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61 The original name of Swami Vivekananda was :

A
Narendranath Dutta
B
Batukeshwara Dutta
C
Krishna Dutta
D
Surendra Dutta

62 Who persuaded the ratings of the RIN (Royal India Navy) to surrender on the 23rd February 1946?

A
Mahatma Gandhi
B
Jawaharlal Nehru and Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
C
Vallabh Bhai Patel and M.A. Jinnah
D
Morarji Desai and J.B. Kripalani

63 What did Jyotiba Phule’s Satyashodhak Samaj attempt in the last century?

A
Saving the lower castes from hypocritical Brahmans and their opportunistic scriptures
B
Attacking the caste system
C
Led an anti-landlord and antimahajan upsurge in Satara
D
Separate representation for untouchables

64 Who was the first Indian to be elected to the British Parliament?

A
Dadabhai Naoroji
B
Gopala Krishna Gokhale
C
Bipin Chandra Pal
D
Lala Lajpat Rai

65 Who introduced the perma-nent settlement in Bengal ?

A
Lord Cornwallis
B
Lord Dalhousie
C
William Bentinck
D
Lord Curzon

66 The Indian Universities were first founded in the time of :

A
Macaulay
B
Warren Hastings
C
Lord Canning
D
Lord William Bentinck

67 The British Governor-General who introduced the Postal system in India was :

A
Lord Dolhousie
B
Lord Wellesley
C
Lord Auckland
D
Lord Bentinck

68 Which place among the following was the headquarters of-the Portuguese in India ?

A
Cochin
B
Goa
C
Calicut
D
Cannanore

69 Who started the first English newspaper in India ?

A
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
B
Raja Rammohan Roy
C
J.A. Hickey
D
Lord William Bentinck

70 The last Governor-General of the East India Company ,and the first Viceroy under the crown was :

A
Lord Elgin
B
Lord Canning
C
Lord Warren Hastings
D
Lord Dalhousie

71 Pitts India Act of 1784 was a/an

A
White paper
B
Regulating Act
C
Ordinance
D
Resolution

72 Who wrote “Sarfaroshi Ki Tamanna Ab Hamaare Dil Mein Hai” ?

A
Mohammed Iqbal
B
Ramprasad Bismil
C
Kazi Nazrul Islam
D
Firaq Gorakhpuri

73 For which community were seats reserved by the Morley-Minto reforms ?

A
Jews
B
Muslims
C
Christians
D
Sikhs

74 Who founded the Home Rule League in Calcutta in 1916 A.D.?

A
Bipin Chandra Pal
B
Arvind Ghosh
C
Lokmanya Tilak
D
Mrs. Annie Besant

75 Which one of the following was not a French settlement in India ?

A
Puducherry
B
Mahe
C
Goa
D
Chandarnagar