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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

Swadeshi movement aimed at

  1. getting political rights for Indians

  2. promoting Indian industries

  3. reservation for Indians in the Civil Services

  4. less taxation on Indian goods exported to Britain
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The movement aimed at promoting Indian industries by boycotting use of British goods.

Multiple choice

Why did the Muslim League unite with Congress in 1916?

  1. To protest against the British attack on the Sultan of Turkey

  2. To protest against the ignorance of British towards Muslims

  3. Due to their failure

  4. They were delighted by the success of the Swadeshi Movement.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Sultan of Turkey was considered the head of the Muslim world. So, muslims were annoyed when Britain attacked Turkey in the first World War.

Multiple choice

Who among the following moved a resolution in the Central Legislative Assembly recommending that the Government should introduce a legislation for registration and protection of Trade Union in the year 1921?

  1. B. P. Wadia

  2. M. N. Joshi

  3. N. M. Lokhanddey

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

M. N. Joshi moved a resolution in the Central Legislative Assembly recommending that the Government should introduce a legislation for registration and protection of Trade Union in the year 1921.

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.