Wednesday, April 3, 2024

MODERN INDIAN HISTORY (1857 TO THE PRESENT)

1. Name the philosopher who believed that freedom is the keynote of spiritual life.?

a) Gopala Krishna Gokhale b ) Nehru c) Ambedkar d) Vivekanada

Answer

Correct Answer: d) Vivekanada


2. Who is the chief exponent of Two nation theory

a) Vivikananda b ) Gokhale c) Gandhiji d) Mohammed Ali Jinnah

Answer

Correct Answer: d) Mohammed Ali Jinnah


3. The doctrine of Hindutva was expounded by

a) V. D. Savarkar b) Tilak c) Gandhiji d) Nehru

Answer

Correct Answer: a) V. D. Savarkar


4. The theory of ‘Cultural Nationalism’ was expounded by

a) Gokhale b) Vivekananda c) Savarkar d) Nehru

Answer

Correct Answer: c) Savarkar


5. V.D Savarkar was born in

a)1885 b) 1883 c) 1888 d) 1870

Answer

Correct Answer: b) 1883


6. Mohammed Ali Jinnah was born in

a) Lahore b) Bombay c) Delhi d) Karachi

Answer

Correct Answer: d) Karachi


7. In which year Mohammed Ali- Jinnah was elected to the Imperial Legislative Council from Bombay?

a)1910 b) 1914 c) 1919 d) 1924

Answer

Correct Answer: a)1910


8. Tilak regarded that Swaraj was not only a right but a

a) Justice b) Dharma c) power d) Status

Answer

Correct Answer: b) Dharma


9. Sree Narayana Guru was born in

a) Sivagiri b) Aruvipuram c) Chempazanthi d) Kollam

Answer

Correct Answer: c) Chempazanthi


10.SNDP Yogam was formed in the year

a)1903 b) 1896 c) 1908 d) 1914

Answer

Correct Answer: a)1903


11. The doctrine of Ramarajya was expounded by

a) Tilak b) Gokhale c) Gandhiji d) Nehru

Answer

Correct Answer: c) Gandhiji


12. Who is the Champion of secularism?

a) Jinnah b) Nehru c) Savarkar d) Thilak

Answer

Correct Answer: b) Nehru


13. Who regarded the villages as the centre of Indian economic organization?

a) Gandhiji b) Vivekananda c) Raja Ram Mohan Roy d) Thilak

Answer

Correct Answer: a) Gandhiji


14. Gandhism is not merely a political creed it is

a) A programme of action b) A message c) theory d) Working class movement

Answer

Correct Answer: b) A message


15.Name the important work of V.D. Savarkar

a) Princess b) Politics c) Freedom struggle d) Hindutva

Answer

Correct Answer: d) Hindutva


16.Who is regarded as the pragmatic social reformer?

a) Nehru b) Thilak c) Sree Narayana Guru d) Mahathma Gandhi

Answer

Correct Answer: c) Sree Narayana Guru


17.Who condemned Gandhism as a reactionary social philosophy?

a) Gopalakrishna Gokhale b) M.N.Roy c) Nehru d) Lohia

Answer

Correct Answer: b) M.N.Roy


18.Independent India was founded by :

a)Gopalakrishna Gokhale b) Thilak c) M.N. Roy d) Jayaprakas Narayanan

Answer

Correct Answer: c) M.N. Roy


19.Doctrine of Total Revolution was expounded by

a)Jayaprakas Narayanan b) M.N Roy c) Gandhiji d) Thilak

Answer

Correct Answer:a)Jayaprakas Narayanan


20.Radical Democratic party was organised by

a)Lohia b) M.N.Roy c) Jayaprakash Narayanan d) Thilak

Answer

Correct Answer: b) M.N.Roy


21. Who is the champion of the doctrine of ‘social revolution through human Revolution’?

a)M.N.Roy b) Lohia c) Jayaprakash Narayanan d) Nehru

Answer

Correct Answer: c) Jayaprakash Narayanan


22. Jinnh’s Two –nation Theory was adopted on

a)1935 b) 1940 c) 1925 d) 1947

Answer

Correct Answer: b) 1940


23. The concept of four pillar state was advocated by

a)Lohia b) M.N.Roy c) Nehru d) Ambedker

Answer

Correct Answer: a)Lohia


24. Who considered Jinnah as an ambassador of Hindu-Muslim unity?

a) Gandhiji b) Thilak c) Sarojini Naidu d) Vivekananda

Answer

Correct Answer: c) Sarojini Naidu


25. Jinnah’s two nation theory was adopted as the

a) Lahore Resolution b) Karachi Resolution c) Dacca Declaration d) Bombay resolution

