R4RIN – MCQs, Mock Tests | History Indian History Multiple Choice Questions set 1

Who is the founder of Haryanka Dynasty?

1. Ajatashatru
2. Harshvardhan
3. Bimbisara
4. Ghananand

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The revolutionary like Ashfaqullah Khan, Chandra Shekhar Azad, Ram Prasad Bismil, Roshan Singh and Rajendra Lahiri were all associated with :

1. The Kakori Conspiracy case (1925)
2. 1857 Revolt
3. Chauri Chaura Case
4. The Jallianwala Bagh massacre

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The Moplah Rebellion in 1921 in Malabar was Muslim Peasants Rabellion against :

1. Muslim Land Holders
2. The British Government Authority
3. The non-tribal outsiders
4. Hindu Land Holders

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The Rowlatt Act was passed in :

1. 1905
2. 1903
3. 1919
4. 1925

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Mahatma Gandhi launched Kheda Satyagrah on Gujrat in 1918 to support the cause of :

1. A. Mill Owners
2. Land Lords
3. The peasants
4. Kol Rebellion

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Two of the great Mughals wrote their own memories. They were

1. Babar and Humayun
2. Babar and Humayun
3. Babar and Jahangir
4. Jahangir and Shahjahan

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What was the major cause of discontent among soldiers before the revolt of 1857?

1. The Religious Cause
2. Question of promotion and pay
3. Political Cause
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Lala Lajpat Rai was also known as :

1. Lala Lajpat Rai was also known as :
2. Sher-e-Bengal
3. Sher-e-Maharastra
4. . Sher-e-Punjab

✅ Correct Answer: 4

To which king belongs the Lion capital at Sarnath?

1. Chandragupta
2. Ashoka
3. Kanishka
4. Harshavardhan

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The use of spinning wheel (,) became common during the

1. 9th Century AD
2. 10th Century AD C. D.
3. 12th Century AD
4. 14th Century AD

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The use of spinning wheel (,) became common during the

1. 9th Century AD
2. 10th Century AD C. D.
3. 12th Century AD
4. 14th Century AD

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Banga Darshan – a monthly magazine – was started in 1872 from Behrampur by:

1. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
2. Umakant desai
3. Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Who said about the British Government these words – “You do not realize how strong the government is if the congress challenges the government the government would finish it in five minutes?

1. Jawahar Lal Nehru
2. Gopal Krishna Gokhale
3. Basant Kumar Biswas
4. Annie Besant

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Sri Aurobindo Ghosh was born in the year :

1. 1872
2. 1982
3. 1884
4. 1892

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Doctrine of Passive Resistance was published in the daily Vande Mataram in:

1. April 1907
2. April 1906
3. April 1905
4. April 1904

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The language of discourses of Gautama Buddha was A.

1. Bhojpuri
2. Magadhi
3. Pali
4. Sanskrit

✅ Correct Answer: 3

There were widespread risings against the British in the 1820s. Which one of the following did not revolt in the 1820s?

1. Santhals
2. Ahoms
3. Pagal Panthis
4. Ramosi

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which revolutionary said – “freedom is objective of our life and the Hindu religion would led us to the attainment of this objective?”

1. Vinoba Bhave
2. Narayan Guru
3. Dayanand Sarshwati
4. Aurobindo Ghosh

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who was the commander of 1857 revolt in Rohilkhand?

1. Ahmadullah
2. Begum Hazrat Mahal
3. Jung Bahadur Rana
4. Tatya Tope

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Who said “Curzon’s partition of Bengal gave unwitting initiative to events of such magnitude which returned many years later to port with the cargo of freedom”?

