511. Who was the founder of Satya Shodak Sabha in Maharashtra ?
Correct Answer:-D ( Jyothiba Phule )
Description:- In September 1873, Jyotirao Phule formed the Satyashodhak Samaj (Society of Seekers of Truth) to attain equal rights for peasants and the lower caste and his contributions to the field of education. Phule is regarded as an important figure of the Social Reform Movement in Maharashtra.
512. Cripps Mission came to India in ______
Correct Answer:-C ( 1942)
Description:- The Cripps mission was an attempt in late March 1942 by the British government to secure full Indian cooperation and support for their efforts in World War II. The mission was headed by Sir Stafford Cripps, a senior left-wing politician and government minister in the War Cabinet of Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
513. Who was the governor–general during the Second Anglo–Mysore War ?
Correct Answer:-D ( Warren Hastings )
Description:- The Second Anglo–Mysore War (1780–1784) was a conflict between the Kingdom of Mysore and the British East India Company. Warren Hastings was the Governor-General then. The conflict ended with the signing of the Treaty of Mangalore in 1784.
514. The foundar of the ‘Arya Samaj’ was :
Correct Answer:-C ( Dayananda Saraswati )
Description:- Arya Samaj is a Hindu reform movement that was founded by Swami Dayananda Saraswati in Bombay on 7 April 1875. He was a sanyasi who promoted the Vedas. He gave the Motto ‘Krinvanto Vishwam Aryam’ (To Make the World Noble) to Arya Samaj.
515. Who among the following introduced Ryotwari system in Madras ?
Correct Answer:-C ( Sir Thomas Munro )
Description:- Ryotwari System was introduced by Thomas Munro in 1820. Major areas of introduction included Madras, Bombay, parts of Assam and Coorg provinces of British India. In Ryotwari System the ownership rights were handed over to the peasants. British Government collected taxes directly from the peasants.
516. Under whose leadership was the Chittagong Armoury Raid organised ?
Correct Answer:-C ( Surya Sen )
Description:- The Chittagong Armoury Raid was led by Surya Sen popularly known as Master-da. It involved an attempt on 18 April 1930 to raid the armory of police and auxiliary forces from the Chittagong armory in Bengal province of British India by armed revolutionaries.
517. Who was the ruler of Delhi when Ahmad Shah Abdali defeated the Marathas in the third Battle of Panipat in 1761 ?
Correct Answer:-D ( Shah Alam II )
Description:- The Third Battle of Panipat was fought in 1761 between the Afghan invader Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas. Ali Gauhar, better known as Shah Alam II (October 1760 – November 1806) was the Mughal Emperor then. He was installed on the throne of Delhi under the Maratha suzerainty.
518. Under whose leadership was the Chittagong Armoury Raid organised ?
Correct Answer:-C ( Surya Sen )
Description:- The Chittagong Armoury Raid was led by Surya Sen popularly known as Master-da. It involved an attempt on 18 April 1930 to raid the armory of police and auxiliary forces from the Chittagong armory in Bengal province of British India by armed revolutionaries.
519. Who was the ruler of Delhi when Ahmad Shah Abdali defeated the Marathas in the third Battle of Panipat in 1761 ?
Correct Answer:-D ( Shah Alam II )
Description:- The Third Battle of Panipat was fought in 1761 between the Afghan invader Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas. Ali Gauhar, better known as Shah Alam II (October 1760 – November 1806) was the Mughal Emperor then. He was installed on the throne of Delhi under the Maratha suzerainty.
520. In 1939 Subhash Chandra Bose was elected as President of the Congress Party defeating
Correct Answer:-A ( Pattabhi Sitharamayya )
Description:- Subhash Chandra Bose was elected Congress President in 1938 and 1939. At the end of his first term, the presidential election to the Tripuri Congress session took place early in 1939. Netaji was re – elected by defeating Dr Pattabhi Sitaramayaa who had been backed by the Mahatma Gandhi and the Congress Working Committee.
521. Jallianwala incident took place at
Correct Answer:-D ( Amritsar )
Description:- The Jallianwala incident took place on 13 April 1919 when a crowd of nonviolent protesters, who had gathered in Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar, were fired upon by troops of the British Indian Army under the command of Reginald Dyer. It is also known as the Amritsar massacre.
522. The Battle of Plassey was fought in year
Correct Answer:-B ( 1757)
Description:- The Battle of Plassey was a decisive victory of the British East India Company over the Nawab of Bengal and his French allies on 23 June 1757. The battle established the Company rule in Bengal which expanded over much of India for the next hundred years.
523. Mahatma Gandhi began his political activities in India first from :
Correct Answer:-D ( Champaran )
Description:- After Gandhi returned to India from South Africa in January 1915, the Champaran Satyagraha (1916) was his first major struggle. Gandhi took up the cause of the Champaran indigo cultivators against the European indigo planters under the Teenkathia system. It was Gandhi’s first major political work in India.
524. Raja Ram Mohan Roy was the founder of :
Correct Answer:-C ( Brahmo Samaj )
Description:- Brahmo Samaj was begun at Calcutta on 20 August 1828 by Raja Ram Mohan Roy and Debendranath Tagore. It started as reformation of the prevailing Brahmanism of the time (specifically Kulin practices) and began the Bengal Renaissance of the 19th century.
525. Who was the Indian women president of the United Nations General Assembly?
Correct Answer:-C ( Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit )
Description:- India’s Mrs. Vijayalakshmi Pandit was, on 18 September 1953, elected President of the eighth session of the U.N. General Assembly, becoming the first woman accorded that honour. A sister of Jawaharlal Nehru, she was also the first Indian woman to hold a cabinet post in 1937 when she was made the minister of local self-government and public health.
