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WBCS Main Question Paper – 2019
- What was the solution found by B. R. Ambedkar in later years after
Independence to end the hardship of scheduled class people?
(A) More Representations
(B) Separate Electorate
(C) Embracing the Buddhism
(D) Organized Movement - The Hindustan Socialist Republican Association movement ended with
the death of
(Ä) Bhagat Singh
(B) Ram Prasad Bismil
(C) Chandra Sekhar Azad
(D) Jogesh Chandra Chatterji - The first session of the All India Trade Union Congress held in Bombay in 1920, was presided over by
(A) Jawaharlal Nehru
(B) V. V. Gin
(C) Lala Lajpat Rai
(D) N. M Joshi - The Congress decided to raise a Swaraj Fund of one crore rupees for:
(A) Organizing the Non-Co-operation Movement
(B) Memorial of Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(C) Building the headquarters of the Congress
(D) Supporting the families of the political workers - The Historic Lucknow Session of the Congress in 1916 was presided
over by
(A) Mrs. Annie Besant
(B) R.N. Mudhokar
(C) Ambika Charan Majumdar
(D) Madan Mohan Malyviya - Who killed Michael O’ Dyer, the Governor of Punjab, who had ordered
the brutal firing on the innocent people at Jahariwala Bag?
(A) Madan Lai Dhingra
(B) Sardar Udham Singh
(C) Sohan Singh Bhakra
(D) Kanaj Lai Duit - The Congress gave up its ideal of a United India and accepted partition,
because
(A) The country was sinking into a civil war
(B) The congress leaders felt that partition was a lesser evil than a
civil war
(C) The congress leaders succumbed to the temptation of power and struck
a deal with the British
(D) The interim Govt had become an arena of struggle - The day M.K. Gandhi launched the Non Co-operation Movement, a
great National leader died, he was:
(1st Aug 1920)
(A) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
(B) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(C) Pheroze Shah Mehta
(D) C.R. Das - The founder President of the Harijan Sevak Sangha, founded by M.K.
Gandhi, was
(A) Mahadev Desai
(B) G.D. Birla
(C) Amrit Lal Thakkar
(D) B.R. Ambedkar - A Public Service Commission was established in India for the first time
by
(A) The Indian Council Act 1892
(B) Act of 1909
(C) The Government of India Act, 1919
(D) The Government of India Act, 1935 - The Vaikom Satyagraha was launched in 1924 for
(A) opening the temples to the low caste Hindus.
(B) fighting against the exploitation by the Landlords.
(C) removal of Press restrictions.
(D) democratization of the administration of Travancore State.
12. Which of the following acted as President of the Indian National
Congress for six Consecutive years?
(A) Jawaharlal Nehru
(B) Dadabhai Naorojl
(C) Abul Kalam Azad
(D) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
- After the Surat split in 1907,the Second Split in the Congress took place
in 1918 on the issue of:
(A) Lucknow Pact
(B) Montagu Declaration
C) Election of Mrs. Annie Besant as President of the INC (1917)
(D) Both (A) & (C) - Which of the following revolutionary and terrorist organizations had a
large number of young women revolutionizes?
(A) Yugantor
(B) Anushilan Samiti
(C) Bharat Mata Society
(D) Indian Republican Army - Who gave the title of Rani to the Naga woman leader Gaidinliu?
(A) Subhas Chandra Basu
(B) Jawaharlal Nehru
(C) Thakkar Bapa
(D) Mahatma Gandhi - Who founded a Social Organization, the ‘Jat Pat Torak Mandal’ in 1922,
for breaking the caste barriers among the Hindus?
(A) Bhai Parmanand
(B) Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
(C) M.G. Ranade
(D) Keshab Chandra Sen - The Nehru Committee Report got a decent burial at the hands of the
Congress at the Session of the I.N.C.
(1929)
(A) Calcutta
(B) Madras
(C) Lahore
(D) Bombay - Which of the following was not a leader of the All India Hindu
Mahasabha?
(A) V.D. Savarkar
(B) Bhai Parmanand
(C) Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
(D) M.R. Jayakar - Bal Gangadhar Tilak was given the epithet of Lokmanya during:
(A) Swadeshi Movement
(B) Revolutionary Movement
(C) Home Rule Movement
(D) His imprisonment in 1908 - Mahatma Gandhi first experimented with his technique of Satyagraha in
(A) Champaran
(B) Khera
(C) Ahmedabad Mill Strike
(D) Anti Rowlatt Act Agitation - A senior congress leader, who held that the Quit India Movement was
misguided and detrimental to India’s long term interests, was
(A) Tej bahadur Sapru
(B) Jayaprakash Narayan
(C) C. Rajagopalachari
(D) J. B. Knpalani - The only Indian prince, who actively participated in the revolutionary
movement within and outside India, was
(A) Raja Mahendra Pratap
(B) Kunwar Singh
(C) Chhatrapati Sahu
(D) Raja Ripudaman Singh - The I. N. C. became both ‘Indian’ and ‘National’ in reality as well as in
rare, at the
(A) Surat Session (1907)
(B) Calcutta Session (1906)
(C) Lucknow Session (1916)
(D) Lahore Session (1929) - Which of the following was not the result of the Home Rule movement
of Tilak and Besant?
