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Modern History
Assertion (A): According to the Wavell Plan, the number of Hindu and Muslim members in the Executive Council were to be equal. Reason (R): Wavell thought that this arrangement would have avoided the partition of India.
(a)
Both A and R are individually true and R is the correct explanation of A.
(b)
Both A and R are individually true but R is not the correct explanation of A.
(c)
A is true but R is false
(d)
A is false but R is true
(C)
Which one of the following places was associated with Acharya Vinoba Bhave’s Bhoodan Movement at the beginning of the movement?
Udaygiri
Rapur
Pochampalli
Venkatagiri
Which one of the following was the first fort constructed by the British in India?
Fort William
Fort St. George
Fort St. David
Fort St. Angelo
(B)
The ruler of which one of the following States was removed from power by the British on the pretext of misgovernance?
Awadh
Jhansi
French
Satara
(A)
Who among the following started the newspaper ‘Shome Prakash’?
Dayanand Saraswati
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
Raja Rammohan Roy
Surendranath Banerjee
At which one of the following places did Mahatma Gandhi first start his Satyagraha in India?
Ahmedabad
Bardoli
Champaran
Kheda
Which one of the following aroused a wave of popular indignation that led to the massacre by the British at Jallianwala Bagh?
The Arms Act
The Public Safety Act
The Rowlatt Act
The Vernacular Press Act
Modern History › Advent of Europeans
Who among the following Europeans were the last to come to pre-independence India as traders?
Dutch
English
Portuguese
Modern History › Council Acts, Commissions
The first Factory Act restricting the working hours of women and children and authorizing local governments to make necessary rules was adopted during whose time?
Lord Lytton
Lord Bentinck
Lord Ripon
Lord Canning
Modern History › Freedom Movement Personalities
Who among the following wrote the book ‘Babuvivah’?
Pandita Ramabai
Rabindranath Tagore