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WBCS Main Question Paper – 2019
- Aurobindo Ghosh was brilliantly defended by
(A) Chittaranjan Das
(B) W. C. Bonerjee
(C) MotilalNehru
(D) Tej Bahadur Sapru - The brain behind the bomb attack on Viceroy Lord Hardinge at Chandni Chawk, Delhi in December 1912, was:
(A) Rasbehari Basu
(B) Bhai Parmanand
(C) Sachmdranath Sanyal
(D) Shobhan Lal Pathak - During the first twenty years of the Congress, which of the following
acted as president of the INC thrice?
(A) Surendra Nath Banerjee
(B) Dadabhai Naoroji
(C) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
(D) Sankaran Nair - The European organization in India which launched agitation against
the Ilbert Bill was:
(A) European Defence Association
(B) Indo-British Association
(C) Anti Ilbert Bill League
(D) European Rights Front - After the Partition of Bengal, the two new provinces which came into
existence were:
(A) East Bengal and Bengal
(B) East Bengal and West Bengal
(C) East Bengal and Assam
(D) East Bengal and North Bengal - Who edited a Bengali weekly the ‘Jugantor’ and ‘Basumati’?
(A) Barindra Ghosh
(B) Aurobindo Ghosh
(C) Ganesh Ghosh
(D) Anand Mohan Bose - Madan Lal Dhingra murdered Curzon Wyllie in London, who was a/an
(A) Adviser to the Secretary of State for India.
(B) Secretary of State for India
(C) Former Governor of the Punjab
(D) Law Member of the Viceroy’s Executive Council - He was a great Indian revolutionary who was a Professor of Sanskrit
and Philosophy in the Universities of Berkeley and Stanford and died as a
sanyasi in Philadelphia, He was:
(A) Shyamji Krishna Verma
(B) Lala Hardayal
(C) Bhai Parmanand
(D) Ram Chandra Bhardwaj - Gopal Hari Deshmukh is popularly Known as ‘Lokhitwadi’ because:
(A) He was a great philanthropist and social worker.
(B) He distributed money and medicines to the poor and the needy.
(C) He edited a monthly magazine the ‘Lokhitwadi ‘
(D) All of the above - Dadabhai Naoroji was elected to the British House of Commons as a
member of the party.
(Finsbury Central – 1892)
(A) Conservative
(B) Liberal
(C) Labour
(D) Labour-Liberal Combine - Who was the first to unfurl the first Indian National Flag, the parent and precursor of the Flag of Independent India?
(Stuttgart, Germany – 1907)
(A) Madam Vikaiji Cama
(B) Dadabhai Naoroji
(C) Raja Mahendra Pratap
(D) Taraknath Das - The precursor of the Indian National Congress was
(1883)
(A) Indian Association of Calcutta
(B) Indian National Conference
(C) British Indian Association
(D) The Indian Union - The name ‘Indian National Congress’ was given by
(A) S. N. Banerjee
(B) Dadabhai Naoroji
(C) Feroze Shah Mehta
(D) M. G. Ranade - Match the social reformers of the nineteenth century with their individual
contributions.
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(B) (ii) (i) (iii) (iv)
(C) (ii) (i) (iv) (iii)
(D) (i) (ii) (iv) (iii) - The first president of the Indian National Congress was
(A) A. O. Hume
(B) W. C. Bonerjee
(C) S. N. Banerjee
(D) Dadabhai Naoroji - Arrange the following events in the correct chronological order:
I. Partition of Bengal
II. Varanasi Session of the I.N.C.
III. Calcutta Session of the I.N.C.
IV. Foundation of Muslim League
(A) I II III IV
(B) II I III IV
(C) I Il IV III
(D) I III II IV - Who said “The Congress is tottering to its fall, and one of my great
ambitions, while in India, is to assist it to its peaceful demise”?
(A) Syed Ahmed Khan
(B) Raja Shiv Prasad
(C) Lord Dufferin
(D) Lord Curzon - The immediate cause of the Surat Split (1907) between the moderates
and the extremists was
(A) the Boycott of the moderates by the extremists.