Answer

Correct Answer: a) Lahore Resolution


26. Azad Muslim conference’ was formed in

a)1939 b) 1940 c) 1941 d) 1947

Answer

Correct Answer: b) 1940


27. Name the political leader who supported two nation theory

a) Gandhiji b) Gokhale c) Jinnah d) Tilak

Answer

Correct Answer: c) Jinnah


28.All Indian Muslim League was started in :

a)1960 b) 1906 c) 1921 d) 1928

Answer

Correct Answer: b) 1906


29. Glimpses of world History’ was written by

a) Nehru b) Gandhiji c) Thilak d) Ambedkar

Answer

Correct Answer: a) Nehru


30. Who is the author of Discovery of India?

a) Gandhiji b) Vivekananda c) Nehru d) Gokhale

Answer

Correct Answer: c) Nehru


31.The fundamental principles of Pancha shila were laid down in the year;

a)1961 b) 1955 c) 1954 d) 1950

Answer

Correct Answer: c) 1954


32.B.R. Ambedker was born in

a)1891 b) 1893 c) 1898 d) 1901

Answer

Correct Answer: a)1891


33. A public meeting was held on 13th April 1919 at ................in a smallpark enclosed by buildings on all sides to protest against the Rawlatt Act.

a) Jallianwala Bagh b) Uttar Pradesh c) Mumbai d) Delhi

Answer

Correct Answer: a) Jallianwala Bagh


34.Brigadier-General ..................with his British troops entered the park at Jallianwala Bagh , closed the entrance of the park and commanded his army to fire on the gathered people without any warning.

a) Reginald Dyer b) Sir Stafford Cripps c) Sir Claude Auchinleck d) General Sir Rob Lockhart.

Answer

Correct Answer: a) Reginald Dyer


35.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on 2nd October..............

a)1869 b) 1859 c) 1889 d) 1900

Answer

Correct Answer: a)1869


36. Gandhiji came back to India from South Africa, in the year...

a)1914 b) 1915 c) 1916 d) 1917

Answer

Correct Answer: b) 1915


37.. ........., who led the Congress party, introduced Mahatma Gandhi to the concerns in India and the struggle of the people.

a) Tej Bahadur Sapru b) Rabindranath Tagore c) Mohammad Ali Jinnah d) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

Answer

Correct Answer: a) Tej Bahadur Sapru


38. A series of non-violence campaigns of Civil Disobedience Movement were launched by the Indian National Congress under the leadership of............................

a) Mohammad Ali Jinnah b) Sri Aurabindo c) Motilal Nehru d) Mahatma Gandhi

Answer

Correct Answer:d) Mahatma Gandhi


39.The Kheda Satyagraha and Champaran agitation in 1918 was one of...................first significant steps to achieve Indian independence.

a) Rabindranath Tagore’s b) Gandhiji c) Motilal Nehru’s d) Mohammed Ali Jinnah’s

Answer

Correct Answer: b) Gandhiji


40.Mahatma Gandhi on August 8, .............gave the call for Quit India Movement.

a)1942 b) 1920 c) 1930 d) 1940

Answer

Correct Answer: a)1942


41...................called on all Congressmen and Indians to maintain discipline via nonviolence and Do or Die in order to achieve ultimate freedom.

a) Mahatma Gandhi b) Motilal Nehru c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak d) Sri Aurobindo

Answer

Correct Answer: a) Mahatma Gandhi


42.On 9th of August, 1942, Mahatma Gandhi and the entire Congress Working Committee were arrested in................

a) UP b) Delhi c) Ahmedabad d) Mumbai

Answer

Correct Answer: d) Mumbai


43.In 1946, upon persuasion of....................., Mahatma Gandhi reluctantly accepted the proposal of partition and independence offered by the British cabinet, in order to evade a civil war.

a) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel b) Rajguru c) Sukhdev d) Mohammed Ali Jinnah

Answer

Correct Answer: a) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel


44.During the First World War, ................joined the central powers against Britain.

a) America b) Britain c) France d) Turkey

Answer

Correct Answer: d) Turkey


45.A Khilafat Committee was formed under the leadership of Mahammad Ali, ...................., Maulana Azad and Hasrat Mohini to organise a Country-wide agitation.

