Previous year MCQs

Modern Indian History UPPSC 2004 GS-I
Question

Which of the following were the two newspaper published by Annie Besant? Select the correct answer using the code given below:

1. Commonweal
2. New India
3. New Hindu 4. The Aryans

Code:

Answer & Solution

Answer: (Detailed Solution Below)

Option A: 1 and 2

Detailed Solution:

The correct answer is “1 and 2”.
Annie Besant spread her propaganda through newspapers like New India and the Commonweal.

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Arrange in chronological order the following events which occurred during post-independence period :

1. Liberation of Goa
2. Dalai Lama fled to India
3. Chou En-Lai visited India
4. India visit of Khrushchev and Bulganin

Select the correct answer from the codes given below-
Codes :
  1. A) 1, 3, 2, 4
  2. B) 2, 1, 4, 3
  3. C) 3, 4, 1, 2
  4. D) 4, 2, 3, 1
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  2. B) Infanticide
  3. C) Women Education
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  4. D) Pondicherry was not a strategic centre
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  2. B) Gandhiji and Jinnah
  3. C) Gandhiji and Subhash Chandra Bose
  4. D) Gandhiji and Ambedkar
Statement (S): In the Second World War Indian National Congress cooperated with Britishers.
Reason (R): Because they hoped for complete independence.
  1. A) Both S and R are correct, and R clearly explains S
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  3. C) S is true, R is false
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Who was the last ruler of "Jaunpur state"?
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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
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  1. A) Cray fish
  2. B) Cattle fish
  3. C) Flying fish
  4. D) Silver Fish
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  1. A) Bombay
  2. B) Poona
  3. C) Madras
  4. D) Calcutta
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  2. B) Gujarat
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