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Indian History

Description: GK Indian History Test - General Knowledge History Practice and Preparation Test for UPSC, B.Ed and M.Ed and Bank PO Exams
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Which of the following historians has written about the nature of the movement of 1857 that “It was neither first nor national nor a war of independence”?

  1. T. R. Holmes

  2. R. C. Majumdar

  3. S. B. Chaudhuri

  4. G. B. Mallison


Correct Option: B

Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer by using codes given below. List-I List-II (a) Laxmi Bai 1. Deported to Rangoon (b) Tantiya Tope 2. Fled to Nepal (c) Nana Saheb 3. Captured and executed (d) Bahadur Shah 4. Killed in battle Codes :

  1. (a) 4 (b) 3 (c) 2 (d) 1

  2. (a) 2 (b) 4 (c) 3 (d) 1

  3. (a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 3 (d) 4

  4. (a) 4 (b) 2 (c) 3 (d) 1


Correct Option: A

Who was the author of ‘Pather Dabi’, a novel which glorified the path of violent revolution and was banned by the British Government?

  1. Premchand

  2. Sharatchandra Chatterji

  3. Bankimchandra Chatterji

  4. Ajai Ghosh


Correct Option: B

When was the East India Company brought under the parliamentary control?

  1. 1773

  2. 1784

  3. 1793

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: A

Which one of the following Acts created the 'Board of Control'?

  1. Regulating Act, 1773

  2. Pitt's India Act, 1784

  3. Act of 1813

  4. Act of 1833


Correct Option: B

Who had chaired the Indian Education commission in 1882?

  1. Macaulay

  2. Sadler

  3. W. W. Hunter

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: C

Whom did Sir Charles Napier replace as the British Resident of Sindh?

  1. Alexander Burnier

  2. James Outram

  3. Sir John Karne

  4. Sir Eyre Coote


Correct Option: B

The official historian of the movement of 1857 was

  1. S. N. Sen

  2. R. C. Majumdar

  3. Tarachand

  4. V. D. Savarkar


Correct Option: A

Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?

  1. Jhansi - Laxmi Bai

  2. Gwalior - Tantiya Tope

  3. Kanpur - Nana Saheb

  4. Allahabad - Kunwar Singh


Correct Option: D

Who was the founder of Seva Sadan in Bombay?

  1. Baharamji Malabari

  2. Shiva Narrain Agnihotri

  3. R. G. Bhandarkar

  4. B. K. Jayakar


Correct Option: A

Match the following treaties with the years of their conclusion. (a) Treaty of Srirangapatnam (b) Treaty of Sangoli (c) Treaty of Manglore (d) Treaty of Rajghat

  1. 1792 2. 1806
  2. 1816 4. 1784 Find the correct answer from code given below
  1. (a) 3 (b) 2 (c) 1 (d) 4

  2. (a) 2 (b) 3 (c) 1 (d) 4

  3. (a) 4 (b) 3 (c) 1 (d) 2

  4. (a) 1 (b) 3 (c) 4 (d) 2


Correct Option: D

Which one of the following was elected as president of Indian National Congress after the resignation of Subhas Chandra Bose?

  1. Dr. Rajendra Prasad

  2. Pattabhi Sitaramayya

  3. Sarojini Naidu

  4. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad


Correct Option: A

The party which observed 'Black day' on 3 July, 1947 against partition of India was

  1. Indian National Congress

  2. Forward Bloc

  3. Hindu Mahasabha

  4. Communist Party of India


Correct Option: C

Which of the following pairs are correctly matched?

  1. Brahmo Samaj - Swami Brahmanand
  2. Dev Samaj - Swami Satyanand Agnihotri
  3. Arya Samaj - Swami Dayanand
  4. Ram Krishna Mission - Swami Ramkrishna Paramhansa Choose the correct answer from the codes given below Codes :
  1. 1 and 2

  2. 2 and 3

  3. 3 and 4

  4. 1 and 4


Correct Option: B

Which one of the following was not a member of the Hunter committee set up to enquire into the Jallianwala bagh massacre?

  1. Lord Hunter

  2. General Dyer

  3. W. F. Rice

  4. Sir Thomas Smith


Correct Option: B

Which of the following writers was not associated with 'economic nationalism'?

  1. R. C. Dutt

  2. G. V. Joshi

  3. Dadabhai Naoroji

  4. Annie Besant


Correct Option: D

Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R) Assertion (A) : Dadabhai Naoroji founded East India Association in London. Reason (R) : He wanted to influence the British Public Opinion. In the context of the above two statements, which one of the following is correct?

  1. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)

  2. Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)

  3. (A) is true, but (R) is false

  4. (R) is true, but (A) is false


Correct Option: A

Who edited “Sahid Bhagat Singh : Dastavejo Ke Aine Mein”?

  1. Irfan Habib

  2. Malavinder Jit Singh

  3. Chaman Lal

  4. Amalesh Tripathi


Correct Option: C

The newspaper 'Man in India' was edited by

  1. Surjit Chadra Sinha

  2. Ashok Kumar Sarkar

  3. Ram Gopal Maheshwari

  4. Shiv Prasad Gupta


Correct Option: A

Which one of the following journals had conducted a bitter campaign against the abolition of the practice of Sati?

  1. Sambad Kaumadi

  2. Bangadoot

  3. Samachar Darpan

  4. Samachar Chandrika


Correct Option: A

Which one of the following was not a slave of Mohammad Ghori?

  1. Ikhtiyaruddin Bhakhtiyar Khalji

  2. Tajuddin Yaldauz

  3. Qutbuddin Aibak

  4. Shamsuddin Iltutmish


Correct Option: D

In which of the following places 'Jatiya Sarkar' a parallel government was formed during the Quit India Movement?

  1. Satara

  2. Tamaluk

  3. Ballia

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: B

The foreign invader who plundered somnath temple was

  1. Mohammad Ghori

  2. Masud III

  3. Muhammad Bin-Qasim

  4. Mahmud Ghaznavi


Correct Option: D

Match the following associations with their presidents (a) British Indian Association, 1851 (b) Deccan Association, 1852 (c) Bombay Association, 1852 (d) British Indian Madras Association, 1850

  1. Raja Radhakant Dev
  2. Gopal Hari Deshmukh
  3. C. Y. Mudaliar
  4. Jamshedji Jijabhai Select the correct answer from the code given below Codes :
  1. (a) 2 (b) 1 (c) 4 (d) 3

  2. (a) 1 (b) 2 (d) 4 (c) 3

  3. (a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 3 (d) 4

  4. (a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 4 (d) 3


Correct Option: D

Who among the following writers has described the seven fold division of the Hindu society?

  1. Ibn Khordadbah

  2. Abu zaid-Alhasan

  3. Al-Beruni

  4. Utbi


Correct Option: A
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