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Practice MCQ Questions and answers on Indian history-GK

Learn and practice General Knowledge questions and answers on Indian History with very easy and understandable explanations. GK questions are very helpful different type of competitive exams. Page-2 section-2

Each section contains 100 MCQs on Indian History .
11
Under which British Act was the provision to establish a Federation of India concession of Governor’s provinces and Princely states made?
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Answer & Solution
Answer: Option D
Solution:
Government of India Act 1935 provision for the establishment of a "Federation of India", to be made up of both British India and some or all of the "princely states".
12
When was Poona Pact between Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. B. R. Ambedkar signed?
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Answer: Option D
Solution:
An agreement between Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar and Mahatma Gandhi was signed 84 years ago on September 24, 1932. The agreement was signed by Pt Madan Mohan Malviya and Dr. B. R. Ambedkar and some Dalit leaders at Yerwada Central Jail in Pune, to break Mahathma Gandhi's fast unto death.
13
The British Prime Minister Atlee announced the withdrawal of the Britishers in the House of Commons from India on
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Answer & Solution
Answer: Option B
Solution:
The Prime Minister of Britain Clement Atlee declared on February 20, 1947 in the House of Commons that the British would quit India after transferring power into the responsible hand not later than June 1948.
14
Who said, “India is for Indians?”
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Answer: Option D
Solution:
Swami Dayanand Saraswati gave the political slogan that India is for Indians. Dayanand said – World is a battlefield where every individual has to work out his salvation by right deeds.
15
Who said," One Country One God, One Caste, one Mind brothers all of us Without Difference, without Doubt ?"
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Answer: Option A
Solution:
V. D. Savarkar said," One Country One God, One Caste, one Mind brothers all of us Without Difference, without Doubt ".
16
United India House organizes Unity among Indians in the United states of America in
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Answer: Option C
Solution:
United India House organizes Unity among Indians in the United states of America in 1910.
17
Who in the year 1907 unfurled the first national flag at the International socialist conference in Stuttgart (Germany)?
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Answer: Option A
Solution:
Bhikaji Cama, also known as Madame Cama, was the first woman who successfully unfurled the first version of the tricolour Indian flag. She still remains to be one of the most prominent woman personalities to participate in the Indian Nationalist Movement. Born into very well-off Parsi family in Bombay (now Mumbai) Bhikaji received her early education there.
18
In 1906 to protest discrimination against Indians in S. Africa Mahatma Gandhi started
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Answer: Option D
Solution:
A meeting in Johannesburg on 11 September 1906 marked the start of the resistance campaign, which ultimately became known as satyagraha (meaning ‘truth-force’), with its practitioners called satyagrahi.
19
Subhash Chandra Bose was elected the president of the Indian national congress :
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Answer & Solution
Answer: Option C
Solution:
Subhash Chandra Bose and Congress Tripuri Session 1939. The British Government was keen on Bose taking interest in the Axis Powers and the developing Gandhi Bose strife. In December 1938, Bose had a meeting with two representatives of the German Nazi Party.
20
Bal Gangadhar Tilak began his drive for new awakening among the Indians by publishing two newspapers in 1881
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Answer: Option A
Solution:
In 1881, he began his drive for new awakening by among the Indians publishing two newspapers i.e., the Maratha (English) and Kesari (Marathi).