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WBCS 2024 (Prelim + Mains) Integrated (A) Parthenon

(B) Digdarshan
Mock Test Series
(C) Bengal Gazette / Hicky’s Gazette / Hicky’s
General Studies Test-8 Bengal Gazette
(D) Samachar Darpan
Topic:
1) Press and Educational Development in Q. No- 7) The first Hindi newspaper "Udant
India Martand (30 May, 1826) was published from
2) The Revolt of 1857 UPPSC (Main
3) Establishment and Expansion of Congress (a) Calcutta
4) Indian National Movement (Phase 1 : 1905 (b) Patna
- 1915) (c) Allahabad
5) Indian National Movement (Phase II) : (d) Bombay
1916- 1925
Q. No- 8) The editor of the 'Hindu Patriot' who
strongly supported the Indigo Movement was
Q. No- 1) After the partition of Bengal, the two
(a) Hem Chandrakar
new provinces which came into existence were
(A) East Bengal and Bengal (b) Harish Chandra Mukherjee
(B) East Bengal and West Bengal (c) Dinabandhu Mitra
(C) East Bengal and Assam (d) Digambar Biswas
(D) East Bengal and North Bengal
Q. No- 9) From where the 'Indian Mirror'
Q. No- 2) Dadabhai Naoroji was elected to the newspaper was published in the decade of 1880?
British House of Commons as a member of the
(a) Bombay
(A) Conservative
(B) Liberal (b) Calcutta
(C) Labour (c) Madras
(D) Labour-Liberal combine (d) Pondicherry
Q. No- 3) Mahatma Gandhi presided over the
Annual Session of Congress only once at Q. No- 10) In which year the Vernacular Press
(A) Kakinada, 1923 Act was passed?
(B) Belgaum, 1924
(a) 1876
(C) Kanpur, 1925
(D) Gauhati, 1926 (b) 1877
Q. No- 4) Who have introduced the printing (c) 1878
press in India and in which year? (d) 1879
(a) Spanish in 1680 Q. No- 11) Which of the following British Act
(b) French in 1745 envisages the parliamentary system of
government in India?
(c) English East India Company in 1674
(A) Charter Act of 1793
(d) Portuguese in 1550 (B) Charter Act of 1813
Q. No- 5) Which of the following factors caused (C) Charter Act of 1853
the greatest racial cleavage in India before the (D) Charter Act of 1833
foundation of the Indian National Congress? Q. No- 12) Who observed: “The Congress is in
(A) The Ilbert Bill Controversy reality a civil war without arms”?
(B) The reductions of age for entry to the Civil (A) Lord Dufferin
Services (B) M. A. Jinnah
(C) The Arms Act of 1878 (C) Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
(D) The Vernacular Press Act (D) Lord Curzon
Q. No- 13) Who was the first Indian to go to jail Q. No- 20) When was the „Carlyle Circular„
in performance of his duty as a journalist? issued?
(a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak (A) 1905
(B) 1901
(b) Dadabhai Naoroji
(C) 1902
(c) Motilal Ghosh (D) 1906
(d) Surendranath Banerje
Q. No- 21) Who was the editor of 'Inquilab'
Q. No- 14) The 'Swadesh Vahini' was edited by (from Lahore) in 1923?
(a) CV Raman Pillai (a) Mahatma Gandhi
(b) CN Mudaliar (b) Ghulam Hussain
(c) K Ramakrishna Pillai (c) Bhagat Singh
(d) CR Reddy (d) Jawaharlal Nehru

Q. No- 15) Which one of the following was a Q. No- 22) Which of the following newspapers
journal brought out by Abdul Kalam Azad? used to be published from Patna?
(a) Al-Hilal (a) Indian Nation
(b) Comrade (b) Punjab Kesari
(c) The Indian Sociologist (c) Prabhakar
(d) Zamindar (d) Dawn

Q. No- 16) Who gave the title of Rani to the Naga Q. No- 23) Who wrote the pamphlet 'Now or
women leader Gaidinliu? Never?
