Modern India: Questions & Answers for Degree-Level and KAS Preparation Part 3

1. Which Viceroy survived a bomb attack at Chandni Chowk, Delhi, in 1912?
(a) Lord Minto II
(b) Lord Hardinge II
(c) Lord Chelmsford
(d) Lord Reading
Answer: (b) Lord Hardinge II

2. Who founded the Hindu Mahasabha?
(a) V. D. Savarkar
(b) Madan Mohan Malaviya
(c) Syama Prasad Mukherjee
(d) K. B. Hedgewar
Answer: (b) Madan Mohan Malaviya

3. Who, as INC President, initiated the formation of the National Planning Committee (1938)?
(a) Jawaharlal Nehru
(b) Mahatma Gandhi
(c) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
(d) Subhas Chandra Bose
Answer: (d) Subhas Chandra Bose

4. Who were known as the Ali Brothers in the national movement?
(a) Muhammad Ali and Rahmat Ali
(b) Rahmat Ali and Shaukat Ali
(c) Shaukat Ali and Muhammad Ali
(d) None of these
Answer: (c) Shaukat Ali and Muhammad Ali

5. Who authored “India Divided”?
(a) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
(b) C. Rajagopalachari
(c) Rajendra Prasad
(d) B. R. Ambedkar
Answer: (c) Rajendra Prasad

6. Which revolutionary was killed in an encounter with police at Alfred Park, Allahabad?
(a) Surya Sen
(b) Khudiram Bose
(c) Chandrashekhar Azad
(d) Lala Har Dayal
Answer: (c) Chandrashekhar Azad

7. Which Viceroy had the longest tenure in India?
(a) Lord Wellington
(b) Lord Irwin
(c) Lord Linlithgow
(d) Lord Mayo
Answer: (c) Lord Linlithgow

8. Who headed the Boundary Commission that demarcated India–Pakistan borders in 1947?
(a) Sir Stafford Cripps
(b) Lord Mountbatten
(c) Cyril Radcliffe
(d) Pethick-Lawrence
Answer: (c) Cyril Radcliffe

9. Which of the following was a Moderate leader of the Indian National Congress?
(a) Lala Lajpat Rai
(b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(c) Bipin Chandra Pal
(d) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
Answer: (d) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

10. What was the ideal state envisioned by Mahatma Gandhi?
(a) Ram Rajya
(b) Grama Swaraj
(c) Hind Swaraj
(d) Dharma Rajya
Answer: (a) Ram Rajya