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Important Personalities of Modern India – GK Quiz with Answers – Level 1

A beginner-level GK quiz on modern India's leaders, writers and newspapers, from Tilak's Kesari and Gandhiji's Hind Swaraj to Phule's Gulamgiri and Badshah Khan's Khudai Khidmatgars.

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Duration
25 min
Marks
50

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Attempts
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About this test

Important Personalities of Modern India GK Practice Quiz: Level 1 Basics

This Level 1 quiz is for beginners in modern Indian history who want to learn which leader, writer or newspaper belongs where before moving to harder questions. It covers nationalist editors, reformers and freedom fighters through direct, one-line questions. Aptitude360 explains every answer, so first-time learners can fix facts as they practise.

Topics covered in this modern India personalities set

  • Cities where early papers such as Amrita Bazar Patrika, The Hindu and Indu Prakash were published
  • Languages of nationalist papers such as Kesari, Hindustan and Bharat Mitra
  • Famous books and their authors, including Hind Swaraj, Gulamgiri, Anandamath and Poverty and Un-British Rule in India
  • Slogans and calls, such as Tilak's birthright slogan and Jugantar's response to the Barisal conference
  • Leaders such as Rajaji, Maulana Azad, Badshah Khan and Annie Besant and their roles

Key facts to revise on modern Indian leaders

  • Gandhiji's weekly Indian Opinion was started in South Africa
  • Bande Mataram was edited by Aurobindo Ghosh, while Tilak ran Kesari and Mahratta
  • Neel Darpan was a play about the atrocities of indigo planters
  • Rajaji led the Salt Satyagraha in the south and became free India's first Indian Governor-General

How to revise personalities of modern India

  • Make a three-column table of person, newspaper or book, and language or city
  • Learn each leader with one signature contribution before adding further details
  • Revise newspapers city by city, for example Calcutta papers together and Bombay papers together

Who this beginner GK quiz is for

General awareness aspirants starting modern Indian history will find this a good first set before they move on to the higher levels of the series.

FAQs about Important Personalities of Modern India – GK Quiz with Answers – Level 1

Who wrote Hind Swaraj?
Hind Swaraj was written by Mahatma Gandhi. In it he argued that British rule in India rested on the cooperation of Indians.
Who was the first Indian Governor-General of free India?
C. Rajagopalachari, popularly called Rajaji, was the first and only Indian Governor-General of independent India.
Who founded the Khudai Khidmatgars?
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, known as Badshah Khan or Frontier Gandhi, founded the Khudai Khidmatgars. It was a non-violent movement among the Pashtuns of the North West Frontier Province.
Who are the important personalities of modern Indian history?
They include national leaders such as Dadabhai Naoroji, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Mahatma Gandhi, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad and C. Rajagopalachari. The list also covers reformers and writers such as Jyotirao Phule, Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay and Annie Besant.

Test structure

How the paper is split, and how long each part runs. A section you have finished cannot be returned to.

SectionQuestionsTime
Important Personalities of Modern India GK Level 15025 min

Marking & rules

Total marks
50 across 50 questions.
Negative marking
A wrong answer costs marks. Leaving a question unanswered costs nothing.
Attempts
100 in total. An attempt is spent the moment you begin one.

What you get when you submit

The analysis is ready the moment you submit the paper.

Score and accuracy

Marks, percentage, right, wrong and skipped, and the time you took.

Section by section

The same figures for each section, so a weak one cannot hide in an average.

The full answer key

Every question with your answer, the right one, the working, and the video where there is one.

Where you stand

Your score against the spread of everyone else who has sat this test.

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