Free Online Modern History Test MCQs 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. Noakhali is situated in :
- (A) West Bengal
- (B) Bangladesh
- (C) Tripura
- (D) Bihar
2. Mahatma Gandhi was first arrested during ‘Satyagrah’ in the year :
- (A) 1906
- (B) 1908
- (C) 1913
- (D) 1917
3. Who persuaded the ratings of the RIN (Royal India Navy) to surrender on the 23rd February 1946?
- (A) Mahatma Gandhi
- (B) Jawaharlal Nehru and Maulana Abdul KalamAzad
- (C) Vallabh Bhai Patel and M.A. Jinnah
- (D) Morarji desai and J.B. Kripalani
4. On September 20, 1932 Mahatma Gandhi be gan a fast unto death in Yervada jail agaist :
- (A) British repression of the Satyagrahis.
- (B) Violation of the Gandhi-Irwin Pact. I,’
- (C) Communal award of Ramsay Macfronald.
- (D) Communal Roits in Calcutta.
5. In which of the following system of land settlement adopted by the English did provide more protection to the interest of farmers?
- (A) Permanent Settlement of Bengal
- (B) Ryotwari Settlement of Madras
- (C) Zamindari Settlement of Central States
- (D) Malgujari (land revenue) Settlement of United State
6. When was first telegraph line started in India?
- (A) 1851
- (B) 1875
- (C) 1884
- (D) 1900
7. Who was the first Indian to be elected to the British Parliament?
- (A) Dadabhai Naoroji
- (B) Gopala Krishna Gokhale
- (C) Bipin Chandra Pal
- (D) Lala Lajpat Rai
8. Who introduced the permanent settlement in Bengal?
- (A) Lord Cornwallis
- (B) Lord Dalhousie
- (C) William Bentinck
- (D) Lord Curzon
9. Who was the National leader who wrote History of India on the walls of the Andaman Cellular Jail?
- (A) Nandalal Bose
- (B) Ambedkar
- (C) Vir Savarkar
- (D) Jyotiba Phule
10. The ‘Doctrine of Lapse’ was first applied to the princely State of :
- (A) Satara
- (B) Jhansi
- (C) Avadh
- (D) Jaunpur
11. Who was the first Indian to be made a fellow of the Royal Society of London?
- (A) Srinivas Ramanujam
- (B) A.C. Wadia
- (C) C.V. Raman
- (D) P.C. Mahalanobis
12. Which of these battles proved decisive in the Anglo- French rivalry in India?
- (A) Battle of Wandiwash
- (B) Battle of Plassey
- (C) Battle of Mysore
- (D) Battle of Seringapatnam
13. Which of the following Acts gave representation of the Indians for the rust time in legislation?
- (A) Indian Councils Act, 1909
- (B) Indian Councils Act, 1919
- (C) Government of India Act, 1935
- (D) Government of India Act, 1935
14. Punjab was annexed to the British Empire during the reign of Governor-General :
- (A) Lord Bentinck
- (B) Lord Dalhousie
- (C) Lord Cornwallis
- (D) Lord Canning
15. Who among the following visited Gandhiji in South Africa?
- (A) B.G. Tilak
- (B) Vallabhbhai Patel
- (C) G.K. Gokhale
- (D) J.L. Nehru
16. In which year salt Satyagraha took place?
- (A) 1929
- (B) 1930
- (C) 1931
- (D) 1932
17. Who is generally acknowledged as the pioneer of local self-government ‘in modern India?
- (A) Ripon
- (B) Mayo
- (C) Lytton
- (D) Curzon
18. After the Bardoli Satyagraha, the title of 'Sardar' to Vallabhbhai Patel was given by :
- (A) Jawaharlal Nehru
- (B) Motilal Nehru
- (C) Mahatma Gandhi
- (D) Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad
19. Gandhiji considered Khadi as a symbol for :
- (A) Industrialisation
- (B) Economic independence
- (C) Economic growth
- (D) Moral purity
20. “India Wins Freedom” is the autobiography of :
- (A) Abdul Kalam Azad
- (B) Muhammad Ali
- (C) Zakir Hussain
- (D) Sayyed Ahmad Khan
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