Here are, 50 Gk MCQs about Modern Indian History:
Q.1 Which Governor General of India introduced Postage Stamp in India?
A) Lord Dalhousie
B) Lord Auckland
C) Lord Canning
D) Lord William Bentinck
Answer: A) Lord Dalhousie
Q.2 In which year first telegraph line between Calcutta and Agra was opened?
A) 1852
B) 1853
C) 1854
D) 1855
Answer: B) 1853
Q.3 The former princely state of India ‘Nahan’ is part of which State now?
A) Punjab
B) Haryana
C) Uttarakhand
D) Himachal Pradesh
Answer: D) Himachal Pradesh
Q.4 Which city of India has a Minar named after Muhammad Ali Jinnah?
A) Mumbai, Maharashtra
B) Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh
C) Calicut, Kerala
D) Guntur, Andhra Pradesh
Answer: D) Guntur, Andhra Pradesh
Q.5 Which Governor General of India annexed Punjab?
A) Lord Bentick
B) Lord Dalhousie
C) Lord Cornwallis
D) Lord Canning
Answer: B) Lord Dalhousie
Q.6 Who founded Mohammedan Anglo Oriental College at Aligarh?
A) Mohammad Ali Jinnah
B) Mohammad Ali
C) Shaukat Ali Khan
D) Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
Answer: D) Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
Q.7 Which viceroy is called as the pioneer of ‘Local Self Government of India’?
A) Lord Ripon
B) Lord Lytton
C) Lord Mayo
D) Lord Curzon
Answer: A) Lord Ripon
Q.8 Who assassinated Lord Mountbatten the last viceroy of India?
A) William Davidson
B) Thomas McMahon
C) William Hardon
D) James Munro
Answer: B) Thomas McMahon
Q.9 Who was the first governor of Portuguese East India company?
A) Alfanso de Albuquerque
B) John de Castro
C) Francisco de Almedia
D) Nuno da Cunha
Answer: C) Francisco de Almedia
Q.10 Who was the editor of ‘Young India’ and ‘Harijan’?
A) Jawaharlal Nehru
B) Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar
C) Mahatma Gandhi
D) Subash Chandra Bose
Answer: C) Mahatma Gandhi
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Q.11 Who wrote the play ‘Neel Darpan’ to revolt against the indigo planters in Bengal?
A) Dinabandhu Mitra
B) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
C) Rabindranath Tagore
D) Munshi Prem Chand
Answer: A) Dinabandhu Mitra
Q.12 ‘Desh Bandhu’ is the nick name of?
A) Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar
B) Chittranjan Das
C) Bipin ChandraPal
D) Rabindranath Tagore
Answer: B) Chittranjan Das
Q.13 In which field of art Jamini Roy belongs?
A) Sculpture
B) Music
C) Painting
D) Singing
Answer: C) Painting
Q.14 Who was the first Governor general of Bengal?
A) Robert Clive
B) Warren Hastings
C) John Shore
D) Lord Cornwallis
Answer: B) Warren Hastings
Q.15 Gandhi’s ‘Dandi March’ was associated with which movement?
A) Khilafat Movement
B) Civil Disobedience Movement
C) Non-Cooperation Movement
D) Quit India Movement
Answer: B) Civil Disobedience Movement
Q.16 Who among the following was the extremist leader?
A) Pherozeshah Mehta
B) Surendranath Banerjee
C) Womesh Chandra Bannerjee
D) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Answer: D) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Q.17 Who introduced the ‘Ryotwari System’ in the Madras Presidency?
A) Hardon Macartney
B) William Elphinstone
C) Thomas Munro
D) John Lawrence
Answer: C) Thomas Munro
Q.18 Who is the author of the book ‘The Court Dancer’?
A) Rabindranath Tagore
B) R.K. Narayan
C) Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
D) Mahatma Gandhi
Answer: A) Rabindranath Tagore
Q.19 Who was the architect of North & South Blocks of the Central Secretariat of Delhi?
A) Sir Edward Lutyens
B) Herbert Backers
C) Robert Tussle
D) Le Courbier
Answer: B) Herbert Backers
Q.20 Which party was founded by Subhash Chandra Bose?
A) Abhinav Bharat
B) Indian Association
C) Revolutionary Army
D) Forward Block
Answer: D) Forward Block
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Q.21 Which one of the following newspapers was edited by Mahatma Gandhi in South Africa?
A) Indian Opinion
B) Harijan
C) Young India
D) Indian Mirror
Answer: A) Indian Opinion
Q.22 General Dyer, who was responsible for Jallianwala Bagh massacre was shot dead by whom?
A) Hasrat Mohini
B) Vir Savarkar
C) Udham Singh
D) Bhagat Singh
Answer: C) Udham Singh
Q.23 Who was the first and last Indian Governor General of Independent India?
A) Rajendra Prasad
B) C. Rajagopalachari
C) A. Kriplani
D) Lord Mountbatten
Answer: B) C. Rajagopalachari
Q.24 Which one of the following was not associated with the ‘Gadar Party’?
A) Lala Hardayal
B) Baba Gurdit Singh
C) Mohammad Barkatullah
D) Sohan Singh Bhakna
Answer: B) Baba Gurdit Singh
Q.25 Who was the first Indian to be elected as a Member of the British House of Commons?
A) Jayaprakash Narayan
B) Dada Bhai Naoroji
C) Ram Manohar Lohia
D) Sarojini Naidu
Answer: B) Dada Bhai Naoroji
Q.26 Who was the first Woman President of the Indian National Congress?
