History MCQs – Set 9 - Modern India

Q.1. Who passed the Indian Universities Act?

(a) Lord Dufferin

(b) Lord Curzon

(d) Lord Hardinge

Q.2. Who among the following is the founder of the “Azad Hind Fauj”?

(a) Ras Behari Bose

(b) Bhagat Singh

(d) Lala Har Dayal

Q.3. Who is known as the “Father of Indian Unrest”?

(a) Lala Lajpat Rai

(b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

(d) Bipin Chandra pal

Q.4. Who were the first to discover the sea route to India?

(a) Portugal

(b) Dutch

(d) Danes

Q.5. The concept of Sampoorna Kranti (Total Revolution) was advocated by____.

(a) Acharya Vinoba Bhave

(b) Mahatma Gandhi

(d) Jai Prakash Narayan

Q.6. When did the British Government set up Sadler University Commission for reforms in education?

(a) 1917

(b) 1919

(d) 1918

Q.7. Which one of the following places was associated with Acharya Vinoba Bhave's Bhoodan Movement at the beginning of the movement?

(a) Udaygiri

(b) Rapur

(d) Venkatagiri

Q.8. Who among the following wrote the poem Subh-e-Azadi ( Dawn of Freedom)?

(a) Sahir Ludhiyanvi

(b) Faiz Ahmed Faiz

(d) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

Q. 9. During the Viceroyalty of which of the following did White Mutiny take place?

(a) Lord Curzon

(b) Lord Minto

(d) Lord Hardinge

Q. 10. Vernacular Press Act was repealed by_________________.

(a) Lord Dufferin

(b) Lord Ripon

(d) Lord Hardinge

Answers

1 - b

Notes:The Indian Universities Act 1904 was introduced by Lord Curzon to improve the condition of university education in India.

2 - a

3 - b

Notes: Tilak was called "Father of Indian unrest" by Sir Ignatius Valentine Chirol, a British journalist.

4 - a

Notes: Portugal was the first European power to establish factories and trading settlements in India in the early 16th century. Portuguese were followed by Dutch, British, Danes and French.

Vasco da Gama, a Portuguese traveller, was the first to discover the sea route to India.

5 - d

Notes:Popularly referred to as JP or Lok Nayak, Jayaprakash Narayan was an Indian political leader and theorist. He had led the mid-1970s opposition against Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, for whose overthrow he had called for a Sampoorna Kranti (total revolution).

In 1999, Jayaprakash Narayan was posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award, in recognition of his social service.

6 - a

Notes: The Sadler Commission was a commission appointed by the British government in 1917 to inquire into the conditions and prospects of the University of Calcutta.

7 - c

Notes: The Bhoodan movement (Land Gift movement) was a voluntary land reform movement in India, initiated by Gandhian Vinoba Bhave in 1951 at Pochampally village in Nalgonda district of Andhra Pradesh (now Telangana).

8 - b

Notes: Subh-e-Azadi is an Urdu language poem by a Pakistani poet, Faiz Ahmed Faiz written in 1947. In the poem Faiz expresses disappointment and anguish of the Partition of India after the British rule came to an end in the Indian subcontinent.

9 - c

Notes: Ilbert Bill was bill introduced in 1883 that sought to allow senior Indian magistrates to preside over cases involving British subjects in India.

The introduction of the bill on 9 February 1883 during the Viceroyalty of Ripon led to intense opposition in Britain and from Britons living in India, creating a racially motivated movement that has been termed the White Mutiny.

10 - b

Notes: Vernacular Press Act was passed in 1878 during the viceroyalty of Lord Lytton to curtail the freedom of the Indian-language press. Vernacular Press Act was also known also as the Gagging Act. The law was repealed in 1881 by Lytton’s successor as viceroy, Lord Ripon.

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