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1. The Muslim League demanded a separate 8. Who was responsible for the introduction of English nation for the Muslims in from the year as the official language in India? (a) 1945 (a) Lord William (b) 1940 (b) Bentick (c) 1930 (c) Sir Charles Wood (d) 1920 (d) Allan Octavian Hume 2. The resolution to state the Quit India 9. gave the call ‘Do or Die’ during the Movement was adopted by INC at its session (a) held at (b) Non- Cooperation Movement (a) Bombay (c) Civil Disobedience Movement (b) Lahore (d) (c) Calcutta 10. According to Mountbatten Plan, which of the (d) Karachi following provinces was not to be included in the 3. Which school of religion, started in 1867, was Indian dominion? basically anti-British? (a) Bihar (a) Wahabi (b) Sind (b) Deoband (c) Bombay (c) Aligarh (d) Madras (d) Farazi 11. British merchants were willing to invest in railways 4. The first Indian Councils Act was passed in and mines but not in cotton textiles industry. The (a) 1853 reason was (b) 1857 (a) Lack of raw material (c) 1861 (b) Competition from the Indians (d) 1892 (c) Lack of technology 5. Why were the Indians dissatisfied with the (d) None of these ? 12. Who introduced the system of Civil Services. (a) There was no Indian member in the (a) Commission. (b) Lord Dalhousie (b) Indians never wanted the review of the (c) Lord Hardinge working of the Act of 1919 (d) William Bentick (c) It recommended the Dyarchy in the 13. Who was named as Mira Behn by mahatma Gandhi provinces should be abolished. (a) (d) None of these (b) Madeline Slade 6. By which law did the British Crown take over (c) Kamal Devi the power the rule over India form the East (d) Maria Montessori India Company? 14. Who was known as the ‘Liberator of the Press? (a) Indian Councils Act, 1961 (a) Bentick (b) Ilbert Bill (b) Hastings (c) Magna Carta of Rights (c) Metcalfe (d) None of these (d) Macaulay 7. Who founded the Indian National Social 15. Who initiated the introduction of education in Congress in 1987? English in India? (a) G. K. Gokhale (a) Lord Dalhousie (b) Ram Prasad Bismil (b) Lord Curzon (c) M. G. Ranade (c) Lord Macaulay (d) B. G. Tilak (d) Lord Bentick

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16. Which of the following institutions was not (d) 1, 2 and 4 founded by Mahatma Gandhi? 22. Match of following: (a) Phoenix Ashram A Act of 1858 1. Minto-Morley reforms (b) Vishwa Bharati B Govt. of India 2. Assumption power by (c) Savagram Ashram Act. 1919 the British crown (d) Sabarmati Ashram C Govt. of India 3. Provincial Autonomy 17. Who proclaimed: ‘We have not the slightest Act, 1935 intention of abandoning our Indian possessions 4. Dyarchy and that it is highly improbable that any such A B C intention will be entertained by our posterity? (a) 4 3 1 (a) Lord Dufferin (b) 3 2 4 (b) Lord Canning (c) 2 4 3 (c) Lord Curzon (d) 2 1 4 (d) Lord Cornwallis 23. When was the first interim government (e) Joseph Chamberlain formed during the British rule in India? 18. Among the following revolutionaries. (a) August 1945 1. Ramprasad Bismil (b) September 1945 2. Manmatu Gupta (c) August 1946 3. Rajendranath Lahiri (d) September 1946 4. Ashfaquallah 24. The major difference between the moderates The three revolutionaries who were hanged and the extremists in the Congress session of on the charge of case include 1907 was regarding (a) 1, 2 and 3 (a) Education (b) 2, 3 and 4 (b) Boycott (c) 1, 2 and 4 (c) (d) 1, 3 and 4 (d) 19. Who commented that was a 25. Who after the Constitutional deadlock due to postdated cheque on a crashing bank? the Quit India Movement, gave the call – ‘Back (a) Sardar to Cripps’? (b) Mahatma Gandhi (a) Mahatma Gandhi (c) Subhash Chandra Bose (b) (d) Jawaharlal Nehru (c) 20. Which of the following upheavals took place in (d) C. Rajagopalachari immediately after the Revolt of 1857? 26. The was founded by Swami (a) Sanyasi Rebellion Dayanand Saraswati in (b) Indigo Disturbances (a) 1874 (c) Santal Rebellion (b) 1875 (d) Pabna Disturbances (c) 1882 21. In 1856, the following Acts were passed: (d) 1893 1. Religious Disabilities Act 27. Cripps’ Mission aimed at 2. Abolition of Sati (Regulation XVII) (a) Giving complete independence to united India 3. Hindu Widows Remarriage Act (b) Widening the gulf between the Congress and the 4. Doctrine of Lapse Muslim League (a) 1 and 3 (c) A compromise between the Congress and (b) 1 and 4 the Muslim League (c) 3 and 4

