Previous year MCQs

Modern Indian History UPPSC 2006 GS-I
Question

Where was the first Madarsa set up by the British in India?

Answer & Solution

Answer: (Detailed Solution Below)

Option D: Calcutta

Detailed Solution:

The correct answer is “Calcutta”.
In 1781, Warren Hastings, the first Governor-General of India set up a Madrassa in Calcutta for the study and teaching of Muslim law.

Similar Questions:

Assertion (A): The Indian National Congress accepted the Mountbatten plan.
Reason (R): It believed in two nation theory.

Select the correct answer from the codes given below:
Codes:
  1. A) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
  2. B) Both A and R are true but R is NOT the correct explanation of A
  3. C) A is true but R is false
  4. D) A is false but R is true
By whom the "Quit India" resolution was moved in the Bombay Session of the Congress in the year 1942?
  1. A) Jawaharlal Nehru
  2. B) Narenda Deo
  3. C) Rajendra Prasad
  4. D) J.B. Kripalani
Select the one which is not the responsibility of Gram Sabha under the "Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005":
  1. A) To recommend projects to the Gram Panchayat and prepare list of possible works
  2. B) To receive applications for work and issue a dated receipt
  3. C) To monitor the execution of works with in the Gram Panchayat
  4. D) To conduct regular social audits of all the projects taken up within the Gram Panchayat
The weight of any body is
  1. A) Same at every place on earth's surface
  2. B) Maximum at poles
  3. C) More on equator
  4. D) More on mountains than in planes
Poona Pact was signed between:
  1. A) Gandhiji and Lord Irwin
  2. B) Gandhiji and Jinnah
  3. C) Gandhiji and Subhash Chandra Bose
  4. D) Gandhiji and Ambedkar
The Civil Marriage Act of 1872 had sought to curb the practice of Child marriage by placing the minimum age of girls at:
  1. A) 14 years
  2. B) 16 years
  3. C) 18 years
  4. D) None of the above
Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below the lists :
List-I - List-II

(a) Annie Besant - 1. Home Rule Movement
(b) Dr. Rajendra Prasad - 2. Champaran Satyagraha
(c) Jawahar Lal Nehru - 3. Lucknow Session of Indian National Congress, 1916
(d) Ambika Charan Majumdar - 4. Lahore Session of Indian National Congress, 1929

Codes :
(a) (b) (c) (d)
  1. A) 1 2 4 3
  2. B) 1 2 3 4
  3. C) 4 3 2 1
  4. D) 3 2 1 4
Who accused Indian National Congress of practising politics of "Pray, petition and protest"?
  1. A) B.G.Tilak
  2. B) M.A. Jinnah
  3. C) S.C. Bose
  4. D) Annie Besant
Who was the founder of "Hindustan Socialist Democratic Union" ?
  1. A) Vyomesh Chandra, Gopen Chakravartee, Sachccndra Sanyal
  2. B) Gopen Chakravartec, Fancendra Banerjee, Dharncc Goswami
  3. C) Vyomcsh Chandra Banerjee, Ajay Ghosh, Sacheendra Sanyal
  4. D) Yalcendranath, Ajay Ghosli, Phanindranath Ghosh
Right to Education to all children between the age of 6 to 14 years is
  1. A) Included in the Directive Principles of State Policy
  2. B) A Fundamental Right
  3. C) A Statutory Right
  4. D) None of the above
In which of the following years the Jatiya Sarkar was formed in the Midnapur district of Bengal?
  1. A) 1939
  2. B) 1940
  3. C) 1941
  4. D) 1942
Match List-I and List-II and select the correct answer from the code given below:
List-I - List-ll

A. August Declaration - 1. Lord Linlithgow
B. August Offer - 2. Montague
C. August Resolution - 3. M.A. Jinnah
D. Direct Action - 4. Gandhi

Code:
A B C D
  1. A) 2 1 4 3
  2. B) 1 2 4 3
  3. C) 1 2 3 4
  4. D) 4 1 2 3