Modern India- Questions & Answers 2202 Questions and Answers - 07
* Modern India Questions and Answers -07
1251. Burma (Myanmar) was separated from India in:
1937
1252. Burma was annexed to the British empire by a proclamation on 1 st January, _____.
1855
1253. The Viceroy who announced the date of transfer of power to Indian hands:
Mountbatten
1254. Disturbed by the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre and encouraged by Gandhiji’s plan for non-cooperation who resigned from ICS while on probation in 1921?
Subhas Chandra Bose
1255. Diu was the colony of the …………..
Portuguese
1256. Division of the Civil Services into Imperial, Provincial and Subordinate were done during the period of:
Lord Lansdowne
1257. Domingo Paes was a visitor from:
Portugal
1258. 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
1259. Due to which disease Gandhiji was compelled to leave England to India in 1914? Pleurisy
1260. Durant Commission was appointed to demarcate the boundary between British India and Afghanistan, during the period of:
Lansdowne
1261. During which session of INC (1926) wearing Khadi was made compulsory to its workers.
Guwahati (1926)
1262. During the 1940s, Nanasaheb Ramchandra Patil founded a parallel government named Prati Sarkar in the 150 villages in:
Maharashtra
1263. During the Quit India movement, Tamralipta Jatiya Sarkar (Tamrlipta National Government) was formed in:
Bengal
1264. During the freedom struggle ‘Anusheelan Samiti’ opened its branches in:
Bengal
1265. During the Indian freedom struggle, why did the Rowlatt Act arouse popular indignation?
It authorised the government to imprison people without trial
1266. During the Quit India Movement, a parallel government was set up by Nana Patil in ______
Satara
1267. During the Quit India Movement the first ‘parallel government’ was established in:
Balia
1268. During the Quit India Movement, what was formed in Tamluk?
Vidyut Vahini
1269. During the Quit India Movement, Congress Radio was broadcast from:
Mumbai
1270. During the reign of which Viceroy of India elections was held for the first time in 11 Indian states in:
Lord Linlithgow
1271. During the revolt of 1857, Bahadur Shah was captured by the enemies from:
Humayun’s Tomb
1272. During the revolt of 1857, Birjis Qadr, the son of the deposed Nawab Wajid Ali Shah, was proclaimed the new Nawab of:
Lucknow
1273. During the revolt of 1857, Delhi was captured by the mutineers on:
12th May 1857
1274. During which agitation did Gandhiji give the slogan’ Do or die’?
Quit India movement
1275. On which occasion did Gandhiji declare “Cooperation in any shape or form with this satanic government is sinful”?
Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
1276. During which period did Mahatma Gandhi emerge as a leader in India?
During the time of the Rowlatt Act
1277. During which war Gandhi organised the Indian Ambulance Corps to help the British?
Boer War
1278. During whose era the Agra canal was finished?
British
1279. During whose reign did the Marathas reach maximum expansion?
Balaji Baji Rao
1280. During whose tenure as the Viceroy of India were the great martyr's Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru hanged?
Lord Irwin
1281. During whose viceroyalty was the Railway Board set up?
Curzon
1282. Editor of ‘Indu Prakash’ was:
Aurobindo Ghosh
1283. Congress Radio was the broadcasting mouthpiece of the Indian National Congress during Quit India Movement. Who organised it?
Usha Mehta
1284. Conquest and annexation of Sind (1843) were during the period of:
Lord Ellenborough
1285. Cripp’s Mission visited India during the period of:
Linlithgo
1286. Cripp’s Mission visited India in:
1942
1287. Curzon-Kitchener Controversy of 1904-05 is related to.........:
Abolition of a military member in the Viceroy’s Council
1288. Dadabhai Naoroji served as the prime minister of:
Baroda
1289. First Afghan War (1836-42) held during the period of:
Lord Auckland
1290. First Burmese War (1824-26) held during the period of:
Lord Amherst
1291. From where did Gandhiji pass matriculation?
Ahmedabad
1292. From where was the Khilafat movement launched?
Karachi
1293. From which University in the USA, B.R.Ambedkar received his PhD?
Columbia
1294. From whom did Gandhiji get the idea ‘Civil Disobedience?
Henry David Thoreau
1295. Gandhi ended his fast in Yervada prison which he started after the Communal Award of Ramsay Mc Donald, inconsequent to:
Pune Pact
1296. Gandhiji accorded very high priority to communal harmony in his programme of actions. At which place did he undertake his last fast for it on January 13, 1948?
