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MODERN INDIA | SET-4
(An objective type questions from the topic 'Modern India' for Kerala PSC, UPSC, SSC, Railway, Banking and other competitive exams)

1. During which period did Mahathma Gandhi emerge as a leader in India?  
During the time of the Rowlatt Act 
2. During which war Gandhi organised Indian Ambulance Corps to help the British?
Boer War 
3. During whose era the Agra canal was finished? 
British 
4. During whose reign did the Marathas reach maximum expansion? 
Balaji Baji Rao 
5. During whose tenure as the Viceroy of India were the great martyrs Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru hanged? 
Lord Irwin 
6. During whose viceroyalty was the Railway Board set up? 
Curzon 
7. Editor of ‘Indu Prakash’ was: 
Aurobindo Ghosh 
8. Congress Radio was the broadcasting mouthpiece of the Indian National Congress during Quit India Movement. Who organised it? 
Usha Mehta 
9. Conquest and annexation of Sind (1843) was during the period of: 
Lord Ellenborough 
10. Cripp’s Mission visited India during the period of: 
Linlithgo  
11. Curzon-Kitchner Controversy of 1904-05 is related to.........: 
Abolition of military member in the Viceroy’s Council 
12. Dadabhai Naoroji served as the prime minister of: 
Baroda 
13. First Afghan War (1836-42) held during the period of: 
Lord Auckland 
14. First Burmese War (1824-26) held during the period of: 
Lord Amherst 
15. From where Gandhiji passed matriculation? 
Ahmedabad 
16. From where was the Khilafat movement launched? 
Karachi 
17. From which University in USA, B.R.Ambedkar received his Ph.D.? 
Columbia 
18. From whom Gandhiji got the idea ‘Civil Disobedience’? 
Henry David Thoreau 
19. Gandhi ended his fast in Yervada prison which he started after the Communal Award of Ramsay Mc Donald, in consequent to: 
Pune Pact 
20. Gandhiji accorded very high priority to communal harmony in his programme of actions. At which place did he undertake his last fast for it on January 13, 1948? 
Delhi 
21. Gandhiji addressed Tagore as: 
Gurudev 
22. Gandhiji and General Smuts engaged in an agrrement in Pretoria in.... 
1908 
23. Gandhiji arrived India from South Africa in the year: 
1915 
24. Gandhiji believed that: 
End and means both should be justified
25. Cripp’s Mission visited India in: 
1942