60 Important Modern Indian History MCQ for Competitive Exams

Speed up your exam preparation with this  Modern Indian History MCQ sprint, designed for quick recall and accuracy. This focused capsule highlights key Acts, national movements, institutions, and leaders, mirroring the one-liner MCQs commonly asked in competitive quizzes and drill sessions. Covering the entire span from colonial rule to the early Republic, this high-yield Modern Indian History MCQ set is perfect for consolidating important facts before mock tests.

Modern Indian History MCQs – Practice Set of 60

1. Pitt’s India Act (1784) created which supervisory body in Britain?
   A) Court of Directors
   B) Board of Control
   C) Privy Council
   D) India Office
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   Answer: B) Board of Control

2. Which Act ended the Company’s monopoly over Indian trade except tea and trade with China?
   A) Regulating Act, 1773
   B) Charter Act, 1813
   C) Charter Act, 1833
   D) Pitt’s India Act, 1784
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   Answer: B) Charter Act, 1813

3. Who became the first Governor-General of India under the Charter Act of 1833?
   A) Lord Cornwallis
   B) Lord William Bentinck
   C) Lord Wellesley
   D) Lord Dalhousie
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   Answer: B) Lord William Bentinck

4. Open competition for the Indian Civil Services was introduced by:
   A) Charter Act, 1853
   B) Indian Councils Act, 1861
   C) Government of India Act, 1858
   D) Charter Act, 1833
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   Answer: A) Charter Act, 1853

5. Who is regarded as the “Father of the Indian Civil Services”?
   A) Lord Hastings
   B) Lord Cornwallis
   C) Lord Curzon
   D) Lord Ripon
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   Answer: B) Lord Cornwallis

6. The Mahalwari system of revenue settlement was introduced primarily in:
   A) Bengal
   B) Madras Presidency
   C) North-Western Provinces
   D) Bombay Presidency
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   Answer: C) North-Western Provinces

7. The Indigo Commission to inquire into planter–ryot disputes was appointed in:
   A) 1857
   B) 1860
   C) 1865
   D) 1870
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   Answer: B) 1860

8. Which is called the “Magna Carta of English Education in India”?
   A) Wood’s Despatch, 1854
   B) Hunter Commission, 1882
   C) Raleigh Commission, 1902
   D) Saddler Commission, 1917–19
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   Answer: A) Wood’s Despatch, 1854

9. The Hunter Commission (1882) on education was appointed by:
   A) Lord Lytton
   B) Lord Ripon
   C) Lord Curzon
   D) Lord Lansdowne
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   Answer: B) Lord Ripon

10. The Indian Universities Act (1904) was passed during the viceroyalty of:
    A) Lord Curzon
    B) Lord Minto II
    C) Lord Hardinge II
    D) Lord Chelmsford
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    Answer: A) Lord Curzon

11. The Age of Consent Act, which raised the age for girls, was enacted in:
    A) 1881
    B) 1891
    C) 1901
    D) 1911
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    Answer: B) 1891

12. The first Factory Act in India (regulating hours of work for women and children) came in:
    A) 1854
    B) 1861
    C) 1881
    D) 1891
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    Answer: C) 1881

13. Who is known as the “Father of Local Self-Government” in India?
    A) Lord Ripon
    B) Lord Curzon
    C) Lord Lytton
    D) Lord Mayo
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    Answer: A) Lord Ripon

14. The Vernacular Press Act (1878) was repealed by:
    A) Lord Canning
    B) Lord Ripon
    C) Lord Dufferin
    D) Lord Hardinge II
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    Answer: B) Lord Ripon

15. The Indian Association (1876), a pre-Congress political body, was founded by:
    A) Dadabhai Naoroji
    B) Surendranath Banerjee & Ananda Mohan Bose
    C) Pherozeshah Mehta
    D) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
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    Answer: B) Surendranath Banerjee & Ananda Mohan Bose

16. The Poona Sarvajanik Sabha was established (1867) at:
    A) Calcutta
    B) Poona
    C) Bombay
    D) Allahabad
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    Answer: B) Poona

17. The Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental (MAO) College at Aligarh was founded by Sir Syed Ahmad Khan in:
    A) 1867
    B) 1875
    C) 1885
    D) 1890
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    Answer: B) 1875

18. The Brahmo Samaj was founded in 1828 by:
    A) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
    B) Raja Rammohan Roy
    C) Keshab Chandra Sen
    D) Debendranath Tagore
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    Answer: B) Raja Rammohan Roy

