MCQ 4th SEM Modern India

For 4th SEM, MCQ MODERN INDIAN HISTORY

1. Who is regarded as “Maker of Modern India”?

[A]M.G.Ranade
[B]Mahatma Gandhi
[C]Keshav Chandra Sen
[D] Ram Mohan Roy

2. In which year and at which place, India’s national anthem was sung for the first time?

[A] 1911, Kolkata
[B] 1912, Lucknow
[C] 1913, Delhi
[D] 1914, Bombay

3. Simon Commission had visited India during the times of which among the following Viceroys?

[A]Lord Irwin
[B] Lord Chelmsford
[C] Lord Willingdon
[D] Lord Wood

4. At which among the following sessions of the Muslim League, Mohammed Ali Jinnah had invented a new slogan “Divide and Quit”?

[A]Lucknow Session,1931
[B]Karachi Session, 1933
[C]Lahore Session, 1940
[D] Karachi Session, 1943

5. On which among the following dates, execution of Bhagat Singh took place ?

[A]March19, 1931
[B] April23, 1931
[C] March23, 1931
[D] March 14, 1931

6. Who among the following introduced the Vernacular Press Act?

[A]Sir Ashley Eden
[B] Alexander John Arbuthnot
[C] Lord Lytton
[D] Lord Stanley

7. Which among the following events took place immediately before the massacre at Jallianwalla Bagh?

[A]Partition of Bengal
[B]llbert Bill
[C] Passage     of         the RowlattAct
[D] Minto-Morley Reforms

8. Who among the following played a dominant role in the famous Vaikom Satyagraha of 1924–25?

[A]T.K.Madhavan
[B]Muloor S.Padmanabha Panicker
[C]BalaramaVarma
[D] K. Kelappan

9. Who among the following had drafted the “Declaration of Independence” pledge in 1930?

[A]MotilalNehru
[B]JawaharLalNehru
[C]MahatmaGandhi
[D] C R Das

10. During which among the following events, Bal Gangadhar Tilak was given the epithet of ‘Lokmanya’?

[A]Home Rule Movement
[B]Surat Split
[C]Swadeshi Movement
[D] His imprisonment in 1908

11. At which among the following places, Hindu Mela was started in 1867 by Nabagopal Mitra ?

[A]Calcutta
[B] Delhi
[C] Allahabad
[D] Varanasi

12. Who among the following had drafted the “Declaration of Independence” pledge in 1930?

[A]Motilal Nehru
[B]Jawahar Lal Nehru
[C]Mahatma Gandhi
[D] C R Das

13. The policy announcement of “progressive realization of responsible Government in India as an integral part of the British Empire” was embedded in __:

[A]Montagu-Chelmsford Report
[B]Motilal Nehru Report
[C]Hartog Committee Report
[D] Cabinet Mission Report

14. With reference to the relations of the Princely states with British Crown, which among the following report said that “Paramountcy must remain paramount”?

[A]Hunter Commission Report                                              [B] Strachey Commission Report
[C] Butler Commission Report                                               [D] Campbell Commission Report

15. Who was elected the President of Indian National Congress in the famous Tripuri Session of 1939?

[A]Acharya Narendra Deo
[B]Sarat Chandra Bose
[C]Subhash Chandra Bose
[D] Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

16. Who of the following wrote the first Indian poetic work in English?

[A]Kashi Prasad Ghosh
[B]Ramchandra Vidyavagish
[C]Krishna Mohan Banerjee
[D] Hariharanand

17. The first victim of the British policy of Subsidiary Alliance was___?

[A]Avadh
[B]Mewar
[C]Mysore
[D] Hyderabad

18. Which among the following leaders was instrumental in bringing the Extremists and the Moderates together at the Lucknow session of 1916?