(A) Subhas Bose (a) Md Jinnah
(B) Jawaharlal Nehru (b) Md Iqbal
(C) Thakkar Bapa
(c) Rahmat Ali
(D) Mahatma Gandhi
(d) Khafi Khan
Q. No- 17) Who painted the image of Bharat Q. No- 24) Who among the following had
Mata? launched the paper 'Qaumi Awaz'?
(A) Rabindranath Tagore (a) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
(B) Abanindranath Tagore (b) Jawaharlal Nehru
(C) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
(c) Shaukat Ali
(D) Mahatma Gandhi
(d) Khaliquzzaman
Q. No- 18) Who wrote the book „Hind Swaraj‟? Q. No- 25) Which of the following papers was
(A) Jawaharlal Nehru essentially the mouth piece of the policies of
(B) Lal Bahadur Shastri liberals?
(C) Mahatma Gandhi (a) New India
(D) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (b) Leader
(c) Young India
Q. No- 19) The English newspaper Independent'
(d) Free Press Journal
was associated to
Q. No- 26) Which among the following was a
(a) Mahatma Gandhi
communist party journal of MN Roy?
(b) CR. Das
(a) Kishan Sabha
(c) Jawaharlal Nehru
(b) The Worker
(d) Motilal Nehru
(c) Vanguard
(d) Anushilan
Q. No- 27) The Self-respect Movement was Q. No- 34) Which one of the following is not
founded correctly matched?
(A) Ambedkar (a) BR Ambedkar- Independent
(B) Periyar E. V. Ramasamy Naicker
(b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak- Kesari
(C) DinkarraoJavalkar
(D) Keshavrao Jedhe (c) Annie Besant- New India
(d) Dadabhai Naoroji- Rast Goftar
Q. No- 28) Which of the following pairs is not
correctly matched? Q. No- 35) Which of the following colleges was
(a) Navjivan- MK Gandhi the first to be established?
(b) Swarajya- T Prakasham (a) Hindu College, Calcutta
(c) Prabhat- NC Kelkar (b) Delhi College
(d) Qaumi Awaz-Abul Kalam Azad (c) Mayo College
(d) Muslim Anglo-Oriental College
Q. No- 29) When Gandhi-Irwin Pact was signed?
(A) 1931 Q. No- 36) Where was the first Madrasa set up
(B) 1930 by British India?
(C) 1932 (a) Madras
(D) 1929 (b) Bombay
(c) Aligarh
Q. No- 30) The Non-Cooperation programme
(d) Calcutta
was adopted in the
(A) Lahore session
(B) Congress session at Nagpur Q. No- 37) Who founded the Asiatic Society of
(C) Gujarat Congress Bengal in Calcutta in 1784?
(D) Second Round Table Conference (a) Jonathan Duncan
(b) William Jones
Q. No- 31) Ram Prasad Bismil‟s name is (c) Warren Hastings
associated with (d) Charles Grant
(A) Kakori Conspiracy Case
(B) Lahore Conspiracy Case
Q. No- 38) Which Act of British Government
(C) Alipur Bomb Case
(D) Meerat Conspiracy Case granted Rs1 lakh for education in India for the
first time?
Q. No- 32) Who was the editor of the nationalist (a) Woods Despatch, 1854
newspaper „Sandhya‟? (b) Charter Act, 1813
(A) Satish Chandra Mukhopadhyaya (c) Charter Act, 1853
(B) Brahmabandhab Upadhyay (d) Indian Council Act, 1892
(C) Sisir Kumar Ghosh
(D) Bhupendranath Datta Q. No- 39) The foundation of the modern
educational system in India was laid by
Q. No- 33) At the time of National Movement, (a) The Charter Act of 1813
who started 'Dash Roja' periodical? (b) Macaulay's Minutes of 1835
(a) Md Ali Jinnah (c) The Hunter Commission of 1882
(b) Abdul Ghaffar Khan (d) Woods Despatch of 1854
(c) Lala Lajpat Rai
(d) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Q. No- 40) Who have appointed first Indian Q. No- 46) Who amongst the following
Education Commission and in which year? Englishmen, first translated Bhagavad-Gita into
(a) Lord William Wedderburn in 1885 English?
