Movements and Reforms Multiple Choice Questions
1. The 19th century Faraizi Movement in eastern Bengal developed under the leadership of
a. Titu Rai
b. Haji Shariatullah
c. Shah Sayed Ahmed
d. Dudu Miyan
Answer: b
2. The followers of Gorakhnath were called
a. Jogis
b. Nath-Panthis
c. Tantriks
d. Sanyasis
Answer: a
3. Who among the following established the Calcutta committee?
a. Raja Rammohan Roy
b. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
c. Keshab Chandra Sen
d. Rabindranath Tagore
Answer: a
4. Who among the following used the phrase ‘Un-British’ to criticise the English colonial control of India?
a. Anandmohan Bose
b. Badruddin Tyabji
c. Dadabhai Naoroji
d. None of the above
Answer: c
5. Sati was declared illegal and punishable by the Regulation XVII during the Governor-Generalship of
a. Lord William Bentick
b. Lord Canning
c. Lord Ripon
d. Lord Dalhousie
Answer: a
6. Which one among the following was the First English Newspaper in India in the year 1780?
a. The Calcutta Gazette
b. The Bengal Gazette
c. The Bengal journal
d. The Bombay Herald
Answer: b
7. Who among the following started the newspaper Shome Prakash?
a. Dayanand Saraswati
b. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
c. Raja Rammohan Roy
d. Surendranath Banerjee
Answer: b
8. The writings of which of the following have not enriched Bengali drama?
a. Rasik Krishna Mallick
b. Madhusudan Dutt.
c. Dinabandhu Mitra
d. Girish Chandra Ghosh
Answer: a
9. Which of the following was a striking feature of Indian Cultural renaissance?
a. Birth of new regional languages
b. Growth of the novel at the expense of other forms of writing
c. Research oriented study of the past history and antiquities
d. Growth of new schools of philosophy
Answer: c
10. Amongst the following who cooperated with Raja Rammohan Roy in the implementation of his educational programmes?
a. Dwarkanath Tagore
b. David Hare
c. Henri Derozio
d. William Jones
.
Answer: b
11. Which one among the following was not a demand of the Prarthana Samaj?
a. Women Education
b. Widow Remarriage
c. Rising the age of marriage for boys and girls
d. Abolition of untouchability
Answer: d
12. In collaboration with David Hare and Alexander Duff, who among the following established the Hindu college at Calcutta?
a. Henry Louis Vivian Derozio
b. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
c. Keshab Chandra Sen
d. Raja Rammohan Roy
Answer: d
13. Which of the following is known as the saint of Dakshineshwar?
a. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
b. Sant Jnaneshwar
c. Vivekananda
d. RamaKrishna Parmahansa
Answer: d
14. Who among the following founded the Rajahmundri Social Reform Association in 1878 in support of Widow Remarriage?
a. Vishanshastri Pandit
b. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
c. Pandita Ramabai
d. Veeresalingam Pantulu
Answer: b
15. Which of the following programmes of the Arya samaj contributed to the growth of communalism in India?
a. Spread of education among women
b. Eradication of untouchability
c. The Suddhi Movement
d. Propagation of western education and teaching of sciences
Answer: c
16. Where was the Theosophical society founded in 1875 by Madame HP Blavatsky and Colonel HS Olcott?
a. India
b. USA
c. UK
d. USSR
Answer: b
17. During the Indian Freedom Struggle ‘The Deccan Educational Society’ was founded by?
a. B G Tilak
b. Dadabhai Naoroji
c. G K Gokhale
d. M G Ranade
Answer: a
18. Which of the following was not one of the fundamental points of the religious teachings of the theosophical society?
a. The unity of God and three fold emanation of God
b. The spiritual hierarchy of beings
c. Universal brotherhood
d. Prayer and piety
Answer: d
19. Who initiated and led the most effective movement among the Indian Muslims in favour of English education and for cooperation with the British Government, after the revolt of 1857?
a. Sayed Ahmad of Rae Bareily
b. Shah Abdul Aziz
c. Sayed Jamal-al-din Afghani
d. Sayed Ahmed Khan.
