R4RIN – MCQs, Mock Tests | History Indian History Multiple Choice Questions set 2

Mahatma Gandhi considered preconditions as necessary for a satyagrahi to fulfill namely :

1. Follow truth and cultivate fearlessness.
2. Prefect Chastity
3. Adopts poverty
4. All of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The Kakori Conspiracy took place in :

1. 1925
2. 1922
3. 1920
4. 1915

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Jallianwala Bagh Massacre in Amritsar took place on :

1. March 13 1919
2. April 13 1919
3. May 13 1919
4. June 13 1919

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Whom did Mahatma Gandhi consider his political guru?

1. Shri Bharat Kumar
2. Purushottam Das Tandon
3. Sir William Wedderburn
4. Gopal Krishna Gokhale

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The organization of Khudai Khidmatgar was established:

1. Under the leadership of Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan.
2. Under the leadership of Abul Kalam Azad
3. Under the leadership of M.
4. Under the leadership of Syed Hasan Imam

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Bal Gangadhar Tilak introduced the slogan Swaraj is my birth right in :

1. 1896
2. 1904
3. 1906
4. 1910

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Who founded Abhinav Bharat ?

1. V.
2. Savarkar
3. Arbindo Ghosh
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The two names which were associates with the publication of the paper ‘Yugantar’ are:

1. Barindra kumar Ghose and Arbindo Ghosh
2. Bhupendranath Dutta and Arbindo Ghosh
3. Barindra kumar Ghose and Bhupendranath Dutta
4. Sawarkar

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Delhi was formally declared the future capital of the British India in :

1. 1906
2. 1909
3. 1912
4. 1911

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The year which is associated with the Gadar movement is:

1. 1911
2. 1913
3. 1917
4. 1922

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The Queen Victoria assumed the title of the Empress of India in 1876 by :

1. British parliament
2. Indian Sabha
3. Singaporian Parliament
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Who said – “Our Life and religion are useless without the attainment of Swaraj”?

1. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
2. Veer Kunwar
3. Lala Lajpat Ra
4. Bhagat Singh

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The newspapers ‘The Punjabi and The pupil’ were published by :

1. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
2. Lala Lajpat Rai
3. Bhagat Singh
4. Lala Hardyal

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The National College in Calcutta had been established on :

1. September 14 1906
2. July 14 1906
3. March 14 1906
4. August 14 1906

✅ Correct Answer: 4

In 1906 Dadabhai Naoroji had passed a resolution approving the issues of swadeshi and national education in:

1. The Calcutta Session of the Indian National congress
2. The Lucknow Session of the Indian National congress
3. The Meerut Session of the Indian National congress
4. The Lahore Session of the Indian National congress

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Who played an important role in the Gadar Movement in 1915?

1. Lala Hardayal
2. Lala Lajpat Rai
3. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 1

In 1821 Raja Ram Mohan Roy started the Bengal quarterly:

1. Samvad Kaumudi
2. Bengali renaissance
3. Bengal Gazette
4. The Brahmonical

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The first man after the revolt of 1857 who wanted to overthrow the British regime by means of an armed rebellion and establish self-government in India was:

1. Bhakt Khan
2. Nana Sahib
3. Vasudeo Balwant Phadke
4. Jung Bhadur Rana

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Who established East India Association in London 1866?

1. Subhash Chandra Bose
2. Dadabhai Naoroji
3. V. O. Chidambaram Pillai
4. Hemu Kalani

✅ Correct Answer: 2

In 1893 Mahatma Gandhi went to South Africa in connection with the trial of a merchant:

1. Hemu Kalani
2. Sachindra Bakshi
3. Manmath Nath Gupta
4. Abdulla Seth

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Barindra Kumar Ghose and Bhupendranath Dutta started:

1. Jugantar
2. Som Prakash
3. Vichar Lahiri
4. Sandhya

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Lord Curzon announced the partition of Bengal on :

1. 16 October 1911
2. 16 October 1896
3. 16 October 1907
4. 16 October 1905

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Whose statement is this –“The Indians should no longer be satisfied with mere mendicancy neither should they beg the English for concessions”?

1. V N Mandalik
2. Lala Lajpat Rai
3. Bipin Chandra Pal
4. Abdul Kalam Azad

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which Indian revolutionary was called by the Britishers as ‘The Father of Indian Disaffection and biggest traitor’?

1. Lala Lajpat Rai
2. Lala Hardyal
3. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
4. M G Ranade

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Who was the founder of a society known as ‘Abhinav Bharat’ ?

1. J K Hikki
2. B B Upadhyay
3. Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Maulana qasim Nanautavi, Rashid Ahmad Gangohi, Sheikhul Hind Maulana- Mahmud-ul Hasan were the prominent figures who represented?

