1. Which of the following leaders did not come the influence of Theosophy and Annie Besant?

(a) Jawaharlal Nehru

(b) Lajpat Rai

(d) None

2. Match the following:

List-I

A. Lord Clive

B. Lord Warren Hastings

C. Lord Wellesley

D. Lord Hastings

E. Lord Dalhousie

List-II

i. Regulating Act

ii. Subsidy System

iii. Diwani

iv. Maratha War

v. Doctrine of Lapse

(a) A-i, B-iii, C-ii, D-v, E-iv

(b) A-v, B-iv, C-iii, D-ii, E-i

(d) A-iii, B-i, C-ii, D-iv, E-v

3. Which of the following movements bears the influence of Swami Vivekananda?

(a) Boycott

(b) Deoband

(d) Swadesh

4. How old was Bahadur Shah When he was deported to Rangoon after the Great Mutiny was crushed?

(a) 72

(b) 92

(d) 82

5. Who of the following was never the President of the Indian National Congress?

(a) Motilal Nehru

(b) Mohammad Ali Jinnah

(d) Dr. M.A. Ansari

6. By which Charter Act the East India Company lost its monopolistic trading rights?

(a) Charter Act, 1813

(b) Charter Act, 1853

(d) Charter Act, 1833

7. Who wrote the book “Poverty and the Un-British Rule in India”?

(a) Surendranath Banerjee

(b) Baddruddin Tyabji

(d) Subhash Chandra Bose

8. Who among the following did not complete at the Indian Civil Services Examination?

(a) Satyendranath Tagore

(b) Lajpat Rai

(d) Subhash Chandra Bose

9. The challenge of the moderates ended with the death of-

(a) Dadabhai Nauroji

(b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

(d) None

10. Which sect owes its origin to Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Khadiani?

(a) Nihangs

(b) Khudai Khedmatgars

(d) Ahmadiyas

Answers:

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1. In which year did English East India Company acquire Diwani of Bengal?

(a) 1764

(b) 1793

(d) 1765

2. Cotton boom began in

(a) 1861

(b) 1860

(d) 1863

3. Agricultural prices began to fall in

(a) 1820s

(b) 1830s

(d) 1850s

4. The Regulating Act was passed in

(a) 1793

(b) 1791

(d) 1794

5. First Revenue Settlement came into force in

(a) 1815

(b) 1817

(d) 1818

6. Which of the following statement(s) is/are not true

A. The power of Jotedars, within the villagers, was more effective than that of Zamindars.

B. Like Zamindars, Jotedars were located in the village.

C. The Jotedars were most powerful in North Bengal.

D. Jotedars’ rise undoubtedly strengthen zamindars’ authority.

(a) Only A

(b) A and C

(d) B and D

7. Subsidiary Alliance was introduced in

(a) 1800

(b) 1801

(d) 1799

8. The Summery Revenue Settlement was introduced in

(a) 1852-53

(b) 1856-57

(d) 1857-58

9. When did mutiny start in Merrut

(a) 8 May 1857

(b) 9 May 1857

(d) 7 May 1857

10. When did British suffer defeat in the Battle of Chinhat?

(a) 30 June 1857

(b) 28 June 1857

(d) 29 May 1857

Answers:

1. (d)

2. (a)

3. (a)

4. (a) It was passed by the British parliament to regulate the activities of the East India Company.

5. (d)

6. (d) Zamindars often lived in urban areas. Jotedars’ rise inevitably weakened zamindars authority.

7. (b) It was introduced by Wellesley in Awadh.

8. (b) It was introduced by the British in Awadh.

9. (c)

10. (a)

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1. Who was the President of the Constitutional Assembly that was formed to draft the Constitution of India?

(a) Babasaheb Ambedkar

(b) Jawaharlal Nehru

(d) Rajendra Prasad

2. Who had moved the resolution proposing that the National Flag of India be “horizontal tricolor of saffron, white and dark green in equal proportion”, with a wheel in navy blue at the centre?

(a) Jawaharlal Nehru

(b) Babasaheb Ambedkar

(d) Subhash Chndra Bose

3. When was the “Objective Resolution” introduced in the ‘Constituent Assembly’?

(a) 13 December, 1946

(b) 13 December, 1947

(d) 13 December, 1949

4. When was Babasaheb Ambedkar born?

(a) 14 April, 1891

(b) 14 April, 1890

(d) 14 April, 1889

5. In making reservations for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in services, the Parliament has to keep in consideration-

(a) their personal claims

(b) their numerical representation

(d) maintenance of the efficiency of administration

6. According to the Supreme Court reservation to backward classes etc. should be-

(a) preferably not more than 50%

(b) may be more than 50% or should be lower than 60%

(d) lower than 51%

7. In which year was Panchayat Raj introduced?

(a) 1955

(b) 1959

(d) 1957

8. Who had said “Dr. Ambedkar is a challenge to Hinduism”?

(a) Mahatma Gandhi

(b) N. Madhav Rao

(d) V. Savarkar

9. When had Dr. Ambedkar organized “Dharam Diksha” ceremony?

(a) 14 October, 1956

(b) 14 October, 1955

(d) 14 October, 1957

10. When did Dr. Ambedkar die?

(a) 6 December, 1956

(b) 6 December, 1957

(d) 5 December, 1956

Answers:

1. (d) The Constituent Assembly, formed in the winter of 1945-46, had 300 members. The members of the Constituent Assembly were not elected on the basis of universal franchise. The then Provincial legislature chose the representative (members) to the Constituent Assembly.

