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Indian History Mixed Quiz: Set 75

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Set 75 of the Indian History mixed quiz has 20 multiple-choice questions from 10 different topics of the subject: Personalities of the Freedom Struggle and Their Titles, British Administration: Civil Services, Police, Army and Judiciary, India after Independence: 1947 to 1964 and more. 7 of them were asked in real previous-year papers. A topic quiz checks one chapter; this set revises the whole subject at once, the way an exam paper does, where the next question can come from any chapter. Every question carries an explanation of why the correct option is right and why the others are wrong. Keep to the timer, read the explanations at the end, and go back to the notes of any topic where you slipped.

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20 questions with answers and explanations

Q1.Indian HistoryMedium

Vallabhbhai Patel received the title Sardar after leading which movement?

  1. A.The Champaran Satyagraha of 1917
  2. B.The Kheda Satyagraha of 1918
  3. C.The Bardoli Satyagraha of 1928
  4. D.The Dandi March of 1930
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Correct answer: C. The Bardoli Satyagraha of 1928

The peasants of Bardoli taluka in Surat district refused to pay a steep increase in land revenue, Vallabhbhai Patel organised the resistance, the government was forced to appoint an inquiry and roll back most of the increase, and the women of Bardoli gave him the title Sardar.

Q2.Indian HistoryAsked in: CDS · CDS-II 2019, GKMedium

Arrange the following in the chronological order of their implementation: 1. The Indian Factory Act (First) 2. The Vernacular Press Act 3. The Morley-Minto Reforms 4. The Cornwallis Code Select the correct answer using the code given below:

  1. A.4, 2, 1, 3
  2. B.2, 4, 1, 3
  3. C.3, 4, 1, 2
  4. D.2, 1, 3, 4
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Correct answer: A. 4, 2, 1, 3

The order is the Cornwallis Code (1793), the Vernacular Press Act (1878), the first Indian Factory Act (1881) and the Morley-Minto Reforms (1909).

Q3.Indian HistoryMedium

The States Reorganisation Act, 1956 reorganised India into how many states and union territories?

  1. A.Sixteen states and nine union territories
  2. B.Fourteen states and six union territories
  3. C.Seventeen states and ten union territories
  4. D.Twelve states and five union territories
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Correct answer: B. Fourteen states and six union territories

The Act came into force on 1 November 1956 and, along with the Seventh Amendment of the same year, ended the old classification of Part A, Part B, Part C and Part D states that the Constitution had set out in 1950, leaving fourteen states and six union territories.

Q4.Indian HistoryAsked in: UPSC Civil Services · CSE Prelims 2017, GS Paper IMedium

The Trade Disputes Act of 1929 provided for

  1. A.the participation of workers in the management of industries.
  2. B.arbitrary powers to the management to quell industrial disputes.
  3. C.an intervention by the British Court in the event of a trade dispute.
  4. D.a system of tribunals and a ban on strikes.
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Correct answer: D. a system of tribunals and a ban on strikes.

. The Trade Disputes Act, 1929 set up machinery of courts of inquiry and boards of conciliation and banned certain strikes.

Q5.Indian HistoryEasy

Who is known as the Grand Old Man of India?

  1. A.Surendranath Banerjee
  2. B.Dadabhai Naoroji
  3. C.Gopal Krishna Gokhale
  4. D.Pherozeshah Mehta
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Correct answer: B. Dadabhai Naoroji

He was thrice president of the Indian National Congress, the first Indian to be elected to the British House of Commons, and the author of Poverty and Un-British Rule in India, in which he worked out the drain of wealth from India to Britain.

Q11.Indian HistoryMedium

The Second Five Year Plan of India was based on the model given by which economist?

  1. A.P. C. Mahalanobis
  2. B.V. K. R. V. Rao
  3. C.D. R. Gadgil
  4. D.Amartya Sen
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Correct answer: A. P. C. Mahalanobis

The Second Five Year Plan, which ran from 1956 to 1961, was built on the two-sector model of Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis and gave the first place to heavy and basic industry; the public sector steel plants at Bhilai, Rourkela and Durgapur belong to this plan, and the Industrial Policy Resolution…

Q15.Indian HistoryHard

Panchayati Raj was inaugurated in India by Jawaharlal Nehru on 2 October 1959 at which place?

  1. A.Nagaur in Rajasthan
  2. B.Shadnagar in Andhra Pradesh
  3. C.Wardha in Maharashtra
  4. D.Bhiwani in Haryana
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Correct answer: A. Nagaur in Rajasthan

The Balwantrai Mehta Committee of 1957 recommended democratic decentralisation through a three-tier structure of the gram panchayat, the panchayat samiti and the zila parishad, and Nehru inaugurated the scheme at Nagaur on 2 October 1959, which makes Rajasthan the first state to adopt Panchayati Raj.

Q17.Indian HistoryMedium

Who was the first Indian woman to become president of the Indian National Congress?

  1. A.Annie Besant
  2. B.Sarojini Naidu
  3. C.Aruna Asaf Ali
  4. D.Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
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Correct answer: B. Sarojini Naidu

The correct answer is B, Sarojini Naidu, who presided over the Kanpur session of 1925 and so became the first Indian woman to hold the office; she is called the Nightingale of India for her poetry and later became the first woman Governor of a province in independent India.

Q18.Indian HistoryMedium

Goa was liberated from Portuguese rule in December 1961 through which military action?

  1. A.Operation Polo
  2. B.Operation Vijay
  3. C.Operation Trident
  4. D.Operation Riddle
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Correct answer: B. Operation Vijay

Indian forces entered Goa, Daman and Diu on 18 and 19 December 1961 in Operation Vijay, Portuguese rule of four and a half centuries ended, and Goa was administered as a union territory until it became the twenty-fifth state of India in 1987, with Konkani recognised as its official language.

Q19.Indian HistoryMedium

The newspaper Al-Hilal was published by

  1. A.Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
  2. B.Muhammad Ali Jinnah
  3. C.Syed Ahmad Khan
  4. D.Maulana Mohammad Ali
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Correct answer: A. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

He became the youngest president of the Indian National Congress in 1923 and later the first Education Minister of independent India, whose birthday is observed as National Education Day.

Q20.Indian HistoryEasy

The five principles of Panchsheel were first set out in the preamble of the 1954 agreement between India and which country?

  1. A.Soviet Union
  2. B.China
  3. C.Indonesia
  4. D.Egypt
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Correct answer: B. China

The five principles of mutual respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity, non-aggression, non-interference in internal affairs, equality and mutual benefit, and peaceful coexistence were written into the preamble of the Agreement on Trade and Intercourse with the Tibet region of China, signed on 29 April 1954 and associated with Nehru…

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