Kerala PSC History Question and Answers Part-16
1. Who became the President of Indian National Congress for the longest continuous period before independence?
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
2. Who was the chairman of the Famine Commission appointed by Lord Elgin in 1897?
Sir James B Lyall
3. The first Muslim to became the President of Indian National Congress
Badruddin Tyabji
4. The committee appointed in 1927 to examine financial and economic relationships existing between British India and the Indian States
Butler Committee
5. The first Swadeshi dacoity or robbery was organised in the year 1906 in - Rangapur
Irwin
6. The official name of the Simon Commission
Indian Statutory Commission
7. Who was the chairman of the Indian Police Commission appointed by Lord Curzon in 1902?
Andrew HI Fraser
8. The Government of India passed the Prevention of Seditious Meeting Act in
1907
9. Who wrote the book 'Wake up India'?
Annie Besant
10. The Viceroy who created North West Frontier Province from Punjab in 1901
Curzon
11. Name the Governor General who adopted a policy of the Europeanisation of Bureaucracy and an exclusion of Indians from higher posts
Cornwallis
12. During the reign of which Maratha ruler the position of the Peshwas became hereditary?
Sahu
13. Who was the chairman of the Royal Commission which was appointed in 1895 to examine the military and civil expenditures incurred and the apportionment of those charges between the Government of Great Britain and Government of India?
Lord Welby
14. The Universities of Calcutta, Bombay and Madras were established on the basis of the recommendation of
Sir Charles Wood
15. Holding of the ICS examination simultaneously in England and India was done for the first time in
1922
16. Michael Madhusoodan Dutt was a famous writer in the language of
Bengali
17. The British Resident who was killed at Lucknow during the Revolt of 1857?
Henry Lawrence
18. The first 'Shakha' of Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh (RSS) was started in
Nagpur
19. The song of the Swadeshi Movement was
Vande Mataram
20. From which University in USA, BR Ambedkar received his PhD?
Columbia
21. The Governor General who founded the Royal Asiatic Society
Warren Hastings
22. Where BR Ambedkar established the Depressed Classes Institute?
Mumbai
23. Who drafted the Pakistan resolution in 1940 which was moved by Fazlul Haq?
Sikander Hayat Khan
24. Who was the Viceroy when Non-Coopeartion movement was repealed?
Reading
25. Which book was translated into English by Annie Besant?
Bhagavat Gita
