Indian History MCQ GK Set-8

Indian History MCQ GK Set-8

Q.1 Which of the following incident compelled Mahatma Gandhi to withdraw the nation’s cooperation from the British Government?

A. Jallianwala Bagh Massacre

B. Hanging of Bhagat Singh

C. Passing of Rowlatt Act

D. Both A and C

Answer: A. Both A & C

Q.2 Which of the following incident led to withdrawal of the Non-Cooperation Movement?

A. Chauri Chaura Incident

B. Khilafat Movement

C. Introduction of Civil Disobedience Movement

D. None of these

Answer: A. Chauri Chaura Incident

Note: The Chauri Chaura incident took place on 4 February 1922 at Chauri Chaura in the Gorakhpur district of the United Provinces (modern-day Uttar Pradesh), where protesters has clashed with policemen leading to death and Gandhi was against of violence.

Q.3 Which of the following is CORRECT about the Quit India Movement?

I. It was launched by Mahatma Gandhi on the Bombay Session of the All India Congress

II. It was launched on 9th August, 1942

III. It was started after the failure of Cripps’ Mission

A. Only I

B. Only II

C. Only III

D. I, II & III

Answer: D. I, II and III

Note: Cripps’ Mission was a mission to negotiate with the Indian National Congress a deal to obtain total co-operation during the World War II.

Q.4 Which of the following is the another name of the Quit India Movement?

A. August Movement

B. Purna Swaraj Movement

C. Cripps’ Movement

D. World War Movement

Answer: A. August Movement

Note: The Quit India Movement was also known as “August Kranti or August Movement” as it was started on 9th August, 1942.

Q.5 Who among the following is recognized as the youngest martyr of the Quit India Movement?

A. Kanaklata Barua

B. Tileswari Barua

C. Bhagat Singh

D. None of these

Answer: B. Tileswari Barua

Note: Tileswari Barua of Dhekiajuli, Assam died hoisting the national flag at the age of 12.

Q.6 Who among the following had given the slogan “Do or Die” at the Bombay session of the All India Congress and ratified the Quit India Movement?

A. Subhash Chandra Bose

B. Jawaharlal Nehru

C. Mahatma Gandhi

D. Vallabhbhai Patel

Answer: C. Mahatma Gandhi

Q.7 Who among the following was NOT a organizing member of the Champaran Satyagraha, the first Satyagraha led by Gandhi?

A. Jawaharlal Nehru

B. Rajendra Prasad

C. J.B. Kripalani

D. Brajkishore Prasad

Answer: A. Jawaharlal Nehru

Q.8 Who among the following has written the book “Poverty and Un-British Rule in India”, that brought the theory of wealth-drain to British?

A. Jawaharlal Nehru

B. Gopal Krishna Gokhale

C. Bal Gangadhar Tilak

D. Dadabhai Naroji

Answer: D. Dadabhai Naroji

Q.9 Who among the following is known as the “Beacon of light of Asia”?

A. Subhash Chandra Bose

B. Mahatma Gandhi

C. Dayananda Saraswati

D. Dadabhai Naroji

Answer: A. Subhash Chandra Bose

Q.10 The first Indian National Army was formed under who among the following?

A. Subhash Chandra Bose

B. Mohan Singh

C. Jaganath Rao Bhonsale

D. Prem Sahgal

Answer: B. Mohan Singh

Indian History MCQ GK Set-7

Indian History MCQ GK Set-7

Q.1 Who among the following is known as the “Grand Old Man of India”?

A. Dadabhai Naroji

B. Bal Gangadhar Tilak

C. Motilal Nehru

D. Gopal Krishna Gokhale

Answer: A. Dadabhai Naroji

Note: Dadabhai Naroji was known as the “Grand Old Man of India” and “Unofficial Ambassador of India”.

Q.2 Who among the following  was the first Asian to became a British Member of Parliament?

