnah [B] Ananda Bazar
[D] Choudhary Rahamat Ali [C] Basumati
[B] Sir Syed Ahmed Correct Answer
[A] Amritabazar
68. Which one of the following [A] 1838

Newspapers changed from Bengali to 74. In which year Indian National
English overnight to avoid Congress was set up by Allen
censorship imposed under the Octavian Hume ?
Vernacular Press Act? [A] 1838
[A] Amritabazar Patrika [B] 1852
[B] Dainik Basumati [C] 1875
[C] Indian Mirror [D] 1885
[D] Ananda Bazar Correct Answer
[A] Amritabazar Patrika 75. Which one of the following
69. Who among the following, imposed Associations was set up by
Vernacular Press Act? Surendranath Bannerjee ?
[A] Lord Litton [A] Indian League
[B] Lord Ripon [B] Indian Association
[C] Lord Duffrin [C] Mahajan Sabha
[D] None of these [D] Indian National Union
[A] Lord Litton [B] Indian Association
70. What was the former name of the 76. In which year Indian Association was
present daily ‘The Statesman’? set up by Surendranath Bannerjee ?
[A] Indian Mirror [A] 1852
[B] Indian Patriot [B] 1875
[C] Friend of India [C] 1876
[D] None of these [D] 1885
[C] Friend of India [C] 1876
71. Newspaper ‘Friend of 77. Who among the following I.C.S.
India’ was started by : Officer was removed from service by
[A] Robert Night the British rulers?
[B] Suresh Chandra Majumdar [A] Satyendranath Tagore
[C] Prafulla Kumar Sarkar [B] Romesh Dutt
[D] None of these [C] Behari Lal Gupta
Correct Answer [D] Surendra Nath Banerjee
[A] Robert Night Correct Answer
72. Which one of the following [D] Surendra Nath Banerjee
Associations was constituted at the
earliest?
[A] Landholders Society
[B] British India Association
[C] Indian League
[D] Indian National Congress
Correct Answer
[A] Landholders Society
73. In which year Landholders Society
was set up by Prince Dwarakanath
Tagore
[A] 1838
[B] 1852
[C] 1875
[D] 1885
Correct Answer
78. What is the new name of Rippon 1905?

College? [A] Arabinda Ghosh
[A] Surendranath College [B] Ashwini Kumar Dutta
[B] Presidency College [C] Surendra Nath Banerjee
[C] Ashutosh college [D] None of these
Correct Answer [C] Surendra Nath Banerjee
[A] Surendranath College 85. In which city Muslim League was
79. Who presided in the first Session of formed in 1906 through
Indian National Congress? encouragement given by British rul-
[A] Allen Octavian Hume ers to press for demand to retain
[B] Motilal Nehru Partition of Bengal?
[C] W. C. Bannerjee [A] Lucknow
[D] None of these [B] Karachi
Correct Answer [C] Dhaka
[C] W. C. Bannerjee [D] None of these
80. Who was the Chief of the British Correct Answer
rulers of India, during the time when [C] Dhaka
the Indian National Congress was 86. In which place the announcement to
formed in 1885? revoke the order of 1st Partition of
[A] Lord Ripon Bengal was done?
[B] Lord Dufferin [A] Dhaka
[C] Lord Dalhousie [B] Calcutta
[D] None of these [C] Delhi
[B] Lord Duffrin Correct Answer
81. ‘Ilbert Bill’ was proposed during the [C] Delhi
period of : 87. Who led the formation of ‘Anusilan
[A] Lord Ripon Samity’ in Bengal?
[B] Lord Lansdowne [A] Aurobindo Ghosh
[C] Lord Elgin [B] Barindra Kumar Ghosh
[D] None of these [C] Satish Chandra Basu
Correct Answer [D] Bipin Behari Ganguly
[A] Lord Ripon Correct Answer
82. Who presided over the Second [C] Satish Chandra Basu
Session of Indian National Congress? 88. In which year the Anusilan Samity
[A] Dadabhai Naoroji was formed by Satish Chandra Basu
[B] Badruddin Tayabji to organize terrorist movement in
[C] Gorge Yule Bengal?
[A] Dadabhai Naoroji [C] 1921
83. Who among the following was not an [D] 1931
extremist leader? Correct Answer
[A] Balgangadhar Tilak [A] 1901
[B] Lala Lajpat Rai 89. In a place of which one of modern
[C] Bipin Chandra Pal State, Prafulla Chaki and Khudiram
[D] Dadabhai Nauroji Bose threw a bomb upon a car to kill
Correct Answer a British officer in 1908?
[D] Dadabhai Naoroji [A] West Bengal
84. Who led Swadeshi movement [B] Uttar Pradesh
against the 1st Partition of Bengal in
[C] Bihar [A] 1885

