Practice Questions: 1858 to 1918

Modern Indian History practice questions with answers on the early Congress, Partition of Bengal, Swadeshi, the Muslim League, revolutionaries and Home Rule. Try each question first.

1. Who read out Queen Victoria's Proclamation at Allahabad in 1858?
2. Which Act of 1878 restricted Indian-language newspapers?
3. Which Viceroy is called the Father of Local Self-Government?
4. Who was the first president of the Indian National Congress?
5. Who was the first Muslim president of the Congress?
6. Who founded the Arya Samaj in 1875?
7. Who attended the Parliament of Religions at Chicago in 1893?
8. Who is known as the Grand Old Man of India?
9. Which Viceroy partitioned Bengal?
10. On which date did the Partition of Bengal take effect?
11. Which four resolutions were passed at the Calcutta Congress of 1906?
12. At which place did the Congress split in 1907?
13. Which body was founded at Dhaka on 30 December 1906?
14. Which Act (1909) introduced separate electorates for Muslims?
15. Who threw the bomb at Viceroy Hardinge in 1912?
16. Where was the Ghadar Party founded?
17. Who founded India House in London?
18. Who started the Home Rule League at Poona in 1916?
19. Which pact between the Congress and League was signed in 1916?
20. What was announced by Montagu on 20 August 1917?
21. Which movement was Gandhi's first in India (1917)?
22. Who unfurled an Indian flag at Stuttgart in 1907?
23. Who announced the shift of the capital from Calcutta to Delhi in 1911?
24. Which Viceroy was Curzon's successor in 1905?
25. Who wrote Anandamath?

Answers

1. Lord Canning (1 November 1858).
2. Vernacular Press Act.
3. Lord Ripon.
4. W.C. Bonnerjee.
5. Badruddin Tyabji (1887).
6. Swami Dayanand Saraswati.
7. Swami Vivekananda.
8. Dadabhai Naoroji.
9. Lord Curzon.
10. 16 October 1905.
11. Swaraj, Swadeshi, Boycott and National Education.
12. Surat.
13. All-India Muslim League.
14. Indian Councils Act 1909 (Morley-Minto).
15. Basanta Kumar Biswas (planned by Rash Behari Bose).
16. San Francisco, 1913.
17. Shyamji Krishna Varma.
18. Bal Gangadhar Tilak.
19. Lucknow Pact.
20. A policy of gradual development of self-governing institutions and responsible government.
21. Champaran Satyagraha.
22. Madame Bhikaiji Cama.
23. King George V, at the Delhi Durbar (12 December 1911).
24. Lord Minto II.
25. Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay.