Modern History Question & Answers
Question 1. When did Vasco da Gama arrive in Calicut, India?
A.) 1498
B.) 1495
C.) 1398
D.) 1496
Answer: A-1498
Question 2. Whose former colony was Diu?
A.) French
B.) English
C.) Portuguese
D.) Dutch
Answer: C- Portuguese
Question 3. ........ established a trading post in Gujarat in 1612.
A.) Spain
B.) French
C.) Dutch
D.) British
Answer: D-British Question
Question 4. In 1614, who instructed Sir Thomas Roe to visit the court of Jahangir, the Mughal Emperor of India?
A.) Humayun
B.) James I
C.) Shahjahan
D.) Babar
Answer: D-Babar
Question 5. What did the company obtain from Charles II in 1661?
A.) Madras
B.) Calcutta
C.) Kannur
D.) Bombay
Answer: D-Bombay
Question 6. Where did Gabriel Boughton, an employee of the company, obtain a license for trade in 1650?
A.) Orissa
B.) Mysore
C.) Bengal
D.) Surat
Answer: C- Bengal
Question 7. What is the year of the Battle of Plassey?
A.) 1557
B.) 1657
C.) 1757
D.) 1857
Answer:C-1757
Question 8. What is the year of the Battle of Wandiwash?
A.) 1560
B.) 1660
C.) 1760
D.) 1860
Answer: C- 1760
Question 9. What is the year of the Battle of Buxar?
A.) 1764
B.) 1864
C.) 1984
D.) 1964
Answer: A- 1764
Question10. In 1772, Warren Hastings was appointed as the Governor of which of the following places
A.) Delhi
B.) Bengal
C.) Bombay
D.) Madras
Answer: B- Bengal
Question 11. In which year, Regulating Act was enacted?
A.) 1573
B.) Harappa
C.) 1573
D.) Kalibangan
Answer: B- Harappa
Question 12. The important site of Harappa was excavated by
A.) R.D.Banerjee
B.) John Marshal
C.) D.R.Sahni
D.) John Marshal
Answer: C- D.R.Sahni
Question 13. The Harappan civilization’s known extent in the west is up to
A.) Sotka koh
B.) Nausharo
C.) Dabarkot
D.) Sutkagan Dor
Answer: D- Sutkagan Dor
Question 14. The Harappan civilization’s known extent in the east was up to
A.) Chirand
B.) Mitathal
C.) Rakhigarhi
D.) Alamgirpur
Answer: D- Alamgirpur
Question 15. Which conclusions have been derived from the debasement of the coins and gradual disappearance of gold coins during the post-Gupta period?
A.) Gold Mining was stalled
B.) Commodities became cheap
C.) Money economy was gradually replaced by Barter Economy
D.) There was a decline in trade
Answer: D- There was a decline in trade
Question 16. Under which Act of the Government of India, the British Crown assumed direct administration of India in the new British Raj?
A.) Act of 1947
B.) Act of 1658
C.) Act of 1658
D.) Act of 1858
Answer: D- Act of 1858
Question 17. When was the defeat of the Spanish Armada?
A.) 1288
B.) 1588
C.) 1256
D.) 1688
Answer: B- 1588
Question18. In which battle, the English East Company achieved a major victory over the Portuguese in 1612?
A.) Trafalgar
B.) Plassey
C.) Buxar
D.) Swally
Answer: D- Swally
Question 19. Which forces were defeated in the Seven Years' War (1756–1763)?
A.) French
B.) British
C.) Russian
D.) American
Answer: A- French
Question 20. Which of the following did Robert Clive, the Governor General, belong to?
A.) British
B.) French
C.) French
D.) Portuguese
Answer: A- British
Question 21. Joseph François Dupleix was the commander of which of the following forces in India
A.) French
B.) American
C.) Dutch
D.) British
Answer: A- French
Question 22. The Spanish Armada was defeated by
A.) Elizabeth II
B.) Elizabeth I
C.) James I
D.) Henry VIII
Answer: B- Elizabeth I
Question 23. When did the First Opium War start?
A.) 1639
B.) 1739
C.) 1839
D.) 1939
Answer: C- 1839
Question 24. When did Indian Mutiny begin?
A.) 1557
B.) 1757
C.) 1657
D.) 1857
Answer: D'- 1857
Question 25. By which act, the Company lost all its administrative powers?
A.) By the Government of India Act of 1658
B.) By the Government of India Act of 1758
C.) By the Government of India Act of 1858
D.) By the Government of India Act of 1958
Answer: C- By the Government of India Act of 1858
Question 26. The dual system of administration in Bengal was set up by
A.) Dupleix
B.) Robert Clive
C.) Lord Macaulay
D.) Lord Wellesley
Answer: B- Robert Clive
Question 27. In the sphere of revenue administration, which permanent settlement was made in Bengal?
A.) William Bentinck
B.) William Pitt
C.) Hastings
D.) Lord Cornwallis
Answer: D- Lord Cornwallis
Question 28. When did the Permanent Settlement enforce?
A.) 1693
B.) 1793
C.) 1893
D.) 1933
Answer: B- 1793
Question 29. Who introduced Subsidiary Alliance?
A.) Lord Dalhousie
B.) Lord Wellesley
C.) Robert Clive
D.) Robert Clive
Answer: B- Lord Wellesley
Question 30. When did Fakir-Sannyasi Resistance, against the East India Company dominance, begin?
A.) Kerala
B.) Bengal
C.) Karnataka
D.) Gujarat
Answer: B- Bengal
Question 31. When was the formation of the Indian National Congress?
A.) 1885
B.) 1887
C.) 1888
D.) 1895
Answer: A- 1885
Question 32. When the Vernacular Press Act was passed?
A.) 1878
B.) 1881
C.) 1888
D.) 1898
Answer A- 1878
Question 33. Who repealed the Vernacular Press Act?
A.) Lord William Bentinck
B.) Lord Lytton
C.) Gladstone
D.) Lord Ripon
Answer: D- Lord Ripon
Question 34. ........ made remarkable contribution to the development of Local government.
A.) Hastings
B.) Lord Ripon
C.) W.W Hunter
D.) Gladstone
Answer: B- Lord Ripon
Question 35. The land was owned by temples Known as
A.) Brahmaswam
B.) Cherikkal
C.) Dewaswam
D.) Kanam
Answer: C- Dewaswam
Question 36. In which Anglo-Maratha war, Tipu was defeated by the British?
A.) First
B.) Second
C.) Third
D.) Fourth
Answer: C- Third
Question 37. Which of the following was ceded to the British, according to the terms of the treaty of Srirangapattanam?
A.) Malabar
B.) Travancore
C.) Mysore
D.) Cochi
Answer: A- Malabar
Question 38. Twenty two riots were reported from different parts of Malabar throughout the 19th century intermittent uprisings ocurred in Malabar especially in ........ and Valluvanad taluks.
A.) Kannur
B.) Ernad
C.) Cochi
D.) Travancore
Answer: B- Ernad
Question 39. What does MSP mean?
A.) Malabar Special Police
B.) Mappila special police
C.) Mysore special police
D.) Madras Special Police
Answer: A- Malabar Special Police
Question 40. Who was the District Magistrate whose bunglow was stormed and was murdered by the violent Mappilas in 1855?
A.) Gladstone
B.) William Logan
C.) H.V.Connolly
D.) Lord Ripon
Answer: C- H.V.Connolly
Question 41. The collector of Malabar was appointed as special commissioner to enquire into the causes of the uprisings and recommend remedial measures by the Madras government, as the unrest continued unabatedly. Who was the collector?
A.) Gokhale
B.) William Logan
C.) Connolly
D.) S.N.Banerjee
Answer: B- William Logan
Question 42. The culmination of the series of the uprisings of Mappila revolts took place in ....... year
A.) 1621
B.) 1721
C.) 1821
D.) 1921
Answer: D- 1921
Question 43. Who ruled England when the East India Company came into existence?
A.) Stuarts
B.) Normans
C.) Hanoverians
D.) Tudors
Answer: A- Stuarts
Question 44. What was the greatest contribution of the British rule to the growth of India nationalism?
A.) introduction of western education in India
B.) Racial arrogance of the British
C.) Denial of Higher Jobs to deserving Indians
D.) Queen's proclamation of 1858
Answer: A- introduction of western education in India
Question 45. The entrance age was reduced from 21 to ........ for ICS, in 1877.
A.) 17
B.) 18
C.) 19
D.) 20
Answer: C- 19
Question 46. What was founded by Raja Ram Mohan Roy?
A.) Brahma Samaj
B.) Theosophical society
C.) Arya Samaj
D.) Ramakrishna Mission
Answer: A- Brahma Samaj
Question 47. Who gave the title "Raja" to Raja Ram Mohan Roy?
A.) Dutch
B.) British
C.) Mughals
D.) French
Answer: C- Mughals
Question 48. Raja Ram Mohan Roy was born on May 22, 1774 in village Radhanagar in the District of Hooghly in which of the following places
A.) Bengal
B.) Assam
C.) MP
D.) Bombay
Answer: A- Bengal
Question 49. In which year, Raja Ram Mohan Roy founded an organization called 'Brahma Samaj'?
A.) 1608
B.) 1718
C.) 1828
D.) 1938
Answer: C- 1828
Question 50. Who is called as 'The Father of Modern India'?
A.) Swami Dayananda Saraswati
B.) Bhagat Singh
C.) Sri Aurobindo
D.) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Answer: D- Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Question 51. By whom the British was convinced in 1829 to outlaw Sati?
A.) Bhagat Singh
B.) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
C.) Swami Dayananda Saraswati
D.) Lokmanya Tilak
Answer: B- Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Question 52. ..... was founded by Maharshi Dayanand Saraswati, who was an important Hindu religious scholar reformer.
A.) Theosophical society
B.) Arya Samaj
C.) Ramakrishna Mission
D.) Brahma Samaj
Answer: B- Arya Samaj
Question 53. The first one to give a call for Swarajya– "India for Indians” was
A.) Dayanand Saraswati
B.) Bhagat Singh
C.) Lokmanya Tilak
D.) Sri Aurobindo
Answer: A- Dayanand Saraswati
Question 54. ........ founded India House in London and guided other revolutionaries.
A.) Sri Aurobindo
B.) Shyamji Krishna Varma
C.) Bhagat Singh
D.) Lokmanya Tilak
Answer: B- Shyamji Krishna Varma
Question 55. Who wrote "Satyarth Prakash"?
A.) Dayanand Saraswati
B.) Lala Lajpat Rai
C.) Lala Hardyal
D.) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Answer: A- Dayanand Saraswati
Question 56. In which princely state, Dayananda was born on February 12 in 1824, in the town of Tankara, near Morvi(Morbi)
A.) Bihars
B.) Uttar Pradesh
C.) Gujarat
D.) Assam
Answer: C- Gujarat
Question 57. "I accept as Dharma whatever is in full conformity with impartial justice, truthfulness and the like; that which is not opposed to the teachings of God as embodied in theVedas. Whatever is not free from partiality and is unjust, partaking of untruth and the like, and opposed to the teachings of God as embodied in the Vedas—that I hold as adharma".He also said "He, who after careful thinking, is ever ready to accept truth and reject falsehood; who counts the happiness of others as he does that of his own self, him I call just”. Who said it?