[C] Bihar [D] 1917
90. Who among the following, organized Correct Answer
Extremist/Terrorist groups to fight [D] 1917
against the British rulers, in India at 96. In which year Sarojini Naidu, a
the earliest? woman of Indian origin become
[A] Basudev Balvant Fadke President of Indian National
[B] Vinayak Damodar Sarvakar Congress?
[C] Lala Lajpat Rai [A] 1895
[D] Lala Hardayal. [B] 1905
[A] Basudev Balvant Fadke [D] 1925
91. Who was the prime accused in the Correct Answer
‘Lahore conspiracy case’? [D] 1925
[A] Rashbehari Bose 97. Which one of the following happened
[B] Manabendra Nath Roy at the earliest?
[C] Madan Lai Dhigra [A] Morley-Minto Reforms
[D] None of these. [B] Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms
Correct Answer [C] Rowlatt Act
[A] Rashbehari Bose [D] Jalliwanwalla Bagh Massacre
92. In which the modern state of India Correct Answer
‘Bagha Jatin’ was killed in an armed [A] Morley-Minto Reforms
encounter with the British Security 98. Khalifat Movement led by
Force? Mohammed Ali and Shawkat Ali was
[A] West Bengal started during 1919-20 to protect
[B] Orissa the interest of:
[C] Bihar [A] India
[D] Uttar Pradesh [B] Persia
Correct Answer [C] Turkey
[B] Orissa [D] None of these
93. In which year Gandhiji returned to Correct Answer
India from South Africa? [C] Turkey
[A] 1910
[B] 1915 99. Who was the Chairman of the
[C] 1920 Khilafat Movement Committee?
[D] None of these [A] Mohammed Ali
Correct Answer [B] Swakat Ali
[B] 1915 [C] Mahatma Gandhi
94. Who was chosen as first Woman [D] None of these
President of Indian National Correct Answer
Congress? [C] Mahatma Gandhi
[A] Annie Besant 100. In which year Non-
[B] Sarojini Naidu Cooperation Movement was
[C] Vijay Laxmi Pandit initiated?
[A] Annie Besant [C] 1924
95. In which year Annie Besant, a woman [D] None of these
of European origin became President Correct Answer
of Indian National Congress? [A] 1920
Part V [C] 1932

[D] None of these
1.Who was not associated with the Correct Answer
formation of ‘Swarajya Dal”? [B] 1930
[A] Gandhiji 7.“Red Shirt” (Lai Kurta) Party was
[B] C. R. Das formed in:
[C] Motilal Nehru [A] Uttar Pradesh
[D] None of these [B] NWFP
Correct Answer [C] NEFP
[A] Gandhiji [D] None of these
2.In which year Swarajya Dal was formed Correct Answer
by Chitta Ranjan Das and Motilal [B] NWFP
Nehru 8.In which place stores of arms and
[A] 1905 ammunitions of British Security
[B] 1911 force were looted by a group led by
[C] 1923 Surya Sen?
[D] 1925 [A] Midnapore
Correct Answer [B] Dhaka
[C] 1923 [C] Chittagong
3.In which year Simon Commission came [D] None of these
to India from England? Correct Answer
[A] 1922 [C] Chittagong
[B] 1924 9.By whom the Bardoli Movement was
[C] 1926 organized and led?
[D] 1928 [A] Mahatma Gandhi
Correct Answer [B] Motilal Nehru
[D] 1928 [C] Vallabhbhai Patel
4.In which year Congress Party took a [D] None of these
resolution to have complete freedom Correct Answer
(i.e ‘Purna Swaraj’) for India? [C] Vallabhbhai Patel
[A] 1928 10.In which year All India Juddha
[B] 1930 (Corridor Battle) happened in
[C] 1929 Calcutta Secretariat?
[D] 1932 [A] 8th December,1928
Correct Answer [B] 8th December,1930
[C] 1929 [C] 8th December,1932
5.Which day was declared as the [D] None of these
Independence Day for India in the Correct Answer
Lahore Session held in 1929? [B] 8th December,1930
[A] 26th January of 1930 11.In which place the First Round Table
[B] 26th January of 1935 Conference was arranged?
[C] 26th January of 1940 [A] Calcutta
[D] 26th January, 1950 [B] Delhi
Correct Answer [C] London
[A] 26th January of 1930 [D] None of these
6.In which year Gandhiji organized Correct Answer
‘Dandi March’ from Sabarmati [C] London
Ashram to Dandi Sea Shore in Gujrat 12.In which year Communal Award was
against the ban on salt production announced by British rulers?
imposed by British rulers? [A] 1930
[A] 1928 [B] 1932
[B] 1930
[C] 1934 [A] 1941

