Q1. ‘Permanent Settlement’ the system of revenue collection was introduced in India by
(a) Lord Curzon
(b) Lord Dalhousie
(c) Lord Hastings
(d) Lord Cornwallis
Q2. Who was the first woman President of Congress?
(a) Mrs. Annie Besant
(b) Mrs. Indira Gandhi
(c) Mrs. Nellie Sengupta
(d) Aruna Asaf Ali
Q3. The Simon Commission which came to India in February 1928 was boycotted because
(a) all its members were Englishmen
(b) at that time a large number of nationalist leaders were in prison
(c) the chairman, Sir john Simon was very unpopular
(d) the Montague-Chelmsford Reforms had failed
Q4. Who was the Chairman of the Partition Council?
(a) M. A. Jinnah
(b) Lord Mountbatten
(c) Jawaharlal Nehru
(d) V. P. Menon
Q5. Gandhi’s inspiration for Civil Disobedience came from the writings of
(a) Henry David Thoreau
(b) David Ricardo
(c) Henry Kissinger
(d) Bertrand Russell
Q6. Who was the founder of Pakistan?
(a) Muhammad Iqbal
(b) M. A. Jinnah
(c) Shaukat Ali
(d) Aga Khan
Q7. Who is generally acknowledged as the pioneer of local self-government in modern India?
(a) Ripon
(b) Mayo
(c) Lytton
(d) Curzon
Q8. After the Bardoli Satyagraha, the title of ‘Sardar’ to Vallabhbhai Patel was given by
(a) Jawaharlal Nehru
(b) Motilal Nehru
(c) Mahatma Gandhi
(d) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
Q9. ‘Sati’ was abolished by
(a) Lord Ripon
(b) Warren Hastings
(c) Lord Cornwallis
(d) William Bentinck
Q10. Mohan Das Karamchand Gandhi was called as ‘Mahatma’ by
(a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(b) Moti lal Nehru
(c) Jawaharlal Nehru
(d) Rabindra Nath Tagore
S1. Ans.(d)
S2. Ans.(a)
S3. Ans.(a)
S4. Ans.(b)
S5. Ans.(a)
S6. Ans.(b)
S7. Ans.(a)
S8. Ans.(c)
S9. Ans.(d)
S10. Ans.(d)