1. Syed Hasan Imam
2. Dr. S.Gopal
3. M
4. Bharat Kumar

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The Hindu Dharma Sangrakshini Sabha was formed in :

1. 1872
2. 1883
3. 1886
4. 1893

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The East India Association was set up in

1. 1866 B. C. D.
2. 1857
3. 1836
4. 1885

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Who established the Hindu Dharma Sangrakshini Sabha in the year 1893 by :

1. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
2. Raja Ram Mohan Rai
3. Dyanand Sarshawati
4. Damodar and Balkrishana Chapekar

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Bande Matram was a series of articles published in the year 1907 by :

1. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
2. Sri Aurobindo Ghosh
3. Domadar Chapekar
4. Balkrishana Chapekar

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Who called Subhash Chandra Bose as Desh Nayak ?

1. Lala Lajpat Rai
2. Rabindranath Tagore
3. Mahatma Gandhi
4. Bal Gangadhar Tilak

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Who founded Anushulin Samiti in 1907 in Dhaka?

1. Shambhuchand Mukherjee
2. Barindra Ghosh and Bhupendra Nath Dutt
3. Jogesh Chandra Dutt
4. Pulin Behari Das

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who was admired as tempestuous Hindu in 1893 in the World Parliament of Religious in Chicago ?

1. Swami Dyanand Sarshawati
2. Rabindra Nath Tagore
3. Gautam Budha
4. Swami Vivekanand

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who were associated with Indian league established in 1875 in Calcutta (now Kolkata) ?

1. Sisir Kumar Ghosh and Arvindo Ghosh
2. Kali Mohan Das and Arvindo Ghosh
3. Sisir Kumar Ghosh and Sambhu Charan Mukherjee
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Sarojini Naidu was elected Congress President at :

1. Haripura 1938
2. Bombay 1934
3. Madras Session 1927
4. Kanpur Session 1925

✅ Correct Answer: 4

In 1918 who founded Ahmedabad Textile Labour Association ?

1. Annie Besant
2. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
3. Mahatma Gandhi
4. Mohammad Ali Jinnah

✅ Correct Answer: 3

In 1918 who founded Ahmedabad Textile Labour Association ?

1. Annie Besant
2. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
3. Mahatma Gandhi
4. Mohammad Ali Jinnah

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The third person who presented himself for individual Satyagrah launched by Mahatma Gandhi in October 1940 was:

1. Brahma Datt
2. Acharya Vinoba Bhave
3. Jawahar Lal Nehru
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Who called Government India Act 1935 a Charter of Slavery ?

1. Mahatma Gandhi
2. Subhash Chandra Bose
3. Sardar Ballabh Bhai Patel
4. Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who called Government India Act 1935 a Charter of Slavery ?

1. Mahatma Gandhi
2. Subhash Chandra Bose
3. Sardar Ballabh Bhai Patel
4. Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The Indian National Congress passed Quit India Resolution at :

1. Wardha Session 1942.
2. Bombay Session 1934
3. Tripuri Session 1939
4. Ramgarh Session 1940

✅ Correct Answer: 1

In 1942, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill sent :

1. Wavell Mission to India
2. Cripps Mission to India
3. Mount Mission to India
4. August Offer

✅ Correct Answer: 2

When Japan handed over Andaman Nicobar islands to Subhash Chandra Bose in Nov. 1943, he named these islands as :

1. Shaheed Island and Samaj Island respectively
2. Samaj Island and Swaraj Island respectively
3. Swaraj Island and Shaheed Island respectively
4. Shaheed Island and Swaraj Island respectively

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Subhash Chandra Bose became the Supreme Commander of Indian National Army in :

1. 1932
2. 1935
3. 1943
4. 1945

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Wavell Plan- essentially dealing with Indian demand of self-rule and reconstitution of Viceroy’s Council was put forth by Lord Wavell in:

1. 1935
2. 1942
3. 1945
4. 1943

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The demand officially made by the Congress for a Constituent Assembly to frame the Constitution of India was accepted in principal by the British government in what is known as :

1. Cripps Mission 1942
2. Government of India 1935
3. Independent India 1947
4. August Offer of 1940

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Lord Mountbatten put forth the plan proposing the partition of India and the creation of Pakistan :

1. On May 3 1947
2. On June 3 1947
3. On July 3 1947
4. On August 3 1947

✅ Correct Answer: 2

When quit India Resolution was passed in 1942, the Viceroy of India was :

1. Lord Linlithgow
2. Lord Wavell
3. Lord Willingdon
4. Lord Mountbatten

✅ Correct Answer: 1

By which act of British India, was the Governor General empowered to issue ordinance ?