(A) The I. N. C. and the Muslim League both thought of starting a passive
Resistance movement.
(B) The Home Rule campaign virtually ousted the moderates from the
political field.
(C) The I. N. C. became the ‘Congress of Tilak and Besant
(D) The movement generated a cultural awakening in India. - Jatin Das, who died (September 13, 1929) after a long hunger strike in
the prison, had been arrested m connection with Murder of Saunders
(A) Murder of Saunders
(B) Throwing of bombs in the Assembly at Delhi
(C) Lahore Conspiracy case
(D) Meerut Conspiracy case - Match the epithets of the following National Leaders
(a) B G Tilak (i) Lokmanya
(b) Andrews (ii) Dinabandhu
(C) Madan Mohan (iii) Mahamanya
Malviya
(d) Laja Lajpai Rai (iv) Punjab Kesari
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(B) (ii) (i) (iii) (iv)
(C) (iii) (ii) (i) (iv)
(D) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i) - The President of the Lahore Session of the I.N.C. (December 1929)
which passed the Purna Swaraj resolution was
(A) Motilal Nehru
(B) Jawaharlal Nehru
(C) Srinivas Ayengar
(D) Subhas Chandra Bose - The greatest merit of the Gandhi-Irwin Pact was that:
(A) The I.N.C. agreed to join the Second Round Table Conference.
(B) For the first time the I.N.C. was treated on a footing of equality as a
political opponent.
(C) Gandhi, the ‘half naked Fakir’, ascended the staircase of the
Viceregal Lodge.
(D) The I.N.C. gained a status and authority to speak for political India. - Opposition to the Gandhi-Irwin pact was mainly
(A) because of the execution of Bhagat Singh, Sukh Dev and Raj Guru.
(B) because the I.N.C. reneged the Purna Swarajya pledge.
(C) because of suspension of the Civil Disobedience Movement.
(D) because the Pact was a self-delusion. - The famous ‘Purna Swaraj Declaration’, which says: “We hold it to be a
crime against man and God to submit any longer to a rule that has caused
this fourfold disaster to our country”, was prepared by
(A) Jawaharlal Nehru
(B) M K. Gandhi
(C) Motilal Nehru
(D) All of the above - After the Gaya Session of the I.N.C. in December 1922 a new party was
formed by Motilal Nehru and C.R. Das. Its name was
(A) National Liberal Party
(B) The Congress Khilafat SwarajyaParty
(C) Swarajya Party
(D) Swarajya Congress Party - The issue of discussion and stalemate at the Second Round Table
Conference related to the
(A) Communal Problem
(B) Federal Structure
(C) Demand for Purna Swarajya
(D) Representation of Depressed Classes - Who of the following was not hanged in the famous Kakori Train Dacoity
(A) Pandit Ramprasad Bismil
(B) Roshan Lal
(C) Ashfaqulla Khan
(D) Surya Sen - The Chittagong Armoury Raid had been planned by
(A) Surya Sen
(B) Chandra Dutta
(C) Vidhan Ghosh
(D) Jatin Das - The Meerut Conspiracy Case, in which 27 accused persons were
defended by Jawaharlal Nehru and K.N. Katju, related to the members of the
(A) Ghadar Party
(B) Hindu Mahasabha
(C) Indian National Congress
(D) Communist Party of India - The two greatest women revolutionaries of the National Movement—
Pritilata Wadedar and Kalpana Dutta were the revolutionary co-workers of:
(A) Surya Sen
(B) Bhagat Singh
(C) Batokeshwar Dutt
(D) Chapekar brothers
37.Who murdered Sunders, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Lahore, for
assaulting Lala Lajpat Rai?
(A) Bhagat Singh
(B) Batukeswar Dutt
(C) Sukh Dev
(D) Raj Guru
- Why did Bhagat Singh and Batukeswar Dutt throw bombs on the floor of
the Central Assembly in New Delhi and in the Process got themselves
arrested?
(A) After the murders of Sanders at Lahore, the people were suffering terribly
at the hands of the Police.
(B) A feeling had slowly gained around that the people had to suffer the
consequences of the crimes committed by Bhagat Singh, etc. to remove
such a feeling H.S.R.A. decided to send two members to commit a crime and
then to court arrest.
(C) To create a sensation all over India in order to remove political lethargy
(D) All of the above - Jatin Das, an accused in the Lahore Conspiracy Case, on whose death
the family of the Irish martyr, Teren Macswiney sent condolence message to the family of Das, died after undertaking a fast of days.
(A) fifty six
(B) sixty three
(C) seventy two
(D) eighty one - Subhas Chandra Basu was unanimously elected President of the I.N.C
at the Haripur Session held in February:
(A) 1936
(B) 1937
(C) 1938
(D) 1939 - What was the fundamental difference between Subhas Chandra Basu
and Gandhi-Nehru group, which led to the defeat of Gandhiji’s candidate for
the Presidentship of the I.N.C.?
(A) Gandhiji had a personal dislike for Basu.
(B) Basu had radical and socialist ideas.