A. Motilal Nehru

B. Annie Besant

C. Dadabhai Naroji

D. Jawaharlal Nehru

Answer: C. Dadabhai Naroji

Note: Dadabhai Naroji was a Liberal Party Member of Parliament for Finsbury Central in the United Kingdom House of Commons between 1892 and 1895.

Q.3 Who among the following was the founding president of the Indian National Congress?

A. Dadabhai Naroji

B. Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee

C. George Yule

D. Gopal Krishna Gokhale

Answer: B. Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee

Q.4 Who among the following is NOT a founding member of the Indian National Congress?

A. Dadabhai Naroji

B. Lalmohan Ghosh

C. Surendranath Banerjee

D. Mahatma Gandhi

Answer: D. Mahatma Gandhi

Note: In 1885, Dadabhai Naroji, Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee, Surendranath Banerjee, A.C. Hume, Monomohun Ghose, Badaruddin Tyabji, M.G. Rande and others formed the Indian National Congress.

Q.5 Mahatma Gandhi became the president of the Indian National congress in which of the following year?

A. 1919

B. 1924

C. 1934

D. 1940

Answer: B. 1924

Q.6 Who among the following is the founder-leader of the Swaraj Party?

A. Motilal Nehru

B. Chittaranjan Das

C. Gopal Krishna Gokhale

D. Mahatma Gandhi

Answer: B. Chittaranjan Das

Note: Chittaranjan Das and Motilal Nehru founded the Swaraj Part of the Congress-Khilafat Swaraj Party on 1st January, 1923.

Q.7 Who among the following was the first Indian Native to be appointed as a Judge?

A. Madhav Govind Ranade

B. Thiruvarur Muthuswamy Iyer

C. Pramada Charan Banerjee

D. None of these

Answer: B. Thiruvarur Muthuswamy Iyer

Note: Thiruvarur Muthuswamy Iyer became the first Indian native judge on 1877 at the Madras High Court and he  also acted as the Chief Justice of the Madras High Court in 1893.

Q.8 Who among the following used the term “Swaraj” for self-governance for the first time in India?

A. Maharshi Dayananda Saraswati

B. Dadabhai Naroji

C. Mahatma Gandhi

D. Jayprakash Narayan

Answer: A. Maharshi Dayananda Saraswati

Q.9 Which among the following is CORRECT about the Birla House?

I. The house was built in 1928 by Ghanshyamdas Birla.

II. It was purchased by the Government of India in 1971.

III. On 15 August 1973, renamed the Gandhi Smriti.

A. Only I

B. Only II

C. Both I & III

D. I, II & III

Answer: D. I, II & III

Q.10 Which of the following event compelled Rabindranath Tagore to denounce Knighthood?

A. Massacre of Jallianwala Bagh

B. Hanging of Bhagat Singh

C. Lathi charge on Lala Lajpat Rai that caused his death

D. None of these

Answer: A. Massacre of Jallianwala Bagh

Indian History MCQ GK Set-6

Indian History MCQ GK Set-6

Q.1 Which of the following is the first printed newspaper of India?

A. Bengal Gazette

B. New India

C. The Times of India

D. None of these

Answer: A. Bengal Gazette

Note: An Irishman called James Augustus Hicky gave Calcutta and India its first printed newspaper in 1780 called as Bengal Gazette.

Q.2 Which of the following newspaper was published by Annie Besant to highlight the India’s freedom struggle?

A. The Time of India

B. New India

C. The Indian Express

D. None of these

Answer: B. New India

Q.3 Which among the following event inspired the formation of the Indian Home Rule League?

A. World War I

B. The Government of India Act, 1909

C. World War II

D. None of these

Answer: A. World War I

Q.4 Who among the following found the first home rule league in India?

A. Bal Gangadhar Tilak

B. Annie Besant

C. Mahatma Gandhi

D. Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Answer: A. Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Note: Bal Gangadhar Tilak organized the first home rule league of India at the Bombay province, then after this Annie Besant founded second league at Adyar Madras in September 1916.

