GK (Indian History)

Indian History

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Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who was the founder of Ramkrishna Mission?

  1. Swami Dayanand Saraswati
  2. Keshav Chandra Sen
  3. Swami Vivekanand
  4. Ramkrishna Pararnhansa
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following were involved in throwing a bomb at the procession of Lord Hardinge through Chandni Chowk (Delhi) in 1912?

  1. Pulin Das
  2. Bal Mukund
    3 Avadh Behari
  3. Amir Chand
  1. 1, 2, 3
  2. 2, 3, 4
  3. 2 and 3
  4. 1 and 2
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which association sprang up in Bengal during the Swadeshi Movement?

  1. Anushilan Samiti
  2. Swadeshi Samiti
  3. Krantikari Samiti
  4. Jugantar Samiti
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who among the following founded the Hindustan Republican Army (or Association) in 1924?

  1. Surya Sen
  2. V. D. Savarkar
  3. Sachindra Nath Sanyal
  4. Batukeshwar Dutta
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The tribal leader who was regarded as an incarnation of God and father of the world was

  1. Nanak Bhil
  2. Jagia Bhagat
  3. Birsa Munda
  4. Siddhu Santha
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following events was the last in chronological order?

  1. Home Rule Movement
  2. Khilafat Movement
  3. Jallianwalla Bagh Massacre
  4. Moplah Revolt
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The 'Bombay Triumvirate' consisted of all the following, except

  1. Dadabhai Nauroji
  2. K.T. Telang
  3. Pherozeshah Mehta
  4. Badruddin Tyabji
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who among the following was known as the Grand Old Man of Indian politics?

  1. Bipin Chandra Pal
  2. Dadabhai Naoroji
  3. Surendra Nath Bannerjee
  4. Rasbehari Bose
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The leader of the 1857 revolt in Bihar was

  1. Kunwar Singh
  2. Nana Saheb
  3. Tantia Tope
  4. Mangal Pandey
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who organised the Satyagraha Sabha whose members took a pledge to disobey the Rowlatt Acts?

  1. Saifuddin Kitchlew
  2. Motilal Nehru
  3. Maulana Shaukat Ali
  4. Mahatma Gandhi
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The first tribal leader who was inspired by Mahatma Gandhi and his ideology was

  1. Thakkar Bapa
  2. Alluri Sitaram Raju
  3. Rani Gaidinliu
  4. Jadonang
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following tribals rebelled because their villages were transferred from their headmen to Sikh and Muslim revenue collectors?

  1. Santhals of Raj Mahal hills
  2. Kots of Chhota Nagpur
  3. Bhumij of Manbhum
  4. Chuars of Jungle Mahals
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which one of the following is not correct about Mahatma Gandhi's Dandi March?

  1. It was a pedestrian march.
  2. It began with 8 Satyagrahis comprising Hindus, Muslims and Christians.
  3. Its motive was to violate salt law.
  4. Reaching the sea shore Mahatma Gandhi did not manufacture salt.
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The play 'Nil Darpan' portrays the oppression of

  1. the artisans
  2. the indigo planters
  3. the handloom wearers
  4. the cotton planters
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who among the following wrote 'Unhappy India'?

  1. Lala Lajpat Rai
  2. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
  3. Annie Besant
  4. Mahatma Gandhi
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The basic defect of the Lucknow Pact was

  1. it was an agreement purely based on the bond of common hatred of the foreign rule
  2. it was based on the wrong notion that Hindus and Muslims formed separate communities
  3. it was a marriage of convenience without a pontiff
  4. it was a pact between powerless potentates
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In which of the following movements 'Bande Matram' was adopted as the slogan for agitation?

  1. Revolt of 1857
  2. Partition of Bengal in 1905
  3. Non-cooperation Movement in 1922
  4. Quit India Movement in 1942
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The Act of 1935 provided

  1. a unicameral legislature
  2. dyarchy at Central and Provincial level
  3. universal adult franchise
  4. a disproportionate representation to princely states in the legislature
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The Bhoodan Movement was started by

  1. Acharya Vinoba Bhave
  2. Jaya Prakash Narain
  3. M. K. Gandhi
  4. Gautam Buddha
Question 20 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following Congress leaders was fully in favour of the Cabinet Mission Plan?

  1. Jawaharlal Nehru
  2. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
  3. Mahatma Gandhi
  4. Sardar Patel
Question 21 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The suggestion of transfer of power to two Central Governments, India and Pakistan, on the basis of the grant of Dominion States was given by

  1. Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Patel
  2. Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru
  3. Lord Mountbatten and Jawaharlal Nehru
  4. V. P. Menon and Sardar Patel
Question 22 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following factors were responsible in the growth of modern nationalism?

  1. Political, administrative and economic unification of the country
  2. Western thought and education
  3. Role of press and literature
  4. Rise of middle class intelligentia
  1. 1, 2 and 3
  2. 2 and 3
  3. 2 and 4
  4. 1, 2, 3 and 4
Question 23 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Badruddin Taiyabji was an active member of the

  1. Communist Party of India
  2. Jansangh
  3. Indian National Congress
  4. Muslim League
Question 24 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The number of delegates who attended the first session of the Indian National Congress was

  1. 68
  2. 91
  3. 55
  4. 72
Question 25 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following was not a method adopted by the Extremists?

  1. Promoting the use of Swadeshi
  2. Boycott of schools, courts and government service
  3. Burning down shops and godowns storing foreign clothes
  4. Launching national education schemes and building the national spirit