526. In which year was the Indian National Congress formed :
Correct Answer:-A ( 1885)
Description:- The Indian National Congress was founded in 1885 by Indian and British members of the Theosophical Society movement, including Scotsman Allan Octavian Hume. Hume organised the first meeting in Bombay with the approval of the Viceroy Lord Dufferin.
527. Who initiated the movement to form the India Nations Congress :
Correct Answer:-B ( A.O. Hume )
Description:- The Indian National Congress was formed at the initiative of British civil servant Allan Octavian Hume.In May 1885, he secured the Viceroy’s approval to create an ‘Indian National Union’, which would act as a platform to voice Indian public opinion. Hume assumed office as the General Secretary when the Congress was founded in Bombay on 28 December 1885.
528. Gandhiji’s famous Quit India Movement call to the British was given in –
Correct Answer:-C ( 1942)
Description:- The Quit India Movement was a civil disobedience movement launched in India by Gandhi on 9 August 1942. It demanded ‘an orderly British withdrawal’ from India. This was preceded by his call to ‘Do or Die,’ issued on 8 August 1942 at the Gowalia Tank Maidan in Mumbai.
529. Swaraj is may Birth Right and I shall have it. This was advocated by :
Correct Answer:-C ( Lokmanya Tilak )
Description:- Bal Gangadhar Tilak was one of the first and strongest advocates of Swaraj (self-rule) and a strong radical in Indian consciousness. He is known for his quote in Marathi, ‘Swarajya is my birthright, and I shall have it!’ As a strong advocate of Swaraj, he was against Gandhi’s policy of non-violence, Satyagraha and advocated the use of force where necessary.
530. Who was the Nawab of Bengal during ‘Battle of Plassey’?
Correct Answer:-D ( None of these )
Description:- Siraj ud-Daulah, was the last independent Nawab of Bengal. He was killed in the Battle of Plassey in 1757 A.D. The end of his reign marked the start of British East India Company rule over Bengal and later almost all of South Asia.
531. Which of the following is not correct about Mahatma Gandhi?
Correct Answer:-A ( Gandhi advocated complete sepration of politics from religion. )
Description:- Gandhi advocated freedom of conscience and tolerance for other religions, not the full separation of religion from culture and government. He advocated a religion-inflected version of secularism based on need for tolerance and pluralism as a means for promoting harmonious coexistence of different religions in India. He did not advocate strict separation of religion and politics.
532. The only AICC session Gandhiji presided was held at :
Correct Answer:-C ( Belgaum )
Description:- Mahatma Gandhi presided over the Belgaum session of Indian National Congress in December 1924. That was the only session which was presided over by him. The session was historic as the Swaraj Party returned to the Congress fold.
533. Who among the following was the first European to be selected as President of Indian National Congress ?
Correct Answer:-B ( George Yule )
Description:- George Yule, a Scottish merchant in England and India, served as the fourth President of the Indian National Congress in 1888 at Allahabad. He was the first non-Indian and European to hold that office. He served as Sheriff of Calcutta and as President of the Indian Chamber of Commerce.
534. Which of the following pair is incorrect ?
Correct Answer:-C ( Young India – Lala Lajpat Rai )
Description:- Young India was a weekly paper or journal in English published by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi from 1919 to 1932. He used Young India to spread his unique ideology and thoughts regarding the use of nonviolence in organizing movements and to urge readers to consider, organise, and plan for India’s eventual independence from Britain.
535. With which conspiracy case Aurobindo Ghosh’s name is connected ?
Correct Answer:-D ( Alipore Conspiracy Case )
Description:- Aurobindo Ghose is related to the Alipore bomb conspiracy case, an important court trial, during May 1908 to May 1909. Aurobindo was arrested on charges of planning and overseeing the attack. However, he was eventually acquitted in1909. His defence counsel was Chittaranjan Das.
536. Who was the founder of Swatantra Party ?
Correct Answer:-D ( C. Rajagopalachari )
Description:- The Swatantra Party was an Indian classical liberal political party that existed from 1959 to 1974. It was founded by C. Rajagopalachari in reaction to what he felt was the Jawaharlal Nehru-dominated Indian National Congress’s increasingly socialist and statist outlook.
537. The Political Guru of Mahatma Gandhi was
Correct Answer:-B ( Gopal Krishna Gokhale )
Description:- In an article, titled ‘Gokhale: My Political Guru,’ published in February 1918, Mahatma Gandhi acknowledged Gopalkrishna Gokhale as his guru. It was on his advice that Gandhi toured throughout the country to know the real India after coming from South Africa in 1915 (The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Vol. XIV).
538. Who among the following is known as the ‘Napoleon of India’ ?
Correct Answer:-B ( Samudragupta )
Description:- Samudragupta (335-375 AD) of the Gupta dynasty is known as the Napoleon of India. Historian A V Smith called him so because of his great military conquests known from the ‘Prayag Prasasti’ written by his courtier and poet Harisena.
539. Dadabhai Naroji has described his theory of ‘Drain of Wealth’ in the book.
Correct Answer:-A ( Poverty and Un-British Rule in India )
Description:- Dadabhai Naoroji’s book ‘Poverty and Un-British Rule in India’ brought attention to the draining of India’s wealth into Britain. Further in his book, he stated the loss of 200-300 million pounds of revenue to Britain. Dadabhai Naoroji considered it as a major evil of British in India.
540. When was the office of District Collector created ?
Correct Answer:-B ( 1772)
Description:- The office of District Collector was created in 1772 by Warren Hastings, the then Governor- General of India. The post was abolished in 1773, but restored in 1781. The district continued to be the unit of administration after India gained independence in 1947.