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(d) A compromise between congress demand untouchability. For this purpose he founded of united India and Muslim League’s the All India Harijan Sangh in demand for a partitioned India (a) 1928 28. Whom did Lord Wavell invite to make (b) 1930 proposal for formation of an interim (c) 1931 government? (d) 1932 (a) Mahatma Gandhi 35. declared Swarajya as the (b) Jawaharlal Nehru aim of the INC at the Calcutta session in (c) M. A. Jinnah (a) 1896 (d) Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad (b) 1901 29. The author of ‘Hind Swaraj’ was (c) 1905 (a) V. D. Savarkar (d) 1906 (b) M. K. Gandhi 36. Non-Cooperation Movement was passed in (c) B. G. Tilak which session of Indian National Congress? (d) Swami Sharddhanand (a) 30. Who declared: ‘The only hope for India is (b) Bombay from the masses. The upper classes are (c) Nagpur physically and morally dead? (d) Calcutta (a) Mahatma Gandhi 37. King George V visited India during the (b) viceroyalty of (c) (a) Lord Curzon (d) (b) Lord Reading 31. Who among the following characterized the (c) Lord Rippon Revolt of 1857 as a ‘conspiracy ‘? (d) Lord Hardinge (a) T. R. Holmes 38. The first Governor- General of Bengal was (b) Sir Lawrence (a) Lord Cornwallis (c) Sir John Kaye (b) Lord Clive (d) G. B. Malleson (c) Lord Wellesley 32. Which of the following is not a provision of the (d) Warren Hastings Charter Act of 1853? 39. In whose regime during the British period was (a) Under this Act, a legislative Council for ‘Samachar Darpan’, the first vernacular paper, India was Created. published? (b) Governor General was given the power to (a) Lord Curzon veto the Bills passed by the Legislative (b) Lord William Bentick Council. (c) Lord Minto (c) A provision was made for an open (d) Marquess of Hastings competitive examination for recruitment 40. Who among the following was not associated to Indian Civil services with Home Rule Movement? (d) None of these (a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak 33. did not write in (b) M. A. Jinnah (a) English (c) (b) (d) Annie Besant (c) Punjabi (d) 41. Who said the following of the Indian National 34. One of the most important activities of Congress: ‘A safety value for the escape of Mahatma Gandhi was the abolition of

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great and growing forces generated by our (b) 2 3 1 4 own actions was urgently needed? (c) 3 4 1 2 (a) Annie Besant (d) 4 3 2 1 (b) A. O. Hume 46. Which of the following is not correctly (c) Lord Rippon matched? (d) Lord Curzon (a) New India-Bipin Chandra Pal 42. Match the Following (b) Mahratta – Gopal Krishna Gokhale A. Simon Commission 1. 1885 (c) Yugantar – Aurobindo Ghosh B. Quit India Movement 2. 1942 (d) Swadeshamitran – G. Subramania Iyer C. Formation of INC 3. 1927 47. Match the following: D. Minto Morley reforms 4. 1909 A Anusilan Samiti 1. Maharashtra A B C D B. 2. San fransisco (a) 1 2 3 4 C Mitra Mandal 3. Calcutta and Dacca (b) 1 3 2 4 D Ghadar Party 4. Chlcutta (c) 3 2 1 4 A B C D (d) 5 3 2 1 (a) 2 3 4 1 43. Match the following: (b) 3 4 1 2 A. Lord Cornwallis 1. Abolition of Sati (c) 3 1 2 4 B. Lord Dalhousie 2. Doctrine of Lapse (d) 4 3 1 2 C. Lord William 3. Permanent Settlement48. Match of following: D. Lord Wellesley 4. Subsidiary Alliance A Swaraj is my birth 1. Mahatma Gandhi A B C D right and I shall (a) 1 4 3 2 have it (b) 3 2 1 4 B Bengal united in a 2. Jawaharlal Nehru (c) 2 1 3 4 power (d) 1 2 4 3 C Untouchability is a 3. Bal Gangadhar Tilak 44. Match the following: crime against God A. My Experiments 1. Dadabhai Naoroji and mankind with Truth D Long year ago we 4. G. K. Gokhale B. The Indian Unrest 2. Lokmanya Tilak have made a tryst C. Un-British India 3. Mahatma Gandhi with destiny D. The First War of 4. V. D. Savarkar 5. Risely Independence A B C D 5. V. Chirol (a) 1 4 3 2 A B C D (b) 3 5 1 2 (a) 3 1 2 5 (c) 3 4 1 2 (b) 3 1 2 4 (d) 4 2 5 3 (c) 3 5 1 4 49. The Revolt of 1857 affected several towns in (d) 5 2 3 1 Bihar. Which of the following entries gives the 45. Match of following: correct sequence of the outbreak of the revolt A M.N. Roy 1. Home Rule Movement in different towns of Bihar? B. C. R. Das 2. Radical nationalist (a) Muzaffarpur, Patna, Jagdishpur, Rohini C Annie Besant 3. Swarajist Party (b) Patna, Muzaffarpur, Rohini, Jagdishpur D B.G. Tilak 4. Partition of Bengal agition (c) Jagdishpur, Patna, Rohini, Muzaffarpur A B C D (d) Rohini, Patna, Muzaffarpur, Jagdishpur (a) 1 3 2 4

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50. Who among the following was not one of the (b) Maulana Barkatullah revolutionaries abroad who added a new (c) Chidambaran Pillai dimension to our struggle for freedom? (d) Raja Mahendra Pratap (a)

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