(b) Lord Curzon in 1905 (a) William Jones
(c) Lord Lytton in 1880 (b) Charles Wilkins
(d) Lord Ripon in 1882 (c) Alexander Cunningham
(d) John Marshal
Q. No- 41) In the Hunter Commission report,
special emphasis was laid on the development of Q. No- 47) Who among the following laid the
(a) girls education foundation stone of Banaras Hindu University?
(b) higher education (a) Madan Mohan Malaviya
(c) primary education (b) Maharaja Vibhuti Singh
(d) technical education (c) Lord Hardinge
(d) Annie Besant
Q. No- 42) In whose reign was English Education
introduced in India? Q. No- 48) Which one of the following was the
(a) Lord William Bentinck first to declare as Central University?
(b) Lord Hardinge (a) Aligarh Muslim University
(c) Lord Minto (b) Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar University
(d) Lord Dalhousie (c) Banaras Hindu University of Varanasi
(d) University of Allahabad
Q. No- 43) The Partition of Bengal was annulled
in Q. No- 49) When was the National Council of
(A) 1905
Education established?
(B) 1911
(C) 1901 (a) 15th August, 1903
(D) 1947 (b) 15th August, 1904
(c) 15th August, 1905
Q. No- 44) First three universities (Kolkata, (d) 15th August, 1906
Mumbai, Madras) were established in year
(a) 1857 Q. No- 50) Which pair is not correctly matched?
(b) 1881 Education Commission/Committee Year
(c) 1885 (a) Sadler University Commission 1917
(d) 1905 (b) Hunter Education Commission 1887
Q. No- 45) The establishment of the first (c)The Hartog Committee 1929
Women's University in Mumbai was the result of (d) Indian Universities Act 1904
the effort of
(a) Dayaram Gindumal Q. No- 51) What was the original name of
(b) DK Karve Titumir?
(A) Syed Amanullah Khan
(c) MG Ranade
(B) Syed Mir Nasar Ali
(d) Ramabai (C) Syed Amir Ali
(D) Syed Mir Muhammad Khan
Q. No- 52) The declaration of Partition of Bengal Q. No- 58) Who was the President of Indian
was done on National Congress Session in 1905, at Banaras?
(a) 19th July, 1905 (a) Surendranath Banerjee
(b) 7th August, 1905 (b) Pherozeshah Mehta
(c) 15th August, 1905 (c) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
(d) 16th October, 1905 (d) Ishwar Wacha

Q. No- 53) The Lieutenant Governor of Bengal Q. No- 59) „Dandi March„ had inaugurated
at the time of partition of Bengal was which movement ?
(A) Swadeshi-Boycott Movement
(a) Sir Andrew Fraser
(B) Non-cooperation Movement
(b) HH Risley (C) Civil Disobedience Movement
(c) Broderick (D) Quit India Movement
(d) AT Arundel
Q. No- 60) Who among the following was a critic
Q. No- 54) Anti-Partition Movement of Bengal of the Swadeshi Movement and a supporter of a
was initiated on better relationship between the East and the
(a) 20th July, 1905 West?
(b) 7th August, 1905 (a) WC Banerjee
(c) 16th October, 1905 (b) SN Banerjee
(d) 7th November, 1905 (c) RN Tagore
(d) BG Tilak
Q. No- 55) An important aspect of the Swadeshi
Movement in Bengal (1905) is the Boycott of Q. No- 61) Who was the first to suggest the
British goods. Boycott of British goods in Bengal?
Which one of the following first suggested (a) Aurobindo Ghosh
Boycott of British goods in Bengal? (b) Krishna Kumar Mitra
(a) Aurobindo Ghosh's Journal Bande Mataram (c) Motilal Ghosh
(b) Krishna Kumar Mitra's weekly Sanjivani (d) Satish Chandra Mukherjee
(c) Motilal Ghosh's Amrit Bazaar Patrika
(d) Satish Chandra Mukherjee's Dawn Q. No- 62) Who among the following led the
Swadeshi Movement at Delhi?
