1. Social Background of Indian nationalism is written by…………………………….
Correct : C. a r desai
2. From Plassey to Partition: A History of Modern India is written by……………………………
Correct : B. sekharbandhopadhyaya
3. The arrival of Vasco da Gama in Calicut, India on…………
Correct : D. 1498
4. Diu was the colony of the …………..
Correct : A. portuguese
5. In 1612 ……………established a trading post in Gujarat.
Correct : A. british
6. In 1614 Sir Thomas Roe was instructed by …………… to visit the court of Jahangir, the Mughal emperor of India.
Correct : A. james i
7. In 1661 the company obtained ………….. from Charles II.
Correct : A. bombay
8. In 1650 Gabriel Boughton, an employee of the Company obtained a license for trade in ………….
Correct : A. bengal
9. Year of the Battle of Plassey is ………….
Correct : C. 1757
10. Year of the Battle of Wandiwash is …………
Correct : C. 1760
11. Year of the Battle of Buxar is………….
Correct : A. 1764
12. Warren Hastings was appointed as the Governor of …………… in 1772.
Correct : A. bengal
13. Regulating Act was in the year of……………
Correct : C. 1773
14. Hyder Ali was the ruler of …………..
Correct : B. mysore
15. Mahe was a colony of …………..
Correct : B. french
16. In November 1781, Sir Eyre Coote defeated …………….. at Porto Nova.
Correct : A. hyder ali
17. The Treaty of Mangalore was in the year ……………….
Correct : D. 1784
18. Seringapatnam was the capital of ……………..
Correct : B. tipu sultan
19. The fourth …………………..War was of short duration and decisive and ended withTipu’s death on May 4, 1799.
Correct : A. anglo-mysore
20. The Treaty of Surat was in the year ……………
Correct : D. 1775
21. Treaty of Rajpurghat" was signed on December 25, 1805 between Holkar and……………
Correct : B. british
22. The Company was granted an English Royal Charter, under the name Governor andCompany of Merchants of London Trading into the East Indies, by ………………….on 31 December 1600.
Correct : A. elizabeth i
23. Under the Government of India ……………, the British Crown assumed directadministration of India in the new British Raj.
Correct : C. act of 1858
24. Defeat of the Spanish Armada in ………….
Correct : C. 1588
25. The English East Company achieved a major victory over the Portuguese in theBattle of …………………. in 1612.
Correct : C. swally
26. The Seven Years' War (1756–1763) resulted in the defeat of the…………. forces.
Correct : C. french
27. Robert Clive, the Governor General of the ……………….
Correct : C. british
28. Joseph François Dupleix was the commander of the ……………. forces in India.
Correct : A. french
29. Who defeated the Spanish Armada?
Correct : A. elizebeth i
30. The First Opium War started……………
Correct : C. 1839
31. Indian Mutiny began in …………
Correct : C. 1857
32. The Company lost all its administrative powers……………
Correct : C. by thegovernment of india act of 1858
33. Who set up the dual system of administration in Bengal?
Correct : A. robert clive
34. …………………….Permanent settlement was made in Bengal in the sphere ofrevenue administration.
Correct : D. lord cornwallis
35. The Permanent Settlement was enforced on………………….
Correct : B. 1793
36. Subsidiary Alliance was introduced by ………………
Correct : A. lord wellesley
37. Fakir-Sannyasi Resistance against the East India Company dominance in……………
Correct : D. bengal
38. ………………………., a judge of the Supreme Court founded the Asiatic society ofBengal in 1784 A.D.