A.) Ranjit Singh
B.) Dayananda Saraswathi
C.) Lal Singh
D.) Baba Ram Singh
Answer: B- Dayananda Saraswathi
Question 58. The Maharaja of ………… invited Dayanand to stay at his palace.
A.) Jodhpur
B.) Kashmir
C.) Uttar Pradesh
D.) Gujarat
Answer: A- Jodhpur
Question 59. Who started Nirankari movement?
A.) Tej Singh
B.) Baba Dyal
C.) Lal Singh
D.) Ranjit Singh
Answer: D- Ranjit Singh
Question 60. "Kukas" is the other name of
A.) Sri Aurobindo
B.) Nirankari
C.) Namdhari
D.) Tilak
Answer: C- Namdhari
Question 61. Where is Satara district, where Jyotirao Phule was born in 1827?
A.) Maharastra
B.) Malabar
C.) Madras
D.) Gujarat
Answer: A- Maharastra
Question 62. Which caste does Jyotirao’s family belong to?
A.) Pulaya
B.) Thiyya
C.) Mahar
D.) Mali
Answer: D- Mali
Question 63. Jyotirao was invited to attend a wedding of one of his …………… friends where an incident took place in his life that later sparked off the dalit-revolution in the Indian society in 1848.
A.) Nayar
B.) Christian
C.) Brahmin
D.) pulaya
Answer: C- Brahmin
Question 64. Jyotirao was greatly influenced by the ideas of Thomas Paine after reading his famous book …………
A.) Advaitha Deepika
B.) The Rights of Man
C.) Utopia
D.) Prince
Answer: B- The Rights of Man
Question 65. What is the name of the orphanage which Jyotirao decided to open after viewing the pathetic condition of widows and unfortunate children?
A.) Ramakrishna Mission
B.) Arya Samaj
C.) Satya Shodhak Samaj
D.) Brahma Samaj
Answer: C- Satya Shodhak Samaj
Question 66. Jyotiba Phule formed the Satya Shodhak Samaj (Society of Seekers of Truth) in the year .....
A.) 1673
B.) 1773
C.) 1873
D.) 1973
Answer: C- 1873
Question 67. In the year .... on 28 November Jyotiba Phule died.
A.) 1860
B.) 1870
C.) 1880
D.) 1890
Answer: D- 1890
Question 68. In which family Sri Narayana Guru,the Guru was born?
A.) Ezhava
B.) Pulaya
C.) Vannan
D.) Nayar
Answer: A- Ezhava
Question 69. In which village which is near Thiruvananthapuram, Narayana Guru was born on August 22, 1856.
A.) Kayamkulam
B.) Chempazhanthi
C.) Karunagapally
D.) Kannur
Answer: B- Chempazhanthi
Question 70. Whose son was Narayana Guru?
A.) Kumaran
B.) Krishnan Vaidyan
C.) Madan Asan
D.) Kummampilli Raman Pillai Asan
Answer: C- Madan Asan
Question 71. At the age of 21, the young Nanu was sent to a famous scholar, ………… Asan at Karunagapally, a village fifty miles away from his home, as Nanu had a keen mind.
A.) Kumaran Asan
B.) Kummampilli Raman Pillai
C.) Madan Asan
D.) Krishnan Vaidyan
Answer: B- Kummampilli Raman Pillai
Question 72. Nanu was pressurized by his family to marry …………, the daughter of a traditional village doctor.
A.) Rohini
B.) Meenakshi Amma
C.) Sharada
D.) Kaliamma
Answer: D- Kaliamma
Question 73. Kunjan Pillai, who later came to be known as Chattampi Swamikal, discovered and appreciated Nanu Asan's philosophical genius and passion for Yoga and introduced him to …………, a 'Hatha yogi'.
A.) Madan Asan
B.) Krishnan Vaidyan
C.) Kumaran Asan
D.) Thycattu Ayyaavu
Answer: D- Thycattu Ayyaavu
Question 74. Nanu led an austere life immersed in meditative thought and yoga and subjected himself to extreme sustenance rituals when he moved to his hermitage deep inside the hilly forests of ……………
A.) Karunagapally
B.) Maruthwamala
C.) Kayamkulam
D.) Srilanka
Answer: B- Maruthwamala
Question 75. In which language, Narayana Guru's later literary and philosophical masterpiece 'Atmopadesa Satakam' was written?
A.) Hindi
B.) Tamil
C.) Sanskrit
D.) Malayalam
Answer: D- Malayalam
Question 76. Who was the notable disciple of Sree Narayana Guru, who introduced Guru's visions and ideals to the western world?
A.) K.Madhavan
B.) Chattambi Swamikal
C.) Nataraja Guru
D.) Kumaranasan
Answer:'C-Nataraja Guru
Question 77. In 1923, Narayana Gurukulam was established in the Nilgiri Hills by .......... with the blessings of Narayana Guru.
A.) Nataraja Guru
B.) T.K.Madhavan
C.) Dr.Palpu
D.) Chattambi Swamikal
Answer: A-Nataraja Guru
Question 78. Where did the Guru found the Advaita Ashram in 1913?
A.) Aluva
B.) Vaikom
C.) Palluruthi
D.) Trichur
Answer: A - Aluva
Question 79. SNDP Yogam was formed by
A.) Dr.Palpu
B.) T.K.Madhavan
C.) Narayana Guru
D.) Nataraja Guru
Answer: C- Narayana Guru
Question 80. Who declared "No community can make progress except through organization" in a message to the Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana Yogam in 1926?
A.) Chattambi Swamikal
B.) Rajaram Mohan Roy
C.) Dr.Palpu
D.) Narayana Guru
Answer: D- Narayana Guru
Question 81. Who told that the name Ezhava does not denote a caste or a religion and made temple rights to everyone so that people can be admitted to this organization without paying heed to differences of caste?
A.) Chattambi Swamikal
B.) Narayana Guru
C.) Rajaram Mohan Roy
D.) T.K.Madhavan
Answer: B- Narayana Guru
Question 82. Who consecrated a mirror with the message "Om shanti" written on the surface-in a temple in Kalavankode on June 14, 1927?
A.) Sree Narayana Guru
B.) T.K.Madhavan
C.) Govindan Vaidyar
D.) Rajaram Mohan Roy
Answer: A- Sree Narayana Guru
Question 83. In which year, Gurudevan participated in the anniversary of the Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana Yogam held at Palluruthy?
A.) 1907
B.) 1917
C.) 1927
D.) 1937
Answer: C- 1927
Question 84. Gurudevan attended the special meeting of the Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana Yogam at ..... in 1928.
A.) Trivandrum
B.) Kottayam
C.) Kollam
D.) Aluva
Answer: C- Kollam
Question 85. Sivagiri pilgrimage was duly approved by Gurudevan on January, 1928, which was conceived by ………… and T K Kittan Writer.
A.) Vallabhasseri Govindan Vaidyar
B.) Rajaram Mohan Roy
C.) Govindan Vaidyar
D.) T.K.Madhavan
Answer: A- Vallabhasseri Govindan Vaidyar
Question 86. "Let the pilgrims congregate at the beginning of the Gregorian calendar year. It should be Dhanu 16-17 in Malayalam calendar. Let the pilgrims observe 10 days' self-purification according to Sri Buddha's principles of five purities - body, food, mind, word, and deed called as Pancha Dharma." These words are said by
A.) P.V.Raghavan
B.) M.S.Raghavan
C.) S.Sankunni
D.) Sree Narayana Guru S
Answer: D- Sree Narayana Guru
Question 87. "The pilgrims could wear yellow clothes - the colour of the garments Sri Buddha wore." Who ruled it?
A.) Sree Narayana Guru
B.) Govindan Vaidyar
C.) P.K.Kesavan
D.) P.K.Divakara Panicker
Answer: A- Sree Narayana Guru
Question 88. Who wrote 'Swaathanthrya gadha'?
A.) Cherusseri
B.) Kumaran Asan
C.) O.N.V.Kurup
D.) G.Sankara Kurup
Answer: B- Kumaran Asan
Question 89. Guru died in the year ..... on 20th September.
A.) 1902
B.) 1938
C.) 1928
D.) 1918
Answer: C- 1928
Question 90. "It is years since I left castes and religions. Yet some people think that I belong to their caste. That is not correct. I do not belong to any particular caste or religion." Who proclaimed it?
A.) T.K.Madhavan
B.) Sree Narayana Guru
C.) Rajaram Mohan Roy
D.) Mahatma Gandhi
Answer: B- Sree Narayana Guru
Question 91. In 1904, Narayana Guru was exempted from his personal appearances in court as an honour recognizing the him as a distinguished living personality by the then Maharaja of ........
A.) Thalassery
B.) Cochi
C.) Travancore
D.) Kannur
Answer: C- Travancore
Question 92. Who conceived the first statue of the Guru?
A.) Moorkoth Kumaran
B.) Bodhananda Swamikal
C.) Gokhale
D.) Tavaroli
Answer: A- Moorkoth Kumaran
Question 93. Sree Narayana Guru was called as ‘The Second Buddha’ by
A.) Moorkoth Kumaran
B.) Swami Vivekananda
C.) G.Sankara Kurup
D.) Bodhananda Swamikal
Answer: C- G.Sankara Kurup
Question 94. Whose work is "Atmopadesa Satakam"?
A.) C.Kesavan
B.) Dr.Palpu
C.) Chattambi Swamikal
D.) Sree Narayana Guru
Answer: D- Sree Narayana Guru
Question 95. Whose work is "Advaitha Deepika"?
A.) Sree Narayana Guru
B.) C.Kesavan
C.) Dr.Palpu
D.) Chattambi Swamikal
Answer: A- Sree Narayana Guru
Question 96. Whose work is "Daiva Dasakam" in Malayalam?
A.) Sree Narayana Guru
B.) T.K.Madhavan
C.) Chattambi Swamikal
D.) C.Kesavan
Answer: A- Sree Narayana Guru
Question 97. Whose work is "Jathi Nirnayam"?
A.) T.K.Madhavan
B.) C.Kesavan
C.) Sree Narayana Guru
D.) Nataraja Guru
Answer: C- Sree Narayana Guru
Question 98. Darsana Mala in Sanskrit was written by
A.) Dr.Palpu
B.) Sree Narayana Guru
C.) C.Kesavan
D.) Chattambi Swamikal
Answer: B- Sree Narayana Guru
Question 99. Whose sanskrit work is "Brahmavidya Panchakam"?
