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Modern history - Test Set 4

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  1. Question 1

    SSC Phase XII 2024
    Who among the following was one of the founders of the Swaraj Party?
    1. Subhas Chandra Bose
    2. Jawahar Lal Nehru
    3. Chittaranjan Das
    4. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
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  2. Question 2

    SSC MTS 2023
    Badruddin Tyabji addressed the congress as president in __________.
    1. 1887
    2. 1888
    3. 1885
    4. 1886
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  3. Question 3

    WBCS Pre 2020
    Who is called the ‘Father of Indian National Congress’?
    1. Mahatma Gandhi
    2. A. O. Hume
    3. Lokmanya Tilak
    4. Surendra Nath Banerjee
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  4. Question 4

    SSC JE 2024
    Which of the following organisations was established in 1906?
    1. Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha
    2. All India Muslim League
    3. Servants of Indian Society
    4. Parsi Religious Reform Association
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  5. Question 5

    CDS-I 2022
    The headquarters of Ghadar Movement/Party were at:
    1. San Francisco
    2. Stanford University
    3. Portland
    4. Florida
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  6. Question 6

    SSC CHSL 2023
    When was the Champaran Agrarian Act passed?
    1. 1920
    2. 1922
    3. 1918
    4. 1924
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  7. Question 7

    CDS-I 2024
    The distribution of Charkhas on a wide scale among the people was decide by:
    1. Congress Working Committee in 1919
    2. All India Congress Committee in 1921
    3. Mahatma Gandhi at the start of Dandi March
    4. All India Congress Committee in 1947
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  8. Question 8

    SSC MTS 2021
    At which of the following places did C. Rajagopalachari break the salt law in the year 1930?
    1. Vedaranyam
    2. Tiruchi
    3. Tirupati
    4. Madurai
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  9. Question 9

    SSC CGL 2023
    Who among the following signed the Poona pact with Mahatma Gandhi?
    1. Ali Brothers
    2. Chittaranjan Das
    3. Jyotiba Phule
    4. Bhimrao Ambedkar
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  10. Question 10

    WBCS Mains 2020
    The Cripps Mission visited Indian in
    1. 1927
    2. 1939
    3. 1942
    4. 1946
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  11. Question 11

    SSC CGL 2024
    Which party formed the government in Britain in the year 1945?
    1. Labour Party
    2. Socialist Party
    3. Democratic Party
    4. Liberal Party
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  12. Question 12

    WBCS Mains 2019
    Lord Mountbatten’s Declaration on the Freedom of India and its partition is known as
    1. The August Plan
    2. The June 3rd Plan
    3. The June 2nd Plan
    4. The partition Plan
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  13. Question 13

    NDA-II 2022
    Where did Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose announce the formation of the Government of Free India in 1943?
    1. Singapore
    2. Shanghai
    3. Berlin
    4. Mandalay
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  14. Question 14

    SSC CPO 2022
    The first President of the All India Tread Union Congress was ________.
    1. C. Rajagopalachari
    2. Lala Lajpat Rai
    3. Chandra Shekhar Azad
    4. Motilal Nehru
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  15. Question 15

    NAD-I 2025
    Maize (Makka) was introduced into India in the seventeenth century via:
    1. Portugal
    2. Africa and Spain
    3. China and Mongolia
    4. Turkey
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  16. Question 16

    SSC MTS 2021
    Which city the capital of the French Colony in India?
    1. Cochin
    2. Tuticorin
    3. Pondicherry
    4. Panjim
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  17. Question 17

    WBCS Mains 2021
    Who was the principal architect of British India’s policy towards Tibet?
    1. Lord Dalhousie
    2. Lord Dufferin
    3. Lord Curzon
    4. Lord Minto
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  18. Question 18

    IAS Pre 2006
    Who was the Governor-General of India during the Revolt of 1857?
    1. Lord Canning
    2. Lord Dalhousie
    3. Lord Hardinge
    4. Lord Lytion
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  19. Question 19

    WBCS Mains 2020
    The Revolt of 1857 did not acquire much intensity in
    1. Delhi
    2. Awadh
    3. Bombay
    4. The Chambal region
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  20. Question 20

    WBCS Pre 2020
    Through which Educational Report Calcutta University came into existence?
    1. Macaulay’s Minute
    2. Hunter Commission
    3. Charter Act
    4. Wood’s Despatch
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