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History MCQs – Set 12 - Modern India



Q.1. The idea of a separate homeland for Muslims found mention for the first time in the writings of:

A. Mohammed Iqbal

B. Liaqat Ali

C. M.A. Jinnah

D. Rahmat Ali


Q.2. The beginning of the British political sway over India can be traced to the battle of

A. Tai Khamti-British War of 1839

B. Plassey

C. Buxar

D. Wandiwash


Q.3. Who described Bal Gangadhar Tilak as the “Father of Indian unrest”?

A. Disraeli

B. Valentine Chirol

C. Minto

D. Chelmsford


Q.4. Who assassinated Sir Michael O`Dwyer, the British Lt. Governor of Punjab?

A. Udham Singh

B. Lala Lajpat Rai

C. Bhagat Singh

D. Vir Savarkar


Q.5.  The first Europeans to come to India were

A. French 

B. Dutch

C. Portuguese

D. British


Q.6. Who among the following did Lord Mountbatten replace as the viceroy of India in 1947?

A. Lord Curzon

B. Lord Chelmsford

C. Lord Wavell

D. Lord Linlithgow 


Q.7. The Communal Award was declared by Ramsay Macdonald in:

A. 1928

B. 1929

C. 1931

D. 1932


Q.8. Who declared, "The only hope for India is from the masses. The upper classes are physically and morally dead"?

A. Gopal Krishna Gokhale

B. Mahatma Gandhi

C. Swami Vivekananda

D. Bal Gangadhar Tilak


Q.9. Where was the first Round Table Conference held?

A. New Delhi

B. London

C. Edinburg

D. Bombay


Q.10. In which year was the system of the competitive examination for civil service accepted?

A. 1833

B. 1853

C. 1858

D. 1882



Answers

1-A

Notes: Muhammad Iqbal was a great nationalist during early years of career writing the famous nationalist song: Sare Jahan se Accha, Hindositan hamara, but later on he voiced the idea of a separate Muslim state in the north-west India in his presidential address to the annual session of the Muslim League at Allahabad in 1930.

It was this idea which later fructified and culminated in the creation of a separate Muslim state of Pakistan on August 14, 1947. Naturally enough, he is acclaimed as the father of the idea of Pakistan. 

Muhammad Iqbal, also known as Allama Iqbal, died in Lahore in 1938.


2-B

Notes: The battle of Plassey was fought between the army of Siraj-ud-Doula, the last independent Nawab of Bengal and the troops of the British East India Company under Robert Clive. 

The importance of the battle of Plassey was more than that of the some of the greatest battles of the world. It facilitated the British conquest of Bengal and subsequently the whole of India.


3-B

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


4-A

Notes: Udham Singh was a great revolutionary who avenged the infamous Jalianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar by murdering Michael O’Dwyer, who was the Lieutenant Governor of Punjab in 1919 when Brigadier General Reginald Dyer, the military commander of Amritsar had ordered the firing on the innocent people who have gathered here to protest the arrest of Congress leaders Dr. Saifuddin Kitchlew and Dr. Satya Pal under Rowlatt Act.

Udham Singh killed O’Dwyer in London on 13th March 1940. He was arrested on the spot and sentenced to death on 21st July in the same year.

5-C

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.

6-C

Notes: In 1947, Clement Attlee, Winston Churchill's successor as British prime minister, replaced Lord Wavell with Lord Mountbatten as the viceroy of India in 1947. 

7-D

Notes: On 16 August 1932 the British prime minister Ramsay MacDonald announced the Communal Award partitioning it into separate electorates for Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs and Untouchables. The Communal Award was announced after the failure of the Second of the Round Table Conferences (India). The Communal Award later was incorporated into the Government of India Act, 1935.

8-C

Notes: Narendranath Dutta is better known as Swami Vivekananda, 

Swami Vivekananda was a disciple of Ramakrishna Paramahansa (1836-1886)

In 1983 Swami Vivekananda went to the US and attended the famous “Parliament of Religions” at Chicago. 


9-B

Notes: First Round Table Conference was held in 1930.

Second Round Table Conference took place in London from 7 September 1931 to 1 December 1931.  

The third Round Table Conference took place between 17 November 1932 and 24 December 1932. 


10-A

Notes: The Charter Act of 1853 introduced an open competition system of recruitment in Civil Service. Macaulay Committee was appointed for Civil Service in India in the year 1854.



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