Q. Who is the first Indian lady to preside over the Congress?
1) Raj Kumari Amrit Kaur
2) Annie Besant
3) Amrita Sher Gill
4) Vijayalakshmi Pandit
Q. Who among the following formed a party named as 'Forward Bloc'?
1) Subhash Chandra Bose
2) Sardar Bhagat Singh
3) Chandrashekhar Azad
4) Jawaharlal Nehru
Q. Paper currency established in 1949 in India in -
1) 1862
2) 1542
3) 1601
4) 1880
Q. Which of the statements given below about the Champaran Satyagraha is/are correct?
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
1) Both 1 and 2
2) 2 only
3) 1 only
4) Neither 1 nor 2
Q. Which one among the following statements appropriately defines the term 'drain theory' as propounded by Dadabhai Naoroji in his work 'Poverty and un-British Rule in India'?
1) That the resources of India were being utilised in the interest of Britain
2) That a part of India's national wealth or total annual product was being exported to Britain for which India got no material returns
3) That the British industrialists were being given an opportunity to invest in India under the protection of the imperial power
4) That the British goods were being imported to India making the country poorer day by day
Q. Which among the following was the most immediate factor for the spread of Swadeshi and boycott of foreign goods during the first decade of the last century?
1) Curzon's plan to curb the growing popularity of the Indian National Congress
2) Curzon's design to curtail the sphere of local self-government
3) Curzon's attempt to control the Universities
4) Curzon's partition of Bengal
Q. Which of the following statements regarding Permanent Settlement is/are correct?
Select the correct answer using the code given below.
1) 2 only
2) 1 only
3) 2 and 3 only
4) 1, 2 and 3
Q. Gandhiji led the Indian nationalist movement from the front and his leadership was motivated by a wider philosophy he nurtured throughout the course of the movement. Which one among the following was a continuous movement based on this philosophy, and not a specific movement?
1) Non-cooperation Movement
2) Swadeshi Movement
3) Quit India Movement
4) Civil Disobedience Movement
Q. The Jainas believe that Jainism is the outcome of the teachings of twenty-four Tirthankaras. In the light of this statement, which one among the following is correct of Vardhamana Mahavira?
1) He was not one of the twenty four Tirthankaras
2) He was the first Tirthankara and the founder of Jainism
3) He was the twenty-third Tirthankara, the first twenty-fourth Tirthankaras being considered legendary
4) He was the last land and twenty-fourth Tirthankara, who was not considered as the founder of the new faith but as a reformer of the existing religious sect
Q. The earliest Buddhist literature which deal with the stories of the various birth of Buddha are
1) Sutta pitakas
2) Venaya pitakas
3) Jatakas
4) Abhidhamma pitakas
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