RL MOD IND 1 Flashcards
●Pitts India Act of 1784 was a—
Regulating Act
●Which movement saw the biggest peasant guerillawar on the eve of independence?—
TelanganaMovement
●Under an agreement with which country did SubhashChandra Bose organize the Indian soldiers, takenas prisoners by the Axis Powers, into the AzadHind Fauj ?—
Japan
●Battle of Jamrud was fought between Sikhs andAfghans in April 1837 in which Afghans weredefeated but an important Sikh general was killed.Who was this Sikh General ?—
Hari Singh Nalwa
●Who was the first Muslim president of IndianNational Congress?—
Badruddin Tayabji
●Three Round Table Conferences were organized byBritish Government between 1930 and 1932 todiscuss the constitutional reform in India. Inwhich Round Table Conference did the Congressattended?—
Second
●Who was the Chairman of Drafting Committee ofIndian Constitution?—
B R Ambedkar
●Non-violence as taught and practised by MahatmaGandhi is rooted in the Indian Doctrine of—
Ahimsa
●Who was the founder of the Aligarh Movement ?—
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
●The Dandi March of Gandhi is an example of—
Direct Action
●Which war decided the fate of the French in India ?—
Battle of Wandiwash
“●For the annexation of which Indian Kingdom, the”“Doctrine of Lapse”” was not followed ?—”
Punjab
●The Government of India Act, 1935 was based on :—
Simon Commission
●Who founded the Indian National Party in Berlinduring 1914?—
Champakaraman Pillai
●During Quit India Movement, ‘Parallel Government’was constituted at:—
Ballia
●The Poona Pact (1932) was an agreement between:—
Gandhi and Ambedkar
“●Who gave the titie of ““Sardar”” to Ballabh Bhai Patel?—”
Mahatma Gandhi
●What Satyagraha was held at Nagpur in 1923?—
Flag Satyagraha
●Who was the viceroy when Delhi became the capitalof British India?—
Lord Hardinge
●Who established the Indian Civil Liberties Union in1936 ?—
Jawahar Lal Nehru
●Lord William Bentinck was the governor generalduring the period—
1828-35
●The Montague-Chelmsford reform was passed in theyear—
1919
●Clement Attlee’s announcement proclaimed in theParliament—
British decision to quit India
“●In which session of the Indian National Congress wasthe ““Poorna Swaraj”” resolution adopted ?—”
Lahore Session in 1929
●Who was regarded by Gandhiji as his political Guru?—
Gopal Krishna Gokhale
●Mahatma Gandhi led various movements, such as,—
Quit India Movement, Non-CooperationMovement, Civil Disobedience Movement
●Rowlatt Act 1919 was enacted during the period of—
Lord Chelmsford
“●Who said ““Truth is the ultimate reality and it is God””?—”
M.K.Gandhi
“●Which tribe was associated with the ““Tana Bhagat”“movement ?—”
Uraon
●Who founded the Naujawan Bharat Sabha ?—
Sardar Bagat Singh
●The Narendra Mandal or Chamber of Princes wasinaugurated in 1921 by—
Duke of Cannaught
●Who is commonly known as the Iron Man ?—
SardarVallabh Bhai Patel
●Pitt’s India Act’ created—
Board of Control
●What was the main cause for starting of the QuitIndia Movement in 1942 ?—
Failure of the CrippsMission
●Which movement got the support both from Hindusand Muslims?—
Non Cooperation Movement
●Name the Governor-General who accepted the viewof Macaulay to make English as the medium ofinstruction.—
Lord William Bentinck
●’Give me blood, I will give you freedom’. These wordsare attributed to :—
Subhash Chandra Bose
●Who was the first Indian Governor General afterLord Mountbatten?—
C. Rajagopalachari
●Where did the so-called ‘Black Hole Tragedy’ takeplace?—
Calcutta
●India was granted freedom during the British PrimeMinister:—
Clement Attlee
●The battle of Plassey was fought between—
EastIndia Company and Sirajuddaula
●Name the Pakistan Prime-Minister who signed theSimla Agreement in 1972.—
Z.A. Bhutto
●The Non-Cooperation Movement started in—
1920
●Who was the Nawab when Dalhousie annexed Awadhin 1856?—
Wajid Ali Shah
●Who among the following is referred to as’Loknayak’ ?—
Jayaprakash Narayan
●In the integration of Princely States, who played amajor role?—
Vallabhbhai Patel and V.P. Menon
●The Viceroy who became a victim of one of theconvicts during his visit to the Andamans was—
Mayo
●The Third Battle of Panipat was fought between—
the Marathas and the Afghans
●Who termed Cripps’ proposals as ‘a post datedcheque in a crashing bank’ ?—
Gandhiji
●The State Jhansi was made a part of the BritishEmpire in India through—
Doctrine of Lapse
●Mahatma Gandhi started his Dandi March from—
Sabarmati Ashram
●The Cabinet Mission was sent to India—
to work outa constitutional arrangement for the transfer ofpower
●The Khilafat Movement was launched to protestagainst the humiliation of—
