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  • Question 1
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    The Asiatic Society was established in Calcutta by _________.
    Solution
    Asiatic Society was a scholarly society founded on Jan. 15, 1784, by Sir William Jones, a British lawyer and Orientalist, to encourage Oriental studies.
  • Question 2
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    Brahma Samaj mainly insisted upon _________.
    Solution
    Brahma Samaj mainly insisted upon monotheism.
  • Question 3
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    Which of the following Indian states was annexed by Lord Dalhousie on the pretext of mal-administration?
    Solution
    Oudh (1856) is widely believed to have been annexed under the Doctrine of Lapse. However, it was annexed by Lord Dalhousie under the pretext of mis-governance.
  • Question 4
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    Arrange the following in chronological order.

    I. Dandi March
    II. Simon Commission
    III. Poona Pact
    IV. Gandhi-Irwin Pact
    Solution
    Simon commission - 1928
    Dandi March - 1930
    Gandhi-Irwin Pact - 1931
    Poona Pact - 1932
    The Indian Statutory Commission, commonly referred to as the Simon Commission, was a group of seven British Members of Parliament under the chairmanship of Sir John Simon. The commission arrived in British India in 1928 to study constitutional reform in Britain's largest and most important possession.
    Dandi March was an act of nonviolent civil disobedience in colonial India led by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. The 24-day march lasted from 12 March 1930 to 6 April 1930 as a direct action campaign of tax resistance and nonviolent protest against the British salt monopoly.
    The 'Gandhi-Irwin Pact' was a political agreement signed by Mahatma Gandhi and Lord Irwin, the then Viceroy of India, on 5 March 1931 before the second Round Table Conference in London. It marked the end of a period of civil disobedience (satyagraha) in India against British rule that Gandhi and his followers had initiated with the Salt March (March–April 1930).
    The Poona Pact refers to an agreement between B. R. Ambedkar and Mahatma Gandhi on behalf of Depressed class and caste Hindu leaders on the reservation of electoral seats for the depressed classes in the legislature of British India government. It was made on 24 September 1932 at Yerwada Central Jail in Poona, India. It was signed by B.R Ambedkar on behalf of the depressed classes and Madan Mohan Malviya on behalf of the Caste Hindus.
  • Question 5
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    The strategy of `Divide and Rule` was adopted by _____.
    Solution
    The strategy of `Divide and Rule` was adopted by Lord Curzon.
  • Question 6
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    Who founded the Banaras Hindu University?
  • Question 7
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    The most important feature of the Government of India Act of 1919 was the introduction of __________.
    Solution
    The Government of India Act 1919 (9 & 10 Geo. 5 c. 101) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was passed to expand participation of Indians in the government of India. The Act provided a dual form of government (a "diarchy") for the major provinces. In each such province, control of some areas of government, the "transferred list", were given to a Government of ministers answerable to the Provincial Council. The 'transferred list' included agriculture, supervision of local government, health, and education. The Provincial Councils were enlarged.
  • Question 8
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    The two nation theory was given by ________.
    Solution
    In 1940, in Lahore, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the man who founded Pakistan, gave a seminal speech, setting out the need for a separate state for Muslims on the subcontinent. Prior to the division of India in 1947, Hindus and Muslims had lived together across the country, but Jinnah described them as two separate nations. Hindus and Muslims belong to two different religious philosophies, social customs and literary traditions. Due to these reasons, he gave the concept of the two nations theory.
  • Question 9
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    Who is the author of the concept of Antyodaya?
    Solution
    Vinoba Bhave is the author of the concept of Antyodaya
  • Question 10
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    Which of the following statements correctly defines the term 'drain theory' as propounded by Dadabhai Naoroji?
    Solution
    Dadabhai Naoroji's incredible aptitude for economics resulted in him writing a seminal text called 'Poverty and Un-British Rule in India' where its pages spoke of his renowned 'Theory of Drain of Wealth'. This theory simply described how the resources of India were being utilised in the interest of Britain. This theory provided ground-breaking insights to the various forms of exploitation carried out by the colonial British that took place in incalculable magnitudes eventually leading to the continuous impoverishment of India.
    Dadabhai Naoroji was born on the 4th of September, 1825, to a Parsi family in Bombay. He was an intellectual, academician, economist, a staunch nationalist, a social reformer and an educator.
  • Question 11
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    Gandhi launched the struggle in Ahmedabad in 1917 - 18 which involved the _____.
  • Question 12
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    The last Governor General of India was ________.
    Solution
    Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, informally called Rajaji or C. R., was an Indian politician, independence activist, lawyer, writer, historian and statesman. Rajagopalachari was the last Governor-General of India, as India soon became a Republic in 1950.