(C) Basu wanted to exploit the war between Germany and Britain to
India’s advantage and said: “England’s necessity is India’s
opportunity”
(D) Insinuations made by Basu against Gandhiji that he was not keen on
carrying on the National Struggle. - After Leaving the Congress, Subhas Chandra Bose organized the
Forward Block in
(A) 1939
(B) 1938
(C) 1940
(D) 1941 - The main principle of M K. Gandhi’s famous Basic Education System or
Wardha Scheme was:
(A) Learning through activity
(B) Learning through productivity
(C) Earning and learning
(D) Learning and spinning - The Tripuri Session of the I.N.C. (March, 1939) was a historic event on
account of
(A) the victory of Subhas Chandra Basu as President of I.N.C. against
Gandhiji’s nominee, Pattabhi Sitaramayya.
(B) the resignation of the entire Working Committee except Subhas Chandra
Basu and his brother Sarat Chandra Basu.
(C) the resolution to frame a Constitution of free India.
(D) rejection of the British Foreign Policy by the I.N.C - Match the following events with the dates of their occurrence:
(a) August Offer I. August 9-11,1942
(b) Arrival of II. July 14, 1942
Cripps Mission
(c) Quit India Ill. March 23, 1942 Resolution
(d) The Great August IV. August 8, 1940
Uprising
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) IV III II I
(B) III II I IV
(C) IV II III I
(D) IV III I II - The first Provisional Government of Free India was inaugurated by
Subhas Chandra Basu at
(A) Imphal
(B) Kohima
(C) Singapore
(D) Rangoon - British Prime Minister Attlee made the historic announcement of the end
of British rule of India on
(A) February 20, 1947
(B) August 16, 1946
(C) March7, 1947
(D) December 9, 1946 - The four brigades of the I.N.A. were named after
(A) Lal, Bal, Pal, Subhas
(B) Surya, Chandra,Jatin, Bhagat
(C) Gandhi, Azad, Nehru, Subhas
(D) Ganga, Yamuna, Narmada, Kaveri - Match the authors with their works:
(a) Dr. Rajendra Prasad I. The Nations Voice
(b) Abul Kalam Azad II. India Divided
(c) V D. Savarkar III. India Wins Freedom
(d) C Rajagopalachari IV. Indian War of
Independence
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) II III IV I
(B) III Il I IV
(C) I II III IV
(D) II III I IV - Lord Mountbatten’s Declaration on the Freedom of India and its partition is known as
(A) The August Plan
(B) The June 3rd Plan
(C) The June 2nd Plan
(D) The Partition Plan - Match the authors and the work:
(a) Sceptred Flute I. M K. Gandhi
(b) Savitri II. Sarojini Naidu
(c) India and the world III. Aurobindo Ghosh
(d) Conquest of Self IV. Jawaharlal Nehru
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) I Il Ill IV
(B) IV III Il I
(C) II Ill IV I
(D) Il I IV III - Certain movements of the early twentieth century described as
“Movements from below” were
(A) Caste movements
(B) Revolutionary movements
(C) Peasant and tribal movements
(D) Socio-religious movements - What approximately was the number of Princely States which legally
became Independent at the lapse of British paramountcy on August 15, 1947
(A) 300
(B) 600
(C) 150
(D) 700 - A Muslim organization, which proposed during the First World War that
Muslims should participate and try to reach an accord with the Congress,
was
(A) Muslim League
(B) Ahmadiya Movement
(C) Ehrar League
(D) Deoband Movement
WBCS Main Question Paper – 2018
- Quit India Movement was launched in immediate response to the failure
of
a) Cripps Mission
b) Cabinet Mission Plan
c) Simon Commission Report
d) Wavell Plan - Basu Vigyan Mandir (Bose Institute) was establish on
a) 1917
b) 1916
c) 1919
d) 1920 - Who among the following was not a member of the Constituent
Assembly?
a) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
b) B R Ambedkar
c) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
d) M K Gandhi - Tebhaga Movement was launched by Bengal Provincial Kisan Sabha to
force implementation of the recommendations of ___ commissions through
mass struggle.
a) Fowler Commission
b) Frazer Commission
c) Sapru Commission
d) Floud Commission - Subhash Chandra Bose became the supreme leader of Indian National
Army in
a) 1940
b) 1941
c) 1942
d) 1943 - Who was the Viceroy at the time of Quit India Movement?
a) Lord Mount Batten
b) Lord Irwin
c) Lord Willingdon
d) Lord Linlithgow - The famous 11 point ultimatum given by Mahatma Gandhi to Irwin
included
a) 50% reduction in land revenue.
b) abolition of salt tax
c) impose customs duty on foreign cloth to provide textile protection.
d) All of the above - Non Co-operation movement was launched on the issues of:
i) Remedy of Punjab wrong
ii) Remedy of Khilafat wrong
iii) Amendment of Rowlatt Act
iv) Attainment of Swaraj
a) (i), (ii)
b) (i), (iii)
c) (i), (iii), (iv)
d) (i), (ii), (iv) - When and where did Mahatma Gandhi become the President of INC?
a) 1915, Bombay
b) 1917, Calcutta
c) 1924, Belgaum
d) 1928, Calcutta - The first all India movement launched by M K Gandhi was ___
a) Rowlatt Satyagraha
b) Khilafat Movement
c) Non Co-operation Movement
d) Champaran Satyagraha - Indian Sociologist was published by
a) Shyamji Krishnavarma
b) Madam Vikhaji Kama
c) Lala Hardayal
d) Pandurang Kankhoje - Who played a prominent role in smuggling arms needed for the deadly
attack on Bengal Governor Sir John Anderson at Lebong Race Course,
Darjeeling?
