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The pioneer of the reform movements in India was ___________.

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  1. Raja Rammohan Roy

  2. Swami Dayanand Saraswati

  3. Keshab Chandra Sen

  4. Debendranath Tagore

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Correct Option: A

Har Bilas Sarda was instrumental in the passage of the famous Sarda Act of $1930$, which provided for ___________.

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  1. Enforcing monogamy

  2. Removal of restrictions on intercaste marriages

  3. Penalisation of parties to a marriage in which the girl was below $14$ or the boy was below $18$ years of age

  4. Civil marriages

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Correct Option: C

Which of the following statement is inconsistent with Industrial Revolution?

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  1. Britain began mass production of cotton textile

  2. British textile was exported to India

  3. Condition of the Indian women changed

  4. Cotton clothes became more accessible to wider section of people in Europe

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

There was no change in the condition of the Indian women at the time of Industrial Revolution. India came under the East India Company at the time of the start of the Industrial Revolution. There was some technological progress such as the introduction of railway, canals, modern banks and postal system.

This social reformer most ardently worked for the removal of untouchability and uplift the depressed classes before Gandhiji came on the scene:

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  1. M G Ranade

  2. Jyotiba Phule

  3. Dayanand Saraswati

  4. Atmaram Panduranga

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Jyotiba' Govindrao Phule was a prominent social reformer and thinker of the nineteenth century India. He revolted against the domination of the Brahmins and struggled for the rights of peasants and other low-caste people. He ardently worked for the removal of untouchability and uplift the depressed classes before Gandhiji came on the scene.

Which of the following best explains the condition of the average American worker during the 1920 s?

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  1. Recent legislation provided safer working conditions and a federally-mandated minimum wage law.

  2. Steadily climbing wages through the decade enabled most workers to easily afford both a home and an automobile.

  3. The postwar recession lingered through the decade. negatively affecting a worker's standard of living.

  4. The Federal government's favorable view of organized labor provided a higher standard of living than experienced in previous decades.

  5. Despite a higher standard of living. wages rose very slowly during the decade.

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Recent legislation provided safer working conditions and a federally-mandated minimum wage law best explains the condition of the average American worker during the 1920s.

The following passage deals with absolutist principles  

And thereupon the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons, pursuant to their respective letters and electrons, being now assembled in a full and free representative of this nation, taking into their most serious consideration the best means for attaining the ends aforesaid, do in the first place (as their ancestors in like case have usually done) for the vindicating and asserting their ancient rights and liberates declare:
  • That the pretended power of suspending the laws or the execution of laws by regal authority without consent of Parliament is illegal:
  • That the pretended power of dispensing with laws or the execution of laws by regal authority, as it hath been assumed and exercised of late, is illegal...
  • That it is right of the subjects to petition the king, and all commitments and prosecutions for such petitioning are illegal;
  • That the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with consent of Parliament is against law.
    This passage is likely from

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  1. The Petition of Right

  2. The English Bill of Rights

  3. The Magna Carta

  4. The Act of Supremacy

  5. The Habeas Corpus Act

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

This passage is likely from the Petition of Right. It is a major English constitutional document that sets out specific liberties of the subject that the king is prohibited from infringing. It was written  by Parliament as an objection to an overreach of authority by King Charles I. During his reign, English citizens saw this overreach of authority as a major infringement on their civil rights.

Match the List-I with List-II and select the correct response from the options given thereafter:

List-I List-II
I. Liberals a. Government to be based on the majority of country's population
II. Radicals b. The past has to be respected and change has to be brought about through a slow process
III. Conservatives c. Property to be controlled by society as a whole
IV. Socialists d. Men of property mainly should have the right to vote
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  1. I-c, II-b, III-a, IV-d

  2. I-b, II-d, III-a, IV-c

  3. I-a, II-b, III-c, IV-d

  4. I-d, II-a, III-b, IV-c

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

  • Liberals were the people who opposed uncontrollable power of dynastic rulers. However, they were not democrats. They felt men of property mainly should have the right to vote.
  • Radicals were the people who wanted a nation in which government was based on the majority of a country’s population.
  • Conservative people believed that the past had to be respected and change had to be brought about through a slow process.
  • Socialists believed that property should be controlled by society as a whole.

Which among the following countries with great coordination showed enthusiasm in trade and exploiting the Indian markets due to Industrial revolution?

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  1. England

  2. France

  3. Japan

  4. Germany

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Correct Option: A

Which statement is not applicable for capitalism?

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  1. Economic system based on mass production

  2. Means of production are Government owned

  3. Economic system is based on mass distribution

  4. The capitalist aims at maximizing profits

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

An economic system which is based on private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit is known as capitalism. The maximization of profit is the main motive of the producer. Profit guides the production in this type of economy. There is no interference of government in the economic activities of the economy. This means producers and consumers are free to take decisions. 

Who were the 'haves' in the society?

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  1. The poor

  2. The rich

  3. The middle class

  4. The aristocratic class

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Haves meant the rich people, those who had land, labour and capital. It comprised of the industrialists, capitalists, big landholders, etc.