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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

According to Gandhi, non-violence means

  1. doing the right thing

  2. harmony between thought, word and deed

  3. promoting welfare

  4. helping others
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B Correct answer
Explanation

According to Gandhi, non-violence means harmony between thought, word and deed.

Multiple choice

Gandhiji does not oppose

  1. caste system

  2. child marriage

  3. untouchability

  4. Varnashrama dharma
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Gandhiji does not oppose Varnashrama dharma, which means division according to one’s profession. 

Multiple choice

Gandhi was in favour of

  1. rights first, duties after

  2. rights and duties never go hand in hand

  3. true source of rights lie in the performance of duties

  4. rights only
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C Correct answer
Explanation

The true source of rights is duty. If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek. Action is duty, fruit is the right.

Multiple choice

In Gandhiji’s opinion, _________ is a soulless machinery.

  1. state

  2. individual

  3. village

  4. politicians
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A Correct answer
Explanation

The State is the military, police, prisons, courts, tax collectors and bureaucrats. He saw the state as concentrated violence. The state is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.

Multiple choice

True democracy according to Gandhi can be achieved through

  1. Grass-root Democracy

  2. Theory of Trusteeship

  3. Poorna Swaraj

  4. Village and Cottage Industries
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A Correct answer
Explanation

Grassroots democracy is a tendency towards designing political processes where as much decision-making authority as practical is shifted to the organisation's lowest geographic level of organisation.