[A]Gopal Krishna Gokhale
[B]Bal Gangadhar Tilak
[C]Annie Besant
[D] Mahatma Gandhi

19. Which among the following was NOT annexed into the East India territories via the Doctrine of Lapse?

[A]Satara
[B]Nagpur
[C]Jhansi
[D] Mysore

20. Who among the following established the Ved Samaj in Madras in 1864?

[A]Keshab Chandra Sen
[B]Lokhitwadi
[C]Shibnath Shastri
[D] Debendranath Tagore

21. Which of the following act formally made the Governor General of Bengal as Governor General of India? 

[A]Regulating Act1773                                                          [B] Pitts India Act1784
[C] Charter Act1813                                                               [D] Charter act 1833

22. What was the number of districts in Bombay Presidency? 

[A] 23                          [B] 24                          [C] 25                          [D] 26

23. After returning from South Africa, which among the following was the first successful Satyagraha of Mahatma Gandhi? 

[A]Chauri-Chaura                                                       [B]Dandi
[C]Champaran                                                            [D] Bardoli

24. Which among the following was NOT a provision of Charter act of 1833? 

[A] Trading activities of the East India Company were to be abolished
[B] The designation of the supreme authority was to be changed as the Governor General of IndiaCouncil.
[C] All law making powers to be conferred on Governor General in council
[D] An Indian to be appointed as law member in the Governor General in Council

25. “Increasing association of Indians in every branch of the administration and the gradual development of self-governing institutions with a view to the progressive realization of responsible government in India as an integral part of the British Empire”.
The above statement is known as _____? 

[A]Montague declaration
[B] August Offer
[C]Queen Victoria’s Proclamation
[D] None of them

26. Consider the following features of Government of India act 1935:
1. Provision for Federation of India
2. Compulsory accession to Federation of India
3. Partial Reorganization of provinces
which among the above features hold correct? 

[A] 1only                                                                                 [B] 1&2
[C] 2&3                                                                                   [D] 1 & 3

27. In the proposed federal polity of the Government of India act 1935, how many members had to be elected on communal basis for the Upper House of the bicameral legislature at the center? 

[A] 156                                                                                    [B]150
[C] 104                                                                                    [D] 125

28. Who among the following was the first president of Constituent Assembly? 

[A]Dr.RajendraPrasad                                                                        [B]SachidanandSinha
[C]JawaharLalNehru                                                               [D] B R Ambedkar

29. Nadir Shah, the ruler of Persia who looted India’s Koh-i-Noor diamond and Peacock Throne, defeated the Mughal Army at Karnal in which year?

[A] 1720 A.D
[B] 1739A.D
[C]1749A.D
[D] 1761 A.D

30. Who wrote the book neel darpan?

[A]Bankim Chandra Chaterjee
[B]Rabindra Nath Tagore
[C]Dinbandhu Mitra
[D] None of the above

31. In which year Hindu Mahasabha was established?

[A] 1910                                                                                  [B] 1915
[C] 1916                                                                                  [D] 1918

32. Which among the following was a reason of eruption of Farazi Movement?

[A]attacks of Christian Missionaries on Islam
[B]Oppression caused by Hindu Money lenders
[C]Oppressive Policy of the Company towards Muslim Tenants
[D] None of the above

33. Champaran Satyagraha was the first to be started but the word Satyagraha was used for the first time in which of the following?

[A] Anti Rowlatt agitation
[B] agitation against Simon Commission
[C] Amritsar Massacre of 1919
[D] Non cooperation movement

34. Under Government of India Act 1935, Congress contested elections in which year?

[A] 1936                                                                                  [B] 1937
[C] 1938                                                                                  [D] 1939

35. Collection of land revenue through Zamindars on behalf of the east India Company was called as __?

[A] Land Reforms                                                                  [B] Jageerdari
[C] Permanent settlement                                                       [D] Ryotwari

Ans.1.D  2.A  3.A  4.D  5.C  6.C  7.C  8.D  9.C  10.A 11.A  12.C  13.A  14.C  15.C  16.A 17.D 18.C 19.D  20.A  21.D  22.D  23.C  24.D  25.A  26.D  27.B  28.B 29.B  30.C  31.B  32.C  33.A  34.B  35.C.