Modern India- Questions & Answers 2202 Questions and Answers - 06
* Modern India Questions and Answers -06
1001• The Viceroy who appointed Police Commission under Sir Andrew Frazer to enquire into the police administration of every province:
Curzon
1002• Who was known as the viceroy of 'reverse characters'?
Lytton
1003• The Central Legislative Assembly was created by:
Govt of India Act, 1919
1004• At the time of independence the most populous princely state was:
Hyderabad
1005• In which state is the birthplace of C. Rajagopalachari?
Tamil Nadu
1006• Dadabhai Naoroji served as the prime minister of which princely state:
Baroda
1007• Lyall Commission was appointed during the reign of the Viceroy:
Lord Elgin II
1008• In which state is the birthplace of Maulana Shaukat Ali?
Uttar Pradesh
1009• The exclusive woman force of the Indian National Army was named after:
Jhansi Rani
1010• The first election to the Central Legislative Assembly was held in:
1920
1011• The India Office, a British government Department was created in:
1858
1012• The Secretary of State's Council of India was abolished by:
Govt. of India Act, 1935
1013• Who founded the 'Samata Sainik Dal' in 1927?
B.R. Ambedkar
1014• Who introduced the office of District Collector in 1772?
Warren Hastings
1015• The Viceroy during the Moplah revolt of 1921:
Reading
1016• Who was the first Chairman of the Board of Directors of the newspaper 'The Leader'?
Motilal Nehru
1017• When 177 freedom fighters were convicted to be hanged in the Chauri-chaura case who appeared before the court and got acquitted 156 freedom fighters?
Madan Mohan Malaviya
1018• Congress Radio was the broadcasting mouthpiece of the Indian National Congress during Quit India Movement. Who organised it?
Usha Mehta
1019• Name the residence of Mahatma Gandhi in Ahmedabad from where he began his salt Satyagraha in 1930:
Hriday Kunj
1020• The Governor General who was impeached by the British Parliament:
Warren Hastings
1021• The American president who pressured Prime Minister Winston Churchill to give in to Indian demands, during the Quit India Movement:
Franklin D. Roosevelt
1022• The last emperor of British India:
George VI
1023• The leader who is remembered as the 'Patron Saint' of India's civil servants for establishing the modern all India services:
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
1024• The Viceroy during the Chauri Chaura incident:
Reading
1025• Which was the forerunner of the Central Legislative Assembly?
Imperial Legislative Council
1026• Who coined the term 'Quit India :
Yusuf Meherally
1027• Who was the Viceroy when Indian National Congress launched Quit India Movement?
Linlithgo
1028• The leader who wrote his PhD thesis paper on the topic of Salt Satyagraha, focusing on Mahatma Gandhi's socio-economic theory:
Ram Manohar Lohia
1029• The Governor General who introduced Sunday as the weekly holiday for government offices:
Hardinge I
1030• The only British sovereign to attend a durbar in India:
George V
1031• The last Viceroy of India:
Mountbatten
1032• The summer residence of the Viceroy of India at Shimla was:
Viceregal Lodge
1033• The title of 'Viceroy' was abolished in:
1947
1034• Who became Governor General two times (1786-95, 1805)?
Cornwallis
1035• Who became the leader of opposition in Central Legislative Assembly in 1923?
Motilal Nehru
1036• Who coined the slogan 'Simon go back'?
Yusuf Meherally
1037• Who gave land to construct the campus of the Banaras Hindu University?
Kashi Naresh
1038• Who gave the name 'Hriday Kunj' to Mahatma Gandhi's residence at Ahmedabad on the Sabarmati riverbank?
Kakasaheb Kalelkar
1039• Who played a key role in resolving a Gandhi-B.R. Ambedkar dispute involving separate electorates for untouchables?
Rabindranath Tagore
1040• Who succeeded Madan Mohan Malaviya as the Vice-Chancellor of Benarus Hindu University?
Dr S. Radhakrishnan
1041• Who was appointed as the first National Professor by the new Government of independent India?
C.V. Raman
1042• Who raised a para-military force called Imperial Service Corps, which was offered by Indians and only inspected by British commanders?
Dufferin
1043• Aurobindo Ghosh was a leader from:
Bengal
1044• During whose reign did the Marathas reach maximum expansion?
Balaji Baji Rao
1045• The freedom fighter who was born in Mecca, Saudi Arabia:
Abul Kalam Azad
1046• The leader of the poligar rebellion of Kurnool (1846-47):
Narasimha Reddy
1047• The sepoy mutiny at Govindgarh was suppressed by:
Charles Napier
1048• Who defeated Nana Saheb during the revolt of 1857?
