1 DO NOT OPEN THIS BOOKLET UNTIL YOU ARE ASKED TO DO SO TEST BOOKLET MODERN INDIA TEST - 3 Time Allowed: 2 Hours Maximum Marks: 200 : INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES: 1. IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE EXAMINATION, YOU SHOULD CHECK THAT THIS TEST BOOKLET DOES NOT HAVE ANY UNPRINTED OR TORN OR MISSING PAGES OR ITEMS ETC. IF SO, GET IT REPLACED BY A COMPLETE TEST BOOKLET OF THE SAME SERIES ISSUED TO YOU. 2. ENCODE CLEARLY THE TEST BOOKLET SERIES A, B, C OR D, AS THE CASE MAY BE IN THE APPROPRIATE PLACES IN THE ANSWER SHEET USING BALL POINT PEN (BLUE OR BLACK). 3. You have to enter your ROLL No. on the test booklet in the box provided alongside. DO NOT write anything else on the Test Booklet. 4. YOU ARE REQUIRED TO FILL UP AND DRAKEN ROLL NO., TEST BOOKLET/ QUESTION BOOKLET SERIES IN THE ANSWER SHEETS AS WELL AS FILL UP TEST BOOKLET/ QUESTION BOOKLET SERIES AND SERIAL NO. AND ANSWER SHEET SERIAL NO. IN THE ATTENDANCE SHEETS CAREFULLY. WRONGLY FILLED UP ANSWER SHEETS ARE LIABLE FOR REJECTION AT THE RISK OF THE CANDIDATE. 5. This test booklet contains 100 items (questions). Each question comprises four responses. You have to select the correct response which you want to mark on the answer sheet. In case, you feel that there is more than one correct response, you should mark the response which you consider to be the best. In any case choose ONLY ONE response for each item. 6. You have to mark all your responses ONLY on the separate Answer Sheet provided by using POINT PEN (BLUE or BLACK). See instructions in the Answer Sheet. 7. (i) All items carry equal marks. All items are compulsory. Your total marks will depend only on the number of correct responses marked by you in the Answer sheet. (ii) There will be negative marking for wrong answers. 25 percent of the marks allotted to a particular question will be deducted as negative marking for every wrong response. (iii) If a candidate gives more than one answer, it will be treated as a wrong answer even if one of the given answers happens to be correct and there will be the same penalty as above to that item. DO NOT OPEN THIS BOOKLET UNTIL YOU ARE ASKED TO DO SO MODERN INDIA OBJECTIVE IAS 2 1. Mughal emperor, played an d) Bahadur Shah-II important role in the fall of Sayyid 6. With reference to the Mughal brothers, regarded as king makers was: buildings, which of the following is not a) Shah Alam II correctly matched? b) Farrukh-Siyar a) Akbar: Agra fort in Red sand c) Muhammad Shah stone d) Bahadur Shah I b) Jahangir: Moti Masjid at Delhi 2. Bahadur Shah’s successor Jahandar c) Shah Jahan: Red Fort at Delhi Shah ascended the throne with the help d) Aurangzeb: Bibi ka Makbara in of: Aurangabad a) Abdullah Khan 7. In Mughal administration Khan-i- b) Hussain Ali Saman was department of: c) Zulfiqar Khan a) Royal House-hold d) Nizam-ul-Mulk b) Justice department 3. During the Nadir Shah’s invasion to c) Head accountant India in 1739 CE, the Mughal emperor d) Auditor General was: 8. Who invented the Gurumukhi script a) Jahandar Shah for the Punjabi language? b) Muhammad Shah a) Guru Nanak c) Alamgir-II b) Guru Angad d) Farruk Siyar c) Guru Amar Das 4. Zulfiqar Khan promoted ijarah or d) Guru Ramdas revenue farming system but it was 9. Guru Amardas divided his spiritual disliked by the peasants because: empire into 22 parts called: a) It would often lead to a) Langar fragmentation of land b) Sahib b) It involved collection of revenue c) Manjis at a fixed rate d) Takht c) It was a semi-annual feature d) It involved farmers and 10. Which of the following Sikh Guru middlemen who could collect was executed by the Muhgal emperor whatever they could from them Jahangir for helping his rebellious son? 5. Later Mughal ruler, ruled for the a) Guru Arjun Dev longest period was: b) Guru Har Govind c) Guru Har Rai a) Muhammad Shah d) None of the above b) Alamgir-II c) Shah Alam-II MODERN INDIA OBJECTIVE IAS 3 11. With reference to the significant a) Bombay work of Guru Gobind Sing, which of the b) Chinsura following is not correct? c) Madras d) Calcutta a) He fortified Amritsar b) Organised Sikhs as a community 17. The Battle of Wandiwash was of warriors fought between the English and: c) He summoned a big assembly of a) Nizam of Hyderabad Sikhs at Anantpur b) Hyder Ali d) None of the above c) Nawab of Carnatic 12. Under the different Peshwas the d) The