(9th May, 1934)
a) Shanti Ghosh
b) Suniti Chowdhury
c) Vina Das
d) Ujjwala Majumdar - The first women state prisoner under Regulation III of 1818 was
a) Nanibala Devi
b) Dukoribala Debi
c) Kalpana Dutta
d) Bina Das - The genesis of the demand for Pakistan as a separate state can be
traced to
a) Sir Muhammad Iqbal
b) Faziul Huq
c) Muhammad Ali Jinnah
d) Chowdhury Rahamat Ali - The song – “Sarfaroshi ki tamanna ab hamare dii mein hain, dekhna hai
zor kitna bazuo-e-katil mein hay” immortalized by Bhagat Singh, Ram Prasad Bismil, Asfagullah was composed by
a) Muhammad Iqbal
b) Hasrat Mohani
c) Josh Molihabadi
d) Bismil Azimabadi - Who among the following was one of the prominent leader of the Justice
Movement?
a) Chander Menon
b) C N Mudaliar
c) K Ramakrishna Pillai
d) E V Ramaswami Naicker - When did the Guruvayur temple entry movement take place?
(Malabar district)
a) 1931
b) 1929
c) 1924
d) 1930 - All India Conference of the Depressed classes was formed in
a) 1920
b) 1926
c) 1928
d) 1930 - Mahad Satyagraha constituted an important milestone in B. R.
Ambedkar’ s political career. When did it take place?
a) 1920
b) 1926
c) 1927
d) 1930 - All India Women’s Conference was founded in the year 1927 by
a) Latika Ghosh
b) Urmila Devi
c) Sarojini Naidu
d) Margaret Cousins - Franchise for women were slowly introduced ____ were the first
provinces to extend franchise to women.
(1919)
a) Bombay
b) Madras
c) Bengal
d) Both (a) and (b) - Sarojini Naidu founded the Women’s organization named as
a) Nazi Satyagraha Samity
b) Mahila Rashtriya Sangha
c) Rashtriya Stree Sangha
d) Mahila Parisad - Who was the first women legislator?
a) Basanti Devi
b) Urmila Devi
c) Muthulaxmi Reddy
d) Krishnabai Ram - ‘Child Marriage Restraint Act’ popularly known as Sarda Act was passed
in the year _
a) 1927
b) 1928
c) 1929
d) 1942 - Who among the following groups was not associated with the formation
of the Communist Party of India?
a) Gadar revolutionaries
b) Emigre revolutionaries
c) Muhajirs
d) Hindu Radicals - Which of the following do not belong to the ‘Transferred Subjects’ as per the Act of 1919?
a) Local Self Government
b) Education
c) Land Revenue Administration
d) Public Works - Kudi Arasu was published by
a) Chander Menon
b) E V Ramaswami Naicker
c) C N Mudalier
d) K Ramashaudran Pillai
WBCS Main Question Paper – 2017
- By which Act did education officially come under Indian control for the
first time ?
(A) Indian Council Act of 1892
(B) Indian Council Act of 1909
(C) Govt. of India Act of 1919
(D) Govt. of India Act of 1935 - In 1934, Mahatma Gandhi withdrew himself from all political activities and made a country-wide tour covering a distance of 12504 miles. This tour is known as
(A) Jan Jagaran Yatra
(B) Harijan Yatra
(C) Samaj Samta Yatra
(D) Swaraj Yatra - D. D. Kosambi (1907-66) is a pioneer of
(A) Nationalist historiography
(B) Marxist historiography
(C) Subaltern historiography
(D) Imperialist historiography - The British Prime Minister Attlee made the historic announcement of the
end of the British rule of India on
(A) February 20,1947
(B) August 16,1946
(C) March 07,1947
(D) December 09,1946 - On August 11,1947, who told the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan —
“You may belong to any religion or caste or creed – that has nothing to do
with the business of state” ?
(A) The Nawab of Junagadh
(B) The Nizam of Hyderabad
(C) Mohammad Ali Jinnah
(D) Liyaqat Ali Khan - Out of eleven, in how many provinces Congress Ministries were formed
in July, 1937 ?
(A) 05
(B) 06
(C) 07
(D) 08 - The society of ‘Khudai Khidmatgars’ organized by the Pathans under the
leadership of Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan is popularly known as
(A) Blue Shirts
(B) Green Shirts
(C) Red Shirts
(D) Pathan Shirts
8.Who wrote to the Governor from prison: “The individual must die so that
the nation may live. Today I must die so that Indian may win Freedom and
glory.” ?
(A) Jatin Das
(B) Bhagat Singh
(C) Subhas Bose
(D) Ram Prasad Bismil
- Lord Mountbatten’s Declaration on the Freedom of India and its partition
is known as
(A) The June 3rd Plan
(B) The June 2nd Plan
(C) The August Plan
(D) The Partition Plan - By whom was the Lahore Session of the Indian National Congress
presided over in 1929, which adopted the ‘Poorna Swaraj’ resolution ?
(A) Motilal Nehru
(B) Subhas Chandra Bose
(C) Jawahar Lal Nehru
(D) Bipin Chandra Pal - Under whose overall leadership was the ‘Quit India Movement‘ carried on ?
