Modern India

1. Which events made the English East India Company the legitimate masters of the Bengal Suba?
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(A) Battle of Buxar, 1764
(B) Battle of Plassey, 1757
(C) Farrukh Siyar’s Farman, 1717
(D) Ibrahim Khan’s Farman, 1690

2. From which Upanishads the words ‘Satyameva Jayate’ inscribed in Devanagari Script below the abacus of the State Emblem are?
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(A) Prashna
(B) Mundaka
(C) Mandukya
(D) Ishavasya

3. Who among visited Gandhiji in South Africa?
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(A) B. G. Tilak
(B) Vallabhbhai Patel
(C) G.K. Gokhale
(D) J.L. Nehru

4. Which statements best explains the nature of revolt of 1857?
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(A) The last effort of the old political order to regain power.
(B) Mutiny of a section of sepoys of the British Army
(C) A struggle of the common people to overthrow common rule
(D) An effort to establish a limited Indian nation

5. Who made it possible for the Indians to enter the Indian Civil Service through an open competitive examination?
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(A) William Bentinck
(B) Dalhousie
(C) Mayo
(D) Ripon

6. Which was established by B.R Ambedkar?
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(A) Swaraj party
(B) Samaj Samata party
(C) All India Scheduled Castes Federation
(D) The Independent Labour party

7. Which one was not a French settlement in India?
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(A) Puducherry
(B) Mahe
(C) Goa
(D) Chandarnagar

8. Where did Mahatma Gandhi return to India in January 1915?
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(A) South Africa
(B) England
(C) USA
(D) Russia

9. When did Mahatma Gandhi returned to India from South Africa?
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(A) January 1915
(B) January 1951
(C) June 1917
(D) July 1919

10. Who was the first to sign the ‘Instruments of Accession’?
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(A) The Maharaja of Baroda
(B) The Dewan of Travancore
(C) The Nizam of Hyderabad
(D) The Raja of Jodhpur