Modern Indian History Mixed Practice — MCQs with Answers (Set 2)

Statements 1 and 3 are correct. He won Central Finsbury as a Liberal in July 1892, by five votes, and lost the seat in 1895. Statement 2 is wrong. As a Zoroastrian, he took his oath on the Khordeh Avesta, not the Bible.

Rast Goftar was Naoroji’s Gujarati reform paper of 1851. The East India Association was his London body of 1866. His 1901 book set out the drain theory in full. The Welby Commission was the Royal Commission on Indian Expenditure, which he joined in 1895.

Naoroji was Congress president three times: Calcutta 1886, Lahore 1893 and Calcutta 1906. He did not preside at Surat in 1907. That session broke up in the Moderate-Extremist split.

Statements 1 and 2 are correct. He became Elphinstone’s first Indian full professor in 1854. He was also the first Indian member of such a commission when he joined the Welby Commission. Statement 3 is wrong, because the East India Association was founded in London in 1866.

Mangoo Ram helped organise the Ad Dharm movement in the 1920s. It sought public recognition and an end to caste exclusion.

Article 76 provides for the Attorney General. The person must be qualified to be a Supreme Court judge.

The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Vibhushan in 1957, while he was Attorney General.

Article 356 deals with failure of constitutional machinery in a state. It was used against the elected Kerala ministry in 1959.

He was one of the founders in 1934. He served as its all-India joint secretary from 1934 to 1940.

Basu became Chief Minister on 21 June 1977, at the head of the Left Front.

Basu was the Communist Party candidate for the railway workers seat in 1946. He had organised railway workers since 1944.

Govind Swaminadhan was Advocate-General of Tamil Nadu from 1969 to 1976. His sister Lakshmi became Captain Lakshmi Sahgal.

She was named Mother of the Year in 1975, when International Women’s Year was inaugurated.

A Sambandam alliance did not count as legal marriage. Her husband later married her formally at a registry office in London.

She proposed fifteen years of status quo. She also feared a forceful push for Hindi in South India.

She was the first chairperson of the National Council on Women’s Education. Its 1959 report urged priority for girls’ schooling.

She studied family-court ideas on a visit to China in 1953. The Family Courts Act followed much later, in 1984.

After the British stormed the Kashmiri Gate on 14 September, the emperor fled to Humayun’s Tomb and surrendered there.

Bakht Khan was born in 1797 at Bijnor in the Rohilkhand region of present-day Uttar Pradesh.

Bakht Khan rose to subedar and served about forty years in the Bengal Horse Artillery before turning rebel.

The emperor’s eldest son Mirza Mughal held the title of chief general. He lacked military experience, so Bakht Khan held real control.

Pyarelal quit his M.A. studies in 1920 during the Non-Cooperation Movement. He joined Gandhi’s circle around then.

Pyarelal held a large cache of Gandhi’s personal papers privately. They were brought into the public domain only in 2007.

Hansa Mehta and Rajkumari Amrit Kaur sat on the Fundamental Rights Sub-Committee. Both wrote notes of dissent on several points.