Questions About Modern India


1. Where was the Satyagraha Ashram established on Gandhiji's return to India?
Ans: Kochrab      
                             
2. Which Act provided for the establishment of a Public Service Commission in India for the first time?
Ans: Govt. of India Act 1919 


3. Which case is related to the throwing a bomb on Viceroy Lord Harding II during a ceremonial procession?
Ans: Delhi conspiracy Case                 

4. Which city witnessed the transfer of power to Pakistan?
Ans: Karachi

5. Which commission recommended for the adoption of a famine code for India?
Ans: Strachey Commission 1880

6. Which country banished the ship 'Komagatamaru' from its territorial waters in 1913?
Ans: Canada

7. Which movement was launched as per the resolution of Calcutta session and ratified in Nagpur session in December 1920?
Ans: Non-cooperation

8. Which organisation was founded by Anand Mohan Bose and SN Bannerjee in 1876?
Ans: Indian Association

9. Which organisation was set up to check the impact of Christian Missionaries?
Ans: Tatvabodhini Sabha      

10. Who authored 'The History of the War of Indian Independence'?
Ans: V.D. Savarkar

11. Who authored 'The Indian Struggle'?
Ans: Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose              

12. Which Gandhian Movement has been called a 'Spontaneous Revolution'?
Ans: Quit India Movement

13. Who along with Bulabhai Desai resigned from Congress in opposition to Quit India Movement?
Ans: C. Rajagopalachari

14. Who authored 'India wins Freedom'?
Ans: Maulana Azad

15. Who along with Sir Pitty Theagaraya and Raja of Panagal formed the South Indian Liberal Federation in 1916 which raised the first cohesive demand for reservation in India?
Ans: T.M. Nair

16. Who appointed a Famine Commission under Richard Strachy?
Ans: Lytton

17. Who attempted to assassinate Governor of Bengal Sir Stanley Jackson in a convocation ceremony?
Ans: Beena Das

18. Who attended the Congress of Oppressed Nationalists at Brussels in 1927, on behalf of National Congress?
Ans: Jawaharlal Nehru

19. Who attributes the rebellion of 1857 to caste mobilisation?
Ans: Eric Stokes

20. Who authored 'The Story of My Deportation'?
Ans: Lala Lajpath Rai

21. Who authored 'Nil Darpan'?
Ans: Dinabandhu Mitra

22. Who authored 'Arctic Home in the Vedas'?
Ans: Bal Gangadhar Tilak

23. Who authored Gandhiji's favorite prayer 'Vaishnava Janato'?
Ans: Narasimba Mehta       

24. Who authored 'I follow the Mahathma'?
Ans: K.M. Munshi

25. Who authored 'In search of Gandhi"?
Ans: Richard Attenborogh

26. Who became the chief justice of the federal court of India which was started functioning on 1st October 1937?
Ans: Maurice Gwyer

27. Who became the first defence minister of independent India?
Ans: Baldev Singh

28. Who became the first president of the Indian Women's Association founded in 1915?
Ans: Annie Besant

29. Who became the leader of opposition in Central Legislative Assembly in 1923?
Ans: Motilal Nehru

30. Who became the leader of the party when Swami Party won 45 out of 145 seats in Central Assembly in the 1923 elections?
Ans: Motilal Nehru

31. Who became the principal of National College in Kolkata founded during the Swadeshi Movement?
Ans: Aurobindo Ghosh

32. Who believed that the Revolt of 1857 was a result of a Muhammadan conspiracy making capital out of Hindu grievances?
Ans: Sir James Outram

33. Who called Bal Gangadhar Tilak, father of Indian Unrest?
Ans: Valentine Chirol

34. Who railed Gandhiji as 'Father of Nation' for the first time?
Ans: Subhas Chandra Bose

35. Who called Gandhiji as 'half naked fakir'?
Ans: Winston Churchill

36. Which organization is led by 'Ten Principles'?
Ans: Arya Samaj

37. Which political party published 'Vanguard'?
Ans: Radical Democratic Party

38. Which agitation led by Mahatma Gandhi was ridiculed as 'Kindergarten stage of political revolution'?
Ans: Dandi March

39. Which agitation was ended as a result of Gandhi-Irwin Pact?
Ans: Civil Disobedience movement

40. Which bill aimed to bring Indian and European magistracy on equal footing?
Ans: llbert Bill

41. Who advised Gandhiji to make a visit to the whole country before entering into Indian politics?
Ans: Gopala Krishna Gokhale

42. Which education system did Gandhiji advocate for the country?
Ans: Basic Education

43. Which food was advised to Gandhi by his childhood friend Mehtab in order to get power?
Ans: Meat

44. Which operation was started by the British Government to arrest the leaders of Quit India Movement?
Ans: Operation Thunderbolt

45. Which organisation formed a 'Cow Protection Association' in 1882?
Ans: Arya Samaj

46. Which friend of Gandhiji's land did he establish the Tolstoy Farm?
Ans: Hermann Kallenbach

47. Who accompanied Bhagat Singh to bomb Central Legislature in Delhi?
Ans: Batukeswar Dutt

48. Who acted India's first ambassador to US?
Ans: Asaf Ali

49. Who acted the role of Gandhi in the film 'Gandhi'?
Ans: Ben Kingsley

50. Who coined the term 'Simon go back'?
Ans: Yusuf Meherally