General Havelock
1049• Who is widely regarded as the "father of the armed struggle for India's independence"?
Vasudev Balwant Phadke
1050• The first British Act that envisaged a centralised administration for India:
Regulating Act, 1773
1051• "After hearing him we feel how foolish it is to send missionaries to this learned nation" - New York Herald in 1893 made this remark while mentioning about:
Swami Vivekananda
1052• In which state is the birthplace of C.R. Das?
Bengal
1053• In which language Raja Ram Mohan Roy published his journal 'Mirat-ul-Akhbar?
Persian
1054• Who was the Viceroy when Clement Attlee declared the Government's decision to grant freedom to India, on 20th February, 1947?
Wavell
1055• The first Arya Samaj was established on 10th April 1875 at:
Mumbai
1056• The leader of Ramosi rebellion of Satara:
Chittur Singh
1057• Who is popularly known as "the prophet of the cultural renaissance of Western India"?
Mahadev Govind Ranade
1058• The central headquarter of the Wahhabi Movement was:
Patna
1059• The leader of the Fakir Uprising of Bengal (1776-77):
Majnu Shah
1060• The Viceroy when the First World War was started:
Hardinge ll
1061• Veda Samaj was founded in 1864 by:
Sridharalu Naidu
1062• "What began as a fight for religion, ended as a war of independence" - these remarks about the Revolt of 1857 was made by:
Dr S.N. Sen
1063• Whom Sir Hugh Rose described "the best and bravest military leader of the rebels" of the 1857 revolt?
Rani Laxmi Bai
1064• During the 1857 Revolt, who was betrayed by one of his friends Man Singh?
Tantia Tope
1065• Who was born as Dhondu Pant and was a rebel Indi a leader during the Indian Rebellion of 1857?
Nana Sahib
1066• Who was the commander in chief of the Mughal emperor during the Revolt of 1857?
Bakht Khan
1067• Who has the view that the Revolt of 1857 was the struggle of the soldier, peasant, democratic combine against foreign as well as feudal bondage?
Karl Marx
1068• Who considered the revolt of 1857 as a war of orthodoxy against Christianity!
L.E.R. Rees
1069• During the revolt of 1857, Bahadur Shah was captured by the enemies from:
Humayun's Tomb
1070• In whose opinion the Revolt of 1857 was "Wholly unpatriotic and selfish sepoy mutiny with no native leadership and no popular support"?
Sir John Seeley
1071• Name the historical who stated that the Revolt of 1857 was a conflict between civilization and barbarism?
T.R. Holmes
1072• During whose tenure as the Viceroy India were the great martyr's Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru hanged?
Lord Irwin
1073• Who was the Viceroy when the first Census was held in 1872?
Mayo
1074• Who started Nirankari Movement?
Dayal Das
1075• After defeating the Marathas, the British gained control over Delhi in:
1803
1076• In which year did the Nizam of Hyderabad signs the Subsidiary Alliance?
1798
1077• Who established the first cotton mill in India?
Cowasjee Nanabhoy
1078• Who authored 'Nil Darpan'(1858-59)?
Dinabandhu Mitra
1079• Who organised Translation Society in 1864 which later became 'the Aligarh Scientific Society'?
Syed Ahmed Khan
1080• Who was the Viceroy during the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre?
Chelmsford
1081• Who started the Bengali paper 'Udbodhan'?
Vivekananda
1082• Where did B.R. Ambedkar form his Bahishkrit Hitakarini Sabha?
Bombay
1083• Who was the Chairman of the Partition Council?
Lord Mountbatten
1084• Who applied the 'Great Firm' theory to explain the decline of the Mughal Empire?
Karen Leonard
1085• Who opened a widow home at Pune, formed a widow remarriage association, married a widow in 1893 and in 1916 founded a Women's University in Bombay?
Prof. D.K. Karve
1086• Who was the viceroy when the first regular census was held in 1881?
Ripon
1087• In which year Bethune School in Kolkata was established?
1849
1088• In which session did the Indian National Congress adopt the resolution on Fundamental Rights?
Karachi (1931)
1089• Shahu was set free from the Mughal captivity by:
Prince Azam
1090• Who denounced Congress as a 'microscopic minority?
Lord Dufferin
1091• Who was the Viceroy when Prince of Wales visited India in1921?
Chelmsford
1092• Who led the Rampa Uprising of 1922?
Alluri Sitaram Raju
1093• In which state is the birthplace of Bal Gangadhar Tilak?
Maharashtra
1094• ln which year Campbell Commission was appointed?
1866
1095• Who led Faraizi Movement (1838)?
