Best MCQ on Modern History for SSC Exam 

Get the Best MCQs on Modern History for SSC Exam preparation. Covering key topics like the Revolt of 1857, Indian National Movement, and important leaders, these questions are ideal for boosting your score in SSC 2025!

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Q1: Who was the Governor-General of Bengal when the Permanent Settlement was introduced there in 1793?

a) Warren Hastings
b) Lord Cornwallis
c) Lord Wellesley
d) Lord Dalhousie
Answer: b) Lord Cornwallis

Q2: In the year 1854, India’s first cotton mill was established as spinning mill in __.

a) Calcutta
b) Bombay
c) Ahmedabad
d) Madras
Answer: b) Bombay

Q3: Which of the following was the most important characteristic of India’s trade throughout the colonial period?

a) Export surplus
b) Import surplus
c) Balanced trade
d) Trade in luxury goods only
Answer: a) Export surplus

Q4: In 1853, a Railway line was laid connecting Bombay with which city?

a) Pune
b) Surat
c) Thane
d) Nashik
Answer: c) Thane

Q5: Shirts, trousers, skirts etc. were brought to India in the eighteenth century by whom?

a) British traders
b) Portuguese traders
c) French traders
d) Dutch traders
Answer: a) British traders (Mock Test Now)

Q6: Who devised the Mahalwari Settlement?

a) Lord Cornwallis
b) Thomas Munro
c) Holt Mackenzie
d) Lord William Bentinck
Answer: c) Holt Mackenzie

Q7: The Ryotwari System of revenue collection was implemented in which province of British India?

a) Bengal
b) Punjab
c) Madras and Bombay Presidencies
d) North-Western Provinces
Answer: c) Madras and Bombay Presidencies

Q8: Who introduced Ryotwari System in India?

a) Lord Cornwallis
b) Thomas Munro
c) Holt Mackenzie
d) Lord Dalhousie
Answer: b) Thomas Munro

Q9: When was the Permanent Settlement introduced by the East India Company?

a) 1784
b) 1793
c) 1802
d) 1813
Answer: b) 1793

Q10: Zamindari system was Introduced by _____in 1793.

a) Lord William Bentinck
b) Lord Cornwallis
c) Lord Dalhousie
d) Lord Hastings
Answer: b) Lord Cornwallis

Q11: By whom was the first women’s university established in India?

a) Dhondo Keshav Karve
b) Jyotirao Phule
c) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
d) Annie Besant
Answer: a) Dhondo Keshav Karve

Q12: The Hindu College was established in Banaras in –––––––––.

a) 1791
b) 1817
c) 1835
d) 1857
Answer: a) 1791

Q13: Who was associated with the establishment of Fergusson college?

a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
b) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
c) V.K. Chiplunkar
d) All of the above (Founders of Deccan Education Society)
Answer: d) All of the above (Founders of Deccan Education Society)
(Note: Fergusson College was established by the Deccan Education Society, whose founders included Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Gopal Ganesh Agarkar, Mahadev Ballal Namjoshi, and Vishnushastri Chiplunkar.)

Q14: When was a comprehensive despatch on education called Wood’s Despatch on education sent?

a) 1853
b) 1854
c) 1856
d) 1857
Answer: b) 1854

Q15: ‘The Deccan Sabha’ was founded by which of the following nationalists?

a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
b) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
c) M.G. Ranade
d) Dadabhai Naoroji
Answer: c) M.G. Ranade (Mock Test Now)

Q16: Which Education Commission had argued that European education would uplift the moral character of Indians?

a) Hunter Commission
b) Wood’s Despatch
c) Sadler Commission
d) Macaulay’s Minute
Answer: b) Wood’s Despatch

Q17: Wood’s Despatch was about

a) Land revenue reforms
b) Police reforms
c) Educational reforms
d) Judicial reforms
Answer: c) Educational reforms

Q18: Which of the following viceroys appointed the Hunter Commission in 1882?

a) Lord Lytton
b) Lord Ripon
c) Lord Curzon
d) Lord Dufferin
Answer: b) Lord Ripon

Q19: In the context of colonial India, the Hartog committee report is related to which of the following fields.

a) Education
b) Famine relief
c) Police administration
d) Land revenue
Answer: a) Education

Q20: Who introduced Western education?

a) Lord William Bentinck
b) Lord Macaulay
c) Lord Dalhousie
d) Lord Curzon
Answer: b) Lord Macaulay

Q21: In which year were the Arms Act and Vernacular Press Act Passed?

a) 1876
b) 1878
c) 1880
d) 1882
Answer: b) 1878

Q22: The Vernacular Press Act was enacted during the reign of which viceroy of India?

a) Lord Lytton
b) Lord Ripon
c) Lord Dufferin
d) Lord Curzon
Answer: a) Lord Lytton

Q23: Who among the following is one of the founders of ‘The Hindu’ newspaper which was founded in 1878?

a) G. Subramania Aiyar
b) B.G. Tilak
c) M.G. Ranade
d) G.K. Gokhale
Answer: a) G. Subramania Aiyar

Q24: Which is the first newspaper of India?

a) The Hindu
b) The Bengal Gazette
c) The Times of India
d) The Amrita Bazar Patrika
Answer: b) The Bengal Gazette

Q25: Which is the first Hindi newspaper of India?

a) Samachar Sudha Varshan
b) Udant Martand
c) Hindi Pradeep
d) Keshari
Answer: b) Udant Martand

Q26: Which freedom fighter of India led the famous revolt of 1857 (sepoy mutiny) at Lucknow?

a) Rani Lakshmibai
b) Begum Hazrat Mahal
c) Nana Saheb
d) Tantia Tope
Answer: b) Begum Hazrat Mahal

