Indian History Based Questions asked in various Exams (Part 30)

301.      Who was\r\nthe first Indian Governor-General of India?

        (1) B.R. Ambedkar

        (2) C. Rajagopalachari

        (3) Dr. Rajendra Prasad

        (4) Dr. S. Radhakrishnan

(SSC CPO Sub-Inspector Exam. 16.12.2007)

302.      In\r\nwhich state was the first Non-Congress Government set up in independent India?

        (1) Punjab          (2)\r\nBihar

        (3) Maharashtra     (4)\r\nKerala

(SSC CPO Sub-Inspector Exam. 16.12.2007)

303.      November\r\n26, 1949 is a significant day in our constitutional history because

        (1) India took a pledge of complete independence on this day

        (2) The Constitution was adopted on this day

        (3) India became a Republic on this day

        (4) The first amendment of the Constitution was passed on\r\nthis day

(SSC CPO Sub-Inspector Exam. 16.12.2007)

304.      The\r\nfirst General Secretary of the Indian National Congress was

        (1) Dadabhai Naoroji

        (2) A.O. Hume

        (3) Ferozeshah Mehta

        (4) BadruddinTyabji

(SSC CPO Sub-Inspector Exam. 16.12.2007)

305.      Raja\r\nRammohan Roy organised a historic agitation against the

        (1) Caste system

        (2) Evil custom of sati

        (3) Degrading position of women in society

        (4) Practice of superfluous religious rituals

(SSC CPO Sub-Inspector Exam. 16.12.2007)

306.      “Long\r\nyears ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall\r\nredeem our pledge.....”

        This was stated on the night of August 14, 1947 by

        (1) Dr. B.R. Ambedkar

        (2) C. Rajagopalachari

        (3) Jawaharlal Nehru

        (4) Dr. Rajendra PrasaJ

(SSC CPO Sub-Inspector Exam. 16.12.2007)

307.      The\r\nIndian National Congress had  \r\npassed   the   famous resolution on “Non-Cooperation” in\r\n1920 at its session held at

        (1) Lucknow      (2)\r\nDelhi

        (3) Bombay       (4)\r\nCalcutta

(SSC CPO Sub-Inspector Exam. 16.12.2007)

308.      Who is\r\nknown as the ‘Grand Old Man of India’?

        (1) Dadabhai Naoroji

        (2) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

        (3) BalGangadharTilak

        (4) Surendranath Banerjee

(SSC CPO Sub-Inspector Exam. 16.12.2007)

309.      Which\r\nof the following can be considered as the most useful and outstanding reforms\r\nmade by Lord Curzon, especially in respect of the people living in the\r\nundivided province of Punjab?

        (1) Educational Reforms

        (2) Police Reforms

        (3) Industrial Reforms

        (4) Agricultural Reforms

(SSC CPO Sub-Inspector Exam. 16.12.2007)

310.      Who of\r\nthe following was sent as an ambassador to the royal court of Jahangir by James\r\n1, the then king of England?

        (1) John Hawkins

        (2) William Todd

        (3) Sir Thomas Roe

        (4) Sir Walter Raleigh

(SSC CPO Sub-Inspector Exam. 16.12.2007)

301. (2)\r\nChakravarti Rajagopalachari informally called Rajaji or C.R., was an Indian\r\nlawyer, independence activist, politician, writer and statesman.\r\nRajagopalachari was the last Governor-General of India and the first Indian\r\nGovernor-General of India. He also served as leader of the Indian National Congress,\r\nPremier of the Madras Presidency, Governor of West Bengal, Minister for Home\r\nAffairs of the Indian Union and Chief Minister of Madras state. Rajaji founded\r\nthe Swatantra Party and was one of the first recipients of India’s highest\r\ncivilian award, the Bharat Ratna. He vehemently opposed the use of nuclear\r\nweapons and was a proponent of world peace and disarmament. During his\r\nlifetime, he also acquired the nickname ‘Mango of Salem’.