  • Question 13
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    The Non-Cooperation Movement did not envisage
    Solution
    The Non-Cooperation Movement was a significant but short phase of the Indian independence movement from British rule. It was led by Mahatma Gandhi after the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre and lasted from 1920 to February 1922. It aimed to resist British rule in India through non-violence. Various stages of the Non-Cooperation Movement were launched by Mahatma Gandhi like surrender of titles that the government awarded, and boycott of civil services, army, police, courts and legislative councils, schools, and foreign goods, but under the jurisdiction of law.
    Gandhiji was the follower of non-violence. So, option 2 is incorrect about the Non-Cooperation Movement.
  • Question 14
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    The clarion call 'Dilli Chalo' was given by _______.
    Solution
    The clarion call 'Dilli Chalo' was given by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. Netaji's call was significant. He urged the British-enslaved people of the country to go forward and capture the seat of power.
  • Question 15
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    The leader of the Young Bengal Movement was
    Solution
    Ans 4.
    Young Bengal Movement was launched by Henry Louis Vivian Derozio (1809-1831), who had come to Calcutta in 1826 and was appointed in the Hindu College as a teacher of English literature and History. Besides this, he edited Hesperus and Calcutta Literary Gazette.
  • Question 16
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    Indian National Congress found wide acceptance initially among _________.
  • Question 17
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    Swaraj as a national demand was first made by _________.
  • Question 18
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    Who among the following is known as the heroine of 1942 Quit India Movement?
    Solution
    Ans 3
    Aruna Asaf Ali was an Indian independence activist. She is widely remembered for hoisting the Indian national flag at the Gowalia Tank maidan in Bombay during the Quit India Movement, 1942. After Independence, she remained active in politics, becoming Delhi's first mayor in 1958.
  • Question 19
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    The first to start a joint stock company trade with India were the
    Solution
    It was the Dutch East India Company to start a joint stock company to trade with India.
  • Question 20
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    Arya Samaj was started by _________.
    Solution
    Ans 1.
    Swami Dayanand Saraswati was an Indian social leader and founder of the Arya Samaj, a reform movement of the Vedic dharma. He was the first to give the call for Swaraj as "India for Indians" in 1876, a call later taken up by Lokmanya Tilak.

    Raja Ram Mohan Roy was one of the founders of the Brahmo Sabha, the precursor of the Brahmo Samaj, a socio-religious reform movement in the Indian subcontinent. He was given the title of Raja by Akbar II, the Mughal emperor.

    Swami Vivekananda, born Narendranath Datta, was an Indian Hindu monk, a chief disciple of the 19th-century Indian mystic Ramakrishna.

    Gopal Krishan Gokhale was an Indian political leader and a social reformer during the Indian independence movement. Gokhale was a senior leader of the Indian National Congress and founder of the Servants of India Society.
  • Question 21
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    Which of the following is the most significant contribution of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel to modern India?
    Solution
    Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was a senior leader of Indian National Congress and a prominent figure in the Indian Freedom Struggle, who later became India's first Deputy Prime Minister and first Home Minister. Sardar Patel's contribution in integrating 565 princely states into a newly independent India is unforgettable.
  • Question 22
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    Who is known as the `Grand Old Man of India`?
    Solution
    Ans 4.
    Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, nicknamed as Fakhr-e-Afghān, was a Pashtun independence activist who worked to end the rule of the British Raj in India. He was a political and spiritual leader known for his nonviolent opposition; he was a lifelong pacifist and devout Muslim. He was also known as Bacha Khan.

    Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, informally called Rajaji or C. R., was an Indian politician, independence activist, lawyer, writer, historian and statesman. Rajagopalachari was the last Governor-General of India, as India soon became a Republic in 1950.

    Lala Lajpat Rai was an Indian freedom fighter. He played a pivotal role in the Indian independence movement. He was popularly known as Punjab Kesari. He was one third of the Lal Bal Pal triumvirate.

    Dadabhai Naoroji was known as the Grand Old Man of India. He was a Parsi intellectual, educator, cotton trader, and an early Indian political and social leader.
  • Question 23
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    Arrange the following in chronological order, who administered as Governor-Generals of India.

    1. Wellesley
    2. Cornwallis
    3. Warren Hastings
    4. Dalhousie
    Solution
    Warren Hastings was an English statesman and the first Governor of the Presidency of Fort William (Bengal), the head of the Supreme Council of Bengal, and thereby the first Governor General of India during 1773-1785.
    Lord Cornwallis enjoyed the confidence of the British Government and was knighted in 1786. In the same year, he was appointed as the Governor-General of India and the Commander-in-Chief of India. Lord Cornwallis enacted various significant reforms within the East India Company and its territories.
    Richard Colley Wellesley was an Irish and British politician and colonial administrator. He first made his name as Governor-General of India between 1798 and 1805.
    James Andrew Ramsay, also known as Lord Dalhousie, served as the Governor-General of India from 1848 to 1856. During his tenure, the Second Anglo-Sikh War (1849) was fought in which the Sikhs were again defeated and Lord Dalhousie annexed the whole of Punjab to the British administration.
  • Question 24
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    Who among the following was involved in the Alipore Bomb case?
    Solution
    The British Government arrested Sri Aurobindo, a prominent Nationalist Leader at the time, Barindra Ghose, and many young revolutionaries.
    They were charged with ''Conspiracy'' or ''waging war against the King'' - the equivalent of high treason and punishable with death by hanging.
  • Question 25
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    Which of the following upheavals took place in Bengal immediately after the Revolt of 1857?
    Solution
    Correct Answer: Indigo revolt
  • Question 26
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    The title `Punjab Kesari` was conferred on _________.
  • Question 27
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    The affairs of East India Company came into the hands of the British Crown under __________.
  • Question 28
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    Who amongst the following was known as Father of Indian Renaissance?
  • Question 29
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    The Muslim League first demanded partition of India in
    Solution
    The Muslim League first demanded partition of India in 1940, after a league conference in Lahore, where Jinnah, in his speech, addressed the people and indicated that Hindus and Muslims belonged to two different religious philosophies. In Lahore, the Muslim League formally recommitted itself to creating an independent Muslim state, which would include Sindh, Punjab, Baluchistan, the Northwest Frontier Province, and Bengal, and which would be "wholly autonomous and sovereign". The resolution guaranteed protection for non-Muslim religions.
  • Question 30
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    Which of the following are the three landmarks of Dalhousie's administration?

    1. Indian Railways
    2. Public Works Department
    3. English as a medium of instruction
    4. Telegraph
    Solution
    The accession of Lord Dalhousie inaugurated a new chapter in the history of British India. He functioned as the Governor-General of India from 1848 to 1856. He is regarded as one of the greatest Governor-Generals of India. He introduced a new system of internal communication in India. He was the father of Indian Railways. He envisaged a network of railways connecting the main places with the ports and providing both for strategically needs and commercial development. The first railway line connecting Bombay with Thane was laid down in 1853. It covered a distance of twenty-six miles. In 1852, Dalhousie introduced the Electric Telegraph System in India. The first telegraph line from Calcutta to Agra was opened in 1854, covering a distance of 800 miles.
    Before Lord Dalhousie, military boards were in charge of the construction of Public Works. Hence, civilian works were completely neglected by the military board. A separate Public Works Department was established by Lord Dalhousie.
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