21). Which of the following was a feature of the Aligarh Movement?
| A). Anglo-Muslim alliance for the security of the Muslims in India |
| B). Socio-religious reforms in the Muslim community |
| C). To counter the missionary activities of Christianity |
| D). Both (a) and (b) |
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22). Arrange the following in a chronological order :
I. Landholder's Society
II. India League
III Bombay Presidency Association
IV. Poona Sarvajanik Sabha
| A). I, II, IV, III |
| B). I,IV, II, III. |
| C). III, II, I, IV |
| D). II, IV, I, III |
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23). Match the following :
A. Bombay Samachar 1. First Bengali monthly
B. Digdarshana 2. First newspaper in Gujarati
C. Madras Mail 3. First paper in Urdu
D. Jam-i-Jahan Namah 4. First evening paper
5. First paper in Persian
A B C D
| A). 4 1 4 5 |
| B). 2 5 4 3 |
| C). 3 2 4 5 |
| D). 2 1 4 3 |
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24). Arrange the following educational institutions in chronological order of their establishment :
I. Calcutta Madarsa
II. Banaras Sanskrit College
III. Asiatic Society of Bengal
IV. Hindu College
| A). I, IV, II, II |
| B). III, IV, II, I |
| C). IV, II, I, III |
| D). I, III, II, IV |
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25). The first writer to use Urdu as the medium of poetic expression was :
| A). Amir Khusru |
| B). Mirza Ghalib |
| C). Bahadur Shah Zafar |
| D). Faiz |
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26). Shuddhi movement (conversion of non-Hindus to Hinduism) was started by :
| A). Swami Vivekananda |
| B). Swami Dayanand Saraswati |
| C). Mahatma Gandhi |
| D). Raja Ram Mohan Roy |
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27). What is the correct chronological order of the formation of the following ?
1. Prarthana Samaj
2. Ramakrishna Mission
3. Theosophical Society
4. Arya Samaj
| A). 1, 3, 4, 2 |
| B). 1, 4, 3, 2 |
| C). 3, 2, 1, 4 |
| D). 4, 2, 1, 3 |
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28). Who among the early nationalists worked in England to mobilize public opinion if favour of the Indian National Movement ?
| A). Gopal Krishna Gokhale |
| B). D. Wacha |
| C). Lala Lajpat Rai |
| D). Dadabhai Naoroji |
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29). The leader of the Young Bengal Movement was :
| A). Dwarkanath Tagore |
| B). Chandrashekar Deb |
| C). Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar |
| D). Henry Vivian Derozio |
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30). Which of the following statements correctly defines the term 'drain theory' as propounded by Dadabhai Naoroji ?
| A). That the resources of the country were being utilised in the Interest of Britain |
B). That a part of India's national wealth or total annual product was being
exported to Britain for which India got no material returns |
C). That the British industrialists were being given an opportunity to invest in
India under the protection of the imperial power |
D). That the British goods were being imported to the country making
it poorer day by day |
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