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Q. Who had first sought the legalisation of widow remarriage in India?

A
Badruddin Tyabji
B
Raja Ram Mohan Roy
C
Ishwar Chandra Vidayasagar
D
Swami Dayanand Saraswati

Correct Answer

Ishwar Chandra Vidayasagar

More Questions on History

  • Q. __________ was primarily responsible for making India a secular State
    A)Patel
    B)Gandhi
    C)Jawaharlal Nehru
    D)Gokhale
    Answer: Jawaharlal Nehru
  • Q. Who was the founder of the Boy Scouts and Civil Guides Movement in India?
    A)Baden Powell
    B)Richard Temple
    C)Charles Andrew
    D)Robert Montgomery
    Answer: Baden Powell
  • Q. Maulana qasim Nanautavi, Rashid Ahmad Gangohi, Sheikhul Hind Maulana- Mahmud-ul Hasan were the prominent figures who represented?
    A)Santhal Movement
    B)Deoband Movement
    C)Indigo Movement
    D)None of these
    Answer: Deoband Movement
  • Q. On which date was the announcement formally made that India and Pakistan would be made free?
    A)June 3, 1947
    B)May 2, 1947
    C)July 4, 1947
    D)August 5, 1957
    Answer: June 3, 1947
  • Q. Under the Mughals the Commander-in-Chief of the Army was
    A)Mansabdar
    B)The crown prince
    C)Emperor
    D)Zamindar
    Answer: Emperor
  • Q. Who among the following wrote commentaries on Harshavardhana’s administration and the court life in Kannauj?
    A)Fa-Hien
    B)AI-Beruni
    C)Hiuen-Tsang
    D)Ibn Batutah
    Answer: Hiuen-Tsang
  • Q. Who had founded the Deccan Educational Society?
    A)CR Das
    B)Dadabhai Naoroji
    C)Swami Vivekananda
    D)Mahadeva Govind Ranade
    Answer: Mahadeva Govind Ranade
  • Q. PIassey is located near
    A)Rajashahi in Bangladesh
    B)Murshidabad in West Bengal
    C)Calcutta
    D)Monghyr in Bihar
    Answer: Murshidabad in West Bengal
  • Q. The Russo-Turkish war was started in the year
    A)1768
    B)1762
    C)1773
    D)1782
    Answer: 1768
  • Q. Who played an important role in the Gadar Movement in 1915?
    A)Lala Lajpat Rai
    B)Lala Hardayal
    C)Bal Gangadhar Tilak
    D)None of above
    Answer: Lala Hardayal
  • Q. Who was the Nawab of Bengal during “Battle of Plassey”?
    A)Mir Qasim
    B)Mir Jafar
    C)Sirajudduala
    D)None of these
    Answer: Sirajudduala
  • Q. Which of the following leaders was one of the founding member of the Muslim League?
    A)Shaukat Ali
    B)Muhammad Ali Jinnah
    C)Nawab Salimullah
    D)Aga Khan
    Answer: Nawab Salimullah
  • Q. During whose reign did the Gandhara School of Art blossom?
    A)Ashok
    B)Harsha
    C)Kanishka
    D)Chandragupta-II
    Answer: Kanishka
  • Q. Name the Commission that came to India in 1928 to reform India’s constitutional system
    A)Pitt's India Act
    B)Rowaltt Act
    C)Partition of Bengal
    D)Simon Commission
    Answer: Simon Commission
  • Q. Who said “Truth is the ultimate reality and it is God”?
    A)Rabindra Nath Tagore
    B)Swamy Vivekananda
    C)M. K. Gandhi
    D)Radhakrishnan
    Answer: M. K. Gandhi
  • Q. In Jainism the aim of life is to attain Nirvana or Moksha for which one has to
    A)practice, non-violence and non-injury to all living beings
    B)follow three jewels and five vows
    C)renounce the world and attain right knowledge
    D)believe in the Jains and absolute non-violence
    Answer: follow three jewels and five vows
  • Q. In which of the following provinces the Congress Ministry was not formed in June 1937?
    A)Central Provinces
    B)United Provinces
    C)Madras
    D)Assam
    Answer: Assam
  • Q. The English who twice served as President of the Indian National Congress was
    A)Sir William Wedderburn
    B)George Yule
    C)AO Hume
    D)Mrs Annie Besant
    Answer: Sir William Wedderburn
  • Q. Gandhi had given out the stirring call of ‘Do or Die’ during the __________ Movement
    A)Khilafat
    B)Non-cooperation
    C)Civil Disobedience
    D)Quit India
    Answer: Quit India
  • Q. The word ‘Veda’ has been derived from the root word ‘Vid’ which means
    A)Sacredness
    B)Divinity
    C)Doctrine
    D)Knowledge
    Answer: Knowledge

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