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1. Aravippuram movement which is considered as a precursor to all south Indian socio religious reform movement started in which of the following places?
Tamil Nadu
Kerala
Andra Pradesh
 Karnataka

2. Sathya Shodak Samaj also called truth seekers society was started by which of the following reformers?
 Gopal Krishna Gokhale
Jyotiba Phule
Dayananda Saraswathi
Shiv Narain Agnihotri

3. Paramahamsa Mandali primarily aimed at breaking caste rules was founded in which of the following places
Maharashtra
 Kerala
Tamil Nadu
Gujarat

4. The Servants of Indian Society started by Gopal Krishna Gokhale was set up with which of the following objectives?
Prepare masses for selfless cause of country and devote their lives if needed
Train national missionaries for the service of country
Both the above statement
Reorganization of Indian society on rational principles

5. It is said that Ishwar Chandra Vidya Sagar’s contribution to making of modern India is many sided. Which of the following aspects contribute to it?
Farmers and depressed class upliftment
New methodology of teaching Sanskrit
Uplifting downtrodden women, abolishing child marriage , widow re marriage
Both B and C

6. The main contribution of Ishwar Chandra Vidya Sagar to education and in particular to women education are :
Break priestly monopoly of scriptural knowledge(Sanskrit) and opening to non- Brahmins
Charles wood dispatch on education, influenced it towards female education
Lady Hardinge medical college at Delhi
Both A and B

7. Who among the following was responsible for the first lawful Hindu widow remarriage among upper castes in India?
Raja Rammohan Roy
Keshub Chandra Sen
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
Gopal Krishna Gokhale

8. Which of the following are the innovative means used by Ishwar Chandra Vidya Sagar to bring Sanskrit education to all?
Devised new Bengali primer
Brought new prose style
 Both A & B
Continued the same method without any new innovation

9. Theosophical society was started by whom and where, initially?
A.O Hume in India
Blavatsky and Olcott in united states
M.G Ranade in India
 Mahatma Gandhi in South Africa

10. Who among the following is the head of theosophical society in India
Annie Besant
Madan Mohan Malaviya
Blavatsky
Did not come to india

11. What was the main inspiration for establishing Theosophical Society?
Tackling zamindars issue
Women’s education and their upliftment
Propagate Indian thought and culture there by revival of ancient religions of Hinduism, Zoroastrianism and Buddhism
Work for depressed classes

12.  Which of the following act led to the introduction of dual system of government in India?
Pitt’s India Act, AD 1784
The Regulating Act, AD 1773
Charter Act, 1793 AD
Charter Act, 1813 AD

13. Which of the following Act, ensured the establishment of the supreme court in India?
Pitt’s India Act, AD 1784
The Regulating Act, AD 1773
Charter Act, 1793 AD
Charter Act, 1813 AD

14. Which of the Act made the governor of Bengal as Governor General of India?
Pitt’s India Act, AD 1784
The charter Act, 1813 AD
Charter Act, 1793 AD
 The Regulating Act, AD 1773

15. Which of the following statement is not correct?
The Regulating Act, AD 1773 was the first step to regulate the affairs of the company.
Lord William Bentinck was the first governor general of India.
 Pitt’s India Act, AD 1784, established the dual system of governance in India
All of the above are wrong.

16. Which of the following charter act ended the monopoly of trade of east India Company with china and sea route also?
Pitt’s India Act, AD 1784
The charter Act, 1813 AD
Charter Act, 1833 AD
The Regulating Act, AD 1773

17. Who was Lord Morley?
 Secretary of the state
Viceroy of India
Governor General of India
None of the above

18. Which of the following statement is not correct?
Morley – Minto reforms introduced the separate electorate for Muslims in India.
Government of India act -1858 made the Governor General of India is called the Viceroy.
The post of secretary of the state was created under the Government of India act -1858.
The recruitment for the civil services began on the basis of charter act of 1833.

19. Which of the following Government of India Act introduced the diarchy system in the provinces of India?
Government of India Act, 1909
Government of India Act, 1919
Government of India Act, 1935
None of these

20. Which of the following act of India ensured the partition of India?
Government of India Act, 1909
Government of India Act, 1919
Government of India Act, 1935
None of these

21. Which of the following is not the part of Government of India Act, 1935
 This act provided for setting up of the federation of India comprising British Indian provinces.
 Diarchy in the provinces was replaced by provincial autonomy.
The post of Indian council of secretary of state for India made permanent.
The diarchy was introduced at the centre.

22. Which Government of India Act/charter Act generated the post of Governor-General of India?
Government of India Act -1858
Charter Act-1833
 Charter Act-1853
Charter Act-1813

23. Which of the following statement is not correct?
British government was responsible to parliament.
The supreme body for India also was the British parliament.
Queen Victoria issued a proclamation which was read out by governor-general canning at a Durbar held at Kanpur on 1st November 1858.
After 1858, the interests of India were further subordinated to those of Britain.

24. Which of the following is not the provision of The Act of 1892?
A simultaneous examination of ICS to be held in England and India
Reforms of the legislative council and adoption of the principle of election in place of nomination
support of the annexation of Upper Burma
Reduction in the Military expenditure

25. Which of the following is not the provision of the government of India Act, 1858?
India was to be governed in the Queen's name.
The Queen's Principal Secretary of State received the powers and duties of the Company's Court of Directors.
Provision for the creation of an Indian Civil Service under the control of the Secretary of State.
The British Parliament was empowered to appoint a Governor-General and the Governors of the Presidencies.

