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Q. In which year did the Indian National Congress hold its first meeting in Bombay?

A
1844
B
1832
C
1885
D
1890

Correct Answer

1885

More Questions on History

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    A)1853
    B)1773
    C)1873
    D)1889
    Answer: 1873
  • Q. After 1893, when complete ban was imposed on all commercial activities of the Company. India was left open to exploitation by
    A)Planters
    B)British officers in India
    C)British mercantile industrial capitalist class
    D)Zamindars and big landlords
    Answer: British mercantile industrial capitalist class
  • Q. Who is the only women historian to have written a historical account of Mughal Period?
    A)Zebun-nissa Begum
    B)Noorjahan Begum
    C)Gulbadan Begum
    D)Jahanara Begum
    Answer: Gulbadan Begum
  • Q. Mahavira’s first disciple was
    A)Sthulabhadra
    B)Bhadrabahu
    C)Charvaka
    D)Jamali
    Answer: Jamali
  • Q. Which is a treatise on the science of governance?
    A)Ramayana
    B)Mahabharata
    C)Kautilya's Arthshastra
    D)Chandrawati Ramayana
    Answer: Kautilya's Arthshastra
  • Q. The Moplahs of Malabar (Kerala) who were largely Muslim leaseholders and cultivators, indulged in a series of rebellions in Kerala between 1836-1919. Which of the following regarding these Moplah uprisings is not true?
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    B)They were mainly directed against the upper caste Hindu landlords
    C)Most of the Moplah martyrs were poor peasants of landless lobourers
    D)A small band of Moplahs committed collective suicides in the belief of being called Shahids (martyrs)
    Answer: A small band of Moplahs committed collective suicides in the belief of being called Shahids (martyrs)
  • Q. Bal Gangadhar Tilak began his drive for new awakening among the Indians by publishing two newspapers in 1881
    A)The Maratha and Samwad
    B)The Maratha and Kesari
    C)The Samwad and Kesari
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    Answer: The Maratha and Kesari
  • Q. Who was the founder of Advaita vada or the doctrine of non-dualism?
    A)Surdas
    B)Adi Shankaracharya
    C)Ramanuj
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    Answer: Adi Shankaracharya
  • Q. Concerning the caste system, __________said the following to Narayana Guru: “The casteHindus and the low caste-Hindus are both the sons of Hinduism. The caste-Hindu is the elder brother who shoulders responsibility, and he therefore exercises certain privileges. The low casteHindu is his younger brother who is to be cared for. If the elder brother turns out to be somewhat rough and aggressive that should not make the younger brother a runaway from his mother Hinduism.”
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    B)Chattambi Swamikal
    C)Tilak
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  • Q. In which year America got independence
    A)1776
    B)1760
    C)1780
    D)1782
    Answer: 1776
  • Q. Who among the following analysed the causes of the uprising of 1857 advocating a reconciliation between the British and the Muslims?
    A)Shah Waliullah
    B)Sayyed Ahmad Brelvi
    C)Sayyed Ahmad Khan
    D)Sayyed Amir Ali
    Answer: Sayyed Ahmad Khan
  • Q. In Jainism, ‘Perfect Knowledge’ is referred to as
    A)Ratna
    B)Nirvana
    C)Kaivalya
    D)Jina
    Answer: Kaivalya
  • Q. The Cripps Mission visited India in the year
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    B)1940
    C)1945
    D)1946
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  • Q. Humayun’s Tomb was built by
    A)Bega Begum
    B)Humayun
    C)Babur
    D)Akbar
    Answer: Bega Begum
  • Q. The organisation ‘League of Nations’ was founded after the end of
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    D)Vietnam War
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  • Q. India attained ‘Dominion status’ on
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    C)15th August, 1950
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    A)Female deities
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    A)Syed Ahmad Khan
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  • Q. Who was the selected as first satyagrahi by Mahatma Gandhi to begin individual satyagraha in 1940?
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    C)Brahma Datt
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