Delhi
1297. Gandhiji addressed Tagore as:
Gurudev
1298. Gandhiji and General Smuts engaged in an agreement in Pretoria in...
1908
1299. Gandhiji arrived in India from South Africa in the year:
1915
1300. Gandhiji believed that:
End and means both should be justified
1301.First honorary president of All India Muslim League:
Aga Khan III
1302. The first joint session of Congress and Muslim League was held at Lucknow in:
1916
1303. First Justice Party Government was formed in:
1920
1304. Gandhiji was assassinated in:
New Delhi
1305. Gandhiji was assassinated on:
30th January 1948
1306. Gandhiji was born in a ...... family.
Vaisya
1307. Gandhiji went to South Africa to appear in the court for the case of:
Sait Abdulla
1308. Gandhiji who was sentenced to six years imprisonment in 1922, was released in:
1924
1309.The Viceroy when the Second World War was started:
Linlithgo
1310. Gandhiji’s father passed away in:
1885
1311. Gandhiji was undergone to imprisonment for ......days in his whole life.
2338
1312. ‘Generations to come, it may scarce to believe that such a one as him ever walked on this earth in flesh and blood”, who made this statement?
Albert Einstein
1313. Godse, the assassin of Gandhiji, was the editor of:
Hindu Rashtra
1314. Gomdhar Kunwar was the leader of which movement?
Ahom Movement
1315. Gopala Krishna Gokhale passed away in:
1915
1316. Government of India Act of 1935 was introduced when .... was the Viceroy:
Wellington
1317. ‘Hamdard’ was started by:
Muhammad Ali
1318. He was a capitalist and served as the treasurer of AICC for many years and went to jail in 1930. Who was he?
Jamnalal Bajaj
1319. He was born with a withered arm and no left hand. He was appointed Viceroy of India in 1926. Name this person:
Irwin
1320. Gandhiji founded the Sabarmati Ashram in:
1915
1321. Gandhiji got Barrister at Law from:
England
1322. Gandhiji got primary education in:
Rajkot
1323. 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
1324. How many fasts were undertaken by Gandhiji throughout his life?
30
1325. How many Home Rule Leagues were formed in India in 1916?
2
1326. How many members from Muslim League joined the interim government in October 1946?
5
1327. How many members of the British Parliament were included in the Board of Control formed as per the Pitt’s India Act, 1784?
6
1328. How many Oscar Awards were received by the film ‘Gandhi’?
8
1329. How many times did Gandhiji’s father marry?
Four
1330.The Viceroy who headed the interim government assumed office on 2nd September 1946:
Wavell
1331.The Viceroy who inaugurated a new province known as the North-West Frontier:
Curzon
1332.The Viceroy who introduced the Budget system in India:
Canning
1333. “Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.” Whose words are these?
Jawaharlal Nehru
1334.The Viceroy who created North-West Frontier Province in 1901 directly under the Government of India:
Curzon
1335.The viceroy who earned the nickname ‘Clemency’?
Canning
1336.The Viceroy established two colleges for the education and political training of the Indian Princes:
Mayo
1337.The Viceroy who faced the Famine of 1943?
Wavell
1338. How many times was Gandhiji arrested in SouthAfrica during the Satyagraha?
6
1339. Hugely was used as a base for piracy in the Bay of Bengal by the:
Portuguese
1340. Ibrahim Rugova, who is known as ‘Balkan Gandhi’ led the national movement in:
Kosovo
1341. Identify the Governor-General who introduced the policy of auctioning the rights of revenue collection to the highest bidders:
Warren Hastings
1342. Identify the leader who last met Gandhiji for about an hour and left him just a few minutes before he was shot dead on January 30, 1948 while on his way to the prayer meeting.
Sardar Patel
1343. Gandhiji was born on:
2nd October 1869
1344. Gandhiji was imprisoned for ...... days in India.
2089
1345. Gandhiji was imprisoned for the first time in:
Johannesburg
1346. Gandhiji was sentenced to six years imprisonment in 1922 for sedition on behalf of the articles published in:
Young India
1347. Gandhiji was the first Indian to become a lawyer in Natal High Court. In which year did Gandhiji become a lawyer there?
