WBCS MAIN 2015 P-3 HISTORY MCQ & One Liner Questions

WBCS MAIN 2015 P-3 HISTORY MCQ

WBCS MAIN 2015 P-3 HISTORY One Liner Questions

TOPIC 1: ANCIENT INDIA

(Questions 1-26)

1. Which Rig Vedic God is said to be the upholder of the Rita or Cosmic Order? – Varuna

2. Which tribal assembly was normally involved in the election of the tribal chief? – Vidatha

3. From which site are ‘House burials’ reported? – Gufkral in Kashmir

4. What were the main items of export of the Indus people? – Gold, Silver, Cotton goods, Seals and Pottery

5. Which archaeologist claims to have deciphered the Indus script? – S.R. Rao

6. According to latest excavations, Manda is which site of the Indus civilization? – Northernmost

7. Which type of Harappan pottery is said to be the earliest example of its kind in the world? – Glazed pottery

8. How were the Harappan bricks mainly made? – Made in an open mould

9. Where do we find Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic Cultures in sequence? – Belan valley

10. Which is NOT a principal tool of the Early Stone Age? – Scraper

11. When were silkworms introduced into the Byzantine empire from China? – 551 AD

12. What are the works of Kalidasa? – All of them (Abhigyana Sakuntalam, Meghadootam, Raghuvamsa, Malavikagnimitram, Ritusamhara, Kumara Sambhava)

13. What was the meeting ground for Brahmanical and devotional religious levels? – Temples

14. With whom are the later foreign immigrants like Hunas identified? – Rajputs

15. What was the main reason for the development of towns in the Harappan period? – Increase in Agrarian surplus

16. Which is NOT mentioned as ‘asineva’ in Ashokan inscriptions? – Pride and fury

17. Which Bactrian King invaded India in about 182 BC? – Demetrius

18. Who started the general use of stone for monuments? – Asoka

19. Where is the statement about Ashoka’s desire for happiness and prosperity for all men found? – Minor Rock Edicts

20. According to Rajatarangini, who was Ashoka’s favourite deity? – Buddha

21. Which statement about Chandragupta Maurya is incorrect? – Chandragupta was known to the Greeks as ‘Amitrochates’, the destroyer of foes

22. Which sources describe the Mauryas as belonging to the Sudra Varna? – Puranas

23. Which source states that Srinagar was built by Asoka? – Kalhana’s Rajatarangini

24. Who was NOT a Greek Ambassador at the Mauryan Court? – Diodorus

25. What were Kontakasodhanas in the Mauryan period? – Civil courts

26. What were the hereditary soldiers of the Mauryan period known as? – Maula

TOPIC 2: MEDIEVAL INDIA

(Questions 27-55)

27. When and by whom were the Portuguese driven out of Hugli in Bengal? – 1631 – Qasim Khan

28. What was the early capital of the Portuguese in India? – Cochin

29. Which Mughal emperor is credited with composing many Hindi songs? – Akbar

30. Which manuscript paintings reveal realism witnessed by the painters themselves? – Tarikh-i-Alfi

31. What is the subject matter of Hamzahnamah? – Painting

32. Which type of Jagir could not be transferred? – Watan Jagir

33. During whose reign was tobacco introduced in India? – Jahangir

34. Which mosque is known as the ‘pearl-mosque’? – Moti Masjid at Agra

35. Which Mughal Minister was also the ‘paymaster-general’? – Mir Bakshi

36. Which noble of Akbar was killed by Afghan rebels? – Birbal

37. Which Vijayanagara ruler sent an embassy to China? – Bukka-I

38. Who said, “Every pearl in the royal crown is but the crystallized drops of blood fallen from the tearful eyes of the poor peasant”? – Barani