A.) C.Kesavan
B.) Chattambi Swamikal
C.) Sree Narayana Guru
D.) K.Madhvan Nair
Answer: C- Sree Narayana Guru
Question 100. Who wrote "Nirvruthi Panchakam"?
A.) Chattambi Swamikal
B.) Sree Narayana Guru
C.) C.Kesavan
D.) Brahmananda Sivayogi
Answer: B- Sree Narayana Guru
Question 101. Whose tamil work is "Thevarappathinkangal"?
A.) K.Madhvan Nair
B.) Sree Narayana Guru
C.) K.Madhvan Naira
D.) K.Ayyappan
Answer: B- Sree Narayana Guru
Question 102. Who said that Sir Saiyad was a prophet of education?
A.) Sree Narayana Guru
B.) Sree Narayana Guru
C.) Mahatma Gandhi
D.) Tilak
Answer: C- Mahatma Gandhi
Question 103. “Sir Saiyad was an ardent reformer and he wanted to reconcile modern scientific thought with religion by rationalistic interpretations and not by attacking basic belief. He was anxious to push new education. He was in no way communally separatist. Repeatedly he emphasized that religious differences should have no political and national significance”. Who said it?
A.) Mahatma Gandhi
B.) Mohammad Iqbal
C.) Jawaharlal Nehru
D.) Inder Kumar Gujral
Answer: C- Jawaharlal Nehru
Question 104. Who was the founder father of Aligarh movement?
A.) Maqsud Ali
B.) Karim Ali
C.) Abul kalam Azad
D.) Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
Answer: D- Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
Question 105. In 1863, Scientific Society was instituted to create a scientific temperament among the Muslims and to make the Western knowledge available to Indians in their own language by
A.) Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
B.) Inayat Ali
C.) Mohammad Iqbal
D.) Karim Ali
Answer: A- Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
Question 106. Who started the Wahabi movement in India?
A.) Jahan Dad Khan
B.) Vilayet Ali
C.) Syed Ahmed of Rai Bareilly
D.) Mohammad Ali
Answer: C- Syed Ahmed of Rai Bareilly
Question 107. When was the battle of Balakot?
A.) 1811
B.) 1821
C.) 1831
D.) 1841
Answer: C- 1831
Question 108. In his pre-monastic life, Swami Vivekananda was known as
A.) Vasava Datta
B.) Narendra Nath Datta
C.) Upendranath Datta
D.) Vishwanath Datta
Answer: B- Narendra Nath Datta
Question 109. In which place, Swami Vivekananda was born in an affluent family on 12 January, 1863?
A.) Ajmer
B.) Bombay
C.) Orissa
D.) Kolkata
Answer: D- Kolkata
Question 110. Swami Vivekananda’s father was a successful attorney with interests in a wide range of subjects.What was his name?
A.) Sri Ramakrishna
B.) Narendra Nath Datta
C.) Sri Ramakrishna
D.) Vishwanath Datta
Answer: D- Vishwanath Datta
Question 111. Which university Swami Vivekananda was graduated from?
A.) Calcutta
B.) Delhi
C.) Karachi
D.) Hyderabad
Answer: A- Calcutta
Question 112. In November 1881, Narendra went to meet him, who was staying at the Kali Temple in Dakshineshwar. Who was he?
A.) Ramgopal Ghose
B.) Rashik Krishna Mallik
C.) Sri Ramakrishna
D.) Dakhinaranja
Answer: C- Sri Ramakrishna
Question 113. The Ramakrishna Mission was founded by
A.) Derozio
B.) Sri Ramakrishna Parama Hamsa
C.) Satkari Datta
D.) Swami Vivekananda
Answer: D- Swami Vivekananda
Question 114. In which year, Swami Vivekananda attended the World’s Parliament of Religions held in Chicago?
A.) 1863
B.) 1886
C.) 1893
D.) 1898
Answer: C- 1893
Question 115. ivekananda felt that the Parliament would provide the right forum to present his Master’s message to the world, and so he decided to go to America. Another reason which prompted Swamiji to go to America was to seek financial help for his project of uplifting the masses. Swamiji, however, wanted to have an inner certitude and divine call regarding his mission. He got both of these while he sat in deep meditation on the rock-island. Where was the rock-island?
A.) Kanyakumari
B.) Mumbai
C.) America
D.) Chennai
Answer: A- Kanyakumari
Question 116. ........ speeches at the World’s Parliament of Religions held in September 1893 made him famous as an ‘orator by divine right’ and as a ‘Messenger of Indian wisdom to the Western world’.
A.) Chandra Sekhar Deb
B.) Swami Vivekanandav
C.) Sri Ramakrishna
D.) Shyama Charan Sen
Answer: B- Swami Vivekananda
Question 117. Ramakrishna Mission was founded in the year ......
A.) 1796
B.) 1777
C.) 1884
D.) 1897
Answer: D- 1897
Question 118. In early 1898, at ........ place, Swami Vivekananda acquired a big plot of land on the western bank of the Ganga, to have a permanent abode for the monastery and monastic order originally started at Baranagar, and got it registered as Ramakrishna Math after a couple of years.
A.) Lahore
B.) Amritsar
C.) Allahabad
D.) Belur
Answer: D- Belur
Question 119. Who said: ‘Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man’?
A.) Sri Ramakrishna
B.) Sri Narayana Guru
C.) Chandra Sekhar Deb
D.) Swami Vivekananda
Answer: D- Swami Vivekananda
Question 120. In the year …………, the Theosophical Society was formed to advance the spiritual principles and search for Truth known as Theosophy.
A.) 1820
B.) 1833
C.) 1845
D.) 1875
Answer: D- 1875
Question 121. Who was prominent in the Labour and Socialist movements, who was a member of the Fabian Society and Social Democratic Federation and also took an active part in Trade Union work among unskilled labourers.
A.) W.T.Stead
B.) H.P.Blavatsky
C.) H.S.Olcott
D.) Annie Besant
Answer: D- Annie Besant
Question 122. on 21st May of the year ....., Annie Besant joined the Theosophical Society.
A.) 1864
B.) 1868
C.) 1879
D.) 1889
Answer: D- 1889
Question 123. In 1893, the Theosophical Society was represented by ……………… at the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago.
A.) GF Remfry
B.) Annie Besant
C.) Ramgopal Ghosh
D.) George Thompson
Answer: B- Annie Besant
Question 124. Who landed in India in 1893, made a tour of the country in the company of H.S.Olcott, and by her splendid presentation of Indian philosophy and her undisguised personal preference for the Indian spiritual heritage, won the support of orthodox Brahmins to Theosophy?
A.) George Thompson
B.) Annie Besant
C.) I.N.Gurtu
D.) Upendranath Basu
Answer: B- Annie Besant
Question 125. The Central Hindu School and College in Benares (now Varanasi) was founded by
A.) Bhabani Charan Mitra
B.) Sarojini Naidu
C.) Annie Besant
D.) Ahalya Rangnekar
Answer: C- Annie Besant
Question 126. Who wrote ’A Study in Consciousness’?
A.) Mrinal Gore
B.) Annie Besant
C.) Rajkamal Sen
D.) Prasanna Kumar Tagore
Answer: B- Annie Besant
Question 127. 'Esoteric Christianity’ was authored by
A.) Annie Besant
B.) J.Krishnamurti
C.) Jawaharlal Nehru
D.) Sarala Devi Chaudhurani
Answer: A- Annie Besant
Question 128. Who started the Adyar Bulletin, which continued until 1929?
A.) Krishnamurti
B.) Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya
C.) Durgabai Deshmukh
D.) Annie Besant
Answer: D- Annie Besant
Question 129. In 1907, after Col.H.S.Olcott passed away, who became the second International President of the Theosophical Society?
A.) Bhabani Charan Mitra
B.) Annie Besant
C.) Ahalya Rangnekar
D.) Sarojini Naidu
Answer: B- Annie Besant
Question 130. In ……………’s life, a new period began in 1913, when she became active in Indian politics, and gave a lead by claiming ‘Home Rule’ for India.
A.) Malati Patwardhan
B.) Ambujammal
C.) Annie Besant
D.) Ammu Swaminathan
Answer: C- Annie Besant
Question 131. The Young Men’s Indian Association in 1914 was started by
A.) Devendranath Tagore
B.) Annie Besant
C.) Rabindranath Tagore
D.) Swarnakumari Devi
Answer: B- Annie Besant
Question 132. The journal ’The Commonweal’ was started by
A.) R.G.Bhandarkar
B.) N.G.Chandavarkar
C.) M.G.Ranade
D.) Annie Besant
Answer: D- Annie Besant
Question 133. The journal ‘New India’ was started by
A.) Annie Besant
B.) Keshub Chandra Sen
C.) Ram Mohun Roy
D.) C.W.Leadbeater
Answer: A- Annie Besant
Question 134. Who formed the Arya Mahila Samaj in Pune?
A.) Annie Besant
B.) Lord Chelmsford
C.) Ramabai Saraswati
D.) Swarnakumari Devi
Answer: C- Ramabai Saraswati
Question 135. The Sharda Sadan in Bombay was started by
A.) Sarala Devi Chaudhurani
B.) Dorothy Jinarajadasa
C.) Lord Edwin Montague
D.) Ramabai Saraswati
Answer: D- Ramabai Saraswati
Question 136. Which year is declared as the International Year of Women by the United Nation?
A.) 1876
B.) 1887
C.) 1905
D.) 1956
Answer: C- 1905
Question 137. The First World Conference on Women which generated a new interest in and debate on women’s issues, was held in ........
A.) Hyderabad
B.) Mexico
C.) Delhi
D.) Copenhagen
Answer: B- Mexico
Question 138. When was Sati declared a punishable offence?
A.) 1725
B.) 1729
C.) 1829
D.) 1850
Answer: C- 1829
Question 139. When was the formation of the Indian National Congress (INC)?
A.) 1865
B.) 1875
C.) 1885
D.) 1895
Answer: C- 1885
Question 140. Which political association of modern India was Zamindari Association?
A.) First
B.) Second
C.) Third
D.) Fourth
Answer: A- First
Question 141. Which political public association, formed in British India, was the Bengal British India Society, which was founded in Calcutta on 20 April 1843, the first being the zamindari association(1837)?
A.) First
B.) Second
C.) Third
D.) Fourth
Answer: B- Second
Question 142. In which year, the British India Society was formed?
A.) 1833
B.) 1834
C.) 1839
D.) 1865
Answer: C- 1839
Question 143. The 'Academic Association' was founded by Derozio with his students which organised debates on various subjects. When was it founded?
A.) 1826
B.) 1827
C.) 1828
D.) 1829
Answer: C- 1828
Question 144. The ………… (Quest for Knowledge) was published by the Young Bengal group for propagating their views.
A.) Parthenon
B.) Hesperus
C.) Enquirer
D.) Jnananvesan
Answer: D- Jnananvesan
Question 145. .......... was started by Krishnamohan in 1831.
