451. The Charter for the establishment of the East India Company was granted by
(a) Queen Elizabeth I
(b) Queen Anbolin
(c) Queen Mary
(d) Queen Victoria
Ans: (a)
452. The East India Company was established in the year
(a) 1607 AD
(b) 1600 AD
(c) 1700 AD
(d) 1669 AD
Ans: (b)
453. When the East India Company was established India was ruled by
(a) a Mughal Emperor
(b) a Gupta Emperor
(c) a Mauryan Emperor
(d) a Sunga Emperor
Ans: (a)
454. The first Governor General of Bengal was
(a) Warren Hastings
(b) Clive
(c) Canning
(d) Minto
Ans: (a)
455. Gandhi wanted the students to spend their vacations in
(a) Studies
(b) Social service
(c) Games
(d) Rebellious deeds
Ans: (b)
456. Upon whom was the title 'Punjab Kesari' conferred?
(a) Bhagat Singh
(b) Sardar Baldev Singh
(c) Lala Lajpat Rai
(d) Ranjit Singh
Ans: (c)
457. Who had observed that "Political freedom is the life-breath of a nation"?
(a) BG Tilak
(b) Annie Besant
(c) Sri Aurobindo Ghose
(d) Rabindranath Tagore
Ans: (c)
458. Who had strongly advocated the policy of abolishing princely states m free India?
(a) Mahatma Gandhi
(b) Jawaharlal Nehru
(c) C Rajagopalachari
(d) Vallabhbhai Patel
Ans: (c)
459. Who among the following had authored the book, 'At the Feet of Mahatma Gandhi'?
(a) JB Kripalani
(b) Rajendra Prasad
(c) Jayaprakash Narayan
(d) Vinoba Bhave
Ans: (b)
460. The socialist group in the INC during, the 1930s had been led by
(a) Bipin Chandra Pal
(b) Rajendra Prasad
(c) Lala Lajpat Rai
(d) Subhas Chandra Bose
Ans: (d)
461. The first Indian who was elected to the leadership of the Communist International was
(a) SA Dange
(b) SS Joshi
(c) MN Roy
(d) PC Joshi
Ans: (c)
462. According to Gandhi, ahimsa could not be construed to mean
(a) truth
(b) a positive state of law
(c) tolerance of the wrong and unjust
(d) doing good even to the evildoers
Ans: (c)
463. Which nationalist had stoutly preached "Be proud that you are an Indian, proudly claim I am an Indian"?
(a) MK Gandhi
(b) Lala Lajpat Rai
(c) Swami Vivekanand
(d) Jawaharlal Nehru
Ans: (c)
464. Who had, while fasting in the prison, written to the British governor, "The individual must die so that the nation may live. Today, I must die so that India may win freedom and glory"?
(a) Jatin Das
(b) Lala Lajpat Rai
(c) MK Gandhi
(d) SC Bose
Ans: (a)
465. Mahatma Gandhi had been joined m the Champaran struggle by
(a) Vallabhbhai Patel and Vinoba Bhave
(b) Rajendra Prasad and Anugraha Narayan Sinha
(c) Mahadev Desai and Maniben Patel
(d) Rajendra Prasad and Jawaharlal Nehru
Ans: (d)
466. The first Bengali Drama, written to highlight the brutality of the British indigo planters, was
(a) Rast Goftar
(b) Neel Darpan
(c) Shome Prakash
(d) None of the above
Ans: (b)
467. The Constituent Assembly was formed on the recommendations of the
(a) Government of India Act, 1935
(b) Cabinet Mission Plan
(c) Cripps' Mission
(d) Mountbatten Plan
Ans: (b)
468. Rani Laxmi Bai died fighting the British in the Battle of
(a) Jhansi
(b) Kanpur
(c) Gwalior
(d) Kalpi
Ans: (c)
469. Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose had proclaimed the formation of the Provisional Government of Independent India (Azad Hind I in 1943 in
(a) Vienna
(b) Rangoon
(c) Tokyo
(d) Singapore
Ans: (d)
470. Who among the following was impeached in the UK for his actions in India?
(a) Lord Wavell
(b) Lord Ripon
(c) Lord Hastings
(d) Lord Cornwallis
Ans: (c)
471. Which of the following periods is considered as the revolutionary era in Indian history?
(a) 1857-60
(b) 1857-1947
(c) 1857-90
(d) 1845-1947
Ans: (c)
472. Who had first sought the legalisation of widow remarriage in India?
(a) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
(b) Badruddin Tyabji
(c) Ishwar Chandra Vidayasagar
(d) Swami Dayanand Saraswati
Ans: (c)
473. Ram Prasad Bismil had been associated with the case?
(a) Alipore bomb
(b) Kanpur conspiracy
(c) Kokori bomb
(d) Meerut conspiracy
Ans: (c)
474. The inaugural issue of Bombay Darpan, a Marathi weekly, was published on November 12, 1832 started by a publisher reformer named
(a) Jagannath Shankar
(b) Vishnu Shastri
(c) Bal Shastri
(d) Krishna Shastri
Ans: (c)
475. Gandhi had been provoked into crusading for the lot of the Asians in South Africa by the British law called the Act.
(a) Apartheid
(b) Blacks' Registration
(c) cl Asiatic Registration
(d) Subcitizens' Licence
Ans: (c)
