Modern Indian History Selected Questions and Answers Set 9

Modern Indian History Selected Questions and Answers Set 9 Entranciology

Q.1:- Which Sikh Guru helped the rebel prince Khusro with money and blessings ?

  1. Guru Hargovind
  2. Guru Govind Singh
  3. Guru Arjun Dev
  4. Guru Tegh Bahadur

Q.2:- Which of the following Indians was appointed as Deputy Diwan of Bihar by Robert Clive ?

  1. Omi Chand
  2. Manik Chand
  3. Rai Durlabh
  4. Raja Shitab Rai

Q.3:- With reference to the colonial rule of India, which one of the following was not the feature of subsidiary Alliance System ?

  1. A subsidiary British army was to be maintained in the Indian State
  2. The determination of expenses incurred on the subsidiary British army was the duty of Indian State
  3. The Indian State had to keep a British resident in her capital
  4. Indian soldiers could be used by the company commanders

Q.4:- Khalsa was founded by ?

  1. Guru Gobind Singh
  2. Guru Ramdas
  3. Guru Nanak
  4. Guru Arjun Dev

Q.5:- Which one of the following places was famous as capital of Tipu Sultan ?

  1. Srirangpattam
  2. Gulbarga
  3. Hampi
  4. None of these

Q.6:- Hyder Ali was defeated at Porto Novo by which British General ?

  1. Captain Pophem
  2. Sir Eyrecoot
  3. Captain Hector Munro
  4. General Gedard

Q.7:- Who of the following compiled ‘Adigranth’ or ‘Guru Granth Saheb’ ?

  1. Guru Nanak Dev
  2. Guru Teg Bahadur
  3. Guru Govind Singh
  4. Guru Arjun Dev
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Q.8:- The first railway line India was opened in the year ?

  1. 1833
  2. 1853
  3. 1857
  4. 1861

Q.9:- The cause of decline of textile industries in 18th century in Bengal was ?

  1. Decline in quality of production
  2. Non-availability of raw material
  3. High tariff rates on exports to Britain
  4. Non-availability of craftsmen

Q.10:- Who of the following said ‘Good Government is no substitute for self-Government’ ?

  1. Lokmanya Tilak
  2. Swami Vivekanand
  3. Swami Dayanand
  4. Rabindra Nath Tagore

Q.11:- In collaboration with David Hare and Alexander Duff, who of the following established Hindu College at Calcutta ?

  1. Henry Louis Vivian Derozio
  2. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
  3. Keshav Chandra Sen
  4. Raja Ram Mohan Roy

Q.12:- Who was the leader of revolt of the Mundas in 1899-1900 ?

  1. Siddhu
  2. Buddhu Bhagat
  3. Birsa Munda
  4. Shambhudan

Q.13:- Who among the following were the leaders of the Indigo Revolt ?

  1. Digambar Biswas and Bishnu Biswas
  2. Buddhu Bhagat and Jhindari Manki
  3. Dinbandhu Mitra and Madhusudan Dutt
  4. Birsa Munda and Gaya Munda

Q.14:- Which one of the following may be regarded as the first labour association in India ?

  1. The Bombay Millhand’s Association
  2. The Bombay Worker’s Association
  3. The Indian Worker’s Association
  4. The Printer’s Union, Calcutta
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Q.15:- The Silk Letter Conspiracy (1916) was organised by ?

  1. Maulana Obeidullah Sindhi and Maulana Barakatullah
  2. Maualana Abdul Bari and Maulana Muhammad Ali
  3. Maulana Abul Kalam and Maulana Mahmud Hassan
  4. Raja Mahendra Pratap and Jon Henting

Q.16:- Who of the following revolutionaries set up the United India House in the USA ?

  1. Ramnath Puri and Vir Savarkar
  2. Taraknath Das and G.D. Kumar
  3. Lala Hardayal and Bhagat Singh
  4. Harnam Singh and Bhagwan Singh

Q.17:- The Ghadar Movement was founded by ?

  1. Ajit Singh
  2. Lala Hansraj
  3. Lala Hardayal
  4. Sohan Singh Bhakhna

Q.18:- What was Kamagata Maru ?

  1. A political party based in Taiwan
  2. Peasant Communist leader of China
  3. A naval ship on voyage to Canada
  4. A Chinese village where MaoTse Tung began his long march

Q.19:- Which one of the following leaders belonged to the Extremist wing of the Congress ?

  1. Aurobindo Ghosh
  2. Dadabhai Naoroji
  3. K. Gokhle
  4. N. Banerjee

Q.20:- Four resolutions were passed at the famous Calcutta Session of India National Congress in 1906. The question of either retention or of rejection of these four resolution become the cause of a split in Congress at the next Congress session held in Surat in 1907. Which one of the following was not one of those resolutions ?

  1. Annulment of partitions of Bengal
  2. Boycott
  3. National Education
  4. Swadeshi
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Q.21:- The Swarajya Party was formed following the failure of ?

  1. Non-Cooperation Movement
  2. Civil Disobedience Movement
  3. Quit India Movement
  4. Champaran Satyagraha

Q.22:- ‘India Wins Freedom’ is the autobiography of ?

  1. Abul Kalam Azad
  2. Muhammad Ali
  3. Zakir Hussain
  4. Syed Ahmed Khan

Q.23:- Who called Gandhiji ‘Half Naked Beggar’ ?

  1. Mountbatten
  2. Hastings
  3. Winston Churchill
  4. Jinnah

Q.24:- The final arrangements for the India’s independence were worked out by the ?

  1. Cabinet Mission
  2. Simon Commission
  3. Gandhi-Irwin Pact
  4. Cripps Mission

Q.25:- Where was the first Peasant Movement launched by Mahatma Gandhi ?

  1. Bardauli
  2. Dandi
  3. Champaran
  4. Wardha