39. Who introduced the Persian festival of Nauroz? – Balban

40. Who built the famous Jaina temples at Dilwara? – Solankis

41. Which Rajputs were the first to voluntarily submit to Akbar? – Kachchhawahas

42. Which Englishman was given the title ‘Khan’ by Jahangir? – Hawkins

43. Who was the founder of the Gajapati Dynasty of Orissa? – Kapilendra

44. Who was the founder of the Sultanate of Madurai? – Jalaluddin Ahsan

45. Who built the Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur? – Muhammad Adil Shah

46. Which Sufi Saint adopted Yogic breathing exercises and was called Sidh? – Farid

47. Who wrote Gitawali, Kavitawali and Vinaya Patrika? – Tulsidas

48. What is ‘Asthavana’? – Land revenue department

49. Who built the city of Nagalapura? – Krishnadevaraya

50. During whose reign did Vijayanagara first come into conflict with Orissa? – Devaraya-I

51. During whose reign did the post of Peshwa become powerful and hereditary? – Shahu

52. Who got the title of ‘Sena Karte’? – Balaji Baji Rao

53. Which region provided the best quality salt petre and opium to the Europeans? – Bihar

54. Who confessed, “We have no right to seize Sind, Yet we shall do so and a very advantageous, useful, human piece of rascality it will be”? – Sir Charles Napier

55. Who was the Governor General when Sind was annexed? – Lord Ellenborough

TOPIC 3: MODERN INDIA (BRITISH ADMINISTRATION & ECONOMIC IMPACT)

(Questions 56-63)

56. Which British officer defeated Mir Qasim in the battles of 1763? – Major Adams

57. What were the indenture regulations binding artisans to sell exclusively to the English company called? – Khatbandi

58. Which Britisher was associated with the introduction of Mahalwari System? – R.M. Bird

59. Which result of the Zamindari System was NOT an advantage to the British? – Permanent fixation of revenue demand

60. Which pair is correctly matched regarding the Revolt of 1857? – Jhansi – Sir Hugh Rose

61. Who is acknowledged as the pioneer of local self-Government in modern India? – Lord Ripon

62. Who first attempted decentralization of financial administration? – Lord Mayo

63. When was the portfolio system introduced by the British Government? – 1861

TOPIC 4: MODERN INDIA (SOCIO-RELIGIOUS REFORM & EARLY RESISTANCE)

(Questions 64-74)

64. Who termed the process of lower castes imitating upper castes as ‘Sanskritisation’? – M.N. Srinivas

65. What was the Bengali monthly founded and edited by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee in 1873? – Bangadarshana

66. When and by whom was the Nair Service Society founded? – 1914 – M. Padmanabha Pillai

67. Who founded the Tamil journal Kudi Arasu? – E.V. Ramaswamy Periyar

68. Who were the original founders of the Theosophical society? – Madam H.P. Blavatsky and Colonel H.S. Olcott

69. Which statements about Keshab Chandra Sen are correct? – i, ii and iii (radical social reforms, infused Bhakti, influenced reformers in Bombay and Madras)

70. Which book was NOT written by Swami Dayanand Saraswati? – Veda Prakash

71. Who founded the secret society Abhinava Bharat? – Ganesh Savarkar

72. Who founded the Indian Reforms Association in 1870? – Keshab Chandra Sen

73. With what was the Whitley Commission concerned? – Labour

74. Which newspaper/journal was from Maharashtra? – Kranti

TOPIC 5: MODERN INDIA (FREEDOM STRUGGLE & INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS)

(Questions 75-100)

75. On what ground did Subhas Chandra Bose fight the presidential elections in 1939? – He favoured an aggressive policy opposed by Congress Leaders

76. With what is Lord Macaulay associated? – English education

77. Who was NOT a member of the Congress Socialist Party but encouraged its formation? – Jawaharlal Nehru

78. Who was the Congress president during Cripps Mission (1942) and Simla Conference? – Abul Kalam Azad

79. Which pact adumbrated principles later incorporated in Montague-Chelmsford Reforms? – Lucknow Pact

80. Through which organization did the Indian Association arouse national consciousness? – Indian National Conference

81. Who designed the National Flag of India adopted on July 21, 1947? – Badr-ud-din-Tyabji

82. Which pair is correctly matched? – Quarterly Journal – Lajpat Rai

83. Which pair is correctly matched? – Rowlatt Act – Lord Chelmsford

84. Who said the Congress movement was neither inspired by the people nor devised by them? – Lord Dufferin

85. Who described Tilak as the ‘father of Indian unrest’? – Valentine Chirol

86. Which two groups did NOT boycott the Simon Commission? – Punjab Unionists and Justice Party

87. Which is correctly matched? – Foundation of the Congress Socialist party – 1934

88. What was the newspaper published by the Indian Muslim League? – Dawn

89. When was FICCI founded? – 1927

90. Who said, “This orderly disciplined anarchy should go, and if as a result there is complete lawlessness I would risk it”? – Mahatma Gandhi

