The first Viceroy of India was
(1) Lord Canning
(2) Lord Hardinge
(3) Lord Dalhousie
(4) Lord Elgin

From which of the following Upanishads the words ‘Satyameva Jayate’ inscribed in Devanagari Script below the abacus of the State Emblem are?
(1) Prashna                              (2) Mundaka
(3) Mandukya                           (4) Ishavasya

Lahore was Ranjeet Singh’s Political Capital. Which city was called his Religious Capital?
(1) Amritsar
(2) Anandpur Sahib
(3) Gujranwala
(4) Peshawar

‘Permanent Settlement’, the system of revenue collection was introduced in India by
(1) Lord Curzon
(2) Lord Dalhousie
(3) Lord Hastings
(4) Lord Cornwallis

Who was the first woman President of Congress?

(1) Mrs. Annie Besant
(2) Mrs. Sarojini Naidu
(3) Mrs. Nellie Sengupta
(4) Aruna Asaf Ali

The Simon Commission which came to India in February 1928 was boycotted because

(1) all its members were Englishmen

(2) at that time a large number of nationalist leaders were in prison

(3) the chairman, Sir John Simon was very unpopular

(4) the Montague-Chelmsford Reforms had failed

Who was the Chairman of the Partition Council?
(1) M. A. Jinnah
(2) Lord Mountbatten
(3) Jawaharlal Nehru
(4) V. P. Menon

Gandhi’s inspiration for Civil Disobedience came from the writings of

(1) Henry David Thoreau
(2) David Ricardo
(3) Henry Kissinger
(4) Bertrand Russell

The idea of Pakistan was first conceived by
(1) Muhammad Iqbal
(2) M. A. Jinnah
(3) Shaukat Ali
(4) Aga Khan

Who is generally acknowledged as the pioneer of local self-government in modern India?

(1) Ripon                                     (2) Mayo
(3) Lytton                                     (4) Curzon