302. (4) India had non-Congress\r\ngovernments in some states even in 1951, with the first communist government\r\nunder E.M.S. Namboodiripad in Kerala and a coalition in the Patiala and Eastern\r\nPunjab States Union (later merged with Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh).\r\nAs the first non-Indian National Congress Chief Minister in Republic of India,\r\nNamboodiripad became the leader of the first democratically elected Communist\r\ngovernment in India (San Marino being first in the world).

303. (2) The\r\nRepublic of india is governed in terms of the Constitution of India which was\r\nadopted by the Constituent Assembly on 26th November 1949 and came into force\r\non 26th January 1950. The date 26 January was chosen to commemorate the Puma\r\nSwaraj declaration of independence of 1930. With its adoption, the Union of\r\nIndia officially became the modem and contemporary Republic of India and it\r\nreplaced the Government of India Act 1935 as the country’s fundamental\r\ngoverning document.

304. (2) The\r\nIndian National Congress was established in 1885 due to the efforts of A.O.\r\nHume. He not only became its first General Secretary but continued to serve and\r\nguide it till his death in 1912.

305. (2) The best\r\nexample of his life-long crusade against social evils was the historic\r\nagitation he organized against the inhuman custom of women becoming Sati. When\r\nthe orthodox Hindus petitioned to Parliament to withhold its approval of\r\nBentinck’s action of banning the rite of Sati, he organized a counter-petition\r\nof enlightened Hindus in favour of Bentinck’s action.

306. (3) India\r\nwon independence from Britain by the Indian Independence Act 1947, ending the\r\nBritish Raj. This act, passed in June and receiving royal assent in July, took\r\neffect on 15 August 1947. On 15 August 1947, Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime\r\nMinister of free India, addressed the Constituent Assembly. In his famous\r\nspeech, Tryst with Destiny, he declared the end of the colonial era and called\r\non citizens to recognize the promise and opportunity of the moment: “Long years\r\nago, we made a tryst with destiny. Now the time has come when we shall redeem\r\nour pledge - not wholly or in full measure - but very substantially.”

307. (4) Gandhi\r\nurged the Congress to launch a Non-Cooperation Movement on three issues, which\r\nwere; redressal of the wrongs committed in Punjab that entailed the Jallianwala\r\nBagh massacre and the atrocities related to the marital laws, the Khilafat\r\nwrong and accomplishment of swaraj. In September, 1920, a special session of\r\nthe Congress, presided by Lala Lajpat Rai was convened at Calcutta that sought\r\nto approve the scheme. In December 1920, at the Nagpur Congress, the resolution\r\non Non-Cooperation was repeated again. The programme and policies of the\r\nNon-Cooperation Movement that was adopted at the special session of the\r\nCongress in Calcutta and restated at the Nagpur session included; promotion of\r\nswadeshi and boycott of foreign made articles, surrender of honorary posts and\r\ntitles, rejection of official Durbars, progressive rejection by lawyers of\r\nBritish courts, boycott of elections appointing new Councils, refusal by clerks\r\nand soldiers to serve in Mesopotamia and boycott of Government ran and state\r\nassisted schools.

308. (1) Dadabhai Naoroji, known\r\nas the Grand Old Man of India, was a Parsi intellectual, educator, cotton\r\ntrader, and an early Indian political and social leader. His book Poverty and\r\nUn-British Rule in India brought attention to the draining of India’s wealth\r\ninto Britain. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) in the United Kingdom House of\r\nCon mons between 1892 and 1895, and the first Asian to .)e a British MP. He is\r\nalso credited with the founding of the Indian National Congress, along with\r\nA.O. Hume and Dinshaw EduljiWacha.

309. (4) Curzon\r\nintroduced some reforms in agriculture. He passed the Punjab Land alienation\r\nAct of 1902. Under this act Curzon declared the land of agriculture will not be\r\ntransferred to non-agriculturist. In this way he protected the farmers from\r\nmoney lander class.

310. (1) The King\r\nof England sent envoys, John Hawkins in 1608 and Thomas Roe in 1615, to the\r\nMughal court of Janangir. In 1609, Emperor Jehangir issued farman permitting\r\nthe English to establish a factory at Surat.

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