MCQ’s History

1     The partition of Bengal was effected in 1905 by:

a)    Lord Minto

b)   Lord Lyton

c)    Lord Curzon

d)   Lord Lawrence

2     Revival of Vedas is associated with:

a)    Swami Dayanand Saraswati

b)   Swami Vivekananda

c)    Acharya Rajneesh

d)   Raja Ram Mohan Roy

3     At the time of independence of India in 1947, the Prime Minister of England was:

a)    Lord Mountbatten

b)   Gopal Krishna Gokhale

c)    Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel

d)   Dr B.R. Ambedkar

4     Who is known as the ‘Iron man’ of India?

a)    Lala Lajpat Rai

b)   Gopal Krishna Gokhale

c)    Sardar Vallabh Bhai patel

d)   Dr B. R Ambedkar

5     Iqtas were organized in India by:

a)    Qutubuddin Aibak

b)   Balban

c)    Allauddin Khilji

d)   Illtutmish

6     Literature in the Gupta period was written mostly in:

a)    Telugu

b)   Tamil

c)    Kannada

d)   Sanskrit

7     Who among the following was impeached on return to Britain for accepting bribes and committing atrocities on Indian rulers?

a)    Warren Hasting

b)   Sir John Share

c)    Lord Clive

d)   Lord Cornwallis

8     Gandhi started ‘Satyagraha’ in 1919 in protest against the:

a)    Salt Law

b)   Rowlatt Act

c)    Act of 1909

d)   Jallianwala Bagh Massacre

9     The immediate cause for the outbreak of the First World War was:

a)    The assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand

b)   The imprisonment of Lenin

c)    The ambition of America to dominate the world

d)   The sudden death of Lloyd George

10  The Opium Wars were fought between:

a)    Britain and China

b)   Britain and India

c)    India and China

d)   Britain and Japan

11  Of the following who was not a signatory to the historic Poona Pact of 1932:

a)    B.R. Ambedkar

b)   Madan Mohan Malviya

c)    C. Rajagopalachari

d)   M.K Gandhi

12  On the first occasion, the Prime Minister of India was appointed by:

a)    The Governor General

b)   The British Emperor

c)    Mahatma Gandhi

d)   The Viceroy

13  The American publicist who was with Mahatma Gandhi during his ‘Quit India’ movement was:

a)    Louis Fischer

b)   William L. Shiver

c)    Web Miller

d)   Negley Farson

14  The most decisive battle that led to the establishment of supremacy of the British in India was:

a)    The battle of Plassey

b)   The battle of Buxar

c)    The battle of Wandiwash

d)   The third battle of Panipat

15  The person who returned his Token of Honour to Government of India on May 30, 1919 was:

a)    Jamnalal Bajaj

b)   Tej Bahadur Sapru

c)    Mahatma Gandhi

d)   Rabindranath Tagore

16  Karamchand Gandhi was a Dewan of:

a)    Porbandar

b)   Rajkot

c)    Wakaner

d)   All of the above

17  The Asiatic Society of Bengal (founded in 1784) owes its origin to:

a)    Warren Hastings

b)   Sir William Jones

c)    Sir James Mackintosh

d)   James Princep

18  A prominent leader of the Ghadr Party was:

a)    P. Mitra

b)   Hardayal

c)    B.G. Tilak

d)   Bipin Chandra Pal

19  Who propounded the theory of ‘Drain of Wealth’ from India to Great Britain?

a)    Gopal Krishna Gokhale

b)   Dadabhai Naoroji

c)    Surendranath Banerjee

d)   Lala Lajpat Rai

20  Which one of the following was the first to impose censorship of the Press:

a)    Wellesley

b)   Hastings

c)    John Adams

d)   Dalhousie

21  Mac Donald’s Communal Award did not provide separate electrorates and reserved seats in provincial legislatures to:

a)    Muslims

b)   Sikhs

c)    Scheduled Castes

d)   Buddhists

22  On November 1, 1858 Queen Victoria Proclamation was read out at Allahabad by:

a)    Lord William Bentink

b)   Lord canning

c)    Ord Burnham

d)   Sri Harcourt Butler

23  The first census in India during the British period was held during the tenure of:

a)    Lord Dufferin

b)   Lord Lyton

c)    Lord Mayo

d)   Lord Ripon

24  Which one of the following names cannot be associated with revolt of 1857?

a)    Begum Hazarat Mahal

b)   Maulavi Ahmadullah

c)    Peshwa Baji Rao II

d)   Bahadur Shah II

25  The call “Dilli Challo” was given by:

a)    Lala Lajpat Rai

b)   Dr Rajendra Prasad

c)    Subhash Chandra Bose

d)   Mahatma Gandhi

26  Who among the following attended all the three round Table Conferences?

a)    Jawaharlal Nehru

b)   Dr. B.R Ambedkar

c)    Vallabhbhai Patel

d)   Dr Rajendra Prasad

27  The British Viceroy who took a number of measure for preserving ancient buildings and monuments of India was:

a)    Lord Ripon

b)   Lord Curzon

c)    Lord Minto

d)   Lord Irwin

28  The first Governor General of the East India Company in India was:

a)    Robert Clive

b)   Sir John Shore

c)    Warren Hastings

d)   Marquis of Hastings

29  The Stupa of Scanchi was built by:

a)    Kanishka

b)   Harsha vardhan

c)    Dharmapala

d)   Ashoka

30  The prefix ‘Mahatma’ was added with the name of Gandhi:

a)    During Champaran Satyagraha

b)   During the Satyagraha against Rowlatt Act

c)    In the Amrisar Session of the Indian National Congress 1919

d)   At the beginning of khilafat movement