[B] 1932 [D] None of these
13.Who among the following died for Correct Answer
continuing indefinitely fast? [A] 1941
[A] Jatin Das 19.In which year Wavell Plan was
[B] Bhagat Singh announced by British rulers?
[C] Sukhdev [A] 1943
[D] Rajguru [B] 1944
[A] Jatin Das [D] None of these
14.Who killed a British Officer in Correct Answer
London? [C] 1945
[A] Lai Hardayal 20.Which one of the following groups of
[B] Madan Lai Dhingra islands was named a ‘Saheed Dweep’
[C] Damodar Chapekar by INA leader Netaji Subhas Bose?
[D] None of these [A] Andamans
Correct Answer [B] Nicobars
[B] Madan Lai Dhingra [C] Lakshadweep
15.In which year elections were held to [D] None of these
elect representatives for the Correct Answer
Provincial Assemblies on the basis of [A] Andamans
the Government of India Act. 1935? 21.In which year Cripps Mission led by
[A] 1936 Sir Stafford Cripps, a member of the
[B] 1937 British Council of Ministers and
[C] 1938 experts in constitutional affairs,
[D] None of these proposed to arrange Dominion
Correct Answer Status and some other political
[B] 1937 advantages for the Indians after the
16.In which year Subhas Bose had to end of the on-going Second World
resign the post of Congress President War came to India?
after being elected? [A] 1940
[A] 1937 [B] 1941
[B] 1938 [C] 1942
[C] 1939
17.In which year Muslim League took a
resolution to have a separate land for
Indian Muslims?
[A] 1938
[B] 1940
[C] 1942
[D] None of these
Correct Answer
[B] 1940
18.In which year Subhas Bose escaped
from his house arrest in his Elgin
Road Residence of Kolkata and went
to Germany via Afghanistan?
22.In which day ‘Quit India Movement’ [C] 2nd September

was started? 28.Who was chosen as Governor-
[A] 9th July 1942 General of Free India in 1947?
[B] 9th August 1942 [A] Rajendra Prasad
[C] 9th September 1942 [B] C. Rajagopalachari
[D] None of these [C] Lord Mountbatten
[B] 9th August 1942 Correct Answer
23.In which year Bengal faced high [C] Lord Mountbatten
famine conditions? 29.Who was Governor-General of Indian
[A] 1942-43 origin in Free India?
[B] 1943-44 [A] C. Rajagopalachari
[C] 1944-45 [B] Dr. Rajendra Prasad
[D] None [C] Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
[B] 1943-44 Correct Answer
24.In which year the Cabinet Mission [A] C. Rajagopalachari
arrived in India from England? 30.When Vasco-da-Gama reached in a
[A] 1944 port of Kerla in 1498 AD his party
[B] 1945 was given friendly treatment by the
[C] 1946 King of.
[D] None [A] Cochin
Correct Answer [B] Calicut
[C] 1946 [C] Trivancur
25.In which place a large number of Navy [D] None of these
personnel of Indian origin revolted Correct Answer
on 18th February 1946? [B] Calicut
[A] Calicut 31.As the Chief of the Portuguese
[B] Madras administration, Alfonso de
[C] Bombay Albuquerque gave military support
[D] None of these to the King of:
Correct Answer [A] Goa
[C] Bombay [B] Bijapur
26.In which month ‘Direct Action’ Day [C] Cochin
was observed by the Muslim League [D] Calicut
in 1946? Correct Answer
[A] July [C] Cochin
[B] August 32.In 1510 Portuguese power captured
[C] September Goa from the kingdom of :
[D] October [A] Cochin
Correct Answer [B] Calicut
[B] August [C] Bijapur
27.On which day of 1946, an Interim [D] None of these
Government was formed under the Correct Answer
leadership of Pandit Jawhar Lai [C] Bijapur
Nehru in India in order to arrange 33.Trading activities of English East India
Indian freedom? started at first in :
[A] 2nd July [A] Bombay
[B] 2nd August [B] Kolkata
[C] 2nd September [C] Ahmadabad
[D] 2nd October [D] Surat
[D] Surat [C] Bahadur Shah