(B) the election of the President of I. N. C.
(C) the Swaraj Resolution.
(D) the extremists resolution of Swadeshi, Boycott, National Education and
Self Government. - Who were designated as Neo Nationalists?
(A) Extremists
(B) Revolutioneries
(C) Moderates
(D) Swarajists - Match the papers or periodicals with the National leaders who
Published them
(a) Abul Kalam Azad (i) Bombay Chronicle
(b) Pheroze Shah Mehta (ii) Al Hilal
(c) Mrs Annie Besant (iii) Young India
(d) M K Gandhi (iv) New India
(a) (b) (C) (d)
(A) (ii) (i) (iv) (iii)
(B) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(C) (ii) (i) (iii) (iv)
(D) (iii) (ii) (i) (iv) - Arrange the following events in the correct chronological order
I. Bombing on Lord Hardinge
II. Transfer of capital from Calcutta to Delhi
III. Outbreak of the First World War
IV. Gandhiji’s arrival in India
(A) II I IV III
(B) I II III IV
(C) Ill I II IV
(D) II I III IV - The Calcutta session of the I. N. C. (1906) marks a turning point in the
history of the congress, because
(A) it marked the end of the twenty years of the I.N. C.
(B) it marked the end of the moderate phase of the I. N. C.
(C) it adopted the resolutions regarding Boycott, Swadeshi, National
Education and Self Government.
(D) it was the last session when the I. N. C. was dominated by the old guard. - Match the founders of the following revolutionary organisations
(a) Anushilan Samiti (i) V D Saarkar
(b) Abhinava Bharata (ii) Barindra Kumar Ghosh
(c) Ghadar Party (iii) Lala Hardayal
(d) Hindustan Socialist (iv) Sachindra Nath
Republical Army Sunyal and Bhagat Singh
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (ii) (i) (iii) (iv)
(B) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(C) (ii) (iii) (i) (iv)
(D) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i) - Who is regarded as ‘the Mother of Indian Revolution’ ?
(A) Mrs. Annie Besant
(B) Snehlata Wadkar
(C) Sarojini Naidu
(D) Madam Bhikaiji Rustom Cama - Ridiculing the idea of Swarajya in 1903, who said, “Only mad men
outside lunatic asylums could think or talk of independence”?
(A) Lord Curzon
(B) Lord Hardinge
(C) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
(D) Pheroze Shah Mehta - During the British rule the only British King to visit India and hold his
magnificent Durbar, was:
(A) Edward VII
(B) George V
(C) James II
(D) Edward VI
WBCS Main Question Paper – 2018
- The first newspaper published by M K Gandhi
a) Indian Opinion (1903)
b) Navjeevan
c) Harijan
d) Young India - The sudden emergence of the samities or ‘national volunteer’ movement
was one of the major achievements of the Swadeshi Age. Who founded
Swadesh Bandhab Samity?
