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Modern Indian History Quiz Questions

1.....................started an all-India campaign for restoring the entrance age of 21 and for simultaneous ICS examination in India.
(A) Gokahale (B) S. N. Banerjee
(C) Tilak (D) William Logan
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2. Who.....................tried to rediscover India's past.
(A) Lord Lytton (B) Max Muller
(C) S. N. Banerjee (D) Gokahale
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3. Lytton held an Imperial Durbar at Delhi in 1877 to announce.....................s the Empress of India at a time when a large part of the country was in the grip of a severe famine.
(A) Queen Elizabeth (B) Queen Victoria
(C) Queen Anne (D) Queen Marie
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4. Who put on the statute book two obnoxious measures the vernacular press Act and the Indian Arms Act.
(A) Lord Ripon (B) Lytton
(C) Raja Ram Mohan Roy (D) Queen Victoria
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5. The llbert Bill controversy during the period of Lord Ripon exposed the racial bitterness of the British and united the Indians.
(A) Lytton (B) Lord Ripon
(C) Queen Elizabeth (D) Queen Anne
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6. Goa was declared as India's 25th state in which among the following years?
(A) 1987 (B) 1988
(C) 1989 (D) 1990
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7. One Caste One Religion, One God for Man is the teaching of–
(A) Rajaram Mohan Roy (B) Chattambi Swamikal
(C) C.Kesavan (D) Sree Narayana Guru
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8. All are of one Self-fraternity such being the dictum to avow, In such a light how can we take life And devoid of least pity go on to eat.who said?
(A) Tilak (B) Chattambi Swamikal
(C) Rajaram Mohan Roy (D) Sree Narayana Guru
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9. Who said Ask not, Say not Think not caste. Think only Gods.
(A) Sree Narayana Guru (B) William Logan
(C) Connolly (D) S. N. Banerjee
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10. In 1901 the State Census Manual of.....................recorded Sree Nārāyana as a revered "Guru" and an erudite Sanskrit scholar.
(A) Travancore (B) Malabar
(C) Cochi (D) Kottayam
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11. The year of the foundation of the Women’s Indian Association (WIA) is–
(A) 1913 (B) 1917
(C) 1937 (D) 1947
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12. The swadeshi movement in Bengal started on–
(A) 1902 (B) 1905
(C) 1908 (D) 1909
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13. In 1917 Anasuya Sarabhai had led the.....................textile workers’ strike
(A) Ahmedabad (B) Bombay
(C) Calcutta (D) Malabar
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14. In 1920 under her leadership the……………., the Ahmedabad textile mill workers union was established.
(A) Majoor Mahajan (B) Ushabai Dange
(C) Parvati Bhore (D) Maniben Kara
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15. The formation of the Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) at the initiative of.....................in 1972.
(A) Ela Bhat (B) Roop Kanwar
(C) Raja radhakant dev (D) Dwarkanath Tagore
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16. Who was the first Viceroy of India?
(A) Robert Clive (B) William Bentick
(C) Lord Delhousie (D) Lord Canning
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17. The title of ‘Viceroy’ was added to the centre of the Governor-General of India for the first time in–
(A) 1848 A.D. (B) 1858 A.D.
(C) 1862 A.D. (D) 1856 A.D.
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18. My Experiments with Truth is the work of–
(A) Mahatma Gandhi (B) Tara Chand
(C) Shankarlal Banker (D) Mahadev Desai
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19. Who is the author of ‘Social Background of Indian Nationalism’?
(A) A. R. Desai (B) Dharam Kumar
(C) Ray Chaudhuri (D) K. Rajayyan
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20. Author of ‘Culture ideology Hegemony Intellectual and Social consciousness in Colonial India’ is–
(A) K. N. Ganesh (B) K. N. Panikkar
(C) R. C. Majumdar (D) Herman Kulke
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