(A) Mahatma Gandhi
(B) Jawaharlal Nehru
(C) Sardar Patel
(D) None of the above - Which of the following statements about RIN mutiny is not correct ?
(A) Socialists like Aruna Asaf Ali sympathised with the rebels.
(B) Gandhiji condemned the violence.
(C) Sardar Patel persuaded the ratings to surrender all.
(D) The mutiny started in Calcutta. - Of the four events mentioned below, which was the last to take place ?
(A) The Cripps Mission
(B) Simla Conference
(C) Cabinet Mission Plan
(D) The Ratings Mutiny - The worst communal carnage as a result of the Muslim League’s call for
‘Direct Action Day’ took place
(A) Calcutta
(B) Bombay
(C) Dacca
(D) Lahore - “The Indian Struggle” is the autobiography of
(A) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
(B) Chittaranjan Das
(C) Jawahar lal Nehru
(D) Subhas Chandra Bose - Which of the following parties / organizations did not support the Quit
India Movement of 1942 ?
(A) The Hindu Mahasabha
(B) The Communist Party of India
(C) The R.S.S
(D) All of the above - Leaders of which organizations raised objections on the Nehru Report at
the All Party Convention held at Calcutta in December, 1928 ?
(A) Muslim League
(B) Hindu Mahasabha
(C) Sikh League
(D) All of the above - The inaugural session of the All-India Trade Union Congress in 1920,
was presided over by
(A) Lala Lajpat Rai
(B) Motilal Nehru
(C) Mrs. Annie Besant
(D) Acharya Narendra Dev - Mohammad Ali Jinnah left India for Karachi (Pakistan) on
(A) March 07,1947
(B) July 07,1947
(C) August 07,1947
(D) August 11, 1947 - The Congress-Khilafat Swarajya Party with C.R. Das as its President
was formed in
(A) 1922
(B) 1925
(C) 1926
(D) 1927 - Which movement was suspended by Gandhiji after the Chauri Chaura
incident ?
(A) Bardoli Satyagraha
(B) Champaran Satyagraha
(C) Non-cooperation movement
(D) Salt Satyagraha - The open mutiny in the Royal Indian Navy (RIN) took place in
(A) February, 1946
(B) February, 1945
(C) August, 1946
(D) August, 1947 - To which of these struggles did Gandhiji associate himself during 1916-
1918 ?
(A) Champaran struggle
(B) Kheda struggle
(C) Rowlatt satyagrah
(D) Both (A) and (B)
24 Which of the following funds was started to finance the Non-cooperation
Movement ?
(A) Tilak Swaraj fund
(B) Non-cooperation fund
(C) Non-cooperation-Khilafat fund
(D) None of the above
- The historic Dandi March of Gandhi began on
(A) January 31,1930
(B) January 26,1930
(C) March 12,1930
(D) April 06,1930 - Which resolution of the Muslim league did formally proclaim the Indian
Muslims as a nation ?
(A) Lahore Resolution (1929)
(B) Karachi Resolution (1930)
(C) Lahore Resolution (1940)
(D) Direct Action Day Resolution - After the creation of two new provinces of Sind and Orissa through the
Govt, of India Act, 1935, the total no. of provinces in British India became
(A) 10
(B) 11
(C) 12
(D) 13 - Jamia Millia Islamia of Aligarh, the Bihar Vidyapith, the Kashi Vidyapith
and Gujarat Vidyapith came into existence during the period of
(A) Swadeshi and Boycott Movement, 1905-1908
(B) Non-cooperation Movement, 1921-1922
(C) Civil Disobedience Movement, 1930-1934
(D) Quit India Movement, 1942-1943
WBCS Main Question Paper – 2016
- Which of the following resolutions of the Muslim League finally and
formally proclaimed the Muslims of India as a Nation ?
(A) Karachi Resolution
(B) Lahore Resolution of 1940
(C) Deliverance Day Resolution
(D) Rahmat Ali Resolution - Who said about the Govt. of India Act. 1935 : “After all we framed the
constitution …… of 1935 because we thought it the best way …….. to hold
India to the empire” ?
(A) British Prime Minister Ramsay Macdonald
(B) Winston Churchill
(C) Viceroy Lord Linlithgow
(D) Sir Stafford Cripps - During the course of which movement did the incident of Chittagong
armory raid take place ?
(A) Non-co-operation movement
(B) Bardoli Satyagraha
(C) Civil Disobedience Movement
(D) Quit India Movement - Which of the following organizations / persons did not approve of the Quit
India Movement ?
(A) Muslim League
(B) Hindu Mahasabha
(C) B. R. Ambedkar
(D) All of the above - Which of the following is not correctly matched ?
Author Book
(A) Bipan Chandra – Communalism in Modern India
(B) Bipan Chandra – Nationalism and Colonialism in
Modern India
(C) Sumit Sarkar – India’s struggle for
Independence
(D) Sumit Sarkar – Modern India, 1885-1947 - After the Surat split in 1907 the second split in the Congress took place in
1918 on the issue of-
(A) Lucknow Pact
(B) Election of Mrs. Annie Besant as President of the INC (1917)
(C) Both (A) and (B)
(D) Montague declaration - The three-member Cabinet Mission that visited India between March and
June 1946, was headed by-
(A) Sir Stafford Cripps
(B) Mr A.V. Alexander
(C) Lord Pethick-Lawrrence
(D) Clement Attlee - During which period Gandhiji remained aloof from direct politics and
concentrated his energies on constructive programmes ?
