580 practice questions covering Modern History, organised into 13 topics.
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Consider the following statements :
1. The Factories Act, 1881 was passed with a view to fix the wages of industrial workers and to allow the workers to form trade unions.
2. N.M. Lokhande was a pioneer in organizing the labour movement in British India.
Which of the above statements is/are correct?
A1 only
B2 only
CBoth 1 and 2
DNeither 1 nor 2
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Correct answer: B - 2 only
N.M. Lokhande was a pioneer of the organised labour movement in British India and founded the Bombay Mill Hands Association, so statement 2 is correct. The Factories Act of 1881 dealt mainly with child labour and working hours, not with fixing wages or allowing trade unions, so statement 1 is wrong. Hence only statement 2 is correct.
Q2
Previous year questionmedium
Which one of the following statements does not apply to the system of Subsidiary Alliance introduced by Lord Wellesley?
ATo maintain a large standing army at other's expense
BTo keep India safe from Napoleonic danger
CTo secure a fixed income for the Company
DTo establish British paramountcy over the Indian States
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Correct answer: C - To secure a fixed income for the Company
Under Lord Wellesley's Subsidiary Alliance the Company stationed troops maintained at the host state's expense (a), countered the perceived Napoleonic/French danger (b) and progressively established British paramountcy over Indian states (d); securing a fixed income for the Company was not an aim of the system, so (c) is the statement that does not apply and is the answer. The alliance worked by stripping rulers of independent foreign relations rather than by generating fixed revenue. Official and coaching keys agree the odd-one-out is the fixed-income clause.
Q3
Previous year questionmedium
Which one of the following is a very significant aspect of the Champaran Satyagraha ?
AActive all-India participation of lawyers, students and women in the National Movement
BActive involvement of Dalit and Tribal communities of India in the National Movement
CJoining of peasant unrest to India's National Movement
DDrastic decrease in the cultivation of plantation crops and commercial crops
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Correct answer: C - Joining of peasant unrest to India's National Movement
The Champaran Satyagraha (1917) was Gandhi's first civil disobedience experiment in India, where indigo cultivators' grievances under the oppressive tinkathia system were linked to the wider national movement, so (c) is correct. Broad all-India participation of lawyers, students and women (a) and large-scale involvement of Dalit and tribal communities (b) became prominent in later movements like Non-Cooperation and Civil Disobedience, not specifically Champaran. There was no drastic decline in plantation cropping as a defining feature (d); the significance lay in mobilising peasant discontent into the freedom struggle.
Q4
Previous year questionhard
Who among the following is associated with 'Songs from Prison', a translation of ancient Indian religious lyrics in English?
ABal Gangadhar Tilak
BJawaharlal Nehru
CMohandas Karamchand Gandhi
DSarojini Naidu
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Correct answer: C - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
'Songs from Prison' was a collection of English translations of ancient Indian devotional lyrics made by Mahatma Gandhi during his imprisonment, later edited and published by John S. Hoyland, so the correct answer is Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Tilak is remembered for the Gita Rahasya, Nehru for works like the Discovery of India and Glimpses of World History, and Sarojini Naidu for her own poetry such as The Golden Threshold, none of which match this particular title, so the other three are wrong.
Q5
Previous year questionmedium
Who among the following was/were associated with the introduction of Ryotwari Settlement in India during the British rule?
1. Lord Cornwallis
2. Alexander Read
3. Thomas Munro
Select the correct answer using the code given below :
A1 only
B1 and 3 only
C2 and 3 only
D1, 2 and 3
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Correct answer: C - 2 and 3 only
The Ryotwari Settlement, in which revenue was collected directly from individual cultivators (ryots), was introduced in the Madras and Bombay presidencies by Alexander Read and Thomas Munro, so statements 2 and 3 are correct. Lord Cornwallis is associated with the Permanent (Zamindari) Settlement of Bengal, not the Ryotwari system, so statement 1 is wrong. Hence 2 and 3 only.
Q6
Previous year questionhard
During Indian freedom struggle, the National Social Conference was formed. What was the reason for its formation?
ADifferent social reform groups or organizations of Bengal region united to form a single body to discuss the issues of larger interest and to prepare appropriate petitions/representations to the government
BIndian National Congress did not want to include social reforms in its deliberations and decided to form a separate body for such a purpose
CBehramji Malabari and M. G. Ranade decided to bring together all the social reform groups of the country under one organization
DNone of the statements (a), (b) and (c) given above is correct in this context
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Correct answer: B - Indian National Congress did not want to include social reforms in its deliberations and decided to form a separate body for such a purpose
Option (b) is correct. The early Indian National Congress deliberately confined itself to political questions, fearing that contentious social reform issues would divide its ranks, so social reformers founded the Indian National Social Conference in 1887 as a separate body; it met annually in the same venue immediately after the Congress session. Option (a) is wrong because it was a national platform, not a union of Bengal groups. Option (c) is misleading: the Conference was founded by M. G. Ranade and Raghunath Rao; Behramji Malabari was a reformer associated with the age of consent campaign but not the co-founder named here. Since (b) is correct, option (d) is eliminated.
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