GK - Indian History Quiz 9

1. Which of the following was introduced by the Government of India Act, 1935?

a) Diarchy
b) Bi-cameral legislature
c) Indian councils
d) Provincial Autonomy

2. With which of the following was the Hunter Commission constituted during Lord Ripon’s administration concerned?

a) Public health
b) Education
c) Administrative reforms
d) Upliftment of women

3. Who introduced the system of Local boards or Local Bodies in India?

a) Lord Lytton
b) Lord Ripon
c) Lord Curzon
d) Lord Mayo

4. Who among the following is associated with Subsidiary Alliance?

a) Robert Clive
b) Hastings
c) Wellesley
d) Dalhousie

5. At which of the following places was the Provisional Government of Independent India (Azad Hind) formed?

a) Singapore
b) Tokyo
c) Kuala Lumpur
d) Jakarta

6. During which of the following did Mahatma Gandhi give the slogan ‘Do or Die’?

a) Quit India Movement
b) Non-cooperation Movement
c) Khilafat Movement
d) Civil Disobedience Movement

7. Who set up the Indian Independence League?

a) Aruna Asaf Ali
b) Rash Behari Bose
c) Jayaprakash Narayan
d) SM Joshi

8. Who founded the Ghadar Party in the USA?

a) Jayaprakash Narayan
b) Motilal Nehru
c) Lala Hardayal
d) Sir Syed Ahmad Khan

9. Who was the first woman President of the Indian National Congress?

a) Sarojini Naidu
b) Annie Besant
c) Vijayalakshmi Pandit
d) Madam Bikaji Cama

10. The term Satyagraha was coined by Gandhiji when he was in

a) England
b) Sabarmati Ashram
c) Agha Khan Palace
d) South Africa

11. Who among the following did not participate in the 1857 mutiny?

a) Nana Sahib
b) Rani Lakshmi Bhai
c) Tipu Sultan
d) Tantia Tope

12. By the Act passed in which year was the demand for separate electorate for Muslims in India conceded?

a) 1904
b) 1909
c) 1892
d) 1919

13. The British East India Company established its first factory in India at

a) Madras
b) Surat
c) Calcutta
d) Bombay

14. Who among the following freedom fighters died due to a hunger strike in jail?

a) Bhagat Singh
b) BG Tilak
c) Jatin Das
d) Bipin Chandra Pal

15. At which of the following places was the first session of Indian National Congress held?

a) Lahore
b) Mumbai
c) Baroda
d) Madras

16. Azad Hind Fauj was formed in

a) 1937
b) 1942
c) 1943
d) 1945

17. Where was the first Congress Session held in 1907 at which the first split in Congress took place?

a) Calcutta
b) Meerut
c) Allahabad
d) Surat

18. From which of the following places was the Civil Disobedience Movement started by Gandhiji in 1930?

a) Sevagram
b) Dandi
c) Sabarmati
d) Wardha

19. Who among the following used Hughly as the base for piracy in the Bay of Bengal?

a) The Portuguese b) The French
c) The Danish
d) The British

20. Who was the first to use the term Harijan for tribal people?

a) Mahatma Gandhi
b) Swami Vivekananda
c) Jyotiba Phule
d) BR Ambedkar

21. Who founded the Satyagraha Ashram at Wardha?

a) Gandhiji
b) Jamanlal Bajaj
c) Jawahar Lal Nehru
d) JB Kripalani

22. Who was the founder of the National School at Lahore?

a) Naoroji
b) Madan Mohan Malavia
c) Lala Lajpat Rai
d) Annie Besant

23. Who among the following was a social reformer belonging to the Mali Community of Pune?

a) Thakkar Bhappa
b) BR Ambedkar
c) Jyotiba Phule
d) None of these

24. In opposition to which of the following was the ‘Independence for India League’ founded by the radical wing of the Congress party?

a) The Gandhi-Irwin Pact
b) The Home-rule Movement
c) The Nehru report
d) The Montford reforms

25. Which of the following battles was fought by the allied forces of Shuja-ud-Daulah, Mir Kasim and Shah Alam against Robert Clive?

a) Battle of Buxar
b) Battle of Wandiwash
c) Battle of Chelianwala
d) Battle of Tarrain

Answers 1. Provincial Autonomy
2. Education
3. Lord Ripon
4. Wellesley
5. Singapore
6. Quit India Movement
7. Rash Behari Bose
8. Lala Hardayal
9. Annie Besant
10. South Africa
11. Tipu Sultan
12. 1909
13. Surat
14. Jatin Das
15. Mumbai
16. 1943
17. Surat
18. Sabarmati
19. The Portuguese
20. Mahatma Gandhi
21. Jamanlal Bajaj
22. Lala Lajpat Rai
23. Jyotiba Phule
24. The Gandhi-Irwin Pact
25. Battle of Buxar