Top 150+ Solved Modern Indian History (1857 to the present) MCQ Questions Answer
Q. The Montague-Chelmsford Reforms of .................... had brought alarge scale discontentment among the people of India.
a. 1909
b. 1911
c. 1916
d. 1919
Q. The Non-Cooperation Movement launched by ..................had fanned the fireof this discontentment.
a. Gandhi
b. Jawaharlal Nehru
c. Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
d. Sardar Vallabhai
Q. The States Reorganization Act was passed by parliament in November..............
a. 1916
b. 1926
c. 1946
d. 1956.
Q. In India, "the Emergency" refers to a 21-month period in 1975–77 when PrimeMinister................ unilaterally had an emergency declared across the country.
a. Indira Gandhi
b. Jawaharlal Nehru
c. Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
d. Rajiv Gandhi
Q. Officially issued by President................ Ahmed under Article 352(1) ofthe Constitution for "internal disturbance", the Emergency was in effect from 25 June1975 until its withdrawal on 21 March 1977.
a. Fakhruddin Ali
b. Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
c. Dr. Rajendra Prasad
d. Manmohan Singh
Q. Indira Gandhi became the prime minister in January ............. and then emergedvictorious in the 1971 Lok Sabha elections.
a. 1906
b. 1916
c. 1956
d. 1966
Q. The socialist stalwart ...................openly led a mass movement against hercalling her corrupt and autocratic.
a. Jaya Prakash Narayan
b. Fakruddin Ali Ahmed
c. EMS
d. AKG
Q. The firebrand trade union leader ....................had successfully organised an allIndia Railways strike bringing the public transport and economy to a halt.
a. George Fernandes
b. Fakruddin Ali Ahmed
c. Jaya Prakash Narayan
d. EMS
Q. The Emergency draft was hurriedly sent to the President of India ................who signed it immediately.
a. Fakruddin Ali Ahmed
b. George Fernandes
c. Dr.Rajendra Prasad
d. ManmohanSingh
Q. ................ second son Sanjay Gandhi, who was just 29 years old then, tookcharge of the administration and started sending opposition leaders and workers to jails across India.
a. Nanaji Deshmukh’s
b. Morarji Desai’s
c. Indira Gandhi\s
d. , Subramanian Swamy’s,
Q. Ramnath Goenka, the only newspaper owner who stood up to.................., was harassed and he faced a series of troubles at the hands of her government.
a. Indira Gandhi
b. JP, George Fernandes,
c. AB Vajpayee
d. LK Advani,
Q. However, .................... shocked everybody by declaring Lok Sabhaelections in January 1977 bringing an end to draconian Emergency.
a. Indira Gandhi
b. Ramakrishna Hegde,
c. HD Deve Gowda,
d. M Karunanidhi.