34.English envoy Mr. William Hawkings [D] None of these
brought a letter for Emperor Correct Answer
Jahangir in 1609 from the British [B] Farrukhsiyar
Monarch named: 40.Which European power sold their
[A] Queen Elizabeth I colonies of India to the English power
[B] King James I in 1845 AD :
[C] King Edward V [A] Dutch
[D] None of these [B] Danish
Correct Answer [C] Armenian
[B] King James I [D] None of these
35.Sir Thomas Roe, who came to the Correct Answer
court of Jahangir as an envoy of [B] Danish
British King James I in 1615 stayed in 41.English power had high conflicts with
India for: the French power in :
[A] 1 year [A] Eastern India
[B] 2 years [B] Western India
[C] 3 years [C] Northern India
[D] 4 years [D] Southern India
[C] 3 years[/su_spoiler] Correct Answer
36.By which power, Bombay (now [D] Southern India
Mumbai) was made a colony at the 42.La Bourdonnais was the Governor of
earliest? the French colony of :
[A] English [A] Pondicherry
[B] Portuguese [B] Sri Lanka
[C] Dutch [C] Mauritius
[D] French [D] None of these
[B] Portuguese [C] Mauritius
37.The British power got possession of 43.French power of India led by whom
Bombay through : agreed to maintain peace and not to
[A] War interfere in activities of English
[B] Sale deed power in India?
[C] marriage dowry [A] Duplex
[D] None of these [B] Godehu
Correct Answer [C] Bussy
[C] marriage dowry [D] None of these
38.The East India company got the right Correct Answer
to trade in Bengal in payment of Rs. [B] Godehu
3000 per year from : 44.In the Battle of Wandiwash in 1760
[A] Emperor Jahangir AD the French power of India faced
[B] Emperor Aurangzeb complete defeat under English
[C] Bengal Subedar Shuja General named :
[D] None of these [A] Eyre Coote
Correct Answer [B] Robert Clive
[C] Bengal Subedar Shuja [C] Lally
39.British envoy John Surman secured [D] None of these
various trading facilities for the East Correct Answer
India Company in India from Mughal [A] Eyre Coote
emperor named : 45.Dutch power in Bengal had their
[A] Aurangzeb principal trading center at :
[B] Farrukhsiyar [A] Serampore
[B] Chinsura 51.Who was the General of the English

[C] Kasimbazar army to cause the defeat of Anti-
[D] Dhaka English forces in the Battle of Buxar
Correct Answer ending in 1765 AD?
[B] Chinsura [A] Carnac
46.In which relation Siraj-ud-Doula was [B] Clive
related to Nawab Alivardi Khan? [C] Hector Munro
[A] son’s son [D] None of these
[B] daughter’s son Correct Answer
[C] brother’s son’s son [C] Hector Munro
[D] None of these 52.Who was the head of the English
Correct Answer administration of Bengal when the
[B] daughter’s son Supreme Court of Calcutta was set
47.When Siraj-ud-Doula emerged as up?
Nawab of Bengal then his rival cousin [A] Robert Clive
Shaukat Jang was serving as [B] Warren Hastings
Governor of an area of : [C] Lord Cornwallis
[A] North Bengal [D] None of these
[B] Bihar Correct Answer
[C] Orissa [B] Warren Hastings
[D] None of these 53.In which year Warren Hastings
Correct Answer appointed ‘Amini’ Commission to
[B] Bihar collect useful information regarding
48.In which year ‘Black Hole Tragedy’ revenue matters?
happened in Calcutta? [A] 1776
[A] 1755 [B] 1777
[B] 1756 [C] 1778
[B] 1756 54.Maharaja Nanda Kumar was given
49.Around how many army men of death sentence and executed on
European origin were associated charges of :
with the Battle of Plassey held on [A] Murder
23rd June 1757 AD? [B] treason
[A] 8000 [C] forgery
[B] 10,000 [D] None of these
[C] 12,000 Correct Answer
[D] 15,000 [C] forgery
Correct Answer 55.Against whom Maharaja Nanda
[A] 8000 Kumar brought allegations of bribe
50.Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II who taking :
gave ‘Diwani Right’ to the English [A] Robert Clive
power in 1765 AD had actual name [B] Warren Hastings
of : [C] Lord Cornwallis
[A] Ali Gauhar [D] None of these
[B] Mirza Beg Correct Answer
[C] Salahuddin [B] Warren Hastings
[D] None of these 56.Which one of the following
Correct Answer institutions were established at the
[A] Ali Gauhar earliest by the East India Company?
[A] Hindu School
[B] Calcutta Madrasa 62.Who annexed Punjab under the East

