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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

Directions: For the Assertion (A) and Reason (R) below, choose the correct alternative from the following. Assertion: Mahatma Gandhi is considered to be the father of the Indian Nation. Reason: The name ‘India’ was coined by Mahatma Gandhi.

  1. Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.

  2. Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A.

  3. A is true but R is false.

  4. A is false but R is true.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

A is true but R is false. Hence, option (3) is correct.

Multiple choice

The similarity between Martin Luther King and Gandhiji was that both

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question.

Martin Luther King’s active career extended from 1957 to 1968. During this brief career, he led numerous protest demonstrations in the South as well as in the North of the USA. He challenged the moral complacency of America and fought for the rights of the Negroes, he hated the eye-for-an-eye method like Gandhiji and fought with the weapon of non-violence, a weapon, said King, that ‘cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals’. In addition, he raised a vast army. It was an army that would move but not maul. It was an army to storm bastions of hatred, to lay siege to the fortress of segregation, to surround symbols of discrimination. It was an army whose allegiance was to God and whose strategic intelligence were the eloquently simple dictates of conscience. His creed of non-violence was criticized and challenged by ‘Black Power’ militants who would not renounce the use of violence to achieve their goals. Nevertheless, his faith in non-violence never wavered.

  1. Fought for the rights of the Negroes

  2. fought for the rights of untouchables

  3. were demi-Gods

  4. had firm faith in non-violence
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

He hated the eye-for-an-eye method like Gandhiji and fought with the weapon of non-violence.

Multiple choice

Which is the ‘most powerful army’ referred to in the passage?

Directions: Read the passage and answer the question.

A whole generation of Indians gave up everything and spent their lives in fighting the British in Gandhi’s way, without hurting, without violence, without hatred. The hope that India would one day be free kept them going through very difficult times and gave them courage. When millions of people want the same thing very much, it is a great force which even the most powerful army cannot oppose.

  1. The powerful army of the Government of India.

  2. The powerful army of the British.

  3. Any powerful army fighting against the wishes of millions of people.

  4. The army formed by the freedom fighters.

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Here the reference is to any army which becomes powerless against the will of determined people.

Multiple choice

Khilafat movement resulted in

  1. decrease in the differences between the Hindus and the Muslims

  2. the partition of India

  3. the Hindu Muslims riots

  4. suppression of the Hindus
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

It resulted in decrease in the differences between the Hindus and the Muslims and on the other hand strikes, demonstrations and satyagrahas took place across the country, where "Hindu-Muslim ki Jai" was the famous slogan.

Multiple choice

The Home Rule Movement started by Annie Besant aimed at

  1. educating the Indian masses

  2. agitating against the British monopoly in administration

  3. boycotting foreign goods

  4. attaining self rule for India
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Home Rule Movement was started in August 1, 1916 by Annie Besant, and this movement was aimed at attaining self rule for India. 

Multiple choice

How many years after independence did Goa become a state?

Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question that follows:

Goa, a tiny emerald land on the west coast of India, the 25th State in the Union of States of India, was liberated from Portuguese rule in 1961. It was part of the Union territory of Goa, Daman & Diu  until 30 May 1987 when it was carved out to form a separate state. Goa covers an area of 3702 square kilometers and comprises two Revenue districts; North Goa and South Goa. The Boundaries of the state of Goa are defined in the North by the Terekhol River which separates it from Maharashtra, in the East and South by Karnataka State and West by the Arabian Sea. Goa lies on the Western Coast of India and is 594 kms. (by road) away from Mumbai city.

  1. 1987

  2. 26

  3. 1961

  4. 25
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Correct option is (2).

Multiple choice

The Liberhan Commission relates to

  1. Anti - terrorism Commission

  2. Demolition of Babri Masjid

  3. Pollution in country

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

The Liberhan Commission (Liberhan Ayodhya Commission of Inquiry) was a long-running inquiry commissioned by the Government of India to investigate the destruction of the disputed structure Babri Masjid in Ayodhya in 1992.

Multiple choice

Which one of the following observations is not true about the Quit India Movement of 1942?

  1. It was a non-violent movement.

  2. It was led by Mahatma Gandhi.

  3. It was a spontaneous movement.

  4. It did not attract the labour class in general.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

All India Congress Committee met at Bombay and passed the famous Quit India Resolution and proposed the starting of non-violent mass struggle under Gandhi's leadership. Peasants and workers were at heart of movement. Hence, option 4 is the required answer.

Multiple choice

What was the purpose with which Sir William Wedderburn and W.S.Caine had set up the Indian Parliamentary Committee in 1893?

  1. To agitate for Indian political reforms in the House of Commons.

  2. To campaign for the entry of Indians into the Imperial Judiciary.

  3. To facilitate a discussion on India's Independence in the British Parliament.

  4. To agitate for the entry of eminent Indians into the British Parliament.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Sir William Wedderburn and W S. Caine had set up the Indian Parliamentary Committee in 1893 to agitate for Indian political reforms in the House of Common.