A.) Quill
B.) Enquirer
C.) Bengal Spectator
D.) Hindu Pioneer
Answer: B- Enquirer
Question 146. When was the Hindu Pioneer started?
A.) 1832
B.) 1834
C.) 1836
D.) 1838
Answer: D- 1838
Question 147. Which was run by Tarachand Chakravarty?
A.) Enquirer
B.) Quill
C.) Hesperus
D.) Bengal Spectator
Answer: B- Quill
Question 148. Calcutta medical college was established in
A.) 1735
B.) 1746
C.) 1833
D.) 1834
Answer: D- 1834
Question 149. Where was the British Indian Association founded on October 29, 1851?
A.) Pune
B.) Bombay
C.) Madras
D.) Calcutta
Answer: D- Calcutta
Question 150. Where was the Mohamedan Association founded in 1856?
A.) Calcutta
B.) Adayar
C.) Madras
D.) Maharashtra
Answer: A- Calcutta
Question 151. S.Ramaswami Mudaliar and P.Anandacharlu established the Madras Mahajana Sabha in May of ..... year.
A.) 1772
B.) 1784
C.) 1872
D.) 1884
Answer: D- 1884
Question 152. Where was the Indian National Congress founded in December, 1885?
A.) Calcutta
B.) Gujarat
C.) Bombay
D.) Madras
Answer: C- Bombay
Question 153. ………, a retired English I.C.S officer, played an important role in the formation of the Indian National Congress which was the first organized expression of Indian nationalism on an all India Scale.
A.) A.O.Hume
B.) S.N.Sen
C.) Man Mohan Gosh
D.) W.C.Banerjee
Answer:A- A.O.Hume
Question 154. Who founded the Indian National Union in 1884?
A.) A.O.Hume
B.) W.C.Banerjee
C.) A.M.Bose
D.) Lord Dufferin
Answer: A- A.O.Hume
Question 155. Under whose presidentship, the second session of the congress met in Calcutta on December 1886?
A.) Kadambini Ganguli
B.) D.Ewacha
C.) Pherozeshah Mehta
D.) Dadabhai Naoroji
Answer: D- Dadabhai Naoroji
Question 156. At which place, Gokhale was born in a Marathi Brahmin family?
A.) Kolhapur
B.) Assam
C.) Poona
D.) Allahabad
Answer: A- Kolhapur
Question 157. Who founded the Deccan Educational Society?
A.) S.N.Banerjee
B.) W.C.Banerjee
C.) D.Ewacha
D.) Ranade
Answer: D- Ranade
Question 158. Who edited the journal "Poona Sarvajanik Sabha"?
A.) Ranade
B.) Gokhale
C.) S.N.Banerjee
D.) W.C.Banerjee
Answer: B- Gokhale
Question 159. In which year, the Minto Morley reforms were produced?
A.) 1905
B.) 1907
C.) 1909
D.) 1911
Answer: C- 1909
Question 160. Whose work is 'the political philosophy’?
A.) R.C.Dutt
B.) Gopala Krishna Gokhale
C.) Dadabai Naoroji
D.) Lala Lajpath Rai
Answer: B- Gopala Krishna Gokhale
Question 161. The foundation of 'the Servants of India Society’ with a solemn view to the training of national missionaries for the service of India, and to promote the true interest of the Indian people by all constitutional means. Who laid it?
A.) Ranade
B.) R.C.Dutt
C.) Gokhale
D.) Dadabai Naoroji
Answer: C- Gokhale
Question 162. ‘If India is poor today it is through the operation of economic causes’, was written by ……………… in his book ‘Economic History of India’.
A.) R.P.Datt
B.) Dadhabai Naoroji
C.) Ranade
D.) R.C.Dutt
Answer: D- R.C.Dutt
Question 163. The Grand old man of India is
A.) Dadabhai Naoroji
B.) Amaresh Chakravarty
C.) Pulinbehari Sarkar
D.) Ranade
Answer: A- Dadabhai Naoroji
Question 164. In 1852, ......... founded the Bombay Association, the first political association in Bombay presidency.
A.) Dadabhai Naoroji
B.) Prankrishna Parija
C.) Pulinbehari Sarkar
D.) Amaresh Chakravarty
Answer: A- Dadabhai Naoroji
Question 165. When was Dadabhai Naoroji’s book ‘Poverty and UnBritish Rule in India’ published, which analysed the nature of the British rule in India?
A.) 1899
B.) 1901
C.) 1905
D.) 1947
Answer: B- 1901
Question 166. When was the Ganapati festival started?
A.) 1797
B.) 1799
C.) 1893
D.) 1905
Answer: C- 1893
Question 167. In which year, the first Shivaji festival was held at Raigarh?
A.) 1891
B.) 1893
C.) 1895
D.) 1897
Answer: C- 1895
Question 168. When was Hindu Mahasabha founded?
A.) 1900
B.) 1905
C.) 1915
D.) 1925
Answer: C- 1915
Question 169. In December of ...... year, Muslim League was established.
A.) 1916
B.) 1936
C.) 1906
D.) 1946
Answer: C- 1906
Question 170. The background of the foundation of the Muslim League could be traced back to the establishment of the Indian National Congress in 1885. This League was founded at ……… on 30 December, 1906.
A.) Shahbag
B.) Bengal
C.) Dhaka
D.) Simla
Answer: C- Dhaka
Question 171. "Swaraj is my birthright and I will have it.", said by ……… in his speeches, he who made a wirlwind tour of the country in 1916.
A.) Gokhale
B.) Jawaharlal Nehru
C.) Mahatma Gandhi
D.) Tilak
Answer: D- Tilak
Question 172. Through his two newspapers - the Kesari and the Maratha, .......... preached the idea of Home Rule.
A.) Jawaharlal Nehru
B.) Tilak
C.) Gokhale
D.) Annie Besant
Answer: B- Tilak
Question 173. he Champaran Satyagraha took place in
A.) Bombay
B.) Madras
C.) Bihar
D.) Gujarat
Answer: C- Bihar
Question 174. Who led the Champaran Satyagraha?
A.) Gandhi
B.) Pulinbehari Sarkar
C.) Patel
D.) Amaresh Chakravarty
Answer: A- Gandhi
Question 175. Kheda Satyagraha took place in
A.) Malabar
B.) Calcutta
C.) Gujarat
D.) Thana
Answer: C- Gujarat
Question 176. The First National Trade Union Organization (The All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)) was established in ......
A.) 1905
B.) 1910
C.) 1915
D.) 1920
Answer: D-' 1920
Question 177. Who wrote Pazhassi Samarangal(Malayalam)?
A.) Bhattacharya Sabya
B.) B.Sobhanan
C.) K.K.N.Kurup
D.) K.K.Kusuman
Answer: C- K.K.N.Kurup
Question 178. Who wrote 'Against Lord and State'?
A.) K.K.N.Kurup
B.) Panikkar K.N
C.) R.C.Majumdar
D.) Sumit Sarkar
Answer: B- Panikkar K.N
Question 179. Which Governor General was associated with Subsidiary Alliance System
A.) Lord Delhousie
B.) Lord Wellesley
C.) Lord Cornwallis
D.) Lord Mayo
Answer: B- Lord Wellesley
Question 180. The first Governor General of India was
A.) Warren Hastings
B.) Lord Delhousie
C.) Lord Canning
D.) William Bentinck
Answer: A- Warren Hastings
Question 181. 'Poverty and Un-British Rule in India' was authored by
A.) Dadabhai Naoroji
B.) S.C.Ghosh
C.) Irfan Habib
D.) Romila Thapar
Answer: A- Dadabhai Naoroji
Question 182. Whose book is 'Writing Social History'?
A.) Ranajith Guha
B.) Sumit Sarkar
C.) Ania Loomba
D.) Cohn Bernard
Answer: B- Sumit Sarkar
Question 183. Whose work is 'The Peasant and the Raj'?
A.) D.N.Dhanagare
B.) A.R.Desai
C.) Shirin Mehta
D.) Eric Stokes
Answer: D- Eric Stokes
Question 184. ........... rebellion began in 1816 and lasted till 1832.
A.) Kutch rebellion
B.) Khasi uprising
C.) Naikada rising
D.) Kol uprising
Answer: A- Kutch rebellion
Question 185. With what view, the Factory Act of 1881 was passed?
A.) Prohibit the employment of children below the age of 7 in any factory
B.) Allow the workers to trade unions
C.) Fix the wages of industrial workers
D.) Reduce the working hours for women employees
Answer: A- Prohibit the employment of children below the age of 7 in any factory
Question 186. The Liberal Federation, in the Nehru Report(1928) prepared by the Nehru committee, was by A.) Tej Bahadur Sapru
B.) V.S.Srinivasa Sastri
C.) M.R.Jayakar
D.) M.S.Aney
Answer: A- Tej Bahadur Sapru
Question 187. ........ had an English factory, on the Western Coast of India.
A.) Calicut
B.) Tellicherry
C.) Cochin
D.) Cannanore
Answer: D- Cannanore
Question 188. The Revolt of 1857 was described as the ‘First War of Independence’ by the author ......
A.) V.D.Savarkar
B.) Ashok Mehta
C.) S.N.Sen
D.) R.C.Mazumdar
Answer: A- V.D.Savarkar
Question 189. The Rayotwari settlement was made with
A.) Muqqadams
B.) Cultivators
C.) Village Panchayats
D.) Zamindars
Answer: B- Cultivators
Question 190. To trade freely in Bengal, a firman was issued by a Mughal Emperor to the English East-India Company in 1717. Who was the Mughal Emperor?
A.) Shah Alam
B.) Farrukh Siyar
C.) Bahadur Shah
D.) Jahandar Shah
Answer: B- Farrukh Siyar
Question 191. Under the rule of British, one of the following sentences is correct. What was it?
A.) The permanent zamindari settlement of Lord Cornwallis vested the ownership of land in the zamindars
B.) The permanent zamindari settlement of Lord Cornwallis vested the ownership of land in the individual pents
C.) The permanent zamindari settlement of Lord Cornwallis vested the ownership of land in the villages communities
D.) The permanent zamindari settlement of Lord Cornwallis vested the ownership of land in the state Answer:A- The permanent zamindari settlement of Lord Cornwallis vested the ownership of land in the zamindars
Question 192. The agricultural product that did not attract the British people was
A.) Coffee
B.) Tea
C.) Indigo
D.) Cotton
Answer: A- Coffee
Question 193. ......... was not a pioneer industry in India during British rule.
A.) Iron
B.) Jute
C.) Cotton
D.) Coal
Answer: A- Iron
Question 194. Industrial Revolution was started in .......... country.
A.) England
B.) Germany
C.) U.S.A.
D.) France
Answer: A- England
Question 195. When was the first census held in India? \
A.) 1861
B.) 1871
C.) 1881
D.) 1891
Answer: A- 1861
Question 1. When did Vasco da Gama arrive in Calicut, India?
