PSC OBJECTIVE-MODERN INDIA

The practice of Sati was declared illegal by
(a) Lord Ripon
(b) Raja Rammohan Roy
(c) Lord Cornwallis
(d) Lord William Bentick
Answer: Lord William Bentick

Except Jammu and Kashmir and Hyderabad, the integration of Indian states was completed in
(a) 17807
(b) 18598
(c) 18203
(d) 17380
Answer: 18203

Who among the following could not be captured by the British in 1857 ?
(a) Nana Saheb
(b) Tantia Tope
(c) Bahadur Shah II
(d) Mangal Pandey
Answer: Nana Saheb

The Simon Commission was concerned with
(a) Famines
(b) Constitutional reforms
(c) Higher education
(d) Reforms in princely states
Answer: Constitutional reforms

The Vernacular Press Act 1878 was repealed by
(a) Lord Lytton
(b) Lord Ripon
(c) Lord Minto
(d) Lord Curzon
Answer: Lord Ripon

The first national leader to attack the Salt Tax in Indian Legislature was
(a) Mahatma Gandhi
(b) Pherozeshah Mehta
(c) Dadabhai Naoroji
(d) G.K. Gokhale
Answer: G.K. Gokhale

The Indian states that were annexed by invokingthe Doctrine of Lapse included
(a) Mysore, Satara and Bhavnagar
(b) Jhansi, Nagpur and Satara
(c) Jhansi, Nagpur and Travancore
(d) Jhansi, Satara and Mysore
Answer: Jhansi, Nagpur and Satara

 The Congress split into moderates and extremists in the session at
(a) Surat
(b) Lucknow
(c) Ahmedabad
(d) Madras
Answer: Surat

Which of the following was an empire Communist journal of M.N. Roy ?
(a) Kishan Sabha
(b) The Worker
(c) Vanguard
(d) Anushilan
Answer: Vanguard

The Gandhi - Irwin Pact proclaimed the suspension of
(a) Dandi March
(b) None of these
(c) Civil Disobedience Movement
(d) Non Cooperation Movement
Answer: Civil Disobedience Movement

The office of the Secretary of State for India was created by the
(a) Morley - Minto Reforms, 1908
(b) Montague- Chelmsford Reforms
(c) Indian Councils Act, 1861
(d) Government of India Act, 1858
Answer: Government of India Act, 1858

The Indian National Congress adopted the resolution of Poorna Swaraj (complete independence) at its session held at
(a) Calcutta
(b) Allahabad
(c) Karachi(d) 
Lahore
Answer: Lahore

After 1853, a very large amount of the British capital was invested in
(a) Coal mining
(b) Tea plantation
(c) Railways
(d) Jute mills
Answer: Railways

The Home Rule Movement in India was started by
(a) S.N. Banerjee and W.C. Banerjee
(b) Annie Besant and Gokhale
(c) Mahatma Gandhi and Motilal Nehru
(d) Annie Besant and Tilak
Answer: Annie Besant and Tilak

The importance of Gandhiji's Non-Cooperation Movement was that
(a) It showed the ability and the willingness of the people in general to endure.
(b) None of these
(c) Non-violence was employed for the first time as an effective weapon of mass movement.
(d) It was a great movement on a large scale.
Answer: Non-violence was employed for the first time as an effective weapon of mass movement.

Who among the following was the leader of the moderates ?
(a) B.G. Tilak
(b) C.F. Andrews
(c) Annie Besant
(d) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
Answer: Gopal Krishna Gokhale

Who among the following started Bhudan Movement ?
(a) Jayaprakash Narayan
(b) Acharya Kripalani
(c) Vinoba Bhave
(d) Mahatma Gandhi
Answer: Vinoba Bhave

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was born in the year
(a) 1889
(b) 1914
(c) 1899
(d) 1900
Answer: 1889

Who among the following was a prominent officer of the Azad Hind Fauj ?
(a) Shah Nawaz Khan
(b) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
(c) Aruna Asaf Ali
(d) DR. M.A. Ansari
Answer: Shah Nawaz Khan

Which of the following revolutionary leaders organised an attack on the armoury of Chittagong ?
(a) Surya Sen
(b) C.R. Das
(c) Jatin Das
(d) Chandrashekhar Azad
Answer: Surya Sen

Luckhnow Pact of 1916 is significant in the history of Indian National Movement because
(a) None of these
(b) It ended separate electorates for Hindus and Muslims.
(c) It decide India's non participating in World War I.
(d) Both the groups of Congress men settled their disputes
Answer: It ended separate electorates for Hindus and Muslims.

