UPSC 2002 › Modern History

The last opportunity to avoid the partition of India was lost with the rejection of

Which one of the following submitted in 1875 a petition to the House of Commons demanding India’s direct representation in the British Parliament?

The real intention of the British to include the princely states in the Federal Union proposed by the India Act of 1935 was to

Match List I (Acts of Colonial Government of India) with List II (Provisions) and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists:

1. Set up a Board of Control in Britain to fully regulate the East India Company’s affairs in India
2. Company’s trade monopoly in India was ended
3. The power to govern was transferred from the East India Company to the British Crown
4. The Company’s directors were asked to present to the British government all correspondence and documents pertaining to the administration of the company

List I (Acts) A. Charter Act, 1813 B. Regulating Act C. Act of 1858 D. Pitt’s India Act

List II (Provisions)

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Which one of the following Acts of British India strengthened the Viceroy’s authority over his executive council by substituting the “portfolio” or departmental system for corporate functioning?

The President of the Indian National Congress at the time of the partition of India was

With reference to the colonial period of Indian history, match List I (Person) with List II (Event) and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists:

1. Doctrine of Lapse
2. Communal Award
3. August Offer
4. Dyarchy

List I (Person) A. MacDonald B. Linlithgow C. Dalhousie D. Chelmsford

List II (Event)

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With

which one of the following mountain tribes did the British first come into contact with after the grant of Diwani in the year 1765?

With reference to the period of extremist nationalist movement in India with its spirit of Swadeshi, which one of the following statements is correct?

With reference to the Indian freedom struggle, which one of the following statements is correct?

During the Indian freedom struggle, the Khudai Khidmatgars, also known as Red Shirts, called for

Assertion (A): The effect of labour participation in the Indian nationalist upsurge of the early 1930s was weak.

Reason (R): The labour leaders considered the ideology of Indian National Congress as bourgeois and reactionary.