A.) 1498
B.) 1495
C.) 1398
D.) 1496
Answer: A-1498
Question 2. Whose former colony was Diu?
A.) French
B.) English
C.) Portuguese
D.) Dutch
Answer: C- Portuguese
Question 3. ........ established a trading post in Gujarat in 1612.
A.) Spain
B.) French
C.) Dutch
D.) British
Answer: D-British Question
Question 4. In 1614, who instructed Sir Thomas Roe to visit the court of Jahangir, the Mughal Emperor of India?
A.) Humayun
B.) James I
C.) Shahjahan
D.) Babar
Answer: D-Babar
Question 5. What did the company obtain from Charles II in 1661?
A.) Madras
B.) Calcutta
C.) Kannur
D.) Bombay
Answer: D-Bombay
Question 6. Where did Gabriel Boughton, an employee of the company, obtain a license for trade in 1650?
A.) Orissa
B.) Mysore
C.) Bengal
D.) Surat
Answer: C- Bengal
Question 7. What is the year of the Battle of Plassey?
A.) 1557
B.) 1657
C.) 1757
D.) 1857
Answer:C-1757
Question 8. What is the year of the Battle of Wandiwash?
A.) 1560
B.) 1660
C.) 1760
D.) 1860
Answer: C- 1760
Question 9. What is the year of the Battle of Buxar?
A.) 1764
B.) 1864
C.) 1984
D.) 1964
Answer: A- 1764
Question10. In 1772, Warren Hastings was appointed as the Governor of which of the following places
A.) Delhi
B.) Bengal
C.) Bombay
D.) Madras
Answer: B- Bengal
Question 11. In which year, Regulating Act was enacted?
A.) 1573
B.) Harappa
C.) 1573
D.) Kalibangan
Answer: B- Harappa
Question 12. The important site of Harappa was excavated by
A.) R.D.Banerjee
B.) John Marshal
C.) D.R.Sahni
D.) John Marshal
Answer: C- D.R.Sahni
Question 13. The Harappan civilization’s known extent in the west is up to
A.) Sotka koh
B.) Nausharo
C.) Dabarkot
D.) Sutkagan Dor
Answer: D- Sutkagan Dor
Question 14. The Harappan civilization’s known extent in the east was up to
A.) Chirand
B.) Mitathal
C.) Rakhigarhi
D.) Alamgirpur
Answer: D- Alamgirpur
Question 15. Which conclusions have been derived from the debasement of the coins and gradual disappearance of gold coins during the post-Gupta period?
A.) Gold Mining was stalled
B.) Commodities became cheap
C.) Money economy was gradually replaced by Barter Economy
D.) There was a decline in trade
Answer: D- There was a decline in trade
Question 16. Under which Act of the Government of India, the British Crown assumed direct administration of India in the new British Raj?
A.) Act of 1947
B.) Act of 1658
C.) Act of 1658
D.) Act of 1858
Answer: D- Act of 1858
Question 17. When was the defeat of the Spanish Armada?
A.) 1288
B.) 1588
C.) 1256
D.) 1688
Answer: B- 1588
Question18. In which battle, the English East Company achieved a major victory over the Portuguese in 1612?
A.) Trafalgar
B.) Plassey
C.) Buxar
D.) Swally
Answer: D- Swally
Question 19. Which forces were defeated in the Seven Years' War (1756–1763)?
A.) French
B.) British
C.) Russian
D.) American
Answer: A- French
Question 20. Which of the following did Robert Clive, the Governor General, belong to?
A.) British
B.) French
C.) French
D.) Portuguese
Answer: A- British
Question 21. Joseph François Dupleix was the commander of which of the following forces in India
A.) French
B.) American
C.) Dutch
D.) British
Answer: A- French
Question 22. The Spanish Armada was defeated by
A.) Elizabeth II
B.) Elizabeth I
C.) James I
D.) Henry VIII
Answer: B- Elizabeth I
Question 23. When did the First Opium War start?
A.) 1639
B.) 1739
C.) 1839
D.) 1939
Answer: C- 1839
Question 24. When did Indian Mutiny begin?
A.) 1557
B.) 1757
C.) 1657
D.) 1857
Answer: D'- 1857
Question 25. By which act, the Company lost all its administrative powers?
A.) By the Government of India Act of 1658
B.) By the Government of India Act of 1758
C.) By the Government of India Act of 1858
D.) By the Government of India Act of 1958
Answer: C- By the Government of India Act of 1858
Question 26. The dual system of administration in Bengal was set up by
A.) Dupleix
B.) Robert Clive
C.) Lord Macaulay
D.) Lord Wellesley
Answer: B- Robert Clive
Question 27. In the sphere of revenue administration, which permanent settlement was made in Bengal?
A.) William Bentinck
B.) William Pitt
C.) Hastings
D.) Lord Cornwallis
Answer: D- Lord Cornwallis
Question 28. When did the Permanent Settlement enforce?
A.) 1693
B.) 1793
C.) 1893
D.) 1933
Answer: B- 1793
Question 29. Who introduced Subsidiary Alliance?
A.) Lord Dalhousie
B.) Lord Wellesley
C.) Robert Clive
D.) Robert Clive
Answer: B- Lord Wellesley
Question 30. When did Fakir-Sannyasi Resistance, against the East India Company dominance, begin?
A.) Kerala
B.) Bengal
C.) Karnataka
D.) Gujarat
Answer: B- Bengal
Question 31. When was the formation of the Indian National Congress?
A.) 1885
B.) 1887
C.) 1888
D.) 1895
Answer: A- 1885
Question 32. When the Vernacular Press Act was passed?
A.) 1878
B.) 1881
C.) 1888
D.) 1898
Answer A- 1878
Question 33. Who repealed the Vernacular Press Act?
A.) Lord William Bentinck
B.) Lord Lytton
C.) Gladstone
D.) Lord Ripon
Answer: D- Lord Ripon
Question 34. ........ made remarkable contribution to the development of Local government.
A.) Hastings
B.) Lord Ripon
C.) W.W Hunter
D.) Gladstone
Answer: B- Lord Ripon
Question 35. The land was owned by temples Known as
A.) Brahmaswam
B.) Cherikkal
C.) Dewaswam
D.) Kanam
Answer: C- Dewaswam
Question 36. In which Anglo-Maratha war, Tipu was defeated by the British?
A.) First
B.) Second
C.) Third
D.) Fourth
Answer: C- Third
Question 37. Which of the following was ceded to the British, according to the terms of the treaty of Srirangapattanam?
A.) Malabar
B.) Travancore
C.) Mysore
D.) Cochi
Answer: A- Malabar
Question 38. Twenty two riots were reported from different parts of Malabar throughout the 19th century intermittent uprisings ocurred in Malabar especially in ........ and Valluvanad taluks.
A.) Kannur
B.) Ernad
C.) Cochi
D.) Travancore
Answer: B- Ernad
Question 39. What does MSP mean?
A.) Malabar Special Police
B.) Mappila special police
C.) Mysore special police
D.) Madras Special Police
Answer: A- Malabar Special Police
Question 40. Who was the District Magistrate whose bunglow was stormed and was murdered by the violent Mappilas in 1855?
A.) Gladstone
B.) William Logan
C.) H.V.Connolly
D.) Lord Ripon
Answer: C- H.V.Connolly
Question 41. The collector of Malabar was appointed as special commissioner to enquire into the causes of the uprisings and recommend remedial measures by the Madras government, as the unrest continued unabatedly. Who was the collector?
A.) Gokhale
B.) William Logan
C.) Connolly
D.) S.N.Banerjee
Answer: B- William Logan
Question 42. The culmination of the series of the uprisings of Mappila revolts took place in ....... year
A.) 1621
B.) 1721
C.) 1821
D.) 1921
Answer: D- 1921
Question 43. Who ruled England when the East India Company came into existence?
A.) Stuarts
B.) Normans
C.) Hanoverians
D.) Tudors
Answer: A- Stuarts
Question 44. What was the greatest contribution of the British rule to the growth of India nationalism?
A.) introduction of western education in India
B.) Racial arrogance of the British
C.) Denial of Higher Jobs to deserving Indians
D.) Queen's proclamation of 1858
Answer: A- introduction of western education in India
Question 45. The entrance age was reduced from 21 to ........ for ICS, in 1877.
A.) 17
B.) 18
C.) 19
D.) 20
Answer: C- 19
Question 46. What was founded by Raja Ram Mohan Roy?
A.) Brahma Samaj
B.) Theosophical society
C.) Arya Samaj
D.) Ramakrishna Mission
Answer: A- Brahma Samaj
Question 47. Who gave the title "Raja" to Raja Ram Mohan Roy?
A.) Dutch
B.) British
C.) Mughals
D.) French
Answer: C- Mughals
Question 48. Raja Ram Mohan Roy was born on May 22, 1774 in village Radhanagar in the District of Hooghly in which of the following places
A.) Bengal
B.) Assam
C.) MP
D.) Bombay
Answer: A- Bengal
Question 49. In which year, Raja Ram Mohan Roy founded an organization called 'Brahma Samaj'?
A.) 1608
B.) 1718
C.) 1828
D.) 1938
Answer: C- 1828
Question 50. Who is called as 'The Father of Modern India'?
A.) Swami Dayananda Saraswati
B.) Bhagat Singh
C.) Sri Aurobindo
D.) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Answer: D- Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Question 51. By whom the British was convinced in 1829 to outlaw Sati?
A.) Bhagat Singh
B.) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
C.) Swami Dayananda Saraswati
D.) Lokmanya Tilak
Answer: B- Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Question 52. ..... was founded by Maharshi Dayanand Saraswati, who was an important Hindu religious scholar reformer.
A.) Theosophical society
B.) Arya Samaj
C.) Ramakrishna Mission
D.) Brahma Samaj
Answer: B- Arya Samaj
Question 53. The first one to give a call for Swarajya– "India for Indians” was
A.) Dayanand Saraswati
B.) Bhagat Singh
C.) Lokmanya Tilak
D.) Sri Aurobindo
Answer: A- Dayanand Saraswati
Question 54. ........ founded India House in London and guided other revolutionaries.
A.) Sri Aurobindo
B.) Shyamji Krishna Varma
C.) Bhagat Singh
D.) Lokmanya Tilak
Answer: B- Shyamji Krishna Varma
Question 55. Who wrote "Satyarth Prakash"?
A.) Dayanand Saraswati
B.) Lala Lajpat Rai
C.) Lala Hardyal
D.) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Answer: A- Dayanand Saraswati
Question 56. In which princely state, Dayananda was born on February 12 in 1824, in the town of Tankara, near Morvi(Morbi)
A.) Bihars
B.) Uttar Pradesh
C.) Gujarat
D.) Assam
Answer: C- Gujarat
Question 57. "I accept as Dharma whatever is in full conformity with impartial justice, truthfulness and the like; that which is not opposed to the teachings of God as embodied in theVedas. Whatever is not free from partiality and is unjust, partaking of untruth and the like, and opposed to the teachings of God as embodied in the Vedas—that I hold as adharma".He also said "He, who after careful thinking, is ever ready to accept truth and reject falsehood; who counts the happiness of others as he does that of his own self, him I call just”. Who said it?