What was the chief characteristic of Government of India Act, 1935 ?
(a) Unitary Government at Centre
(b) None of these
(c) Interim Indian Government at Centre
(d) Federal Government at Centre
Answer: Federal Government at Centre

Which of the following statements is not correct ?
(a) Swami Dayanand Saraswati established the Arya Samaj.
(b) Mahatma Gandhi was born in Gandhinagar.
(c) Dr. Annie Besant was a theosophist
(d) The international headquarter of the Theosophical Society is in Madras.
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi was born in Gandhinagar.

The title of Governor - General was changed to that of Viceroy in the year
(a) 1905 A.D.
(b) 1917 A.D.
(c) 1858 A.D.
(d) 1885 A.D.
Answer: 1858 A.D.

What was the name of the periodical published by Mahatma Gandhi during his stay in South Africa ?
(a) Afrikaner
(b) Indian Opinion
(c) India Gazette
(d) Navjivan
Answer: Indian Opinion

Which of the following was written by Raja Rammohan Roy ?
(a) Tuhfatul Muwahiddin
(b) Kiratarjuniya
(c) Mother India
(d) Brahma Samhita
Answer: Tuhfatul Muwahiddin

Whom did Mahatma Gandhi describe as pure as crystal, as brave as a lion and the most perfect man in the political field ?
(a) B.G. Tilak
(b) C.R. Das
(c) Motilal Nehru
(d) G.K. Gokhale
Answer: G.K. Gokhale

Who among the following first propounded the idea of basic education?
(a) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
(b) Dayanand Saraswati
(c) Mahatma Gandhi
(d) Jawaharlal Nehru
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi

What did Gandhiji do to practise the ideals of truth and non-violence in 1916 ?
(a) He started an all-India Satyagrahs.
(b) He founded Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad
(c) He founded the Gujarat Vidyapeeth.
(d) He joined the Indian National Congress.
Answer: He founded Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad

The Prime Minister of Britain at the time of India's independence was
(a) Ramsay Macdonald
(b) Clement Attlee
(c) Lord Mountbatten
(d) Wintson Churchill
Answer: Clement Attlee

The split between the extremists and the moderates took places in the sessions Indian National Congress held at
(a) Bombay
(b) Surat
(c) Calcutta
(d) Lahore
Answer: Surat

Which of the following statements regarding Quit India Movement is correct ?
(a) The movement paved the way for British seriously considering granting freedom to India.
(b) The Muslims did not participate in the movement.
(c) It was entirely a non-violent movement.
(d) The upper middle class did not show interest in this movement.
Answer: The Muslims did not participate in the movement.

General Dyer who was responsible for Jallianwala Bagh massacre was shot dead by
(a) Udham Singh
(b) Hasrat Mohani
(c) Sohan Singh Bhakna
(d) V.V.S. Iyer
Answer: Udham Singh

The famous song Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram was sung during Dandi march by the renowed musician
(a) Mallikarjun Mansur
(b) Onkar Nath Thakur
(c) Krishna Rao Shankar Pandit
(d) Digambar Vishnu Paluskar
Answer: Digambar Vishnu Paluskar

The greatest evil that arose out of British policies with regard to Indian agriculture, was the
(a) Emergence of the money lenders
(b) None of these
(c) Transformation of the peasant cultivators into tenants at will.
(d) Improverishment of the peasantry
Answer: Improverishment of the peasantry

The Home Rule Movement started by Annie Besant aimed at
(a) Boycotting foreign goods.
(b) Attaining self rule for India
(c) Educating the Indian masses
(d) Agitating against the British monopoly in administration.
Answer: Attaining self rule for India

Before Delhi, where was the capital of India during the British India ?
(a) Lucknow
(b) Patna
(c) Bombay
(d) Calcutta
Answer: Calcutta

In 1930 Mahatma Gandhi started Civil Disobedience Movement from
(a) Sabarmati
(b) Dandi
(c) Wardha
(d) Sevagram
Answer: Sabarmati

Which Governor General abolished the system of dual government established by Robert Clive and established the Company's control over Bengal ?
(a) Warren Hastings
(b) Sir Charles Metacalfe
(c) Lord Wellesley
(d) Lord Cornwallis
Answer: Warren Hastings

Which of the following is not a form of Ganshian Satyagraha ?
(a) Civil Disobedience
(b) Hunger strike
(c) Hijrat
(d) Non - Cooperation
Answer: Hijrat

