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UPSC Modern History – Old Questions 2021

Q.1 In the first quarter of the seventeenth 
century, in which of the following was/were the factory/factories of the English East India Company located?
1. Broach
2. Chicacole
3. Trichinopoly
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
a) 1 only
b) 1 and 2
c) 3 only
d) 2 and 3

Q.2 With reference to Madanapalle of Andhra Pradesh, which one of the following statements is correct?
a) Pingali Venkayya designed the tricolour 
Indian National Flag here.
b) Pattabhi Sitaramaiah led the Quit India 
Movement of Andhra region from here.
c) Rabindranath Tagore translated the 
National Anthem from Bengali to English 
here.
d) Madame Blavatsky and Colonel Olcott set up headquarters of Theosophical Society first here.

Q.3 Consider the following statements:
1. St. Francis Xavier was one of the founding members of the Jesuit Order.
2. St. Francis Xavier died in Goa and a church is dedicated to him there.
3. The feast of St. Francis Xavier is 
celebrated in Goa each year.
Which of the statements given above are correct?
a) 1 and 2 only
b) 2 and 3 only
c) 1 and 3 only
d) 1, 2 and 3

Q.4 Consider the following statements:
1. The Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms of 
1919 recommended granting voting rights 
to all women above the age of 21.
2. The Government of India Act of 1935 gave women reserved seats in the legislature.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
a) 1 only
b) 2 only
c) Both 1 and 2
d) Neither 1 nor 2

Q.5 With reference to 8th August 1942 in Indian history, which one of the following statements is correct?
a) The Quit India Resolution was adopted by the AICC.
b) The Viceroy’s Executive Council was 
expanded to include more Indians.
c) The Congress ministries resigned in seven provinces.
d) Cripps proposed an Indian Union with full Dominion status once the Second World War was over.

Q.6 Who among the following is associated with ‘Songs from Prison’, a translation of ancient Indian religious lyrics in English?
a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
b) Jawaharlal Nehru
c) Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
d) Sarojini Naidu

Q.7 Who among the following was associated as Secretary with Hindu Female School which later came to be known as Bethune Female School?
a) Annie Besant
b) Debandranath Tagore
c) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
d) Sarojini Naidu

Q.8 In the context of Colonial India, Shah Nawaz Khan, Prem Kumar Sehgal and Gurbaksh Singh Dhillon are remembered as
a) leaders of Swadeshi and Boycott 
Movement
b) members of the Interim Government in 
1946
c) members of the Drafting Committee in 
the Constituent Assembly
d) officers of the Indian National Army




ANSWER

1. a
2. c
3. c
4. b
5. a
6. c
7. c
8. d

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