The Turkish Caliph
●Who among the following founded the All IndiaMuslim League ?—
Aga Khan
●The first Satyagraha of Gandhiji for the cause ofindigo farmers was observed at—
Champaran
●Gandhi’s concept of Trusteeship:—
Transforms thecapitalistic society into an egalitarian one
●Gandhiji withdraw the Non Cooperation Movementdue to—
Chauri-Chaura Incident
“●Who said about Mahatma Gandhi that he is a ““halfnaked fakir”” ?—”
Winston Churchill
●Who propounded the Panchsheel principles?—
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
●In 1937, an educational conference endorsingGandhi’s proposals for ‘basic education’ throughthe vernacular medium was held at—
Wardha
●Gandhi’s Salt Satyagraha was a part of——
CivilDisobedience Movement
●The Peshwaship was abolished by the British at thetime of Peshwa—
Baji Rao II
●Who coined the name ‘Pakistan’?—
ChoudhryRehmat Ali
●By which Charter Act, the East India Company’smonopoly of trade with China came to an end?—
Charter Act of 1833
●The idea of federation was first proposed in—
NehruReport of 1928
“●Who gave the title of ““Mahamana”” to Madan MohanMalviya?—”
Mahatma Gandhi
●Who was the Viceroy at the time of Quit IndiaMovement ?—
Lord Linlithgow
●Who described the Government of India Act, 1935 asa new charter of bondage ?—
Pt. JawaharlalNehru
●Who was the other Congress leader who joined withMotilal Nehru to start the Swaraj Party in 1923 ?—
Chittaranjan Das
“●Who said ““Rama Rajya through Grama Rajya””?—”
Mahatma Gandhi
●Which was the earliest settlement of the Dutch inIndia?—
Pulicat
●During British rule, who was instrumental for theintroduction of the Ryotwari system in the thenMadras Presidency ?—
Thomas Munro
●Name three important forms of Satyagraha.—
Non-cooperation, civil disobedience and boycott
●The foundation of modern education system in Indiawas laid by—
Wood’s Dispatch of 1854
●The Asiatic Society was established in Calcutta by—
Sir William Jones
●The leaders of the Indigo Revolt were—
DigambarBiswas & Bishnucharan Biswas
●During whose tenure as the Viceroy of India were thegreat Martyrs Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev andRajguru hanged?—
Lord Irwin
●Which Dogra General led successful militaryexpedition to Laddakh, Baltistan and parts ofTibet between 1834 and 1841?—
Zorawar Singh
●Which sides were the rival fighters in the Battle ofNaushera in 1823 ?—
Sikh Empire & Emirate ofAfghanistan
●In which Anglo - Mysore war and which year wasTipu Sultan killed?—
Fourth, 1799
●The city of Kolkata was founded by—
Job Chernock
●The Civil Disobedience Movement was held in theyear—
1930
●Gandhiji was given the name ‘Mahatma’ by-—
Rabindranath Tagore
●Who gave maximum resistance to Britishers ?—
Marathas
●Mahatma Gandhi returned to India, leaving SouthAfrica for ever in -—
1915
●The revolutionary who later turned into a yogi and aphilosopher was—
Aurobindo Ghosh
●Who founded the Banaras Hindu University ?—
Madan Mohan Malaviya
●Who is known as the ‘Heroine of 1942 Quit IndiaMovement’?—
Aruna Asaf Ali
●Who was the first Indian to pass the Indian CivilService?—
Surendranath Banerjee
●Ram Prasad Bismil was associated with -—
KakoriBomb case
“●Gandhi ji started the ““The Dandi March”“—”
To breakSalt Laws
“●Who started the ““Khudai Khidmatgars”” Movement?—”
Abdul Ghaffar Khan
●Saheed-i-Azam Bhagat Singh Rajguru and Sukhdevwere executed by the British Government on 23March, 1931. In which case they were implicated ?—
Lahore Conspiracy
●The uprising of 1857 was described as the FirstIndian War of Independence by—
V. D. Savarkar
“●’Each one teach one”” slogan was given by——”
Mahatma Gandhi
●Who was the first Indian Woman President of theIndian National Congress?—
Sarojini Naidu
●Who was the Governor General when the Revolt of1857 started?—
Lord Canning
●Who, among the Europeans, were the first to tradewith India?—
Portuguese
●In which year was the Battle of Plassey fought?—
1757
●The British started the first coffee plantations inIndia in:—
Chikmangalur Janapada
●Which of the factories of Bengal was set up by thePortuguese?—
Hugli
●Name the ruler who welcomed Vasco-da-Gama inCalicut? —
Zamorin
●Where in India did the British implement theRyotwari Settlement?—
In Madras Presidencyand Bombay Presidency
●Who was the first Indian ruler to embrace theSubsidiary Alliance?—
Nizam of Hyderabad
●The Treaty of Srirangapatna was signed betweenTipu Sultan and Lord Cornwallis in 1792. Theterms of this treaty were :—
Tipu Sultan had tocede half of his kingdom to the British, he had topay 30 lakhs as war reparation and had to keeptwo of his sons as hostage with the British.