19. The Prarthana Samaj (1867) was founded in:
    A) Calcutta
    B) Bombay
    C) Lahore
    D) Madras
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    Answer: B) Bombay

20. The Ramakrishna Mission (1897) was founded by:
    A) Swami Vivekananda
    B) Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
    C) Swami Dayanand
    D) Aurobindo Ghosh
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    Answer: A) Swami Vivekananda

21. The Servants of India Society (1905) was established by:
    A) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
    B) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
    C) Lala Lajpat Rai
    D) Bipin Chandra Pal
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    Answer: B) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

22. The All-India Muslim League was founded at:
    A) Lahore, 1907
    B) Dhaka, 1906
    C) Aligarh, 1905
    D) Lucknow, 1916
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    Answer: B) Dhaka, 1906

23. Gandhi’s first satyagraha in India (Champaran) related to:
    A) Indigo peasants
    B) Mill workers’ wages
    C) Salt law
    D) Partition of Bengal
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    Answer: A) Indigo peasants

24. The Kheda Satyagraha (1918) was primarily for the remission of:
    A) Salt tax
    B) Land revenue
    C) Forest cess
    D) Textile duties
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    Answer: B) Land revenue

25. The Ahmedabad Mill Strike (1918) was led by Gandhi against:
    A) Reduction of wages
    B) Dismissal of workers
    C) Excessive working hours
    D) Factory closures
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    Answer: A) Reduction of wages

26. The Khilafat Movement (1919–24) was led chiefly by:
    A) Ali brothers
    B) Nehru and Patel
    C) Tilak and Besant
    D) Bose and Azad
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    Answer: A) Ali brothers

27. The All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) was founded in:
    A) 1917
    B) 1920
    C) 1923
    D) 1925
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    Answer: B) 1920

28. Which journal was closely associated with Mahatma Gandhi?
    A) Young India
    B) Kesari
    C) New India
    D) Bande Mataram
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    Answer: A) Young India

29. The Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (HSRA) was formed in:
    A) 1922
    B) 1924
    C) 1928
    D) 1931
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    Answer: C) 1928

30. The Kakori Conspiracy (train robbery) took place in:
    A) 1921
    B) 1923
    C) 1925
    D) 1927
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    Answer: C) 1925

31. The Chittagong Armoury Raid (1930) was led by:
    A) Surya Sen
    B) Batukeshwar Dutt
    C) Ram Prasad Bismil
    D) Khudiram Bose
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    Answer: A) Surya Sen

32. Approximately how many miles did Gandhi’s Dandi March cover?
    A) 120 miles
    B) 180 miles
    C) 240 miles
    D) 300 miles
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    Answer: C) 240 miles

33. The Karachi Session (1931) is noted for a resolution on:
    A) Separate electorates
    B) Fundamental Rights and Economic Policy
    C) Dominion Status
    D) Federal Court
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    Answer: B) Fundamental Rights and Economic Policy

34. The Wardha Scheme (1937) of Basic Education was associated with:
    A) Zakir Husain Committee
    B) Hunter Commission
    C) Saddler Commission
    D) Mudaliar Commission
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    Answer: A) Zakir Husain Committee

35. Congress ministries in several provinces resigned in 1939 primarily due to:
    A) Communal Award
    B) Outbreak of World War II and war policy
    C) Failure of Round Table Conferences
    D) August Offer terms
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    Answer: B) Outbreak of World War II and war policy

36. The Forward Bloc was formed by Subhas Chandra Bose in:
    A) 1936
    B) 1937
    C) 1938
    D) 1939
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    Answer: D) 1939

37. The Indian National Army (INA) was reorganized in 1943 by:
    A) Mohan Singh
    B) Subhas Chandra Bose
    C) Rash Behari Bose
    D) Captain Lakshmi Sahgal
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    Answer: B) Subhas Chandra Bose

38. The Provisional Government of Azad Hind was proclaimed at:
    A) Rangoon, 1942
    B) Singapore, 1943
    C) Imphal, 1944
    D) Tokyo, 1945
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    Answer: B) Singapore, 1943

39. The slogan “Do or Die” is associated with:
    A) Non-Cooperation Movement
    B) Civil Disobedience Movement
    C) Quit India Movement
    D) Khilafat Movement
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    Answer: C) Quit India Movement

40. “Give me blood, and I shall give you freedom” is attributed to:
    A) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
    B) Subhas Chandra Bose
    C) Lala Lajpat Rai
    D) Bhagat Singh
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    Answer: B) Subhas Chandra Bose

