Modern History (Part-II)

Total Questions: 50

41. The Government of India Act of 1919 clearly defined [2015-1]

(a) the separation of power between the judiciary and the legislature
(b) the jurisdiction of the central and provincial governments
(c) the powers of the Secretary of State for India and the Viceroy
(d) None of the above

Correct Answer: (b) the jurisdiction of the central and provincial governments

Solution:The Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms which became the Government of India Act in 1919 clearly defined the jurisdiction of the central and provincial governments.

42. Satya ShodhakSamaj organized [2016-1]

(a) a movement for upliftment of tribals in Bihar
(b) a temple-entry movement in Gujarat
(c) an anti-caste movement in Maharashtra
(d) a peasant movement in Punjab

Correct Answer: (c) an anti-caste movement in Maharashtra

Solution:Satyashodhak Samaj is a society established by Jyotirao Phule on September 24, 1873. This was started as a group whose main aim was to liberate the social shudra and untouchable castes from exploitation and oppression.

43. The Montague-Chelmsford Proposals were related to : [2016-1]

(a) social reforms
(b) educational reforms
(c) reforms in police administration
(d) constitutional reforms

Correct Answer: (d) constitutional reforms

Solution:The Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms were reforms introduced by the British Government in India to introduce self-governing institutions gradually to India. The reforms were outlined in the Montagu-Chelmsford Report prepared in 1918 and formed the basis of the Government of India Act 1919. They're related to Constitutional reforms.

44. Consider the following: [2016-1]

1. Calcutta Unitarian Committee

2. Tabernacle of New Dispensation

3. Indian Reform Association

Keshab Chandra Sen is associated with the establishment of which of the above?

(a) 1 and 3 only
(b) 2 and 3 only
(c) 3 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3

Correct Answer: (b) 2 and 3 only

Solution:In 1881, Keshab Chandra Sen established NabaBidhan (New Dispensation) meaning new universalist religion after having differences within BrahmoSamaj. He was also part of Indian reform association to legalize Brahmo marriage and to fix minimum age of marriage. Calcutta Unitarian Committee was formed by Raja Rammohan Roy, Dwarkanath Tagore and William Adam, hence irrelevant to the question. Hence Answer (b) only 2 and 3.

45. What was the main reason for the split in the Indian National Congress at Surat in 1907? [2016-1]

(a) Introduction of communalism into Indian politics by Lord Minto
(b) Extremists' lack of faith in the capacity of the moderates to negotiate with the British Government
(c) Foundation of Muslim League
(d) Aurobindo Ghosh's inability to be elected as the President of the Indian National Congress

Correct Answer: (b) Extremists' lack of faith in the capacity of the moderates to negotiate with the British Government

Solution:Extremists and moderates both seemed to be locking horns. The Extremists thought that the people had been encouraged and the battle for freedom had begun. They felt the time had come for the big push to drive the British out and considered the Moderates to be a stumbling block to the movement.

So, Surat split occurred because extremists were dissatisfied with Moderates capacity to negotiate with the British.

46. The plan of Sir Stafford Cripps envisaged that after the Second World War [2016-1]

(a) India should be granted complete independence
(b) India should be partitioned into two before granting independence
(c) India should be made a republic with the condition that she will join the Commonwealth
(d) India should be given Dominion status

Correct Answer: (d) India should be given Dominion status

Solution:The main proposals of the plan of Sir Stafford Cripps was that an Indian Union with a dominion status would be set up; it would be free to decide its relations with the Commonwealth and free to participate in the United Nations and other international bodies. Cripps proposed to give dominion status to India after WW2.

47. With reference to cultural history of India, consider the following statements: [2016-1]

1. Most of the Tyagaraja Kritis are devotional songs in praise of Lord Krishn(a)

2. Tyagaraja created several new ragas.

3. Annamacharya and Tyagaraja are contemporaries.

4. Annamacharya kirtanas are devotional songs in praise of Lord Venkateshwar(a)

Which of the statements given above are correct?

(a) 1 and 3 only
(b) 2 and 4 only
(c) 1, 2 and 3
(d) 2, 3 and 4

Correct Answer: (b) 2 and 4 only

Solution:Annamacharya belonged to 15th century. So, Annamacharya and Tyagaraja (born in 1767) can't be be contemporaries. By elimination we get B: 2 and 4 only.

48. The staple commodities of export by the English East India Company from Bengal in the middle of the 18th century were [2016-1]

(a) Raw cotton, oil-seeds and opium
(b) Sugar, salt, zinc and lead
(c) Copper, silver, gold, spices and tea
(d) Cotton, silk, saltpetre and opium

Correct Answer: (d) Cotton, silk, saltpetre and opium

Solution:''The fine qualities of cotton and silk produced in India had a big market in Europe.... The competition among the European companies inevitably pushed up the prices at which these goods could be purchase(d)"

''....By the end of the nineteenth century, half the imports and exports of India passed through Bombay. One important item of this trade was opium that the East India Company exported to Chin(a)"

"Indigo and saltpetre were the other major imports from India, and the fact that both products were produced in the eastern Gangetic plain, especially in Bihar, stimulated British efforts to establish factories on the east coast as well as the west coast of the Indian subcontinent."

So Saltpetre was indeed exported otherwise British wouldn't have made efforts to setup factories on East coast.

49. Which one of the following statements does not apply to the system of Subsidiary Alliance introduced by Lord Wellesley? [2018-1]

(a) To maintain a large standing army at other's 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

Correct Answer: (c) To secure a fixed income for the Company

Solution:Point A, B and D were the salient features of Subsidiary Alliance, hence "C" doesn't apply.

50. Economically, one of the results of the British rule in India in the 19th century was the [2018-1]

(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

Correct Answer: (c) commercialization of Indian agriculture

Solution:Commercialization of Indian agriculture was among the major impacts of British rule on Indian economy.

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