91. Who said, “The Muslims were fools to ask for safeguards and the Hindus were greater fools to refuse them”? – Muhammed Ali

92. Who made the ‘Dipawali Declaration’ and when? – Lord Irwin in 1929

93. Which capitalist served as AICC treasurer and went to jail in 1930? – Jamnalal Bajaj

94. Who played an important role in signing the Gandhi-Irwin Pact? – Tej Bahadur Sapru and Jayakar

95. Which session of the Congress had 1889 Delegates? – Fourth Session of Allahabad

96. Which group did NOT get separate electorates by the Act of 1935? – Depressed Classes

97. What is the chronological sequence of August Declaration, Lucknow Pact, Jallianwalla Bagh Massacre, and Khaira Satyagraha? – Lucknow Pact (1916), Khaira Satyagraha (1918), August Declaration (1917), Jallianwalla Bagh Massacre (1919)

98. Arrange in chronological order: Champaran Satyagraha (1917), Khilafat Movement (1920), Reunion of Congress (1916), Nagpur Session (1920) – Reunion of Congress (1916), Champaran Satyagraha (1917), Khilafat Movement (1920), Nagpur Session (1920)

99. During whose period did the ‘White Mutiny’ occur? – Lord Canning

100. Which was NOT a cause for the rise of money lenders in British India? – New educational system

TOPIC-WISE SUMMARY

TopicQuestion Numbers
Topic 1: Ancient India1-26
Topic 2: Medieval India27-55
Topic 3: Modern India (British Administration & Economic Impact)56-63
Topic 4: Modern India (Socio-Religious Reform & Early Resistance)64-74
Topic 5: Modern India (Freedom Struggle & Indian National Congress)75-100

WBCS MAIN 2015 P-3 HISTORY MCQ

TOPIC 1: ANCIENT INDIA

(Questions 1-40)

1. Which of the following Rig Vedic Gods is said to be the upholder of the Rita or Cosmic Order?
A) Indra
B) Agni
C) Varuna
D) Soma
Answer: C) Varuna

2. Which one of the following tribal assemblies has normally involved in the election of the tribal chief?
A) Samiti
B) Sabha
C) Gana
D) Vidatha
Answer: D) Vidatha

3. ‘House burials’ are reported from:
A) Gufkral in Kashmir
B) Ghaligai – in the northeast
C) Uleri in Almora
D) Balathal in Rajasthan
Answer: A) Gufkral in Kashmir

4. Which of the following were the main items of export of the Indus people?
(i) Gold and Silver
(ii) Cotton goods
(iii) Terracottas
(iv) Seals
(v) Pottery
A) ii, iii and v
B) i, iii and iv
C) i, ii, iv and v
D) All of them
Answer: C) i, ii, iv and v

5. Who among the following archaeologists has been claiming that he has successfully deciphered the Indus script, though others have not accepted the claim?
A) R.E.M. Wheeler
B) Gordon Childe
C) K.M. Srivastava
D) S.R. Rao
Answer: D) S.R. Rao

6. According to the latest excavations, Manda is the __ site of the Indus civilization?
A) Northernmost
B) Southernmost
C) Easternmost
D) Westernmost
Answer: A) Northernmost

7. Which one of the following types of Harappan pottery is said to be the earliest example of its kind in the world?
A) Polychrome
B) Glazed
C) Perforated
D) Knobbed
Answer: B) Glazed

8. The Harappan bricks were mainly
A) Sawn with the help of a saw-like instrument
B) Made in an open mould
C) Hand-made
D) Cut with the help of a chisel
Answer: B) Made in an open mould

9. Where do we find the three phases, viz. Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic Cultures in sequence?
A) Belan valley
B) Krishna Valley
C) Godavari Valley
D) Kashmir Valley
Answer: A) Belan valley

10. Which of the following is not a principal tool of the Early Stone Age?
A) Scraper
B) Handaxe
C) Cleaver
D) Chopper
Answer: A) Scraper

11. When were the silkworms introduced into the Byzantine empire from China, adversely affecting India’s already declining foreign trade?
A) 451 AD
B) 551 AD
C) 615 AD
D) 351 AD
Answer: B) 551 AD

