Modern India- 2022 Questions & Answers Chapter - 08
* Modern India Questions and Answers -08
1501. Porbandar, the birthplace of Gandhiji is famous as the birthplace of which epic character?
Kuchela
1502. Postal System was introduced in 1853 by:
Dalhousie
1503. Punjab was annexed to British India in 1849 by:
Lord Dalhousie
1504. Rabindranath Tagore got a knighthood in:
1915
1505. Radha Swami cult was established by:
Shiv Dayal
1506. Raghnumai Mazdayasuan Sabha was founded for the reforms of:
Parsis
1507. Raj Ghat, the samadhi of Gandhiji is on the banks of:
Yamuna
1508. Raja Ram Mohan Roy raised his voice and agitated against which evil custom and practice?
Sati Pratha
1509. Raja Ram Mohan Roy was born on May 22, 1772, in village Radhanagar in the District of Hooghly in ……
Bengal
1510. Rajendra Lahiri was hanged in connection with:
Kakori case
1511. The committee was appointed in 1927 to examine financial and economic relationships existing between British India and the Indian States:
Butler Committee
1512. The Communist Party of India was founded in ……………on 17 October 1920, soon after the Second Congress of the Communist International.:
Tashkent
1513.The community of Gandhiji:
Baniya
1514. The Company lost all its administrative powers………
By the Government of India Act of 1858
1515. The concept of ‘Daridranarayan’ later on popularised by Mahatma Gandhi, had its origin in:
Vivekananda
1516. The Congress at which Gandhiji and Nehru met for the first time was that of 1916. It was held at:
Lucknow
1517. The Congress delegates in the Shimla Conference was led by:
Maulana Azad
1518. The Congress Ministry in Madras during 1937 - 39 was headed by C.
Rajgopalachari
1519. The Congress session which ratified the Gandhi-Irwin Pact was held at:
Karachi
1520.The Viceroy when the Muslim League was formed in 1906:
Minto II
1521.The famous novelist who was one of the first two graduates of Calcutta University in 1858:
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
1522. The famous Ripon Resolution of 1882 is closely related to:
Local Self Government
1523.The father of Gandhiji:
Karam Chand Gandhi
1524.The father of Revolutionary thought in India:
Bipin Chandra Pal
1525. The Federal Court of India was brought into existence in 1937 during the reign of:
Linlithgo
1526. The first ‘Shakha’ of Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh (R.S.S.) was started in:
Nagpur
1527. The first All India Conference of the Forward Bloc was held in 1940 at:
Nagpur
1528.The first and last Indian to become the Governor-General of independent India:
Rajagopalachari
1529. The first Anglo Maratha war took place during the Governor-Generalship of:
Warren Hastings
1530. The first annual conference of the National Indian Association was held at:
Kolkata
1531. The first Arya Samaj was established on 10th April 1875 at:
Mumbai
1532.The first Bengali political drama which presented the story of the brutality of English indigo planters was:
Neel Darpan
1533.The first chief justice of Calcutta High Court:
Barnes Peacock
1534.The first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Calcutta:
Elijah Impey
1535. The first conference of All India States People’s Conference was in:
1927
1536.The first countrywide agitation launched by Gandhiji in India:
Non-Cooperation movement
1537.The first educational institute was established by the East India Company’s government. Calcutta Madrassa
1538. The first election to the Central Legislative Assembly was held in:
1920
1539.The first English nobleman to come to India to undertake the office of Governor-General:
Cornwallis
1540. The first European factory in India was set up at:
Cochin
1541.The first European power to break the monopoly of the Portuguese monopoly in the east:
The Netherlands
1542. The first foreigner to become the president of INC?
George Yule
1543. The first fort which the British constructed in India was:
St.George
1544. The first French factory in India was established at Surat (1667) by:
Francois Caron
1545.The first General Secretary of All India Trade Union Congress:
Dewan Chaman Lal
1546.The first Governor-General of Independent India:
Mountbatten
1547.The first Governor-General of Pakistan:
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
1548.The first Governor-General to die in harness:
Cornwallis
1549.The first Governor-General who was resigned:
Warren Hastings
1550. The first headquarters of Hindu Mahasabha was Haridwar. During the presidentship of Lala Lajpat Rai, it was transferred to ______ in 1925.