1. Deoband Movement
2. Santhal Movement
3. Indigo Movement
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 1

In the history of Indian National Movement Santhal Rebellion took place between :

1. 1845-47
2. 1849-50
3. 1855-56
4. 1866-67

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The famine which killed nearly 8 lakh people during British rule as per the report furnished by the Femine Commissioon of 1660 had struck :

1. Eastern India
2. Northern India
3. Southern India
4. Western India

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who called the revolt of 1857 as a war between barbarism and civilization?

1. V A Smith
2. T. R. Holmes
3. J K Hikki
4. Sir Ahmed Khan

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Who is the author of the book ‘The Great Rebellion’?

1. Robert Knight
2. T N Das
3. Ashok Mehta
4. K M Pannikar

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Who said, “this (the revolt 1857) was an eruption of social volcano, where many spent forces found vent. After the eruption, the whole social topography had changed; the scars if rebellion remained deep and shining?”

1. J K Hikki
2. Ashok Mehta
3. K M Pannikar
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Sisir Kumar Ghosh, Shambhuchand Mukherhee, Kali Mohan Das and Jogesh Chandra Dutt were editors of:

1. Amrit Bazar Patrika
2. Hindu
3. Sudharak
4. Yugantar

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which of the British Acts provided for the establishment of All India Federation at the centre ?

1. The Government of India Act 1935.
2. The Government of India Act 1919.
3. Indian Independence act 1947
4. The Registration act 1908

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The Cabinet mission arrived in Delhi on:

1. August 24 1946
2. May 24 1946
3. March 24 1946
4. April 24 1946

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The British government declared Communist Party of India illegal in:

1. 1924
2. 1934
3. 1930
4. 1939

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Under which British Act was the provision to establish a Federation of India concession of Governor’s provinces and Princely states made?

1. Government of India Act 1918
2. Government of India Act 1925
3. Government of India Act 1930
4. Government of India Act 1935

✅ Correct Answer: 4

When was Poona Pact between Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. B. R. Ambedkar signed?

1. In 1920
2. In 1925
3. In 1928
4. In 1932

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The British Prime Minister Atlee announced the withdrawal of the Britishers in the House of Commons from India on

1. February 20 1942
2. February 20 1947
3. March 20 1947
4. March 20 1942

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Who said, “India is for Indians?”

1. Syed Hasan Imam
2. Mahatma Gandhi
3. Dr. S.Gopal
4. Dayanand Saraswati

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who said,” One Country One God, One Caste, one Mind brothers all of us Without Difference, without Doubt ?”

1. V.
2. Savarkar
3. Syed Hasan Imam
4. Lala Lajpat Rai

✅ Correct Answer: 1

United India House organizes Unity among Indians in the United states of America in

1. 1906
2. 1908
3. 1910
4. 1917

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The Indian People play people’s role in the people’s war was the slogan of:

1. The Forward Block
2. Indian National Congress
3. Communist Party of India
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Who in the year 1907 unfurled the first national flag at the International socialist conference in Stuttgart (Germany)?

1. Madame Bhikaji Cama
2. Subash Chandra Bose
3. Jawahar Lal Nehru
4. Sardar Patel

✅ Correct Answer: 1

In 1942 who appealed the Britishers to leave India in God’s hands?

1. Jawahar Lal Nehru
2. Mohhamad Ali Jinnah
3. Sardar patel
4. Mahatma Gandhi

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Individual Satyagrah – symbolic and non-violent in nature was started on:

1. October 17 1942
2. October 17 1940
3. October 17 1939
4. October 17 1938

✅ Correct Answer: 2

In 1906 to protest discrimination against Indians in S. Africa Mahatma Gandhi started

1. Satyagraha at Durban
2. Satyagraha at Cape Town
3. Satyagraha at Port Elizabeth
4. Satyagraha at Johannesburg

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which slogan was given by the Congress in opposition to British Government involving India in Second World War in 1939 without consulting the people of India ?

1. Karo ya Maro
2. Nahi Karenge Nahi Ladenge
3. Na koi bhai na koi pai.
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Subhash Chandra Bose was elected the president of the Indian national congress :

1. Ramgarh Session 1940
2. Bombay Session 1934
3. Tripuri session 1939
4. Wardha Session 1942

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Bal Gangadhar Tilak began his drive for new awakening among the Indians by publishing two newspapers in 1881

1. The Maratha and Kesari
2. The Maratha and Samwad
3. The Samwad and Kesari
4. The Maratha and Kumudi

✅ Correct Answer: 1

In the elections held in 1937 under the provisions of the Government of India Act of 1935 Congress Ministries were formed in :

1. Eleven States
2. Nine States
3. Five States
4. Ten States

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Whom did the Britishers call the father of Indian disaffection and the biggest traitor?

1. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
2. Lala Hardayal
3. Lala Lajpat Rai
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Who established in 1893 the society for the removal of Obstacles to the Hindu Religion?

