C S Club History Paper

CIVIL SERVICE CLUB WEEKLY TEST DATED 27-12-2009

MODERN HISTORY Max marks- 25
Time Allowed- 15 minute Passing Marks- 10


Q – 1 – Match the following

List – I List – II
A. G. K. Gokhale 1- Servants of India Society
B. M. M. Malaviya 2- Benaras Hindu University
C. C. Rajgopalchari 3- Free India Society
D. V. V. Savarkar 4. Swatantra Party


(a) A B C D
1 2 3 4

(b) A B C D
3 4 2 1

(c) A B C D
1 4 2 3

(d) A B C D
3 2 4 1


Q- 2 In Which year was the permanent Settlement Implemented?
a. 1793 b. 1796
c. 1799 d. 1792


Q- 3 Who among the following thrice elected president of Indian National Congress?

a. DadaBhai Naoroji
b. Surendranath Banerjee
c. Gopal Krishna Ghokhale
d. Shankaran Nair


Q- 4 Who among the following was not a party to the league that was defeated by the British in the Battle of Buxar?


a- Mir Jafar
b- Shah Alam
c- Shuja-Ud-Daulah
d- Mir Kasim

Q- 5 Who among the following was not a member of the Cabinet Mission?


a- Radcliffe
b- A. V. Alexander
c- Sir Stafford Cripps
d- Pethwick Lawrence


Q- 6 Which religious reformer of Western India was known as “Lokhitwadi”?

a- Jai Prakash Narayan
b- Gopal Hari Deshmukh

c- M. G. Ranade
d- R. G. Bhandarkar






Q- 7 Who among the following has started the public Works department in India in AD 1848?
a. Lord William Bentinck
b- Lord Dalhousie
c- Lord Wellesley
d- Lord Cornwallis


Q- 8 In which order Europeans came to India for carrying of trade?
a- Portuguese, Dutch, English, French
b- Portuguese, English, Dutch, French
c- English, Portuguese, Dutch, French
d- Dutch, Portuguese, French, English

Q- 9 In Which conference of Indian National Congress Ghandhiji said “You may kill Ghandhi but you never kill Ghandhism”?

a- Belganwa conference 1924
b- Karachi conference 1931
c- Ramgarg conference 1940
d- Lahore conference 1929


Q- 9 Which British Military Officer defeated Tipu Sultan in India, Napolean Bonaparte in Europe and eventually became the Duke of Wellington ?

a- Robert Clive b- Arthur Wellesley
c- Warren Hastings d- Richard Wellesley

Q- 10 Match the following
List – I List- II
a- Raj kumar Shukla 1- Kheda Satyagraha
b- Ambalal Sarabhai 2- Ahmedabad Mill Strike
c- Indulal Yagnik 3- Bardoli Satyagraha
d- Vallabhbhai Patel 4- Champaran Satyagraha

A B C D
a- 3 1 2 4
b- 4 2 1 3
c- 4 2 3 1
d- 3 2 1 4

Q- 11 Who among the following was not believe in ‘Drain Theory’ of Dada Bhai Naroji?

a- Bal Gangadhar Tilak b- Subhash Chandra Bose
c- Saiyad Ahemad Khan d- R. C. Datt

Q- 12 With reference to Indian freedom struggle, who of the following was the lady representative of India at the Second Round Table Conference?
a. Aruna Asaf Ali b. Sarojini Naidu
c. Annie Basent d. Vijayalakshmi Pandit






Q-13 Under whose leadership was the Congress Socialist Party founded in 1934?
a. Jawahar Lal Nehru & Tej Bahadur Sapru
b. Subhash Chandra Bose & P.C. Joshi
c. Acharya Narendra Dev & Jai Prakash Narayan
d. Motilal Nehru & Dada Bhai Naroji

Q-14 Mahatma Ghandhi’s remarks, “A Post-dated cheque on a crumbling bank” is regarding the proposals of
a. 1935 Act b. Wavel Plan
c. Cripps Mission d. Simon Commission

Q-15 Match the following
a- Butler Committee 1- Jaliannwala Bagh
b- Hartog Committee 2- Relation between Indian States & British Government
c- Hunter Committee 3- Montagu - chelmsford
d- Muddiman Committee 4- Education


(a) A B C D
1 2 3 4

(b) A B C D
3 4 2 1

(c) A B C D
2 4 1 3

(d) A B C D
2 4 3 1
Q-16 Who is the Author of the autobiography “The Indian Struggle”?
a. Dada Bhai Naroji b. Annie Beasant
C. Chittranjan Das d. Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose

Q-17 Which one of the following newspapers was lunched by Motilal Nehru in 1919?
a. Free India b. Nav Bharat
c- Vande Mataram d. Independent

Q-18 The modern historian who called the Revolt of 1857 as the First War of Independence is

a. Dr. R.C. Majumdar
b. Dr. S.N. Sen
c. Nilakanta Shastri
d. V.D. Savarkar


Q-19 When was the All India Women’s Conference founded?

a. 1924
b. 1925
c. 1926
d. 1927







Q-20 Who among the following made the first systematic critique of moderate politics in 1893-94 in a series of articles entitled "New Lamps for Old"?

a. Lala Lajpat Rai
b. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
c. Satish Chandra Mukherjee
d. Aurobindo Ghosh


Q-21 Who among the following dismissed from Indian Civil Service by British Govt. ?

a. Surendra Nath Banargy
b. Satyendra Nath Tagore
c. R. C. Datta
d. Subhash Chandr Bose


Q-22 What was the correct chronological order of these events

1- Home Rule league of Tilak
2- Kamagatamaru incident
3- Arrival of Mahatma Ghandhi in India

a- 2,1, 3 b- 3, 2,1
c- 1,2, 3 d- 2,3,1







Q-23 Which one of the following organized the first all-India agitations in 1876-77 on the issue of Civil Services?

a. Indian Association
b. Poona Sarvajanik Sabha
c. Madras Mahajana Sabha
d. Bombay Presidency Association



Q-24 At the beginning of the 20th century, who among the following published “The Economic History of India”?

a. Romesh Chandra Dutt
b. Gopal Krishan Gokhale
c. Mahadev Govind Ranade
d. Dada Bhai Naroji


Q-25 Two famous leaders Siddu and Kanhu of civil uprisings during india’s freedom struggle belonged to which community?

a. Santhals
b. Mundas
c. Koils
d. Bhils