Delhi
1551. The first modern trade union in India was founded in 1918 by:
BP Wadia
1552.The first Muslim to become the president of the Indian National Congress:
Badruddin Tyabji
1553. The first National Planning Committee was constituted at the instance of Subhas Bose in:
1938
1554. The first newspaper in India ‘Bengal Gazette’ was started by:
James Hickey
1555.The first occupant of ‘Viceregal Palace’:
Irwin
1556.The first person to have appeared in the stamp of independent India:
Mahatma Gandhi
1557.The first piece of Indian soil on which the English exercised sovereign authority:
Island of Bombay
1558.The first piece of territory acquired by the English in India:
Madras
1559. The first political organisation in modern India was founded in 1838. Its name was: Landholder’s Association
1560.The first population census in India by Mayo:
1871
1561. The first president of the Muslim League was:
Nawab Salimulla Khan
1562.The correct spelling of which word was unknown to Gandhiji when a school inspector conducted a dictation test in his childhood?
Kettle
1563. The credit of victory of Porto Novo goes to the British General:
Eyrecoot
1564. The Dutch who discovered commercial possibilities in India and whose book caused a sensation in the western world are:
Linschoten
1565.The educational system propounded by Mahatma Gandhi:
Nayee Talim
1566. The English daily ‘The Bengali’ was started by:
Surendra Nath Banerjee
1567. The first session of INC was held in:
1885
1568. The first session of the Constituent Assembly was held in:
1946
1569. The first Shivaji Festival was in:
1896
1570.The first son of Gandhiji:
Harilal
1571.The First Surveyor General of India and Scottish antiquarian who visited Vijayanagara in 1799:
Colin Mackenzie
1572. The first Swadeshi dacoity or robbery was organised in the year 1906 in :
Rangpur
1573.The first thinker of militant nationalism who through his series of articles entitled ‘New Lamps for Old’ propounded his ideology:
Aurobindo Ghosh
1574.The first to become Law Member of Governor General’s Council:
Thomas Babington Macaulay
1575.The first to start a portfolio system:
Canning
1576.The first Viceroy of India:
Canning
1577. The first war of Independence in India lasted for almost:
Two years
1578. The first women’s college in India was founded in:
Kolkata
1579. The first English settlement in the Presidency known as Western Presidency was in 1618 at ______.
Surat
1580.The foreign traveller who dedicated his major writings to Louis XIV, the king of France: Bernier
1581. The fortnightly journal ‘Indian Mirror’ was started in 1861 by:
Keshab Chandra Sen
1582.The founder of ‘Mahila Rashtriya Sangh’:
Lathika Ghosh
1583.The founder of ‘Paris Indian Society’:
Madam Bhikaji Cama
1584. The founder of ‘Sathysodhak Samaj’:
Jotiba Phule
1585.The founder of All India Scheduled Caste Federation:
BR Ambedkar
1586.The founder of Arya Samaj:
Dayanand Saraswati
1587.The founder of the Asiatic Society of Bengal in 1784?
William Jones
1587. The founder of Bharat Stree Mahamandal in Allahabad in 1910:
Sarladevi Chaudhurani
1588.The Viceroy to whom Gandhiji wrote a letter in 1930 putting him before an eleven-point programme?
Irwin
1589.The founder of Calcutta Madrasa:
Warren Hastings
1590.The founder of Dravida Munnetra Kazhakom:
C.N.Annadurai
1591.The freedom fighter on whose 50th birthday India got independence?
