Modern India Objective Questions

1. Which song was sung by Gandhiji and his followers during the Dandi March?

Ans: Raghupati Raghava rajaram

2. Which tool did Gandhiji promote to achieve economic, and ultimately complete independence from the British Empire?

Ans: Spinning Wheel 

3. Who coined the slogan 'Inquilab Zindabad'?

Ans: Muhammad Igbal

4. Who coined the term "quit India"?

Ans: Yusuf Meheraliy

5. Which Viceroy had maximum freedom to work in India?

Ans: Lord Mountbatten

6. Which Act was adapted to provide a legal framework for the new dominions of India and Pakistan in 1947?

Ans: Govt. of India Act 1935

7. Where 'Rakta Vahini’ was formed during Quit India Movement?

Ans: Cuttack

8. Who called Gopala Krishna Gokhale 'the Diamond of India, Jewel of Maharashtra, Prince of Workers'?

Ans: Bal Gangadhar Tilak         

9. Who called upon his followers to observe 16th August, 1946 as 'Direct Action Day'?

Ans: Muhammad Ali Jinnah

10. Who changed his name to Ram Mohammad Singh Azad, symbolizing the unification of the three major religions of India: Hinduism, Islam and Sikhism?

Ans: Uddham Singh

11. Who codified the R.S.S. doctrine in his booklet ‘We'?

Ans: M.S.Golwalker

12. Where did Gandhiji deliver his first public speech after returning from South Africa?

Ans: At Benarus Hindu University

13. Which scripture was called his 'mother' by Gandhiji?

Ans: Bhagwat Gita

14. Which session of the Indian National Congress decided to reorganise Provincial Congress Committees on the basis of linguistic areas:

Ans: 1920 Nagpur

15. Which social reformer of Tamil Nadu sought to undermine the position of Brahmin priest by arranging wedding without Brahmin priest?

Ans: Ramaswami Naicker

16. Which was considered as the basis of Indian Independence Act of 1947?

Ans: Mount batten Plan

17. Which was known as 'the political laboratory of Mahathma Gandhi'?

Ans: South Africa

18. Which was the first committee appointed for examining the functioning of Dyarchy?

Ans: Muddiman Committee

19. Where the All India Khilafat Conference was held under the presidentship of Gandhiji?

Ans: Delhi

20. Where was Gandhiji on the day of independence?

Ans: Naokhali

21. Where was Kasturba's parental home?

Ans: Porbander

22. Which Act regularised the working hour for the women in factories?

Ans: 1891, Second Factory Act

23. Where All India Women's Federation established Lady Irwin College in 1926?

Ans: Delhi

24. Where B.R. Ambedlcar established the Depressed Classes Institute?

Ans: Mumbai

25. Where did Gandhiji address his first speech in South Africa?

Ans: Pretoria

26. Which act separated Burma and Aden from India?

Ans: Government of India Act 1935

27. Where did Gandhiji go to practice law, first on his return from England?

Ans: Mumbai

28. Where did Gandhiji launch his civil disobedience movement in South Africa?

Ans: Johennesberg

29. Which was the forerunner of the Central Legislative Assembly?

Ans: Imperial Legislative Council

30. While in South Africa, who gave the book 'Unto this last' to Gnadhiji to read?

Ans: Henry Polak

31. While staying at Rome, during a European visit, which Indian leader declined the invitation of Benitto Mussolini to meet him?

Ans: Jawaharlal Nehru

32. Who formed in 1929 the Bihar Provincial Kisan Sabha (BPKS) to mobilise peasant grievances against the zamindari attacks on their occupancy rights?

Ans: Swami Sahajanand Saraswati

33. Where did Gandhiji go first on his return from South Africa?

Ans: Santhiniketan

34. Which Act was called 'Gagging Act'?

Ans: Vernacular Press Act

35. Which act was passed in context of 'Komagata Mans incident?

Ans: The Defence of India Act

36. Which book describes the three phases of capitalism- merchantile   phase, capitalist phase and finance phase?

Ans: Poverty and Un-British rule in India

37. Which book influenced Gandhiji greatly, which he read in England?

Ans: Plea for Vegetarianism

38. Where was Mahalwari system introduced?

Ans: Bengal and Bihar

39. Where was the headquarters of Anusheelan Samiti?

Ans: Kolkata

40. Which day was called 'Day of Deliverence' by Muhammad Ali Jinnah?

Ans: 22nd December 1939

41. Which disease affected Parchure Shastri whom Gandhiji cared at Sevagram ashram?

Ans: Leprosy

42. Which Governor General did not follow the policy of Masterly Inactivity towards Afghanistan?

Ans: Lord Curzon

43. Which is considered to be the 'Bible of Arya Samaj'?

Ans: Satyartha Prakash

44. Which jail was described by Gandhiji as his Home away from home"?

Ans: Yervada

45. Which modern historian opined that "the so called First National War of Independence of 1857 is neither First, nor National, nor War of Independence'?

Ans: R.C Majumdar

46. Which Princely State resembled 'Ramrajya' according to Gandhiji?

Ans: Mysore

47. Which publication is related to 'Annie Besant'?

Ans: New India

48. Which rebellion was popularised in 'Anandmath'?

Ans: Sanyasi rebellion

49. Who administered the oath of office of Jawaharlal Nehru as the first Prime minister of independent India?

Ans: Lord Mountbatten

50. Where was the Indian Independence Committee was set up by Lala Hardayal and his friends?

Ans: Berlin