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421. The\r\ndecline of Indian Handicrafts industry in the 19th century was attributed to
(1) competition from\r\nBritish manufacturing industries only
(2) disappearance of Indian \r\nPrincely Courts only
(3) establishment of alien rule only
(4) All of the above
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422. Why was\r\nthe Simon Commission boycotted by the Indians?
(1) It did not include any Indian as a member
(2) It did not have any woman member
(3) It was appointed before the stipulated time
(4) It refused to meet prominent Indian leaders
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423. Who\r\namong the following started the first newspaper in India?
(1) Dadabhai Naoroj i
(2) W.C. Bonnerjee
(3) RabindranathTagore
(4) James A. Hickey
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424. Who\r\nfounded the Servants of India Society ?
(1) Dadabhai Naorqji
(2) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
(3) B.G.Tilak
(4) Swami Dayanand Saraswati
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425. English\r\neducation was introduced in India by
(1) Lord Curzon
(2) Jawaharlal Nehru
(3) Lord Macaulay
(4) Lord Dalhousie
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426. Name\r\nthe important French possession in India.
(1) Goa (2)\r\nPondicherry
(3) Daman (4)\r\nCochin
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427. As per\r\nprovisions of the Charter Act of 1833, a Law Commission (for consolidating,\r\ncodifying and improving Indian laws) was constituted under the Chairmanship of
(1) Lord Bentinck
(2) Raja Rammohan Roy
(3) Lord Macaulay
(4) Lord Dalhousie
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428. Who was\r\nthe first Indian to become member of British Parliament ?
(1) W.C. Bonnerjee
(2) Behramji M. Malabari
(3) D.N.Wacha
(4) Dadabhai Naoroji
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429. Who\r\nsaid “Patriotism is religion and religion is love for India” ?
(1) Raj Narain Bose
(2) BalGangadharTilak
(3) Swami Vivekananda
(4) Acharya Vinoba Bhave
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430. Which\r\nof the following is not one of the animals carved on the Sarnath Pillar?
(1) Humped Bull (2)\r\nDeer
(3) Elephant (4)\r\nHorse
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421. (4) Tha\r\nmajor causes of decline in handicrafts in India during the British rule were:\r\n(i) disappearance of court culture; (ii) adverse influence of British rule on\r\ntastes and habits; (iii) competition from European manufacturers; (iv) one way\r\nfree trade policy of the British; (v) exploitation of craftsmen by merchants,\r\netc.
422. (1) The\r\nSimon commission was boycotted by Indians because they felt insulted and hurt\r\nthat a committee appointed to decide the future of India did not include even\r\none Indian.
423. (4) The\r\nfirst major newspaper in India—The Bengal Gazette—was started in 1780 under the\r\nBritish Raj by James Augustus Hickey.
424. (2) The\r\nServants of India Society
was formed in Pune,\r\nMaharashtra, on June 12, 1905 by Gopal Krishna Gokhale, who left the Deccan\r\nEducation Society to form this association. The Society organized many\r\ncampaigns to promote education, sanitation, health care and fight the social\r\nevils of untouchability and discrimination, alcoholism, poverty, oppression of women\r\nand domestic abuse.
425. (3) Macaulay\r\nwas Secretary to trie Board of Control under Lord Grey from 1832 until 1833.\r\nAfter the passing of the Government of India Act 1833, he was appointed as the\r\nfirst Law Member of the Governor-General’s Council. He went to India in 1834.\r\nHe served on the Supreme Council of India between 1834 and 1838. He introduced\r\nEnglish education in India through his famous minute of February 1835. He\r\ncalled an educational system that would create a class of anglicized Indians who\r\nwould serve as cultural intermediaries between the British and the Indians.
426. (2)\r\nPondicherry is a Union Territory
of India formed out of four enclaves of former French India\r\nand named for the largest, Pondicherry. The French East India Company set up a\r\ntrading centre at Pondicherry in 1674. This outpost eventually became the chief\r\nFrench settlement in India. The French acquired Mahe in the 1720s, Yanam in\r\n1731, and Karaikal in 1738.
427. (3) The\r\nfirst Law Commission was established in 1834 under the Charter Act of 1833\r\nunder the Chairmanship of Lord Macaulay which recommended codification of the\r\nPenal Code, the Criminal Procedure Code and a few other matters. Thereafter,\r\nthe second, third and fourth Law Commissions were constituted in 1853, 1861 and\r\n1879 respectively.
428. (4) Dadabhai Naoroji was a\r\nMember of Parliament (MP) in the United Kingdom House of Commons between 1892\r\nand 1895, and the first Asian to be a British MP. Elected for the Liberal Party\r\nin Finsbury Central at the 1892 general election, he was the first British\r\nIndian MP. He refused to take the oath on the Bible as he was not a Christian,\r\nbut was allowed to take the oath of office in the name of God on his copy of\r\nKhordeh Avesta. In Parliament, he spoke on Irish Home Rule and the condition of\r\nthe Indian people. In his political campaign and duties as an MP, he was\r\nassisted by Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the future Muslim nationalist and founder of\r\nPakistan.
429. (*) These\r\nwere the utterances of Bankim Chandra Chatterjee.
