Q.1 Regarding Wood’s Dispatch, which of the following statements are true?
1. Grants-in-Aid system was introduced
2. Establishment of universities was
recommended
3. English as a medium of instruction at all levels of education was recommended.
Select the correct answer using the code given below :
a) 1 and 2 only
b) 2 and 3 only
c) 1 and 3 only
d) 1, 2 and 3
Q.2 With reference to educational institutes during colonial rule in India, consider the following pairs:
Institution Founder
1. Sanskrit College at Benaras William Jones
2. Calcutta Madrasa Warren Hastings
3. Fort William College Arthur Wellesley
Which of the pairs given above is/are correct?
a) 1 and 2
b) 2 only
c) 1 and 3
d) 3 only
Q.3 Which among the following events happened earliest?
a) Swami Dayanand established AryaSamaj.
b) Dinabandhu Mitra wrote Neeldarpan.
c) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay wrote
Anandmath.
d) Satyendranath Tagore became the first
Indian to succeed in the Indian Civil
Services Examination.
Q.4 In 1920, which of the following changed its name to “Swarajya Sabha”?
a) All India Home Rule League
b) Hindu Mahasabha
c) South Indian Liberal Federation
d) The Servants of India Society
Q.5 Which of the following led to the introduction of English Education in India?
1. Charter Act of 1813
2. General Committee of Public Instruction, 1823
3. Orientalist and Anglicist Controversy
Select the correct answer using the code given below
a) 1 and 2 only
b) 2 only
c) 1 and 3 only
d) 1, 2 and 3
Q.6 Economically, one of the results of the British rule in India in the 19th century was the
a) increase in the export of Indian handicrafts
b) growth in the number of Indian owned
factories
c) commercialization of Indian agriculture
d) rapid increase in the urban population
Q.7 After the Santhal Uprising subsided, what was/were the measure/measures taken by the colonial government?
1. The territories called `Santhal Parganas’ were created.
2. It became illegal for a Santhal to transfer land to a non-Santhal.
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
a) 1 only
b) 2 only
c) Both 1 and 2
d) Neither 1 nor 2
Q.8 He wrote biographies of Mazzini, Garibaldi, Shivaji and Shrikrishna; stayed in America for some time; and was also elected to the Central Assembly. He was
a) Aurobindo Ghosh
b) Bipin Chandra Pal
c) Lala Lajpat Rai
d) Motilal Nehru
Q.9 Which one of the following statements does not apply to the system of Subsidiary Alliance introduced by Lord Wellesley?
a) To maintain a large standing army at
others expense
b) To keep India safe from Napoleonic
danger
c) To secure a fixed income for the Company
d) To establish British paramountcy over the Indian States
Q.10 Who among the following were the
founders of the “Hind Mazdoor Sabha”
established in 1948 ?
a) B. Krishna Pillai, E.M.S. Namboodiripad
and K.C. George
b) Jayaprakash Narayan, Deen Day al
Upadhyay and M.N. Roy
c) C.P. Ramaswamy Iyer, K. Kamaraj and
Veeresalingam Pantulu
d) Ashok Mehta, T.S. Ramanujam and G.G.
Mehta
Q.11 Which one of the following is a very
significant aspect of the Champaran Satyagraha?
a) Active all-India participation of lawyers,
students and women in the National
Movement
c) Active involvement of Dalit and Tribal
communities of India in the National
Movement
d) Joining of peasant unrest to India’s
National Movement
e) Drastic decrease in the cultivation of
plantation crops and commercial crops
Q.12 The staple commodities of export by the English East India Company from Bengal in the middle of the 18th century were
a) Raw cotton, oil-seeds, and opium
b) Sugar, salt, zinc, and lead
c) Copper, silver, gold, spices, and tea
d) Cotton, silk, saltpeter, and opium
ANSWER
1. a
2. b
3. b
4. a
5. c
6. c
7. c
8. c
9. c
10. d
11. c
12. d
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