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Who scripted Gandhiji’s favorite song ‘Vaishnav Jan To ......”?
(1) Narsinh Mehta
(2) Premanand
(3) Chunilal
(4) Dharmiklal

Who was the first Indian to be made a fellow of the Royal Soci-
ety of London?

(1) Srinivas Ramanujam
(2) A.C. Wadia                        (3) C.V. Raman
(4) P.C. Mahalanobis

Which of these battles proved decisive in the Anglo-French rivalry in India?

(1) Battle of Wandiwash
(2) Battle of Assaye
(3) Battle of Chillianwala
(4) Battle of Seringapatam

‘Do or Die' is the famous slogan given by
(1) Mahatma Gandhi
(2) Vallabhbhai Patel
(3) Jawaharlal Nehru
(4) Rajiv Gandhi

The English established their first factory in India at
(1) Bombay                    (2) Surat
(3) Sutanati                    (4) Madras

In which of the following years,26th January was celebrated as an independence day?
(1) 1930                                            (2) 1929
(3) 1942                                            (4) 1946

Permanent Revenue Settlement of Bengal was introduced by
(1) Clive                                          (2) Hastings
(3) Wellesley                                   (4) Cornwallis

Who spoke: “At the stroke of midnight, when the world sleeps, India awakes to life and freedom”?

(1) Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
(2) Mahatma Gandhi
(3) Jawaharlal Nehru
(4) C. Rajagopalachari

Who started the first English newspaper in India?
(1) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(2) Raja Rammohan Roy
(3) J.A. Hickey
(4) Lord William Bentinck

The Ahmedabad Satyagraha of Gandhi was directed against
(1) British mill owners and goverment officials
(2) Indian mill owners and non government officials

(3) British non-government officials

(4) Indian government officials

The former princely state Nahan is part of which State now?

(1) Punjab
(2) Haryana
(3) Uttarakhand
(4) Himachal Pradesh

Which town/city in India has got a tower (minaar) named after Muhammad Ali Jinnah?
(1) Mumbai                                    (2) Aligarh
(3) Calicut                                      (4) Guntur

Who wrote “Sarfaroshi Ki Tamanna Ab Hamaare Dil Mein Hai”?

(1) Mohammed Iqbal
(2) Ramprasad Bismil
(3) Kazi Nazrul Islam
(4) Firaq Gorakhpuri

Which of the following Acts gave representation to the Indians for the first time in legislation?
(1) Indian Councils Act, 1909
(2) Indian Councils Act, 1919
(3) Government of India Act,1919
(4) Government of India Act,1935

Punjab was annexed to the British empire during the reign of Governor-General
(1) Lord Bentick
(2) Lord Dalhousie
(3) Lord Cornwallis
(4) Lord Canning

Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer :

List-\(\mathrm{I}\)
A. Lord Clive
B. Lord Wellesley
C. Lord Dalhousie
D. Lord Curzon
List-\(\mathrm{II}\)
1. Subsidiary Alliance
2. Indian Universities Act
3. Doctrine of Lapse
4. Dual Government in Bengal
(1) A-2, B-3, C-4, D-1
(2) A-4, B-1, C-3, D-2
(3) A-4, B-3, C-2, D-1
(4) A-1, B-4, C-2, D-3

Who from the following leaders was not assassinated?
(1) Mahatma Gandhi
(2) Liaqat Ali Khan
(3) Muhammed Ali Jinnah
(4) Lord Louis Mountbatten

Place chronologically the following treaties :

(a) Treaty of Amritsar
(b) Treaty of Bassein
(c) Treaty of Seringapatam
(d) Treaty of Salbai
(1) (a), (c), (b), (d)
(2) (d), (c), (a), (b)
(3) (d), (c), (b), (a)
(4) (b), (a), (d), (c)