1. The radical wing of the Congress Party with Jawaharlal Nehru as one of its main leaders, founded the Independence for India League in opposition to (1995)
(a) the Gandhi-Irwin Pact
(b) the Home Rule Movement
(c) the Nehru Report
(d) the Mont Ford reforms
Ans. (c)
- Exp. The Independence for India League was founded in opposition of Nehru Report When the Nehru Report came before the annual session of the Congress in Calcutta in December 1928, report did not want the complete Independence and wanted only a dominion status In April 1928, the ‘Independence for India League’ was formed with Jawahar Lal Nehru and Subhas Chandra Bose as Societies and S. Srinivasa iyengar as President.
2. Which one of the following was an emigre communist journal of MN Roy? (1995)
(a) Kisan Sabha
(b) The Worker
(c) Vanguard
(d) Anushilan
Ans. (b)
- Exp. The worker was an emigre communist journal of MN Roy; it was the source of candid information for the Indian people about the October 1917 revolution. Roy was the founder of the Mexican Communist Party and the Communist Party of India Tashkent Group.
3. The word Adivasi was used for the first time to refer to the tribal people by (1995)
(a) Mahatma Gandhi
(c) Jyotiba Phule
(b) Thakkar Bappa
(d) B.R. Ambedkar
Ans. (b)
- Exp. The word Adivasi was used for the first time to refer to the trbal people by Amrit Vithaldas Thakkar, popularly known as Thakkar Bappa. He became a member of the Servants of India Society founded by Gopal Krishna Gokhale in 1914. He was an Indian social worker and visited remotest parts of India for upliftment of the suppressive class and down trodden class
4. The Barrah Dacoity was the first major venture of the revolutionary terrorists of the freedom movement in
(a) Bombay – Karnataka
(b) Punjab (1995)
(c) East Bengal
(d) The Madras Presidency
Ans. (c)
- Exp. The Barrah Dacoity was the first major venture of the revolutionary terrorists of the freedom movement in 1908, in Dhaka District of East Bengal Pulin Behari Das organised the dacoity which was conducted in the day light, when revolutionaries attacked the residence of the Zamindar of Barrah.
5. Consider the following princely states of the British rule in India. (2004)
1. Jhansi
2. Sambalpur
3. Satara
The correct chronological order in which they were annexed by the British is
(a)1,2,3
(c) 3, 2, 1
(b) 1,3,2
(d) 3, 1,2
Ans. C
- Exp. The conect chronological order is 3, 2, 1. The doctnne of lapse was a policy of annexation initiated by the East India Company in the Indian subcontinent about the princoly states, and applied until the year 1858, the year after Company rule was succeeded by the British Raj under the British Crown. The policy Is most commonly associated with Lord Dalhousie, who was the Governor General of the East India Company in India between 1848 and 1856. The company took over the princely states of Satara (1848), Jaitpur and Sambalpur(1849), Bhagat (1850), Udaipur (1852), Jhansi (1853), Nagpur (1854), Tore and Arcot (1855) under the terms of the doctrine of lapse. This caused increased resentment against the British Empire in India, which was one of the causes of the Uprising of 1857.
6. The name of the famous person of India who returned the knighthood conferred on him by the British Government as a token of protest against the atrocities in Punjab in 1919 was (2004)
(a) Tej Bahadur Sapru
(b) Ashutosh Mukherjee
(c) Rabindranath Tagore
(d) Syed Ahmed Khan
Ans. C
- Exp. Rabindranath Tagore returned his Knighthood to the British Government as a token of protest against the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre in 1919.
7. Which one of the following statements is correct? (2004)
(a) The Constituent Assembly of India was elected by the Provincial Assemblies in the year 1946
(b) Jawaharlal Nehru, MA Jinnah and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel were members of the Constituent Assembly of India
(c) The First Session of the Constituent Assembly of India was held in January, 1947
(d) The Constitution of India was adopted on 26th January, 1950
Ans. (a)
- Exp. Statement (a) is correct as the Constituent Assembly of India was elected to frame the Constitution of India. It was elected by the Provincial Assembly. Its members served as the nation’s first Parliament as the ‘Provisional Parliament of India’. Under the Cabinet Mission Plan of 1946, elections were held for the first time for the Constituent Assembly. The Constitution of India was drafted by the Constituent Assembly, and it was implemented.
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