a) Aswini Kumar Dutta
b) Pulinbihari Das
c) Sarala Devi
d) Barin Ghosh - Calcutta Science College was establish in the year
a) 1905
b) 1908
c) 1913
d) 1914 - Sandhya, a periodical was published by
(1906)
a) Bipin Chandra Pal
b) Aurobindo Ghosh
c) Brahama Bandhav Upadhyay
d) Bhupendranath Dutta - Andher Nagari was written by
a) Prem Chand
b) Bharatendu Harish Chandra
c) Krishan Chander
d) Mulk Raj Anand - ‘Anti-Circular Society’ was established by
a) Sachindra Prasad Basu
b) Krishna Kumar Mitra
c) ‘Raja’ Subodh Mullick
d) Satish Chandra Mukhapadhyay - Sanjivani, a newspaper was published by
a) Motilal Ghosh
b) Surendranath Banerjee
c) Krishna Kumar Mitra
d) Jogendra Chandra Bose - Bartaman Bharat was written by
a) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
b) Swami Vivekananda
c) Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
d) Rabindranath Tagore - Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana Yogam (SNDP) was founded by
a) Sri Narayana Guru
b) Dr. Palgu
c) N Kumaran Asan
d) All of them - Jyotirao Phule started his Satyasodhak Samaj in
a) 1872
b) 1873
c) 1879
d) 1910 - Dramatic Performances Act (DPA) was brought into force under the
administration of
a) Lord Lytton
b) Lord Mayo
c) Lord Napier
d) Lord Northbrook - The news magazine Bharat Shramajivi was published by
a) Dwarakanath Ganguly
b) Sashipada Bannerjee
c) Shivnath Sastri
d) Ramkumar Vidyaratna - Nair Service Society under the leadership of Mannath Padmanava Pillai was founded in
a) 1900
b) 1905
c) 1914
d) 1917 - Mahakali Pathshala was founded by
(1893, Kolkata)
a) Ramabai Ranade
b) Mataji Tapaswini
c) Anandibhai Bhagat
d) Anandibai Karve - Kesari was the mouthpiece of
a) Indian National Society
b) Arya Samaj
c) Sarbajanik Sabha
d) Sanjivani Sabha - Pandita Ramabai Saraswati arrived in Western India in 1882 and with the help from Ramabai Ranade set up ___ for general uplift and enlightenment of women.
a) Bharat Stree Mahamandal
b) Women’s Indian Association
c) Arya Mahila Samaj
d) Mahila Rashtriya Sangha - Dayanand’s pamphlet on the subject of cow protection Gaukarunanidhi
was published in the year __
a) 1879
b) 1881
c) 1885
d) 1892 - In the 1880s and 1890s ‘communalism’ acquired an All India dimension.
Two principal issues were Urdu-Devanagari controversy and cow protection. The demand for the use of Devanagari script was granted in the year
a) 1868
b) 1879
c) 1898
d) 1900 - Muslim league was initially floated by _____ in December, 1906.
(30th Dec 1906, Dhaka)
a) Sir Sayyid Ahmed Khan
b) Aga Khan
c) Nawab Salimullah
d) Muhammad Ali - The book “Indian Musalmans” which contributed to the British policy of ‘Divide and Rule’ and led to the growth of Muslim Separatism was written by
a) Syed Amin Ali
b) Sir Syed Ahmed
c) Muhammad Ali Jinnah
d) Sir William Wilson Hunter - The tribal leader who was regarded as the Father of the World (Dharti
Aba) was
a) Buddha Bhagat
b) Tilka Manjhi
c) Birsa Munda
d) Bonangi Pandu Paral - When did the first schism within the Brahmo Samaj take place?
a) 1865
b) 1866
c) 1867
d) 1868 - When was Ramakrishna Mission was established?
a) 1895
b) 1896
c) 1897
d) 1899 - Arrange the following Commission constituted for development of
education in colonial India according to chronological order and find the correct answer from the codes given below:
i) Sadler Commission (1917)
ii) Wood’s Despatch (1854)
iii) Hunter Commission (1882)
iv) Raleigh Commission (1902)
a) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
b) (ii), (iii), (i), (iv)
c) (ii), (i), (iv), (iii)
d) (ii), (iii), (iv), (i) - Who was the founder of Gram Barta Prokashika?
(1863)
a) Bhavani Charan Bandyopadhyay
b) Harish Chandra Mukhopadhyay
c) Sisir Kumar Ghosh
d) Harinath Majumder
WBCS Main Question Paper – 2017
- The ‘Drain Theory’ was first propounded by
(A) Womesh Chandra Banerjee
(B) G. V. Joshi
(C) Dadabhai Naoroji
(D) Romesh Chandra Dutt - The first Muslim President of the Indian National Congress was
(A) Hakim Azmal Khan
(B) Abul Kalam Azad
(C) Rafi Ahmad Kidwai
(D) BadruddinToyabji - Which phase is considered to be the liberal phase in the history of Indian
National Congress ?