a) Shaukat Ali b) Qutubuddin Ahmad c) Shamsuddin Hussain d) Mohammed Ali Jinnah

Answer

Correct Answer: a) Shaukat Ali


46.The main object of Khilafat Movement was to force the ..............Government to change its attitude towards Turkey and to restore the Sultan.

a) British b) Austrian c) American d) Serbian

Answer

Correct Answer: a) British


47.October 17, ................was observed as Khilafat Day, when the Hindus along with Muslims in fasting observed hartal on that day.

a)1908 b)1909 c) 1916 d)1919

Answer

Correct Answer: d)1919


48.An All India Khilafat Conference was held at ..............on November 23,1919 with Gandhi as its president.

a) Calcutta b) Punjab c) Gujarat d) Delhi

Answer

Correct Answer: d) Delhi


49.Congress leaders, like Lokamanya Tilak and Mahatma Gandhi, viewed the ....................as an opportunity to bring about Hindu-Muslim unity against British.

a) Khalifat Movement b) Khudai Khidmatgars c) Peasant movement d) Womens’ movement

Answer

Correct Answer: a) Khalifat Movement


50..............visited Malabar in 1921, giving a further impetus to the Khilafat movement.

a) Gandhiji b) Motilal Nehru c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak d) Sri Aurobindo

Answer

Correct Answer: a) Gandhiji


51.The speed with which the Khilafat agitation spread, especially in the..............and Valluvanad taluks in Malabar, created alarm in official circles.

a) Eranad b) Tellicherry c) Kannur d) Edappal

Answer

Correct Answer: a) Eranad


51. The Constitution of ....................is the largest written liberal democratic constitution of the world.

a) India b) America c) Pakistan d) Afghanistan

Answer

Correct Answer: a) India


52. The Constitution of ...................provides for a mixture of federalism and Unitarianism, and flexibility and with rigidity.

a) Afghanistan b) America c) Pakistan d) India

Answer

Correct Answer: d) India


53. since its inauguration on 26th January.............., the Constitution of India has been successfully guiding the path and progress of India.

a)1905 b)1915 c)1930 d) 1950

Answer

Correct Answer: d) 1950


54. Indian Constitution consists of ................ Articles divided into 22 Parts with 12 Schedules and 94 constitutional amendments.

a)295 b)305 c)388 d) 395

Answer

Correct Answer: d) 395


55. The Constitution of India indeed much bigger than the US Constitution which has only 7 Articles and the ..................Constitution with its 89 Articles.

a) French b) Dutch c) Pakistan d)Afghanistan

Answer

Correct Answer: a) French


56. The constitution of India became fully operational with effect from 26thJanuary..........................

a)1905 b)1935 c)1947 d) 1950

Answer

Correct Answer: d) 1950


57. Although, right from the beginning the Indian Constitution fully reflected the spirit of democratic socialism, it was only in ................. that the Preamble was amended to include the term ‘Socialism’.

a)1936 b)1946 c)1956 d) 1976

Answer

Correct Answer: d) 1976


58.India has an elected head of state (President of India) who wields power for a fixed term of ................... years.

a)2 b)3 c)4 d) 5

Answer

Correct Answer: d) 5


59. All men and women of ................. years or above of age whose names are registered in the voters lists vote in elections for electing the members of Lok Sabha

a)14 b)16 c) 17 d) 18

Answer

Correct Answer: d) 18


60.. Every voter of .................years or above of age is eligible to contest elections to the Lok Sabha.

a)21 b)23 c)24 d) 25

Answer

Correct Answer: d) 25


61. The tenure of the Lok Sabha is ........................ years.

a)2 b)3 c)4 d) 5

Answer

Correct Answer: d) 5


62.The key person behind the Constitution of India was..................

a) Dr. B.R. Ambedkar b) Jawaharlal Nehru c)Mahatma Gandhi d)Sardar Vallabhai Patel

Answer

Correct Answer: b) Jawaharlal Nehru


63.The Montague-Chelmsford Reforms of .................... had brought a large scale discontentment among the people of India.

a)1909 b)1911 c)1916 d) 1919

Answer

Correct Answer: d) 1919


64.The Non-Cooperation Movement launched by ..................had fanned the fire of this discontentment.

a) Gandhi b) Jawaharlal Nehru c)Dr. B.R. Ambedkar d)Sardar Vallabhai

Answer

Correct Answer: a) Gandhi


65. In order to give some concession to Indians in the field of administration, the Government of India Act, ................was designed on the basis of the recommendation of Simon Commission.

a)1905 b)1915 c)1925 d) 1935

Answer

Correct Answer: d) 1935


66. Diarchy was introduced by the Act. Of .......................

a)1908 b)1913 c)1915 d) 1919

Answer

Correct Answer: d) 1919


67. The States Reorganization Act was passed by parliament in November..............

a)1916 b)1926 c)1946 d) 1956.

