Indian History Quiz 3

As the unrest continued unabatedly, the Madras government appointed ………, the collector of
Malabar as special commissioner to enquire into the causes of the uprisings and recommend
remedial measures.
a) Connolly b) William Logan c) S.N. Banerjee d) Gokahale

The culmination of the series of the uprisings was the Mappila revolt of ……….
a) 1721 b) 1821 c) 1895 d) 1921

When the East India Company came into existence, England was ruled by the……………
a) Hanoverians b) Stuarts c) Normans d) Tudors

The greatest contribution of the British rule to the growth of India nationalism was the
………………
a) introduction of western education in India b) Racial arrogance of the British
c)Denial of Higher Jobs to deserving Indians d) Queen’s proclamation of 1858

In 1877 the entrance age to ICS was reduced from 21 to ……………
a) 17 b) 18 c) 19 d ) 20

…………… started an all-India campaign for restoring the entrance age of 21 and for
simultaneous ICS examination in India.
a) Gokahale b) S.N. Banerjee c) Tilak d) William Logan

Who …………….tried to rediscover India’s past.
a) Lord Lytton b) Max Muller c) S.N. Banerjee d) Gokahale

Lytton held an Imperial Durbar at Delhi in 1877 to announce …………..as the Empress of India
at a time when a large part of the country was in the grip of a severe famine.
a) Queen Elizabeth b) Queen Victoria c) Queen Anne d) Queen Marie

Who put on the statute book two obnoxious measures the vernacular press Act and the Indian
Arms Act.
a) Lord Ripon b) Lytton c) Raja Ram Mohan Roy d) Queen Victoria

The llbert Bill controversy during the period of Lord Ripon exposed the racial bitterness of the
British and united the Indians.
a) Lytton b) Lord Ripon c) Queen Elizabeth d) Queen Anne

Raja Ram Mohan Roy was the founder of the………………
a) Brahma Samaj b) Arya Samaj c) Ramakrishna Mission d) Theosophical society

Raja Ram Mohan Roy was given the title ‘Raja’ by the……………
a) Mughals b) British c) French d) Dutch

Raja Ram Mohan Roy was born on May 22, 1772 in village Radhanagar in the District of Hooghly in …………….
a) Bombay b) Assam c) Bengal d) MP

In ……………., a man named Raja Ram Mohan Roy founded an organization called ‘Brahma Samaj’.
a) 1628 b) 1728 c) 1828 d) 1928

Who is regarded as as the ‘father of modern India’.
a) Raja Ram Mohan Roy b) Swami Dayananda Saraswati
c) Sri Aurobindo d) Bhagat Singh

Who convinced the British in 1829 to outlaw Sati?
a) Raja Ram Mohan Roy b) Swami Dayananda Saraswati
c) Lokmanya Tilak d) Bhagat Singh

Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati was an important Hindu religious scholar, reformer, and
founder of the ……………
a) Arya Samaj b) Brahma Samaj c) Ramakrishna Mission d) Theosophical society

Who was the first to give the call for Swarajya– “India for Indians”?
a) Dayanand Saraswati b) Lokmanya Tilak c) Sri Aurobindo. d) Bhagat Singh

Who founded India House in London and guided other revolutionaries.
a) Sri Aurobindo b) Lokmanya Tilak c) Shyamji Krishna Varma d) Bhagat Singh

Satyarth Prakash was written by ………….
a) Lala Lajpat Rai b) Lala Hardyal c) Dayanand Saraswati d) Raja Ram Mohan Roy

Dayananda was born on February 12 in 1824, in the town of Tankara, near Morvi (Morbi) in the
Kathiawar region of the princely state of……………
a) Assam b) Uttar Pradesh c) Bihar d) Gujarat

Who He said,”I accept as Dharma whatever is in full conformity with impartial justice,
truthfulness and the like; that which is not opposed to the teachings of God as embodied in the
Vedas. Whatever is not free from partiality and is unjust, partaking of untruth and the like, and
opposed to the teachings of God as embodied in the Vedas—that I hold as adharma”.He also said
“He, who after careful thinking, is ever ready to accept truth and reject falsehood; who counts the
happiness of others as he does that of his own self, him I call just”.
a) Baba Ram Singh b) Ranjit Singh c) Lal Singh d) Dayananda Saraswathi

In 1883 Dayananda was invited by the Maharaja of ………….to stay at his palace.
a) Uttar Pradesh b) Kashmir c) Gujarat d) Jodhpur

Nirankari movement, which was started by…………
a) Baba Dyal b) Ranjit Singh c) Lal Singh d) Tej Singh

The Namdhari, or Kuka, movement had its origin in the ………………..corner of the Sikh
kingdom, away from the places of royal pomp and grandeur.
a) North-west b) North-south c) North-east d) south