Aurobindo Ghosh
1592.The freedom fighter who admired movies and supported Dadasaheb Phalke in his attempts to create a Swadeshi cinema:
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
1593.The freedom fighter who was the only student to obtain his MRCP and FRCS in one year:
B.C.Roy
1594.The French commander who was taken as a prisoner in the Battle of Wandewash:
Bussy
1595. The Government of India Act 1919 had introduced the system of _____ to govern the provinces of British India.
Diarchy
1596. The Government of India passed the Prevention of Seditious Meeting Act in:
1907
1597.The Governor-General during the ‘Nandakumar Episode’:
Warren Hastings
1598.The Governor-General during the second Mysore War:
Warren Hastings
1599.The Governor-General when the Treaty of Seringapatam was signed in 1792 between Tipu and the British:
Cornwallis
1600.The Governor-General when ‘Wood’s Despatch’ was proposed:
Dalhousie
1601.The Governor-General who abolished the titles of Carnatic Nawab and Raja of Tanjore and refused pension to Nana Saheb:
Lord Dalhousie
1602.The Governor-General who annexed Satara to British India, the first princely state to be annexed to British India under Doctrine of Lapse:
Dalhousie
1603.The Governor-General who appointed the first Law Commission:
William Bentinck
1604.The Governor-General who brought the General Service Enlistment Act, 1856:
Lord Canning
1605.The Governor-General who died at Ghazipore on the Ganges River where his grave and monument are still maintained by the Indian government:
Cornwallis
1606.The Governor-General who established a Board of Revenue to improve the system of revenue administration:
Warren Hastings
1607.The Governor-General who founded the Royal Asiatic Society:
Warren Hastings
1608.The Governor-General who had begun his career as a clerk in East India Company in 1750:
Warren Hastings
1609.The Governor-General who had lost his left hand in the Napoleonic wars:
Hardinge I
1610.The Governor-General who in 1849 decided that, after the death of Bahadur Shah II, his successor would vacate the Red Fort at Delhi and move to a small house near Qutb Minar?
Dalhousie
1611. The Governor-General who inaugurated New Delhi on 18th January 1927:
Irwin
1612.The Governor-General who introduced Sunday as the weekly holiday for government offices:
Hardinge I
1613.The Governor-General who laid the foundation of the Police force in India:
Cornwallis
1614.The Governor-General who made English as the medium of instruction:
William Bentinck
1615.The Governor-General who made Shimla the summer capital of British India:
Dalhousie
1616.The Governor-General who ordered that the successors of Bahadur Shah II would forfeit the title of kingship and be entitled as princes?
Canning
1617.The Governor-General who passed General Service EnlistmentAct which decreed that all future recruits for the Bengal army would have to give the undertaking to serve anywhere if their services might be required by the Government:
Canning
1618.The Governor-General who ruled for the longest period:
Warren Hastings
1619.The Governor-General who succeeded his brother-in-law Lord Ellenborough who had been recalled:
Hardinge I
1620.The Governor-General who suppressed Pindaris:
Hastings
1621.The Governor-General who suppressed the Thugs:
William Bentinck
1622.The Governor-General who visited Allahabad to review the working of Mahalwari Land Revenue System of:
Lord William Bentinck
1623.The Governor-General who was a British general during the American War of Independence:
Cornwallis
1624.The Governor-General who was impeached by the British Parliament:
Warren Hastings
1625.The grandfather of Gandhiji:
Uttamchand Gandhi
1626. The Great Bengal Famine of ______ took a heavy toll of life and might be called “more man-made than an act of God” -
1942-43
1627. The greatest French Governor in India was:
Duplex
1628.The greatest Parsi reformer of the 19th century:
Behramji Malabari
1629.The headquarters of Navjeevan trust established by Gandhiji in 1929:
Ahmedabad
1630. The idea of holding the Round Table Conference for a new constitutional framework for India was first mooted by:
Swaraj Party
1631.The ideal state envisaged by Gandhiji:
Ram Rajya
1632.The immediate cause of the 1857 revolt:
Introduction of Enfield rifle
1633.The importance of 19th July 1905 in Indian History:
Announcement of the partition of Bengal
1634.The importance of 22nd October 1764 in Indian History:
Battle of Buxar
1635.The importance of 23rd June 1757 in Indian History:
Battle of Plassey
1636.The importance of 5th February 1922 in the history of India:
Chauri Chaura incident
1637. The INA troops surrendered before the British army in _____.
1945
1638.The incident responsible for Kakori Conspiracy The case was occurred in:
1925
1639.The incident which compelled Gandhiji to repeal the non-cooperation movement?
