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