41. The main deadlock at the Shimla Conference (1945) related to:
    A) Federal finance
    B) Representation of Muslims in the Executive Council
    C) Princely states’ accession
    D) Boundary demarcation
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    Answer: B) Representation of Muslims in the Executive Council

42. Under the Cabinet Mission Plan, which of the following was proposed?
    A) Immediate Dominion Status
    B) Grouping of provinces into Sections A, B, C
    C) Unitary Centre with residuary powers
    D) Partition into three dominions
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    Answer: B) Grouping of provinces into Sections A, B, C

43. The Government of India Act, 1935 led to the establishment (1937) of the:
    A) Federal Court
    B) Supreme Court of India
    C) Privy Council (India)
    D) Central Vigilance Commission
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    Answer: A) Federal Court

44. The Royal Indian Navy uprising (Feb 1946) began at:
    A) HMIS Talwar, Bombay
    B) HMIS Himalaya, Karachi
    C) Cochin Dockyard
    D) Visakhapatnam Yard
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    Answer: A) HMIS Talwar, Bombay

45. In the Interim Government (1946), the Finance portfolio was held by:
    A) Jawaharlal Nehru
    B) Vallabhbhai Patel
    C) Liaquat Ali Khan
    D) C. Rajagopalachari
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    Answer: C) Liaquat Ali Khan

46. The Constituent Assembly of India first met on:
    A) 26 January 1950
    B) 9 December 1946
    C) 26 November 1949
    D) 15 August 1947
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    Answer: B) 9 December 1946

47. The temporary President of the Constituent Assembly was:
    A) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
    B) Dr. Sachchidananda Sinha
    C) B. R. Ambedkar
    D) H. C. Mookherjee
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    Answer: B) Dr. Sachchidananda Sinha

48. The Objective Resolution in the Constituent Assembly was moved by:
    A) B. R. Ambedkar
    B) Jawaharlal Nehru
    C) Sardar Patel
    D) C. Rajagopalachari
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    Answer: B) Jawaharlal Nehru

49. The Radcliffe Line, demarcating India–Pakistan boundaries, was drawn by:
    A) Sir Cyril Radcliffe
    B) Sir Stafford Cripps
    C) Lord Mountbatten
    D) Sir Claude Auchinleck
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    Answer: A) Sir Cyril Radcliffe

50. Operation Polo (September 1948) led to the integration of:
    A) Junagadh
    B) Hyderabad
    C) Kashmir
    D) Travancore
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    Answer: B) Hyderabad

51. The Instrument of Accession of Jammu and Kashmir was signed in:
    A) June 1947
    B) October 1947
    C) January 1948
    D) May 1948
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    Answer: B) October 1947

52. India’s first general elections were held during:
    A) 1947–48
    B) 1949–50
    C) 1951–52
    D) 1953–54
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    Answer: C) 1951–52

53. The Planning Commission was established in:
    A) 1948
    B) 1949
    C) 1950
    D) 1951
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    Answer: C) 1950

54. The Indian Councils Act of 1861 is associated with introducing:
    A) Dyarchy in provinces
    B) Portfolio system and legislative councils
    C) Separate electorates
    D) Federal court
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    Answer: B) Portfolio system and legislative councils

55. The Raleigh Commission (1902) inquired into:
    A) Primary education
    B) University education
    C) Female education
    D) Technical education
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    Answer: B) University education

56. The Saddler Commission (1917–19) is linked with reforms in:
    A) Bombay University
    B) Calcutta University
    C) Madras University
    D) Allahabad University
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    Answer: B) Calcutta University

57. The Indian National Congress’s “Poorna Swaraj Day” was first observed on:
    A) 26 January 1930
    B) 15 August 1930
    C) 26 January 1931
    D) 2 October 1929
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    Answer: A) 26 January 1930

58. The famous Komagata Maru incident (regarding Indian migrants) occurred in:
    A) 1912
    B) 1914
    C) 1916
    D) 1918
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    Answer: B) 1914

59. The Ghadar Party was founded in 1913 at:
    A) London
    B) Berlin
    C) San Francisco
    D) Singapore
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    Answer: C) San Francisco

60. Who is often called the “Grand Old Man of India”?
    A) Surendranath Banerjee
    B) Dadabhai Naoroji
    C) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
    D) Mahadev Govind Ranade
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    Answer: B) Dadabhai Naoroji

This 60 Modern Indian History MCQ practice set gives you a quick way to revise key Acts, movements, leaders, and institutions. Keep practicing regularly, and you’ll boost both your speed and accuracy in competitive exams.

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