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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 5

Q1 | Author of ‘Culture ideology Hegemony Intellectual and Social consciousnessin Colonial India’ is ………
  • k.n.ganesh
  • k.n.panikkar
  • r.c. majumdar
  • herman kulke
Q2 | Author of Poverty and Un-British Rule in India is……………
  • romilathapar
  • irfanhabib
  • s.c.ghosh
  • naorojidadabhai
Q3 | Writing Social History is the book of …………
  • anialoomba
  • sumitsarkar
  • cohn bernard
  • ranajithguha
Q4 | The Peasant and the Raj is the work of ……….
  • eric stokes
  • a.r.desai
  • d.n.dhanagare
  • shirin mehta
Q5 | In the year 1919, the British Government passed a new rulecalled…………………, under which the Government had the authority and power toarrest people and keep them in prisons without any trial if they are suspected with thecharge of terrorism.
  • rowlatt act
  • trade union act
  • gandhi-irwin pact
  • minto-morley act
Q6 | The Rowlatt act was effective from 10th March,……………..
  • 1914
  • 1919
  • 1923
  • 1927
Q7 | In Punjab the protest movement was vast and strong.On 10th April, 1919 tworenowned leaders of the Congress, …………….and Dr. SaifuddinKithlew werearrested and were taken to unknown place.
  • mahatma gandhi
  • dr. satya pal
  • gopal krishna gokhale
  • rabindranath tagore
Q8 | A public meeting was held on 13th April 1919 at …………….in a small parkenclosed by buildings on all sides to protest against the arrest.
  • jallianwalabagh
  • uttar pradesh
  • mumbai
  • delhi
Q9 | Brigadier-General ………………with his British troops entered the park atJallianwalaBagh , closed the entrance of the park and commanded his army to fire onthe gathered people without any warning.
  • reginald dyer
  • sir stafford cripps
  • sir claude auchinleck
  • general sir rob lockhart.
Q10 | Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on 2nd October…………..
  • 1859
  • 1869
  • 1889
  • 1900
Q11 | After …………….came back to India from South Africa, where he worked asa barrister.
  • mahatma gandhi
  • rabindranath tagore
  • motilal nehru
  • gopalkrishna gokhale
Q12 | ………………….., who led the Congress party, introduced Mahatma Gandhito the concerns in India and the struggle of the people.
  • tejbahadursapru
  • rabindranath tagore
  • mohammad ali jinnah
  • gopal krishna gokhale
Q13 | A series of non-violence campaigns of Civil Disobedience Movement werelaunched by the Indian National Congress under the leadershipof……………………….
  • mohammad ali jinnah
  • mahatma gandhi
  • motilalnehru
  • sri aurobindo
Q14 | The Kheda Satyagraha and Champaran agitation in 1918 was one of……………….first significant steps to achieve Indian independence.
  • gandhi`s
  • rabindranath tagore’s
  • motilal nehru’s
  • mohammed ali jinnah’s
Q15 | Mahatma Gandhi went to Champaran in …………….in 1917 at the request ofthe poor peasants to enquire about the situation as they were compelled by Britishindigo planters to grow indigo on 15% of their land and part with the whole crop forrent.
  • bihar
  • gujarat
  • uttar pradesh
  • mumbai
Q16 | . …………………accorded Mahatma (Great Soul) title to Gandhi in the year1920.
  • mohammed ali jinnah
  • motilal nehru
  • rabindranath tagore
  • tilak
Q17 | The ……………….Era in the Indian Freedom Struggle took place with theNon Cooperation Movement.
  • gandhi
  • balgangadhartilak
  • sri aurobindo
  • gokhale
Q18 | Non Cooperation movement was led by ………………..and the IndianNational Congress.
  • motilal nehru
  • rabindranath tagore
  • mahatma gandhi
  • gokhale
Q19 | The Non Cooperation movement took place from September ……………..until February 1922.
  • 1914
  • 1917
  • 1920
  • 1921
Q20 | In the fight against injustice, ……………..weapons were non-cooperation andpeaceful resistance.
  • gandhi`s
  • rabindranath tagore
  • motilal nehru
  • tilak
Q21 | …………………. addressed all the Indians to wear Khadi (homespun cloth)instead of British-made textiles.
  • tilak
  • rabindranath tagore
  • mahatma gandhi
  • sukhdev
Q22 | ……………….. strongly appealed to all Indians to spend some time spinningkhadi for supporting the independence movement of India.
  • mahatma gandhi
  • rabindranath tagore
  • motilal nehru
  • sukhdev
Q23 | ……………….. urged to boycott the British educational institutions, to resignfrom government jobs, and to leave British titles.
  • mahatma gandhi
  • rabindranath tagore
  • sukhdev
  • qutubuddin ahmad
Q24 | Nobel laureate ……………….resigned the title knight from the British soonafter the Jalianwalabagh Massacre as a protest.
  • rabindranath tagore
  • balgangadhartilak
  • sri aurobindo
  • ems
Q25 | When the movement reached great success, it ended unexpectedly after theviolent clash at ChauriChaura in………………….
  • kashmir
  • delhi
  • bihar
  • uttar pradesh