UPSC Modern History – Old Questions 2016

Q.1 The plan of Sir Stafford Cripps envisaged that after the Second World War

a) India should be granted complete 

independence

b) India should be partitioned into two 

before granting independence

c) India should be made a republic with the condition that she will join the Commonwealth

d) India should be given Dominion status

Q.2 What was the main reason for the split in the Indian National Congress at Surat in 1907?

a) Introduction of communalism into Indian politics by Lord Minto

b) Extremists’ lack of faith in the capacity of the moderates to negotiate with the 

British Government

c) Foundation of Muslim League

d) Aurobindo Ghosh’s inability to be elected as the President of the Indian National Congress

Q.3 Consider the following:

1. Calcutta Unitarian Committee

2. Tabernacle of New Dispensation

3. Indian Reform Association

Keshab Chandra Sen is associated with the establishment of which of the above?

a) 1 and 3 only

b) 2 and 3 only

c) 3 only

d) 1, 2 and 3

Q.4 The Montague-Chelmsford Proposals were related to

a) social reforms

b) educational reforms

c) reforms in police administration

d) constitutional reforms

Q.5 Satya Shodhak Samaj organized

a) a movement for upliftment of tribals in 

Bihar

b) a temple-entry movement in Gujarat

c) an anti-caste movement in Maharashtra

d) a peasant movement in Punjab

Q.6 The `Swadeshi’ and ‘Boycott’ were adopted as methods of struggle for the first time during the

a) agitation against the Partition of Bengal

b) Home Rule Movement

c) Non-Cooperation Movement

d) visit of the Simon Commission to India

ANSWER

1. d

2. b

3. b

4. d

5. c

6. a