Q. No- 56) Who among the following leaders was (a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
a supporter of 'Swadeshi'? (b) Ajit Singh
(a) Aurobindo Ghosh (c) Lala Lajpat Rai
(b) Pherozeshah Mehta (d) Syed Haidar Raza
(c) Dadabhai Naoroji
(d) Subhash Chandra Bose Q. No- 63) In which of the following sessions of
Indian National Congress, the word 'Swaraj' was
Q. No- 57) Who was the leader of the Swadeshi uttered from the Congress platform for the first
Movement in Madras? time?
(a) Srinivas Shastri (a) Banaras Session, 1905
(b) Rajagopalachari (b) Calcutta Session, 1906
(c) Chidambaram Pillai (c) Surat Session, 1907
(d) Chintamani (d) None of these
Q. No- 64) Who was the President of the Surat Q. No- 70) Who was the prominent Indian
Session, 1907 of the Indian National Congress? Historian who did not accept 1857 Revolution as
(a) RB Ghosh a revolution?
(b) BG Tilak (a) Tarachand
(c) Annie Besant (b) Dr. SN Sen
(d) GK Gokhale (c) Sawarkar
(d) Dr. RC Majumdar
Q. No- 65) the year 1908, Bal Gangadhar Tilak
was jailed for Q. No- 71) The official historian of Indian
(a) 5 years freedom struggle was
(b) 6 years (a) RC Majumdar
(c) 7 years (b) Tarachand
(d) 8 years (c) VD Savarkar
(d) SN Sen
Q. No- 66) A bomb was thrown on the occasion Q. No- 72) The first War of Independence (1857)
of whose entry into Delhi? started from
(a) Lord Curzon (a) Lucknow
(b) Lord Mayo (b) Jhansi
(c) Lord Minto (c) Meerut
(d) Lord Hardinge (d) Kanpur

Q. No- 67) The revolutionary, who was not Q. No- 73) Mangal Pandey incident took place at
involved in Hardinge Bomb incident? (a) Meerut
(a) Master Amir Chand (b) Barrackpore
(b) Bhagwati Charan Vohara (c) Ambala
(c) Bhai Balmukund (d) Lucknow
(d) Avadh Bihari
Q. No- 74) The first event relating to the War of
Q. No- 68) When was the new Enfield rifle with Independence of 1857 was
greased cartridges introduced in the British (a) Kanpur's Revolt and taking over the leadership
Indian Army? by Nana Saheb
(a) November, 1857 (b) Begum Hazrat Mahal's leadership of Oudh
(b) December, 1856 (c) Marching of Sepoys to Delhi's Red Fort
(c) January, 1857 (d) Revolt by Rani of Jhansi
(d) February, 1857
Q. No- 69) Who called the Revolt of 1857 a Q. No- 75) Who among the following was the
conspiracy? bitterest enemy of the British during the Revolt
(a) Sir James Outran and W. Taylor of 1857?
(b) Sir John K (a) Maulavi Ahmadullah Shah
(c) Sir John Lawrеnсе (b) Maulavi Imadadullah
(d) JR Holmes (c) Maulana Fazl-Haq Khairabadi
(d) Nawab Liaquat Ali
Q. No- 76) Where is the Samadhi of Maharani Q. No- 83) Assertion (A) The first War of
Laxmibai situated? Independence in 1857 failed to secure freedom
(a) Mandla from the British Government.
(b) Mandu Reason (R) The leadership of Bahadur Shah
(c) Jabalpur Zafar did not have popular support and most of
(d) Gwalior the Indian rulers of important states shied away
from the struggle. Codes
Q. No- 77) Who spearheaded the Revolt of 1857 (a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct
in Bihar? explanation of A
(a) Nana Saheb (b) Both A and R are true, but R is not the correct
(b) Tatya Tope explanation of A.
(c) Kunwar Singh (c) A is true, but R is false.
(d) Maulavi Ahmadullah (d) A is false, but R is true.

Q. No- 78) Azimullah Khan was an advisor to Q. No- 84) Which one of the following
(a) Nana Saheb commissions is associated with the Army
(b) Tatya Tope Reorganisation after the suppression of the
(c) Rani Laxmibai Revolt of 1857?