A) Sarojini Naidu
B) Vijayalakshmi Pandit
C) Annie Besant
D) Kadambari Ganguli
Answer: C) Annie Besant
Q.27 Who gave the slogan, ‘Swaraj is my birth right and I shall have it’?
A) Mahatma Gandhi
B) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
C) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
D) Lala Lajpat Rai
Answer: C) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Q.28 Who was the Nawab of Bengal during ‘Battle of Plassey’?
A) Mir Jafar
B) Mir Qasim
C) Siraj-ud-Daula
D) None of these
Answer: C) Siraj-ud-Daula
Q.29 Who was the Mughal emperor of India when Captain William Hawkins arrived?
A) Jehangir
B) Humayun
C) Aurangzeb
D) Akbar
Answer: A) Jehangir
Q.30 Which Governor General of Bengal introduced ‘Permanent Settlement of Bengal’?
A) Lord Cornwallis
B) Lord Minto
C) Lord Wellesley
D) Lord Warren Hastings
Answer: A) Lord Cornwallis
Q.31 Who gave the title of ‘Sardar’ to Vallabhbhai Patel?
A) Rabindranath Tagore
B) Mahatma Gandhi
C) Subhash Chandra Bose
D) Mohammad Ali Jinnah
Answer: B) Mahatma Gandhi
Q.32 On 12th April, 1944 Subhash Chandra Bose hoisted the Indian National Army Flag in which town?
A) Port Louis, Andaman and Nicobar Islands
B) Agartala, Tripura
C) Moirang, Manipur
D) Aizwal, Mizoram
Answer: C) Moirang, Manipur
Q.33 Who was the ‘Political Guru’ of Mahatma Gandhi?
A) Gopalakrishna Gokhale
B) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
C) Aurobindo Ghosh
D) Lala Lajpat Rai
Answer: A) Gopalakrishna Gokhale
Q.34 The first meeting of Indian National Congress took place in which city?
A) Calcutta
B) Bombay
C) Ahmedabad
D) Allahabad
Answer: B) Bombay
Q.35 Begum Hazrat Mahal led the 1857 revolt from which city?
A) Lucknow
B) Kanpur
C) Benares
D) Allahabad
Answer: A) Lucknow
Q.36 ‘Champaran Satyagraha’ was related to?
A) Indigo Cultivation
B) Mill-Owners
C) Agriculture
D) Land
Answer: A) Indigo Cultivation
Q.37 Which Governor General of India introduced ‘Doctrine of Lapse’?
A) Lord Canning
B) Lord Dalhousie
C) Lord Hastings
D) Lord Rippon
Answer: B) Lord Dalhousie
Q.38 Who of the following attended all the ‘Three Round Table Conferences’?
A) B.R. Ambedkar
B) M. M. Malavia
C) Vallabhbhai Patel
D) Gandhiji
Answer: A) B.R. Ambedkar
Q.39 The slogan ‘Back to the Vedas’ was given by whom?
A) Swami Vivekananda
B) Swami Dayanand Saraswati
C) Aurobindo Ghosh
D) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Answer: B) Swami Dayanand Saraswati
Q.40 The All-India Women’s Conference founded in which city?
A) 1924
B) 1925
C) 1926
D) 1927
Answer: D) 1927
Q.41 The Kuka movement was started in Nineteenth century in?
A) Punjab
B) Maharashtra
C) Bengal
D) Central Provinces
Answer: A) Punjab
Q.42 Who wrote ‘Sarfaroshi Ki Tamanna Ab Hamaare Dil Mein Hai’?
A) Mohammed Iqbal
B) Ramprasad Bismil
C) Kazi Nazrul Islam
D) Firaq Gorakhpuri
Answer: B) Ramprasad Bismil
Q.43 ‘Dyarchy’ was introduced in which Government of India Act?
A) 1909
B) 1919
C) 1935
D) None of these
Answer: B) 1919
Q.44 Which one of the following was not a French settlement in India?
A) Puducherry
B) Mahe
C) Goa
D) Chandar Nagar
Answer: C) Goa
Q.45 Which of the following leader was not assassinated?
1) Mahatma Gandhi
B) Liaqat Ali Khan
C) Muhammed Ali Jinnah
D) Louis Mountbatten
Answer: C) Muhammed Ali Jinnah
Q.46 What was original name of ‘Swami Dayananda Saraswati’?
A) Abhi Shankar
B) Gowri Shankar
C) Daya Shankar
D) Mula Shankar
Answer: D) Mula Shankar
Q.47 Who was the prime minister of England during ‘Quite India Movement’?
A) Winston Churchill
B) Clement Attlee
C) James Mac Donald
D) Harold Wilson
Answer: A) Winston Churchill
Q.48 The Government of India, 1919 is also known as?
A) Morley-Minto Reforms
B) Montague – Chelmsford Reforms
C) Regulating Act
D) Pitts India Act
Answer: B) Montague – Chelmsford Reforms
Q.49 Who is called the ‘Father of the Indian National Congress’?
A) Mahatma Gandhi
B) A.O. Hume
C) Lokmanya Tilak
D) Surendra Nath Banerjee
Answer: B) A.O. Hume
Q.50 Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru were hanged on?
A) 23 March, 1930
B) 23 March, 1931
C) 23 March, 1932
D) 23 March, 1933
Answer: B) 23 March, 1931
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