(A) 1919 -1922
(B) 1922 – 1924
(C) 1924 – 1927
(D) 1928 – 1932 - The First National Planning Committee was constituted by the Congress
in 1938 under the Presidency of –
(A) Ambalal Sarabhai
(B) Jawahar Lal Nehru (Planning Commission President)
(C) Subhas Chandra Bose (INC Precedent)
(D) Dr. Rajendra Prasad - Who described the Quit India movement (1942) as “by far the most
serious rebellion since 1857” ?
(A) Viceroy Lord Linlithgow
(B) Franklin Roosevelt
(C) Chiang Kai Shek
(D) Winston Churchill - When and where was the all India Kisan Sabha formed ?
(A) 1930-Bombay
(B) 1936-Lucknow
(C) 1938 -Calcutta
(D) 1942-Lucknow - Who acted as President of the Indian National Congress for Six
Consecutive years ?
(1940-45)
(A) Jawahar Lal Nenru
(B) Abul Kalam Azad
(C) Motilal Nehru
(D) Gopal Krishna Gokhale - Which of the following movements emerged in South India under the
leadership of E.V. Ramaswamy Naicker “Periyar” ?
(A) Self-respect Movement
(B) Justice Party Movement
(C) Mahar Movement
(D) Sanskrit Movement - Who was the President of the Indian National Congress when Shimla
Conference was convened by Lord Wavell in June-July, 1945 ?
(A) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
(B) Sardar Patel
(C) Jawaharlal Nehru
(D) A. K. Fazlul Haq - In which year Tebhaga Movement was launched in Bengal ?
(A) 1942
(B) 1946
(C) 1947
(D) 1952 - Which of the following women’s organisation came into existence in 1927 ?
(A) Women’s Indian Association
(B) National Council of women in India
(C) Bharat stree Mahamandal
(D) All India Women’s Conference - The Vaikom Satyagraha was launched in Kerala to
(A) remove untouchability.
(B) ban the Devdasi Institutions for temple service
(C) force the temple authorities to appoint non Brahmins as priests.
(D) open the temples for the entry of the lower castes (avarnas). - Who moved a resolution at the Congress session in 1918 demanding
equal eligibility for voting rights for both men and women ?
(A) Sarala Debi Choudhurani
(B) Sarojini Naidu
(C) Annie Beasant
(D) Basanti Devi - The historic Lucknow session (1916) of the I.N.C was presided over by-
(A) Ambika Charan Mozumdar
(B) R.N. Mudhokar
(C) Madan Mohan Malaviya
(D) Rasbehari Bose - Which of the following movements was started by Swami Sahajanand
Saraswati in Bihar ?
(1933-39)
(A) Zamidari Movement
(B) Socialist Movement
(C) Kisan Sabha Movement
(D) Labour Movement - Which of the following was perhaps the most widespread, most intense
and most organized peasant movement in the history of colonial India ?
(A) Tebhaga Movement
(B) Telangana Movement
(C) Indigo Movement
(D) Deccan Riots - In which of the following movements prominent women leaders like
Sucheta Kripalani and Aruna Asaf Ali took the responsibility of coordinating
the movement in the face of unprecedented police repression ?
(A) Civil Disobedience Movement
(B) Quit India Movement
(C) Both (A) and (B)
(D) RIN Mutiny - Which one of the following periods of trade union movement in India
witnessed growing influence of communist ideology on trade unionism for
the first time ?
(A) 1918-1924
(B) 1924-1934
(C) 1934-1939
(D) 1939-1945 - In which year the Indian capitalist class organized itself under the
banner of FICCI ?
(A) 1922
(B) 1927
(C) 1930
(D) 1932 - At the time of which of the following events / movements Jawaharlal
Nehru admitted that : “Never before in history had such unified sentiments
been manifested by various divergent sections of the population” ?
(A) Quit India Movement
(B) Imphal campaign of the INA
(C) INA Trial
(D) RIN mutiny - Which of the following movements were ‘temple entry’ movement
organized in early 20th century ?
(A) Vaikkam Satyagraha 1924-25
(B) Guruvayur Satyagraha (1931-33) in Malabar
(C) Munshiganj Kali temple Satyagraha in Bengal (1929)
(D) All of the above - The “Breakdown Plan” in 1945 for transfer of power in India had been
proposed by –
(A) Winston Churchil
(B) Viceroy Lord Wavell
(C) Lord Mountbatten
(D) Clement Attlee - In 1940 January, in his letter to C. F. Andrews, who was described by
Gandhiji as “my son”- but a “spoilt child of the family” ?
(A) Jawaharlal Nehru
(B) Minoo Masani
(C) Muhammad Ali Jinnah
(D) Subhas Chandra Bose - Which of the following statements is / are correct about the Civil
Disobedience Movement ?
(i) There was a discernible absence of Hindu-Muslim unity.
(ii) The movement received a massive business support.
(iii) There was large scale women’s participation
(iv) From September, 1930 onwards the movement began to decline.
