MPSC PYQ

Modern Indian History

Modern Indian History is an concept from the MPSC syllabus, tested in 7 past MPSC questions across 4 exam years between 2013 and 2021. Below are those real questions with their correct answers and explanations, plus the concepts worth being comfortable with first.

Real questions
7
Years tested
4 · 2013–2021
In context
Concept Graph →

📅 Today's Daily Challenge

Five fresh MPSC questions, the same for everyone today — free, no signup.

Try it →

Asked in

2021202020162013

What you need to know first

Indian Communist Movement historyChapekar brothersLokmanya Tilak's roleNehru Report 1928Post-independence institutions18th-century Indian political and social conditionsConstituent Assembly debatesHindu Code Bill backgroundCommunist movement in IndiaConstituent Assembly backgroundPost-independence policy history

What mastering this unlocks

Education Commissions ChronologyNCERTSati PrathaRaja Ram Mohan RoySati ProhibitionHistorical BackgroundBritish ActsPublic FestivalsLokmanya TilakNationalist StrategyFreedom Movement in MaharashtraSocial Reformers of IndiaEradication of Untouchability

Real questions that test this

भारताच्या मार्क्सवादी कम्युनिस्ट पक्ष (सी.पी.आय.-एम) ची स्थापना केव्हा झाली ?

1)1956
2)1986
3)1946
4)1964✓ Correct

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) - CPI(M) split from the CPI and was established in 1964.

पुणे येथे _______ उत्सव साजरा केल्यावर दहा दिवसच पुण्याचे कलेक्टर श्री. रँड व दुसऱ्या अधिकाऱ्याची, सरकारी घरातून परत येताना गोळ्या झाडून हत्या करण्यात आली. Within ten days of the _______ festival held at Poona, Mr. Rand, the Collector of Poona and another officer were shot dead while returning from the Government House.

a)शिवाजी / Shivaji✓ Correct
b)गणपती / Ganapati
c)दुर्गा / Durga
d)नवरत्री / Navratri

Damodar Chapekar and Balkrishna Chapekar assassinated British officer W. R. Rand in Pune in 1897, shortly after the Shivaji Coronation festival celebrations organized by Tilak.

जवाहरलाल नेहरूंबाबत पुढीलपैकी कोणती विधाने बरोबर आहेत ? Which of the following statements about Jawaharlal Nehru are true ?

(a)ते स्वातंत्र्यापूर्वी व स्वातंत्र्यानंतर नियोजन आयोगाचे प्रमुख होते. / He chaired the Planning Commission before and after independence.

(b)त्यांनी अनेकदा भारतीय विज्ञान परिषदेचे अध्यक्षपद भूषवले. / He presided over many sessions of Indian Science Congress.

(c)नेहरू रिपोर्ट लिहून त्यांनी भारतासाठी आदर्श राजपद्चतीचा आराखडा मांडला. / Authoring the Nehru report, he drew an ideal outline for Indian government.

(d)"मला पाश्चात्य जगात उपन्यासारखे वाटते, पण मायदशातही कधी कधी परक्यासारखे वाटते". असे त्यांचे मत होते. / "I feel like an exile in the West, but sometimes I feel I am an outsider even in my own country." He felt.

1)(a), (b), (d)✓ Correct
2)(a), (b), (c)
3)(a), (c), (d)
4)(b), (c), (d)

Jawaharlal Nehru chaired the Planning Commission, presided over sessions of the Indian Science Congress, and expressed feelings of alienation in both Western and Indian contexts. Statement (c) is wrong because Motilal Nehru authored the Nehru Report, not Jawaharlal.

जोड्या जुळवा : (a) पेशवे (b) महाराज सवाई जयसिंग (c) रघुनाथ नवलकर (d) तंजावरचे राजे सर्फोजी Match the following : (a) The Peshwas (b) Maharaja Sawai Jaysingh (c) Raghunath Navalkar (d) Raja Sarfoji of Tanjore

(a)पेशवे / The Peshwas

(b)महाराज सवाई जयसिंग / Maharaja Sawai Jaysingh

(c)रघुनाथ नवलकर / Raghunath Navalkar

(d)तंजावरचे राजे सर्फोजी / Raja Sarfoji of Tanjore

(i)इंग्रजी पुस्तकांचे वाचनालय तयार केले आणि विज्ञानातील प्रयोगशाळेसाठी प्रयोगशाळा बांधली.

(ii)यांच्या दरबारात युरोपियन डॉक्टर आणि विद्वान होते.

(iii)पोर्तुगीज राजाला पोर्तुगीज खगोल शास्त्रज्ञ पाठविण्यास सांगितले.

(iv)इंग्रजी शिकले आणि त्या भाषेत उत्तम लिहीत.

1)(a)-(i), (b)-(ii), (c)-(iii), (d)-(iv)
2)(a)-(ii), (b)-(iii), (c)-(i), (d)-(iv)✓ Correct
3)(a)-(iv), (b)-(ii), (c)-(i), (d)-(iii)
4)(a)-(iii), (b)-(i), (c)-(iv), (d)-(ii)

Matching historical personalities/rulers with their scholarly or scientific contributions: Peshwas (ii - European doctors/scholars in court), Maharaja Sawai Jaysingh (iii - astronomical interests and contacts with Portuguese kings), Raghunath Navalkar (i - library and laboratory setup), Raja Sarfoji of Tanjore (iv - English learning and writing).

खालीलपैकी कोणते वाक्य बरोबर आहे ? पहिलं वाक्य : एम.एन. रॉय हे लिबरल पक्षाचे नेते होते. दुसरे वाक्य : एम.एन. रॉय हे रॅडिकल डेमोक्रॅटिक पक्षाचे नेते होते. Which of the following sentences is correct ? First sentence : M.N. Roy was the leader of the Liberal Party. Second sentence : M.N. Roy was the leader of the Radical Democratic Party.

(a)पहिले वाक्य : एम.एन. रॉय हे लिबरल पक्षाचे नेते होते. / First sentence : M.N. Roy was the leader of the Liberal Party.

(b)दुसरे वाक्य : एम.एन. रॉय हे रॅडिकल डेमोक्रॅटिक पक्षाचे नेते होते. / Second sentence : M.N. Roy was the leader of the Radical Democratic Party.

1)पहिले वाक्य बरोबर आहे. / First sentence is correct.
2)दुसरे वाक्य बरोबर आहे. / Second sentence is correct.✓ Correct
3)दोन्ही वाक्ये बरोबर आहेत. / Both sentences are correct.
4)दोन्ही वाक्ये चूक आहेत. / Both sentences are incorrect.

M.N. Roy started his political career as a radical communist and later founded the Radical Democratic Party. He was never a leader of the Liberal Party.