Modern Indian History MCQs

Question 1

What was the Ilbert Bill intended for?

Accepted Answer

To enable India District Magistrates and Session Judges to try Europeans

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To remove racial discrimination in employment

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To save Indians from racial humiliation

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To change the method of recruitment in the Indian Civil Service

Question 2

Of the following who was not the leader of the Extremists?

Accepted Answer

Hume

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Lokamanya Tilak

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Aurobindo Ghose

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Lala Lajpat Rai

Question 3

Who had observed that "Political freedom is the life-breath of a nation"?

Accepted Answer

Sri Aurobindo Ghose

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BG Tilak

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Annie Besant

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Rabindranath Tagore

Question 4

SN Banerjee was appointed Professor in English in the Metropolitan Institute at

Accepted Answer

Calcutta

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Bombay

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Madras

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Bangalore

Question 5

In the Interim Government formed in 1946, the Minister for Education was

Accepted Answer

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

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Patel

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Rajaji

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Annie Besant

Question 6

Who had founded the Indian Home Rule Society?

Accepted Answer

Shyamji Krishna Varma

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Madan Lal Dhingra

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V D Savarkar

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Lala Hardayal

Question 7

From 1885 to 1905 (the moderate phase of the INC) the object before the INC was

Accepted Answer

Only A and B above

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wider employment of Indians in higher public services

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establishment of representative institutions

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self-government to India

Question 8

The main exponent of the theory of Drain of Wealth was

Accepted Answer

Dadabhai Naoroji

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RC Dutt

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DR Gadoil

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Karl Mane

Question 9

The Gandhi-lrwin Pact (1931) was vehemently criticised and opposed by the people on the ground that

Accepted Answer

Gandhi did nothing to save the lives of Bhagat Singh, Sukh Dev and Raj Guru who had been awarded the death sentence

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the Civil Disobedience Movement was suspended

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the sufferings of thousands of people in the Civil Disobedience Movement were wasted

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It was contrary to the pledge of the Congress for Poorna Swaraj