1) “Mahatma Gandhi and Bihar, Some Reminiscences” is a book written by-

2) On October 16, 1905 when the partition of Bengal was enforced, the great poet Rabindranth Tagore, to emphasize unity of Bengal, suggested the programme of :

3) Which was the first modern trade union in India and when did it come into existence?

4) All India Radio, started its operation with its original name, Indian Broadcasting Company in :

5) Who among the following has attended all the three Round Table Conference in London:

6) General O’ Dyer who was responsible for the famous Jallianwala Bagh Massacre 1919, was awarded punishment in the form of:

7) Match the following:
Author                                                                                        Book
I. Lady Catherine Mayo                                          1. Freedom at Midnight
II. Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre          2. Mother India
III. Ram Manohar Lohia                                        3. Discovery of India
IV. Jawaharlal Nehru                                              4. Guilty Men of India’s Partition
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8) In which of the following session of the Muslim League ‘Two Nation Theory’ was propounded?

9) Which of the following statements about recommendation of Whitley commission is/ are correct?
1. Adoption of standard wages in jute industries.
2. Formation of committee to promote cordial relations between the employees and the employers

10) Which event led to the Gandhi’s participation in the Second Round Table Conference?

11) The demand for Swarajya within the British empire was made from the Congress platform by:

12) Who among the following had seconded the resolution on the partitition in the meeting of all India Congress Committee held in New Delhi in 1947?

13) During whose tenure as the Viceroys of India, were the great martyrs Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev hanged?

14) The Viceroy of India with the longest tenure in office was :

15) Who was Margaret Sanger who came to wardha to meet Gandhi in 1935:

16) Who regarded Gandhi as “the perfect manifestation of the principle of life which will lead a new humanity on to a new path”.

17) With reference to 8th August, 1942 in Indian history, which one of the following statements is correct ?

18) Who started the first English newspaper in India:

19) Who started the English Daily ‘New India ’?

20) Consider the following statements:
1. The Factories Act, 1881 was passed with a view to fix the wages of industrial workers and to allow the workers to form trade union.
2. N.M Lokhande was a pioneer in organizing the labour movement in British India.
Which of the above statements is/are correct?

21) The ‘Swadeshi’ and ‘Boycott’ were adopted as methods of struggle for the first time during the_

22) Eminent Tamil Poet C Subramania Bharati was associated with which of the following movements of the Indian National Congress:

23) Who among the following drafted the Indian Penal Code which later became the basis of the Indian Criminal Code?

24) Match List 1 and List 11 and select the answer by using Codes:
List 1                                                                                                                    List 2
1. First Governor-General of Fort William                                       I. Lord Macaulay
2. First Indian Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India       II. Lord Canning
3. First Law member of the Governor- Generals Council.         III. Warren Hastings
4. First Viceroy as well as the Governor- General of India         IV. H.J Kania
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25) Who reacted in a radio broadcast after Gandhi was shot at a prayer meeting that ‘The light has gone out of our lives and there is darkness everywhere’?

26) Between 1917 and 1918 Gandhi had launched –

27) The Moplah Rebellion in 1921 in Malabar was Muslim peasants rebellion against:

28) Who was the only Viceroy of India to be murdered in office by a Pathan convict in the Andamans in 1872:

29) Who was the famous American journalist who came to Sevagram to Gandhi in mid 1942?

30) ‘Operation Zero Hour’ was started by the British Government to arrest-

31) The freedom movement during the 1930s marked the political awakening of the North-West Frontier Province under the leadership of –

32) The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industries (FICCI) was founded by ____in 1927.

33) The INC refused to take up social questions in its sessions till:

34) Who coined the term ‘Discriminating protection’ while appearing before the Indian Fiscal Commission:

35) Which of the following methods were used by the nationalist against the partition of Bengal?
1. Boycott
2. Swadeshi
3. Non co-operation
4. National education

36) Who among the following presided over the famous Lahore session of INC in 1929?

37) Which of the following missions arrived in India, in 1946 after the Second World War?

38) The partition of Bengal which was announced in 1905 was abolished in the year?

39) Which of the given pairs are incorrect ?
Newspaper/Journal                    Founder/Editor
1. National Herald                    Mahatma Gandhi
2. Indian Sociologist                Gopala Krishna
3. Voice of India                       Dadabhai Naroji
4. Comrade Maulana              Mohammad Ali Jauhar

40) The Gandhi-Irwin Pact included which of the following?
1. Invitation to Congress to participate in the Round Table Conference
2. Withdrawal of Ordinances promulgated in connection with the Civil Disobedience Movement
3. Acceptance of Gandhiji’s suggestion for enquiry into police excesses
4. Release of only those prisoners who were not charged with violence
Select the correct answer using the code given below:

41) Quit India Movement was launched in response to _

42) The 1929 Session of Indian National Congress is of significance in the history of the Freedom Movement because the_

43) Who founded the East Indian Association (EIA) in 1866:

44) Regarding Woods Dispatch, which of the following statements are true?
1. Grants-in-Aid system was introduced.
2. Establishment of universities was recommended.
3. English as a medium of instruction at all levels of education was recommended.
Select the correct answer using the code given below:

45) The Radcliffe Committee was appointed to _

46) In 1920, which of the following changed its name to “Swarajya Sabha”?

47) Match the pair place of the Congress session and his President name.
Congress Session                                                          President name
1. First Congress Session, (Bombay 1885)               a) George Yul
2. Second Congress Session,(Calcutta 1886)           b) Badruddin Tyabji
3. Third Congress Session, (Madras 1887)              c) Womesh Chandra Banerjee
4. Fourth Congress Session,( Allahabad 1888)      d) Dadabhai Naoroji
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48) Annie Besant was
1. Responsible for starting the Home Rule Movement.
2. The founder of the Theosophical Society
3. Once the President of the Indian National Congress
Select the correct statements using the codes given below.

