History - Indian National Movements (1900 - 1947 A.D)

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Question - 1

Consider the following statement and identify with the help of the codes given below the Viceroy who made the statement and when:
In my belief, Congress is tottering to its fall and one of my great ambitions while in India is to assist it to a peaceful demise.

  • A Lord Curzon, in a letter to the Secretary of States in 1900
  • B Lord Curzon, while announcing the partition of Bengal
  • C Lord Dufferin, during the farewell speech at Calcutta
  • D Lord Minto, while addressing the Muslim delegation which met him at Shimla in 1906

Question - 2

Match the List-I with List-II and select the correct answer:

List I List II
A. The Indian struggle 1. VP Menon
B. India in Transition 2. MN Roy
C. Wake Up India 3. Annie Besant
D. Transfer of Power in India 4. Subhash Chandra Bose
  5. Jawaharlal Nehru
  • A A B C D 1 2 3 4
  • B A B C D 1 5 2 4
  • C A B C D 4 5 2 1
  • D A B C D 4 2 3 1

Question - 3

Which among the following was the most immediate factor for the spread of Swadeshi and boycott of foreign goods during the first decade of the last century?

  • A Curzon's design to curtail the sphere of local self-government.
  • B Curzon's attempt to control the Universities.
  • C Curzon's Partition of Bengal
  • D Curzon's plan to curb the growing popularity of the Indian National Congress

Question - 4

Who of the following took the burning of the foreign clothes during the Non-Cooperation Movement as 'insensate waste'?

  • A  Rabindra Nath Tagore 
  • B  Mohammad Ali Jinnah
  • C  Lord Reading 
  • D Moti Lal Nehru

Question - 5

List I with List II and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists

List I (Event) List II (Result)
A. Morley-Minto Reforms 1. Country-wise agitation
B. Simon Commission 2. Withdrawal of a movement
C. The Chauri-Chaura Incident    3. Communal electorates
D. The Dandi March 4. Communal outbreaks
  5. Illegal manufacture of salt
  • A A B C D 3 4 5 2
  • B A B C D 4 1 2 3
  • C A B C D 2 3 4 5
  • D A B C D 3 1 2 5

Question - 6

consider the following events with reference to India's Freedom Movement
1. First Round Table Conference
2. Poona Pact 
3. Simon Commission
4. Gandhi-Irwin Pact
The correct chronological sequence of these events is

  • A 1,3,2,4
  • B 3,1,2,4
  • C 1,3,4,2
  • D 3,1,4,2

Question - 7

An important aspect of the Cripps Mission of 1942 was

  • A that all Indian States Should join the Indian Union as a condition to consider any degree of autonomy for India
  • B the creation of an Indian Union with Dominion status very soon after the Second World War
  • C the active participation and cooperation of the Indian people, communities and political parties in the British war effort as a condition for granting independence with full sovereign status to India after war
  • D the framing of a Consitution for the entire Indian Union, with no separate Consitution for any province and a Union Constitution to be accepted by all provinces

Question - 8

Which one of the following was a revolutionary who later turned into a yogi and a philosopher?

  • A Bal Gangadhar Tilak
  • B Aurobindo Ghosh
  • C Lala Lajpat Raj
  • D Agarkar

Question - 9

What is the correct sequence of the following events? 
1. Rowlatt Act
2. Gandhi-Irwin Pact
3. Morley-Minto Reforms
4. IIbert Bill
select the correct answer using the codes given below:

  • A 1-2-4-3
  • B 4-3-1-2
  • C 4-1-3-2
  • D 3-4-1-2

Question - 10

Delhi became the capital of India in :

  • A 1910
  • B 1911
  • C 1916
  • D 1923