Saturday, 16 May 2015

Modern History: 05

INDIAN NATIONAL MOVEMENT

1.    The freedom struggle in India was greatly inspired by the cry of ‘liberty, equality, fraternity’, which were associated with the ----- French Revolution

2.    The governor General when the 1857 revolt broke out ------- Canning

3.    Which one of the following was not a political association to be set up during the pre-congress phase before the revolt of 1857? -------
   (a) The British Indian Association
   (b) The Indian association
   (c) Madras Native association
   (d) Landholder’s Society at Calcutta

Ans. (b) The Indian association

4.    Raja Ram Mohan’s tradition was carried on after his death by the radical  Bengali Youth. They known as ------ Derozians

5.    The immediate cause which precipitated the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857 was
(a)  Introduction of catridges greased with cow’s fat
(b)  Dalhousie’s Doctrine of Lapse
(c)  Madras Native Association
(d)  Landholder’s Society at Calcutta

Ans. (a) Introduction of catridges greased with cow’s fat

6.    The revolt of 1857 was started from ---------- Meerut

7.    The first Sepoy was refused to use the greased catridge and killed an Adjutant was ------ Mangal Pandey

8.    One of the immediate results of the mutiny was that it led to ----- Assumption of direct responsibility for administration of India by the crown

9.    The nature and character of the revolt of 1857 was ----- It was broadly a political movement which aimed at the elimination of foreign rule and return of the old order

10. Which one of the following was not a reason that why the revolt of 1857 cannot be called a national war of Independence-
(a)  None of the rulers of the leading states joined in the revolt
(b)  Even in Avadh and Rohilikhand the uprising was of a subdued and minor character and localized in different pockets without common objectives
(c)  The Sikhs, who had been subdued very recently, made no attempt to recover their independence and marched out to join the british forces at Delhi.
(d)  All the Indian Sepoys did not rise against the British government and southern India as a whole remained quiet.

Ans. (b) Even in Avadh and Rohilikhand the uprising was of a subdued and minor character and localized in different pockets without common objectives

11. Which one of the following is not a major political cause of the revolt of 1857
(a)  Lord Dalhousie’s policy of indiscrimination annexation and Doctrine of lapse
(b)  The withdrawal of the pension of Nana Sahib
(c)  After the defeat of the Sikhs and annexation of the Punjab, the properties of the Lahore Durbar were auctioned and the Kohi-i-Noor was sent to England.
(d)  The absence of sovereignship of the British rule in India.

Ans. (c) After the defeat of the Sikhs and annexation of the Punjab, the properties of the Lahore Durbar were auctioned and the Kohi-i-Noor was sent to England.

12. Which one of the following was not an administrative and economic causes of the rebellion of 1857?
(a)  The Indian aristocracy was deprived of power and position since all high posts, civil and military, were reserved for the Europeans
(b)  The administration of Avadh after its annexation received popular acclaim and aroused the jealously of other ruling princes
(c)  The land revenue policy was most unpopular
(d)  To the Indian mind, the British system of Justice being time consuming and expensive, was a deliberate method to impoverish the people.

Ans. (b) The administration of Avadh after its annexation received popular acclaim and aroused the jealously of other ruling princes

13. Which of the following one of the military causes for the revolt of 1857?
(a)  The discipline in the army had become very lax on account of the system of promotion by seniority only, as well as by the transfer of able military officersto civil posts
(b)  The wooing of high-cast Hindu sepoys by ‘white’ officers was greatly resented
(c)  Lord Canning’s General services Enlistment Act, 1856, imposed on the sepoys the obligation to serve wherever required
(d)  The sad blunder of the ‘greased catridges’ fanned the smouldering  discontent into a devouring flame.

Ans. (b) The wooing of high-cast Hindu sepoys by ‘white’ officers was greatly resented

14. Nana Sahib’s commander-in-chief was --------Tantia Tope

15. The 1857 revolt was led in Delhi by ------ Bhakti Khan

16. ‘First war of Indian independence’, who said this for the first time, regarding the revolt of 1857? -----V D. Saverkar

17. Dalhousie annexed Awadh for the British empire in India through ------ state being maladministred

18. A leader of the revolt 1857 escaped to Nepal never to be heard their after ----------  Nana Sahib

19. The non-precursor of the 1857 revolt ------- Ulgulan


20. The Kuka movement was founded in ------- Punjab

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