Indian History GK Questions

51. Who raised the demand of "Complete Independence" for the first time in 1921

  • A) Maulana Muhammad Ali
  • B) Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
  • C) Mahatma Gandhi
  • D) Maulana Hasrat Mohani
Answer: Maulana Hasrat Mohani

52. Who was the Viceroy of India when the Indian National Congress was started?

  • A) Dalhousie
  • B) Dufferin
  • C) Ripon
  • D) Lytton
Answer: Dufferin

53. Which revolutionary assassinated Michael O'Dwyer to avenge the killings of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre?

  • A) Bhagat Singh
  • B) Udham Singh
  • C) Har Dayal
  • D) Kartar Singh Sarabha
Answer: Udham Singh

54. Who was the author of ‘Arthashastra’?

  • A) Kautilya
  • B) Kalidasa
  • C) Bana
  • D) Vishakhadatta
Answer: Kautilya.

55. In which year was English made the official language of India and a medium of higher education?

  • A) 1932
  • B) 1933
  • C) 1935
  • D) 1938
Answer: 1935.

56. Which Indian scholar is known as "the father of linguistics"?

  • A) Kalhana
  • B) Panini
  • C) Harisena
  • D) Amarsimha
Answer: Panini. His grammar work, Ashtadhyayi, formalized Sanskrit linguistics.

57. The dyarchy policy in provinces of India was abolished in the year

  • A) 1932
  • B) 1935
  • C) 1938
  • D) 1945
Answer: 1935. The Government of India Act 1935 ended dyarchy in provinces.

58. "The Indian Independence League" was formed in

  • A) Kolkata
  • B) Tokyo
  • C) Singapore
  • D) Manila
Answer: Singapore. It was formed in 1942 to support Indian independence.

59. In Bengal, the headquarters of East India Company were located at

  • A) Fort St David
  • B) Fort William
  • C) Fort St George
  • D) None of the above
Answer: Fort William

60. Sati was declared illegal and punishable by

  • A) Lord William Bentinck
  • B) Lord Ripon
  • C) Lord Canning
  • D) Lord Dalhousie
Answer: Lord William Bentinck
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