Q27: Which Mughal ruler contributed to the rebellion of 1857?

a) Bahadur Shah I
b) Shah Alam II
c) Akbar Shah II
d) Bahadur Shah Zafar (Bahadur Shah II)
Answer: d) Bahadur Shah Zafar (Bahadur Shah II)

Q28: Where did the uprising of 1857 start?

a) Barrackpore
b) Delhi
c) Meerut
d) Lucknow
Answer: c) Meerut

Q29: Who led the 1857 Revolt in Bihar?

a) Nana Saheb
b) Tantia Tope
c) Kunwar Singh
d) Begum Hazrat Mahal
Answer: c) Kunwar Singh

Q30: In which year did the Sepoy Mutiny end?

a) 1857
b) 1858
c) 1859
d) 1860
Answer: c) 1859 (Mock Test Now)

Q31: Whose proclamation of November 1, 1858 declared that thereafter India would be governed by and in the name of the British Monarch through a Secretary of State?

a) Lord Canning
b) Queen Victoria
c) Lord Dalhousie
d) Lord Ripon
Answer: b) Queen Victoria

Q32: The Indian Mutiny of 1857 effectively ended in the city of _.

a) Delhi
b) Lucknow
c) Gwalior
d) Kanpur
Answer: c) Gwalior

Q33: Which of the following battles did Maulvi Ahmadullah Shah fight, defeating the forces under Henry Lawrence?

a) Battle of Chinhat
b) Siege of Lucknow
c) Battle of Kanpur
d) Battle of Delhi
Answer: a) Battle of Chinhat

Q34: Begum Hazrat Mahal is associated with which of the following revolts of India?

a) Santhal Rebellion
b) Indigo Revolt
c) Revolt of 1857
d) Moplah Rebellion
Answer: c) Revolt of 1857

Q35: Veer Kunwar Singh Jayanti is celebrated in –– in order to recognise the achievements of Kunwar Singh during the Indian rebellion of 1857.

a) Uttar Pradesh
b) Bihar
c) Madhya Pradesh
d) Rajasthan
Answer: b) Bihar

Q36: Mutiny of 1857 was described as the First Indian War of Independence by

a) R.C. Majumdar
b) S.N. Sen
c) V.D. Savarkar
d) Karl Marx
Answer: c) V.D. Savarkar

Q37: In which of the following cities is the tomb of Rani of Jhansi situated?

a) Jhansi
b) Gwalior
c) Lucknow
d) Varanasi
Answer: b) Gwalior

Q38: Who was the Mughal emperor during the 1857 revolt in India?

a) Bahadur Shah I
b) Muhammad Shah
c) Bahadur Shah Zafar
d) Alamgir II
Answer: c) Bahadur Shah Zafar

Q39: Who among the following was NOT associated with the revolt of 1857?

a) Rani Lakshmibai
b) Tantia Tope
c) Bhagat Singh
d) Nana Saheb
Answer: c) Bhagat Singh

Q40: Who among the following was a leader from Allahabad (now Prayagraj) in the revolt against the British in 1857?

a) Maulvi Liaquat Ali
b) Nana Saheb
c) Kunwar Singh
d) Begum Hazrat Mahal
Answer: a) Maulvi Liaquat Ali

Q41: Who was the organizer of the revolt of 1857 in Bihar?

a) Tantia Tope
b) Kunwar Singh
c) Nana Saheb
d) Begum Hazrat Mahal
Answer: b) Kunwar Singh

Q42: During the 1857 Uprising, who among the following took up the leadership at Faizabad?

a) Maulvi Ahmadullah Shah
b) Begum Hazrat Mahal
c) Nana Saheb
d) Khan Bahadur Khan
Answer: a) Maulvi Ahmadullah Shah

Q43: The Sepoy Mutiny in India started from _.

a) Barrackpore
b) Meerut
c) Delhi
d) Lucknow
Answer: b) Meerut

Q44: Where was Mangal Pandey hanged on 29 March 1857?

a) Meerut
b) Delhi
c) Barrackpore
d) Lucknow
Answer: c) Barrackpore (Mock Test Now)

Q45: After the Revolt of 1857, which of the following changes was not made in India by the British Government?

a) The rule of the East India Company was ended.
b) The Governor-General of India was made the Viceroy.
c) The army was reorganized to give more importance to Indian soldiers.
d) Doctrine of Lapse was continued.
Answer: d) Doctrine of Lapse was continued.

Q46: The mutiny in which of the following cities marked the beginning of the Revolt of 1857?

a) Barrackpore
b) Meerut
c) Delhi
d) Lucknow
Answer: b) Meerut

Q47: Who among the following was bestowed with the title of ‘Saheb-e-Alam Bahadur’ by Bahadur Shah during the uprising of 1857?

a) Nana Saheb
b) Tantia Tope
c) Bakht Khan
d) Kunwar Singh
Answer: c) Bakht Khan

Q48: With reference to the 1857 revolt consider the following statements.

The revolt did not spread to all parts of India.
The revolt was crushed by the British within a year.
The revolt led to the transfer of power from the East India Company to the British Crown. Which of the statements given above are correct?
a) 1 and 2 only
b) 2 and 3 only
c) 1 and 3 only
d) 1, 2 and 3
Answer: d) 1, 2 and 3

Q49: __ was the Mughal emperor during the revolt of 1857.

a) Bahadur Shah I
b) Shah Alam II
c) Bahadur Shah Zafar
d) Alamgir II
Answer: c) Bahadur Shah Zafar

Q50: Alluri Sitaram Raju was a tribal freedom fighter from state of India.

a) Andhra Pradesh
b) Telangana
c) Odisha
d) Maharashtra
Answer: a) Andhra Pradesh

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