[C] Sanskrit College India Company rule?
[D] None of these [A] Lord Hardinge
Correct Answer [B] Lord Dalhousie
[B] Calcutta Madrasa [C] Lord Canning
57.Who established District courts for [D] None of these
Judicial reforms? Correct Answer
[A] Lord Cornwallis [B] Lord Dalhousie
[B] Warren Hastings 63.Telegraph & modern postal system
[C] Lord Wellesley was introduced in India by :
[D] None of these [A] Lord Dalhousie
Correct Answer [B] Lord Canning
[A] Lord Cornwallis [C] Lord Elgin
58.Which region was brought under the [D] None of these
Subsidiary Alliance system at the Correct Answer
earliest? [A] Lord Dalhousie
[A] Oudh 64.Who was murdered while serving as
[B] Hyderabad Governor-General of India?
[C] Mysore [A] Lord Lawrence
[D] None of these [B] Lord Mayo
Correct Answer [C] Lord Northbrook
[A] Oudh [D] None of these
59.Which area was brought under the Correct Answer
Doctrine of Lapse at the earliest? [B] Lord Mayo
[A] Jaipur 65.Who was the Governor-General of
[B] Nagpur India when the Vernacular Press Act
[C] Satara was introduced in India in 1878 AD?
[D] None of these [A] Lord Lytton
Correct Answer [B] Lord Ripon
[C] Satara [C] Lord Dufferin
60.Who was Chief of English [D] None of these
administration of India when the Correct Answer
Treaty of Amritsar was signed with [A] Lord Lytton
Ranjit Singh in 1809 AD?
[A] Lord Wellesley
[B] Lord Minto
[C] Lord Hastings
[D] None of these
Correct Answer
[B] Lord Minto
61.Who provided equality, at the earliest
for all irrespective of race, descent,
color, place of birth in holding
services under the East India
company?
[A] Lord Cornwallis
[B] Lord Amherst
[C] Lord Bentinck
[D] None of these
Correct Answer
[C] Lord Bentinck
66.Ilbert Bill proposed to be introduced [C] Awadh

in 1883 during the reign of Lord 71.Chait Singh who had conflicts with
Ripon advocated? Warren Hastings was the ruler of :
[A] Higher power for European [A] Benaras
Magistrates [B] Gwalior
[B] Equal power for European and [C] Patna
Indian Magistrates [D] None of these
[C] Abolish the appointment of Indian Correct Answer
Judges in High Courts [A] Benaras
[D] None of these. 72.Hafiz Rahman Khan was a leader of
Correct Answer the :
[B] Equal power for European and [A] Pathans
Indian Magistrates [B] Rohillas
67.Who was the Governor-General of [C] Moplas
India when the Indian National [D] None of these
Congress was formed in 1885 AD? Correct Answer
[A] Lord Ripon [B] Rohillas
[B] Lord Dufferin 73.Mughal ruler Shah Alam II had to live
[C] Lord Landsdowne under Maratha protection led by :
[D] None of these [A] Mahadji Sindhia
Correct Answer [B] Balaji Baji Rao
[B] Lord Dufferin [C] Madhav Rao
68.Which one was not done during the [D] None of these
reign of Lord Curzon? Correct Answer
[A] Lyall Commission was set up to [A] Mahadji Sindhia
enquire into the causes of famines 74.‘Misl’ used to mean small kingdom
[B] Sir Andrew Frazer Commission was associated with the :
was set up to enquire Police [A] Afghans
administration [B] Sikhs
[C] Universities Commission was set [C] Marathas
up to improve the workings of [D] None of these
Universities Correct Answer
[D] Sir Colin Scott Commission was [B] Sikhs
set up to take steps to improve 75.Rohillas were originally people of :
irrigation [A] Persian origin
Correct Answer [B] Arabian origin
[A] Lyall Commission was set up to [C] Afghan origin
enquire into the causes of famines [D] Mongolian origin
69.Partition of Bengal was revoked in Correct Answer
1911 AD during the reign of : [C] Afghan origin
[A] Lord Curzon 76.In the treaty of Salbai signed in 1782
[B] Lord Hardinge AD the representative of Peshwa
[C] Lord Chelmsford was :
[D] None of these [A] Raghunath Rao
Correct Answer [B] Mahadji Sindhia
[B] Lord Hardinge [C] Nana Fadnavis
70.Shuja-ud-Daula was the Nawab of : [D] Sakharam Bapu
[A] Ahmednagar Correct Answer
[B] Hyderabad [B] Mahadji Sindhia
[C] Awadh 77.The place ‘Salbai’ remained not far
[D] None of these away from :
Correct Answer [A] Pune
[B] Mumbai [C] Shivaji

[C] Gwalior [D] None of these
[D] Nasik Correct Answer
Correct Answer [B] Ranjit Singh
[C] Gwalior 84.In which year Hindu Widows’
78.Who served as a ‘Nail’ in the army of Remarriage Act was passed :
King Nagaraj ? [A] 1829
[A] Nana Fadnavis [B] 1839
[B] Haider Ali [C] 1842
[C] Muhammad Ali [D] 1956
[B] Haider Ali 85.Sir Charles Wood sent a report to the
79.During which Anglo-Mysore war Tipu British rulers of India on issues of :
Sultan faced death while fighting? [A] Tax collection
[A] Third [B] Railway expansion
[B] Fourth [C] Education system
[C] Fifth [D] Judicial system
Correct Answer [C] Education system
[B] Fourth 86.The great famine in Bengal occurred
80.The Treaty of Bassein was concluded in :
between English power and Maratha [A] 1770
power led by : [B] 1772
[A] Daulat Rao Scindia [C] 1774
[B] Mahadji Scindia [D] 1776
[C] Baji Rao Correct Answer
[D] Yaswant Rao Holkar [A] 1770
Correct Answer 87.Which region had ‘Bhonsle State’
[C] Baji Rao under Maratha power?
81.British ruler Lord Moira is also known [A] Satara
as : [B] Pune
[A] Lord Hastings [C] Nagpur
[B] Lord Barlow [D] None of these
[C] Lord Minto Correct Answer
[D] None of these [C] Nagpur
Correct Answer
[A] Lord Hastings
82.Pindaries were Muslims soldiers
serving under the :
[A] Nizam Shahi
[B] Maratha power
[C] Mughal power
[D] English power
Correct Answer
[B] Maratha power
83.Indian King who used to employ
soldiers of many European
nationalities was :
[A] Tipu Sultan
[B] Ranjit Singh
88.Lord Cornwallis was appointed as the 94.Who among the following was not
Chief of the English administration of against Siraj-ud-Doullah?
India for the second time in 1805 [A] Saukat Jung
after the reign of : [B] Ghoseti Begum
[A] Lord Minto [C] Mirzafar
[B] Lord Wellesley [D] Mohanlal
[C] Lord Hastings Correct Answer
[D] None of these [D] Mohanlal
Correct Answer 95.In which year Siraj-Ud-Doullah
[B] Lord Wellesley captured Fort William?
89.Who was the Viceroy of British India [A] 1755
when the last Mughal ruler was [B] 1756
exiled? [C] 1757
[A] Lord Dalhousie [D] None of these
[B] Lord Elgin Correct Answer
[C] Lord Canning [B] 1756
[D] None of these 96.In which year Fort William was
Correct Answer recaptured by Lord Clive?
[C] Lord Canning [A] January, 1755
90.In which year British East India [B] January, 1756
Company was formed? [C] January, 1757
[A] 1600 AD [D] None of these
[B] 1602 AD Correct Answer
[C] 1664 AD [C] January, 1757
[D] None of these 97.For how many times Mirzafar
Correct Answer emerged as Nawab of Bengal?
[A] 1600 AD [A] Once
91.Joseph Dupleix was appointed as the [B] Twice
administrator of : [C] Thrice
[A] Goa [D] None of these.
[B] Pondicherry Correct Answer
[C] Surat [B] Twice
[D] Madras 98.Which one of the following battles
Correct Answer happened at the earliest?
[B] Pondicherry [A] Battle of Wandiwash
92.Which power was not associated with [B] 3rd Battle of Panipath
1st, 2nd, and 3rd Carnatic Wars? [C] Battle of Buxar
[A] English [D] Battle of Plassey
[B] French Correct Answer
[C] Dutch [D] Battle of Plassey
[D] None of these 99.When the Battle of Wandiwash
Correct Answer happened?
[C] Dutch [A] 1757
93.In which century Fort William was [B] 1760
established by the English power? [C] 1761
[A] 16th [D] 1764
[B] 17th Correct Answer
[C] 18th [B] 1760
[D] None of these 100.When the Battle of 3rd Panipat
Correct Answer happened?
[B] 17th [A] 1757
[B] 1760
[C] 1761 [C] Doctrine of Lapse: Lord Dalhousie

