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Q21. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the code given below the
Lists:
List I (Congress Session) List II (President)
A. Lahore Session, 1909 1. Madan Mohan Malaviya
B. Calcutta Session, 1911 2. Raghunath Narasinha Mudholkar
C. Bankipore Session, 1912 3. Bishan Narayan Dar
D. Madras Session, 1914 4. Bhupendra Nath Bose
Code:
ABCD
A 1324
B 1234
C 4231
D 4321
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Correct answer: 1324
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Q22. Who among the following started the Bhonsala Military School at Nashik?
A V.D. Savarkar
B M.R. Jayakar
C N.C. Kelkar
D B.S. Moonje
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Correct answer: B.S. Moonje
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Q23. Arrange the following events associated with Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya in
chronological order, starting with the earliest:
1. Founding of the Banaras Hindu University
2. Formation of the Congress Nationalist Party
3. Founding of the English newspaper 'The Leader'
4. Founding of the Hindu Boarding House at Allahabad
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
A 3-4-1-2
B 4-3-1-2
C 4-3-2-1
D 3-4-2-1
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Correct answer: 4-3-1-2
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Q24. Who among the following was a companion of freedom fighter Rani Chennamma of
Kittur and continued the fight against the British after the Rani's capture by the British
in 1824?
A Rayanna
B Tipu Garo
C Jagbandhu
D Dukaribala Devi
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Correct answer: Rayanna
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Q25. The First Indian Factories Act, passed in 1881, dealt primarily with:
A Women labour
B Living conditions of factory workers
C Child labour
D Textile workers
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Correct answer: Child labour
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Q26. Where was the Azad Hind Fauj (INA) formed?
A Singapore
B Tokyo
C Berlin
D Rangoon
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Correct answer: Singapore
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Q27. In 1927, Lord Birkenhead, Secretary of State for India, appointed a Committee of three
members to enquire into the relationship between the Indian States and the British
Government and to make suggestions for more satisfactory adjustment of the existing
economic relations between the Indian States and British India. Who among the
following was not a member of the Committee?
A Harcourt Butler
B A. J. Wilson
C W.S. Holdsworth
D S.C. Peel
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Correct answer: A. J. Wilson
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Q28. Which of the following statements are correct?
1. Under the Cornwallis System, the districts were divided into thanas or police jurisdictions of 20-30
miles square.
2. Each of them was placed under an officer of government, under the denomination of daroga.
3. The daroga system was introduced in Madras in 1812.
4. The daroga was nominated by the district magistrate.
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
A 1 and 2 only
B 2, 3 and 4
C 1, 3 and 4
D 1, 2 and 4
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Correct answer: 1, 2 and 4
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Q29. Where did Gandhiji put in his first major public appearance after returning from South
Africa in 1915?
A Bombay University
B Kheda
C Champaran
D Banaras Hindu University
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Correct answer: Banaras Hindu University
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Q30. Who among the following is the author of 'Gandhi as Mahatma'?
A Mahadev Desai
B Shahid Amin
C Louis Fischer
D David Arnold
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Correct answer: Shahid Amin
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Q31. Who among the following was the President of the Indian National Congress at the
time of independence of India?
A Pattabhi Sitaramayya
B Jawaharlal Nehru
C Abul Kalam Azad
D J.B. Kripalani
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Correct answer: J.B. Kripalani
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Q32. During 1931, under whose leadership, did a strong Kisan Sabha Movement develop in
the Gaya District of Bihar?
A Yadunandan Sharma
B Sahajanand
C Sheetla Sahai
D Tilka Manjhi
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Correct answer: Yadunandan Sharma
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Q33. Who produced the Pirpur Report (1938)?
A Muslim League
B Unionist Party
C Ahrar Party
D Indian National Congress
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Correct answer: Muslim League
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Q34. Who among the following was the founder of Swatantra Party?
A C. Rajagopalachari
B Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
C Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
D Acharya Narendra Dev
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Correct answer: C. Rajagopalachari
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Q35. What did Ain-i-Akbari seek to promote within the frontiers of the Mughal State?
A Social disharmony influenced by the whims of the nobility
B Cessation of the provincial units from central rule
C Social harmony with the support of a strong ruling class
D Establishment of a rule of rural republics by overthrowing the Mughal suzerainty
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Correct answer: Social harmony with the support of a strong ruling class
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Q36. Gandhiji's Salt March to Dandi was started from which one of the following places?
A Kochrab Ashram
B Sabarmati Ashram
C Ahmedabad Textile Mill
D Ahmedabad Jail
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Correct answer: Sabarmati Ashram
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Q37. Who among the following was not a member of the Socialist group in the Congress
Party?
A Jayaprakash Narayan
B Rajendra Prasad
C N.G. Ranga
D Narendra Dev
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Correct answer: Rajendra Prasad
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Q38. Which one of the following was not recommended in Macaulay's 1835 Minute on
Education?
A Teaching in the English medium
B Liberal literary training
C Teaching of Western texts alone at higher levels of education
D Teaching of both Western and Oriental texts at higher levels of education
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Correct answer: Teaching of both Western and Oriental texts at higher levels of education
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Q39. Who among the following did not represent the militant nationalist school of thought
in India?
A Ashwini Kumar Dutt
B Vishnushastri Chiplunkar
C Krishna Kumar Mitra
D Lala Lajpat Rai
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Correct answer: Krishna Kumar Mitra
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Q40. Which one of the following statements about the situation in the Ryotwari areas is
correct?
A A large amount of land passed into the hands of the money lenders, merchants and rich peasants, who usually utilised the services of the tenants.
B Landless labourers became the land owner
C It stopped the practice of leasing out land to tenants at high prices.
D Landlordism was totally destroyed.
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Correct answer: A large amount of land passed into the hands of the money lenders, merchants and rich peasants, who usually utilised the services of the tenants.