The immediate cause for precipitation of the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857 was
(a) Disparity in salaries of native sepoys and British soldiers
(b) The rumour of use of catridges greased with cow fat
(c) Spread of Christianity
(d) Doctrine of Lapse
Answer: The rumour of use of catridges greased with cow fat

The Viceroy upon whom a bomb was thrown but he did not change his attitude towards the Indians, was
(a) Lord Chelmsford
(b) Lord Hardinge
(c) Warren Hastings
(d) Lord Curzon
Answer: Lord Hardinge

The capital of India was shifted to Delhi during the reign of
(a) Curzon
(b) Hardinge
(c) Minto
(d) Chelmsford
Answer: Hardinge

Which of the following is correctly matched ?
(a) Pararthana Samaj : Dayanand Saraswati
(b) Brahmo Samaj : Jyotiba Phule
(c) Satya Shodhak Mandal : Keshab Chandra Sen
(d) Sri Narayan Dharma Paripalana Yogam : Narayana Guru
Answer: Sri Narayan Dharma Paripalana Yogam : Narayana Guru

The Separatist system of representation by various religious communities and other groups was a prominent feature of the
(a) Government of India Act, 1919
(b) Indian Independence Act, 1947
(c) Government of India Act, 1935
(d) Indian Council Act, 1861
Answer: Government of India Act, 1935

Lala Lajpat Rai was assulted by the British during
(a) The protest against the Simon Commision
(b) The First war of Indian Independence
(c) The salt Satyagraha
(d) The Civil Disobedience Movement
Answer: The protest against the Simon Commision

The Young India was edited by
(a) Acharya Narendra Dev
(b) Mahatma Gandhi
(c) Jawaharlal Nehru
(d) Mahadev Desia
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi

Vande Mataram was first published in
(a) Anand Math
(b) Kesari
(c) Gitanjali
(d) Harijan
Answer: Anand Math

The song Jana-Gana-Mana composed by Rabindranath Tagore, was first published in January 1912 under the title of
(a) None of these
(b) Bharat Vidhata
(c) Rashtra Jagrati
(d) Tatva Bodhini
Answer: Bharat Vidhata

The Muslim League demanded a separate nation for the Muslim in India from the year
(a) 1920
(b) 1940
(c) 1945
(d) 1930
Answer: 1940

 The resolution to start the Quit India Movement was adopted by INC at its session held at
(a) Bombay
(b) Karachi
(c) Lahore
(d) Calcutta
Answer: Bombay

 Which school of religion started in 1867, was basically anti-British ?
(a) Deoband
(b) Farazi
(c) Wahabi
(d) Aligarh
Answer: Deoband

 The first Indian Councils Act was passed in
(a) 1857
(b) 1892
(c) 1861
(d) 1853
Answer: 1861

Why were the Indians dissatified with the Simon Commission ?
(a) It recommended that Dyarchy in the provinces should be abolished.
(b) None of these
(c) There was no Indian member in the Commission.
(d) Indians never wanted the review of the working of the Act of 1919.
Answer: There was no Indian member in the Commission.

 By which law did the British Crown take over the power to rule over India from the East India Company ?
(a) Magna Carta of Rights
(b) None of these
(c) Indian Councils Act, 1861
(d) Ilbert Bill
Answer: Magna Carta of Rights

 Who founded the Indian National Social Congress in 1887 ?
(a) B.G. Tilak
(b) M.G. Ranade
(c) G.K. Gokhale
(d) Ram Prasad Bismil
Answer: M.G. Ranade

 Who was responsible for the introduction of English as the official language in India ?
(a) Lord William Bentick
(b) Allan Octavian Hume
(c) Marquess of Dalhousie
(d) Sir Charles Wood
Answer: Sir Charles Wood

Mahatma Gandhi gave the call Do or Die during the
(a) Quit India Movement
(b) Civil Disobedience Movement
(c) Khilafat Movement
(d) Non-cooperation Movement
Answer: Quit India Movement

 According to Mountbatten Plan, which of the following provinces was not to be included in the Indian dominion ?
(a) Bihar
(b) Madras
(c) Bombay
(d) Sind
Answer: Sind

British merchants were willing to invest in railways and mines but not in cotton textiles industry. The reason was
(a) Competition from the Indians
(b) Lack of Technology
(c) None of these
(d) Lack of raw material
Answer: None of these

 Who introduced the system of Civil Services ?
(a) Lord Hardinge
(b) William Bentick
(c) Warren Hastings
(d) Lord Dalhousie
Answer: William Bentick

