Modern History – UPSC Prelims PYQs

Which one of the following was the first fort constructed by the British in India?

The song ‘Amar Sonar Bangla’, written during the Swadeshi Movement of India, inspired the Liberation Struggle of Bangladesh and was adopted as the National Anthem of Bangladesh. Who wrote this song?

The first Factory Act restricting the working hours of women and children and authorizing local governments to make necessary rules was adopted during whose time?

Who among the following wrote the book "Bahubivah"?

Who among the following wrote “The Communist Manifesto” along with Karl Marx?

Which portfolio was held by Dr. Rajendra Prasad in the Interim Government formed in the year 1946?

Who was the Governor-General of India during the Sepoy Mutiny?

Consider the following statements about Madam Bhikaji Cama :

1. Madam Cama unfurled the National Flag at the International Socialist Conference in Paris in the year 1907.
2. Madam Cama served as private secretary to Dadabhai Naoroji.
3. Madam Cama was born to Parsi parents.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?

Consider the following statements:

1. The Charter Act 1853 abolished East India Company’s monopoly of Indian trade.
2. Under the Government of India Act, 1858, the British Parliament abolished the East India Company altogether and undertook the responsibility of ruling India directly.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Which one of the following revolts was made famous by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee in his novel Anand Math?

In the year 1613, where was the English East India Company given permission to set up a factory (trading post)?

With reference to the revolt of the year 1857, who of the following was betrayed by a friend; captured and put to death by the British?

Under whose presidency was the Lahore Session of the Indian National Congress held in the year 1929 wherein a resolution was adopted to gain complete independence from the British?

Which party was founded by Subhash Chandra Bose in the year 1939 after he broke away from the Congress?

Consider the following statements :

1. The provincial autonomy
2. The establishment of Federal Court
3. All India Federation at the centre

The Government of India Act, 1935 provided for

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements :

1. Warren Hastings was the first Governor General who established a regular police force in India on the British pattern
2. A Supreme Court was established at Calcutta by the Regulating Act, 1773.
3. The Indian Penal Code came into effect in the year 1860.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Which one of the following is the correct chronological order of the battles fought in India in the 18th Century?

Consider the following statements:

1. Lord Mountbatten was the Viceroy when Shimla Conference took place.
2. Indian Navy Revolt, 1946 took place when the Indian sailors in the Royal Indian Navy at Bombay and Karachi rose against the Government.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Which one of the following territories was not affected by the Revolt of 1857?

Which one of the following places did Kunwar Singh, a prominent leader of the Revolt of 1857, belong to?

Which one of the following pairs are correctly matched? Movement / Satyagraha

1. Champaran Rajendra Prasad
2. Ahmedabad Mill Workers Morarji Desai
3. Kheda Vallabhbhai Patel

Person Actively Associated With

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Who among the following was not associated with the formation of U.P. Kisan Sabha in February 1918?

Who among the following drafted the resolution on fundamental rights for the Karachi Session of Congress in 1931?

In October 1920, who of the following headed a group of Indians gathered at Tashkent to set up a communist party of India?

At which Congress Session was the Working Committee authorized to launch a programme of Civil Disobedience?

In which one of the following provinces was a Congress Ministry not formed under the Act of 1935?

Consider the following statements: On the eve of the launch of Quit India Movement, Mahatma Gandhi

1. Asked the Government servants to resign.
2. Asked the soldiers to leave their posts.
3. Asked the Princes of the Princely States to accept the sovereignty of their own people.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Where were the Ghadar revolutionaries, who became active during the outbreak of the World War I, based?

What was Komagata Maru?

Who among the following was a proponent of Fabianism as a movement?

Consider the following statements :

1. In the First Round Table Conference Dr. Ambedkar demanded electorates for the depressed classes.
2. In the Poona Pact, special provisions for representation of the depressed people in the local bodies and civil services were made.
3. The Indian National Congress did not take part in the Third Round Table Conference.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements :

1. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar founded the Bethune School at Calcutta with the main aim of encouraging education for women.
2. Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay was the first graduate of the Calcutta University.
3. Keshav Chandra Sen’s campaign against Sati led to the enactment of a law to ban Sati by the then Governor General.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Who among the following repealed the Vernacular Press Act?

Consider the following statements:

1. Abolition of diarchy in the Governor's provinces.
2. Power of the Governors to veto legislative action and to legislate on their own.
3. Abolition of the principle of communal representation.

Some of the main features of the Government of India Act, 1935 were the

Which of these statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements:

1. The First Session of the Indian National Congress was held in Calcutta.
2. The Second Session of the Indian National Congress was held under the presidentship of Dadabhai Naoroji.
3. Both Indian National Congress and Muslim League held their sessions at Lucknow in 1916 and concluded the Lucknow Pact.

Which of these statements given above is/are correct?

The Montagu-Chelmsford Report formed the basis of

During the Indian Freedom Struggle, who among the following proposed that Swaraj should be defined as complete independence free from all foreign control?

Consider the following princely States of the British rule in India:

1. Jhansi
2. Sambalpur
3. Satara The correct chronological order in which they were annexed by the British is

The name of the famous person of India who returned the Knighthood conferred on him by the British Government as a token of protest against the atrocities in Punjab in 1919 was

Which of the following pairs are correctly matched?

1. AD 1767-69 : First Anglo-Maratha War
2. AD 1790-92 : Third Mysore War
3. AD 1824-26 : First Anglo-Burmese War
4. AD 1845-46 : Second Sikh War

List I (Period) : List II (Wars)

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Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?

Consider the following Viceroys of India during the British rule:

1. Lord Curzon
2. Lord Chelmsford
3. Lord Hardinge
4. Lord Irwin

Which one of the following is the correct chronological order of their tenure?

Consider the following events during India’s freedom struggle:

1. Chauri-Chaura Outrage
2. Minto-Morley Reforms
3. Dandi March
4. Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms

Which one of the following is the correct chronological order of the events above?

Consider the following statements:

1. In the Third Battle of Panipat, Ahmed Shah Abdali defeated Ibrahim Lodi.
2. Tipu Sultan was killed in the Third Anglo-Mysore War.
3. Mir Jafar entered in a conspiracy with the English for the defeat of Nawab Siraj-ud-daulah in the Battle of Plassey.

Which of these statements given above is/are correct?

In India, among the following locations, the Dutch established their earliest factory at

The aim of education as stated by the Wood’s Despatch of 1854 was

With reference to the entry of European powers into India, which one of the following statements is correct?

With reference to Indian freedom struggle,

which one of the following statements is correct?

The leader of the Bardoli Satyagraha (1928) was