Choose the answer from codes given below :
(A) (i) and (ii)
(B) (ii) and (iv)
(C) (ii) and (iii)
(D) All of the above - The labour movement in India Primarily owes its origin to–
(A) draft recommendations of the Washington International Labour
Conference
(B) economic depression.
(C) the General awakening following the First World War
(D) the efforts of the Indian National Congress. - On the basis of which formula / plan Gandhiji, in April 1944 proposed
talks with Jinnah which Jinnah refused to accept ?
(A) August offer
(B) Wavell
(C) Rajaji Formula
(D) 3rd June Plan
WBCS Main Question Paper – 2015
- Subhas Chandra Bose fought the presidential election in 1939 on the
ground that
(A) He did not like the nomination of Sitaramayya
(B) He pleaded for elections instead of nominations
(C) He was opposed to Gandhiji
(D) He favored an aggressive policy which was opposed by the
Congress Leaders - The lower castes tried to assert themselves by borrowing and
2customs and manners of the upper castes. This was termed as
Sanskritisation by
(A) M. K. Gandhi
(B) Bernard Cohn
(C) B. R. Ambedkar
(D) M. N. Srinivas - Who among the following was not a member of the Congress
Socialist Party, although he encouraged and blessed its formation ?
(A) Achyuta Patwardhan
(B) Jawaharlal Nehru
(C) Jayaprakash Narayan
(D) Acharya Narendra Dev - The Congress president who conducted negotiations with Cripps in
1942 and Wavell at the Simla Conference was
(A) Abul Kalam Azad
(B) Jawahar Lal Nehru
(C) J. B. Kripalani
(D) C. Rajagopalachari - Which one of the following adumbrated principles and constitutional
provisions which were later incorporated in the Montague-Chelmsford
Reforms ?
(A) Nehru Report
(B) Wavell Plan
(C) Lucknow Pact
(D) Poona Pack - The Whitley Commission was concerned with
(A) Labour
(B) Education
(C) Public Health
(D) Reorganisation of Civil Service - Who designed the National Flag of India, adopted by the Constituent
Assembly on July 21, 1947 ?
(A) Badar-ud-din-Tyabji
(B) Rabindranath Tagore
(C) Abanindranath Tagore
(D) Abul Kalam Azad - Which of the following is correctly paired ?
(A) Antipartition and Swadeshi Movements – Lord Lansdowne
(B) Factory Act of 1891 – Lord Curzon
(C) Establishment of an agricultural Research Institution at pusa – Lord
Minto
(D) Rowlatt Act – Lord Chelmsford - Who described Bal Gangadhar Tilak as the ‘father of Indian unrest’ ?
(A) Valentine Chirol
(B) Disrachi
(C) Minto – II
(D) Chelmsford - Tamil journal, Kudi Arasu was founded by whom ?
(1925)
(A) Anna Durai
(B) P. Tyagaraja Ehetti
(C) T.M.Nair
(D) E.V. Ramaswamy Periyar - All the established political parties and groups, except two, boycotted
Simon commission, which were those two ?
(i) Hindu Mahasabha
(ii) Justice Party
(iii) Muslim League
(iv) Punjab Unionists
Choose the correct answer from the codes given below
(A) ii and iii
(B) i and ii
(C) iv and ii
(D) iii and iv
- Which of the following is correctly matched ?
(A) Formation of the All India Kisan Sabha – 1935
(B) Foundation of the Congress Socialist party – 1934
(C) Foundation of the Forward Block – 1936
(D) Foundation of the Communist Party of India – 1939 - What is the name of the newspaper published by the ‘Indian Muslim
League’ ?
(A) Quam
(B) Inquilab
(C) Star of India
(D) Dawn - When was the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and
Industry (FICCI) founded ?
(A) 1905
(B) 1907
(C) 1917
(D) 1927 - Who said : ‘This orderly disciplined anarchy should go, and if as a
result there is complete lawlessness I would risk it’ ?
(A) Jawaharlal Nehru
(B) Mahatma Gandhi
(C) Rajagopalachari
(D) Ballav Bhai Patel - Who said : ‘The Muslims were fools to ask for safeguard and the
Hindus were greater fools to refuse them’ ?
(A) Jawaharlal Nehru
(B) Abul Kalam Azad
(C) Muhammed Ali
(D) Subhas Bose - Who made the ‘Dipawali Diclaration’ and when
(A) Lord Irwin in 1929
(B) Lord Linlithgow in 1940
(C) Gandhi 1930
(D) Subhas Bose in 1941 - Who among the following capitalist served as a AICC treasurer for
many years and went to jail in 1930 ?
(A) G. D. Birla
(B) Jamunalal Bajaj
(C) J. R. D. Tata
(D) Walchand Hirachand - Who among the following played an important role in the signing of
the Gandhi Irwin pact ?
(i) Motilal Nehru
(ii) Tej Bahadur Sapru
(iii) Madanmohan Malaviya
(iv) Jayakar
(v) Chintamani
Select the correct answer from the codes given below :
(A) i and ii
(B) ii and iv
(C) ii and iii
(D) iv and v
- Which of the following groups did not get separate electorates by the
Act of 1935 ?
(extended communal representation)
(A) Anglo-Indians
(B) Indian Christian
(C) Europeans
(D) Depressed Classes - What is the Chronological sequence of the following happenings ?