26. Which of the following is not the provision of government of India act, 1935?
This act ended the system of diarchy
The structure for “Federation of India” was established for both British India and some or all of the “princely states”.
Burma became the part of India.
The introduction of direct elections, thus increasing the franchise from seven million to thirty-five million people.

27. Which of the following is not correct about Montegu- Chelmsford’s Reform & Government of India Act, 1919?
It changed the administrative system in India.
In this Act the central legislative council was replaced by two houses-the imperial legislative assembly and the council of state.
Education and public health were placed under charge of ministers responsible to the legislature.
All of the above are incorrect

28. Which of the following statement is not correct about the provisions of the Government of India Act,1858?
The Queen's Principal Secretary of State received the powers and duties of the Company's Court of Directors.
A council of fifteen members was appointed to assist the Secretary of State for India.
For all the communications between Britain and India, the Secretary of State became the real channel.
All the above statements are incorrect.

29. When were Morley-Minto reforms taken place?
1905
1909
1919
1857

30. Who was the prime minister of Britain at the time of commencement of the Government of India Act, 1858?
Lord Palmerston
Russell II
 Edward Smith-Stanley
Benjamin Disraeli

31. Which of the following Government of India Act/Indian Council Act brought three separate presidencies (Madras, Bombay and Bengal) into a common system?
Indian Council Act of 1861
Government of India Act, 1935
Government of India Act, 1919
 Indian Council Act of 1909

32. Which of the following leader was not present in the very first meeting of Indian National Congress?
Dadabhai Naoroji,
Kashinath Trimbak Telang
 Pherozeshah Mehta
Surendranath Banerjee

33. Which of the following statement is not true about the Indian National Congress?
It was formed in 1885
W.C. Bannerjee was the first president of congress.
 It was formed when 72 delegates from all the presidencies and provinces of India met at Bombay.
Its founder, Allan Octavian Hume, was a retired British professor in India.

34. Who told that Indian National Congress represents only microscopic minorities?
Lord Curzon
Lord Dufferin
 Lord Minto
None of these

35. Who said that the congress is tottering to its fall, and one of my great ambitions, while in India, is to assist it to a peaceful demise?
Lord Curzon
Lord Dufferin
Lord Minto
None of these

36. Who said that Indian National Congress is a ‘begging institute’?
Mahatma Gandhi
Bipin Chandra Pal
 Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Aurobindo Ghosh

37.  Which of the following leader was not moderate?
Dada Bhai Naoroji
Anand Charlu
Bipin Chandra Pal
Madan Mohan Malviya

38. Which of the following is not true about Bal Gangadhar Tilak?
He wrote ‘Gita Rahasya’
He started Ganpati Festval in 1893
He launched a newspaper ‘Kesri’ in English
He started home rule league in 1916

39. Who started the English weekly ‘New India’?
 Lala Lajpat Rai
Bipin Chandra Pal
 Dada Bhai Naoroji
Madan Mohan Malviya

40. Which of the following is not true about the Muslim League?
It was established by the Nawab Salimullah.
 It was established in Calcutta in 1906.
The league supported the partition on Bengal.
The league opposed the Swadeshi movement.

41. When was congress split?
At Surat session in 1906
At Benares session in 1905
 At Madras in1908
At Lahore in1909

42.  Which of the following committee and act is associated with the Sedition act?
Rowlatt Committee
Muddiman Committee
Butler Committee
Both A & B

43. Consider the following statement(s) regarding Khilafat Movement:I. The Amritsar Session of the INC gave a great fillip to the Khilafat agitation.II. Khilafat conference held in Calcutta under Presidentship of Jinnah. III. Khilafat Movement was started to support Ottoman Empire. Which of the above statement (s) is/are correct? Codes:
Only I
Both I and II
Both I and III
 I, II and III

44. Which of the following was the achieved milestone of the Non-Cooperation Movement of 1921?
 It stopped the injustice done to the Khilafat
Indian obtains some political rights
The Hindus and the Muslims came closer in political pursuit
It avenged the Punjab atrocities

45.  Which of the following leader given the term ‘insenate waste’ on the  the burning of the foreign clothes during the Non-Cooperation Movement?
Lord Reading
Motilal Nehru
Rabindra Nath Tagore
Mohammad Ali

46. When was the Non-Cooperation Movement got momentum under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi and the Indian National Congress?
1920-1922
1922-1924
 1987-1989
1990-1992

47.  Which of the following event compel M.K Gandhi to withdraw the Nation’s cooperation from the British Government?
 Jallianwala massacre
Bhagat singh Hanging
Lathi charge
All of the above

48. When was M.K Gandhi suspend after the violent act of peasants at Police station of Chauri Chaura, near Gorakhpur in UP?
Feb-22
Mar-22
Jan-20
Feb-20

49. When was the non-cooperation movement started by M.K Gandhi?
After Rowlatt Act
Chauri-Chaura incident
Jalliawalabagh Massacre
None of the above

50. Which of the following event was the reason for the withdrawn of non cooperation movement?
 Chauri Chaura incident
Jallianwala massacre
Gandhi Imprisionment
None