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1. Who declared, 'The only hope for India is from the masses. The upper classes are physically and morally dead' ?

(1) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(2) GopalKrishna Gokhale
(3) Mahatma Gandhi
(4) Swami Vivekanand
Correct Answere: GopalKrishna Gokhale
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2. Who was referred to as the 'ambassador of hindu-muslim unity' by Sarojini Naidu in the early years of Gandhian period ?

(1) Abdul Ghaffar Khan
(2) Maulana Azad
(3) Muhammad Ali Jinnah
(4) Shaukat Ali
Correct Answere: Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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3. Who has been referred to as the 'consci-ence-keeper' of Gandhiji ?

(1) C. Rajagopalachari
(2) G K. Gokhale
(3) R. Tagore
(4) V. Patel
Correct Answere: C. Rajagopalachari
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4. In November 1945 three former INA officers were charged with waging war against the King-emperor. Point the odd man out ?

(1) Captain Sehgal
(2) Col Sah Nawaz
(3) Damodar Chapekar
(4) Lt Dhillon
Correct Answere: Damodar Chapekar
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5. Who was the advocate at the famous INA trials ?

(1) Asaf Ali
(2) Bhulabhai Desai
(3) C. Rajagopalachari
(4) Subhash Chandra Bose
Correct Answere: Bhulabhai Desai
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6. The British Cabinet Mission which came to India in March 1946 did not have as its member ?

(1) A V Alexander
(2) Campbell Johnson
(3) Lord Pethick- Lawrence
(4) Sir Stafford Cripps
Correct Answere: Campbell Johnson
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7. In the following, who was not among the first speakers at the Indian National Congress session of 1885, December 28 ?

(1) A O Hume
(2) A Subrahmania Aiyer
(3) K T Telang
(4) Surendra Nath Bannerji
Correct Answere: Surendra Nath Bannerji
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8. What was the chief programme of the Swaraj party ?

(1) Constitutional opposition
(2) Council entery
(3) Rural reconstruction programme
(4) None of the above
Correct Answere: Council entery
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9. The Rowlatt Act was passed in the year ?

(1) 1919
(2) 1920
(3) 1931
(4) 1942
Correct Answere: 1919
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10. Who is remembered as the pioneer of economic nationalism ?

(1) Bipin Chandra Pal
(2) Gokhale
(3) R C Dutt
(4) Madan Mohan Malviya
Correct Answere: R C Dutt
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11. The parition of Bengal was revoked by the British Government in the year ?

(1) 1911
(2) 1914
(3) 1917
(4) 1919
Correct Answere: 1911
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12. Who was the chairman of the Drafting Committee of the constitution ?

(1) BR Ambedkar
(2) JB Kriplani
(3) JL Nehru
(4) Rajendra Prasad
Correct Answere: BR Ambedkar
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13. In 1923, Swaraj party gained absolute majority in ?

(1) Bengal Council
(2) CP Council
(3) Legislative Assembly
(4) UP Council
Correct Answere: CP Council
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14. Which year did Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay write Anandmath ?

(1) 1858
(2) 1882
(3) 1892
(4) None of the above
Correct Answere: 1882
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15. MA jinnah and a section of the Muslim league was willing to give up separate electorate in favour of a joint electorate (with certain conditions) at the time of the ?

(1) Cabinet Mission
(2) Simon Commission
(3) Wavell plan
(4) None of the above
Correct Answere: Simon Commission
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16. Swaraj party took part in the election in ?

(1) 1919, 1920
(2) 1919, 1923
(3) 1923, 1926
(4) 1920, 1926
Correct Answere: 1923, 1926
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17. Initially an associate of Gandhi, he left the Congress, broke off with Gandhi and launched a radical social movement called the 'Self-Respect Movement'.' The reference here is to ?

(1) Chhatrapati Maharaj
(2) E V R Naicker
(3) Jyotirao Govindrao Phule
(4) P Tyagaraya Chetti
Correct Answere: E V R Naicker
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18. Who was the Congress president when India became free ?

