Modern India Quiz 16 (20 MCQs)

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1. Who Amon the following was not a no-changer?
2. Movement of people from rural to urban areas
3. During apartheid, nonwhites were discriminated against on .....
4. By whom was the all India Trade Union founded?
5. During whose era the Agra Canal was finished?
6. There occurred three battles at the field of Panipat. Identify the battle which did not take place in Panipat
7. The ..... mountain system located in northeast India contains the highest peak in the world! Name this peak for an extra credit point .....
8. Under India's new constitution, it is okay to discriminate based on caste and gender.
9. What was the main religion in India when it was partitioned?
10. Who among the following, led the Sepoys at Kanpur in the 1857 Uprising?
11. In which year did the partition of Bengal take place?
12. The Congress appointed an all-party Constitution Committee in 1928 to draft a new Constitution for India. As a result, there emerged a report drafted under the chairmanship of .....
13. Consider the following statement (s) regarding Poona Pact (1932)I. It refers to an agreement between Babasaheb Ambedkar and Mahatma Gandhi signed on 24 September 1932 at Yerwada Central Jail in Pune (now in Maharashtra), India.II. It was signed by Pt Madan Mohan Malviya and B.R. Ambedkar and some Dalit leaders to break the fast unto death undertaken by Gandhi in Yerwada prison to annul the Macdonald Award giving separate electorates to Dalits for electing members of state legislative assemblies in British India.Select the correct answer from the codes given below:Codes:
14. Which of the following historians divided Indian history into three periods namely Hindu, Muslim and British?
15. In 1638 a Mughal Emperor built the Taj Mahal for what reason?
16. Name the type of colonialism from the following features:involves fewer colonists and focuses on the access to natural resources, trading posts and indigenous labor
17. Poverty and Un-British Rule in India is written by
18. Whean was the August Kranti pulled back?
19. He proposed the Partition of Bengal in 1905.
20. Who was proclaimed as the emperor of india during the great indian mutiny of 1857