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Thursday, April 19, 2012

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)

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