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1) With reference to the Cabinet Mission, which of the following statements is/are correct? 1. It  recommended government a federal government. 2. It enlarged the powers of the Indian Courts. 3. It provided for more Indians in the ICS. Select the correct answer using the code given below. (a) 1 only (b) 2 and 3 (c) 1 and 3 (d) None     Click Here for Answer    Answer - (a)     2) With reference to Indian history, which of the following is/are the essential elementy elements of the feudal system? 1. A very strong centralized political authority and a very weak provincial or local political authority 2. Emergence  of administrative structure based on control and possession of land 3. Creation of lord-vassal relationship between the feudal lord and his overlord Select the correct answer using the code given below. (a) 1 and 2 only (b) 2 and 3 only (c)  3 only (d) 1, 2 and 3     Click Here for Answer    Answer - (a) ...

1) The Radcliffe Committee was appointed to (a) solve the problem of minorities in India (b) give effect to the Independence Bill (c)  delimit the boundaries between India and Pakistan (d) enquire into the riots in East Bengal     Click Here for Answer    Answer - (c)     2) In medieval  India , the designations ‘Mahattara’ and ‘Pattakila’ were used for (a) military officers (b)  village headmen (e) specialists in Vedic rituals (d) chiefs of craft guilds     Click Here for Answer    Answer - (b)     3) Which of the following Kingdoms were associated With the life of the Buddha? 1. Avanti 2. Gandhara 3. Kosala 4.  Magadha Select the correct answer using the code given below. (a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 2 and 4 (c) 3 and 4 only (d) 1, 3 and 4     Click Here for Answer    Answer - (c)     4) The Partition of  Bengal  made by Lord Curzon in 1905 lasted unt...

1) The people of India agitated against the arrival of Simon Commission because  Indians never wanted the review of the working of the Act of 1919 Simon Commission recommended the abolition of  Dyarchy (Diarchy) in the Provinces there was no Indian member in the Simon Commission the Simon Commission suggested the partition of the country     Click Here for Answer    Answer - (c)     2) Quit India Movement was launched in response to Cabinet Mission Plan Cripps Proposals Simon Commission Report Wavell Plan     Click Here for Answer    Answer - (b)     3) The demand for the Tebhaga Peasant Movement in Bengal was for the reduction of the share of the landlords from one-half of the crop to one-third the grant of ownership of land to peasants as they were the actual cultivators of the land the uprooting of Zamindari system and the end of serfdom writing off all peasant debts     Click ...

1) The most effective contribution made by Dadabhai Naoroji to the cause of Indian National Movement was that he 1. Exposed the economic exploitation of  India  by the British 2. Interpreted the ancient Indian texts stored 3. Stressed the need for eradication of all the social evils before anything else. Which of the statements given above is/ are correct? (A) 1 only (B) 2 and 3 only (C) 1 and 3 only (D) 1, 2 and 3     Click Here for Answer    Answer - (A)     2) The congress ministries resigned in the seven provinces in 1939, because (A) The Congress could not form ministries in the other four provinces (B) emergence of a ‘left wing’ in the Congress made the working of the ministries impossible (C) there wee widespread communal disturbances in their provinces. (D) None of the statements (A), (B) and (C) given below is correct.     Click Here for Answer    Answer - (D)     3) With refe...

1)  Regarding the Indus Valley Civilization, consider the following statements : 1.   It was predominantly a secular civilization and the religious element, though present, did not dominate the scene. 2.   During this period, cotton was used for manufacturing textiles in  India . Which of the statements given above is/are correct ? (a)  l only (b)  2 only (c)  Both 1 and 2 (d)  Neither 1 nor 2     Click Here for Answer    Answer - (c)     2) What was the purpose with which Sir William Wedderburn and W S. Caine had set up the Indian Parliamentary Committee in 1893 ? (a)  To agitate for Indian political reforms in the House of Commons (b)  To campaign for the entry of Indians into the Imperial Judiciary (c)  To facilitate a discussion on  India 's  Independence  in the British Parliament (d)  To agitate for the entry of eminent Indians into the B...