Modern Indian History MCQs for Competitive Examination
Q. 151
First census was done in India in the year
(A) 1872
(B) 1871
(C) 1881
(D) 1861
Answer: (A) 1872
Explanation: N/A
Q. 152
First Indian to get selected in Indian Civil Service (ICS) was
(A) Satyendranath Tagore
(B) Sarojini Naidu
(C) Subhas Chandra Bose
(D) Surendranath Bannerjee
Answer: (A) Satyendranath Tagore
Explanation: N/A
Q. 153
First census of India was conducted during the time of which viceroy?
(A) Lord Dalhousie
(B) Lord Mayo
(C) Lord Dufferin
(D) Lord Curzon
Answer: (B) Lord Mayo
Explanation: N/A
Q. 154
The only Viceroy of India to be murdered in office was
(A) Lord Lytton
(B) Lord Mayo
(C) Lord Lansdowne
(D) Lord Northbrook
Answer: (B) Lord Mayo
Explanation: N/A
Q. 155
Who among the following was elected thrice as the president of Indian National Congress?
(A) Surendranath Bannerjee
(B) Pherozshah Mehta
(C) Dadabhai Naoroji
(D) Mahatma Gandhi
Answer: (C) Dadabhai Naoroji
Explanation: N/A
Q. 156
Who among the following leaders of the Indian National Congress was not known to be a moderate leader?
(A) Badruddin Tayebji
(B) M. G. Ranade
(C) W. C. Bannerjee
(D) Bipin Chandra Pal
Answer: (D) Bipin Chandra Pal
Explanation: N/A
Q. 157
Who is famously known as the father of Local Self Government?
(A) Lord Ripon
(B) Lord Lytton
(C) Lord Curzon
(D) Lord Cornwallis
Answer: (A) Lord Ripon
Explanation: N/A
Q. 158
Who appointed the ‘Hunter Commission‘ for Educational reforms in 1882?
(A) Lord Canning
(B) Lord Ripon
(C) Lord Curzon
(D) Lord Reading
Answer: (B) Lord Ripon
Explanation: N/A
Q. 159
Who told that Indian National Congress represents only a microscopic minority?
(A) Lord Dufferin
(B) Winston Churchill
(C) Lord Curzon
(D) B. G. Tilak
Answer: (A) Lord Dufferin
Explanation: N/A
Q. 160
Who passed the Vernacular Press Act, 1878?
(A) Lord Ripon
(B) Lord Curqon
(C) Lord Lytton
(D) Lord Chelmsford
Answer: (C) Lord Lytton
Explanation: N/A
Q. 161
Who said, ‘Swaraj is my Birth Right and I will have it‘?
(A) Subhas Chandra Bose
(B) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(C) Sri Aurobindo Ghosh
(D) Motilal Nehru
Answer: (B) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Explanation: N/A
Q. 162
Who was the viceroy of India when the Indian University Act, 1904 was passed?
(A) Lord Lansdowne
(B) Lord Curzon
(C) Lord Chelmsford
(D) Lord Ripon
Answer: (B) Lord Curzon
Explanation: N/A
Q. 163
Who is popularly known as ‘Lokmanya‘?
(A) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(B) Jayprakash Narayan
(C) C. F. Andrews
(D) Lala Lajpat Rai
Answer: (A) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Explanation: N/A
Q. 164
Who among the following never became the president of Indian National Congress?
(A) Mahatma Gandhi
(B) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(C) Gopoalkrishna Gokhale
(D) Subhas Chandra Bose
Answer: (A) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Explanation: N/A
Q. 165
“The Congress is tottering to its fall, and one of my great ambitions, while in India is to assist it to a peaceful demise.” Who made this statement?
(A) Aurobindo Ghosh
(B) Lord Dufferin
(C) Lord Lytton
(D) Lord Curzon
Answer: (D) Lord Curzon
Explanation: N/A
Q. 166
Which among the following was the only INC session presided over by Mahatma Gandhi?
(A) Kanpur, 1925
(B) Lucknow, 1916
(C) Belgaum, 1924
(D) Nagpur, 1920
Answer: (C) Belgaum, 1024
Explanation: N/A
Q. 167
Who published newspapers Kesari and Maratha during India’s freedom movement?
(A) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(B) Mahatma Gandhi
(C) Bipin Chandra Pal
(D) Sri Aurobindo Ghosh
Answer: (A) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Explanation: N/A
Q. 168
Who wrote the book ‘Gita Rahasya‘?
(A) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(B) Aswini Kumar Dutta
(C) Rabindranath Tagore
(D) C. Rajagopalchari
Answer: (A) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Explanation: N/A
Q. 169
What was the capital of the Mauryan empire?
(A) Varanasi
(B) Vaishali
(C) Ujjain
(D) Pataliputra
Answer: (D) Pataliputra
Explanation: N/A
Q. 170
Which of the following statement about Congress is/are correct?
- The first session of INC was held at Gakuldas Tejpal Sanskrit College in Bombay.
- The first session of INC was presided over by Dadabhai Naoroji.
- The first session was attended by 72 delegates.
(A) 1 and 2
(B) Only 1
(C) 1 and 3
(D) 1, 2 and 3
Answer: (C) 1 and 3
Explanation: N/A
Q. 171
How many delegates attended the first session of the Indian National Congress?
(A) 72
(B) 325
(C) 92
(D) 74
Answer: (A) 72
Explanation: N/A
Q. 172
All India Muslim League was founded in the year
(A) 1902
(B) 1906
(C) 1915
(D) 1895
Answer: (B) 1906
Explanation: N/A
Q. 173
Who was the first General Secretary of Indian National Congress?
(A) Gopalkrishna Gokhale
(B) Dadabhai Naoroji
(C) Allan Octavian Hume
(D) George Yule
Answer: (C) Allan Octavian Hume
Explanation: N/A
Q. 174
Who was the first Indian woman to become the president of Indian National Congress?
(A) Sarojini Naidu
(B) Sucheta Kripalni
(C) Annie Beasant
(D) Aruna Asaf Ali
Answer: (A) Sarojini Naidu
Explanation: N/A
Q. 175
Who founded the English Weekly ‘New India‘?
(A) Annie Beasant
(B) Lala Lajpat Rai
(C) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(D) Bipin Chandra Pal
Answer: (D) Bipin Chandra Pal
Explanation: N/A
Q. 176
Who presided over the famous Tripuri session of Congress?
(A) Subhas Chandra Bose
(B) Jawaharlal Nehru
(C) Rajendra Prasad
(D) Abul Kalam Azad
Answer: (A) Subhas Chandra Bose
Explanation: N/A
Q. 177
Who presided over the Lahore session of Muslim League (1940)?
(A) Liyaqat Ali
(B) Muhammad Iqbal
(C) Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
(D) M. A. Jinnah
Answer: (D) M. A. Jinnah
Explanation: N/A
Q. 178
Who was the founder of ‘All India Muslim League’?
(A) M. A. Jinnah
(B) Nawab Salimullah
(C) Aga Khan
(D) Liaquat Ali Khan
Answer: (B) Nawab Salimullah
Explanation: N/A
Q. 179
The father of extremist movement in India is
(A) Motilal Nehru
(B) Vallabhbhai Patel
(C) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(D) Gopalkrishna Gokhale
Answer: (C) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Explanation: N/A
Q. 180
Who started the newspaper ‘Vande Mataram‘?
(A) Bipin Chandra Pal
(B) Aurobindo Ghosh
(C) Lala Lajpat Rai
(D) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Answer: (A) Bipin Chandra Pal
Explanation: N/A