Answer

Correct Answer: d) 1956


68. In India, "the Emergency" refers to a 21-month period in 1975–77 when Prime Minister................ unilaterally had an emergency declared across the country.

a) Indira Gandhi b) Jawaharlal Nehru c) Dr. B.R. Ambedkar d) Rajiv Gandhi

Answer

Correct Answer: a) Indira Gandhi


69. Officially issued by President................ Ahmed under Article 352(1) of the Constitution for "internal disturbance", the Emergency was in effect from 25 June1975 until its withdrawal on 21 March 1977.

a) Fakhruddin Ali b) Dr. S. Radhakrishnan c)Dr. Rajendra Prasad d)Manmohan Singh

Answer

Correct Answer: a) Fakhruddin Ali


70.On June 25, ......................prime minister Indira Gandhi imposed Emergency in India citing grave threat to her government and sovereignty of the country from both internal and external forces.

a)1955 b)1965 c)1968 d) 1975

Answer

Correct Answer: d) 1975


71. Indira Gandhi became the prime minister in January ............. and then emerged victorious in the 1971 Lok Sabha elections.

a)1906 b)1916 c)1956 d) 1966

Answer

Correct Answer: d) 1966


72. The socialist stalwart ...................openly led a mass movement against her calling her corrupt and autocratic.

a) Jaya Prakash Narayan b) Fakruddin Ali Ahmed c)EMS d)AKG

Answer

Correct Answer: a) Jaya Prakash Narayan


73. The firebrand trade union leader ....................had successfully organised an all India Railways strike bringing the public transport and economy to a halt.

a) George Fernandes b) Fakruddin Ali Ahmed c) Jaya Prakash Narayan d)EMS

Answer

Correct Answer: a) George Fernandes


74. The Emergency draft was hurriedly sent to the President of India ................ who signed it immediately.

a) Fakruddin Ali Ahmed b) George Fernandes c)Dr.Rajendra Prasad d)ManmohanSingh

Answer

Correct Answer: a) Fakruddin Ali Ahmed


75................. second son Sanjay Gandhi, who was just 29 years old then, took charge of the administration and started sending opposition leaders and workers to jails across India.

a) Nanaji Deshmukh’s b) Morarji Desai’s c) Indira Gandhi's d), Subramanian Swamy’s,

Answer

Correct Answer: c) Indira Gandhi's


76. Ramnath Goenka, the only newspaper owner who stood up to.................., was harassed and he faced a series of troubles at the hands of her government.

a) Indira Gandhi b) JP, George Fernandes, c) AB Vajpayee d)LK Advani,

Answer

Correct Answer: a) Indira Gandhi


77. However, .................... shocked everybody by declaring Lok Sabha elections in January 1977 bringing an end to draconian Emergency.

a) Indira Gandhi b) Ramakrishna Hegde, c) HD Deve Gowda, d)M Karunanidhi.

Answer

Correct Answer: a) Indira Gandhi


78. In the historic Lok Sabha election held in March 1977, ...............-led Congress lost power.

a) Indira Gandhi b) JB Patnaik, c) Jyoti Basu, d)Madhu Dandavate

Answer

Correct Answer: a) Indira Gandhi


79....................... succeeded her as the Prime Minister and led the Janata Party government till 1980.

a) Morarji Desai b) Lalu Prasad Yadav, c) Mulayam Singh Yadav d), Sharad Yadav

Answer

Correct Answer: a) Morarji Desai


80. In the ................... Lok Sabha polls, Indira Gandhi returned to power and remainedin power till her assassination in 1984.

a)1908 b)1940 c)1970 d) 1980

Answer

Correct Answer: d) 1980


81.................... started his career as the Prime Minister of independent India in 1947, and immediately launched a number of economic reforms.

a) Nehru b) Indira Gandhi c) Morarji Desai d)Rajiv Gandhi

Answer

Correct Answer: a) Nehru


82.One of Nehru's key economic reforms was the introduction of the Five Years Plan in........................

a)1901 b)1911 c)1941 d) 1951.

