PERSON & PERSONALITY/Journals, Magazines and Books MODERN HISTORY UPSC PYQ 2011-2020

2012

Which of the following parties were established by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar?1. The Peasants and Workers Party of India.

2. All India Scheduled Castes Federation.

3. The Independent Labour Party.

Select the correct answer using the codes given below:

(a) 1 and 2 only

(b) 2 and 3 only

(d) 1, 2 and 3

2013

Annie Besant was 1. responsible for starting the Home Rule Movement 2. the founder of the Theosophical Society 3. once the President of the Indian National Congress Select the correct statement/statements using the codes given below. (a) 1 only (b) 2 and 3 only (c) 1 and 3 only (d) 1, 2 and 3 sources : TN 12th	c

2015

Consider the following statements :
1. The first woman President of the Indian National Congress was Sarojini Naidu.
2. The first Muslim President of the Indian National Congress was Badruddin Tyabji
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
a) 1 only
b) 2 only
c) Both 1 and 2
d) Neither 1 nor 2
Solution: b)
FIRST WOMAN PRESIDENT OF INC WAS ANNIE BESANT.
FIRST MALE PRESIDENT WAS W.C. BANERJEE. FIRST MUSLIM MALE PRESIDENT WAS BADRUDDIN TYABJI.
SOURCE: HTTPS://EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG/WIKI/MUSLIM_PRESIDENTS_OF_INDIAN_NATIONAL_CONGRESS
sources : TN 12TH

2016

A recent movie titled The Man Who Knew Infinity is based on the biography of

(a) S. Ramanujan
(b) S. Chandrasekhar
(c) S. N. Bose
(d) C. V. Raman
Solution: A
Justification: It is a 2015 British biographical drama film based on the 1991 book of the same name by Robert Kanigel.
The film stars Dev Patel as the real-life Srinivasa Ramanujan, a mathematician who after growing up poor in Madras, India, earns admittance to Cambridge University during World War I, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories.
Distinguished mathematicians Manjul Bhargava and Ken Ono are Associate Producers of the film.
You can read the movie review here http://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/cinema-reviews/the-man-who-knew-infinity-review-a-misunderstood-mind/article8534574.ece
2019
With reference to Indian National Movement, consider the following pairs:

Person	Position held
1. Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru :	President, All India Liberal Federation
2. K. C. Neogy :	Member, The Constituent Assembly
3. P. C. Joshi :	General Secretary, Communist Party of India

Which of the pairs given above is/are correctly matched?
(a)1 only
(b)1 and 2 only
(c)3 only
(d)1, 2 and 3
ANS:D
2020
Q15. With reference to the history of India, ‘ulgulan’ or the great tumult is the description of the which of the following?
(a) The revolt of 1857
(b) The Mappila rebellion of 1921
(c) The Indigo revolt of 1859-1860
(d) Birsa Munda’s revolt of 1899-1900
Answer: D
During the last decade of the nineteenth century, the Mundas rose under Birsa Munda in a religious movement or rebellion (“ulgulan”) with an agrarian and political content. They aimed to establish a Munda rule in the land by killing thikadars, jagirdars, rajas and halcims.
See https://www.epw.in/engage/article/setting-record-straight-birsa-munda-and-his-political-legacy
2020
Q46. With reference to the book ‘desher Katha’ written by Sakharam Ganesh Deuskar during the freedom struggle, consider the following statements

It warned against the colonial states’ hypnotic conquest of the mind
It inspired the performance of swadeshi street plays and folk songs
The use of ‘desh’ by Deuskar was in the specific context of the region of Bengal.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
(a) 1 and 2 only
(b) 2 and 3 only
(c) 1 and 3 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3 only
Answer: A or D

2018

He wrote biographies of Mazzini, Garibaldi, Shivaji and Shrikrishna; stayed in America for some time; and was also elected to the Central Assembly. He was

(a)Aurobindo Ghosh

(b)Bipin Chandra Pal

(c)Lala Lajpat Rai

(d)Motilal Nehru

ANS:C

Lala Lajpat Rai was gifted with a perceptive mind, he was a prolific writer and authored several works like – “Unhappy India”, “Young India: An Interpretation”, “History of Arya Samaj”, “England’s Debt to India” and a series of popular biographies
His biographies of Mazzini, Garibaldi and.
Shivaji were published in 1896 and those of Dayanand and.
Shri Krishna in 1898.
His purpose in selecting Mazzini and Garibladi was to infuse patriotic sentiment in the youth of Punjab, who had no access to books in English.
He wanted his countrymen to become acquainted with the teachings of Italian leaders who had so impressed his own mind.
He had seen the points of similarity between the problems of India and those the Italian leaders had to face.
Lala Lajpat Rai travelled to the US in 1907. He toured Sikh communities along the West Coast in the USA and noted sociological similarities between the notion of ‘color-caste’ there and within castes in India.
He joined Swaraj Party in 1926 and was elected its Deputy Leader in the Central Legislative Assembly.
He later resigned from the Swaraj Party in August 1926

2020
Q12. In the Indian history, The Rakhmabai case of 1884 revolved around

Women’s rights to gain education
Age of consent
Restitution of conjugal rights

Select the correct answer using the given code below-
(a) 1 and 2 only
(b) 2 and 3 only
(c) 1 and 3 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3
Answer: B
Rakhmabai made her mark in history due to the legal case she was involved in, which contributed to the enactment of the Age of Consent
Act, 1891.
In 1885, after 12 years of marriage, Bhikaji sought “restitution of conjugal rights”, where the hearing and judgement was presided by Justice Robert Hill Pinhey. Rukhmabai had refused to live with the man she was married to as a child, as she had no say in the marriage.
It was a case that got a lot of attention in Britain too, where women’s magazines covered it. The ripples that the case created led to the influence on the passage of the Age of Consent Act, 1891, which made child marriages illegal across the British Empire.
Education wasn’t an issue in this case,