1. Indian Councils Act 1861
2. Charter Act of 1853
3. Government of India Act 1858
4. Indian Council Act 1892

✅ Correct Answer: 1

In 1915-16 the Home Rule League movement was launched under the leadership of :

1. Mohammad Ali Jinnah and G. S. Khaparde
2. G. S. Khaparde and Sir S. Subramania Iyer
3. Annie Besant and Bal Gangadhar Tilak
4. Sir S. Subramania Iyer and Mohammad Ali Jinnah

✅ Correct Answer: 3

In 1932, Poona Pact was signed between:

1. Gandhiji and Jawahar Lal Nehru
2. Gandhiji and Dr.
3. R. Ambedkar
4. Gandhiji and Md. Ali Jinnah

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Indian Dyarchy was started by :

1. Indian Council Act 1861
2. Minto-Morley Reforms 1909
3. Indian Council Act 1992
4. Montague-Chelmsford Reforms 1919

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which movement was started by Mahatma Gandhi on March 12, 1930?

1. Khilafat movement
2. Noncooperation Co-operation
3. Civil Disobedience Movement
4. Quit India Movement

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Who presided over the Karachi session of Indian National Congress in 1931 ?

1. Sarojani Naydu
2. Mahatma Gandhi
3. Subhash Chandra Bose
4. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The congress nationalist party was formed to act as a powerful pressure group within the congress by:

1. Madan Mohan Malviya and Bal Gangadhar Tilak
2. Madan Mohan Malviya and M.S. Aney
3. Annie Besant and Bal Gangadhar Tilak
4. Annie Bessant and Md. Ali Jinha

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Rani Gaidinliu was a rebel leader against the Britishers from:

1. Manipur
2. Uttar Pardesh
3. Madhya Pradesh
4. Maharashtra

✅ Correct Answer: 1

An interim cabinet headed by Jawaharlal Nehru was formed by the congress in :

1. August 1940
2. August 1943
3. September 1946
4. September 1942

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The revolutionary who was associated with the Indian Independence League was :

1. Rash Behari Bose
2. Bhagat Singh
3. Rajguru
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 1

In which session of the Indian National congress did the historic union of congress and Muslim League take place?

1. Tripuri Session in 1939
2. Lahore session in 1940
3. Meerut Session in 1946
4. Lucknow session in 1916

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The Muslim League demanded a separate homeland for Indian Muslims for the first time at its :

1. Lahore session in 1940.
2. Lucknow session in 1916
3. Meerut Session 1946
4. Tripuri Session in 1939

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Indian War of independence 1857 was written by :

1. Lala Lajpat Rai
2. Jawahar Lal Neharu
3. Damodar Chapekar
4. Savarkar

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which revolutionary was sentenced to death on August 17, 1909?

1. Rash Bihari Bose
2. Bhagat Singh
3. Chandra Sekhar Ajad
4. Madanlal Dhingra

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Under the Government of India act 1935 it was decided to establish a federation consisting of :

1. Governor’s provinces
2. Princely states
3. Governor’s provinces and princely states
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Who called Government of India Act 1935 as thoroughly rotten, fundamentally bad and totally unacceptable?

1. Subhash Chandra Bose
2. Mohammad Ali Jinnah
3. Mahatma Gandhi
4. Balkrishana Chapekar

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Who founded Tattvabodhini sabha in 1839 ?