Chauri-Chaura incident
1640. The India Office, a British government Department was created in:
1858
1641. The Indian Association formed an important role in arousing national consciousness through the formation of:
Indian National Conference
1642. The Indian association was established in 1876 in:
Calcutta
1643. The Indian Industrial Commission of 1915 was headed by:
Sir Thomas Holland
1644. The Indian National Army had three fighting brigades named after Gandhiji, Azad and _____.
Nehru
1645. The Indian National Congress officially adopted the ‘drain theory’ in its session held in the year:
1896
1646.The Indian Opinion published by Gandhiji related to the organisation:
Natal Indian Congress
1647. The Indian Penal Code was passed in:
1860
1648. The Indian Police Act was passed in:
1861
1649.The institution in England where Gandhiji studied law :
Inner Temple
1650.The Irish woman who claimed herself to have been a Hindu in her previous life and lectured different parts of India, defending and glorifying Hinduism?
Annie Besant
1651. The journal ‘Bahishkrit Bharat’ was started by:
B.R.Ambedkar
1652.The journal published by Gandhiji in South Africa:
Indian Opinion
1653. The journals ‘Al Hilal’ and ‘Al Balal’ were launched by:
Abul Kalam Azad
1654.The jurist who gave a verdict in the Gandhi assassination Case:
Atmacharan Aggarwal
1655.The largest princely state at the time of independence in terms of area:
Kashmir
1656.The last emperor of British India:
George VI
1657.The last Governor-General of East India Company:
Canning
1658.The viceroy of India who was a poet, novelist and an essayist of repute:
Lord Lytton
1659. The last opportunity to avoid the partition of India was lost with the rejection of:
Cabinet Mission
1660.The last sovereign Nawab of Bengal:
Siraj ud Daula
1661.The last Viceroy of British India:
Mountbatten
1662.The last Viceroy of India:
Mountbatten
1663.The last words of Gandhiji:
Hey Ram
1664.The leader of Ahom’s revolt 1828:
Gomdhar Konwar
1665.The leader of the Fakir Uprising of Bengal (1776-77):
Majnu Shah
1666.The leader of modern India who embraced Buddhism in the later years of his life:
BR Ambedkar
1667.The leader of the national movement whose birthday is August 15:
Aurobindo Ghosh
1668. The leader who was known as the ‘Mango of Salem’:
C.Rajagopalachari
1669.The leader who wrote his PhD thesis paper on the topic of Salt Satyagraha, focusing on Gandhiji’s socio-economic theory:
Ram Manohar Lohia
1670.The leader whom the extremists called ‘faint-hearted moderate’?
Gopal Krishna Gokhale
1671.The longest act enacted by the British Parliament for the administration of India? Govt. of India Act 1935
1672. The longest-running parallel government formed during Quit India Movement was in:
Satara
1673. The Mac Donnel Commission was related with:
Famine
1674. The main cause of schism in Brahmo Samaj of India was the early marriage of the daughter of ____ to the Maharaja of Cooch Behar.
Keshav Chandra Sen
1675. The main cause of the war between the Mir Kasim and East India Company was a dispute regarding the:
collection of revenues
1676.The main feature of the Govt. of India Act 1935:
Provincial autonomy
1677. The Maratha Chief, Sambaji was executed during the reign of:
Aurangzeb
1678. The Marathas signed the treaty of Salbai in 1782 with the English at the instance of :
Scindia
1679. The minimum age for the worker, to be employed in a factory, was fixed through the first Factory Act. What was the minimum age?