Answer: d
20. Who among the following established Ferguson college at Pune in the year 1885?
a. Deccan Education Society.
b. Bharatiya Sewak Samaj
c. Samaj Sewa Sangh
d. Theosophical society
Answer: a
21. The Santhal rebellion of 1855-56 resulted in the creation of a separate geographical entity known as Santhal Parganas for the tribals. Who were the leaders associated with the rebellion?
a. Sidhu and Chakara
b. Chakara and Bogra
c. Sidhu and Kanhu
d. Dora and Chakara
Answer: c
22. Which of the following was not one of the distinguished leaders of the Aligarh School of Sayed Ahmed Khan?
a. Sayed Jamal-al-din Afghani
b. Chiragh Ali
c. Altaf Hussain Hali
d. Nazir Ahmad
Answer: a
23. A group of Ulema established a school at Deoband in Saharanpur district in 1867, to train religious leaders for the community. Which of the following was not one of the objects of Deoband movement?
a. To exalt the word of God
b. To organize the Muslims to live according to the original Islamic principles
c. Not to offer cooperation to the government or the nobility
d. To follow strictly the path shown by Sayed Ahmed Khan
Answer: d
24. Who was responsible for the enactment of the Hindu Widow’s Remarriage Act of 1856?
a. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
b. Devendranath Tagore
c. Raja Rammohan Roy
d. Keshab Chandra Sen
Answer: a
25. Which of the following was not associated with the establishment of Rehnumai Mazdayasan Sabha (Religious Reform Association. started in 1851 with the object of restoring Zoroastrian religion to its pristine purity and modernizing Parsi social custom?
a. Naoroji Furdonji
b. Dadabhai Naoroji
c. S S Bangalee
d. Shibli Numani
Answer: d
26. Which of the following peasant movement is not properly matched with the state in which it was launched?
a. Kisan Sabha and Ekta Movement . Uttar Pradesh
b. Moplah Rebellion . Kerela
c. Bardoli Satyagraha . Gujrat
d. Pabna Agrarian League . Maharashtra
Answer: d
27. The term ‘apabhramsa’ was used in medieval Sanskrit texts to denote?
a. outcastes among the Rajputs
b. deviations from Vedic rituals
c. early forms of some of the modern Indian languages
d. non-sanskrit verse metres
Answer: c
28. Which of the following pairs is/are not correctly matched?
a. Jamnalal Bajaj . Satyagraha Ashram at Wardha
b. Dadabhai Naoroji . Bombay Association
c. Lala Lajpat Rai . National School at Lahore
d. Bal Gangadhar Tilak . Satya Shodhak Sabha
Answer: d
29. Which of the following was not one of the factors responsible for the Moplah rising in 1921?
a. Social disabilities
b. Police excesses
c. Non-cooperation propaganda
d. Khilafatist meetings
Answer: a
30. Which of the following was an emigree communist journal of MN Roy?
a. Kisan Sabha
b. The Worker
c. Vanguard
d. Anushilan
Answer: c
31. Who among the following immediately succeeded Raja Rammohan Roy as the Head of Brahmo Samaj?
a. Devendranath Tagore
b. Akshay Kumar Dutta
c. Keshab Chandra Sen
d. Sibnath Shastri
Answer: a
32. Who among the following had founded the Theosophical Society in the United States of America?
a. Swami Dayanand Saraswati
b. Madame Blavatsky
c. Madame Cama
d. Lala Hardayal
Answer: b
33. What was the underlying unity of the religious reform movement of modern times?
a. All of them appealed to faith and ancient authority.
b. Most of them derived their support from the masses.
c. Most of them were based on the twin doctrine of Reason and Humanism.
d. All of them had a broad and scientific approach to the problems of society.
Answer: c
34. The Vaikom Satyagraha was launched in Kerala to
a. open the temples for the entry of the lower castes.
b. ban the initiation of Devdasis for temple service.
c. remove utouchability.
d. force the temple authority to appoint non-Brahmins as priests.
