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Questions Related to history

When was the Muslim League formed?

  1. 1905

  2. 1906

  3. 1907

  4. 1908


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Muslim League was founded in 1906 as the All-India Muslim League by Aga Khan III. Its original purpose was to safeguard the political rights of Muslims in India. An early leader in the League, Muhammad Iqbal, was one of the first to propose (1930) the creation of a separate Muslim India.

The establishment of Muslim League was a threat to__________.

  1. secularism

  2. communalism

  3. socialism

  4. regionalism


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The establishment of Muslim league was a big threat to secularism. The Hindus and the Muslims were fighting together against the British. But due to the formation of Muslim league the demand and other policies were separated. Basically, the Muslim League gradually demanded a separate state for them. 

Who rejected the demand of creation of Pakistan?

  1. Congress

  2. Muslim League

  3. Cripps Mission

  4. None of above


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Cripps Mission rejected the demand of creation of Pakistan. In March 1942 , a mission headed by Stafford Cripps was sent to India with constitutional proposals to seek Indian support for the war.

Who criticised the idea of single Indian Union?

  1. Muslim League

  2. Congress

  3. British

  4. None of above


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The Muslim League was founded in 1906 at Dhaka to safeguard the rights of Indian Muslims. It was a political group that did not believe in the idea of a single Indian union and led the movement calling for a separate Muslim nation to be created at the time of the partition of British India in 1947 because it feared that an independent India would be dominated by Hindus.

Who regarded Hindus and Muslims to be one Quam?

  1. Mahatma Gandhi

  2. Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan

  3. Md. Ali Jinnah

  4. All of the above


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Sir Sayyid Ahmed Khan was great educationist and social reformer. He regarded Hindus and Muslims to be one Quam. He founded the Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College at Aligarh which had both Hindu and Muslim patrons.

Where Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan founded Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College?

  1. Banaras

  2. Bengal

  3. Aligarh

  4. Delhi


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan was a great educationist and social reformer. He regarded Hindus and Muslims to be one Quam. He founded the Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College at Aligarh which had both Hindu and Muslim patrons.

Through which medium British use to spread communal hatred?

  1. Press

  2. Posters

  3. Literature

  4. All above


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

After First War of Independence 1854 British tried to spread communal hatred through the Press, posters, literature and public platform.

When Lord Mayo adopted a resolution which made Urdu the medium of instruction for Muslims?

  1. 1871

  2. 1875

  3. 1873

  4. 1879


Correct Option: A
Explanation:
In 1871 Lord Mayo’s government adopted a resolution which made Urdu the medium of instruction for Muslims in primary and secondary schools and increased government aid to educational institutions run by the Muslims. They tried to create hatred among the Hindus and the Muslims by portraying Muslim rulers as plunderers, and Hindu rulers as cruel kings to their Muslim subjects.

Who adopted a resolution which made Urdu the medium of instruction for Muslims?

  1. Lord Mayo

  2. Lord Curzon

  3. Lord Dalhousie

  4. Lord Wellesley


Correct Option: A
Explanation:
In 1871 Lord Mayo’s government adopted a resolution which made Urdu the medium of instruction for Muslims in primary and secondary schools and increased government aid to educational institutions run by the Muslims. They tried to create hatred among the Hindus and the Muslims by portraying Muslim rulers as plunderers, and Hindu rulers as cruel kings to their Muslim subjects.

Who founded the Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College?

  1. Bal Gangadhar Tilak

  2. Bipin Chandra Pal

  3. Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan

  4. Annie Besant


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan was a great educationist and social reformer. He regarded Hindus and Muslims to be one Quam. He founded the Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College at Aligarh which had both Hindu and Muslim patrons.