12. Kalidasa’s works include
(i) Abhigyana Sakuntalam
(ii) Meghadootam
(iii) Raghuvamsa
(iv) Malavikagnimitram
(v) Ritusamhara
(vi) Kumara Sambhava
A) All of them
B) i, ii, iii and iv
C) i, ii, iv, v and vi
D) i, iii, iv and v
Answer: A) All of them

13. Which one of the following was the meeting ground for the Brahmanical and devotional religious levels?
A) Maths
B) Temples
C) Ghatikas
D) Samas
Answer: B) Temples

14. With which one of the following are the later foreign immigrants like Hunas, who came after the fall of Imperial Guptas, identified?
A) Kshatriyas
B) Fallen Kshatriyas
C) Rajputs
D) Mlechchas
Answer: C) Rajputs

15. Which of the following is the main reason for the development of towns in the Harappan period?
A) Development of Science and technology
B) Development of Arts and crafts
C) Growth of Trade and commerce
D) Increase in Agrarian surplus
Answer: D) Increase in Agrarian surplus

16. Which one of the following has not been mentioned as ‘asineva’ in Ashokan inscriptions
A) Greed and passion
B) Cruelty and anger
C) Pride and fury
D) Envy and revenge
Answer: C) Pride and fury

17. Who was the Bactrian King that invaded India in about 182 BC and wrested a considerable part of the North-West?
A) Demetrius
B) Antigonus
C) Philadelphia
D) Gondophares
Answer: A) Demetrius

18. Who among the following started the general use of stone for monuments?
A) Chandra Gupta Maurya
B) Bimbisara
C) Bindusara
D) Asoka
Answer: D) Asoka

19. ‘Just as for my children, I desire that they should enjoy all happiness and prosperity both in this world and the next, so for all men I desire the like happiness and prosperity’. This is stated in –
A) Barabar Cave Inscriptions
B) Minor Rock Edicts
C) Tarai Pillars
D) Kalinga Inscriptions
Answer: B) Minor Rock Edicts

20. According to ‘Rajatarangini’ Ashoka’s favourite deity was
A) Siva
B) Vishnu
C) Vasudeva
D) Buddha
Answer: D) Buddha

21. Which of the following statement is incorrect?
A) Kautilya was Chandragupta’s guide and mentor
B) Chandragupta was succeeded by his son Bindusara
C) Chandragupta was known to the Greeks as ‘Amitrochates’, the destroyer of foes
D) Chandragupta is said to have died of slow starvation in south India
Answer: C) Chandragupta was known to the Greeks as ‘Amitrochates’, the destroyer of foes

22. Which of the following sources describe the Mauryas as belonging to the Sudra Varna?
A) Puranas
B) Jatakas
C) Purvas
D) European Classical Writers
Answer: A) Puranas

23. Which one of the following sources states that Srinagar was built by Asoka?
A) Kalhana’s Rajatarangini
B) Divyavadana
C) Taranatha’s History of Tibet
D) Mahavamsa
Answer: A) Kalhana’s Rajatarangini

24. Who among the following was not a Greek Ambassador staying at the Mauryan Court?
A) Megasthenes
B) Diodorus
C) Deimachus
D) Dionysius
Answer: B) Diodorus

25. Kontakasodhanas of the Mauryan period were
A) Royal treasuries
B) Civil courts
C) Criminal courts
D) Police stations
Answer: B) Civil courts

26. The hereditary soldiers of the Mauryan period were known as
A) Bhritakas
B) Maula
C) Vardhaki
D) Atavivala
Answer: B) Maula

TOPIC 2: MEDIEVAL INDIA

(Questions 27-58)

27. When and by whom were the Portuguese driven out of Hugli in Bengal?
A) 1625-Shaista Khan
B) 1631-Qasim Khan
C) 1650-Prince Murad
D) 1632-Qasim Khan
Answer: B) 1631-Qasim Khan

28. What was the early capital of the Portuguese in India?
A) Goa
B) Cochin
C) Calicut
D) Cannanore
Answer: B) Cochin

29. Which one of the following Mughal emperors is credited with the composition of many Hindi Songs?
A) Humayun
B) Babur
C) Akbar
D) Jahangir
Answer: C) Akbar

30. Which of the following manuscripts, containing miniature paintings, reveals a sense of realism and authenticity witnessed or experienced by the painters themselves?
A) Timur Namah
B) Akbar Namah
C) Jamiut-Tawarikh
D) Tarikh-i-Alfi
Answer: D) Tarikh-i-Alfi