7
1680.The moderates who had walked out of the Indian National Congress in 1918constituted themselves into the National Liberal League, which was later known as:
All India Liberal Federation
1681. The monastic name ‘Dayanand’ was given to Mul Sankar by:
Paramananda
1682. The Montague - Chelmsford Reforms was published on July 8, _____.
1918
1683.The monument that was built to commemorate the soldiers who lost their lives in World War I:
India Gate
1684.The mother of Mahatma Gandhi:
Putli Bhai
1685.The movement was founded by Dadoba Pandurang and Bal Shashtri Jambhekar of Maharashtra in 1849:
Paramhansa Mandali
1686.The movement was founded by Muhammad Qasim Nanautavi and Rashid Ahmed Gangohi in 1867:
Deoband Movement
1687.The Mughal emperor who conferred the title ‘Raja’ to Ram Mohun Roy:
Akbar II
1688.The Mughal emperor who earned the nickname ‘Rangila’ due to his addition to wine and women:
Muhammad Shah
1689.The Music Director of the film ‘Gandhi’:
Pandit Ravisankar
1690. The mutiny of 1857 failed because:
Of the lack of proper planning and leadership
1691. The name of Colonel Sleeman is associated with:
The abolition of Thuggees
1691. The name of the farmer as per whose constant request, Gandhiji reached Champaran to help the indigo farmers?
Rajkumar Shukla
1692.The national headquarters of the Indian Home Rule League founded by Bal Gangadhar Tilak:
Delhi
1693. The Naval Mutiny of 1946 began on:
18th February 1946
1694. The Naval Mutiny of 1946 began with the strike of the naval staff of the ship:
INS Talwar
1695. The Nehru Report was prepared by a committee of the All Parties Conference chaired by :
Motilal Nehru
1696. The newspaper ‘Rast Goftar’ propagated the message of an organisation that stood for the reforms of:
Parsis
1697. The nickname of the English East India Company was:
John Company
1698. The non-cooperation movement of Mahatma Gandhi came to an end on:
12th February 1922
1699.The number of volunteers who followed Mahatma Gandhi in Dandi March:
78
1700. The number of policemen killed by the mob in the Chauri Chaura incident:
22
1701. The office of Peshwa became independent during the reign of:
Sahu
1702.The official name of the Simon Commission:
Indian Statutory Commission
1703.The only annexation effected by Lord William Bentinck:
Coorg
1704.The only British sovereign to attend a durbar in India:
George V
1705.The only jew to become the Viceroy of India:
Reading
1706.The only Keralite to become the president of INC:
Sankaran Nair
1707.The only Viceroy who was assassinated:
Mayo
1708.The organisation founded by GG Agarkar, MG Ranade and VG Chiplunkar in 1885? Deccan Education Society
1709.The organisation that was banned after the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi’:
RSS
1710.The organiser of ‘Dharma Sabha’:
Radha Kant Deb
1711.The original name of Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa?
Gadhadhar Chatterjee
1712.The original name of Swami Shraddhanand:
Mahatma Munshi Ram
1713. The parallel government in Balia during the Quit India Movement was led by:
Chittu Pandey
1714.The party founded by T. M. Nair and Theagaroya Chetty in 1917?
Justice Party
1715.‘’The Peasant and the Raj’’ is work of ……….
Eric Stokes
1716. The period mentioned in the autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi is from childhood to:
1920
1717.The period of the second round of the Civil Disobedience Movement:
1932-34
1718. The Permanent Settlement was enforced in ___
1793
1719. The Radical Democratic Party was formed in 1940 by:
M.N.Roy
1720. The real control of the Indian Government was passed into the hands of the President of the Board of Control by passing the:
Act of 1784
1721.The real name of Mira Behn, the disciple of Gandhiji:
Madeleine Slade
1722. The repeated invasion and plundering of Nadir Shah gave a death blow to:
Mughal Empire
1723. The resolution passed by Indian National Congress in ____ at its Madras Session lay down that the declaration of Fundamental Rights should be the basis of the future Constitution of India.
1927
1724.The retired British civil servant who was instrumental in the formation of the Indian National Congress in 1885:
AO Hume
1725.The revolutionary leader who later turned into an ascetic?
Aurobindo Ghosh
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