Modern Indian History & Freedom Struggle MCQs
Multiple choice questions on Modern Indian History & Freedom Struggle for General Studies and GK preparation of SSC, NDA, CDS, UPSC, UPPSC and State PSC Examinations.
1. Lord Ripon appointed Hunter commission for:
[A] combating terrorism and other anti-national activities
[B] educational reforms in India
[C] appointment of Indian Judges in higher judiciary
[D] None of the Above
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Correct Answer: B [educational reforms in India ]
Notes:
Lord Ripon appointed the Education Commission on February 3, 1882 under the Chairmanship of Sir William Hunter, a member of the Executive Council of Viceroy. The commission recommended changes to be brought in primary and secondary education in India for educational reform in country.
2. The ‘Tebhega’ movement of 1946 is associated with which among the following current states of India?
[A] Andhra Pradesh
[B] West Bengal
[C] Bihar
[D] Odishna
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Correct Answer: B [West Bengal]
Notes:
The Tebhaga movement was led by the share croppers of the Bengal region against the oppressive jotedars in 1946-47. The uprising was due to the share cropping system that prevailed in the Bengal.
3. Who among the following founded the Madras Labour Union?
[A] Subodh Banerjee
[B] B.P. Wadia.
[C] Lala Lajpat Rai
[D] Bharat Bhushan Pandey
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Correct Answer: B [B.P. Wadia.]
Notes:
The first Trade Union of India was Madras Labour Union which was founded in 1918 by B.P. Wadia along with V. Kalyanasundaram Mudaliar
4. Which among the following was the first registered Trade Union of India ?
[A] Hindu Mazdoor Sabha
[B] Bhartiya Mazdoor Sangh
[C] Madras Labour Union
[D] United Trade Union Congress
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Correct Answer: C [Madras Labour Union]
Notes:
The first registered Trade Union of India was Madras Labour Union which was founded in 1918 by B.P. Wadia along with V. Kalyanasundaram Mudaliar.
5. In which year, first census was conducted in India ?
[A] 1884
[B] 1872
[C] 1881
[D] 1891
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Correct Answer: B [1872]
Notes:
The first census was conducted in India in 1872, but regular census started in 1881.
6. Which among the following events took place immediately before the massacre at Jallianwalla Bagh?
[A] Partition of Bengal
[B] llbert Bill
[C] Passage of the Rowlatt Act
[D] Minto-Morley Reforms
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Correct Answer: C [Passage of the Rowlatt Act]
7. With reference to the relations of the Princely states with British Crown, which among the following report said that “Paramountcy must remain paramount”?
[A] Hunter Commission Report
[B] Strachey Commission Report
[C] Butler Commission Report
[D] Campbell Commission Report
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Correct Answer: C [Butler Commission Report]
Notes:
A three -member committee headed by Harcourt Butler, appointed on December 16, 1927 to examine the relations between the native states and the paramount power, declined to define what paramountcy was but clearly and fortrightly stated that “paramountcy must remain paramount”. The committee fully endorsed that the viceroy, not the governor general should remain the Crown agent in dealing with the native states. In fact the right to protect includes right to internal intervention. Paramountcy is the supreme sovereign power which was kept above the reach of law and interpretation, to be exercised at the appropriate time subject to resiraints of morality and constitutional propriety against an erring ruler of a native statewhen other correctional means had proved to be futile. It is a concept developed into a deterrent in the political relation between the British and the Indian rulers.
8. Fatehchand (one of the traitors of Plassey) was bestowed with the title of Jagath Seth by __?
[A] Alivardi Khan
[B] Sirajuddaula
[C] Mir Zafar
[D] Muhammad Shah
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Correct Answer: D [Muhammad Shah]
Notes:
Fatehchand was adopted son of Manik Chand. He obtained the title of “Seth” from the Emperor Farrakhsiyar. Muhammad Shah bestowed him with the title of “Jagat Seth”.
9. Which among the following British men tried to obtain a Firman for trade in Gujarat from Emperor Akbar?
[A] Ralph Fitch
[B] John Mildenhall
[C] Sir Thomas Roe
[D] Thomas Stephens
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Correct Answer: B [John Mildenhall]
Notes:
John Mildenhall was a British explorer and adventurer and one of the first to make an overland journey to India. He was the self-styled ambassador of the British East India Company in India. His is the first recorded burial of an Englishman in India. He bluffed in Akbar’s court that he was Her Britannic Majesty’s ambassador. Though he was admitted in the Durbar of Akbar, so that he became the first Englishman privileged to be received by the Great Mughal; yet he could never win the confidence of the Mughal Emperor. Portuguese Jesuits played to keep him or English away from the Mughals.
10. The British East India Company ceased to be a trading Company via which among the following legislation?
[A] Pitts India Act of 1784
[B] Charter Act of 1833
[C] Charter Act of 1813
[D] Government of India Act 1858
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Correct Answer: B [Charter Act of 1833]
Notes:
The charter act 1833: It is considered to be an attempt to codify all Indian Laws. The Governor General of Bengal now became the The Governor General of India. One of the Provision of this act – “the East India Company now lost its trading privilege i.e., tea and monopoly in China ,henceforth it became a purely administrative body under the crown.”
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