The 19th Century reawakening in India was confined to the
(1) Priestly class
(2) Upper middle class
(3) Rich peasantry
(4) Urban landlords

Who was the first Indian to be elected to the British Parliament?
(1) Dadabhai Naoroji
(2) Gopala Krishna Gokhale
(3) Bipin Chandra Pal
(4) Lala Lajpat Rai

Who introduced the permanent settlement in Bengal?
(1) Lord Cornwallis
(2) Lord Dalhousie
(3) William Bentinck
(4) Lord Curzon

When was the first passenger train run in India?
(1) January 1848
(2) April 1853
(3) May 1857
(4) April 1852

Who designed the national flag of Independent India?
(1) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
(2) Rabindranath Tagore
(3) Mahatma Gandhi
(4) Pingali Venkaiah

Which of the following European Colonisers did not have a settlement on the Eastern Coast of India?
(1) French                                    (2) Portuguese
(3) Dutch                                      (4) Danish

In which session of the Indian National Congress the tricolour flag was unfurled for the first time?
(1) Calcutta Session, 1920
(2) Annual Session of Congress at Nagpur, 1920
(3) Lahore Congress, 1929

(4) Haripura Congress Conference, 1938

Which among the following regulations made English as a medium of education compulsory in government-aided schools and colleges?
(1) Pitts India Act, 1784
(2) Educational Despatch, 1854
(3) Macaulay Minute, 1835
(4) Regulating Act, 1773

During the colonial period, British capital was mainly invested in :
(1) Infra structure                          (2) Industry
(3) Agriculture                               (4) Services

M. A. Jinnah, in his early political life–

(1) supported two-nation theory
(2) initiated Hindu-Muslim unity

(3) imagined Pakistan as an independent State

(4) was a communalist

Who among the following controlled maximum trade in the western coastal region during the 17th century?
(1) Portuguese
(2) Dutch
(3) The house of Jagat Seth
(4) Mulla Abdul Gaffar