[D] 1764 [D] First Partition of Bengal: Lord
Correct Answer Irwin
101.When the Battle of Buxer [D] First Partition of Bengal: Lord
happened? Irwin
[A] 1757 107.Who was the ruler of British India
[B] 1760 when the first Railway Line between
[C] 1761 Thane and Bombay was opened in
[D] 1764 1853 in India?
Correct Answer [A] Lord Bentinck
[D] 1764 [B] Lord Dalhousie
102.When the Battle of Plassey was [C] Lord Canning
happened? [D] None of these
[B] 1760 [B] Lord Dalhousie
[C] 1761 108.Who abolished Sati System in 1829
[D] 1764 in India?
Correct Answer [A] Lord Bentinck
[A] 1757 [B] Lord Dalhousie
103.Who served as the first Governor of [C] Lord Canning
Bengal under Company rule? [D] None of these
[A] Warren Hastings Correct Answer
[B] Robert Clive [A] Lord Bentinck
[C] Vansitart 109.The Capital of Sikh empire built by
[D] None of these Ranjit Singh was at :
Correct Answer [A] Chandigarh
[B] Robert Clive [B] Amritsar
104.Who worked as the First Governor- [C] Lahore
General of British India? [D] None of these
[A] Lord Amherst Correct Answer
[B] Lord William Bentinck [C] Lahore
[C] Lord Cornwallis 110.The capital of the Kingdom of Tipu
[D] None of these Sultan was at :
Correct Answer [A] Hyderabad
[B] Lord William Bentinck [B] Bangalore
105.Who was appointed as the first [C] Madras
Governor-General cum Viceroy of [D] Srirangapatnam
British India through the Declaration Correct Answer
of Queen Victoria, 1858? [D] Srirangapatnam
[A] Lord Elgin 111.Which Native States was acquired
[B] Lord Dalhousie by the British rulers led by Lord
[C] Lord Canning Dalhousie through applying the
[D] None of these Doctrine of Lapse, at the earliest?
Correct Answer [A] Satara
[C] Lord Canning [B] Bhagatpur
106.Which one of the following has not [C] Udaypur
been correctly matched? [D] Nagpur
[A] Permanent Settlement: Lord [A] Satara[/su_spoiler]
Cornwallis 112.In which year’s First Railway Line of
[B] Subsidiary System of Alliance: Bengal between Howrah and
Lord Wellesley Hooghly was opened?
[A] 1852 various sides of Indian Language and

[B] 1854 culture etc. in Calcutta in 1800 AD?
[C] 1856 [A] Lord Cornwallis
[D] None of these [B] Lord Wellesley
Correct Answer [C] Lord Dalhousie
[B] 1854 [D] None of these
113.In which country the British power Correct Answer
of India did not conduct an invasion? [B] Lord Wellesley
[A] Myanmar 119.In which year Calcutta University
[B] Tibet was established to expand education
[C] Afghanistan in British India?
[D] Iran [A] 1835
[D] Iran [C] 1880
114.In Which year the British [D] None of these
Government started direct Correct Answer
administration of the Indian areas? [B] 1857
[A] 1773 120.William Carrey, European Christian
[B] 1833 priest had his major activities around
[C] 1858 [A] Calcutta
[D] None of these [B] Howrah
Correct Answer [C] Srerampore
[C] 1858 [D] Chinsurah
115.In which year the Capital of British Correct Answer
India was transferred from Calcutta [C] Srerampore
to Delhi? 121.Who, among the following,
[A] 1858 recommended introducing English
[B] 1905 language in the education system of
[C] 1912 India?
[D] None of these [A] William Hunter
Correct Answer [B] Lord Macaulay
[C] 1912 [C] David Hare
116.Who was not associated with the [D] None of these
Treaty of Bassein of 1802? Correct Answer
[A] Lord Wallesley [B] Lord Macaulay
[B] 2nd Baji Rao
[C] Ranjit Singh
[D] None of these
Correct Answer
[C] Ranjit Singh
117.In which year Asiatic society was
established in Calcutta by Sir William
Jones to carry on research on
literature and the History of India?
[A] 1784 AD
[B] 1785 AD
[C] 1786 AD
[D] 1787 AD
Correct Answer
[A] 1784 AD
118.Who set up the Fort William College
to educate British employees on
122.In which year Regulating Act was [B] 1905