A.) Ranjit Singh
B.) Dayananda Saraswathi
C.) Lal Singh
D.) Baba Ram Singh
Answer: B- Dayananda Saraswathi
Question 58. The Maharaja of ………… invited Dayanand to stay at his palace.
A.) Jodhpur
B.) Kashmir
C.) Uttar Pradesh
D.) Gujarat
Answer: A- Jodhpur
Question 59. Who started Nirankari movement?
A.) Tej Singh
B.) Baba Dyal
C.) Lal Singh
D.) Ranjit Singh
Answer: D- Ranjit Singh
Question 60. "Kukas" is the other name of
A.) Sri Aurobindo
B.) Nirankari
C.) Namdhari
D.) Tilak
Answer: C- Namdhari
Question 61. Where is Satara district, where Jyotirao Phule was born in 1827?
A.) Maharastra
B.) Malabar
C.) Madras
D.) Gujarat
Answer: A- Maharastra
Question 62. Which caste does Jyotirao’s family belong to?
A.) Pulaya
B.) Thiyya
C.) Mahar
D.) Mali
Answer: D- Mali
Question 63. Jyotirao was invited to attend a wedding of one of his …………… friends where an incident took place in his life that later sparked off the dalit-revolution in the Indian society in 1848.
A.) Nayar
B.) Christian
C.) Brahmin
D.) pulaya
Answer: C- Brahmin
Question 64. Jyotirao was greatly influenced by the ideas of Thomas Paine after reading his famous book …………
A.) Advaitha Deepika
B.) The Rights of Man
C.) Utopia
D.) Prince
Answer: B- The Rights of Man
Question 65. What is the name of the orphanage which Jyotirao decided to open after viewing the pathetic condition of widows and unfortunate children?
A.) Ramakrishna Mission
B.) Arya Samaj
C.) Satya Shodhak Samaj
D.) Brahma Samaj
Answer: C- Satya Shodhak Samaj
Question 66. Jyotiba Phule formed the Satya Shodhak Samaj (Society of Seekers of Truth) in the year .....
A.) 1673
B.) 1773
C.) 1873
D.) 1973
Answer: C- 1873
Question 67. In the year .... on 28 November Jyotiba Phule died.
A.) 1860
B.) 1870
C.) 1880
D.) 1890
Answer: D- 1890
Question 68. In which family Sri Narayana Guru,the Guru was born?
A.) Ezhava
B.) Pulaya
C.) Vannan
D.) Nayar
Answer: A- Ezhava
Question 69. In which village which is near Thiruvananthapuram, Narayana Guru was born on August 22, 1856.
A.) Kayamkulam
B.) Chempazhanthi
C.) Karunagapally
D.) Kannur
Answer: B- Chempazhanthi
Question 70. Whose son was Narayana Guru?
A.) Kumaran
B.) Krishnan Vaidyan
C.) Madan Asan
D.) Kummampilli Raman Pillai Asan
Answer: C- Madan Asan
Question 71. At the age of 21, the young Nanu was sent to a famous scholar, ………… Asan at Karunagapally, a village fifty miles away from his home, as Nanu had a keen mind.
A.) Kumaran Asan
B.) Kummampilli Raman Pillai
C.) Madan Asan
D.) Krishnan Vaidyan
Answer: B- Kummampilli Raman Pillai
Question 72. Nanu was pressurized by his family to marry …………, the daughter of a traditional village doctor.
A.) Rohini
B.) Meenakshi Amma
C.) Sharada
D.) Kaliamma
Answer: D- Kaliamma
Question 73. Kunjan Pillai, who later came to be known as Chattampi Swamikal, discovered and appreciated Nanu Asan's philosophical genius and passion for Yoga and introduced him to …………, a 'Hatha yogi'.
A.) Madan Asan
B.) Krishnan Vaidyan
C.) Kumaran Asan
D.) Thycattu Ayyaavu
Answer: D- Thycattu Ayyaavu
Question 74. Nanu led an austere life immersed in meditative thought and yoga and subjected himself to extreme sustenance rituals when he moved to his hermitage deep inside the hilly forests of ……………
A.) Karunagapally
B.) Maruthwamala
C.) Kayamkulam
D.) Srilanka
Answer: B- Maruthwamala
Question 75. In which language, Narayana Guru's later literary and philosophical masterpiece 'Atmopadesa Satakam' was written?
A.) Hindi
B.) Tamil
C.) Sanskrit
D.) Malayalam
Answer: D- Malayalam
Question 76. Who was the notable disciple of Sree Narayana Guru, who introduced Guru's visions and ideals to the western world?
A.) K.Madhavan
B.) Chattambi Swamikal
C.) Nataraja Guru
D.) Kumaranasan
Answer:'C-Nataraja Guru
Question 77. In 1923, Narayana Gurukulam was established in the Nilgiri Hills by .......... with the blessings of Narayana Guru.
A.) Nataraja Guru
B.) T.K.Madhavan
C.) Dr.Palpu
D.) Chattambi Swamikal
Answer: A-Nataraja Guru
Question 78. Where did the Guru found the Advaita Ashram in 1913?
A.) Aluva
B.) Vaikom
C.) Palluruthi
D.) Trichur
Answer: A - Aluva
Question 79. SNDP Yogam was formed by
A.) Dr.Palpu
B.) T.K.Madhavan
C.) Narayana Guru
D.) Nataraja Guru
Answer: C- Narayana Guru
Question 80. Who declared "No community can make progress except through organization" in a message to the Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana Yogam in 1926?
A.) Chattambi Swamikal
B.) Rajaram Mohan Roy
C.) Dr.Palpu
D.) Narayana Guru
Answer: D- Narayana Guru
Question 81. Who told that the name Ezhava does not denote a caste or a religion and made temple rights to everyone so that people can be admitted to this organization without paying heed to differences of caste?
A.) Chattambi Swamikal
B.) Narayana Guru
C.) Rajaram Mohan Roy
D.) T.K.Madhavan
Answer: B- Narayana Guru
Question 82. Who consecrated a mirror with the message "Om shanti" written on the surface-in a temple in Kalavankode on June 14, 1927?
A.) Sree Narayana Guru
B.) T.K.Madhavan
C.) Govindan Vaidyar
D.) Rajaram Mohan Roy
Answer: A- Sree Narayana Guru
Question 83. In which year, Gurudevan participated in the anniversary of the Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana Yogam held at Palluruthy?
A.) 1907
B.) 1917
C.) 1927
D.) 1937
Answer: C- 1927
Question 84. Gurudevan attended the special meeting of the Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana Yogam at ..... in 1928.
A.) Trivandrum
B.) Kottayam
C.) Kollam
D.) Aluva
Answer: C- Kollam
Question 85. Sivagiri pilgrimage was duly approved by Gurudevan on January, 1928, which was conceived by ………… and T K Kittan Writer.
A.) Vallabhasseri Govindan Vaidyar
B.) Rajaram Mohan Roy
C.) Govindan Vaidyar
D.) T.K.Madhavan
Answer: A- Vallabhasseri Govindan Vaidyar
Question 86. "Let the pilgrims congregate at the beginning of the Gregorian calendar year. It should be Dhanu 16-17 in Malayalam calendar. Let the pilgrims observe 10 days' self-purification according to Sri Buddha's principles of five purities - body, food, mind, word, and deed called as Pancha Dharma." These words are said by
A.) P.V.Raghavan
B.) M.S.Raghavan
C.) S.Sankunni
D.) Sree Narayana Guru S
Answer: D- Sree Narayana Guru
Question 87. "The pilgrims could wear yellow clothes - the colour of the garments Sri Buddha wore." Who ruled it?
A.) Sree Narayana Guru
B.) Govindan Vaidyar
C.) P.K.Kesavan
D.) P.K.Divakara Panicker
Answer: A- Sree Narayana Guru
Question 88. Who wrote 'Swaathanthrya gadha'?
A.) Cherusseri
B.) Kumaran Asan
C.) O.N.V.Kurup
D.) G.Sankara Kurup
Answer: B- Kumaran Asan
Question 89. Guru died in the year ..... on 20th September.
A.) 1902
B.) 1938
C.) 1928
D.) 1918
Answer: C- 1928
Question 90. "It is years since I left castes and religions. Yet some people think that I belong to their caste. That is not correct. I do not belong to any particular caste or religion." Who proclaimed it?
A.) T.K.Madhavan
B.) Sree Narayana Guru
C.) Rajaram Mohan Roy
D.) Mahatma Gandhi
Answer: B- Sree Narayana Guru
Question 91. In 1904, Narayana Guru was exempted from his personal appearances in court as an honour recognizing the him as a distinguished living personality by the then Maharaja of ........
A.) Thalassery
B.) Cochi
C.) Travancore
D.) Kannur
Answer: C- Travancore
Question 92. Who conceived the first statue of the Guru?
A.) Moorkoth Kumaran
B.) Bodhananda Swamikal
C.) Gokhale
D.) Tavaroli
Answer: A- Moorkoth Kumaran
Question 93. Sree Narayana Guru was called as ‘The Second Buddha’ by
A.) Moorkoth Kumaran
B.) Swami Vivekananda
C.) G.Sankara Kurup
D.) Bodhananda Swamikal
Answer: C- G.Sankara Kurup
Question 94. Whose work is "Atmopadesa Satakam"?
A.) C.Kesavan
B.) Dr.Palpu
C.) Chattambi Swamikal
D.) Sree Narayana Guru
Answer: D- Sree Narayana Guru
Question 95. Whose work is "Advaitha Deepika"?
A.) Sree Narayana Guru
B.) C.Kesavan
C.) Dr.Palpu
D.) Chattambi Swamikal
Answer: A- Sree Narayana Guru
Question 96. Whose work is "Daiva Dasakam" in Malayalam?
A.) Sree Narayana Guru
B.) T.K.Madhavan
C.) Chattambi Swamikal
D.) C.Kesavan
Answer: A- Sree Narayana Guru
Question 97. Whose work is "Jathi Nirnayam"?
A.) T.K.Madhavan
B.) C.Kesavan
C.) Sree Narayana Guru
D.) Nataraja Guru
Answer: C- Sree Narayana Guru
Question 98. Darsana Mala in Sanskrit was written by
A.) Dr.Palpu
B.) Sree Narayana Guru
C.) C.Kesavan
D.) Chattambi Swamikal
Answer: B- Sree Narayana Guru
Question 99. Whose sanskrit work is "Brahmavidya Panchakam"?
