Modern Indian History Mixed Practice — MCQs with Answers (Set 14)

The correct answer is Destroyer of Ceremonial Pollution. Walangkar chose the name to directly target the caste system’s idea of ritual purity.

The correct answer is untouchable readers. Vital-Vidhvansak, meaning “Destroyer of Ceremonial Pollution,” was the first monthly journal to target untouchable readers.

The correct answer is the bonfires of foreign cloth during the Non-Cooperation Movement. Tagore, an internationalist, saw the practice as needlessly destructive.

The correct answer is the Zakir Husain Committee, and Tagore called Visva-Bharati a “world university.” The Hunter Commission (1882) and Sapru Committee were real bodies, but on different subjects.

The correct answer is learning through a productive craft, like spinning or weaving. Reading, writing, and civics grew out of that craft work.

The correct answer is 1921. It grew out of Tagore’s earlier school at Santiniketan, started in 1901.

The correct answer is 1937. Gandhi called the Wardha Conference in October 1937, which set out the Basic Education plan.

Dadabhai Naoroji founded the East India Association in London in 1866, bringing together Indians and retired British officials to advocate for Indian interests.

Wood’s Despatch recommended English for higher studies, while vernacular languages were recommended at the primary level, and Anglo-vernacular at the high-school level — a graded, not uniform, language policy.

The Despatch recommended a DPI in each of five provinces: Bengal, Bombay, Madras, Punjab, and the North-Western Provinces, to administer the new education system on the ground.

The universities of Calcutta, Bombay, and Madras were founded on 24 September 1857, in the presidency towns Wood’s Despatch had recommended for university establishment.

The Despatch rejected Macaulay’s ‘downward filtration theory,’ which held that funding elite higher education would eventually filter knowledge down to the masses. Wood’s Despatch stressed mass education instead.

Statements 1 and 2 are correct. Statement 3 is wrong: Wood’s Despatch recommended English only for higher education, with vernacular languages at the primary level, not English at all levels.

Sen’s faction split from the original Brahmo Samaj and eventually formed the Brahmo Samaj of India.

The Indian Reform Association published Sulabh Samachar, a low-cost periodical meant to reach a wider readership.

Sen laid the foundation stone of the Tabernacle of New Dispensation on 24 January 1868.

The Calcutta Unitarian Committee was founded in 1821 by Rammohan Roy, Dwarkanath Tagore, and William Adam, before Sen was born.

Sen founded the Tabernacle of New Dispensation and the Indian Reform Association, not the Calcutta Unitarian Committee.

The Phules opened India’s first school for girls in Pune in 1848, years before founding the Satya Shodhak Samaj.

Prinsep deciphered the Brahmi script in 1837, publishing his findings in a series of scholarly articles.

The march began at Tiruchirappalli and covered about 150 miles to reach Vedaranyam on the Tanjore coast.

Dutt had served inside the Indian Civil Service himself, before turning his administrative experience into a critical, evidence-based history of British economic policy.

All three, Naoroji, G. Subramania Iyer, and R.C. Dutt, were genuine economic critics of colonialism, each building an independent case using real trade and revenue data.

Naoroji set out his Drain of Wealth theory fully in ‘Poverty and Un-British Rule in India,’ arguing British policy drained India’s wealth to Britain.

The report recommended that States should not be transferred, without their own consent, to a new government responsible to an Indian legislature — a principle that stayed relevant right up to 1947.