Modern Indian History Mixed Practice — MCQs with Answers (Set 10)

The answer is Urvashi Butalia, whose oral-history work on Partition survivors made this book a landmark text.

The answer is village panchayat documents from Rajasthan, Gujarat, and Maharashtra. These local records preserve women’s petitions and complaints about family neglect and infidelity in ways formal chronicles do not.

The answer is Radhakanta Deb. He founded the Dharma Sabha in 1830 as a conservative counter to reformist movements like the Brahmo Samaj.

The answer is 1, 2 and 3, all correctly matched. Cornwallis introduced the Permanent Settlement, Munro pioneered Ryotwari, and Holt Mackenzie designed the Mahalwari system.

The answer is land demarcated for the Santhals. The British designated this Rajmahal Hills tract in the 1830s to settle Santal cultivators.

The answer is A-4, B-3, C-1, D-2. The Rowlatt Act was passed in 1919, the Salt March happened in 1930, the Chauri Chaura incident occurred in 1922, and the Second Round Table Conference met in 1931.

The answer is 1, 2 and 3 only. Gandhi’s 1916 BHU speech is remembered for criticising elite indifference to the poor, farmers, and untouchables; he was famously a champion of Ahmedabad’s mill workers against the mill owners, not the other way round.

Lord Irwin served as Viceroy of India from 1926 to 1931, covering the entire Dandi March period in 1930. Gandhi march to break the salt law ran from 12 March to 6 April 1930, directly under Irwin tenure. Their negotiations later led to the Gandhi-Irwin Pact, signed in March 1931.

The answer is the Hindu Mahasabha, founded at the 1915 Haridwar Kumbh Mela to represent and consolidate Hindu interests.

The answer is Madari Pasi. He took the Eka Movement in a more radical direction, moving it beyond the Congress’s original moderate leadership.

The answer is Robert Fortune. He smuggled tea plants and Chinese expertise into British India, enabling the tea industry to take root there.

The answer is Jawaharlal Nehru. He championed Afro-Asian solidarity and non-alignment from India’s earliest years of independence, notably at the 1955 Bandung Conference.

Jaipal Singh Munda campaigned for a separate tribal state called Jharkhand, carved out of Bihar, not Chhattisgarh. He founded the Adivasi Mahasabha in 1938 to press for tribal rights. He was elected to the Constituent Assembly from Bihar in 1946. He also captained India first Olympic hockey gold medal team at the 1928 Amsterdam Games.

The answer is Abbe J. A. Dubois. This French missionary wrote extensively on Indian manners and customs in the early 19th century.

The answer is Napoleon Bonaparte. He saw control of India’s trade as the key to dominating Europe, shaping his ambitions in the East.

The answer is that Talukdars were seen as interlopers with no permanent stake. This assumption let the British settle revenue directly with cultivators in Awadh, bypassing the Talukdars.

The answer is that Statement I is false but Statement II is true. The Oudh Kisan Sabha actually did organise numerous local Kisan Sabhas under it in 1920-21, and it did call for refusing bedakhli land and forced labour.

The answer is Lord Curzon. He set up the Imperial Department of Agriculture and the Pusa Agricultural Research Institute in the early 1900s.

The answer is Chota Nagpur. Khuntkatti was a communal land tenure system among the Munda tribe, recognising the rights of a village’s original clearing families.

The answer is T.B. Sapru and M.R. Jayakar. Moderates who broke from Congress after the Montagu-Chelmsford reforms founded this Liberal Party.

The answer is G.H. Deshmukh (Lokahitwadi). His ‘Shatapatre’ (Hundred Letters), published 1848-50, sparked public debate on caste, education, and social reform.

The answer is the Muslim League. Bose allied with League leader Fazlul Huq’s government to have the monument, seen as a symbol of colonial narrative, removed in 1940.

The answer is 1948. India’s military action, Operation Polo, ended the Nizam’s resistance and brought Hyderabad into the Union that September.

The answer is the Portuguese. They established the earliest European trading posts along Africa’s coast in the 15th century, well before other European powers followed.

The answer is Devendranath Tagore, who founded it in 1839 to spread rational, reformed religious thought in Bengal.