A.) C.Kesavan
B.) Chattambi Swamikal
C.) Sree Narayana Guru
D.) K.Madhvan Nair
Answer: C- Sree Narayana Guru
Question 100. Who wrote "Nirvruthi Panchakam"?
A.) Chattambi Swamikal
B.) Sree Narayana Guru
C.) C.Kesavan
D.) Brahmananda Sivayogi
Answer: B- Sree Narayana Guru
Question 101. Whose tamil work is "Thevarappathinkangal"?
A.) K.Madhvan Nair
B.) Sree Narayana Guru
C.) K.Madhvan Naira
D.) K.Ayyappan
Answer: B- Sree Narayana Guru
Question 102. Who said that Sir Saiyad was a prophet of education?
A.) Sree Narayana Guru
B.) Sree Narayana Guru
C.) Mahatma Gandhi
D.) Tilak
Answer: C- Mahatma Gandhi
Question 103. “Sir Saiyad was an ardent reformer and he wanted to reconcile modern scientific thought with religion by rationalistic interpretations and not by attacking basic belief. He was anxious to push new education. He was in no way communally separatist. Repeatedly he emphasized that religious differences should have no political and national significance”. Who said it?
A.) Mahatma Gandhi
B.) Mohammad Iqbal
C.) Jawaharlal Nehru
D.) Inder Kumar Gujral
Answer: C- Jawaharlal Nehru
Question 104. Who was the founder father of Aligarh movement?
A.) Maqsud Ali
B.) Karim Ali
C.) Abul kalam Azad
D.) Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
Answer: D- Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
Question 105. In 1863, Scientific Society was instituted to create a scientific temperament among the Muslims and to make the Western knowledge available to Indians in their own language by
A.) Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
B.) Inayat Ali
C.) Mohammad Iqbal
D.) Karim Ali
Answer: A- Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
Question 106. Who started the Wahabi movement in India?
A.) Jahan Dad Khan
B.) Vilayet Ali
C.) Syed Ahmed of Rai Bareilly
D.) Mohammad Ali
Answer: C- Syed Ahmed of Rai Bareilly
Question 107. When was the battle of Balakot?
A.) 1811
B.) 1821
C.) 1831
D.) 1841
Answer: C- 1831
Question 108. In his pre-monastic life, Swami Vivekananda was known as
A.) Vasava Datta
B.) Narendra Nath Datta
C.) Upendranath Datta
D.) Vishwanath Datta
Answer: B- Narendra Nath Datta
Question 109. In which place, Swami Vivekananda was born in an affluent family on 12 January, 1863?
A.) Ajmer
B.) Bombay
C.) Orissa
D.) Kolkata
Answer: D- Kolkata
Question 110. Swami Vivekananda’s father was a successful attorney with interests in a wide range of subjects.What was his name?
A.) Sri Ramakrishna
B.) Narendra Nath Datta
C.) Sri Ramakrishna
D.) Vishwanath Datta
Answer: D- Vishwanath Datta
Question 111. Which university Swami Vivekananda was graduated from?
A.) Calcutta
B.) Delhi
C.) Karachi
D.) Hyderabad
Answer: A- Calcutta
Question 112. In November 1881, Narendra went to meet him, who was staying at the Kali Temple in Dakshineshwar. Who was he?
A.) Ramgopal Ghose
B.) Rashik Krishna Mallik
C.) Sri Ramakrishna
D.) Dakhinaranja
Answer: C- Sri Ramakrishna
Question 113. The Ramakrishna Mission was founded by
A.) Derozio
B.) Sri Ramakrishna Parama Hamsa
C.) Satkari Datta
D.) Swami Vivekananda
Answer: D- Swami Vivekananda
Question 114. In which year, Swami Vivekananda attended the World’s Parliament of Religions held in Chicago?
A.) 1863
B.) 1886
C.) 1893
D.) 1898
Answer: C- 1893
Question 115. ivekananda felt that the Parliament would provide the right forum to present his Master’s message to the world, and so he decided to go to America. Another reason which prompted Swamiji to go to America was to seek financial help for his project of uplifting the masses. Swamiji, however, wanted to have an inner certitude and divine call regarding his mission. He got both of these while he sat in deep meditation on the rock-island. Where was the rock-island?
A.) Kanyakumari
B.) Mumbai
C.) America
D.) Chennai
Answer: A- Kanyakumari
Question 116. ........ speeches at the World’s Parliament of Religions held in September 1893 made him famous as an ‘orator by divine right’ and as a ‘Messenger of Indian wisdom to the Western world’.
A.) Chandra Sekhar Deb
B.) Swami Vivekanandav
C.) Sri Ramakrishna
D.) Shyama Charan Sen
Answer: B- Swami Vivekananda
Question 117. Ramakrishna Mission was founded in the year ......
A.) 1796
B.) 1777
C.) 1884
D.) 1897
Answer: D- 1897
Question 118. In early 1898, at ........ place, Swami Vivekananda acquired a big plot of land on the western bank of the Ganga, to have a permanent abode for the monastery and monastic order originally started at Baranagar, and got it registered as Ramakrishna Math after a couple of years.
A.) Lahore
B.) Amritsar
C.) Allahabad
D.) Belur
Answer: D- Belur
Question 119. Who said: ‘Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man’?
A.) Sri Ramakrishna
B.) Sri Narayana Guru
C.) Chandra Sekhar Deb
D.) Swami Vivekananda
Answer: D- Swami Vivekananda
Question 120. In the year …………, the Theosophical Society was formed to advance the spiritual principles and search for Truth known as Theosophy.
A.) 1820
B.) 1833
C.) 1845
D.) 1875
Answer: D- 1875
Question 121. Who was prominent in the Labour and Socialist movements, who was a member of the Fabian Society and Social Democratic Federation and also took an active part in Trade Union work among unskilled labourers.
A.) W.T.Stead
B.) H.P.Blavatsky
C.) H.S.Olcott
D.) Annie Besant
Answer: D- Annie Besant
Question 122. on 21st May of the year ....., Annie Besant joined the Theosophical Society.
A.) 1864
B.) 1868
C.) 1879
D.) 1889
Answer: D- 1889
Question 123. In 1893, the Theosophical Society was represented by ……………… at the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago.
A.) GF Remfry
B.) Annie Besant
C.) Ramgopal Ghosh
D.) George Thompson
Answer: B- Annie Besant
Question 124. Who landed in India in 1893, made a tour of the country in the company of H.S.Olcott, and by her splendid presentation of Indian philosophy and her undisguised personal preference for the Indian spiritual heritage, won the support of orthodox Brahmins to Theosophy?
A.) George Thompson
B.) Annie Besant
C.) I.N.Gurtu
D.) Upendranath Basu
Answer: B- Annie Besant
Question 125. The Central Hindu School and College in Benares (now Varanasi) was founded by
A.) Bhabani Charan Mitra
B.) Sarojini Naidu
C.) Annie Besant
D.) Ahalya Rangnekar
Answer: C- Annie Besant
Question 126. Who wrote ’A Study in Consciousness’?
A.) Mrinal Gore
B.) Annie Besant
C.) Rajkamal Sen
D.) Prasanna Kumar Tagore
Answer: B- Annie Besant
Question 127. 'Esoteric Christianity’ was authored by
A.) Annie Besant
B.) J.Krishnamurti
C.) Jawaharlal Nehru
D.) Sarala Devi Chaudhurani
Answer: A- Annie Besant
Question 128. Who started the Adyar Bulletin, which continued until 1929?
A.) Krishnamurti
B.) Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya
C.) Durgabai Deshmukh
D.) Annie Besant
Answer: D- Annie Besant
Question 129. In 1907, after Col.H.S.Olcott passed away, who became the second International President of the Theosophical Society?
A.) Bhabani Charan Mitra
B.) Annie Besant
C.) Ahalya Rangnekar
D.) Sarojini Naidu
Answer: B- Annie Besant
Question 130. In ……………’s life, a new period began in 1913, when she became active in Indian politics, and gave a lead by claiming ‘Home Rule’ for India.
A.) Malati Patwardhan
B.) Ambujammal
C.) Annie Besant
D.) Ammu Swaminathan
Answer: C- Annie Besant
Question 131. The Young Men’s Indian Association in 1914 was started by
A.) Devendranath Tagore
B.) Annie Besant
C.) Rabindranath Tagore
D.) Swarnakumari Devi
Answer: B- Annie Besant
Question 132. The journal ’The Commonweal’ was started by
A.) R.G.Bhandarkar
B.) N.G.Chandavarkar
C.) M.G.Ranade
D.) Annie Besant
Answer: D- Annie Besant
Question 133. The journal ‘New India’ was started by
A.) Annie Besant
B.) Keshub Chandra Sen
C.) Ram Mohun Roy
D.) C.W.Leadbeater
Answer: A- Annie Besant
Question 134. Who formed the Arya Mahila Samaj in Pune?
A.) Annie Besant
B.) Lord Chelmsford
C.) Ramabai Saraswati
D.) Swarnakumari Devi
Answer: C- Ramabai Saraswati
Question 135. The Sharda Sadan in Bombay was started by
A.) Sarala Devi Chaudhurani
B.) Dorothy Jinarajadasa
C.) Lord Edwin Montague
D.) Ramabai Saraswati
Answer: D- Ramabai Saraswati
Question 136. Which year is declared as the International Year of Women by the United Nation?
A.) 1876
B.) 1887
C.) 1905
D.) 1956
Answer: C- 1905
Question 137. The First World Conference on Women which generated a new interest in and debate on women’s issues, was held in ........
A.) Hyderabad
B.) Mexico
C.) Delhi
D.) Copenhagen
Answer: B- Mexico
Question 138. When was Sati declared a punishable offence?
A.) 1725
B.) 1729
C.) 1829
D.) 1850
Answer: C- 1829
Question 139. When was the formation of the Indian National Congress (INC)?
A.) 1865
B.) 1875
C.) 1885
D.) 1895
Answer: C- 1885
Question 140. Which political association of modern India was Zamindari Association?
A.) First
B.) Second
C.) Third
D.) Fourth
Answer: A- First
Question 141. Which political public association, formed in British India, was the Bengal British India Society, which was founded in Calcutta on 20 April 1843, the first being the zamindari association(1837)?
A.) First
B.) Second
C.) Third
D.) Fourth
Answer: B- Second
Question 142. In which year, the British India Society was formed?
A.) 1833
B.) 1834
C.) 1839
D.) 1865
Answer: C- 1839
Question 143. The 'Academic Association' was founded by Derozio with his students which organised debates on various subjects. When was it founded?
A.) 1826
B.) 1827
C.) 1828
D.) 1829
Answer: C- 1828
Question 144. The ………… (Quest for Knowledge) was published by the Young Bengal group for propagating their views.
A.) Parthenon
B.) Hesperus
C.) Enquirer
D.) Jnananvesan
Answer: D- Jnananvesan
Question 145. .......... was started by Krishnamohan in 1831.