2. (a)

3. (a) It was introduced by Jawaharlal Nehru. This Resolution proclaimed India to be an “Independent Sovereign Republic”, guaranteed its citizens justice, equality and freedom and assured that “adequate and safeguards shall be provided for minorities, backward and tribal areas, and Depressed and other Backward Classes..”

4. (a)

5. (d)

6. (a)

7. (b)

8. (a)

9. (a)

10. (a)

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1. Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct?

During the regime of Lord Curzon the Government intensified the desire for political advance among the Indians.
Lord Curzon took little interest in checking the force of Indian Nationalism.
Satyandra Praad Sinha was the first Indian to get the honour of being appointed Law Member of the Governor- General Council.
The government of India Act, 1935 did not change the legal position of the Secretary of State.

(a) Only 1

(b) Both 1 and 3

(d) All are correct

2. The Report on Indian Constitutional reforms, commonly known as the Mantagu-Chelmsford Report was published in:

(a) April, 1918

(b) May, 1918

(d) July, 1918

3. Congress members were invited to a garden party by the Governor General Lord Duffering in the Year:

(a) 1885

(b) 1886

(d) 1888

4. Who had utilized the local self Government as the basis of election for the first time?

(a) Lord Cornwallis

(b) Lord Lansdowne

(d) Lord Ripon

5. The author of the famous classical book ‘A Passage To India’ is:

(a) Nayantara Sahgal

(b) Bipin Chandra

(d) Jawaharlal Nehru

6. Put the following in chronological order:

Formation of All India Untouchability League
Formation of Indian national Congress
Formation of Muslim league
Formation of All India Trade Union Congress

(a) 2, 3, 4, 1

(b) 1, 3, 2, 4

(d) 1, 2, 3, 4

7. Nagpur was absorbed into the British empire in the year:

(a) 1848

(b) 1849

(d) 1853

8. A great stimulus was provided to the development of local self-Government by the Government of India’s Resolution of:

(a) 1873

(b) 1872

(d) 1870

9. In Madras the system of Government by three Commissioners continued till:

(a) 1866

(b) 1865

(d) 1867

10. Who uttered this day “Will be remembered by future generations of Bengalees as that which marks the extinction of local self-government” in the city of Calcutta.

(a) Din Bandhu Mitra

(b) Surendranath Banerjee

(d) C. Banerjee

Answers:

(c)
(a) It formed the basis of the Government of India Act, 1919.
(b)
(d)
(c)
(a)
(d)
(d)
(d)
(b)

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Modern India (1857-1947)

1. In which year the Akali Movement faced it first baptism by blood at the birth place of Guru Nanak?

(a) February 1920

(b) February 1919

(d) February 1922

2. In which year did the Congress decide to take active steps toward the eradication of untouchability?

(a) 1923

(b) 1925

(d) 1930

3. Who among the following did hold the view that all natural and social phenomena could be analyzed and understood by purely mechanical process.

(a) Raja Rammohan Roy

(b) SC Banerjee

(d) Akshay Kumar Dutt

4. Who had siad that “the juice of all leaves of a particular tree would be the same in content”.

(a) Narayan Guru

(b) Mahatma Gandhi

(d) Dayanand

5. Who among the following had said, “He deserves to be a Brahman, who has acquired the best knowledge and character, and an ignorant person is fit to be classed as a shudra”.

(a) Vivekananda

(b) Ranade

(d) Narayan Guru.

6. When was the Indian Association of Calcutta founded?

(a) 26 July, 1876

(b) 26 July, 1887

(d) 26 July,1875

7.When was the Theosophical Society founded?

(a) 1873

(b) 1872

(d) 1875

8.Who started the Central Hindu School in Benaras?

(a) Mrs Annie Besant

(b) Padit Madan Mohan Malviya

(d) Gopal krishna Gokhale

9. When was the Deccan Education Society founded?

(a) 1880

(b) 1882

(d) 1886

10. In which year was the Indian Woman’s University started?

(a) 1915

(b) 1916

(d) 1918

Answers:

1. (c) The birth place of Guru Nanaka was called Nankana.
2. (a)
3. (d)
4. (a) Narayan Guru and Jyotiba Phule were two unrelenting critics of the caste system and its consequences.
5. (c)
6. (a) The Association was founded by Mr Surendranath Banerjee.He was the first Indian who became successful in the ICS examination but was denied to serve the British Government on some filmsy grounds.
7. (d) The Society was founded by Madame H P Blavatsky and Col. H S Olcott in the United States. After coming to India in 1879, they set up the Society’s headquarters in 1886 in Adyar, a suburb of Madras.
8. (a) The School gradually developed into a College and was ultimately merged into the Hindu University.
9. (c) It was founded under Ranade’s inspiration.
10. (b) It was started by Professor Dhondo Keshav Karve at Poona and transferred to Bombay in 1936.

IASstuffDially

Tuesday, 26 April 2016

Source:: ias.org:: Modern India (Practice Questions)

Modern India (1857-1947)

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