Modern Indian History Mixed Practice — MCQs with Answers (Set 1)

The indentured recruitment system for Assam’s tea gardens was formally dismantled in 1926, following the earlier repeal of the Workmen’s Breach of Contract Act, 1859.

Kazi Lhendup Dorji Khangsarpa founded the Sikkim Praja Mandal in 1945 to fight for democracy against the Chogyal monarchy. He later became Sikkim’s first Chief Minister after the 1975 merger.

Vithalbhai Patel was a Pro-Changer (Swarajist), siding with C.R. Das and Motilal Nehru on council entry. His brother Vallabhbhai Patel, along with Rajagopalachari and Rajendra Prasad, was a No-Changer.

All three — papaya, pineapple, and guava — are native to the Americas. The Portuguese brought them to India via Goa in the 16th-17th centuries as part of the wider Columbian Exchange, along with chilli, potato, tobacco, and maize.

Her father Mankoji Shinde was a village headman in Chondi. She was not born into a ruling family.

Records date the present Kashi Vishwanath structure to 1780. She is credited with building it.

Maheshwar was her working seat on the Narmada. Indore was also important to the Holkars.

She took charge after her son Male Rao died in 1767. She ruled until her death in 1795.

The Company refused to accept the adopted heir Damodar Rao and annexed Jhansi under the Doctrine of Lapse.

MISA, a 1971 preventive-detention law, was widely used during the Emergency. The Janata government later repealed it.

Justice H. R. Khanna was the lone dissenter. The 2017 Puttaswamy judgment expressly overruled the majority view.

A 1923 British parliamentary answer gives these figures. Malaviya argued the appeal, but the judges made the rulings.

The crowd set out from Thampanoor on the Maharaja’s birthday. Kowdiar Palace was the goal.

Congreve studied the captured Indian rockets there. He then built an improved version for the army.

The British stormed the island fortress in May. The captured rockets were then shipped to Britain.

The defeat came in September of that year. Rockets helped set off the British ammunition.

A metal tube could hold far more pressure. That gave the rocket longer range and a harder punch.

He took the finance portfolio in a cabinet that cut across communal lines. It was a rare cross-party experiment.

The law set up debt settlement boards for cultivators. It eased the load of rural borrowing.

The Act formalised the ban on land transfer from Santhals to non-Santhals. It still shapes land rights in the region.

The British created the Santhal Paraganas district after the revolt. It gave the Santhals more autonomy and safeguards.

Rast Goftar came first, in 1851. The East India Association followed in London in 1866. Naoroji won Central Finsbury in 1892, and his book on the drain came out in 1901. Orders that put the book before the election get the last two years wrong.