1894
1348. Identify the main centre of the Revolt of 1857 which was first recaptured by the British:
Delhi
1349. Identify the Viceroy who wrote home these words after his first meeting with Gandhiji: “Mr Gandhi’s religious and moral views are, I believe, admirable, but I confess that I find it difficult to understand the practice of them in politics.”
Lord Reading
1350. In 1650 Gabriel Boughton, an employee of the Company obtained a license for trade-in ………….
Bengal
1351. In 1765, the British managed to get the Diwani rights of:
Bengal, Orissa, Bihar
1352. In 1877 the entrance age to ICS was reduced from 21 to ……
19
1353. In 1878, the government reduced the maximum age limit for the open competition for the civil service examination from 21 to:
19
1354. In 1885 Dadabhai Naoroji was elected one of the vice presidents of :
Bombay Presidency Association
1355. In 1914 Gandhiji ended his stay in South Africa and went to:
India
1356. In the Ahmedabad Mill Strike, Mahatma Gandhi’s intervention resulted in the enhancement of wages of workers by:
35%
1357. In the Federation established by the Act 1935, residuary powers were given to the:
Governor-General
1358. In the Indian National Congress, the period between 1885 and 1905 came to be known as:
Moderate phase
1359. In the last months of Gandhiji’s life, he fasted to end bloody clashes between Muslims and Hindus in which two cities?
Kolkata and Delhi
1360. In the regime of which Governor-General did the most number of native states were annexed to the British Empire?
Lord Dalhousie
1361.In the tenure of which Governor-General an attempt was made for the first time to codify Hindu and Muslim customary laws?
Warren Hastings
1362. In the Third Maratha War, the English defeated Peshwa Bajirao II at—
Bassein
1363. In which city did Tipu Sultan plant ‘Tree of Liberty?
Srirangapatnam
1364.In which country “The Indian War of Independence’ authored by V.D.Savarkar was published for the first time?
Netherlands
1365. On which day Gandhiji was assassinated?
Friday
1366. In which language did Gandhiji start the weekly ‘Young India’?
English
1367. In which year the assassins of Gandhiji was executed?
1949
1368. In which year the British Prime Minister Ramsay Mac Donald announced Communal Award?
1932
1369. In which year did the Congress ministries in the provinces resign to protest against the war policy of the British Government?
1939
1370. In which year did the film ‘Gandhi’ get 8 Oscar Awards?
1982
1371. In which year the first issue of Young India was published under the editorship of Gandhiji?
1919
1372. The book was written by Gandhiji in 1909 during his sail for London:
Hind Swaraj
1373. The booklets like “Loyal Muhammadans of India” and “Cause of Indian Revolt” was written by:
Syed Ahmed Khan
1374. The British Committee of Indian National Congress was formed in:
1889
1375. The British got Kohinoor from:
Dalip Singh
1376. The British introduced the railways in India in order to:
facilitate British commerce and administrative control
1377.The British king whom Gandhiji visited when he reached London for the Round Table Conference:
George V
1378.The British officer who under his own authority shot Bahadur Shah Zafar’s sons Mirza Mughal, Mirza Khazir Sultan, and grandson Mirza Abu Bakr at the Khooni Darwaza:
William Hodson
1379. In which year the first meeting of AITUC was held?
1920
1380. In which year the first Round Table Conference was held in London:
1930
1381. In which year the Lahore session of the Muslim League pass Pakistan Resolution?
1940
1382. India became a member of the United Nations in:
1945
1383. India Councils Act of 1861 was passed during the tenure of:
Canning
1384. Indian Association was established by Ananda Mohan Bose and ........in 1876: Surendranath Banerjee
1385. Julius Nyerere, the first to get Gandhi Peace Prize, led the national movement in:
Tanzania
1386. Jyotiba Phule was one of the prominent ………….of the 19th century India.
Social reformers
1387. Kachnagas revolt took place in:
Assam
1388. Kanpur Conference, which is regarded as the foundation of the Communist Party of India in 1925, was held under the presidency of:
Singaravelu Chettiar
1389.‘Karm Yogi’ was started by:
Aurobindo Ghosh
1390. Kheda, where Gandhiji conducted Satyagraha, is in the state of :
Gujarat
1391. Khilafat movement was originally a:
Religious movement
1392.The Viceroy when the First Round Table Conference was held in 1930?
