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History - Modern

Description: Modern History Question for UPSC preparation and Practice Sets Materials
Number of Questions: 25
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When was the Treaty of Amritsar signed between English and Ranjeet Singh?

  1. 1809

  2. 1810

  3. 1812

  4. 1806


Correct Option: A

The First Anglo-Mysore war was fought between

  1. Sirajudaulla and the Britishers

  2. Shah Alam II and Hyder Ali

  3. Hyder Ali and the Britishers

  4. Muazzam and Ali Mohar


Correct Option: C

After the victory in which war did East India Company get concessions to trade in Bengal and Orissa?

  1. War of Plassey

  2. War of Buxar

  3. War of Bengal

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Correct Answer: War of Plassey

Mahatma Gandhi broke the Salt laws by his Dandi March in which year?

  1. 1929

  2. 1928

  3. 1930

  4. 1925


Correct Option: C

Between whom was the War of Bedara fought?

  1. French and the English

  2. Dutch and the Nawab

  3. Dutch and the French

  4. English and the Dutch


Correct Option: D

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel conducted which satyagraha in 1927?

  1. Bardoli satyagraha

  2. Champaran satyagraha

  3. Swadeshi Satyagraha

  4. Civil Disobedience satyagraha


Correct Option: A

After which pact did Ghandhiji went to second Round Table Conference ?

  1. All India league and Muslim League pact

  2. Gandhi-Irwin Pact

  3. Lucknow Pact

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: B

In which year did Annie Besant brought out a newspaper in English named New India?

  1. 1912

  2. 1917

  3. 1918

  4. 1914


Correct Option: D

Who established Bheel Sewa Mandal in 1922?

  1. Amrit Lal Vithal Das

  2. Narayan Joshi

  3. Ishwar Chandra

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: A

Who among the following founded the Anglo Oriental College at Aligarh in 1877?

  1. Haji Shariatullah

  2. Sir Saiyyad Ahmad Khan

  3. Saifuddin

  4. Mohd. Ali Jinnah


Correct Option: B

When did the soldiers of Bairakpur cantt refused to use the fat cartridges?

  1. December 1857

  2. June 1857

  3. March 1857

  4. September 1857


Correct Option: C

When was Brahmo Samaj founded by Raja Ram Mohan Roy?

  1. 20th August,1828

  2. 29th September, 1810

  3. 1st January, 1845

  4. 23rd March, 1823


Correct Option: A

Who set up an interim Government of Free India in Singapore?

  1. Choudhary Rahmat Ali

  2. Jawarharlal Nehru

  3. Acharya Vinoba Bhave

  4. Subhash Chandra Bose


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Correct Answer: Subhash Chandra Bose

The State of Rohilkhand was established by

  1. Hyder Ali

  2. Ali Muhammad Khan

  3. Nand Raj

  4. Chika Krishnaraj


Correct Option: B

In which year did Cripps Mission came to India?


  1. 1940

  2. 1941

  3. 1942

  4. 1945


Correct Option: C

The Partition of Bengal was cancelled in which year?

  1. 1910

  2. 1919

  3. 1906

  4. 1911


Correct Option: D

After Subhas Chandra Bose resigned, who among the following became the president of INC?

  1. Saradar Patel

  2. Rajendra Prasad

  3. Gopal Hari Deshmukh

  4. Gopal Krishan Gokhale


Correct Option: B

The first railway line in India was developed from

  1. Madras to Bombay

  2. Bombay to Thane

  3. Calcutta to Delhi

  4. Bombay to Delhi


Correct Option: B

The first telegraph line was between which cities and when?

  1. Calcutta and Agra, 1852

  2. Bombay and Calcutta, 1851

  3. Madras and Calcutta, 1862

  4. Delhi and Agra, 1829


Correct Option: A

Salsette was lost by Portuguese in 1739 to the



  1. French

  2. Marathas

  3. Mughals

  4. English


Correct Option: B

Among the following in the 19th century who founded the Widow Remarriage Association?


  


  1. Raja Ram Mohan roy

  2. Swami Vivekananda

  3. Dayananda Saraswati

  4. Vishnu Shastri Pandit


Correct Option: D

Where among the following in India was the first fort constructed by Europeans ?



  1. Bombay

  2. Cochin

  3. Calcutta

  4. Goa


Correct Option: B

In 1690 Calcutta was founded by whom?

  1. Job Charnock

  2. Colbert

  3. Jan Pietyooovan Coen

  4. William Barents


Correct Option: A

When was Mir Jafar declared as the Nawab of Bengal by the Britishers?

  1. August, 1767

  2. June, 1757

  3. May,1759

  4. September,1782


Correct Option: B

In which year did the Britishers took over the Sikh kingdom of Punjab?

  1. 1849

  2. 1835

  3. 1866

  4. 1823


Correct Option: A
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