Top: 60 Most Repeated Important History Question
for Competitive Exam (Modern History)
1. Name the first Viceroy of
India ? [SSC ,CGL]
Lord Canning (1856 to 1862)
2. Who was the first Governor General of Bengal ? (CGL)
Warren Hasting
3.
“Mohammadan Anglo-Oriental
College” later became the which University ? [UPSC]
Aligarh Muslim University. (AMU located at
Uttar Pradesh)
4.
Who led the “Salt
Satyagraha Movement” with Mahatma Gandhi ? [Railway]
Sarojini Naidu
5.
Who was the first Indian to
be Elected to the British Parliament ? [SSC , MTS]
Dada bhai Naoroji.(Grand old man of India)
6.
Who established the All
India Scheduled Castes Fedaration ? [Punjab Police]
B.R Ambedkar.
7.
Permanent Settlement of the
System of revenue collection was introduced in India by ? [SSC]
Lord Cornwallis.
8.
Name the British Governor
General introduced Postage Stamp in
India ?
Lord Dalhousie
9.
Who started the Home Rule
League? [ppsc]
Bal Gangadhar Tilak.
10. Who scripted Gandhiji’s
favourite Song “Vaishnav Jan To ……………… “? [SSC]
Narsinh Mehta
11. Who is known as Father of
Indian Unrest ? [SSC GD]
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
12. Who was the founder of the
Gadar Party ?[AFCAT]
Sohan Singh Bhakna.
13. Which Governor General
abolished the Sati System in India ?
Lord William Bentick.
14. When was delhi Declared as the
Capital of India ?
1911.
15. “Sarfaroshi Ki Tamanna Ab
Hamaare Dil mein Hai” – Was Written by –
Ramprasad Bismil
16. After the Bardoli
Satyagraha , who given the title of Sardar to Vallabhbhai Patel ?
Mahatma Gandhi.
17. Who designed the National
Flag of Independent India ?
Pingali Venkaiah
18. “India Wins Freedom” -- is the Autobiography of _______ ?
Abul Kalam Azad
19. The Province of Bengal was
partitioned into two Parts by Whom ?
Lord Curzon.
20. Name the British general
who was responsible for the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre ?
Dyer
21. English Education was
introduced in India by ----
Macaulay
22. Who is known as the “Grand
Old Man of India” ?
Dadabhai Naoraji.
23. Who was the Author of the
book “My Experiments with Truth” ?
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Gandhi ji)
24. Who was the first woman
President of Congress ?
Annie Besant.
25.Who is generally known as
the Pioneer of Local self governor in Modern India ?
Ripon
26. Which freedom fighter
called Mahatma Gandhi as father of the Nation for the first time ?
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.
27. Who said “Earth provides
enough to satisfy everyman’s need but not everyman’s greed” ?
Mahatma Gandhi
28.The Song “Vande Mataram”
Occurs in Which Book ?
Anand Math (Bankim Chandra Chattopadhaya)
29. Who visited Gandhiji in
South Africa ?
Gopal Krishna Gokhale
30. Who was the founder of
Banaras Hindu University ?
Madan Mohan Malviya
31. Who was the Founder of
Indian National Congress ?
A.O Hume
32. When India got Independence
who was the Prime Minister of England ?
Climent Atlee
33. Where was Azad Hind Fauz
Founded ?
Singapore
34. Who was the founder of Arya
Samaj ?
Swami Dayanand Saraswati.
35. What was the Original name
of Swami Dayananda Saraswati ?
Mula Shankar
36. Who gave the slogan Back to
the Vedas ?
Dayanand Saraswati
37. Who wrote the book Indian
Home Rule ?
M.K Gandhi.
38. Who built Shanti Niketan ?
Rabindra Nath Tagore.
39. Adolf Hitler was from which
Country ?
Germany
40. Who is regarded Gandhi ji
as his Political Guru ?
Gopal Krishna Gokhle
41. Who was the founder of
Brahma Samaj ?
Raja Ram Mohan Roy
42. Name the first Hindi News
Paper of India ?
Udant Martand
43. Who is referred to as
Frontier Gandhi ?
Abdul Gaffar Khan.
44. Who give the famous slogan
Do or Die ?
Mahatma Gandhi
45. Who started the first
English Newspaper in India ?
J.A Hickey
46. Who raised the Slogan
“Swaraj is my Birth right and I shall have it” ?
Bal Gangadhar Tilak.
47. Who was founder of
“Satyashodak Samaj” ?
Jyotirao Phule.
48. Who was the founder of
Society called Abhinava Bharat ?
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar.
49. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
was equated with …………………?
Bismarck.
50. Name the national leader
who wrote History of India on the walls of the Andaman Cellular Jail ?
Vir Savarkar
51. Who give the title of
Mahatma to Mahan Das Karamchand Gandhi ?
Rabindra Nath Tagore.
52. In which year Salt
Satyagrah was initiated ?
1930.
53. Gandhiji Satyagrah meant an
attachment to the ……..?
Truth and Non Violence.
54. When did the British
Government Start Rulling India Directly?
After the Battle of Plassey.
55. Who spoke “At the stroke of
midnight , when the world sleeps India awakes to life and freedom ?
Jawaharlal Nehru.
56. Who was the first General
Secretary of the Indian National Congress ?
A.O Hume.
57. In which year East India
Company Was established?
1600
58. Who is considered to be the
fatherof Indian Renaissance ?
Raja Rammohan Roy.
59. In which years 26th
January was celebrated as an Independence Day ?
1930
60. Who was the first Governor
general of India ?
Lord William Bentick.
USEFUL FOR ALL COMPETITIVE EXAM
UPSC II STATE PSC II SSC II CGL II CPO II MTS II RAILWAY II POLICE EXAM II
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