(A) 1880-1885
(B) 1885-1905
(C) 1905-1915
(D) 1905-1925 - The founder president of the Gadar Party in USA
(A) Lala Hardayal
(B) Bhai Parmanand
(C) Sohan Sing Bakhna
(D) Ramchandra Bharadwaj - The ‘Safety Valve’ theory is related to the foundation of which
organization ?
(A) The Indian Association
(B) The Indian National Conference
(C) The British Indian Association
(D) The Indian National Congress - In 1903, which leader ridiculed the idea of Swaraj by saying— “Only mad men outside lunatic asylums could think or talk of independence” ?
(A) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
(B) Pheroz Shah Mehta
(C) A. O. Hume
(D) Mrs, Annie Besant
WBCS Main Question Paper – 2016
- Who among the following did not attend the first session of the Indian
National Congress ?
(A) Womesh Chandra Banerjee
(B) K.T. Telang
(C) Surendranath Banerjee
(D) Badaruddin Tyabji - Which of the following statements is / are true about the Vernacular
Press Act. 1878 ?
(i) It was passed by Lord Mayo,
(ii) It came to be known as the “Gagging Act”
(iii) It liberated the Indian Press from restrictions.
(iv) It was repealed in 1882 by the Ripon Govt.
Select the answer from codes given below :
(A) (ii) and (iv)
(B) (i) and (ii)
(C) (i) and (iii)
(D) (iii) and (iv)
- When and where the song ‘Bande Mataram’ was first sung (by
Rabindranath Tagore) ?
(A) At Calcutta Session of the I. N. Congress in 1896
(B) At Calcutta Town Hall on August 07, 1905
(C) At Santiniketan Ashrama in 1901
(D) On July 19, 1905 at Calcutta when partition of Bengal was formally
announced - When did the British pass a law making it an offence to Preach
nationalism ?
(A) 1890
(B) 1895
(C) 1898
(D) 1904 - Who raised patriotism to the pedestal of mother worship and said : “I
know my country as my mother. I adore her. I worship her” ?
(A) Swami Vivekananda
(B) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
(C) Aurobindo Ghosh
(D) Bal Gangadhar Tilak - The Indian Association and National Conference were founded by–
(A) Surendranath Banerjee
(B) Anand Mohan Bose
(C) Both (A) and (B)
(D) Sisir Kumar Ghosh - Name the European who worked ardently for the Indian national
movement and criticized the British rule by saying : “The British empire is
rotten to the core, corrupt in every direction and tyrannical and mean” –
(A) Sister Nivedita
(B) A.O. Hume
(C) William Wedderburn
(D) Mrs. Annie Beasant - Which movement, though started as a religious reform movement,
became a movement for the restoration of Sikh sovereignty by the
annexation of Punjab by the British ?
(A) Kittur Rising
(B) Bundela Revolt
(C) Kuka Movement (1857)
(D) Satavandi Revolt - Who observed : “The Congress (INC) is in reality a civil war without
arms” ?
(A) Lord Dufferin
(B) Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
(C) M. Ali Jinnah
(D) Lord Curzon - Which of the following are correct to describe the character of the
Aligarh movement ?
(i) Anti-British
(ii) Pro-British
(iii) Anti-Congress
(iv) Pro-Congress
(v) Anti-Hindu
(vi) Pro-Hindu
Select the answer from codes given below :
(A) (i), (ii) and (iii)
(B) (ii), (iii) and (iv)
(C) (ii), (iii) and (v)
(D) (i), (iii) and (v)
WBCS Main Question Paper – 2015
- The British Government introduced the portfolio system for the first
time in
(A) 1853
(B) 1855
(C) 1861
(D) 1892 - Which of the following is correctly paired ?
(A) Panjabee – T. Prakasam and M. Krishna Rao
(B) Bharata Mata – Ajit Singh
(C) Krishna Patrika – M. G. Ranade
(D) Quarterly Journal – Lajpat Rai - Who said ‘the congress movement was neither inspired by the people
nor devised or planned by them ?