Who was named as Mira Behn by Mahatma Gandhi ?
(a) Annie Besant
(b) Maria Montessouri
(c) Kamla Devi
(d) Madeline Slade
Answer: Madeline Slade

 Who was known as the Liberator of the Press?
(a) Bentick
(b) Macaulay
(c) Hastings
(d) Metcalfe
Answer: Metcalfe

 Who initiated the introduction of education in English in India?
(a) Lord Dalhousie
(b) Lord Bentick
(c) Lord Curzon
(d) Lord Macaulay
Answer: Lord Macaulay

 Which of the following institutions was not founded by Mahatma Gandhi ?
(a) Phoenix Ashram
(b) Sabarmati Ashram
(c) Sevagram Ashram
(d) Vishwa Bharati
Answer: Vishwa Bharati

Who commented that Cripps Mission was a post-dated cheque on a crashing bank ?
(a) Mahatma Gandhi
(b) Jawaharlal Nehru
(c) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
(d) Subhash Chandra Bose
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi

 Which of the following upheavals took place in Bengal immediately after the Revolt of 1857 ?
(a) Pabna Disturbances
(b) Indigo Disturbances
(c) Sanyasi Rebellion
(d) Santal Rebellion
Answer: Indigo Disturbances

 When was the first interim government formed during the British rule in India ?
(a) 17046
(b) 17015
(c) 16650
(d) 16681
Answer: 17046

 The major difference between the moderates and the extremists in the Congress session of 1907 was regarding
(a) Satyagraha
(b) Swaraj
(c) Education
(d) Boycott
Answer: Swaraj

Who after the Constitutional deadlock due to the Quit India Movement, gave the call - Back of Cripps ?
(a) C. Rajagopalachari
(b) Rajendra Prasad
(c) Mahatma Gandhi
(d) Jawaharlal Nehru
Answer: C. Rajagopalachari

The Arya Samaj was founded by Swami Dayanand Saraswati in
(a) 1875
(b) 1893
(c) 1874
(d) 1882
Answer: 1875

Cripps Mission aimed at
(a) Giving proportional representation to the Muslims under the framework of the new Constitution
(b) A compromise between Congress demand of united India and Muslim League's demand for a partitioned India.
(c) Giving complete independence to united India.
(d) Widening the gulf between the Congress and the Muslim League
Answer: Giving complete independence to united India.

 Whom did Lord Wavell invite to make proposal for formation of an interim government ?
(a) Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad
(b) Jawaharlal Nehru
(c) Mahatma Gandhi
(d) M.A. Jinnah
Answer: Jawaharlal Nehru

The author of Hind Swaraj was
(a) M.K. Gandhi
(b) Swami Sharddhanand
(c) V.D. Savarkar
(d) B.G. Tilak
Answer: M.K. Gandhi

 Who declared: The only hope for India is from the masses. The upper classes are physically and morally dead?
(a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(b) Swami Vivekananda
(c) Mahatma Gandhi
(d) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
Answer: Swami Vivekananda

Who among the following characterised the Revolt of 1857 as a conspiracy?
(a) G.B. Malleson
(b) Sir John Kaye
(c) T.R. Holmes
(d) Sir Lawrence
Answer: Sir John Kaye

 Which of the following is not a provision of the Charter Act of 1853 ?
(a) Governor General was given the power to veto the bills passed by the Legislative Council.
(b) A provision was made for an open competitive examination for recruitment to Indian Civil Services.
(c) None of these
(d) Under thid Act, a legislative Council for India was created.
Answer: None of these

Lala Lajpat Rai did not write in
(a) English
(b) Urdu
(c) Hindi
(d) Punjabi
Answer: English

One of the most important activities of Mahatma Gandhi was the abolition of untouchability. For this purpose he founded the All India Harijan Sangh in
(a) 1931
(b) 1932
(c) 1928
(d) 1930
Answer: 1932

 Dadabhai Naoroji declared Swarajya as the aim of the INC at the Calcutta session in
(a) 1906
(b) 1905
(c) 1896
(d) 1901
Answer: 1906

 Non-Cooperation Movement was passed in which session of Indian National Congress ?
(a) Kanpur
(b) Nagpur
(c) Bombay
(d) Calcutta
Answer: Calcutta

 King George V visited India during the viceroyalty of
(a) Lorg Curzon
(b) Lord Rippon
(c) Lord Reading
(d) Lord Hardinge
Answer: Lord Hardinge