Modern Indian History MCQs

Question 1

The Special Congress Session held in 1920 at Calcutta was presided over by

Accepted Answer

LaIa Lajpat Rai

Answer

Nehru

Answer

Bose

Answer

Gandhi

Question 2

Who among the following had during his reign introduced a new calendar, a new system of coinage, and new scales of weights and measures?

Accepted Answer

Tipu Sultan

Answer

Murshid Quli Khan

Answer

Raghunath Rao

Answer

Lord Cornwallis

Question 3

Lahore was Ranjeet Singh's political capital. Which city was called his religious capital?

Accepted Answer

Amritsar

Answer

Anandpur Sahib

Answer

Gujranwala

Answer

Peshawar

Question 4

In 1913, the Guru founded an Ashram at __________ called the Advaita Ashram

Accepted Answer

Aluva

Answer

Vaikom

Answer

Palluruthi

Answer

Trichur

Question 5

Of the following who died as political prisoner in Lahore prison?

Accepted Answer

Jatin Das

Answer

Bhagat Singh

Answer

Batukeshwar Dutt

Answer

Sukh Dev

Question 6

Under whose leadership was the Congress Socialist Party founded in 1934?

Accepted Answer

Acharya Narendra Bose and P. C. Joshi

Answer

Jawaharlal Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi

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Subhas Chandra Bose and P. C. Joshi

Answer

Saifuddin Kitchlwe and Rajendra Prasad

Question 7

Who among the following introduced Ryotwari system in madras?

Accepted Answer

Sir Thomas Munro

Answer

Lord Hastings

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Lord Wellesley

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Lord Cannemara

Question 8

The Second Round Table Conference failed over the question of

Accepted Answer

communal representation

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suspension of Civil Disobedience Movement

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grant of dominion status

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date of transfer of power

Question 9

Who was the architect of North and South Blocks of the central Secretariat in Delhi?

Accepted Answer

Sir Edward Lutyens

Answer

Herbert Bakers

Answer

Robert Tor Tussell

Answer

Antonin Raymond