MCQ - HISTORY OF INDIA

History of Modern India (Part-VI)

81. The earliest nationalist to commit political dacoities (a feature of the later revolutionary movements) was

a) Jyotiba Phule
b) Chapekar brothers
c) Vasudev Balwant Phadke
d) Yatindra Das

82. The British colonial policies in India proved most ruinous for Indian

a) agriculture
b) trade

c) industry

d) handicrafts

83. Indian handicrafts rapidly declined due to

a) lack of patronage
b) growing craze for imported goods
c) stiff competition from the machine-made goods of England
d) All the above

84. The main exponent of the theory of Drain of Wealth was

a) RC Dutt
b) Dadabhai Naoroji

c) DR Gadoil

d) Karl Marx

85. After 1893, when complete ban was imposed on all commercial activities of the Company. India was left open to exploitation by

a) British officers in India
b) Planters
c) British mercantile industrial capitalist class
d) Zamindars and big landlords.

86. After the ruin of India’s trade, industries and handicrafts, the burden of taxation in India had to be mainly borne by

a) Zamindars
b) Peasantry
c) Income-tax payers
d) All the above

87. The single biggest item of British capital investment in India was

a) railways
b) plantations and mines

c) banking and insurance

d) shipping

88. The new proletariat class which emerged in India on account of the British economic policies, consisted of

a) money lenders
b) landlords

c) traders

d) All the above

89. Match the following social reforms of modern India with the reform organisations founded by them and the year of their foundation:

        List-I                                                 List-II
A. Raja Ram Mohun Roy                (i) Tatvabodhini Sabha (1839)
B. Devendra Nath Tagore              (ii) Brahmo Samaj of India (1860)
C. Keshav Chandra Sen                  (iii) Brahmo Samaj (1828)
D. MG Ranade                                 (iv) Arya Samaj (1875)
E. Dayanand Saraswati                   (v) Prarthana Samaj (1867)
Codes:
      A                 B                 C                 D               E
a) i i i i i v iv
b) i i i i i i v iv
c) i i i i i i iv v
d) i i i i i i v iv

90. Match the following social reformers of modern India with the institutions they founded (including year of their foundation):

         List-I                                   List-II

A. Vivekananda                        (i) Theosophical Society (1882)

B. H P Blavatsky                       (ii) Ramakrishna Mission (1887)

C. Sir Syed Ahmad Khan         (iii)Ahmadiya Movement (1891)
D. Mirza Ghulam Ahmad        (iv) Aligarh Movement (1875)
E. Annie Besant                        (v) Central Hindu College, Varanasi (1898)
Codes:
    A                  B                C                  D                   E
a) v                 i i               i i i                 iv                   i
b) i i                i                  iv                 i i i                 v
c) i i                v                i i i                 iv                   i
d) v               i i                 iv                  i i i                 i

ANSWER

81. c	82. d	83. d	84. b	85. c
86. b	87. a	88. d	89. b	90. b