French Maratha kingdom was divided in to 18. The immediate cause of the First several principalities. With reference to Carnatic war was: this, which of the following is not correctly matched? a) Anglo-French rivalry b) Austrian war od succession a) Gaekwad: Baroda c) Issues of the Carnatic b) Bhonsle: Nagpur Succession c) Holkar: Gwalior d) Capture of the French ships by d) None of the above the British 13. Of the seven Peshwas, the ablest 19. The official ambassador of King of one was: England arrived in the court of Jahangir a) Balaji Vishwanath was: b) Baji Rao-I a) William Hawkins c) Balaji Baji Rao b) Sir Thomas Roe d) Baji Rao-II c) Sir Edward Terry 14. Shivaji signed treaty of Purandhar in d) All of the above 1665 with: 20. The English East India company a) Afzal Khan established its first factory at Surat b) Shaista Khan during the reign of: c) Raja Jai Singh a) Akbar d) Raja Jaswant Singh b) Jahangir 15. The Plato of Jat tribe was: c) Shah Jahan d) Aurangzeb a) Gokul b) Rajaram 21. The most significant causes for the c) Suraj Mal French failure in India was: d) Badan Singh a) Dupleix was called back at a 16. Fort St George, the first English crucial time fortress in India was founded at: MODERN INDIA OBJECTIVE IAS 4 b) They conspired against the b) It placed Awadh at the mercy of Indian powers the English c) They sided with the weak Indian c) It firmly established the British rulers as masters of Bengal, Bihar and d) The French company was Odisha heavily dependent on the French d) It demonstrated the superiority government of the English arms over the combined army of two of the 22. Tranqueber on the Tamil Nadu major Indian Power coast was a colonial outpost of the: a) Portuguese b) French 27. The treaty of Alinagar signed c) Dutch between the English and the Nawab of d) Danish Bengal in 1757 did not provide for: 23. The founder of the French East a) Compensation for damages to India company was: the East India company b) Permission to fortify fort William a) Dumas c) the English will have the liberty b) Colbert to coin money in Calcutta. c) Dupleix d) None of the above d) De la Haye 28. The main objectives of Lord 24. The English company’s trading Wellesley in concluding a subsidiary activities in India began at the port of: treaty in 1798 with the Nizam of a) Surat Hyderabad was: b) Musalipatnam a) Create a buffer state between c) Hoogly the British possessions and the d) Balasore Mysore 25. The Mughal farman has been b) Exterminate French influence regarded as the Magna Carta of the and intrigues in India English company in India was issued in: c) Improves his relations with the Nizam with a view to creating a a) 1616 permanent rivalry against Tipu b) 1648 Sultans c) 1708 d) Eliminate the possibility of an d) 1717 alliance between the Nizam and 26. The historical significance of the the Marathas Battle of Buxar in 1764 was: 29. The true significance of the treaty of a) It abolished formally the Mughal Amritsar of 1809 was: empire MODERN INDIA OBJECTIVE IAS 5 a) It marked the beginning of an era d) None of the above of peace and prosperity in 34. The Bombay was handed over to Punjab the British by the Portuguese due to: b) It helped Ranjit Singh in Realising his ambition of a) A Peace treaty in Europe conquering Multan and Kashmir b) the marriage of Charles II with c) It recognized the power of the the Portuguese prince British as the political limit of c) The Portuguese Independence Punjab’s policy of expansion from Spain d) It made Ranjit Singh as the d) The defeat of the Spanish undisputed master of all Sikhs Armada by the British in 1588 30. The treaty of Purandhar in 1776 was 35. The Dutch company established made by British with: monopoly of trade with: a) The Marathas a) India b) The Mysore b) China c) The Nizam c) Indonesia d) The Sikhs d) All of these 31. The Portuguese established their 36. The commercial rivalry between the first fort in India at: Dutch and English in India came to an end with: a) Calicut b) Surat a) An agreement between the c) Goa trading stations at Government d) Cochin of Britain and Holland in 1609 b) Issuance of orders granting 32. in 1510 Albuquerque captured Goa monopoly in favour of the British from the ruler of: East India Company by the Pope a) Ahmadnagar c) The defeat of the Dutch at the b) Bijapur battle of Bedara in 1759 c) Golkonda d) The Massacre at Amboyna d) Berar 37.