(A) Lala Lajpat Rai
(B) Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
(C) Lord Curzon
(D) Lord Dufferin - The Indian Association played an important role in arousing national
consciousness through the formation of the
(A) Indian National Congress
(B) Bengal British Indian Society
(C) Indian National Conference
(D) British India Association - What is the name of the Bengali monthly founded and edited by
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee in 1873 ?
(A) Soma Prakasha
(B) Bangaduta
(C) Bangadarshana
(D) Bengalee - When and by whom was the ‘Nair Service Society’ founded ?
(A) 1905 – Narayana Guru
(B) 1910 – T.M. Nair
(C) 1914 – M. Padmanabha Pillai
(D) 1916 – K. Ramakrishna Pillai - Keshab Chandra Sen
(i) Adopted a radical and comprehensive scheme of social reforms
(ii) Infused the concept of Bhakti into Brahmoism
(iii) Influenced the socio-religious reformer in Bombay and Madras.
(iv) Opposed the introduction of western education in India
Which one is correct
(A) i, ii and iii
(B) ii, iii and iv
(C) i, iii and iv
(D) All of them
- Which of the following books was not written by Swami Dayanand
Saraswati ?
(A) Satyartha Prakash
(B) Veda Prakash
(C) Satyartha Bhumika
(D) Veda Bhashya Bhumika - Who was the founder of secret society Abhinava Bharat ?
(A) Naren Bhattacharji
(B) Jatin Mukherji
(C) Ganesh Savarkar (1903)
(D) Damodar Chapekar - Who of the following were the original founder of the Theosophical
society ?
(i) Madam H. P. Blavatsky
(ii) Mrs. Annie Besant
(iii) Colonel H. S. Olcott
(iv) Colonel O. P Walburn
Choose the answer from the codes given below
(A) i and ii
(B) ii and iii
(C) i and iii
(D) iii and iv
- Which session of the Congress had 1889 Delegates ?
(A) Third Session of Madras
(B) Fourth Session of Allahabad
(C) Fifth Session at Bombay
(D) Sixth Session at Calcutta - Who founded the Indian Reforms Association in 1870 ?
(A) Ram Mohan Roy
(B) Debendranath Tagore
(C) Keshab Chandra Sen
(D) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar - During whose period did the European soldiers stage the so called
‘White-Mutiny’ in India ?
(A) Dalhousie
(B) Canning
(C) Mayo
(D) Ripon - Who is generally acknowledged as the pioneer of local selfGovernment in modern India ?
(A) Ripon
(B) Hardinge – I
(C) M. K. Gandhi
(D) Curzon - Who was the first to attempt decentralization of financial
administration ?
(A) Ripon
(B) Mayo
(C) Curzon
(D) Lytton
WBCS Main Question Paper – 2014
- Who founded ‘Swadeshi Bhandar‘ in 1897 ?
(A) Sarala Devi
(B) Rabindranath Tagore
(C) Mahatma Gandhi
(D) Bipin Chandra Pal - ‘Gadar’ party’ was founded in 1913 at
(A) Bombay
(B) Punjab
(C) Calcutta
(D) Sun Francisco - Who announced Queen Victoria as the Crown of India ?
(A) Lord Wellesley
(B) Lord Cornwallis
(C) Lord Lytton
(D) Lord Hastings - Which of the following sections remained at a distance during
Swadeshi Movement of 1905 ?
(A) Women
(B) Peasantry
(C) Students
(D) Intelligentsia - The chief advisor and confident of Syed Ahmad Khan was
(A) W.W. Hunter
(B) Theodore Beck
(C) Theodore Morison
(D) Nassan Lees - The editor of the paper, the Hindu was :
(A) S. Subramania
(B) Kasturi Ranga Iyengar
(C) S. Satyamurti
(D) T. K. Madhavan - The first Muslim President of the Indian National Congress was
(A) Ajmal Khan
(B) M. A. Jinaah
(C) Badruddin Tyabji (1887)
(D) Rahimulla Sayani - Whom did B.G Tilak call ‘the Diamond of India’ ?
(A) Rabindranath Tagore
(B) Dadabhai Naoraji
(C) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
(D) Lala Lajpat Rai
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