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1. Out of the following the most decisive battle fought by the English East India Company was –
a) Battle of Buxar b) Battle of Plassey
c) First Anglo-Sikh War d) First Anglo-Mysore War
2. Which of the following Indian city was gifted by the Portuguese as a dowry to Charles II, the King of England, when
he got married to the sister of the King of Portugal in 1662?
a) Mumbai b) Daman c) Goa d) Cochin
3. Which of the following Acts introduced separate electorate system in India?
a) The Regulating Act, 1773 b) The Charter Act, 1833
c) The Pitt’s India Act, 1784 d) Indian Council Act, 1909
4. Who was the Nawab of Bengal when the East India Company obtained the Diwani of Bengal from the Mughal Emperor
Shah Alam II?
a) Mir Qasim b) Mir Jafar c) Nazam-ud-Daulah d) Shuja-ud Daula
5. An important event of Lord Dufferin’s tenure as viceroy was –
a) Establishment of Ramakrishna Mission b) Establishment of Muslim League in Dhaka
c) Establishment of Indian National Congress d) Beginning of the first census
6. From which year was the regular and scientific census started in India?
a) 1861 b) 1871 c) 1881 d) 1891
7. Who among the following introduced the Permanent Settlement of Bengal in 1793?
a) Lord Cornwallis b) Lord Ripon c) Robert Clive d) John Adams
8. The creation of a Federal Court in India was advocated by which of the following Acts/Commissions?
a) The Government of India Act, 1919 b) The Lee Commission, 1923
c) The Government of India Act, 1935 d) The Indian Council Act, 1909
9. The Jallianwala Bagh Massacre happened in the context of which Gandhian Satyagraha?
a) Swadeshi Satyagraha b) Rowlatt Satyagraha
c) Bardoli Satyagraha d) Individual Satyagraha
10. Pahartali European Club was attacked in 1932 by –
a) Kalpana Datta b) Bina Das c) Pritilata Waddedar d) Leela Nag

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11. The Simon Commission was boycotted because –
a) There was no Indian member in the commission b) It supported the Muslim League
c) Congress felt that the people deserved Swaraj d) There were differences among the members
12. Who was the Governor General of India in 1857?
a) Lord Wellesley b) Lord Dalhousie c) Lord Canning d) Lord Minto II
13. With reference to the History of India, “Ulgulan” or the Great Tumult is the description of which of the following
events?
a) The Revolt of 1857 b) The Mappila Rebellion of 1921
c) The Indigo Revolt of 1859-60 d) Birsa Munda’s Revolt of 1899-1900
14. Who established the Servant of India Society?
a) Lala Lajpat Rai b) Bipin Chandra Pal
c) Gopal Krishna Gokhale d) Bhagat Singh
15. Mahatma Gandhi’s Dandi March, a great event in Indian Freedom Struggle, was associated with –
a) Iron b) Sodium Chloride c) Sulphur d) Aluminium
16. The Brahmo Samaj is based on the principle of –
a) Monotheism b) Polytheism c) Atheism d) Monism
17. Who among the following had started the Mitra Mela Association?
a) Shyamji Krishna Varma b) Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
c) Lala Har Dayal d) Sohan Singh Bhakna
18. The founder President of All India Kisan Sabha was –
a) Acharya Narendra Dev b) Swami Sahajanand
c) Bankim Mukherjee d) Jayaprakash Narayan
19. Arya Samaj was established in the year –
a) 1870 b) 1872 c) 1873 d) 1875
20. Who among the following founded the Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental Defence Association?
a) Auckland Colvin b) Badruddin Tyabji
c) Theodore Beck d) Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
21. Who among the following was nominated by Mahatma Gandhi for the presidentship of the Congress in 1939 against
Subhas Chandra Bose?
a) Pattabhi Sitaramayya b) Govind Ballabh Pant
c) Jawaharlal Nehru d) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
22. In 1929, Lahore Congress was presided over by –
a) Motilal Nehru b) Jawaharlal Nehru
c) C R Das d) Vallabhbhai Patel
23. Who among the following were official Congress negotiators with the Cripps Mission?
a) Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Patel b) Acharya J B Kripalani and C. Rajagopalachari
c) Pandit Nehru and Maulana Azad d) Dr. Rajendra Prasad and Rafi Ahmed Kidwai
24. Satyashodhak Samaj was founded by –
a) Dayananda Saraswati b) Jyotiba Phule
c) Gandhiji d) Dr. B. R. Ambedkar

