SSC Modern History Set- 9
Total Questions:- 50
Time:- 30 Minutes
TCS Pattern MCQs
Date:- 15/03/2026
1. Governor General Lord Dalhousie had said about the princely state of –––––– as "a cherry that will drop into our mouth one day."
2. Mountbatten Plan (June 1947) provided for a referendum in which of the following provinces?
3. In 1809, Lord ––––– Signed the Treaty of Amritsar with Maharaja Ranjit Singh.
4. Which of the following Acts was enacted in British India in the year 1878?
5. Which of the following Governor General of Bengal had declared the practice of sati illegal?
6. Who was the Governor-General during the Anglo-Nepal War?
7. Who among the following was the Prime Minister of England when India was given independence?
8. Under whom was C.P. Ilbert, a law member of the Council?
9. The Pitts India Act of ------- distinguished between the commercial and political functions of the British East India Company.
10. Who was the founder of Forward Block?
11. Who among the following was the only martyr of the Quit India phase of the freedom movement who was hanged?
12. Who among the following formulated a policy which came to be known as the Doctrine of Lapse?
13. Who among the following was NOT a minister of the Cabinet Mission Plan, 1946?
14. The ‘Cabinet Mission’ of 1946 was led by
15. In which session of the All India Congress Committee was the Quit India proposal accepted?
16. During the Independence Movement, Subhas Chandra Bose revamped the Indian National...
17. Who among the following annexed the state of Punjab to British India as a result of the Second Anglo-Sikh War?
18. Who among the following was accused of judicially murdering Raja Nand Kumar?
19. Who decided to go ahead with his plan to invade Afghanistan, resulting in the First Anglo-Afghan War?
20. Azad Hind was an Indian provisional government established in ……in 1943.
21. Elphinstone was the Governor of which province of India during 1819-27?
22. The Vernacular Press Act of 1878 was repealed during the tenure of Viceroy ______.
23. Which of the following districts witnessed the establishment of a parallel government in 1943?
24. Who was the Governor-General of Bengal when the Permanent Settlement was introduced there in 1793?
25. In which of the following years was the Indian Independence Act passed by the British Parliament?
26. Who among the following founded the 'Forward Bloc'?
27. A new policy of 'Supremacy' was introduced during the reign of ––––– (Governor-General from 1813 to 1823). Now the company claimed that its authority was paramount or supreme, hence its power was comparable to that of the Indian states was more.
28. Which one of the following parties was founded by Subhas Chandra Bose?
29. Subhas Chandra Bose was born in the year…
30. Who among the following was the only revolutionary to be martyred by hanging during the Quit India Movement of the Indian Independence Movement?
31. Who among the following, along with her close associates, started the secret Congress Radio during the Quit India Movement?
32. Who among the following was the Governor-General of India when the Permanent Settlement was imposed in Bengal by the East India Company for revenue collection?
33. When did the Quit India Movement Start?
34. During the tenure of which Viceroy did the Meerut Conspiracy Trial take place?
35. By which of the following names is the plan for the partition of India known?
36. In which of the following years was the Cornwallis Code enacted?
37. In which of the following years, the Nawab of Awadh accepted the subsidiary alliance initiated by Lord Wellesley, the Governor General of British India?
38. The India Independence Bill was first presented in the House of Commons in London on:
39. What was the distance (approximately) covered for the first time by a train between Bombay and Thane in 1853?
40. Which act is also known as Morley-Minto Reforms?
41. Which of the following is the birthplace of Subhas Chandra Bose?
42. Who is known as the 'father of civil services' in India?
43. Mahatma Gandhi launched the Quit India Movement for freedom from the British in the year:
44. Who designed the Administrative Code to separate revenue administration from judicial administration?
45. In which of the following locations was the Quit India Movement launched by Gandhi in 1942?
46. Which British Governor abolished the diarchy system in Bengal?
47. Who among the following was the founder of 'Tiger Legion' or 'Free India Legion'?
48. Who among the following freedom fighters hoisted the Indian flag at the Gowalia Tank Maidan in Mumbai during the Quit India Movement?
49. ‘Do or Die’ is associated with which of the movements in India’s freedom struggle?
50. Who among the following signed the Tripartite Pact to intervene in the affairs of Afghanistan on behalf of the British government?
