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UPSC CDS Modern Indian History — practice questions — page 30

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The Arms Act disallowing Indians from possessing arms was passed in:Read the answer and worked solution →The 1883 bill allowing Indian judges to try Europeans, withdrawn after white protest, was the:Read the answer and worked solution →Which early Congress leader wrote Poverty and Un-British Rule in India?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Radical leader declared that freedom is my birthright and I shall have it?Read the answer and worked solution →Bengal was partitioned in 1905 by Viceroy:Read the answer and worked solution →In deltaic Andhra the Swadeshi movement was known as the:Read the answer and worked solution →The All India Muslim League was formed in 1906 at:Read the answer and worked solution →Separate electorates for Muslims were conceded by the government in:Read the answer and worked solution →The Congress split between Moderates and Radicals in:Read the answer and worked solution →The Congress and the Muslim League signed the Lucknow Pact in:Read the answer and worked solution →Gandhi established the Natal Congress in South Africa to fight racial discrimination in:Read the answer and worked solution →Who renounced his knighthood after the Jallianwala Bagh massacre?Read the answer and worked solution →Bhagat Singh, Azad and Rajguru assassinated police officer Saunders on:Read the answer and worked solution →Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru were executed on:Read the answer and worked solution →Who persuaded Gandhi to allow women to join the Salt Satyagraha?Read the answer and worked solution →After the 1937 elections the Congress formed governments in how many of the 11 provinces?Read the answer and worked solution →By the end of 1943, how many people had been arrested in the Quit India movement?Read the answer and worked solution →Subhas Chandra Bose secretly left his Calcutta home to raise the Azad Hind Fauj in:Read the answer and worked solution →The Muslim League's Direct Action Day, which set off riots in Calcutta, was:Read the answer and worked solution →The first sub-Saharan African country to gain independence, in 1957, was:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the early Congress leadersRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the RadicalsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the national movement datesRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the movement wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Moderate or RadicalRead the answer and worked solution →Sort by decadeRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →National movement bingoRead the answer and worked solution →Raja Rammohun Roy founded which reform association in Calcutta?Read the answer and worked solution →Sati was banned in:Read the answer and worked solution →

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The Arms Act disallowing Indians from possessing arms was passed in:

  1. 1878
  2. 1883
  3. 1885
  4. 1905
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Correct answer: A. 1878

1. The Vernacular Press Act came the same year. 2. The Arms Act was passed in 1878. 3. Both deepened dissatisfaction with British rule. _Source: syllabus Our Pasts III, Chapter 9, The Making of the National Movement 1870s-1947._

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The 1883 bill allowing Indian judges to try Europeans, withdrawn after white protest, was the:

  1. Press Bill
  2. Ilbert Bill
  3. Rowlatt Bill
  4. Arms Bill
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Correct answer: B. Ilbert Bill

1. It sought equality between British and Indian judges. 2. The Ilbert Bill was withdrawn. 3. Indians were enraged by the racial attitude shown. _Source: syllabus Our Pasts III, Chapter 9, The Making of the National Movement 1870s-1947._

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Which early Congress leader wrote Poverty and Un-British Rule in India?

  1. W C Bonnerji
  2. Pherozeshah Mehta
  3. Dadabhai Naoroji
  4. Badruddin Tyabji
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Correct answer: C. Dadabhai Naoroji

1. He was for a time a member of the British Parliament. 2. Naoroji wrote the scathing economic critique. 3. Tyabji presided over the Congress in 1887. _Source: syllabus Our Pasts III, Chapter 9, The Making of the National Movement 1870s-1947._

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