Free Modern Indian History MCQs Test your preparation of upcoming competitive examinations by answering the Modern History questions correctly. These GK questions of Modern Indian History, besides the new questions, include questions asked in previous examinations.
1. The Portugues build their first fort on India soil in the territory of the Raja of :
- (A) Calicul
- (B) Cochin
- (C) Daman
- (D) Bijapur
2. Who among the following analysed the causes of the uprising of 1857 advocating a reconciliation between the British and the Muslims?
- (A) Sayyed Ahmad Brelvi
- (B) Shah Waliullah
- (C) Sayyed Ahmad Khan
- (D) Sayyed Amir Ali
3. What was Lala Lajpat Rai demonstrating against when he succmbed to police brutality?
- (A) Rowlatta Act
- (B) Minto-Morley Reforms
- (C) Simon Commission
- (D) Pitts India Act
4. On April 12, 1944 Subhash Chandra Bose hoisted the INA Flag in a town. In which State Union Territory is that town now?
- (A) Tripura
- (B) Manipur
- (C) Manipur
- (D) Mizoram
5. The National Anthem was first sung in year 1911 at the Annual session of the India National Congress held at :
- (A) Pune
- (B) Mumbai
- (C) Kolkata
- (D) Lucknow
6. Which Party was established by Subhash Chandra Bose after he came out of Indian National Congress?
- (A) Indian National Army
- (B) Republican party
- (C) Forward Bloc
- (D) Socialist Party
7. The Portuguese Governor who abolished Sati in Goa was :
- (A) Akbuquerque
- (B) Cabral
- (C) Almeida
- (D) De Braganza
8. The battle of Plassey was fought between :
- (A) East India Company and Ahmad Shah
- (B) East India Company and Tipu Sultan
- (C) East India Company and Sirajuddaulla
- (D) East India Company and Anwaruddin
9. Which among the following movements was not led by Mahatma Gandhi?
- (A) Quit India Movement
- (B) Swadeshi Movement
- (C) Non-Cooperation Movement
- (D) Civil Disobedience Movement
10. Who among the following is known as the “Father of the Indian Renaissance”?
- (A) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
- (B) Rabindra Nath Tagore
- (C) Swami Dayanand Saraswati
- (D) Swami Vivekanand
11. Which of the following was established first?
- (A) Banaras Hindu University
- (B) University of Bombay
- (C) Aligarh Muslim University
- (D) University of Allahabad
12. Whogavethe title of “Mahamana” to Madan Mohan Malviya?
- (A) Dada Bhai Naurozi
- (B) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
- (C) Rabindra Nath Tagore
- (D) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
13. By which Charter Act, the East India Company’s monopoly of trade with China come to an end?
- (A) Charter Act of 1793
- (B) Charter Act of 1813
- (C) Charter Act of 1833
- (D) Charter Act of 1853
14. The Idea of federation was first proposed in :
- (A) Indian Councils Act of 1892
- (B) Morley-Minto Reforms
- (C) Montague-Chelmsford Reforms
- (D) Nehru Report of 1928
15. Which one of the following events did not take place during the Viceroyalty of Lord Curzon?
- (A) Establishment of the department of Archaeology
- (B) Second Delhi Durbar
- (C) Formation of Indian National Congress
- (D) Partition of Bengal
16. Who among the following organised the “All India Depressed Classes Association.” in colonial India?
- (A) M. K. Gandhi
- (B) Jyotiba Phule
- (C) Pandita Ramabai
- (D) B. R. Ambedkar
17. Mahatma Gandhi in 1919 decided to launch a nationwide satyagraha against the proposed?
- (A) Simon Commission
- (B) Rowlatt Act
- (C) Salt Act
- (D) Pitt’s India Act
18. After the defeat at Plassey, Sirajuddaullah was assassinated and was made the nawab :
- (A) Mir Jafar
- (B) Mir Qasim
- (C) Haider Ali
- (D) Tipu Sultan
19. Who was given the title of “The Ambassador of Hindu - Muslim Unity” for being the architect and mastermind of the historic Lucknow Pact?
- (A) Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan
- (B) Fazl-ul-Haq
- (C) Sayyid Mohammad Sharfuddin Quadri
- (D) Muhammad Ali Jinnah
20. Who was the founder of Banaras Hindu University?
- (A) Sukumar Dutt
- (B) MadanMohanMalviya
- (C) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
- (D) Motilal Nehru
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