1. Dayanand Sarswati
2. Maharishi Devendranath Tagore
3. Raja Ram Mohan Roy
4. Jogesh Chandra Dutt

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The eminent Bengali novelist and composer of national song Vande Mataram who aroused a new consciousness in the 19th century Bengal Society was :

1. Rabindranath Tagore
2. Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
3. Sarat Chandra Chatterjee
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Vivekanand established Ramakrishna Mission :

1. In 1892
2. In 1897
3. In 1937
4. In 1939

✅ Correct Answer: 2

For the cause of national liberation Swami Dayananda stressed on :

1. Swabhasha and Swarajya
2. Swadharma
3. Swadeshi
4. All of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who brought out a paper with the title of the ‘loyal Muhammadanans of India’ ?

1. Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan.
2. Khan Abdul Ghafar Khan
3. Abbas Tyabji
4. Rafi Ahmed Kidwai

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Individual Satyagrah was started on:

1. October 17 1935
2. October 17 1939
3. October 17 1940
4. October 17 1942

✅ Correct Answer: 3

In order to secure co-operation of Indians the British government in the midst of worsening wartime international situation sent Cripps Mission to India:

1. In 1940
2. In 1942
3. In 1945
4. In 1946

✅ Correct Answer: 2

In accordance with provisions of the Government of India Act 1935 elections to the Provincial Legislatures were held in :

1. February 1925
2. February 1932
3. February 1935
4. February 1937

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The First Round Table Conference was held on:

1. November 12 1930
2. December 12 1930
3. November 12 1937
4. October 12 1930

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Dr. B. R. Ambedkar organized a Bhishkrit Hitkari Sabha, (The Depressed Classes Institute) in : B. C. D.

1. 1924
2. 1920
3. 1916
4. 1911

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Who founded Satya Shodhak Samaj in 1873 ?

1. Shri Bharat Kumar
2. Purushottam Das Tandon
3. Bankim Chandra Chattopashyay
4. Jyotiba Phule

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The Gandhi-Irwin Pact was signed on :

1. July 5 1931
2. June 5 1931
3. March 5 1931
4. January 5 1931

✅ Correct Answer: 3

In July 1933 the Congress decided to launch:

1. An Individual Civil Disobedience
2. Satyagrah
3. Bharat Chhoro Aandolan
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The first President of Indian National congress was :

1. Sir Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee
2. Annie Besant
3. Dadabhai Naoroji
4. George Yule

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Who conveyed to the Indians – “I am with you wholeheartedly and in terms of culture I am one of you”?

1. Annie Besant
2. Badruddin Tyabji
3. George Yule
4. Sir William Wedderburn

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Who said “Every blow on my body will prove a nail in the coffin of the British Empire”?

1. Lala Lajpat Rai
2. Kunwar Singh
3. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
4. Chandra Sekhar Azaad

✅ Correct Answer: 1

In March 1923 Chittranjan Das along with Motilal Nehru formed :

1. The Gaddar Party
2. The Forward Block
3. The Swaraj Party
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 3

After the suspension of the Non-Cooperation Movement, who were called pro-changers in the Congress?

1. Motilal Nehru and Anne Besant
2. Anne Besant and Chittranjan Das
3. Motilal Nehru and Chittranjan Das
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Aurobindo Ghose, Barindra Kumar Ghose, B.P. Mitra, Abinash Bhattacharya and Bhupendranath Dutta were associated with the revolutionary organization :

1. Anushilan Samiti (in Bengal).
2. Satya Shodhak Samaj
3. Bengal Society
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Subhash Chandra Bose formed Forward Block in :

1. The Year 1935
2. The Year 1939
3. The Year 1937
4. The Year 1942

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The main centre of Gadar Movement of 1915 was :

1. United States of America.
2. Japan
3. Australia
4. Singapore

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Who called the 1857 revolt as ‘Student Farmer-Middle class Revolt’?

1. Sumit Sarkar
2. Barun De
3. B A Saletore
4. Dr. Amba Prasad

✅ Correct Answer: 4