Q.5 Mahatma Gandhi formed the Satyagraha Sabha in order to protest against:

A. Rowlatt Act

B. The Government of India Act, 1919

C. Both A & B

D. None of these

Answer: A. Rowlatt Act

Q.6 Mahatma Gandhi formed the Satyagraha Sabha in which of the following location?

A. Poona

B. Anand

C. Bombay

D. Calcutta

Answer: C. Bombay

Q.7 For which of the following reason, Khilafat movement started in India?

A. To protest against the sanctions placed on the caliph in Ottoman Empire

B. To protest against the injustice done to Muslims of Persia

C. To protest against the injustice done to Muslims of Arab

D. None of these

Answer: A. To protest against the sanctions placed on the caliph in Ottoman Empire, Modern day Turkey

Q.8 Which among the following is CORRECT about the Bardoli Satyagraha?

I. It was started in Gujarat

II. It was led by Mahatma Gandhi

III. It was led by Vallabhbhai Patel

IV. It was started on June, 1928

A. Only I

B. Both I & II

C. Both I & III

D. I, III & IV

Answer: D. I, III & IV

Q.9 Which among the following is considered as the first popular Satyagraha movement?

A. Champaran Satyagraha

B. Bardoli Satyagraha

C. Kheda Satyagraha

D. None of these

Answer: A. Champaran Satyagraha

Q.10 Who among the following is described as the Gandhi’s Boswell?

A. Gopal Krishna Gokhale

B. Mahadev Desai

C. Mohanlal Pandya

D. Vallabhbhai Patel

Answer: B. Mahadev Desai

Note: Mahadev Desai, the personal secretary to Mahatma Gandhi is popularly described as “Gandhi’s Boswell, a Plato to Gandhi’s Socrates, as well as an Ananda to Gandhi’s Buddha”.

Indian History MCQ GK Set-5

Indian History MCQ GK Set-5

Q.1 The Negotiable Instrument Act of British Raj, which is still largely unchanged, came into force in which of the following year?

A.1881

B. 1860

C. 1862

C. 1870

Answer: A. 1881

Q.2 Which of the following Government of India Act demolished the law “Governor-General of India also serve as the Governor of Bengal?

A. The Government of India Act, 1858

B. Government of India Act, 1912

C. Government of India Act, 1915

D. Government of India Act, 1919

Answer: B. Government of India Act, 1912

Note: The Governor-General of Bengal was made Governor-General of India under the Charter’s Act, 1833.

Q.3 Diarchy system in India was introduced by which of the following Government of India Act?

A. Government of India Act, 1912

B. Government of India Act, 1915

C. Government of India Act, 1919

D. Government of India Act, 1935

Answer: C. Government of India Act, 1919

Q.4 Which of the following act is considered to bring Mahatma Gandhi into the mainstream independence struggle?

A. The Government of India Act, 1915

B. Defence  of India Act of 1915

C. The Government of India Act, 1919

D. Rowlatt Act, 1919

Answer: D. Rowlatt Act, 1919

Note: The Anarchical and Revolutionary Crimes Act of 1919 was popularly known as the Rowlatt Act. The British colonial government passed the Rowlatt Act which gave powers to the police to arrest any person without any reason whatsoever in order to curb the growing nationalist upsurge in the country. Gandhi called upon the people to perform Satyagraha against the act.

Q.5 The Indian Partnership Act, 1932 deals with which of the following?

A. Marriage of partners living together

B. Partnership firms

C. Partnership with neighboring countries

D. None of these

Answer: B. Partnership firms

Q.6 Which of the following act is considered as the longest act of the British Parliament, before suppressed by the Greater London Authority Act, 1999?

A. The Government of India Act, 1935

B. Indian Telegraph Act, 1885

C. Indian Press Act, 1910

D. Indian Forest Act, 1927

Answer: A. The Government of India Act, 1935

Q.7 Which of the following act of British Raj established the Reserve Bank of India?