●Where in India did the French establish their firstfactory?—
Surat
●Which ruler set up foundries for the manufacture ofcannons in Lahore?—
Maharaja Ranjit Singh
●Which ruler got Euclid’s ‘Elements of Geometry’ oftranslated into Sanskrit?—
Sawai Jai Singh ofAmber
●Which ruler gave donations for setting up the idol ofGoddess Sharda in the temple of Sringeri?—
TipuSultan
●End of trading activities of the East India Company,changing the designation of highest executive inthe Council to that of the Governor General ofIndia, and the appointment of Indian the capacityof a Law member in the Governor GeneralCouncil. These are the main provisions of—
TheCharter Act of 1833
●Which battle establish the British supremacy inIndia?—
Buxar
●Where was the first Jantar-Mantar observatoryestablished by Sawai Raja Jai Singh?—
Jaipur
●During whose reign did Nadir Shah invade India?—
Mohammad Shah
●Where was the capital of Tipu Sultan located?—
Srirangam (Srirangapatna)
●Who resisted the British the most?—
Marathas
●When was the Regulating Act, meant to overhaul themanagement of the East India Company’s rule inIndia, passed?—
1773
●The Carnatic Wars were fought between—
Britishand French
●Where was the capital of Maharaja Ranjit Singhlocated?—
Lahore
●Where in South India did the British set up their firstfactory?—
Machhlipattanam
●Where did the East India Company set up its factoryin 1633?—
Orissa
●In which year did the French gain possession ofMadras?—
1746
●The correct chronological order of the advent ofEuropean powers in India at different points oftime is:—
Portuguese-British-French-Dutch
●With which ‘misl’ was Ranjit Singh related?—
Sukerchakia
●What was the immediate reason behind the FirstCarnatic War?—
Struggle for the Austrian throne
●Which act gave Cornwallis the power to override thedecisions of his Council?—
1786 Act
●Who was the Mughal Emperor at the time of theBattle of Plassey which was fought between theEast India Company and the Nawab of Bengal?—
Shah Alam II
●What was the reason behind the conclusion of theTreaty of Amritsar?—
To stop Ranjit Singh’sambitions of crossing beyond the Sutlej River
●Which Mughal Emperor gave ‘firman’ to the EnglishEast India Company, granting them exclusiverights to trade in India?—
Farrukh Siyar
●Who, among the Peshwas, signed the Treaty ofBassein with the British?—
Bajirao II
●Who was the founder of the autonomous kingdom ofOudh?—
Sadat Khan Burhan-ul-Mulk
●The Regulatory Act of 1773 was passed by the BritishParliament to:—
For establishing parliamentarycontrol over the administration of the subjugatedterritories of the East India Company, changingthe designation of the Governor of Bengal to the Governor General of Bengal, endingthe system of dual administration in India, etc
●The main reason behind the conflict between NawabSiraj-ud-daula and the British East IndiaCompany was:—
Excessive misuse of tradeconcessions by the British
●Who had colluded with Mir Qasim and Shuja-ud-daula to wage war against the English East IndiaCompany, and later got defeated by the British inthe Battle of Buxar?—
Shah Alam II
●During the hegemony of the British East IndiaCompany, who succeeded Robert Clive?—
Hastings
●Who had the longest reign among the Mughalemperors?—
Mohammad Shah
●The correct chronological order of the enthronementof Mughal rulers is:—
Jahandar Shah, FarrukhSiyar, Mohammad Shah, and Shah Alam II.
●In which year did Vasco-da-Gama reach the coast ofCalicut after having first discovered the sea routeto India from Europe?—
1498 A.D.
●Goa was ruled by ___ in the past.—
The Portuguese
●Tipu Sultan was the ruler of:—
Mysore
●What was the summer capital of Tipu Sultan?—
Mysore Palace
●With which treaty did the Second Anglo-Mysore Warend?—
Treaty of Mangalore
●Which battle made the Nawab of Oudh dependent onthe East India Company?—
Battle of Buxar