modern Indian history Important , leader and Personalities

1. Which one of the following Indian

leaders was dismissed by the British

from the Indian Civil Service? (UPSC 1999)

2. Who among the following Gandhian

followers was a teacher by profession? (UPSC /IAS 2008)

3. In the ‘Individual Satyagraha’, Vinoba

Bhave was chosen as the first Satyagrahi.

Who was the second?(UPSC /IAS 2009)

4. Who of the following founded the

Ahmedabad Textile Labour Association? (  UPSC /IAS2009)

5. Who among the following rejected the

title of Knighthood and refused to accept

a position in the Council of the Secretary

of State for India? (UPSC /IAS 2008)

6. Match List-I with List-II and select the

correct answer using the code given below

the Lists: (UPSC /IAS2008)

Code:

7. Which one of the following was a journal

brought out by Abul Kalam Azad? (UPSC /IAS 2008)

8. Who among the following wrote the poem,

Subh-e Azadi? (UPSC /IAS 2008)

9. Which one of the following places was

associated with Acharya VinobaBhave’s

Bhoodan Movement at the beginning of

the movement? (UPSC /IAS2007)

10. Which of the following pairs are correctly

matched?

Movement/ Satyagraha Person ActivelyAssociated

With (UPSC /IAS2005)

1) Champaran Rajendra Prasad

2) Ahmedabad Mill Workers

Morarji Desai

3) Kheda Vallabhbhai Patel

Select the correct answer using the code

given below:

11. Who among the following was not

associated with the formation of UP Kisan

Sabha in February 1918? (UPSC /IAS 2005)

12. Who among the following drafted the

resolution on fundamental rights for the

Karachi Session of Congress in 1931? (UPSC /IAS 2005)

13. In October 1920, who of the following

headed a group of Indians gathered at

Tashikent to set up a Communist Party of

India? (UPSC /IAS 2005)

14. The leader of the Bardoli Satyagraha

(1928) was (UPSC /IAS2003)

15. With reference to the Indian freedom

struggle, which one of the following

statements is not correct? (UPSC /IAS 2002)

16. During the Indian freedom struggle, the

KhudaiKhidmatgars, also known as Red

Shirts, called for  (UPSC /IAS 2002)

17. Who among the following was the

President of the All-India States Peoples’

Conference in 1939? (UPSC /IAS 2001)

18. During the Indian Freedom Struggle, who

among the following proposed that Swaraj

should be defined as complete

independence free from all foreign control? (UPSC /IAS 2004)

19. Who among the following leaders

proposed to adopt Complete

Independence as the goal of the Congress

inthe Ahmedabad session of 1920? ( UPSC /IAS 2001)

20. A London branch of the All India Muslim

League was established in 1908 under the

presidency of ( UPSC /IAS 2001)

21. During the Indian Freedom Struggle, who

of the following raised an army called

‘Free Indian Legion’? ( UPSC /IAS 2008)

22. The Balkan Plan for fragmentation of

India was the brainchild of (UPSC /IAS 2000)

23. Which Indian nationalist leader looked

upon the war between Germany and

Britain as a godsent opportunity, which

would enable Indians to exploit the

situation to their advantage? (UPSC /IAS 1999)

24. Consider the following statements about

Madam BhikajiCama : (UPSC /IAS2006)

1) Madam Cama unfurled the National Flag at

the International Socialist Conference in

Paris in the year 1907.

2) Madam Cama served as private secretary to

DadabhaiNaoroji.

3) Madam Cama was born to Parsi parents.

Which of the statements given above is/are

correct?

25. Match List-I with List-II and select the

correct answer by using the codes given

below the lists: (UPSC /IAS1999)

Codes:

26. With reference to Indian freedom struggle,

which one of the following statements is

NOT correct? (UPSC /IAS 2003)

27. Which party was founded by Subhash

Chandra Bose in the year 1939 after he

broke away from the Congress? (UPSC /IAS 2005)

28. Who among the following used the phrase

‘Un-British’ to criticize the English

colonial control of India? (UPSC /IAS 2008)

29. Who among the following was a proponent

of Fabianism as a movement?

30. What was the purpose with which Sir

William Wedderburn and W. S. Caine had

set up the Indian Parliamentary

Committee in 1893?( UPSC /IAS 2011)

31. That the per capita income in India was

Rs 20 in 1867-68, was ascertained for the

first time by (UPSC /IAS 2000)

32. Which one of the following statements is

not correct? (UPSC /IAS 1999)

33. Which of the following pairs are correctly

matched? (UPSC /IAS 1998)

1) Theodore : Mohammedan Beck

Anglo-Oriental College, Aligarh

2) Illbert Bil : Ripon

3) Pherozeshah Mehta: Congress

4) Badruddin Tyabji : Muslim League

Select the correct answer using the codes

given below:

34. Which of the following parties were

established by Dr.B.R. Ambedkar? (UPSC /IAS 2012)

1) The Peasants and Workers Party of India

2) All India Scheduled Castes Federation

3) The Independent Labour Party

Select the correct answer using the codes

given below:

35. With reference to Indian National

Movement, consider the following pairs:

Person Position held (UPSC /IAS 2019)

1) Sir Tej Bahadur : President, All India

Sapru Liberal Federation.

2) K.C. Neogy : Member, The

Constituent Assembly

3) P.C. Joshi : General Secretary, Communist Party

of India

Which of the pairs given above is/are

correctly matched?

36. Consider the following statement: (UPSC /IAS 2001)

 1) Arya Samaj was founded in 1835.

2) Lala Lajpat Rai opposed the appeal of Arya

Samaj to the authority of Vedas in support of

its social reform programmes.

3) Under Keshab Chandra Sen, the Brahmo

Samaj campaigned for women’s education.

4) Vinoba Bhave founded the Sarvodaya Samaj

to work among refugees.

Which of these statements are correct?

37. Consider the following statements(UPSC /IAS2005)

1) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar founded the

Bethune School at Calcutta with the main

aim of encouraging education for women

2) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay was the

first graduate of the Calcutta University.

3) Keshav Chandra Sen’s campaign against Sati

led to the enactment of a law to ban Sati by

the then Governor General.

Which of the statements given above is/are

correct?

38. “Lectures from Colombo to Almora” is

based on the experiences of which one of

the following? (UPSC /IAS 2006)

39. Who among the following wrote the book

Bahubivah? (UPSC /IAS 2007)

40. Who among the following started the

newspaper Shome Prakash? (UPSC /IAS 2007)

41. Annie Besant was (UPSC /IAS 2013)

1) responsible for starting the Home Rule

Movement

2) the founder of the Theosophical Society

3) once the President of the Indian National

Congress

Select the correct statement/statements

using the codes given below.

42. Which among the following events

happened earliest? (UPSC /IAS 2018)

43. Who among the following were the

founders of the “Hind Mazdoor Sabha”

established in 1948? (UPSC /IAS 2018)

44. He wrote biographies of Mazzini, Garibaldi,

Shivaji and Shrikrishna; stayed in

America for some time; and was also

elected to the Central Assembly. He was (UPSC /IAS2018)

45. Consider the following pairs:

Movement/ OrganizationLeader (UPSC /IAS 2016)

1) All India Anti-Untouchability

League Mahatma Gandhi

2) All India Kisan Sabha

Swami Sahajanand Saraswati

3) Self-Respect Movement

E.V. Ramaswami Naicker

Which of the pairs given above is/are

correctly matched?

46. Match List-I with List-II and select the

correct answer (UPSC /IAS1999)