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  1. Which among the following place, was not an important centre of the Revolt of 1857 ?

  2. A.

    Agra

    B.

    Kanpur

    C.

    Jhansi

    D.

    Lucknow

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  3. Who among the following was famous for framing the education minute?

  4. A.

    Lord Elgin

    B.

    Lord Macaulay

    C.

    Sadler

    D.

    None of these

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  5. Who, among the following, has been known as the 'Frontier Gandhi'?

  6. A.

    Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

    B.

    Khan Saheb

    C.

    Chaudhary Shaukatullah

    D.

    Liaquat Ali Khan

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  7. The Ryotwari System of Land Tenure to a situation where

  8. A.

    The Ryot is the owner of the land held by him/her and directly pays the revenue assessed on the land to the State

    B.

    The Ryot is an occupancy tenant of his/her land and pays the land revenue to the Zamindar

    C.

    The person cultivates the land leased from a landlord and inreturn pays rent to the landlord

    D.

    the land is collectively owned and cultivated on a cooperative basis

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  9. Swami Dyanand Saraswati established the Arya Samaj in 1875 at

  10. A.

    Bombay

    B.

    Lahore

    C.

    Nagpur

    D.

    Ahmadnagar

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  11. Who, among the following, was the pioneer of social reform movements in 19th century India ?

  12. A.

    Aurobindo Ghosh

    B.

    Raja Ram Mohan Roy

    C.

    Devendra Nath Tegore

    D.

    Keshav Chandra Sen

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  13. When was the Gandhi Irwin Pact made?

  14. A.

    1935

    B.

    1931

    C.

    1929

    D.

    1932

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  15. “Neel Darpan' a play depicting the revolt against the Indigo planters was written by

  16. A.

    Dinbandhu Mitra

    B.

    Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

    C.

    Rabindranath Tagore

    D.

    Naveen Chandra Sen

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  17. Champaran Satyagraha was related to

  18. A.

    Indigo

    B.

    Mill-owners

    C.

    Plague

    D.

    Fresh assessment of land

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  19. The first newspaper which was published in India was

  20. A.

    The Calculatta Gazette

    B.

    The Calculatta Gazette

    C.

    The Oriental Maganize of Calculatta

    D.

    The Bengal Gazette

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