Kerala PSC History Question and Answers Part-38
1. Who was the Viceroy when General Election was held in all the provinces of the British India in 1937?
Linlithgo
2. The freedom fighter who was known as 'Grand old Man of Gujarat'?
Abbas Tyabji
3. Whose earlier name was Veereswar Dutt?
Swami Vivekananda
4. The first and last Indian to become the Governor General of independent India
Rajagopalachari
5. The first Governor General of Pakistan:
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
6. The first prime minister of Pakistan:
Liaqat Ali Khan
7. The Governor General who had lost his left hand in the Napoleonic wars:
Hardinge I
8. The Governor General who was instrumental in starting the Elphinstone College at Pune:
William Bentick
9. The leader of national movement whose birth day is August 15
Aurobindo Ghosh
10. The Viceroy who believed in free trade and abolished all export duties except those on rice, oil, indigo and lac
Northbrook
11. The viceroy who inaugurated a new province known as the North West Frontier:
Curzon
12.Thugs were hereditary________
Robbers
13. Which treaty ended the Gurkha War?
Sagauli
14. Who among the following had to wage a war with Rohillas?
Warren Hastings
15. Who authored 'India wins Freedom'?
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
16. Who got lathi blows while protesting against Simon Commission, which became fatal to him?
Lala Lajpat Rai
17. Who is called the modern Manu?
BR Ambedkar
18. Who led the activities of the Theosophical Society in India?
Annie Besant
19. Who popularised the worship of Ganapathi in Maharashtra?
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
20. Who said 'Swarajya is my birth right'?
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
