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This set of History of the Modern India Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on History Of The Modern India Set 4

Q1 | DadabhaiNaoroji’s book ‘poverty and un British rule in India’ published in…………. analysed the nature of the British rule in India.
  • 1898
  • 1901
  • 1908
  • 1946
Q2 | …………… is the acknowledged high priest of the drain theory.
  • dadabhainaoroji
  • s n bose
  • j.n. ghosh
  • j.n.mukherjee
Q3 | ………………., 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.
  • lord curzon
  • lord rippon
  • lord hastings
  • wellesley
Q4 | The spark for the Swadeshi Movement was the ………….decision to partitionBengal.
  • french
  • british
  • dutch
  • portuguese
Q5 | The partition of Bengal had to be annulled in …………….
  • 1907
  • 1911
  • 1928
  • 1929
Q6 | The inauguration of the Ganapati and Shivaji Festivals was done by ……….
  • tilak
  • panditmadan mohan malaviya
  • shyamaprasadmukherjee
  • j.n.mukherjee
Q7 | The Ganapati festival was started in ………….
  • 1792
  • 1793
  • 1893
  • 1904
Q8 | The first Shivaji festival was held at Raigarh in …………..
  • 1890
  • 1892
  • 1895
  • 1899
Q9 | Hindu Mahasabha was founded in …………….. .
  • 1901
  • 1906
  • 1915
  • 1925
Q10 | Muslim League established in December ………..
  • 1901
  • 1902
  • 1906
  • 1946
Q11 | 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.
  • dhaka
  • shahbag
  • simla
  • bengal
Q12 | ………. made a whirlwind tour of the country in 1916 and in his speeches he said,"Swaraj is my birthright and I will have it.
  • tilak
  • mahatma gandhi
  • gokhale
  • jawaharlal nehru
Q13 | Who preached the idea of Home Rule through his two news papers - the Kesari andthe Maratha?
  • gokhale
  • annie besant
  • tilak
  • jawaharlal nehru
Q14 | Champaran Satyagraha was in ……………..
  • gujarat
  • bombay
  • bihar
  • madras
Q15 | Champaran Satyagraha was led by …………….
  • amareshchakravarty
  • pulinbeharisarkar
  • gandhi
  • patel
Q16 | Kheda Satyagraha……………………….
  • gujarat
  • calcutta
  • thana
  • malabar
Q17 | In……….., the First National Trade union organization (The All India Trade UnionCongress (AITUC)) was established.
  • 1904
  • 1908
  • 1917
  • 1920
Q18 | PazhassiSamarangal (Malayalam) was written by …………
  • k.k.n.kurup
  • bhattacharya sabya
  • k.k.kusuman
  • b.sobhanan
Q19 | Against Lord and State was written by ………..
  • sumitsarkar
  • r.c.majumdar
  • panikkar k.n
  • k.k.n.kurup
Q20 | Who of the following Governor Generals is associated with Subsidiary AllianceSysten?
  • lord cornwallies
  • lord wellesley
  • lord mayo
  • lord delhousie
Q21 | Who was the first Governor General of India?
  • warren hastings
  • williambentick
  • lord delhousie
  • lord canning
Q22 | Who was the first Viceroy of India?
  • robert clive
  • william bentick
  • lorddelhousie
  • lord canning
Q23 | The title of ‘Viceroy’ was added to the centre of the Governor-General of India forthe first time in
  • 1848 a.d
  • 1858 a.d
  • 1862 a.d
  • 1856 a.d
Q24 | My Experiments with Truth is the work of ……….
  • mahatma gandhi
  • tarachand
  • shankarlal banker
  • mahadev desai
Q25 | Who is the author of ‘Social Background of Indian Nationalism’?
  • a.r.desai
  • dharam kumar
  • ray chaudhuri
  • k.rajayyan