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SSC CGL Modern History Questions 2026 (Modern India & Freedom Struggle GK MCQ) — Free Chapter Wise Test in Hindi & English

Who presided over the Lahore session of 1929, which Viceroy passed the Vernacular Press Act, who led the revolt of 1857 at Jhansi — Modern India is the largest part of SSC history, and the wrong options are always leaders, years or Viceroys from the same decade. Practise 350 Modern History questions in 14 tests that run in syllabus order, from the arrival of the Europeans and Plassey through 1857, the Congress and the Gandhian movements to Independence, with Governors-General, Acts and Congress sessions at the end. Every test is in English and Hindi, and every question has a 6–7 point solution that also covers the facts around it.

14 Tests 350 Questions 25 Questions per Test English & हिंदी

Modern History Tests — Pick a Test and Start

Tap below to see all the tests. They follow the order of the syllabus — Test 1 starts with Vasco da Gama and the European companies, Test 12 ends with Independence and the Mountbatten Plan, and Tests 13 and 14 cover Governors-General, Acts, commissions and Congress sessions — so you can take them one after another or jump to the period you are revising. Choose English or हिंदी on any test.

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Set at real SSC CGL and CHSL level. Each test mixes the four ways SSC asks history — direct one-line questions, statement questions, match the following and assertion–reason — and no fact is asked twice across the 350 questions.

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Modern Indian History is a fact chapter built on years and names. SSC does not ask you to analyse the freedom struggle; it asks who presided over the Surat session, in which year the Partition of Bengal took effect, or during whose viceroyalty the Ilbert Bill controversy arose. The four options are always taken from the same table — four Congress presidents, four Viceroys, four years from one decade — so a half-remembered fact is exactly what the paper is built to catch.

Marks are lost in three places. The first is Viceroy–event pairs: Vernacular Press Act and Lytton, Local Self-Government and Ripon, Partition of Bengal and Curzon, Rowlatt Act and Chelmsford. The second is session–president pairs: Lahore 1929 and Nehru, Karachi 1931 and Patel, Haripura 1938 and Subhas Bose, Belgaum 1924 and Gandhi. The third is leader–organisation pairs: Satyashodhak Samaj and Jyotiba Phule, Ghadar Party and Lala Hardayal, HSRA and Chandrashekhar Azad. The tests here are built around exactly these three.

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How Many Modern History Questions Are Asked in SSC CGL?

History as a whole — ancient, medieval and modern — gives three to four of the 25 General Awareness questions in most SSC CGL Tier I shifts, and Modern India with the freedom struggle is usually two of them, more than either of the other periods. CHSL, MTS and the Tier II General Awareness paper follow the same pattern. The topics below are the ones SSC returns to most often, roughly in order.

TopicHow oftenWhat is usually asked
Gandhian era (1915–1947)Very frequentChamparan to Quit India, pacts and conferences, years and places of each movement
Congress sessions and leadersVery frequentSession–president–year, firsts (first Muslim, first woman president), resolutions
Governors-General and ActsFrequentViceroy–event pairs, Charter Acts, 1858, 1909, 1919 and 1935 Acts, commissions
Revolt of 1857FrequentCentres and leaders, British commanders, causes, books on the revolt
Socio-religious reformRegularOrganisations with founders and years, reformers' books and newspapers
Revolutionaries, revolts and British expansionRegularRevolutionary cases, tribal and peasant leaders, Plassey, Buxar and the Anglo wars

Modern India also overlaps with Polity — the Government of India Acts of 1919 and 1935, the Cabinet Mission and the Constituent Assembly are asked under both headings.

What Each Modern History Test Covers

The 350 questions run through the syllabus in order, 25 to a test. Where a period ends partway through a test, the next one begins in the same test.