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25. Who was the Maratha Sardar when Alivardi Khan ceded the revenues of a part of Orissa?
a) Raghuji Bhonsle b) Trimbak Rao Dabhade
c) Ranoji Scindia d) Malhar Rao Holkar
26. Who was the instrumental in founding the National Planning Committee in 1938?
a) Subhas Chandra Bose b) Jawaharlal Nehru
c) Mahatma Gandhi d) Maulana Azad
27. Who started the Faraizi Movement in Bengal?
a) Titumir b) Kunwar Singh c) Digambar Biswas d) Haji Shariatullah
28. Which Mughal Emperor granted ‘Farman’ in 1717 to the British East India Company?
a) Bahadur Shah II b) Shah Alam II
c) Farrukhsiyar d) Muhammad Shah
29. Who of the following was acted as the President of the Indian National Congress for six consecutive years?
a) Jawaharlal Nehru b) Dadabhai Naoroji
c) Abul Kalam Azad d) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
30. Which one of the following commissions was appointed by British Government to investigation into the massacre in
Jallianwala Bagh?
a) Hunter Commission b) Simon Commission
c) Welby Commission d) Butler Commission
31. Who was invited by Lord Wavell to form the Interim Government in India in 1946?
a) Dr. Rajendra Prasad b) Jawaharlal Nehru
c) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel d) C. Rajagopalachari
32. The Muslim League demanded separate Pakistan for the first time in the year –
a) 1939 b) 1940 c) 1941 d) 1942
33. Two independent state of India and Pakistan were created by –
a) The Simla Conference b) The Cripps Mission
c) The Cabinet Mission Plan d) The Indian Independence Act
34. Who of the following had led the defense pleaders in the famous Indian National Army trial in the Red Fort of Delhi?
a) Jawaharlal Nehru b) Asaf Ali
c) Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru d) Bhulabhai Desai
35. The provision for the establishment of the All India Federation was included in the –
a) Government of India Act, 1935 b) Government of India Act, 1919
c) August Offer, 1940 d) Cabinet Mission Plan, 1946
36. During whose tenure, did the incident of the Black Hole take place?
a) Mir Jafar b) Mir Qasim c) Alivardi Khan d) Siraj-ud Daulah
37. Which one of the following relates to ‘Blue Water Policy’?
a) De Almeida b) Albuquerque c) Dupleix d) Robert Clive
38. Hindu Mela was established in the year –
a) 1899 b) 1867 c) 1866 d) 1890

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39. Who of the following was the founder of the Indian Society of Oriental Art?
a) Satish Chandra Mukherjee b) Satish Chandra Basu
c) Abanindranath Tagore d) Ashwini Kumar Dutta
40. Who published Vande Mataram from Paris?
a) Bhupendranath Datta b) Barin Ghosh
c) Chempakaraman Pillai d) Madam Cama
41. In which year women participated in the proceedings of the Indian National Congress?
a) 1885 b) 1889 c) 1898 d) 1926
42. Who of the following was the founder of the Swadesh Bandhab Samiti?
a) Lala Lajpat Rai b) Bipin Chandra Pal
c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak d) Ashwini Kumar Dutta
43. All India Women's Conference was founded in the year –
a) 1927 b) 1929 c) 1931 d) 1936
44. Non-Cooperation Movement was withdrawn during the time of –
a) Lord Chelmsford b) Lord Irwin c) Lord Willingdon d) Lord Reading
45. The Treaty of Sugauli was signed between –
a) Anglo-Nepalese b) Anglo-Burmese c) Anglo-Sindh d) Anglo-Afghan
46. The Bengali Newspaper Samachar Darpan was published by –
a) David Hare b) Joshua Marshman
c) James Augustus Hicky d) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
47. Who of the following published the Marathi paper ‘Mooknayak’?
a) B. R. Ambedkar b) N. M. Lokhande
c) G. G. Agarkar d) Jyotiba Phule
48. Who among the following was not involved in the conspiracy against Siraj?
a) Ghaseti Begum b) Raja Raj Ballabh c) Mohan Lal d) Manik Chand
49. Indian Association was founded in the year –
a) 1876 b) 1878 c) 1890 d) 1875
50. Satyagraha Society was established during the time of which of the following movement?
a) Rowlatt Satyagraha b) Satyagraha in South Africa
c) Non-Cooperation Movement d) Quit India Movement

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