Answer: a
35. Who among the following wrote the book, “Babuvivha”?
a. Raja Rammohan Roy
b. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
c. Pandita Rambai
d. Rabindranath Tagore
Answer: b
36. Which of the following did not affect a change in the status of the lower castes?
a. Loss of monopoly on land ownership by the traditional upper class
b. Rise of the ruler capitalist class
c. Growth of a new middle class
d. British colonial policy of undermining native traditions
Answer: d
37. Who among the following leaders did not believe in the drain theory of Dadabhai Naoroji?
a. B.G. Tilak
b. R.C. Dutt
c. M.G. Ranade.
d. Sir Sayed Ahmed Khan
Answer: d
38. Which of the following aspects of the cast system was particularly condemned by all social reformers?
a. Varna system
b. Jati system
c. Ashram system
d. Untouchability.
Answer: d
39. Which one of the following places was associated with Acharya Vinoba Bhave’s Bhoodan Movement at the beginning of the movement?
a. Udayagiri
b. Rapur
c. Pochampalli
d. Ventkatagiru
.
Answer: c
40. Who amongst the following Englishmen first translated Bhagvad Gita into English?
a. William Jones
b. Charles Wilkins
c. Alexander Cunningham
d. John Marshall.
Answer: b
41. Where was the Depressed Classes Mission Society started in 1906 with the object of improving ‘the social as well as the spiritual conditions of the Depressed Classes’ set up?
a. Calcutta
b. Poona
c. Bombay
d. Madras
Answer: c
42. Vande Mataram, the nationalist song was a part of
a. Durgesh Nadini
b. Saraswatichandra
c. Grihadaha
d. Anand Math
Answer: d
43. ‘Lectures from Colombo to Almora’ is based on the experiences of which one of the following?
a. Veer Savarkar
b. Annie Besant
c. Ramakrishna Paramahansa
d. Swami Vivekanand
Answer: d
44. Which one of the following was not one of the founder office bearers of the Hind Majdoor Sevak Sangh formed in 1938 to train labour workers, to assist them to find a suitable field for work and to maintain them in times of need?
a. N. M. Joshi
b. G.L. Nanda
c. Sardar Vallabhabhai Patel
d. Jairamdas Daulatram
Answer: a
45. In the field of social reform, the main contribution(s. of Dhondo Keshav Karve was/were that he
a. Opened Widows’ Home at Pune
b. Started India’s first Women’s University at Pune
c. Founded the Niskam Karma Math to train social workers for women’s emancipation
d. All of the above
Answer: d
46. What was the reason for the split in The All India Trade Union Congress in 1929 which led to formation of the Indian Trade Union Federation under the leadership of N.M. Joshi?
a. Disagreement on the issue of membership
b. Divergence of view about seeking government assistance for the labour movement
c. Attempts of the Communists to capture the Trade Union Congress
d. Personality problems
Answer: c
47. Jotiba Phule’s fame lies in the fact that he
a. challenged the supremacy of the Brahmins
b. fought for the upliftment and education of the lower castes
c. was the greatest champion of lower caste in Maharashtra.
d. All of the above
Answer: d
48. What was the primary aim of the Akali Movement which rose in Punjab in 1920?
a. to voice the political grievances of Sikhs
b. to bring about modernization in Sikhs’s social customs
c. to streamline the management of the Gurudwaras or Sikh shrines.
d. to purge sikhism of its superstitious accretion and irrational incrustation.
Answer: c
49. What was the novel undertaking initiated by Dadabhai Naoroji
and his Parsi friends in the field of social upliftment of women.
a. schools for teaching girls
b. orphanages for abundant female children
c. a home for destitute women.
d. an institution to teach western manners to Parsi women
Answer: a
50. Which of the following was not part of the Arya Samajists programme of social reform?
a. to improve the condition of women marriages
b. to maintain the purity of Aryan blood by opposing intercaste
c. to oppose untouchability and the rigidities of the hereditary caste system.
d. to inculcate a spirit of self-respect and self-reliance among the people.
Answer: b