1. Dayanand Sarshawati
2. Raja Ram Mohan Rai
3. The Chapekar brothers
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Raja Rammohan Roy founded Brahma samaj on

1. 20 August1838 B. C. D.
2. 20 Augus 1828
3. 20 August1848
4. 20 August1858

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Gandhiji launched the Non-cooperation movement in:

1. The year 1910
2. The year 1915
3. The year 1917
4. The year 1920

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Swami Sahajanand Saraswati was the first president of

1. All India Hindu Mahasabha
2. All India Unity Mahasabha
3. All India Kisan Mahasabha
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 3

From where did the quit India Movement begin?

1. Calcutta
2. Mysore
3. Bombay
4. Pune

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Abhinav Bharat organized in 1904 was :

1. Hindu Mahashabha
2. A secret society of revolutionary activists
3. All India Kisan Mahasabha
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The major Muslim organizations which opposed the partition of India were

1. The Jamiat-Ulema-hind
2. Khudai Khidmatgar
3. Majlis-e-Ahrar –Hind
4. All of the these

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who was the selected as first satyagrahi by Mahatma Gandhi to begin individual satyagraha in 1940?

1. Vinoba Bhave
2. Jawahar Lal Nehru
3. Brahma Datt
4. Annie Besant

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Who was the mastermind of bomb attack on Lord Hardinge at chandani chowk in Delhi in 1912?

1. Amir Chand
2. Avadh Behari
3. Rasbihari Bose
4. Basant Kumar Biswas

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Quit India movement began on:

1. August 9 1940
2. August 9 1941
3. August 8 1942
4. August 9 1944

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Under which document was the separate electorate granted for muslims ?

1. Charter Act of 1813
2. The Permanent Settlement
3. Mahalwari System Reforms
4. Morley Minto Reforms

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Lucknow pact of 1916 was between:

1. Indian Muslim League and Mahatma Gandhi
2. Indian Muslim League and Indian National congress
3. Indian National congress and Lord Hardinge
4. Lord Hardinge and Mahatma Gandhi

✅ Correct Answer: 2

During the tenure of which Governor general was the resolution of total independence passed?

1. Lord Irwin
2. Lord Minto
3. Lord Chelmsford
4. Lord Reading

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The main centre of Wahabi Movement during the freedom movement was

1. Lucknow
2. Mysore
3. Patna
4. Delhi

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Swami Dayanand established the head quarters of Arya Samaj in:

1. Calcutta
2. Lahore
3. Mumbai
4. Chennai

✅ Correct Answer: 2

In 1912 Mohammad Ali started the paper

1. The Native Opinion
2. The New India
3. Al-Balagh
4. The Comrade

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The Indian National congress decided to launch an individual civil disobedience in place of Mass civil Disobedience in:

1. 1942
2. 1935
3. 1933
4. 1928

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which Act provided for the establishment of an All India federation at the centre consisting of the provinces of British India and the princely states?

1. The Government of India Act 1935
2. Government of India Act 1918
3. Government of India Act 1925
4. Government of India Act 1930

✅ Correct Answer: 1

When did Mahatma Gandhi go on fast unto death for the first time?

1. 1921
2. 1917
3. 1918
4. 1915

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What is called the magna carta of Western Education system in Indian?

1. Dispatch of Charles wood secretary of state 1854
2. Slavery Bill for Education
3. Wonder of Education refoms
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Who led the revolt of 1857 in Lucknow?

1. Bahadur Shah Jafar
2. Jung Bahadur Rana
3. Begum Hazrat Mahal
4. Tatya Tope

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Who said “one religion one caste and one God for mankind?”

1. Dayanand Sarshwati
2. Swami Sachidanand Sarshwati
3. Swami Ramanand Sarshwati
4. Narayan Guru

✅ Correct Answer: 4

On what ground did the second split in the congress take place in 1918?

1. Charter act of India
2. Montague Chelmsford Declaration
3. Morley Minto Reforms
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which revolutionary wrote books Colour of Swadeshi and Revolutionary Life?

1. Bhagat Singh
2. Sukhdev
3. Pandit Ram Prasad Bismil
4. Raj Guru

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which revolutionary was associated with the foundation of the Punjab Navjivan Bharat Sabha in 1926?

1. Rash Behari Bose
2. Amir Chand
3. Basant Kumar Biswas
4. Bhagat Singh

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The novel ‘Neel Darpan’ depicting the harassment and oppression of Indigo farmers by the Britishers was written by:

1. M M Malviya
2. Bipin Chandra Pal
3. Tara Shankar Bandhopadhyay
4. Sisir Kumar Ghosh

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Who led the revolt in 1857 in Bihar and defeated the British Army near Aara?

1. Bahadur Shah Jafar
2. Kunwar Singh
3. Tatya Tope
4. Mangal Pandey

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Who wrote famous thesis entitled ‘South India in 1857: war of Independence’:

1. J K Hikki
2. K M Pannikar
3. . M G Ranade
4. Savarkar

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who has written about the revolt of 1857- ‘this was an eruption of social volcano’ where many spent forces found vent. After the vent the whole social topography has changed. The scars of rebellion remained deep and shining?”

1. Brahma Datt
2. V.
3. Savarkar
4. Ashok Mehta

✅ Correct Answer: 4