Answer

Correct Answer: d) 1951


83.Nehru's economic policies have often been considered to be .................in nature.

a) Socialist b) Communist c) Capitalist d) Utopian Socialism

Answer

Correct Answer: a) Socialist


84.................... was the main architect of first green revolution of India listed five components of Agricultural renewal

a) Dr. M.S. Swaminathan b) Lalu Prasad Yadav, c) Mulayam Singh Yadav d) Sharad Yadav

Answer

Correct Answer: a) Dr. M.S. Swaminathan


85. Since......................., the Indian economy has pursued free market liberalisation , greater openness in trade and increase investment in infrastructure.

a)1961 b)1971 c)1981 d) 1991

Answer

Correct Answer: d) 1991


86. The Special Economic Zone (SEZ) policy in India first came into inception on April 1, ..........................

a)1900 b)1947 c)1991 d) 2000

Answer

Correct Answer: d) 2000


87.The prime objective of ................was to enhance foreign investment and provide an internationally competitive and hassle free environment for exports.

a) SEZ b) Land Grabbing c) Liberalization d) Privatization

Answer

Correct Answer: a) SEZ


88. ...............is a specifically delineated duty-free enclave and shall be deemed to be foreign territory for the purposes of trade operations and duties and tariffs.

a) SEZ b) Liberalization c) Privatization d) Globalization

Answer

Correct Answer: a) SEZ


89. In................, with the emergence of a new politically independent nation, India continued to march ahead pursuing a programme of using modern science and technology for national development.

a)1907 b)1917 c)1937 d) 1947

Answer

Correct Answer: d) 1947


90.There is no doubt that J.L Nehru's India's first Prime Minister was fully analysed the indispensability of science and technology in the economic and the social independence.

a) J.L Nehru's b) Narasimha Rao c) Prof. P.M.S Blackett d) Vajpayee

Answer

Correct Answer: a) J.L Nehru's


91. soon after becoming the Prime Minister of India, .................created a Ministry of Scientific Research and Natural Resources and actively supported the atomic energy programme for peaceful purposes.

a) Nehru b) Narasimha Rao c) Prof. P.M.S Blackett d) Vajpayee

Answer

Correct Answer: a) Nehru


92. In.................., the Atomic Energy Act was passed and the Department of Atomic Energy was directly under his charge was created.

a)1908 b)1938 c)1945 d) 1948

Answer

Correct Answer: d) 1948


93. Under the farsighted leadership of ..................the nation, the government and the public leaders became committed to the promotion of science and technology.

a) Nehru, b) Narasimha Rao c) Prof. P.M.S Blackett d) Vajpayee

Answer

Correct Answer: a) Nehru


94. ......................appointed a scientific man power committee and five institutes of technology came up at Kharagpur, Bombay, Madras, Kanpur and Delhi besides a number of regional engineering colleges by his efforts.

a) J.L. Nehru b) Prof. P.M.S Blackett c)Indira Gandhi d) Vajpayee

Answer

Correct Answer: a) J.L. Nehru


95.In................., Nehru directed the CSIR to prepare National Register of Scientific and Technical personnel.

a)1908 b)1938 c) 1948 d)1958

Answer

Correct Answer: c) 1948


96.Defence organization was set up in 1948, on advice ................for the scientific evolution of weapons and equipment, operational research and special studies.

a) Prof. P.M.S Blackett b) Vajpayee c)Jawaharlal Nehru d)Indira Gandhi

Answer

Correct Answer: a) Prof. P.M.S Blackett


97.The enthusiastic efforts of Mr. ........................led to the expansion of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research into a chain of national laboratories spanning a wide spectrum of science, technology, engineering and biomedical sciences.

a) Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar b) Vajpayee c) Jawaharlal Nehru d) Sardar Patel

Answer

Correct Answer: a) Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar


98.The vision of Homi. ..................also led to advanced research in nuclear energy and other fundamental areas through the creation of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research which is now known as the Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC).

a) J. Bhabha b) Vajpayee c) Jawaharlal Nehru d) Sardar Patel

Answer

Correct Answer: a) J. Bhabha


99. The economic liberalisation in India denotes the continuing financial reforms which began since July 24, ..........................

a)1961 b)1971 c)1981 d) 1991

Answer

Correct Answer: d) 1991


100.In....................., the country experienced a balance of payments dilemma following the Gulf War and the downfall of the erstwhile Soviet Union.

a)1951 b) 1961 c)1971 d) 1991

Answer

Correct Answer: d) 1991


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