Top 550+ Solved Modern Indian History MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Lord Dalhousie annexed Oudh for the British Empire in India -
a. through policy of subsidiary alliance
b. through doctrine of lapse
c. as the State being maladministered
d. through wagging a war
Q. Who was the first Governor-General of Independent India?
a. Lord Attlee
b. Lord Mountbatten
c. C. Rajagopalachari
d. Rajendra Prasad
Q. When was the Dandi March undertaken?
a. 31st December, 1929
b. 12th March, 1930
c. 5th April, 1930
d. 5th May, 1930
Q. Who was the first propounder of the Doctrine of Passive Resistance?
a. B.G. Tilak
b. Aurobindo Ghosh
c. Lajpat Rai
d. G. K. Gokhale
Q. Who was the founder of the Servants of India Society?
a. G.K. Gokhale
b. M.G. Ranade
c. B.G. Tilak
d. Bipin Chandra Pal
Q. Mahatma Gandhi was profoundly influenced by the writings of -
a. Bernard Shaw
b. Karl Marx
c. Lenirn
d. Leo Tolstoy
Q. Who ws the President of Indian National Congress when the Mountbatten Plan of independence was accepted?
a. Jawaharlal Nehru
b. Sardar Patel
c. Maulana Azad
d. Acharya J. B. Kripalani
Q. Who developed the idea that “means justify the ends"?
a. Kautilya
b. Raja Ram Mohan Roy
c. Swami Dayanand Saraswati
d. Mahatma Gandhi
Q. The founder of the 'Brahmo Samaj' was -
a. Swami Dayananda Saraswati
b. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
c. Raja Ram Mohun Roy
d. Swami Vivekananda
Q. Lahore was Ranjeet Singh's Political Capital. Which city was called his Religious Capital?
a. Amritsar
b. Anandpur Shahib
c. Gujranwala
d. Peshawar
Q. Which of the following events made the English East India Company the legitimate masters of the Bengal Suba?
a. Battle of Buxar, 1764
b. Battle of Plassey, 1757
c. Farrukh Siyar's Farman, 1717
d. Ibrahim Khan's Farman, 1690
Q. Permanent Revenue settlement of Bengal was introduced by:
a. Clive
b. Hastings
c. Wellesley
d. Cornwallis
Q. The father of extremist movement in India is:
a. Motilal Nehru
b. Gopal Krishna Gokhale
c. Vallabhbhai Patel
d. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Q. Who was the first woman President of Congress?
a. Mrs. Annie Besant
b. Mrs. Sarojini Naidu
c. Mrs. Nellie Sengupta
d. Aruna Asaf Ali