Haji Shariat Ullah
1096• Kittur Rani Chennamma revolted against the British in:
Karnataka
1097• In which state is the birthplace of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose?
Odisha
1098• Who headed the Congress Ministry in Madras during 1937-39?
C. Rajagopalachari
1099• Where the first women's college in India was founded?
Kolkata
1100• Name the historian who looks upon Shivaji as the 'most constructive genius of medieval times?
Jadunath Sarkar
1101• Who said, "The British rule was a bleeding drain from India"?
Dadabhai Naoroji
1102• In which state is the birthplace of Raja Ram Mohan Roy?
Bengal
1103• Who authored 'Asbab-i-Baghawat-i-Hind'!
Syed Ahmed Khan
1104• In which year Fort William College was established by Lord Wellesley?
1800
1105• Raja Ram Mohan Roy raised his voice and agitated against which evil custom and practice?
Sati Pratha
1106• In which state is the birthplace of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel?
Gujarat
1107• In which year the first All India States People's Conference was held?
1927
1108• The party founded byT.M. Nair and Theagaraya Chetty in 1917?
Justice Party
1109• Which was the venue of the Pabna peasant uprising:
Bengal
1110• Which Princely State resembled 'Ramrajya' according to Mahatma Gandhi?
Mysore
1111• Who authored 'The Nation and its Fragments'?
Partha Chatterjee
1112• The Governor General who can be credited for effectively subduing the last dominant challenge of Marathas in India:
Hastings
1113• Who was the first Peshwa ruler:
Balaji Vishwanath
1114• In which year Atmiya Sabha was founded?
1815
1115• In the Ahmedabad Mill Strike, Mahatma Gandhi's intervention resulted in the enhancement of wages of workers by:
35%
1116• In which year the Code of Civil Procedure was enacted?
1908
1117• The first Anglo Maratha war took place during the Governor Generalship of:
Warren Hastings
1118• The Governor General who succeeded his brother-in-law Lord Ellenborough who had been recalled:
Hardinge I
1119• The greatest Parsi reformer of the 19th century:
Behramji Malabari
1120• Who headed the Indian Industrial Commission of 1915?
Sir Thomas Holland
1121• The Indian Penal Code was passed in:
1860
1122• The Viceroy who survived a bomb explosion at Chandni Chowk in New Delhi in 1912:
Hardinge ll
1123• Where was the Mahalwari system introduced?
Agra, Awadh
1124• The English East India Company set up its first factory at the eastern coast of India at:
Masulipatnam
1125• The Indian revolutionary who participated in Mainpuri Conspiracy of 1918, and the Kakori conspiracy of 1925, and was awarded death sentence along with Ashfaqulla Khan:
Ram Prasad Bismil
1126• Rabindranath Tagore was born at Jorasanko Bhavan in:
Bengal
1127• The Indian Police Act was passed in:
1861
1128• Who was chosen as the Dewan of three princely states- Mysore, Jaipur and Hyderabad?
Mirza Ismail
1129• Who was the first president of Harijan Sevak Sangh founded by Mahatma Gandhi:
G.D. Birla
1130• The native state of Bipin Chandra Pal:
Bengal
1131• First Justice Party Government was formed in:
1920
1132• First Marathi monthly 'Digdarshan' was published by:
Balshastri Jambhekar
1133• How many days did it take to complete the process of transfer of power from the British to India as per the Mountbatten plan?
72
1134• Indian National Congress took the swadeshi call first at the Benarus session, 1905. It was presided over by:
Gopal Krishna Gokhale
1135• Muslim League was formed at:
Dacca
1136• The last opportunity to avoid the partition of India was lost with the rejection of:
Cabinet Mission
1137• The Secretary of State for India during the British rule was:
A British Minister gave full control over the Government of India
1138• Who formed the British Indian Society in England to carry on propaganda in favour of India?
Dadabhai Naoroji
1139• Who resigned from Viceroy's Executive Council in protest of the Jallianwallah Bagh Massacre?
C. Sankaran Nair
1140• Who was appointed in 1856 as the resident of Awadh by Dalhousie to give him reports about administration?
General Outram
1141• Chapekar Brothers in Indian history include:
Damodar and Balkishan
1142• The first Governor General who was resigned:
Warren Hastings
1143• Dropping the use of the title 'Emperor of India' by the British Monarch was done by King George VI by a royal proclamation on:
22 June 1948
1144• Rash Behari Bose is related to:
Delhi Conspiracy Case
1145• The first Governor General of British India to die in harness:
Cornwallis
1146• The first Secretary of State for India was:
Lord Stanley
1147• Who started the journal 'Bengalee?