(i) August Declaration
(ii) Lucknow Pact
(iii) Jallianwalla Bagh Massacre
(iv) Khaira Satyagraha
Select the answer from the codes given below ?
(A) iv, ii, iii and i
(B) iii, i, ii and iv
(C) ii, iv, i and iii
(D) ii, i, iv and iii - Arrange the following events in chronological order
(i) Champaran Satyagraha
(ii) Launching of the Khilafat Movement
(iii) Reunion of the Congress
(Iv) Nagpur session of the Congress
Choose the correct answer from the codes given below :
(A) iii, i, ii and iv
(B) iii, i , iv and ii
(C) i, iii, iv and ii
(D) i, iv, iii and ii - Which of the following newspapers / journals was from Maharashtra
?
(A) Kranti
(B) Atmashakti
(C) Sarathi
(D) Sandhya
WBCS Main Question Paper – 2014
- Who was the first Indian woman to become the President of Indian
National Congress ?
(1925)
(A) Aruna Asaf Ali
(B) Sucheta Kripalani
(C) Sarojini Naidu
(D) Vijayalakshmi Pandit - The first venture of Gandhi in all-India politics was the :
(A) Dandi March
(B) Champaran Movement
(C) Rowlatt Satyagraha
(D) Non-Cooperation Movement - Who of the following founded the Independent Labour Party in 1936 ?
(A) Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
(B) M.C. Rajah
(C) Jagjiban Ram
(D) Jayaprakash Narayan - Who among the following organized the defense in the trial of I.N.A.
Officers :
(A) Bhulabhai Desai
(B) Madan Mohan Malaviya
(C) Dr. Saifuddin Kitchlew
(D) Gauesh Vasudev Mavalankar - The Indian National Army (l.N.A.) came into existence in 1943 in:
(A) Singapore
(B) Japan
(C) Then Barma
(D) Then Malaya - Who gave the slogan ‘Inquilab Zindabad’ ?
(A) Bhagat Singh
(B) Hasrat Mohani
(C) S. C. Bose
(D) M. K. Gandhi - Who was the last Governor-General in India ?
(A) Lord William Bentinck
(B) Lord Canning
(C) Lord Mountbatten
(D) Chakraborty Raja Gopalachari - What was the primary aim of the Akali movement which rose in the
Punjab in 1920s ?
(A) To voice the political grievances of the Sikhs
(B) To bring about modernization in the Sikh social customs
(C) To streamline the management of the Gurudwaras or Sikh Shrines
(D) To purge Sikhism of its superstitious accretions and irrational
incrustations. - Who led the peasant movement in Oudh during the Non-cooperation
Movement ?
(A) Mahatma Gandhi
(B) Baba Ramchandra
(C) Madari pasi
(D) Sardar Ballav Bhai Patel - Which of the following was not included in the Nehru Committee
Report of 1929 ?
(A) India should be given Dominion Status
(B) Declaration of Fundamental Rights was made
(C) Separate Electorate for Muslims was rejected
(D) It proposed a Federal structure for India - The first free university in India, completely independent of the
Government and receiving no grant from it, was :
(A) Vishva Bharati, Shantiniketan
(B) Aligarh Muslim University
(C) Women’s University, Pune
(D) Benaras Hindu University - Who did the Tribune of Lahore refer to in its observation “If ever a man
died a hero and martyr to a noble cause, that man was” ?
(A) Bhagat Singh
(B) Jatindra Nath Das
(C) Chandra Sekhar Azad
(D) Surya Sen - When was the All-India Kisan Sabha formed ?
(A) 1991
(B) 1920
(C) 1928
(D) 1936 - The Justice Party movement in Madras merged with the :
(A) Self-respect League
(B) Dravida Kazhagam
(C) Both (A) and (B) above
(D) Depressed Classes League - Both the transfer of power and partition of India were hurried through in how many days :
(A) 94
(B) 86
(C) 72
(D) 68 - Which is the correct pair ?
(A) Malavya and Jayakar
(B) Vithalbhai and Malavya
(C) Motilal Nehru and Malavya
(D) C. R. Das and Motilal Nehru - The first tribal leader who was inspired by Mahatma Gandhi and his
ideology was :
(A) Jadonang (Naga leader)
(B) Rani Gaidinliu
(C) Alluri Sitaram Raju
(D) Thakkar Bapa - Arrange the following events in chronological order and make the
correct choice from the options given below :-
1. Death of Bal Gangadhar Tilak
2. Nagpur session of the Congress
3. The Moplah Uprising
4. The inauguration of Visva Bharati at Santiniketan
(A) 4, 3, 2, 1
(B) 3, 4, 2, 1
(C) 1, 2, 3, 4
(D) 3, 2, 4, 1 - Who said on Gandhiji’s death “The tiger has gone out of our lives” ?
(A) J. L. Nehru
(B) Rajendra Prasad
(C) S. Radha Krishnan
(D) Bidhan Chandra Roy - Mahatma Gandhi gave the title of Sardar to Vallabhbhai Patel for his
great organizational skill in :
(A) The Kheda Satyagraha
(B) The Bardoli Satyagraha
(C) The Salt Satyagraha
(D) The Individual Satyagraha
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