MCQ on Indian History for UPSC, Civil Services and TPSC, WBSC, APSC, TCS & TPS examinations

Consider the following developments pertaining to the history of modern education in India:

(i)Sadler University Commission

(ii) Lord Macaulay's Minute

(iii) Raleigh Commission

(iv) Wood's Dispatch

Select the correct chronological order of these developments using the codes given below.

(i)-(iii)-(ii)-(iv)
(ii)-(iii)-(i)-(iv)
(ii)-(iv)-(iii)—(i)
(i)-(ii)-(iii)-(iv)

Correct Option: C [ (ii)-(iv)-(iii)—(i) ]

Explanation:

Who among the Mughal Emperors/ Courtiers made arrangement for translation of Upanisadas into Farsi?

Babur
Akbar
Shah Jahan
Dara Sukoh

Correct Option: D [ Dara Sukoh ]

Explanation: Dara Shikoh, Shah Jahan's eldest son and brother of Aurangzeb, Under his patronage, the Upanishads were translated into Persian and collectively named Sirr-i-Akbar.

The Gupta King who destroyed Sakas was:

Samudra Gupta
Chandra Gupta-I
Kumara Gupta
Chandra Gupta-II

Correct Option: D [ Chandra Gupta-II ]

Explanation: Chandragupta II Son of Samudragupta, We know about him from inscriptions and coins. He led an expedition to western India, where he overcame the last of the Shakas. His court was full of learned people, including Kalidasa the poet, and Aryabhata the astronomer.

Which Chola king was known as "Arumolivarman" before his coronation?

Vira Rajendra
Rajaraja I
Kulottunga I
Rajaraja II

Correct Option: B [ Rajaraja I ]

Explanation: The climax in Chola power was achieved under the successor of Parantaka II, Arumolivarman, who crowned himself as "Rajaraja I" in 985 A D the next thirty years of his rule formed the formative periodof Chola imperialism.

Who enunciated his famous formula that "Swaraj" must be for the "masses" and not for the "classes" alone?

Motilal Nehru
Gandhiji
Subhas Chandra Bose
C.R. Das

Correct Option: D [ C.R. Das ]

Explanation: At the Dehradun U.P. Provincial Conference two months before Gaya, C.R. Das enunciated his famous formula that "Swaraj" must be for the "masses" and not for the "classes".

The Non-Cooperation programme was adopted in the:

Lahore session
Congress session at Nagpur
Gujarat Congress
Second Round Table Conference

Correct Option: B [ Congress session at Nagpur ]

Explanation: In The Nagpur Session of 1920 resolutions of non-cooperation were adopted.

Who ridiculed Gandhi as "seditious fakir"?

Winston Churchill
Ramsay MacDonald
Lord Irwin
Cripps

Correct Option: A [ Winston Churchill ]

Explanation:

In which of the following inscriptions we find earliest reference to "Sati"?

Asokan inscription of Girnar
Aihole inscription
Eran inscription
Damodarpur inscription

Correct Option: C [ Eran inscription ]

Explanation: The first epigraphical evidence of sati (immolation of widow) is found in an inscription at Eran, the Inscription of Bhanugupta. Eran is located on the south bank of Bina River in Madhya Pradesh.

Who was the first president of the All India Kisan Sabha?

Swami Sahajanand Saraswati
N.G. Ranga
Jawaharlal Nehru
Jaya Prakash Narayan

Correct Option: A [ Swami Sahajanand Saraswati ]

Explanation: The All-India Kisan Sabha was established at the Lucknow session of the Indian National Congress in April 1936, with Swami Sahajanand Saraswati chosen as its first President.

"Navjivan" was edited by

Rasbehari Basu
Gandhiji
Lala Hardayal
Aurobindo Ghosh

Correct Option: B [ Gandhiji ]

Explanation: M K Gandhi was the first edition of his first Gujarati newspaper "Navajivan" which was published on September 7, 1919.