31. The subject matter of Hamzahnamah is
A) Architecture
B) Painting
C) Music
D) Philosophy
Answer: B) Painting

32. The only type of Jagir which could not be transferred was –
A) Khidmati Jagir
B) Watan Jagir
C) Milkiyat Jagir
D) Tan Jagir
Answer: B) Watan Jagir

33. During the reign of which great Mughal was tobacco introduced in India?
A) Jahangir
B) Akbar
C) Shahjahan
D) Aurangzeb
Answer: A) Jahangir

34. Which of the following mosques of the Mughals is also known as the ‘pearl-mosque’?
A) Jamia Masjid at Delhi
B) Jamia Masjid at Fatehpur
C) Moti Masjid at Agra
D) Aurangzeb’s personal mosque in the Red Fort
Answer: C) Moti Masjid at Agra

35. Who among the following Mughal Minister was the ‘paymaster-general’ as well?
A) Diwan
B) Mir Bakshi
C) Khan-i-Saman
D) Vakil
Answer: B) Mir Bakshi

36. Who among the following nobles of Akbar was killed by the Afghan rebels in one of the Mughal campaigns to suppress them?
A) Man Singh
B) Todar Mal
C) Birbal
D) Bhagwan Das
Answer: C) Birbal

37. Which Vijayanagara ruler sent an embassy to China?
A) Harihara-I
B) Krishna Deva Raya
C) Bukka-I
D) Saluva Narasimha
Answer: C) Bukka-I

38. ‘Every pearl in the royal crown is but the crystallized drops of blood fallen from the tearful eyes of the poor peasant’. Who made this statement?
A) Amir Khusrau
B) Barani
C) Ibn-Batutah
D) Al-Beruni
Answer: B) Barani

39. Who introduced the famous Persian festival of Nauroz?
A) Alauddin Khalji
B) Iltutmish
C) Balban
D) Firuz Tughlaq
Answer: C) Balban

40. The famous Jaina temples at Dilwara were built by
A) Paramaras
B) Chandellas
C) Solankis
D) Chauhans
Answer: C) Solankis

41. Who among the following Rajputs were the first to voluntarily submit to Akbar?
A) Hadas
B) Sisodias
C) Rathors
D) Kachchhawahas
Answer: D) Kachchhawahas

42. Who among the following Englishmen was given the title ‘Khan’ by Jahangir?
A) Thomas Roe
B) Ralph Fitch
C) Hawkins
D) Newbery
Answer: C) Hawkins

43. Who was the founder of ‘Gajapati Dynasty’ of Orissa?
A) Purushottam
B) Kapilendra
C) Prataparudra
D) Vidyadhara
Answer: B) Kapilendra

44. Who was the founder of Sultanate of Madurai?
A) Jalaluddin Ahsan
B) Hussain Shah
C) Nusrat Shah
D) Dilwar Khan
Answer: A) Jalaluddin Ahsan

45. Who built the ‘Gol Gumbaz’ at Bijapur famous for the world’s second largest dome and the whispering gallery?
A) Mahmud Gawan
B) Yusuf Adil Shah
C) Ismail Adil Shah
D) Muhammad Adil Shah
Answer: D) Muhammad Adil Shah

46. Which Sufi Saint adopted Yogic breathing exercises and was called Sidh or perfect?
A) Nizamuddin Auliya
B) Farid
C) Salim Chishti
D) Muhammad Jilani
Answer: B) Farid

47. Who wrote Gitawali, Kavitawali and Vinaya Patrika?
A) Tulsidas
B) Surdas
C) Chaitanya
D) Namadeva
Answer: A) Tulsidas

48. What is ‘Asthavana’?
A) Land revenue department
B) A type of rice
C) One third of the produce of the land
D) House-tax
Answer: A) Land revenue department

49. City of Nagalapura was built by –
A) Bukka-I
B) Deva Raya-I
C) Krishnadevaraya
D) Virupaksha
Answer: C) Krishnadevaraya

50. During whose reign did Vijayanagara come into conflict with Orissa for the first time?
A) Bukka-II
B) Devaraya-I
C) Devaraya-II
D) Virupaksha-II
Answer: B) Devaraya-I

51. During whose reign did the post of Peshwa not only become powerful but also hereditary?
A) Rajaram
B) Shivaji-II
C) Sambhaji
D) Shahu
Answer: D) Shahu

