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Modern history - Test Set 3

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  1. Question 1

    SSC MTS 2023
    What was the Swadeshi Movement called in the state of Andhra Pradesh?
    1. Gadar Movement
    2. Quit India Movement
    3. Khilafat Movement
    4. Vande Mataram Movement
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  2. Question 2

    SSC CGL 2023
    Who among the following leaders led the Bardoli Satyagraha?
    1. Lala Lajpat Rai
    2. Motilal Nehru
    3. C. Rajagopalachari
    4. Vallabhbhai Patel
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  3. Question 3

    CDS-II 2021
    In India, the first major public appearance of Mahatma Gandhi was in:
    1. Champaran (1917)
    2. Kheda (1918)
    3. Inauguration of Banaras Hindu University (1916)
    4. Rowlatt Satyagraha (1919)
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  4. Question 4

    SSC CGL 2024
    Who was the Viceroy of India when Mahatma Gandhi started Dandi march on 12th March 1930?
    1. Lord Willingdon
    2. Lord Irwin
    3. Lord Chelmsford
    4. Lord Minto II
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  5. Question 5

    WBCS Mains 2020
    Who founded the India Independence League (1842) in Tokyo?
    1. Taraknath Das
    2. Raja Mahendra Pratap
    3. Subhas Chandra Bose
    4. Rash Bihari Bose
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  6. Question 6

    CDS-II 2023
    Who among the following is the author of the book ‘The Indian Struggle 1920-1942’?
    1. Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
    2. Subhas Chandra Bose
    3. Vallabhbhai Patel
    4. Saratchandra Bose
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  7. Question 7

    SSC CGL 2024
    In 1936, the Independent Labour Party was founded by __________.
    1. Bhagat Singh
    2. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
    3. BR Ambedkar
    4. Mohan Singh Bhakhna
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  8. Question 8

    WBCS Pre 2022
    Who was the first Indian Governor General of free India?
    1. Rajendra Prasad
    2. Chakraborty Rajagopalachari
    3. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan
    4. None of them
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  9. Question 9

    Mizoram PSC Pre 2016
    Who among the following was not member of interim Cabinet?
    1. Jawaharlal Nehru
    2. Baldev Singh
    3. Ali Zaher
    4. B.R. Ambedkar
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  10. Question 10

    WBCS Pre 2016/2020
    The English set up their first factory on Indian soil in 1621 at
    1. Goa
    2. Surat
    3. Calicut
    4. Madras
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  11. Question 11

    Uttarakhand PCS Pre 2016
    Which one of the following is connected with ‘Blue Water’ policy?
    1. De Almedia
    2. Albuquerque
    3. Dupleix
    4. Robert Clive
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  12. Question 12

    Chhattisgarh PCS Pre 2017
    By which of the following regulation British East India Company’s trade monopoly in India was abolished?
    1. Charter Act of 1793
    2. Charter Act of 1813
    3. Charter Act of 1833
    4. Charter Act of 1853
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  13. Question 13

    UPPCS Pre 1994
    The first war of Independence (1857) started from
    1. Lucknow
    2. Jhansi
    3. Meerut
    4. Kanpur
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  14. Question 14

    WBCS Mains 2020
    The author of the book ‘The Indian war of Independence 1857’ was
    1. Sir Syad Ahmed Khan
    2. V. D. Savarkar
    3. R. S. Sharma
    4. R. C. Majumdar
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  15. Question 15

    BPSC Pre 2011
    When was the National Council of Education established?
    1. 15th August, 1903
    2. 15th August, 1904
    3. 15th August, 19035
    4. 15th August, 1906
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  16. Question 16

    Karnataka PSC Pre 2019
    __________ was related to Bahiskrit Bharat.
    1. Atmaram Panduranga
    2. Jyotiba Phule
    3. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
    4. B. R. Ambedkar
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  17. Question 17

    SSC CGL 2024
    Who founded the Brahmo Samaj in Calcutta in 1828?
    1. Ram Mohan Roy
    2. Swami Vivekanand
    3. Gopal Krishna Gokhale
    4. Ramabai Ranade
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  18. Question 18

    SSC MTS 2022
    Sayyid Ahmed Khan founded Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College in _________ in 1875.
    1. Aligarh
    2. Calcutta
    3. Delhi
    4. Lahore
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  19. Question 19

    WBCS Pre 2019
    Kuka movement is associated with which of the following states?
    1. Assam
    2. Bengal
    3. Punjab
    4. Maharashtra
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  20. Question 20

    WBCS Pre 2021
    To which following movement is the term ‘Ulgulan’ associated with?
    1. Munda uprising
    2. Santal uprising
    3. Kol uprising
    4. Gurkha uprising
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