TestTopics
Test 1The Portuguese, Dutch, English, Danes and French; early English factories, Bombay and Calcutta; Farrukhsiyar's farman; the three Carnatic Wars; Murshid Quli Khan and Alivardi Khan
Test 2Sirajuddaula, the Black Hole and Plassey; Mir Jafar and Mir Qasim; Buxar, the Treaties of Allahabad and the Dual Government; Haidar Ali and Tipu Sultan
Test 3The Third and Fourth Anglo-Mysore Wars; Ranjit Singh and the Anglo-Sikh Wars; Awadh; the Anglo-Maratha Wars; Subsidiary Alliance and Doctrine of Lapse; the three stages of colonial economy
Test 4Drain of Wealth; Permanent Settlement, Ryotwari and Mahalwari; Indigo Revolt, Pabna, Deccan Riots and other peasant movements up to Tebhaga and Telangana
Test 5Kisan Sabhas; tribal revolts from the Chuars to Birsa Munda, the Rampa rebellion and Rani Gaidinliu; civil revolts and the Wahabis; Rammohan Roy and the Brahmo Samaj
Test 6Prarthana Samaj, Arya Samaj, Theosophical Society, Aligarh, Ramakrishna Mission and lower-caste movements; causes of the Revolt of 1857 and Mangal Pandey
Test 7Meerut and Delhi, the centres, leaders and British commanders of 1857; views and books on the revolt; the Act of 1858; associations before the Congress
Test 8Founding of the Congress, the Moderates and the Extremists; Lal-Bal-Pal and Aurobindo; Partition of Bengal and Swadeshi; Muslim League, Surat Split, Morley-Minto Reforms and Home Rule
Test 9Lucknow Pact, August Declaration and the Act of 1919; revolutionaries in India and abroad, the Ghadar Party, Kakori, Bhagat Singh and Chittagong; Gandhi in South Africa
Test 10Champaran, Ahmedabad and Kheda; Rowlatt Act and Jallianwala Bagh; Khilafat and Non-Cooperation; Chauri Chaura, the Swaraj Party, Bardoli, Simon Commission and Nehru Report
Test 11Lahore Session and Purna Swaraj; Dandi March and Civil Disobedience; Round Table Conferences, Gandhi-Irwin Pact, Communal Award and Poona Pact; the Act of 1935; Cripps and Quit India
Test 12Gandhi's 1943 fast, C.R. Formula and Wavell Plan; Subhas Bose and the INA, INA Trials and RIN Mutiny; Cabinet Mission, Interim Government, Constituent Assembly and Mountbatten Plan
Test 13Integration of the princely states, French and Portuguese colonies; Governors-General and Viceroys from Warren Hastings to Hardinge II; the Regulating, Pitt's and Charter Acts
Test 14Linlithgow and Rajagopalachari; famine, education and administrative commissions; important dates; Congress sessions and presidents; nicknames, famous sayings and places of leaders

The three traps that cost the most marks

  • Two of the same name. There are two Lord Mintos (1807 and 1905), two Lord Hardinges (1844 and 1910), two Lord Elgins and two Lucknow sessions (1916 and 1936). Read the year in the question before the name.
  • The extreme answer in a statement question. “First”, “only”, “last” and “longest” are where SSC hides the wrong statement — the first Viceroy, the only Indian Governor-General, the last Governor-General of the Company. Check those words first.
  • Mixing up the years of one decade. 1905 to 1911, 1919 to 1922 and 1942 to 1947 are packed with events a year apart — learn each decade as one timeline, not as separate facts.

Solved Examples — SSC CGL Modern History

Q1. Who presided over the Lahore session of the Indian National Congress in 1929, which passed the Purna Swaraj resolution?
(a) Motilal Nehru
(b) Jawaharlal Nehru
(c) Vallabhbhai Patel
(d) Subhas Chandra Bose
Jawaharlal Nehru presided over the Lahore session in December 1929. The tricolour was hoisted on the bank of the Ravi on 31 December 1929, and 26 January 1930 was observed as Independence Day. Motilal Nehru had presided over the Calcutta session of 1928, Patel over Karachi in 1931 and Subhas Bose over Haripura in 1938. Answer: (b)
Q2. Consider the following statements about the Revolt of 1857:
1. It broke out at Meerut on 10 May 1857.
2. Rani Laxmi Bai led the revolt at Jhansi.
3. Lord Dalhousie was the Governor-General during the revolt.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
(a) 1 and 2 only
(b) 2 and 3 only
(c) 1 and 3 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3
Statements 1 and 2 are correct: the sepoys at Meerut rose on 10 May 1857 and marched to Delhi, and Rani Laxmi Bai led the revolt at Jhansi against Sir Hugh Rose. Statement 3 is wrong — Lord Canning was the Governor-General in 1857; Dalhousie had left in 1856. Answer: (a)
Q3. Read the Assertion (A) and Reason (R) carefully.
Assertion (A): Gandhiji withdrew the Non-Cooperation Movement in February 1922.
Reason (R): A mob burnt a police station at Chauri Chaura in Gorakhpur district, killing policemen.
(a) Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A
(b) Both A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of A
(c) A is true, but R is false
(d) A is false, but R is true
On 5 February 1922 an angry crowd set fire to the Chauri Chaura police station, and 22 policemen died. Gandhiji, committed to non-violence, called off the movement on 12 February 1922 at Bardoli. Answer: (a)
Q4. ‘सत्यशोधक समाज’ की स्थापना किसने की थी?
(a) ज्योतिबा फुले
(b) श्री नारायण गुरु
(c) बी.आर. आंबेडकर
(d) ई.वी. रामास्वामी नायकर
सत्यशोधक समाज की स्थापना ज्योतिबा फुले ने 1873 में महाराष्ट्र में की; उनकी पुस्तक ‘गुलामगिरी’ भी 1873 में आई। श्री नारायण गुरु ने केरल में अरुविप्पुरम आंदोलन और SNDP योगम, आंबेडकर ने 1924 में बहिष्कृत हितकारिणी सभा और पेरियार ने 1925 में आत्मसम्मान आंदोलन शुरू किया। उत्तर: (a)

