Modern History - MOST IMPORTANT CAPF Previous Year Questions

The focus of the Second Five Year Plan was :

Which one of the following commissions was not associated with public services in India?

Who among the following was known as 'Lokhitwadi'?

Which one of the following pairs of books and their authors is not correctly matched?

Which one of the following artworks was hailed by Sister Nivedita as the 'first masterpiece of Indian art'?

When was the Kothari Commission appointed by the Government of India to look into the education sector of India?

Which one of the following is the oldest Central Paramilitary Force in India?

Which of the following statement about 'Agency Houses' is/are correct? 1. They were important commercial formations in the late eighteenth and nineteenth century India. 2. The operation of managing agencies remained confined to Calcutta.

Which one of the following statements about 'Princely States' in India is not correct?

Which one of the following was not a feature of the art of painting in India in the 19th century?

Consider the following historical events in India carefully: 1. The Indian press failed to protest against the vernacular Press Act of 1878. 2. The Vernacular Press Act of 1878 was introduced by Viceroy Lytton against the counsel of his own Law Member.

Which of the following pairs of years and historical events is correctly matched?

Who among the following is the author of the famous partition narrative, The Other Side of Silence?

Which one of the following cities on the banks of Ganges declined in importance when the railway link to Bombay started operating?

When was the first all India Census attempted?

Consider the following statements: 1. The early Sikh Gurus were religious preachers and did not interfere in politics but Guru Arjan extended his good wishes for the rebel prince Khusrau. 2. Guru Arjan attempted to organize the finances by introducing the system of more or less compulsory 'spiritual tribute' to be collected by his agents called Masands . Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Who among the following warned his colleagues that the Constituent Assembly was British made and was 'working the British plan as the British should like it to be worked out'?

Which of the following pairs is/are correctly matched? 1. Permanent Settlement : Lord Cornwallis 2. Ryotwari Settlement : Thomas Munro 3. Mahalwari settlement : Holt Mackenzie

Who among the following assumed the title of Nizam-ul Milk Asaf Jah to set himself up as an independent ruler with his base in Hyderabad?

Consider the following statements: 1. The growth of socialist tendency in the national movement let to the foundation of the Congress Socialist Party in Narendra Deva and Jayaprakash Narayan. 2. In 1963, Jawaharlal Neharu urged the Congress to accept socialism as its goal and to bring itself closer to the peasantry and the working class. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?