Irwin
1393. Lakshminath Bezbarua was a nationalist writer in___ during the freedom movement:
Assam
1394. Lord Mountbatten became the Viceroy in:
1947
1395. Madras Mahajana Sabha was established by S.Ramaswami Mudaliyar and ______ in 1884.
P.Ananda Charlu
1396. Madras Mahajana Sabha was established in:
1884
1397. Mahadji, the famous Maratha ruler of the latter half of the 18th century, belonged to the house of:
Sindhia
1398. Mahe was a colony of …………..
French
1399. Mangal Pandey was hanged on:
1857 March 29
1400. Mangal Pandey, the first martyr of the 1857 revolt was a member of --------- 34th
Native Infantry
1401. Members of the Constituent Assembly appended their signatures on the Constitution on:
24th January 1950
1402. In which year the Swaraj Party founded by CR Das and Motilal Nehru start functioning?
1923
1403. In which year was Kheda satyagraha of Gandhiji?
1918
1404. In which year was the Champaran Satyagraha?
1917
1405. Mountbatten stepped down from the position of Governor-General of Independent India in:
1948
1406. Mrs Annie Besant set up Home Rule League in September 1916 with its seat at:
Adayar
1407. Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the political rival of Mahatma Gandhi, passed away in:
1948
1408. Muhammadan Literary Society of Calcutta was founded by:
Nawab Abdul Latif
1409. Mulsim League observed ‘Direct Action Day’ in:
1946
1410. Muslim League joined the Interim Government on:
26th October 1946
1411. Netaji founded Forward Bloc in:
1940
1412. Netaji Subhas Bose founded Azad Hind Government in Singapore in:
1943
1413. In which language did Gandhiji write Hind Swaraj?
Gujarati
1414.In which language did Raja Ram Mohun Roy publish his journal “Mirat-ul-Akhbar”? Persian
1415. In which year Lahore session of the Indian National Congress declared that it was complete independence?
1929
1416. In which year did Mahadev Desai, the private secretary of Gandhiji pass away?
1944
1417. In which year non-cooperation movement was suspended after the Chauri-Chaura incident?
1922
1418. In which year Numismatic Society of India was established at Allahabad?
1910
1419. In which year was Rowlatt Bill introduced?
1919
1420. In which year did Sarojini Naidu become the first Indian woman to become the president of the Indian National Congress?
1925
1421. In which year split in All India Trade Union Congress took place?
1929
1422.The Viceroy when the First World War was started:
Hardinge II
1423. In which year the administration of British India was transferred from East India Company to the British Crown?
1858
1424. Netaji Subhas Bose passed away in:
1945
1425. Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose established a provisional government of India (Government of Azad Hind ) based in Singapore on:
21st October 1942
1426. Nirankari movement was started by:
Dayal Das
1427.Number of Princely states at the time of independence:
562
1428. The number of women who attended the first session of the Indian National Congress:
No woman attended
1429.On 12th November 1930 who officially opened the Round Table Conference?
George V
1430. On 9th of August, 1942, Mahatma Gandhi and the entire Congress Working Committee were arrested in _____
Mumbai
1431. Muslim League observed 23rd March 1943 as:
Pakistan Day
1432. Muslim League was formed at:
Dacca
1433.‘My one-man army who made this remark about Gandhiji?
Lord Mountbatten
1434. Namdhari Movement, popularly called Kuka Movement was launched by:
Balak Singh
1435. Name a newspaper that was instrumental in inculcating the spirit of opposition to the Partition of Bengal.
Sandhya
1436. Name my eldest brother?
Lakshmidas
1437. Name the British Prime Minister when the Revolt of 1857 was started?
Palmerston
1438. Name the freedom fighter who passed away on August 15, 1947?
Ajith Singh
1439.On what basis Pradesh Congress Committee was created?
Language
1440. Pondicherry was the main base on the Coromandel Coast of the:
French East India Company
1441.Poona Pact aimed at:
Representation of the lower classes
1442.Ram Prasad Bismil was hanged in association with....... Conspiracy Case.
Kakori
1443. Ramakrishna Mission was founded by Vivekananda in:
1897
1444. On what charges was Gandhiji arrested in 1922?
Sedition
1445. On which date Gandhiji was arrested in connection with Civil Disobedience Movement?
5th May 1930
1446. Out of the total of 562 Princely States in undivided India, how many of them were within the new Independent India?