52. Who among the following got the title of ‘Sena Karte’?
A) Balaji Biswanath
B) Balaji Baji Rao
C) Rajaram
D) Baji Rao-I
Answer: B) Balaji Baji Rao

53. Which region in India provided the best quality salt petre and opium to the Europeans?
A) Coromandel
B) Gujarat
C) Bihar
D) Malabar
Answer: C) Bihar

54. Who confessed the following way? ‘We have no right to seize Sind, Yet we shall do so and a very advantageous, useful, human piece of rascality it will be”.
A) Lord Auckland
B) Lord Ellenborough
C) Sir Charles Napier
D) Major James Outram
Answer: C) Sir Charles Napier

55. Who was the Governor General when Sind was annexed?
A) Lord Auckland
B) Lord Ellenborough
C) Lord Dalhousie
D) Lord Hardinge-I
Answer: B) Lord Ellenborough

TOPIC 3: MODERN INDIA (BRITISH ADMINISTRATION & ECONOMIC IMPACT)

(Questions 56-63)

56. The British officer who defeated Mir Qasim in a series of battles of 1763 was?
A) Major Hector Munro
B) Major Adams
C) Colonel Malleson
D) Colonel Holwell
Answer: B) Major Adams

57. Indenture regulations which bound the artisans of Eastern India to sell their products exclusively to the English company from the Late 18th Century were known as
A) Dadni
B) Damdup
C) Khatbandi
D) Kamiya
Answer: C) Khatbandi

58. Who among the following Britishers were associated with the introduction of Mahalwari System?
A) R.M. Bird
B) Sir John Lawrence
C) William Carey
D) Sir Alexander Cunningham
Answer: A) R.M. Bird

59. Which of the following results of the Zamindari System was not an advantage to the British?
A) Creation of political allies
B) Minimisation of revenue administrative expenditure
C) Permanent fixation of revenue demand
D) Provision of financial security
Answer: C) Permanent fixation of revenue demand

60. Which of the following pairs are correctly matched?
A) Banaras – Sir Colin Campbell
B) Jhansi – Sir Hugh Rose
C) Kanpur – Brigadier General Neil
D) Lucknow – Major General Havelock
Answer: B) Jhansi – Sir Hugh Rose

61. Who is generally acknowledged as the pioneer of local self-Government in modern India?
A) Ripon
B) Hardinge-I
C) M.K. Gandhi
D) Curzon
Answer: A) Ripon

62. Who was the first to attempt decentralization of financial administration?
A) Ripon
B) Warren Hastings
C) Mayo
D) Curzon
Answer: C) Mayo

63. The British Government introduced the portfolio system for the first time in
A) 1853
B) 1858
C) 1861
D) 1892
Answer: C) 1861

TOPIC 4: MODERN INDIA (SOCIO-RELIGIOUS REFORM & EARLY RESISTANCE)

(Questions 64-74)

64. The lower castes tried to assert themselves by borrowing and imitating customs and manners of the upper castes. This was termed as Sanskritisation by
A) M.K. Gandhi
B) Bernard Cohn
C) B.R. Ambedkar
D) M.N. Srinivas
Answer: D) M.N. Srinivas

65. What is the name of the Bengali monthly founded and edited by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee in 1873?
A) Soma Prakasha
B) Bangaduta
C) Bangadarshana
D) Bengalee
Answer: C) Bangadarshana

66. When and by whom was the ‘Nair Service Society’ founded?
A) 1905 – Narayana Guru
B) 1910 – T.M. Nair
C) 1914 – M. Padmanabha Pillai
D) 1916 – K. Ramakrishna Pillai
Answer: C) 1914 – M. Padmanabha Pillai

67. Tamil journal, Kudi Arasu was founded by whom?
A) Anna Durai
B) P. Tyagaraja Chetti
C) T.M. Nair
D) E.V. Ramaswamy Periyar
Answer: D) E.V. Ramaswamy Periyar

68. Which of the following were the original founders of the Theosophical society?
(i) Madam H.P. Blavatsky
(ii) Mrs. Annie Besant
(iii) Colonel H.S. Olcott
(iv) Colonel O.P. Walburn
A) i and ii
B) ii and iii
C) i and iii
D) iii and iv
Answer: C) i and iii