passed by the British Parliament? [C] 1911
[A] 1757 [D] 1913
[C] 1773 [A] 1885
[D] 1778 129.In which year the Rowlett Act was
Correct Answer passed?
[C] 1773 [A] 1918
123.Who introduced Permanent [B] 1919
settlement in Bengal? [C]1921
[A] Lord Hastings [D] 1925
[B] Lord Cornwallis Correct Answer
[C] Lord armherst [B] 1919
[D] Lord Clive 130.The Anandabazar Patrika was first
Correct Answer published in the year
[B] Lord Cornwallis [A] 1912
124.In which year Pitt’s India Act was [B] 1922
passed in British Parliament? [C] 1925
[A] 1773 [D] 1937
[C] 1784 [B] 1922
[D] 1789 131.In which year the Howrah Bridge
Correct Answer was opened for the public?
[C] 1784 [A] 1935
125.In which year Hindu College of [B] 1943
Calcutta was set up? [C] 1945
[A] 1805 [D] 1951
[C] 1828 [B] 1943
[D] 1833 Explanation: The design of the
Correct Answer Howrah bridge was made by Rendel,
[B] 1817 Palmer, and Tritton, and the bridge
126.In which year British Queen Victoria was constructed by Cleveland Bridge
was declared as the Empress of & Engineering Company.
India?
[A] 1858
[B] 1861
[C] 1877
[D] 1885
Correct Answer
[C] 1877
127.In which year Vernacular Press Act
was passed?
[A] 1868
[B] 1878
[C] 1885
[D] 1895
Correct Answer
[B] 1878
128.In which year Indian National
Congress was formed?
[A] 1885
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1.The first Indian leader to undergo 6.D Savarkar was born in

34.A public meeting was held on 13th of_______.

[A] Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel [C] Gujarat

63._______ adopted the methods of [B] Congress

Correct Answer [C] Poor as God

Correct Answer 93.Jaya Prakash Narayan is associated

98.Dandi March was began on the date [C] Karachi,1931

[A] Hasrat Mohani [C] William Bentinck

19.Under which among the following [B] Bal Gangadhar Tilak

[C] Champaran [C] Dr. Bhimrao Amedkar

Indian National Movement Notes for [C] Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

62.Who founded as Mohammedan [C] Prasanna Kumar Tagore

73.Who was the first Governor-General [C] 1906

82.Who edited the journal of Poona Correct Answer

93.First English newspaper in India Correct Answer

Peshwa of: [B] 1906 AD

[C] P. C. Joshi [B] G. V. Joshi

Correct Answer [C] Indian Association

[A] V. D. Savarkar National in Making

60. The book ‘Taufat-ul-Muwahidin’ or [D] Bardoloi Satyagraha : 1929

69. In August 1928 an all-party [C] Haripura

[C] 1945 86. The Bardoli Satyagraha held in 1928

[D] She was associated with the Non- [C] Bareilly

12. Hindu College set up in 1817 AD [A] Swami Dayanand

24. The Indigo issues stopped in India Correct Answer

[B] Indian World: Pritish Ch. Roy [C] Dehradun

46. Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, Rajguru, [C] Barrackpore

[C] Iron 62. Which one of the following has not

68. Which one of the following [A] 1838

78. What is the new name of Rippon 1905?

[C] Bihar [A] 1885

Part V [C] 1932

[C] 1934 [A] 1941

22.In which day ‘Quit India Movement’ [C] 2nd September

[D] Surat [C] Bahadur Shah

[B] Chinsura 51.Who was the General of the English

[B] Calcutta Madrasa 62.Who annexed Punjab under the East

66.Ilbert Bill proposed to be introduced [C] Awadh

[B] Mumbai [C] Shivaji

[C] 1761 [C] Doctrine of Lapse: Lord Dalhousie

[A] 1852 various sides of Indian Language and

122.In which year Regulating Act was [B] 1905

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