49) The object of the Butler Committee of 1927 was to

50) 22nd December 1939 was declared by Jinnah as “Day of Deliverance” for Indian Muslims to celebrate.

51) Which of the following extremists was known as the “Father of Indian Unrest”:

52) Who of the following had organized the Bengal Chemical Swadeshi Stores in Bengal:

53) The All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) was formed in :

54) Which of the following statements associated with the Indian National Army is incorrect:
1) SC Bose escaped from India to Berlin in 1941.
2) The INA was first formed on 17th February 1942 by Captain Mohan Singh in Singapore but was disbanded.
3) Rash Behari Bose founded the Indian Independence League in 1924 during a conference in Tokyo convened by him.
4) Rani of Jhansi Regiment/ Brigade was the womens brigade of the INA with Captain Lakshmi Sehgal as its head.
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55) The Poona Pact (1932) was an agreement signed between who among the following?

56) Consider the following statement regarding August Offer (1940):
1. Dominion status as the objective for India.
2. Expansion of Viceroy’s Executive Council.
3. Setting up of a Constituent Assembly after the war
4. No future Constitution to be adopted without the consent of minorities.

57) Consider the following statement.
1. In the First Round Table Conference, Dr Ambedkar demanded separate electorates for the depressed classes.
2. In the Poona Pact, special provisions for representation of the depressed people in the local bodies and civil services were made.
3. The Indian National Congress did not take part in the Third Round Table Conference.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

58) On which date did Clement Attlee announce the British would leave India by June 1948?

59) 6th April, 1930 is well known in the history of India because this date is associated with-

60) The provision for separate electorate for Hindus and Muslims was made in :

61) In which session did the Indian National Congress declare Poorna Swaraj to be its goal?

62) Who sang ‘Hindustan Hamara’ of Iqbal and ‘Jana – Gana – Mana’ in the Cental Assembly at midnight of 14/15 August 1947?

63) Arrange the following events in chronological order:
1. Formation of an interim government.
2. The arrival of the Cabinet Mission.
3. Muslim League launches direct action.
4. Jinnah’s Wrecking of the Shimla Conference.
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64) In which of the following session of the India National Congress, Subash Chandra Bose had defeated Pattabhi Sitaramayya in the election of the congress president?

65) How many women were present in the Constituent assembly 9 dec 1946 in Constitution hall?

66) During the 1920s, the ‘Self-Respect movement’ took place in which state of India:

67) The Indian National Army (INA) was formally established in which year?

68) The demand for a constitutent Assembly to Draft Indian Constitution was, for the first time, raised by the Congress between:

69) Who was the advocate of the Bhoodan Movement?

Q70 Consider the following:
1.India House
2.Abhinav Bharat Society
3.Free India Society
Which among the above was/ were founded by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar?

71) In the context of Modern Indian History Alluri Sitarama Raju played an important role in organizing-

72) Which Governor General entered into a peace agreement with Tipu Sultan by signing the treaty of Seringapatam?

73) The “Pledge of Independence” was officially promulgated around which of the following movements

74) Which of the following statements regarding BR Ambedkar is incorrect:

75) Which of the following statements regarding the Non-Cooperation Movement(NCM) is incorrect:

76) The Ghadar Party took the name ‘Ghadar’ from:

77) Viewing the pathetic conditions of widows and unfortunate children, Jyotirao decided to open an orphanage called:

78) Which Acts during colonial rule was aimed at assigning enormous powers to the police to repress political activities and to detain political prisoners?

79) Which of the following Committee was associated with the revolutionary crimes and seditious conspiracy of the following :

80) Dadabhai Naroji has described his theory of ‘Drain of Wealth’ in his book titled:

81) During British colonial Era, the ‘Duke Memorandum’ became the basis of which among the following:

82) The most important pre-Congress nationalist organization called the Indian association was founded by SN Banerjee and AM Bose in:

83) When did the peasant movement in Bardoli begin :

84) Who was the first women president of the INC?

85) India was partitioned as a consequence of the formula contained in :

86) Who was the Chairman of the Partition Council:

87) Which one of the following buildings and landmarks in Delhi was not designed by Edwin Lutyens:

88) Who established the Indian Civil Liberties Union in 1936

89) Who were the Defence lawyers during the INA trials or the Red Fort Trials (1945)

90) ‘Indian Home Rule Society’ (IHRS), founded in London in February 1905, was one of the earliest revolutionary societies set up outside India. This societies was founded by :

91) The song ‘Jana-Gana-Mana’ composed by Rabindra Nath Tagore was first publidshed in January 1912 under the title of :

92) Who wrote the book’ The History of British India’

93) Who among the following was the Viceroy of India at the time of Jallianwala Bagh Massacre.

94) During the 2nd World War, Churchill became the Prime Ministers of England by replacing which of the following:

95) Who attended the Imperial Durbar of 1877 dressed in hand – spun Khadi:

96) The Cripps Offer was regarded as a ‘Post Dated Cheque on a failing bank’ by:

97) During freedom struggle, the most hot revolutionary secret organization of Bengal was:

98) Why was the Hunter Committee constituted in 1919?

99) In the context of Colonial India, the Hartog Committee Report is related to which of the following fields?

100) The instrument of ‘Fast unto Death’ was used by Mahatma Gandhi for the first time in India in which of the following events?