Modern India- Questions & Answers 9

201. Madras Mahajana Sabha was established in:

(a) 1884                                                         (b) 1887
(c) 1894                                                        (d)  1904
Answer: (a)

202. Pondicherry was the main base on the coromandel coast of the:

(a) English East India Company              (b) French East India Company
(c) Dutch East India Company                 (d) Danish East India Company
Answer: (b)

203. Revolutionary youth Madanlal Dhingra shot dead:

(a) Michael O’Dyer                                       (b) General Dyer
(c) Lord Curzon                                            (d) Curzon Wylie
Answer: (d)

204. Sir William Sleeman was associated with the operation against the:

(a) Sikhs                                                      (b) Rajputs
(c) Thugs                                                     (d) Pindaris
Answer: (c)

205. The ‘Voice of India’ published extracts from Indian Press. It was started by:

(a) S.N.Bannerjee                                          (b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(c) Dadabhai Naoroji                                   (d) P.Ananda Charlu
Answer: (c)

206. The author of ‘1857 The Great Rebellion’:

(a) Vir Savarkar                                               (b) Ashok Mehta
(c) Jawaharlal Nehru                                     (d) Sarojini Naidu
Answer: (b)

207. The first Indian to be elected to the leadership of Communist International

was:
(a) M.N.Roy                                                               (b) P.C.Joshi
(c)Sohan Singh Josh                                               (d) S.A.Dange
Answer: (a)

208. The first Indian to preach the gospel of Swadeshi and India for Indians:

(a) WC Bannerjee                                                    (b) Dadabhai Naoroji
(c) Raja Ram Mohun Roy                                   (d) Swami Dayanand Saraswati

Answer: (d)

209. The first war of Independence in India lasted for almost:

(a) Two weeks                                                   (b) Two years

(c) Two days                                                       (d) One year

Answer: (b)

210. Who founded Dayanand Anglo Vedic School?

(a) Lala Hansraj                                 (b) Bhagat Singh
(c) Vivekananda                                 (d) Iswar Chandra Vidhyasagar
Answer: (a)

211. Who introduced the Ryotwari system in Madras?

(a) Elphinstone                                                (b) Alexander Reed
(c) Thomas Monroe                                        (d) Robert Clive
Answer: (c)

212. Who is associated with the Self Respect Movement?

(a) G.S.Iyer                                                           (b) Vanchi Iyer
(c) E.V.Ramaswami Naiker                             (d) V.O.Chidambaram Pillai
Answer: (c)

213. Who was the president of the Indian National Congress during Bengal partition?

(a) Motilal Nehru                                          (b) Dadabhai Naoroji
(c) Feroz Shah Mehta                                  (d) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

Answer: (d)

214. ‘Hind Swaraj’ was written by Gandhiji while:

(a) Travelling from England to India by ship
(b) In Sabarmati Asharam
(c) Travelling from England to South Africa by ship
(d) Leading Champaran Satyagraha
Answer: (c)

215. ‘Sudharak’ was a newspaper by:

(a) G.K.Gokhale                                       (b) Gandhiji
(c) M.G.Ranade                                       (d) B.G.Tilak
Answer: (a)

216. “Christianity  wins its prosperity by cutting throats of its fellow men”- Who

said this?
(a) Dayanand                                            (b) Vivekananda
(c) Ram Krishna Paramhansa               (d) Gandhiji
Answer: (b)

217. “God is of no use to the hungry belly’ Whose words are these?

(a) Vivekananda                                   (b) Dayanand
(c) Guru Nanak                                     (d) Ram Krishna Paramhansa
Answer: (d)

218. A leading British Parliamentarian and politician admitted that the revolt of

1857 was a ‘National Revolt’, not a’ Military Mutiny’?
(a) Lord Dalhousie                                 (b) Lord Canning
(c) William Gladstone                           (d) Benjamin Disraeli
Answer: (d)

219. After 1857, who among the following announced at a Durbar at Allahabad,

the assumption of the Government of India by the Sovereign of Great Britain?
(a) Lord Canning                                    (b) Sir John Lawrence
(c) Lord Mayo                                         (d) Lord Northbrook
Answer: (a)

220. All India Hindu Maha Sabha was setup in 1915 under the presidentship of:

(a) Sahajanand                                          (b) Maharaja of Kasimbazar
(c) Lajpath Rai                                           (d)  M.M.Malavya
Answer: (b)

221. An Indian revolutionary who was a professor of Sanskrit in the Universities

of Berkeley and Stanford died in Philadelphia:
(a) Shyamji Krishna Varma                     (b) Lala Hardayal
(c)Taraka Nath Das                                   (d) Bhai Parmanand
Answer: (b)

222. Baba Ram Chandra Das was a leader of:

(a) Taluqdars                                                (b) Liberals
(c) Congress                                                 (d) Peasants
Answer: (d)

223. Domingo Paes was a visitor from:

(a) Iran                                                           (b) France
(c) Russia                                                      (d)  Portugal

Answer: (d)

224. During the 1940s, Nanasaheb Ramchandra Patil founded parallel government

named Prati Sarkar in the 150 villages in:

(a) Bengal                                                      (b) Bihar

(c) Maharashtra                                          (d) Orissa

Answer: (c)

225. During Quit India  movement, Tamralipta Jatiya Sarkar (Tamrlipta

National Government) was formed in:

(a) Maharashtra                                                   (b) Bengal

(c) Orissa                                                                (d)  Bihar

Answer: (b)
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