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Modern Indian History

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Modern Indian History covers the colonial period, the freedom struggle, and key political movements. It includes questions on important leaders, the Indian National Congress, and social reforms. Mastering these questions is vital for clearing competitive government exams.

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Modern Indian History Questions

Multiple choice

The Harijan Sevak Sangh founded by Gandhiji was first known as

  1. Society for Abolition of Untouchability

  2. Anti–Untouchability League

  3. Servants of Untouchable Society

  4. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Gandhi founded All India Anti-Untouchability League to remove untouchability in the society, which was later renamed as Harijan Sevak Sangh.

Multiple choice

Gandhiji was

  1. against mechanisation

  2. against the craze for machinery and its indiscriminate multiplication

  3. in favour of mechanisation on a large scale

  4. of the opinion that mechanisation will generate employment on a large scale
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Men go on saving labour, till thousands are without work and thrown on the open streets to die on starvation. Gandhiji was completely against the craze for machinery and its indiscriminate multiplication. To Gandhiji, the supreme consideration was man.

Multiple choice

For Gandhi, ‘women’ were

  1. objects of reform

  2. self-conscious subjects

  3. the weaker section

  4. selfish
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Gandhi saw women not as objects of reforms, but as self-conscious subjects who could become arbiters of their own destiny.

Multiple choice

Gandhiji opposed imposed widowhood because it

  1. degrades religion

  2. degrades caste

  3. is an unbearable yoke

  4. does not promote communal harmony
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Voluntary widowhood consciously adopted by a woman who has felt the affection of a partner adds grace and dignity to life, sanctifies the home and uplifts religious itself. Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion.

Multiple choice

Which of the following statements is true?

  1. Gandhiji believed that woman is to complement man.

  2. Gandhiji believed that man is to rule over woman.

  3. Gandhiji believed that woman is to rule over man.

  4. Gandhiji believed that woman is subordinate to man.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Gandhiji said women must cease to consider them the objects of man’s lust. The remedy is more in her hands than man’s. She must refuse to adorn herself for men, including her husband, if she will be an equal partner with man. I cannot imagine Sita even wasting a single moment on pleasing Rama by physical charms.

Multiple choice

When was the first Census Act passed?

  1. 1948

  2. 1956

  3. 1951

  4. 1950
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The Census Act of 1948 provided the legal framework for conducting censuses in independent India. This Act was passed to institutionalize the census process, which had been conducted since 1881 under British rule but needed proper legislation after independence. The first census under this Act was conducted in 1951.

Multiple choice

When was the first modern cotton textile mill set up in India?

  1. 1818

  2. 1854

  3. 1861

  4. 1863
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The first modern cotton textile mill in India was established in 1818 in Kolkata (then Calcutta) by Henry Gourlaw and others. This marked the beginning of modern industrial textile manufacturing in India, shifting from traditional handloom to mechanized production. Bombay (Mumbai) became a later major textile center (1854 first mill there).

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the appropriate meaning of the word in bold.

It is true that the civil disobedience movement of Mahatma Gandhi failed to achieve the desired result, but it was an important juncture in the history of the freedom movement.

  1. an event

  2. an act of joining

  3. a point in time

  4. a success
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

A 'juncture' refers to a critical point in time or a particular moment that is significant in a sequence of events. Gandhi's civil disobedience movement represents a pivotal moment in the freedom struggle, even if it didn't achieve immediate success. Option C correctly identifies this temporal meaning.

Multiple choice

Who launched the Chipko movement?

  1. Chandi Prasad Bhatt

  2. Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna

  3. Sunder Lal Bahuguna

  4. Baba Amte
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Sunder Lal Bahuguna was the prominent leader of the Chipko movement, a forest conservation movement where people hugged trees to prevent them from being cut. The movement started in the 1970s in Uttarakhand (then part of Uttar Pradesh).

Multiple choice

The Sale of Goods Act, 1930 came into force on

  1. 15th March, 1930

  2. 1st July, 1930

  3. 30th July, 1930

  4. 30th June, 1930
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The Sale of Goods Act, 1930 is a key commercial statute in India that came into force on 1st July 1930. It governs contracts for the sale of goods and provides a comprehensive framework for buyer-seller transactions. This is a foundational factual question about Indian commercial law.

Multiple choice

Quit India Resolution was passed in

  1. Calcutta Session of INC

  2. Bombay Session of INC

  3. Madras Session of INC

  4. Allahabad Session of INC
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The Quit India Resolution (August 1942) was passed at the Bombay Session of the Indian National Congress. This was a landmark movement calling for immediate end to British rule, launched from Gowalia Tank Maidan (August Kranti Maidan) in Bombay.