The Ryotwari System of Land Tenure refers to a situation where—

(1) the Ryot is the owner of the land held by him/her and directly pays the revenue assessed           on the land to the State

(2) the Ryot is an occupancy tenant of his/her land and pays the land revenue to the Zamindar

(3) the person cultivates the land leased from a landlord and in return pays rent to the landlord

(4) the land is collectively owned and cultivated on a cooperative basis

Swami Dayanand Saraswati established the first Arya Samaj in 1875 at
(1) Bombay                           (2) Lahore
(3) Nagpur                            (4) Ahmadnagar

Who, among the following, was the pioneer of social reform movements in 19th century India?

(1) Aurobindo Ghosh
(2) Raja Ram Mohan Roy                                                                                                                 (3) Devendra Nath Tagore
(4) Keshav Chandra Sen

Who started the Home Rule Movement?
(1) Annie Beasant
(2) Padmaja Naidu
(3) Kamla Devi Chattopadyaya
(4) Raj Kumari Amrit Kaur

When was the Gandhi Irwin Pact made?
(1) 1935                       (2) 1931
(3) 1929                       (4) 1932

What was not true about Sir Syed Ahmad Khan?
(1) He founded the Mohammadan Anglo-Oriental College at Aligarh
(2) He was a leader of the Muslim League
(3) He was a leader of the Aligarh Movement
(4) He opposed the Indian National Congress

‘Neel Darpan’ is a play depicting the revolt against the indigo planters was written by
(1) Dinbandhu Mitra
(2) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
(3) Rabindranath Tagore
(4) Naveen Chandra Sen

Champaran Satyagraha was related to
(1) Indigo                       (2) Mill-owners
(3) Plague
(4) Fresh assessment of land

Who among the following implemented the Doctrine of Lapse?

(1) Lord Canning
(2) Lord Dalhousie
(3) Lord Hastings
(4) Lord Rippon

The first newspaper which was published in India was
(1) The Calculatta Gazette
(2) The Calculatta Gazette

(3) The Oriental Magazine of Calcutta

(4) The Bengal Gazette

The Portuguese built their first fort on Indian soil in the territory of the Raja of
(1) Calicut                         (2) Cochin
(3) Daman                        (4) Bijapur