A.) Quill
B.) Enquirer
C.) Bengal Spectator
D.) Hindu Pioneer
Answer: B- Enquirer
Question 146. When was the Hindu Pioneer started?
A.) 1832
B.) 1834
C.) 1836
D.) 1838
Answer: D- 1838
Question 147. Which was run by Tarachand Chakravarty?
A.) Enquirer
B.) Quill
C.) Hesperus
D.) Bengal Spectator
Answer: B- Quill
Question 148. Calcutta medical college was established in
A.) 1735
B.) 1746
C.) 1833
D.) 1834
Answer: D- 1834
Question 149. Where was the British Indian Association founded on October 29, 1851?
A.) Pune
B.) Bombay
C.) Madras
D.) Calcutta
Answer: D- Calcutta
Question 150. Where was the Mohamedan Association founded in 1856?
A.) Calcutta
B.) Adayar
C.) Madras
D.) Maharashtra
Answer: A- Calcutta
Question 151. S.Ramaswami Mudaliar and P.Anandacharlu established the Madras Mahajana Sabha in May of ..... year.
A.) 1772
B.) 1784
C.) 1872
D.) 1884
Answer: D- 1884
Question 152. Where was the Indian National Congress founded in December, 1885?
A.) Calcutta
B.) Gujarat
C.) Bombay
D.) Madras
Answer: C- Bombay
Question 153. ………, a retired English I.C.S officer, played an important role in the formation of the Indian National Congress which was the first organized expression of Indian nationalism on an all India Scale.
A.) A.O.Hume
B.) S.N.Sen
C.) Man Mohan Gosh
D.) W.C.Banerjee
Answer:A- A.O.Hume
Question 154. Who founded the Indian National Union in 1884?
A.) A.O.Hume
B.) W.C.Banerjee
C.) A.M.Bose
D.) Lord Dufferin
Answer: A- A.O.Hume
Question 155. Under whose presidentship, the second session of the congress met in Calcutta on December 1886?
A.) Kadambini Ganguli
B.) D.Ewacha
C.) Pherozeshah Mehta
D.) Dadabhai Naoroji
Answer: D- Dadabhai Naoroji
Question 156. At which place, Gokhale was born in a Marathi Brahmin family?
A.) Kolhapur
B.) Assam
C.) Poona
D.) Allahabad
Answer: A- Kolhapur
Question 157. Who founded the Deccan Educational Society?
A.) S.N.Banerjee
B.) W.C.Banerjee
C.) D.Ewacha
D.) Ranade
Answer: D- Ranade
Question 158. Who edited the journal "Poona Sarvajanik Sabha"?
A.) Ranade
B.) Gokhale
C.) S.N.Banerjee
D.) W.C.Banerjee
Answer: B- Gokhale
Question 159. In which year, the Minto Morley reforms were produced?
A.) 1905
B.) 1907
C.) 1909
D.) 1911
Answer: C- 1909
Question 160. Whose work is 'the political philosophy’?
A.) R.C.Dutt
B.) Gopala Krishna Gokhale
C.) Dadabai Naoroji
D.) Lala Lajpath Rai
Answer: B- Gopala Krishna Gokhale
Question 161. The foundation of 'the Servants of India Society’ with a solemn view to the training of national missionaries for the service of India, and to promote the true interest of the Indian people by all constitutional means. Who laid it?
A.) Ranade
B.) R.C.Dutt
C.) Gokhale
D.) Dadabai Naoroji
Answer: C- Gokhale
Question 162. ‘If India is poor today it is through the operation of economic causes’, was written by ……………… in his book ‘Economic History of India’.
A.) R.P.Datt
B.) Dadhabai Naoroji
C.) Ranade
D.) R.C.Dutt
Answer: D- R.C.Dutt
Question 163. The Grand old man of India is
A.) Dadabhai Naoroji
B.) Amaresh Chakravarty
C.) Pulinbehari Sarkar
D.) Ranade
Answer: A- Dadabhai Naoroji
Question 164. In 1852, ......... founded the Bombay Association, the first political association in Bombay presidency.
A.) Dadabhai Naoroji
B.) Prankrishna Parija
C.) Pulinbehari Sarkar
D.) Amaresh Chakravarty
Answer: A- Dadabhai Naoroji
Question 165. When was Dadabhai Naoroji’s book ‘Poverty and UnBritish Rule in India’ published, which analysed the nature of the British rule in India?
A.) 1899
B.) 1901
C.) 1905
D.) 1947
Answer: B- 1901
Question 166. When was the Ganapati festival started?
A.) 1797
B.) 1799
C.) 1893
D.) 1905
Answer: C- 1893
Question 167. In which year, the first Shivaji festival was held at Raigarh?
A.) 1891
B.) 1893
C.) 1895
D.) 1897
Answer: C- 1895
Question 168. When was Hindu Mahasabha founded?
A.) 1900
B.) 1905
C.) 1915
D.) 1925
Answer: C- 1915
Question 169. In December of ...... year, Muslim League was established.
A.) 1916
B.) 1936
C.) 1906
D.) 1946
Answer: C- 1906
Question 170. The background of the foundation of the Muslim League could be traced back to the establishment of the Indian National Congress in 1885. This League was founded at ……… on 30 December, 1906.
A.) Shahbag
B.) Bengal
C.) Dhaka
D.) Simla
Answer: C- Dhaka
Question 171. "Swaraj is my birthright and I will have it.", said by ……… in his speeches, he who made a wirlwind tour of the country in 1916.
A.) Gokhale
B.) Jawaharlal Nehru
C.) Mahatma Gandhi
D.) Tilak
Answer: D- Tilak
Question 172. Through his two newspapers - the Kesari and the Maratha, .......... preached the idea of Home Rule.
A.) Jawaharlal Nehru
B.) Tilak
C.) Gokhale
D.) Annie Besant
Answer: B- Tilak
Question 173. he Champaran Satyagraha took place in
A.) Bombay
B.) Madras
C.) Bihar
D.) Gujarat
Answer: C- Bihar
Question 174. Who led the Champaran Satyagraha?
A.) Gandhi
B.) Pulinbehari Sarkar
C.) Patel
D.) Amaresh Chakravarty
Answer: A- Gandhi
Question 175. Kheda Satyagraha took place in
A.) Malabar
B.) Calcutta
C.) Gujarat
D.) Thana
Answer: C- Gujarat
Question 176. The First National Trade Union Organization (The All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)) was established in ......
A.) 1905
B.) 1910
C.) 1915
D.) 1920
Answer: D-' 1920
Question 177. Who wrote Pazhassi Samarangal(Malayalam)?
A.) Bhattacharya Sabya
B.) B.Sobhanan
C.) K.K.N.Kurup
D.) K.K.Kusuman
Answer: C- K.K.N.Kurup
Question 178. Who wrote 'Against Lord and State'?
A.) K.K.N.Kurup
B.) Panikkar K.N
C.) R.C.Majumdar
D.) Sumit Sarkar
Answer: B- Panikkar K.N
Question 179. Which Governor General was associated with Subsidiary Alliance System
A.) Lord Delhousie
B.) Lord Wellesley
C.) Lord Cornwallis
D.) Lord Mayo
Answer: B- Lord Wellesley
Question 180. The first Governor General of India was
A.) Warren Hastings
B.) Lord Delhousie
C.) Lord Canning
D.) William Bentinck
Answer: A- Warren Hastings
Question 181. 'Poverty and Un-British Rule in India' was authored by
A.) Dadabhai Naoroji
B.) S.C.Ghosh
C.) Irfan Habib
D.) Romila Thapar
Answer: A- Dadabhai Naoroji
Question 182. Whose book is 'Writing Social History'?
A.) Ranajith Guha
B.) Sumit Sarkar
C.) Ania Loomba
D.) Cohn Bernard
Answer: B- Sumit Sarkar
Question 183. Whose work is 'The Peasant and the Raj'?
A.) D.N.Dhanagare
B.) A.R.Desai
C.) Shirin Mehta
D.) Eric Stokes
Answer: D- Eric Stokes
Question 184. ........... rebellion began in 1816 and lasted till 1832.
A.) Kutch rebellion
B.) Khasi uprising
C.) Naikada rising
D.) Kol uprising
Answer: A- Kutch rebellion
Question 185. With what view, the Factory Act of 1881 was passed?
A.) Prohibit the employment of children below the age of 7 in any factory
B.) Allow the workers to trade unions
C.) Fix the wages of industrial workers
D.) Reduce the working hours for women employees
Answer: A- Prohibit the employment of children below the age of 7 in any factory
Question 186. The Liberal Federation, in the Nehru Report(1928) prepared by the Nehru committee, was by A.) Tej Bahadur Sapru
B.) V.S.Srinivasa Sastri
C.) M.R.Jayakar
D.) M.S.Aney
Answer: A- Tej Bahadur Sapru
Question 187. ........ had an English factory, on the Western Coast of India.
A.) Calicut
B.) Tellicherry
C.) Cochin
D.) Cannanore
Answer: D- Cannanore
Question 188. The Revolt of 1857 was described as the ‘First War of Independence’ by the author ......
A.) V.D.Savarkar
B.) Ashok Mehta
C.) S.N.Sen
D.) R.C.Mazumdar
Answer: A- V.D.Savarkar
Question 189. The Rayotwari settlement was made with
A.) Muqqadams
B.) Cultivators
C.) Village Panchayats
D.) Zamindars
Answer: B- Cultivators
Question 190. To trade freely in Bengal, a firman was issued by a Mughal Emperor to the English East-India Company in 1717. Who was the Mughal Emperor?
A.) Shah Alam
B.) Farrukh Siyar
C.) Bahadur Shah
D.) Jahandar Shah
Answer: B- Farrukh Siyar
Question 191. Under the rule of British, one of the following sentences is correct. What was it?
A.) The permanent zamindari settlement of Lord Cornwallis vested the ownership of land in the zamindars
B.) The permanent zamindari settlement of Lord Cornwallis vested the ownership of land in the individual pents
C.) The permanent zamindari settlement of Lord Cornwallis vested the ownership of land in the villages communities
D.) The permanent zamindari settlement of Lord Cornwallis vested the ownership of land in the state Answer:A- The permanent zamindari settlement of Lord Cornwallis vested the ownership of land in the zamindars
Question 192. The agricultural product that did not attract the British people was
A.) Coffee
B.) Tea
C.) Indigo
D.) Cotton
Answer: A- Coffee
Question 193. ......... was not a pioneer industry in India during British rule.
A.) Iron
B.) Jute
C.) Cotton
D.) Coal
Answer: A- Iron
Question 194. Industrial Revolution was started in .......... country.
A.) England
B.) Germany
C.) U.S.A.
D.) France
Answer: A- England
Question 195. When was the first census held in India? \
A.) 1861
B.) 1871
C.) 1881
D.) 1891
Answer: A- 1861
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