A. The Government of India Act, 1935

B. The Government of India Act, 1919

C. The Government of India Act, 1915

D. The Government of India Act, 1912

Answer: A. The Government of India Act, 1935

Note: The Government of India Act, 1935 led to establishment of RBI, federal court in 1937, establishment of Public Service Commission and bicameral legislature 6 provinces out of 11 provinces. The provinces where bicameral legislature was established are Madras, Assam, Bengal, Bihar, Bombay and Union provinces.

Q.8 On which of the following date, the Indian Independence Act of 1947 received the Royal Assent?

A. 14th August, 1947

B. 13th August, 1947

C. 18th July, 1947

C. 12th August, 1947

Answer: C. 18th July, 1947

Q.9 Which of the following act is known as the Morley-Minto Reforms?

A. The Government of India Act, 1912

B. The Government of India Act, 1915

C. Official Secrets Act, 1923

D. The Indian Councils Act, 1909

Answer: D. The Indian Councils Act, 1909

Note: The Indian Councils Act, 1909 or popularly known as the Morley-Minto Reforms brought about a limited increase in the involvement of Indians in the governance of British India.

Q.10 The foreigners act, that empowers the Indian government to detain a person until deportation back to their country of origin came into force in which of the following year?

A. 1947

B. 1946

C. 1919

D. 1923

Answer: B. 1946

Indian History MCQ Set-4

Indian History MCQ Set-4

Q.1 Which of the following act of the East India Company paved to way to ship opium from India to China?

A. Charter Act, 1793

B. Charter Act, 1813

C. Charter Act, 1833

D. None of these

Answer: A. Charter Act, 1793

Q.2 Which of the following Charter Act had made the Governor-General of Bengal the Governor-General of India?

A. Charter Act, 1793

B. Charter Act, 1813

C. Charter Act, 1833

D. None of these

Answer: C. Charter Act, 1833

Q.3 Which of the following act of East India Company laid the central administration in India?

A. Charter Act, 1793

B. The Regulation Act, 1773

C. The Settlement Act, 1781

D. None of these

Answer: B. The Regulation Act, 1773

Q.4 The Bengal Regulation III of 1818 is related to:

A. Detention of individual on suspension of criminal intent without having to commit the detainee to trial

B. Creation of East Bengal Province

C. Appointment of Governor-General of Bengal as the Governor-General of India

D. None of these

Answer: A. Detention of individual on suspension of criminal intent without having to commit the detainee to trial

Note: The Bengal Regulation III of 1818 is also known as the Bengal State Prisoners Regulation, III of 1818

Q.5 Which of the following act of the East India Company made the practice of Sati illegal in all jurisdictions of India and subject to prosecution?

A. The Regulations Act, 1773

B. The Bengal Sati Regulation, 1829

C. The Settlement Act, 1781

D. None of these

Answer: B. The Bengal Sati Regulation, 1829

Q.6 Who was the Governor-General of India when the The Bengal Sati Regulation, 1829 came into force?

A. Lord William Bentinck

B. Lord Dalhouise

C. Lord Auckland

D. None of these

Answer: A. Lord William Bentinck

Q.7 The Societies Registration Act, which is still in force with certain amendment, was published in which of the following year?

A. 1860

B. 1815

C. 1870

D. 1905

Answer: A. 1860

Q.8 The Caste Disabilities Removal Act of East India Company was published in which of the following year?

A. 1845

B. 1850

C. 1853

D. 1854

Answer: B. 1850

Note: The Caste Disabilities Removal Act, 1850, was a law passed in British India under East India Company rule, that abolished all laws affecting the rights of people converted to another religion or caste, specially in case of inheritance.

Q.9 The Repealing and Amending Act, 1952 repealed which of the East India Company law for slavery practice in India?

A. The Regulation Act, 1781

B. The Indian Slavery Act, 1843

C. The Charter’s Act, 1833

D. None of these

Answer: B. The Indian Slavery Act, 1843

Q.10 The Hindu Widow Remarriage act, which legalized the remarriage of the Hindu widow within the rule of the East India Company was published in which of the following year?

A. 1853

B. 1857

C. 1855

D. 1856

Answer: D. 1856