69. Keshab Chandra Sen
(i) Adopted a radical and comprehensive scheme of social reforms.
(ii) Infused the concept of Bhakti into Brahmoism
(iii) Influenced the socio-religious reformers in Bombay and Madras
(iv) Opposed the introduction of western education in India.
A) i and iii
B) ii, iii and iv
C) i, ii and iii
D) All of them
Answer: C) i, ii and iii

70. Which of the following books was not written by Swami Dayanand Saraswati?
A) Satyartha Prakash
B) Veda Prakash
C) Satyartha Bhumika
D) Veda Bhashya Bhumika
Answer: B) Veda Prakash

71. Who was the founder of secret society Abhinava Bharat?
A) Naren Bhattacharji
B) Jatin Mukherji
C) Ganesh Savarkar
D) Damodar Chapekar
Answer: C) Ganesh Savarkar

72. Who founded the Indian Reforms Association in 1870?
A) Ram Mohan Roy
B) Debendranath Tagore
C) Keshab Chandra Sen
D) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
Answer: C) Keshab Chandra Sen

73. The Whitley Commission was concerned with
A) Labour
B) Education
C) Public Health
D) Reorganisation of Civil Service
Answer: A) Labour

74. Which of the following newspapers/journals was from Maharashtra?
A) Kranti
B) Atmashakti
C) Sarathi
D) Sandhya
Answer: A) Kranti

TOPIC 5: MODERN INDIA (FREEDOM STRUGGLE & INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS)

(Questions 75-100)

75. Subhas Chandra Bose fought the presidential elections in 1939 on the ground that
A) He did not like the nomination of Sitaramayya
B) He pleaded for elections instead of nominations
C) He was opposed to Gandhi
D) He favoured an aggressive policy which was opposed by the Congress Leaders
Answer: D) He favoured an aggressive policy which was opposed by the Congress Leaders

76. Lord Macaulay was associated with
A) English education
B) Abolition of Sati
C) Codification of Laws
D) Permanent settlement
Answer: A) English education

77. Who among the following was not a member of the Congress Socialist Party, although he encouraged and blessed its formation?
A) Achyuta Patwardhan
B) Jawaharlal Nehru
C) Jayaprakash Narayan
D) Acharya Narendra Dev
Answer: B) Jawaharlal Nehru

78. The Congress president who conducted negotiations with Cripps in 1942 and Wavell at the Simla Conference was
A) Abul Kalam Azad
B) Jawahar Lal Nehru
C) J.B Kripalani
D) C. Rajagopalachari
Answer: A) Abul Kalam Azad

79. Which one of the following adumbrated principles and constitutional provisions which were later incorporated in the Montague-Chelmsford Reforms?
A) Nehru Report
B) Wavell Plan
C) Lucknow Pact
D) Poona Pact
Answer: C) Lucknow Pact

80. The Indian Association played an important role in arousing national consciousness through the formation of the
A) Indian National Congress
B) Bengal British Indian Society
C) Indian National Conference
D) British India Association
Answer: C) Indian National Conference

81. Who designed the National Flag of India, adopted by the Constituent Assembly on July 21, 1947?
A) Badr-ud-din-Tyabji
B) Rabindranath Tagore
C) Abanindranath Tagore
D) Abul Kalam Azad
Answer: A) Badr-ud-din-Tyabji

82. Which of the following is correctly paired?
A) Panjbee – T. Prakasam and M. Krishna Rao
B) Bharata Mata – Ajit Singh
C) Krishna Patrika – M.G. Ranade
D) Quarterly Journal – Lajpat Rai
Answer: D) Quarterly Journal – Lajpat Rai

83. Which of the following is correctly paired?
A) Antipartition and Swadeshi Movements – Lord Lansdowne
B) Factory Act of 1891 – Lord Curzon
C) Establishment of an agricultural Research Institution at Pusa – Lord Minto
D) Rowlatt Act – Lord Chelmsford
Answer: D) Rowlatt Act – Lord Chelmsford

84. Who said ‘the congress movement was neither inspired by the people nor devised or planned by them?’
A) Lala Lajpat Rai
B) Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
C) Lord Curzon
D) Lord Dufferin
Answer: D) Lord Dufferin

85. Who described Bal Gangadhar Tilak as the ‘father of Indian unrest’
A) Valentine Chirol
B) Disraeli
C) Minto-II
D) Chelmsford
Answer: A) Valentine Chirol