(1) Mahatma Gandhi
(2) Jawaharlal Nehru
(3) JB Kripalani
(4) Sardar Patel
Correct Answere: JB Kripalani
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19. When the Simon Commission was appointed ?

(1) Baldwin was the British Secretary of State
(2) Birkenhead was the British India Minister
(3) Irwin was the viceroy of India
(4) Labour party was in office in Britain
Correct Answere: Irwin was the viceroy of India
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20. Who proposed the Preamble before the drafting committee of the Constitution ?

(1) BR Ambedkar
(2) BN Rau
(3) Jawaharlal Nehru
(4) Mahatma Gandhi
Correct Answere: Jawaharlal Nehru
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21. Who wrote the play "Andher Nagari Chaupata Raja" ?

(1) Bhartendu Harishchandra
(2) Fakirmohan Senapati
(3) Govardhanram M Tripathi
(4) Munshi Premchand
Correct Answere: Bhartendu Harishchandra
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22. In which year did the British Government announce for the first time dominion status as the goal of British policy in India ?

(1) 1922
(2) 1929
(3) 1932
(4) 1935
Correct Answere: 1929
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23. The Quit India campaign was launched by the National Congress after the failure of the ?

(1) Cripps Mission
(2) Cabinet Mission
(3) Simla Conference held at the instance of the Governor General, Lord Wavell
(4) None of the above
Correct Answere: Cripps Mission
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24. Who was made the Home Minister when Jawaharlal Nehru formed the interim Government in 1946 ?

(1) Baldev Singh
(2) Liaqat Ali Khan
(3) Mohammad Ali Jinnah
(4) Sardar Patel
Correct Answere: Sardar Patel
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25. What were the Hindu conterparts to the movements of Tabligh and Tanzim ?

(1) Rashtriya Svayamsevak Sangh
(2) Satya Shodhak movement
(3) Shudhi and Sangathan
(4) Self Respect movement
Correct Answere: Shudhi and Sangathan
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26. Which was the earliest public association to be formed in modern India ?

(1) The Bengal British India Society
(2) The British Indian Association
(3) The Madras Native Association
(4) The Landholder's Society
Correct Answere: The Landholder's Society
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27. The Kuka Movement was founded in ?

(1) Bihar
(2) Punjab
(3) Malabar
(4) U. P.
Correct Answere: Punjab
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28. The freedom struggle in India was inspired by the cry of liberty, equality, fraternity, which were associated with the ?

(1) American War of Independence
(2) French Revolution
(3) Russian Revolution
(4) Magna Carta
Correct Answere: French Revolution
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29. One of the immediate results of the Mutiny was that it led to ?

(1) Assumption of direct responsibility for administration of India by the Crown
(2) Expansion of the military powers of the East India Company
(3) The founding of the Indian National Congress
(4) All of the above
Correct Answere: Assumption of direct responsibility for administration of India by the Crown
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30. Raja Rammohan's tradition was carried on after his death by the radical Bengali Youth. What were they known as ?

(1) Derozians
(2) Mohunites
(3) Red Shirts
(4) Radical Humanists
Correct Answere: Derozians
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31. The Revolt of 1857 started from ?

(1) Barrackpur
(2) Delhi
(3) Kanpur
(4) Meerut
Correct Answere: Meerut
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32. Who among the following leaders of the 1857 revolt escaped to Nepal never to be heard thereafter ?

(1) Kunwar Singh
(2) Maulvi Ahmadullah
(3) Nana Sahid
(4) Tantia Tope
Correct Answere: Nana Sahid
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33. Dalhousie annexed Awadh for the British empire in India through ?

(1) Doctrine of Lapse
(2) Policy of Subsidiary Alliance
(3) State being maladministred
(4) Waging of war
Correct Answere: State being maladministred
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34. Nana Saheb's commander- in -chief was ?

(1) Azimullah
(2) Birjis Qadir
(3) Tantia Tope
(4) None of the above
Correct Answere: Tantia Tope
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35. The first sepoy who refused to use the greased cartridge and killed an Adjutant was ?