Surendranath Banerjee
1148• The publication 'Comrade' was launched by:
Muhammad Ali
1149• During which war Gandhi organised Indian Ambulance Corps to help the British?
Boer War
1150• In which year East India Company was brought under British parliamentary control?
1773
1151• To protest against which Act Gandhiji conducted his first Satyagraha in South Africa:
Asiatic Law Amendment Ordinance Bill
1152• In which city May Day was celebrated for the first time in India?
Chennai
1153• In which year May Day was celebrated for the first time in India?
1923
1154• The communist activist who was popularly known as 'Kakababu';
Muzaffar Ahmed
1155• The person who served as a judicial officer under the East India Company and after his retirement he was made a Knight Commander of the Star of India and was also nominated to the Governor General's council:
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
1156• Who was the Viceroy when Simon Commission was appointed?
Irwin
1157• The founder of All India Scheduled Caste Federation:
B.R. Ambedkar
1158• Who founded Ramakrishna Mission?
Vivekananda
1159• Who founded Swatantra Party in 1959?
C. Rajagopalachari
1160• To protest against which incident, Gandhiji returned Kaizer-e- Hind Medal to the British?
Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
1161• Gandhiji went to South Africa to appear in the court for the case of:
Dada Abdulla
1162• In which year, Gandhiji was sentenced to six years imprisonment.
1922
1163• Who was hanged along with Surya Sen?
Tarakeswar Dastidar
1164• Name the Governor General who was called 'Akbar of British India'?
Richard Wellesley
1165• The only woman who attended all the three Round Table Conferences held in London:
Begum Jahanara Shahnawaz
1166• Who was the Viceroy of India when the Reserve Bank of India was formed in 1935?
Wellington
1167• "Increasing association of lndians in every branch of the administration and the gradual development of self-governing institutions with a view to the progressive realisation of responsible government in India as an integral part of the British Empire". The above statement is known as-----
Montague declaration
1168• The Governor General during the second Mysore War:
Warren Hastings
1169• 'My one-man army' who made this remark about Gandhiji?
Lord Mountbatten
1170• The author of Hind Swaraj?
Mahatma Gandhi
1171• The autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi:
The Story of My Experiments with Truth
1172• The Governor General who laid the foundation of the Police force in India:
Cornwallis
1173• The book was written by Gandhiji in l909 during his sail for London:
Hind Swaraj
1174• The Governor General who ruled for the longest period:
Warren Hastings
1175• In which session of Indian National Congress Gandhi and Nehru meet for the first time?
1916 Lucknow
1176• The territory which was obtained by the British from the Raja of Chandragiri?
Madras
1177• The author of Indian Struggle':
Subhash Chandra Bose
1178• The first newspaper in India 'Bengal Gazelle' was started by:
James Hickey
1179• Which organisation is regarded as the origin of the All India Muslim League?
All India Muhammadan Educational Conference
1180• Who founded Muhammadan Educational Congress in Aligarh 1886?
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
1181• Who became the Principal of the Fergusson College in I 892 and held that office till his death in 1895?
G.G. Agarkar
1182• Who was the founder of the Labour Kisan Party of Hindustan?
Singaravelu Chettiar (1923 May 1)
1183• Who authored the book Asar-us-Sanadid (The Remnants of Ancient Heroes)?
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
1184• The Viceroy who followed 'Forward Policy':
Lytton
1185• The author of'Unhappy India':
Lala Lajpat Rai
1186• Who was the first Governor General of Bengal during the British era?
Warren Hastings
1187• Who started 'Vanguard'?
MN Roy
1188• Who wrote 'Essays on Gita' and 'Life Divine'?
Aurobindo Ghosh
1189• Who wrote 'India Divided'?
Dr Rajendra Prasad
1190• The disciples who were with Gandhiji when he passed away:
Mama and Aabha
1191• The Federal Court of India was brought into existence in 1937 during the reign of:
Linlithgo
1192• The first Satyagraha conducted by Gandhiji in India:
Champaran
1193• Young India was started by:
Mahatma Gandhi
1194. Where Chandrasekhar Azad was killed in an encounter with Police in 1931?
Alfred Park, Allahabad
1195. Elections to the Constituent Assembly was held in the year:
1946
1196. Who designed the national flag of India?
Pingali Venkiah
1197. Who headed the boundary commission appointed to demarcate the boundary between India and Pakistan?
- Cyril Radcliff
1198. India’s first newspaper Hickey’s Gazette started in:
1780
1199. Who was at the forefront of the murder attempt of the Muzaffarpur judge Douglas Kingsford on April 30, 1908?
Khudiram Bose, Prafulla Chandra Chaki
1200. Who drafted the Pakistan resolution in 1940 which was moved by Fazlul Haq?
Sikander Hayat Khan
1201. The Viceroy who followed ‘Forward Policy’:
Lytton
1202. “Merely a mutiny of soldiers, which took the shape of the revolt of people in certain areas” Who said this about the Mutiny of 1857?