Correct : A. sir william jones
39. Charles Wood's Despatch…………………
Correct : D. 1854
40. The Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act ………………
Correct : A. 1856
41. The policy of Doctrine of lapse was introduced by ………………
Correct : D. lord dalhousie
42. The ‘Sepoy Mutiny’ was in the year …………
Correct : D. 1857
43. The Indian National Congress was formed …………
Correct : A. 1885
44. The Vernacular Press Act was passed in ……………
Correct : A. 1878
45. The Vernacular Press Act was repealed by ……………
Correct : A. lord ripon
46. Who made remarkable contribution to the development of Local government?
Correct : A. lord ripon
47. Raja Ram Mohan Roy was the founder of the………………
Correct : A. brahma samaj
48. Raja Ram Mohan Roy was given the title 'Raja' by the……………
Correct : A. mughals
49. Raja Ram Mohan Roy was born on May 22, 1772 in village Radhanagar in theDistrict of Hooghly in …………….
Correct : C. bengal
50. In ……………., a man named Raja Ram Mohan Roy founded an organization called'Brahma Samaj'.
Correct : C. 1828
51. Who is regarded as as the 'father of modern India'.
Correct : A. raja ram mohan roy
52. Who convinced the British in 1829 to outlaw Sati?
Correct : A. raja ram mohan roy
53. Maharishi DayanandSaraswati was an important Hindu religious scholar, reformer,and founder of the ……………
Correct : A. aryasamaj
54. Who was the first to give the call for Swarajya– "India for Indians”?
Correct : A. dayanandsaraswati
55. Who founded India House in London and guided other revolutionaries.
Correct : C. shyamji krishna varma
56. SatyarthPrakash was written by ………….
Correct : C. dayanandsaraswati
57. The AryaSamaj movement believed in
Correct : D. vedic ritualism
58. Dayananda was born on February 12 in 1824, in the town of Tankara, near Morvi(Morbi) in the Kathiawar region of the princely state of……………
Correct : D. gujarat
59. JyotibaPhule was one of the prominent ………….of the 19th century India.
Correct : A. scientists
60. JyotiraoPhule was born in Satara district of …………….in 1827.
Correct : A. maharastra
61. The formation of the Indian National Congress (INC) was in the year …………..
Correct : C. 1885
62. Zamindari Association was the ………. political association of modern India.
Correct : A. first
63. Bengal British India Society founded in Calcutta on 20 April 1843, was the…………………political public association to be formed in British India, the firstbeing the zamindari association (1837).
Correct : C. third
64. The British India Society was formed in ……………)
Correct : C. 1839
65. In ……… Derozio founded with his students the 'Academic Association' whichorganised debates on various subjects.
Correct : A. 1824
66. The second session of the congress met in Calcutta on December 1886, under thepresident ship of …………….
Correct : A. dadabhainaoroji
67. Gokhale was born in a Marath Brahmin family at ………….
Correct : B. poona
68. The Deccan Educational Society founded by ……….
Correct : B. ranade
69. ……………..edited the journal of Poona SarvajanikSabha.
Correct : C. ranade
70. The Minto Morley reforms was in the year ………….
Correct : A. 1906
71. The ‘political philosophy’ was the work of ………….
Correct : A. gopala krishna gokhale
72. 1905 ………….laid the foundation of the ‘servants of India society’, with a view tothe training of national missionaries for the service of India, and to promote by allconstitutional means, the true interest of the Indian people.
Correct : A. gokhale
73. ………………in his book ‘Economic history of India’ wrote ‘If India is poor today itis through the operation of economic causes’.
Correct : B. r.c. dutt
74. . …………………….is remembered as the ‘Grand old man of India’.
Correct : A. ranade
75. The Bombay Association, the first political association in Bombay presidency wasfounded by ………….in 1852.
Correct : B. pulinbeharisarkar
76. DadabhaiNaoroji’s book ‘poverty and un British rule in India’ published in…………. analysed the nature of the British rule in India.
Correct : A. 1898
77. …………… is the acknowledged high priest of the drain theory.
Correct : A. dadabhainaoroji
78. ………………., the viceroy of India decided to partition Bengal for administrativepurposes, creating a new province of East Bengal and Assam, with a population of 31million people and with its capital at Dhaka.
Correct : B. lord rippon
79. The spark for the Swadeshi Movement was the ………….decision to partitionBengal.
Correct : B. british
80. The partition of Bengal had to be annulled in …………….
Correct : B. 1911
81. The inauguration of the Ganapati and Shivaji Festivals was done by ……….
Correct : A. tilak
82. The Ganapati festival was started in ………….
Correct : C. 1893
83. The first Shivaji festival was held at Raigarh in …………..
Correct : C. 1895
84. Hindu Mahasabha was founded in …………….. .
Correct : C. 1915
85. Muslim League established in December ………..
Correct : C. 1906
86. The background of the foundation of the Muslim League at ……….on 30 December1906 may be traced back to the establishment of the Indian national congress in1885.
Correct : A. dhaka
87. ………. made a whirlwind tour of the country in 1916 and in his speeches he said,"Swaraj is my birthright and I will have it."
Correct : A. tilak
88. Who preached the idea of Home Rule through his two news papers - the Kesari andthe Maratha?
Correct : C. tilak
89. Champaran Satyagraha was in ……………..
Correct : C. bihar
90. Champaran Satyagraha was led by …………….
Correct : C. gandhi
91. Kheda Satyagraha……………………….
Correct : A. gujarat
92. In……….., the First National Trade union organization (The All India Trade UnionCongress (AITUC)) was established.
Correct : D. 1920
93. PazhassiSamarangal (Malayalam) was written by …………
Correct : A. k.k.n.kurup
94. Against Lord and State was written by ………..
Correct : C. panikkar k.n
95. Who of the following Governor Generals is associated with Subsidiary AllianceSysten?
Correct : B. lord wellesley
96. Who was the first Governor General of India?
Correct : A. warren hastings
97. Who was the first Viceroy of India?
Correct : D. lord canning
98. The title of ‘Viceroy’ was added to the centre of the Governor-General of India forthe first time in
Correct : B. 1858 a.d
99. My Experiments with Truth is the work of ……….
Correct : A. mahatma gandhi
100. Who is the author of ‘Social Background of Indian Nationalism’?