(1) Abdual Rahim
(2) Hardev
(3) Mangal Pandey
(4) Shiv Ram
Correct Answere: Mangal Pandey
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36. The immediate cause of the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857 was ?

(1) Bid to convert the Indians to Christianity
(2) Dalhousie's Doctrine of Lapse
(3) Introduction of cartridges greased with cow's fat
(4) Wide disparity between the salaries of native sepoys and the British soldiers
Correct Answere: Introduction of cartridges greased with cow's fat
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37. Name the Governor-General when the 1857 Revolt broke out ?

(1) Canning
(2) Curzon
(3) Dalhousie
(4) Lawrence
Correct Answere: Canning
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38. In 1836 and 1854, the Mopiah peasants of Malabar (North Kerala) rose against the ?

(1) Foreign lenders
(2) Landlords
(3) Moneylenders
(4) Revenue officials of the British government
Correct Answere: Landlords
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39. Which of the following was NOT one of the political associations to be set up during the pre-Congress phase, before the revolt of 1857 ?

(1) The British Indian Association
(2) The Indian Association
(3) Landholders Society at Calcutta
(4) Madras Native Association
Correct Answere: The Indian Association
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40. The 1857 revolt was led in Delhi by ?

(1) Bakht Khan
(2) Bahadur Singh
(3) Khan Bahadur
(4) Kunwar Singh
Correct Answere: Bakht Khan
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41. Identify the name of the wife of the Mughal Emperor who is believed to have sabotaged the work of the rebels by acting as an informer to the British ?

(1) Fatima Begum
(2) Hazrat Mahal
(3) Mumtaz Mahal
(4) Zeenat Mahal
Correct Answere: Zeenat Mahal
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42. 'First War of Indian Independence', who said this for the first time, regarding the Revolt of 1857 ?

(1) Bipin Chandra
(2) R. C. Majumdar
(3) Tarachand
(4) VD. Savarkar
Correct Answere: VD. Savarkar
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43. Who was the founder of the India Leage in 1875 ?

(1) Anand Mohan Bose
(2) Dadabhai Naoroji
(3) Sisir Kumar Ghosh
(4) None of the above
Correct Answere: Sisir Kumar Ghosh
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44. Who came to be known as the 'Grand Old Man of India'?

(1) Dadabhai Naoroji
(2) Rabindranath Tagore
(3) Justice Ranade
(4) Mahatma Gandhi
Correct Answere: Dadabhai Naoroji
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45. The Bombay presidency. Assocation was formed in 1885 in opposition to ?

(1) Ilbert Bill
(2) Lytton's reactionary policies
(3) Both 'A' and 'B'
(4) Neither 'A' nor 'B'
Correct Answere: Both 'A' and 'B'
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46. Name one of the following which earned the recognition of Dadabhai Naoroji ?

(1) Bombay Presidency Association, 1885
(2) East Indian Association, 1866
(3) Madras Sarvajanik Sabha, 1870
(4) Poona Sarvajanik Sabha, 1866
Correct Answere: East Indian Association, 1866
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47. The most important nationalist organisation (all-India) before the Congress, which latter on merged with it, was ?

(1) Bombay Presidency Association
(2) East Indian Association
(3) Indian Association of Calcutta
(4) Poona Sarvajanik Sabha
Correct Answere: Indian Association of Calcutta
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48. Poona Sarvajanik Sabha was founded by ?

(1) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(2) GopalKrishna Gokhale
(3) M. G. Ranade
(4) Pherozeshah Mehta
Correct Answere: M. G. Ranade
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49. The first session of the Indian National Congress was presided over by ?

(1) A. O. Hume
(2) Dadabhai Naoroji
(3) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
(4) Womesh Chander Banerjee
Correct Answere: Womesh Chander Banerjee
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50. The first session of the Indian National Congress was held in Bombay in the year ?

(1) 1880
(2) 1885
(3) 1892
(4) 1901
Correct Answere: 1885

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