Modern India Previous Questions

1. When 177 freedom fighters were convicted to be hanged in the Chouri-choura case who appeared before the court and got acquitted 156 freedom fighters?

Ans: Madan Mohan Malavya

2. When did Gandhiji get his head shaved, discard his clothes and settle for a loin cloth?

Ans: 1921

3. When did Gandhiji write the 'Green Pamphlet'?

Ans: 1896

4. When India celebrated independence on August 15, 1947 Gandhiji was in:

Ans: Kolkata (Navkhali)

5. When the First World War broke out and England declared war against Germany, who said 'England's need is India's opportunity'?

Ans: Annie Besant

6. The war broke out in India because of the Seven Years War between the French and the English in Europe:

Ans: The Third Carnatic War

7. The First Anglo-Afghan War (also known as Auckland's Folly) was fought between British India and Afghanistan from 1839 to ____.

Ans: 1842.

8. The Viceroy who was resigned after the Afghan issue in 1876:

Ans: Northbrook

9. The weapon used by Godse to assassinate Gandhili?

Ans: Beretta pistol

10. The Whitley Commission was concerned with:

Ans: Labour

11. Name of wife of Gandhiji:

Ans: Kasturba

12. The woman leader when she was arrested under the Defence of India Act in 1917, the American President Woodrow Wilson intervened for her release:

Ans: Annie Besant

13. The year of Bardoli Satyagraha led by Sardar Patel:

Ans: 1928

14. The year of Chauri-Chaura incident which compelled Gandhiji to repeal Non co-operation movement:

Ans: 1922

15. The year of foundation of Muslim League:

Ans: 1906

16. What was Gandhiji's father popularly known as?

Ans: Kaba Gandhi

17. What was Gandhili's grandfather popularly known as?

Ans: Ota Gandhi

18. The year of Jallianwala Bagh Tragedy:

Ans: 1919

19. Which battle is considered as a part of Seven Years War?

Ans: Plassey

20. The District Magistrate who was murdered in 1855 by violent Mappilas who stormed his bunglow:

Ans: H.V. Connolly

21. What was the real name of Bahadur Shah I, who emerged victorious in the war of succession after Aurangazeb?

Ans: Muazzam

22. When did slavery in British India end?

Ans: 1833

23. When was the Treaty of Alinagar signed?

Ans: February 1757

24. The year of Sharda Act:

Ans: 1929

25. The year of the First War of Indian Independence:

Ans: 1857

26. The year of the Round Table Conference in which Gandhiji attended:

Ans: 1931

27. The Indian revolutionary who participated in Mainpuri Conspiracy of 1918, and the Kakori conspiracy of 1925, and was awarded death sentence along with Ashfaqulla Khan:

Ans: Ram Prasad Bismil

28. The ____ which was formed in November 1927 by the British Government to chart and conclude a Constitution for India, included members of the British Parliament only.

Ans: Simon Commission

29. Third Round Table Conference was held in:

Ans: 1932

30. Tirath Singh was the leader of:

Ans: Khasi uprising 1833

31. To which European power the Danes sold their settlements in 1845:

Ans: English

32. To which national leader's daughter does the book 'Bapu's Letters To Maniben' relate to?

Ans: Sardar Patel

33. To whom Jawaharlal Nehru dedicated his autobiography?

Ans: Kamala Nehru

34. Ulgulan was a movement of the:

Ans: Mundas

35. The year of Naval Mutiny:

Ans: 1946

36. Under whose leadership Hindustan Republican Association changed its title to Hindustan Socialist Republican Association?

Ans: Chandrasekhar Azad

37. V.D. Savarkar's work 'The Indian War of Independence' was published in:

Ans: 1909

38. Veda Samaj was founded in 1864 by:

Ans: Sridharalu Naidu

39. In which year Vernacular Press Act was passed?

Ans: 1878

40. Vishnu Shastri Chiplunkar was a nationalist writer in _____ during the struggle for freedom:

Ans: Marathi

41. Vivekananda attended the World Parliament of Religions at Chicago in:

Ans: 1893

42. What did the judge ask Gandhiji to do on the first day of his pleading in the court in South Africa?

Ans: To take off the turban

43. What does 'Inquilab Zindabad' means:

Ans: Long Live Revolution

44. What game did the captain of the ship teach Gandhiji on his way to South Africa?

Ans: Chess

45. The year of Poona Pact:

Ans: 1932

46. Under which title Gandhiji translated the book 'Unto This Last' of John Ruskin?

Ans: Sarvodaya

47. Under whose Chairmanship Indian Education Commission 1882 was appointed?

Ans: W.W. Hunter

48. What was prepared by Muhammad Ali Bluish in reply to the Nehru Report?

Ans: Fourteen Point Formula

49. What was the age of Gandhiji when he conducted the historic Dandi march?

Ans: 61

50. Under whose Governor Generalship it was decided that River Oxus should be fixed as a boundary between the Russian and British spheres of influence?

Ans: Lord Mayo