86. All the established political parties and groups, except two, boycotted Simon commission, which were those two?
(i) Hindu Mahasabha
(ii) Justice Party
(iii) Muslim League
(iv) Punjab Unionists
A) ii and iii
B) i and ii
C) iv and ii
D) iii and iv
Answer: C) iv and ii (Punjab Unionists and Justice Party)

87. Which of the following is correctly matched?
A) Formation of the All India Kisan Sabha – 1935
B) Foundation of the Congress Socialist party – 1934
C) Foundation of the Forward Block – 1936
D) Foundation of the Communist Party of India – 1939
Answer: B) Foundation of the Congress Socialist party – 1934

88. What is the name of the newspaper published by the ‘Indian Muslim League’?
A) Quam
B) Inquilab
C) Star of India
D) Dawn
Answer: D) Dawn

89. When was the Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) founded?
A) 1905
B) 1907
C) 1917
D) 1927
Answer: D) 1927

90. Who said: ‘This orderly disciplined anarchy should go, and if as a result there is complete lawlessness I would risk it’?
A) Jawaharlal Nehru
B) Mahatma Gandhi
C) Rajagopalachari
D) Vallabh Bhai Patel
Answer: B) Mahatma Gandhi

91. Who said: ‘The Muslims were fools to ask for safeguards and the Hindus were greater fools to refuse them’?
A) Jawaharlal Nehru
B) Abul Kalam Azad
C) Muhammed Ali
D) Subhas Bose
Answer: C) Muhammed Ali

92. Who made the ‘Dipawali Declaration’ and when?
A) Lord Irwin in 1929
B) Lord Linlithgow in 1940
C) Gandhi in 1930
D) Subhas Bose in 1941
Answer: A) Lord Irwin in 1929

93. Who among the following capitalists served as a AICC treasurer for many years and went to jail in 1930?
A) G.D. Birla
B) Jamnalal Bajaj
C) J.R.D. Tata
D) Walchand Hirachand
Answer: B) Jamnalal Bajaj

94. Who among the following played an important role in the signing of the Gandhi Irwin pact?
(i) Motilal Nehru
(ii) Tej Bahadur Sapru
(iii) Madanmohan Malaviya
(iv) Jayakar
(v) Chintamani
A) i and ii
B) ii and iv
C) ii and iii
D) iv and v
Answer: B) ii and iv (Tej Bahadur Sapru and Jayakar)

95. Which session of the Congress had 1889 Delegates?
A) Third Session of Madras
B) Fourth Session of Allahabad
C) Fifth Session at Bombay
D) Sixth Session at Calcutta
Answer: B) Fourth Session of Allahabad

96. Which of the following groups did not get separate electorates by the Act of 1935?
A) Anglo-Indians
B) Indian Christians
C) Europeans
D) Depressed Classes
Answer: D) Depressed Classes

97. What is the Chronological sequence of the following happenings?
(i) August Declaration
(ii) Lucknow Pact 1916
(iii) Jallianwalla Bagh Massacre 1919
(iv) Khaira Satyagraha 1918
A) iv, ii, iii and i
B) iii, i, ii and iv
C) ii, iv, i and iii
D) ii, i, iv and iii
Answer: C) ii, iv, i and iii

98. Arrange the following events in chronological order
(i) Champaran Satyagraha 1917
(ii) Launching of the Khilafat Movement 1920
(iii) Reunion of the Congress 1916
(iv) Nagpur session of the Congress 1920
A) iii, i, ii and iv
B) iii, i, iv and ii
C) i, ii, iv and ii
D) i, iv, iii and ii
Answer: A) iii, i, ii and iv

99. During whose period did the European soldiers stage the so called ‘White Mutiny’ in India?
A) Dalhousie
B) Canning
C) Mayo
D) Ripon
Answer: B) Canning

100. Which of the following is not one of the causes responsible for the rise of money lenders in British India?
A) New revenue policy
B) New legal system
C) New educational system
D) Commercialization of agriculture
Answer: C) New educational system

TOPIC-WISE SUMMARY

TopicQuestion Numbers
Topic 1: Ancient India1-26
Topic 2: Medieval India27-55
Topic 3: Modern India (British Administration & Economic Impact)56-63
Topic 4: Modern India (Socio-Religious Reform & Early Resistance)64-74
Topic 5: Modern India (Freedom Struggle & Indian National Congress)75-100