Charles Raikes
1203. “The greatest son of India after Lord Buddha” who made this description about Gandhiji?
Rabindranath Tagore
1204. “The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was not one movement …. it was many”
– The above statement has been made by:
C.A. Bayly
1205. The permission to mint and issue coins in India was first given to the British East India Company in
1685
1206. The Peshwa who burnt the British residency at Pune:
Baji Rao II
1207. The place that was selected by Gandhiji to break salt law:
Dandi
1208. The place where the first war of independence was led by Kunwar Singh:
Jagdishpur
1209. The policy of ‘Masterly Inactivity is associated with the name of the Governor-General:
John Lawrence
1210. The political guru of Gandhiji:
Gopala Krishna Gokhale
1211. The political guru of K.Kamaraj:
Satyamurti
1212. The Poona Pact (1932) upheld :
Joint elector-ate with reserved seats for the scheduled
1213. The portfolio held by Dr Rajendra Prasad in the interim government formed in 1946: Food and Agriculture
1214. The Portuguese East India Company was founded in:
1628
1215. The position of the Peshwas became hereditary during the reign of:
Sahu
1216. The post of the Secretary of State for India was created in:
1858
1217. The president of the Swaraj Party was:
C.R.Das
1218. The princely states that did not sign the Instrument of Accession by 15th August 1947 were Kashmir, Hyderabad and _____.
Junagarh
1219. The publication launched by Bal Gangadhar Tilak in the Marathi language:
Kesari
1220. The publication launched by Barindrakumar Ghosh and Bhupendernath Dutt in 1906:
Yugantar
1221. The publication launched by the British Committee of INC in 1890:
India
1222. The publication started by Gandhiji in 1933:
Harijan
1223. The publication started by Gandhiji in South Africa:
Indian Opinion
1224. The Quit India Day coincides with the anniversary of _____.
Kakori train robbery
1225. “We do not ask favours, we only want justice”, these were the words of .............
Dadabhai Naoroji
1226. “What began as a fight for religion, ended as a war of independence’-this remarks about the Revolt of 1857 was made by:
Dr S.N.Sen
1227. The Viceroy during the Second Afghan War of
(1878-80): Lytton
1228. The Viceroy during the Second and Third Round Table Conference:
Wellington
1229. The Viceroy of British India who resigned over the question of Egypt:
Ripon
1230. Adayar was the famous centre and headquarters of the:
Theosophical Society
1231. The venue of the 1939 session of the Indian National Congress?
Tripuri
1232. After independence, in which type of state former rulers were appointed as ‘Rajapramukh’ to head the administration?
Part B
1233. After matriculation, which college did Gandhiji join?
Samaldas College
1234. After the Surat split of 1907, the second split of Indian National Congress took place in 1918 on the issue of:
Montague Declaration
1235. The Viceroy who appointed Hunter Commission to inquire into education:
Ripon
1236. After the withdrawal of the non-cooperation movement, the Congress was divided into:
Pro-changers and no-changers
1237. Against what laws did Gandhiji along with other non-whites raise his voice in South Africa?
Apartheid laws
1238. As per the resolution adopted by the Committee of All Parties Conference on 19th May 1928 who was made the chairman to consider and determine the principles of the Constitution of India?
Motilal Nehru
1239. Ashfaqulla Khan was sentenced to death in connection with:
Kakori Case
1240. Asiatic Society of Bengal was established in:
1784
1241. At the battle of Biddera the English crushed the power of ___:
Dutch
1242. At the earlier stage, backward classes movement means?
Non-Brahmin movement
1243. At the meeting held at ____ on 12th February 1922, the AICC decided to suspend the non-cooperation movement in view of Chauri Chaura incidents:
Bardoli
1244. At the time of independence the most populous princely state was:
Hyderabad
1245. At what age did Gandhiji get married?
13 years
1246. At what age did Gandhiji decide to adopt brahmacharya?
37
1247. At which Congress session was the Working Committee authorised to launch the programme of Civil Disobedience?
Lahore 1929
1248. At which Gandhi Museum is the bloodstained dhoti preserved, which Gandhiji was wearing when he was shot dead?
Delhi Museum
1249. At whose advice Dayanand Saraswati changed his medium of speech to Hindi and started wearing regular clothes instead of remaining bare-bodied?
Keshab Chandra Sen
1250. Atmiya Sabha was founded in:
1815
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