History Practice Paper for Civil Service Exams

History Practice Paper for All Pre. Exams

Indian History Questions With Anwers

1. Who was the first European to translate the Bhagwad Gita into English?

(a) William Jones

(b) Charles Wilkins

(c) James Prinsep

(d) Sir Alexander Cunningham

Answer. (b)

2. The first Governor General of Bengal was:

(a) Lord Conwallis (b) Lord Clive

(c) Lord Wellesley (d) Warren Hastings

Answer. (d)

3. Who among the following started the Public Works Department in India in AD 1848?

(a) Lord William Bentinck

(b) Lord Dalhousie

(c) Lord Wellesley

(d) Lord Cornwallis

Answer. (b)

4. The most important All India Nationalist Organisation before the Congress was

(a) The East India Association

(b) The Indian Association of Calcutta

(c) The Bombay Presidency Association

(d) The Poona Sarvajanik Sabha

Answer. (b)

  

   5. The oldest surviving newspaper in India is the:

(a) Bombay Samachar

(b) Bombay Herald

(c) Bombay Courier

(d) Samachar Darpan

Answer. (a)

6. Arrange the following in a chronological order:

I. Landholder’s Society

II. India League

III. Bombay Presidency Association

IV. Poona Sarvajanik Sabha

(a) I, II, IV, VI

(b) I, IV, II, III

(c) III, II, I, IV

(d) II, IV, I, III

Answer. (b)

7. Arrange the following educational institutions in chronological order

of their establishment:

I. Calcutta Madarsa

II. Banaras Sanskrit College

III. Asiatic Society of Bengal

IV. Hindu College

(a) I, IV, lll, II

(b) III, IV, II, I

(c) IV, II, I, III

(d) I, III, ll, IV

Answer. (d)

8. Match the following:

Session of Indian              Venue

National Congress

A. 1st Session                 1. Allahabad

B. 2nd Session                2. Madras

C. 3rd Session                 3. Calcutta

D. 4th Session                 4. Bombay

     A B C D

(a) 4 3 2 1

(c) 4 2 3 1

(b) 1 3 2 4

(d) 1 2 3 4

Answer. (a)

9. Who among the early nationalists worked in England to mobilize public opinion in favour

of the Indian National Movement ?

(a) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

(b) D. Wacha

(c) Lala Lajpat Rai

(d) Dadabhai Naoroji

Answer. (d)

10. In which one of the following cities, was the East India Association founded

by Dadabhai Naoroji in 1866?

(a) Paris

(b) London

(c) New York

(d) Tokyo

Answer. (b)

11. Who among the following was the first Governor General of India?

(a) Lord Amherst

(b) Lord William Bentinck

(c) Sir Charles Metcalfe

(d) Robert Clive

Answer. (b)

12. Theosophist, educationist and Indian national leader. This description fits:

(a) Madan Mohan Malviya

(b) Srinivasa Shastri

(c) Annie Besant

(d) Shyama Prasad Mukherjee

Answer. (c)

13. Uplift of the backward classes was the main programme of the:

(a) Prarthana Samaj

(b) Satyashodhak Samaj

(c) Arya Samaj

(d) Ramakrishna Mission

Answer. (b)

14. “In 1893 he started using the traditional religious Ganapati festival to stimulate

nationalism among young Maharashtrians. . . ” This passage refers to:

(a) Vishnu Shastri Chiplunkar

(b) V.D. Savarkar

(c) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

(d) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Answer. (d)

15. The first Bengali political drama which presented the story of the brutality of English

indigo planters was:

(a) Rast Goftar

(b) Indian Social Reformer

(c) Neel Darpan

(d) Shome Prakash

Answer. (c)

16. Who among the following was the first to emphases the instruction in science and

literature through the English language was necessary for building up modern India?

(a) Raja Rammohan Roy

(b) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

(c) Sir Syeed Ahmad Khan

(d) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

Answer. (a)

17. ‘India for the Indians’ was the political message of:

(a) Dayanand Saraswati

(b) Swami Vivekananda

(c) A.O. Hume

(d) D. Wacha

Answer. (a)

18. Raja Ram Mohan Roy and David Hare were associated with the foundation of the:

 (a) Hindu College

(b) Ripon College

(c) MAO. College

(d) Sanskrit College

Answer. (a)

19. Match the following:

Society                                                      Founder

A. Theosophical Society                             1. Dadabhai Naoroji

B. London Indian Society                           2. Lala Lajpat Rai

C. Servants of Indian Society                   3. Annie Besant

D. Servants of People Society                                 4. Gopal Krishna Gokhale 

    A B C D

(a) 1 3 4 2

(b) 3 1 2 4

(c) 3 1 4 2

(d) 1 3 2 4

Answer. (c)

20. With whom was a settlement for revenue made under the Mahalwari system?

 (a) The cultivators

(b) The Zamindars

(c) The Zamindars and cultivators jointly

(d) The village community as a whole

Answer. (d)

21. Which one of the following revolts was made famous by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee in

his noval Anand Math?

(a) Bhil uprising

(b) Rangpur and Dinapur uprising

(c) Bishnupur and Birbhum rebellion

(d) Sanyasi rebellion

Answer. (d)

22. With reference to the revolt of the year 1857. Who of the following was betrayed by a

friend captured and put to death by the British?

(a) Nana Sahib

(b) Kunwar Singh

(c) Khan Bahadur Khan

(d) Tantia Tope

Answer. (d)

23. Which one of the following did not take place during the administration of Lord Dalhousie?

(a) The Second Anglo-Burmese war

(b) Setting up telegraph line from Calcutta to Agra

(c) Railway opened from Bombay to Thane

(d) Foundation of the University of Delhi

Answer. (d)

24. In the context of revenue administration of the British in India, who of the following is

well-known for his association with Ryotwari Settlement and its implementation?

 (a) Thomas Munro

 (b) RM. Bird

 (c) Sir Charles Napier

 (d) Jonathan Duncan

Answer. (a)

25. Who among the following was the founder of the Muslim League?

(a) Muhammad Ali Jannah

(b) Saukat Ali

(c) Nawab Salimullah

(d) Aga Khan

Answer. (d)