How the Modern History Tests Work

  • 25 questions per test, with a full question palette — answered, skipped, marked for review, not visited.
  • 14 tests, 350 questions, in syllabus order — from the European companies and Plassey to Independence, then Governors-General, Acts and Congress sessions, with no fact repeated across the chapter.
  • All four SSC question types — direct questions, statement questions, match the following and assertion–reason.
  • Optional 15-minute timer — with the clock for exam speed, without it while you are still learning the facts.
  • Marking: +2 correct, −0.5 wrong, 0 unattempted — the same scheme as the real paper.
  • 6–7 point solutions open after you submit — the answer, the facts around it (dates, leaders, sessions, Acts, Viceroys) and what each wrong option actually refers to, so one question revises a whole topic.
  • English and Hindi — every test is available in both; choose the language when you start.
  • Free with a TrickySSC account — sign in once with Google or your mobile number, and every test is open to you.

How to Prepare Modern History for SSC CGL

  1. Keep a Viceroy table. Governor-General or Viceroy – years – Acts, wars and events in his time. More SSC questions come out of this one table than any other part of Modern India.
  2. Learn the Congress sessions as a list. Year, place and president for each session, with the firsts marked — 1885 Bombay, 1887 Tyabji, 1917 Annie Besant, 1925 Sarojini Naidu, 1929 Lahore, 1938 Haripura.
  3. Pair every organisation with its founder and year. Brahmo Samaj – Rammohan Roy – 1828, Arya Samaj – Dayanand – 1875, Ghadar Party – Hardayal – 1913. These pairs are among the most repeated questions.
  4. Read the solutions, not just the answer. Each solution here carries six or seven related facts — reading them is how 350 questions cover the whole chapter.
  5. Revise in short rounds. One test a day keeps the earlier periods fresh while you move ahead, and then check yourself on a previous year paper.

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SSC CGL Modern History — Frequently Asked Questions

How many Modern History questions are asked in SSC CGL?
History as a whole gives three to four of the 25 General Awareness questions in most SSC CGL Tier I shifts, and Modern India with the freedom struggle is usually two of them — the largest share of the three periods. CHSL, MTS and the Tier II General Awareness paper follow the same pattern.
Which Modern India topics are most important for SSC?
The Gandhian movements from Champaran to Quit India come up most often, followed by Congress sessions and their presidents, the Revolt of 1857, Governors-General and their reforms, socio-religious reformers, the revolutionaries, and the Acts from the Regulating Act of 1773 to the Indian Independence Act of 1947.
How many tests and questions are in this chapter?
Fourteen tests of 25 questions each, 350 questions in all. They run in syllabus order, from the arrival of the Europeans in Test 1 to Governors-General, Congress sessions and famous sayings in Test 14, and no fact is asked twice.
Are the Modern History tests available in Hindi?
Yes. Every test is available in both English and Hindi with the same questions and the same answer key, and you choose the language when you start the test.
What kind of questions are in the tests?
All four kinds SSC uses for history: direct one-line questions, statement questions, match the following and assertion-reason. Most are direct questions, as in the real paper.
What do the solutions contain?
Six to seven short points for every question: the answer, the related facts around it such as dates, leaders, sessions, Acts and Viceroys, and what each wrong option actually refers to.
Is there a timer, and what is the marking scheme?
An optional 15-minute timer per test, and the real exam marking of +2 for a correct answer, −0.5 for a wrong one and 0 for an unattempted question.
Are the Modern History tests free?
Yes, every test is free. You need a free TrickySSC account to start one — sign in once with Google or your mobile number and every test is open to you.

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