532
1447. Pacific Coast Hindustan Association was called:
Ghadar Party
1448.Peshawar conspiracy, Kanpur conspiracy and Meerut conspiracy is associated with: CPI
1449. Pindari Wars held during the tenure of:
Lord Hastings
1450. Pirpur Committee was established by:
Muslim League
1451.Political guru of BR Ambedkar:
Jyotiba Phule
1452. Rand was killed by the militant nationalist:
Damodar Chapekar
1453. Second Factory Act of 1891 was introduced during the period of:
Lord Lansdowne
1454. Second Sikh war (1848-49) and annexation of Punjab were held during the tenure of:
Dalhousie
1455. Servants of India Society was founded by Gopal Krishna Gokhale in:
1905
1456. Seva Sadan set up by B.M.Malabari worked for the welfare of ____ community.
Parsis
1457. Seven Indians including ______founded the Communist Party of India at Tashkent in October 1920:
M.N.Roy
1458. Shahu was set free from the Mughal captivity by:
Prince Azam
1459.The Viceroy when the Doctrine of Lapse was officially withdrawn:
Canning
1460. Santhal uprising (1855-56) was held during the period of:
Dalhousie
1461. Sati was prohibited in:
1829
1462. Sir Thomas Robertson Committee related to the administration and working of the railways was appointed during the Viceroyalty of:
Curzon
1463.The Viceroy who introduced financial decentralisation?
Mayo
1464.The Viceroy who is known as the father of Local Self Government:
Ripon
1465.The Viceroy who made August Offer:
Linlithgo
1466. Surya Sen was hanged in:
1934
1467.The Viceroy when Ramsay McDonald announced the Communal Award:
Wellington
1468. Swami Shraddhanand was assassinated in:
1926
1469. Swami Virjanand was the teacher of:
Dayanand Saraswati
1470. Swaraj Party was initially known as:
Congress-Khilafat Swaraj Party
1471. Taluqdari settlement was made in:
Oudh
1472. Tamluk, where Jatiya Sarkar was formed on 17th December 1942 during the Quit India Movement was in:
Bengal
1473.The area of Pagal Panthi revolt:
Bengal
1474.The area of Singhpos Revolt 1830:
Assam
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1475. The Arya Samaj movement believed in:
Vedic Ritualism
1476.The author of ‘1857 The Great Rebellion’:
Ashok Mehta
1477.The author of ‘Why Socialism’?
Jayaprakash Narayan
1478.The author of Ved Bhashya Bhumika:
Dayanand Saraswati
1479.The autobiographer of A.O.Hume:
William Wedderburn
1480.The autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi:
My Experiments with Truth
1481. The background of the Mahar movement was:
Maharashtra
1482. Surat salt agitation was in the year:
1844
1483.The Viceroy when Provincial Autonomy was introduced in 1937:
Linlithgo
1484.The area of Chuar Rebellion:
Bengal
1485. The background of the Sanyasi Revolt was:
Bengal
1486. The biggest settlement of the French in India was:
Pondicherry
1487. The Board of Control and the Court of Directors were abolished in:
1858
1488. The Bombay Presidency Association was founded in 1885 by Feroz Shah Mehta, KT Telang and ......
Badruddin Tybji
1489. The Bombay Triumvirate included Feroz Shah Mehta, K.T.Telang and _____.
Badruddin Tyabji
1490. The Carnatic Wars were fought between the:
British and the French
1491. The central headquarter of the Wahabi Movement was:
Patna
1492. The Central Legislative Assembly was created by:
Govt of India Act, 1919
1493. The chamber of princes was formally inaugurated in:
1921
1494.The childhood name of Gandhiji:
Manu or Moniya
1495.The childhood name of Rani of Jhansi:
Manikarnika
1496.The city where Swaraj Party was formed:
Allahabad
1497. The Code of Civil Procedure was enacted in:
1908
1498. The college established by the British at Ajmer was named after the Viceroy:
Mayo
1499. The commercial objective of the Portuguese in India was to:
Capture the trade of pepper and other superior spices
1500. The committee appointed by the British Government to go into the provisions of Govt. of India Act 1919 and pinpoint the defects:
Muddiman Committee
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