(d) Kunwar Singh (a) Public Service Commission
(b) Peel Commission
Q. No- 79) Who amongst the following was the (c) Hunter Commission
leader of the 1857 uprising at Allahabad? (d) Simon Commission
(a) Nana Saheb
(b) Azimullah Q. No- 85) When did Queen Victoria declare the
(c) Tatya Tope taking o of Indian Administration under British
(d) Maulavi Liaquat Ali Crows?
(a) 1st November, 1858
Q. No- 80) Who was the leader of 1857 struggle (b) 31st December, 1857
for freedom in Lucknow? (d) 17th November, 1859
(a) Zeenat Mahal (c) 6th January, 1958
(b) Nana Saheb
(c) Hazrat Mahal Q. No- 86) Who among the following organised
(d) Tatya Tope the society of revolutionaries, 'Abhinav Bharat'?
(a) Jatindranath Mukherjee
Q. No- 81) Which Urdu poet witnessed the (b) Madan Lal Dhingra
Revolt of 1857? (c) Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
(a) Mir Taqi Mir (d) Lala Hardayal
(b) Josh
(c) Ghalib Q. No- 87) Aurobindo Ghosh was brilliantly
(d) Iqbal defended in the Alipore Conspiracy Case by
Q. No- 82) The educated middle class in India (a) Chittaranjan Das
(a) opposed the Revolt of 1857 (b) WC Banerjee
(b) supported the Revolt of 1857 (c) Motilal Nehru
(c) remained neutral to the Revolt of 1857 (d) Tej Bahadur Sapru
(d) fought against native rulers
Q. No- 88) Who was given life punishment for Q. No- 94) Who was the first Indian to resist for
the murder of Curzon Wyllie? the political reforms?
(a) Madan Lal Dhingra (a) Dadabhai Naoroji
(b) Udham Singh (b) Surendranath
(c) Bhagat Singh (c) Ram Mohan Roy
(d) Manmatha Nath (d) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Q. No- 89) Which of the following women was Q. No- 95) Who among the following was one of
the first to hoist the Indian Tricolour? the founders of the Bombay Presidency
(a) Aruna Asaf Ali Association established in 1885?
(b) Bhikaji Cama (a) Pherozeshah Mehta
(c) Durga Bhabhi (b) P Ananda Charlu
(d) Kamala Devi Chattopadhyay (c) MB Raghav Cheriyar
(d) SN Banerjee
Q. No- 90) The Congress for the first time
accepted the system of separate electorate for Q. No- 96) The Madras Mahajan Sabha was
Muslims in the year established in the year
(a) 1909 (a) 1880
(b) 1916 (b) 1881
(c) 1931 (c) 1884
(d) 1932 (d) 1883

Q. No- 91) In 1920, which of the following Q. No- 97) "If the Muslims are happy and
changed its name to 'Swarajya Sabha'? content, then the British power in India will be
(a) All India Home Rule the greatest defense." Who wrote this?
(b) Hindu Mahasabha (a) Herbert Risley
(c) South Indian Liberal Federation (b) Lord Lytton
(d) The Servant of Indian Society (c) WW Hunter
(d) HN Brailsford
Q. No- 92) Who was the first President of
'British Indian Association'? Q. No- 98) Which of the following pairs is not
(a) Surendranath Banerjee correctly matched?
(b) Gopal Krishna Gokhale (a) Awadh Kisan Sabha- Jawaharlal Nehru
(c) Radhakanta Deb (b) United Indian Patriotic Association- Sir Syed
(d) Ananda Mohan Bose Ahmad Khan
(c) All India Kisan Sabha- Acharya Narendra Dev
Q. No- 93) Who was the founder of the Indian (d)Radical Democratic Party -MN Roy
Association?
(a) Dadabhai Naoroji Q. No- 99) The Indian National Congress was
(b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak established during the Viceroyalty of
(c) AO Hume (a) Lord Ripon
(d) Surendranath Banerjee (b) Lord Lytton
(c) Lord Elgin II
(d) Lord Dufferin
Q. No- 100) The second session of the Indian
National Congress was presided over by
(a) Ganesh Agarkar
(b) Surendranath Banerjee
(c) Dadabhai Naoroji
(d) Pherozeshah Mehta