Indian History Based on Questions asked in various Exams (Part 3)

21.   The father\r\nof extremist movement in India is :

        (1) Motilal Nehru

        (2) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

        (3) Vallabhbhai Patel

        (4) BalGangadharTilak

(SSC Combined Graduate Level\r\nPrelim Exam. 04.07.1999 (1st Sitting)

22.   Through\r\nwhich principle or device did Gandhiji strive to bridge economic inequalities?

        (1) Abolition of machinery

        (2) Establishment of village industries

        (3) Trusteeship theory

        (4) None of the above

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23.   Mahatma\r\nGandhi got his inspiration for Civil Disobedience from :

        (1) Tuoreau        (2)\r\nRuskin

        (3) Confucius     (4)\r\nTolstoy

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24.   The first\r\nIndian selected for Indian Civil Service was :

        (1) Surendra Nath Banerji

        (2) Satyendranath Tagore

        (3) Lala Lajpat Rai

        (4) C.R. Das

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25.   Which\r\nstatement on the Harappan Civilisation is correct?

        (1) Horse sacrifice was known to them.

        (2) Cow was sacred to them.

        (3) ‘Pashupati’ was venerated by them.

        (4) The culture was not generally static.

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26.   The First\r\nTirthankara of the Jains was :

        (1) Arishtanemi (2)\r\nParshvanath

        (3) Ajitanath      (4)\r\nRishabha

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27.   The great silk-route\r\nto the Indians was opened by :

        (1) Kanishka      (2)\r\nAshoka

        (3) Harsha          (4)\r\nFa-Hien

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28.   The\r\ncapital of the Yadava rulers was :

        (1) Dwarasamudra

        (2) Warangal

        (3) Kafyani

        (4) Devagiri

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29.   The system\r\nof communal electorate in India was first introduced by:

        (1) Indian Council Act of 1892.

        (2) Minto-Morley reforms of 1909

        (3) Montagu-Chelmsford reforms of 1919

        (4) Government of India of 1935

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30.   Who\r\nrepresented India in the Second Round Table Conference?

        (1) Aruna Asaf Ali

        (2) Sucheta Kripalani

        (3) Sarojini Naidu

        (4) Kalpana Joshi

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21.   (4)\r\nLokmanya Tilak, born as Keshav Gangadhar Tilak (23 July 1856 - 1 August 1920),\r\nwas an Indian nationalist, journalist, teacher, social reformer, lawyer and\r\nindependence fighter who was the first popular leader of the Indian\r\nIndependence Movement. The British colonial authorities derogatorily called him\r\n“Father of the Indian unrest”. Tilak professed a different ethics from that of\r\nGandhi and followed a trend of extremism and violence, which earned him the\r\nappellation of the ‘father of Indian unrest’. He advocated ‘violence as the\r\nhigher duty’ based on his interpretation of the Bhagavad-Gita (‘Song of the\r\nLord’).

22.   (3) Trusteeship\r\nis a socio-economic philosophy that was propounded by Mahatma Gandhi. It\r\nprovides a means by which the wealthy people would be the trustees of trusts\r\nthat looked after the welfare of the people in general. This concept was\r\ncondemned by socialists as being in favor of the landlords, feudal princes and\r\nthe capitalists. Gandhi believed that the rich people could be persuaded to\r\npart with their wealth to help the poor. The founder of the Tata group, JRD\r\nTata was influenced by Gandhi’s idea of trusteeship. He developed his personal\r\nand professional life based on this idea.

23.   (1)\r\nMahatma Gandhi got inspiration of Civil Disobedience by reading a book of David\r\nThoreau who was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist,\r\nnaturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading\r\ntranscendentalist. He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon\r\nsimple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Civil Disobedience, an\r\nargument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to\r\nan unjust state. Thoreau’s philosophy of civil disobedience later influenced\r\nthe political thoughts and actions of such notable figures as Leo Tolstoy,\r\nMohandas Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

24. (2) Satyendranath Tagore was the

         first Indian to join the Indian Civil Service. He was an\r\nauthor, song composer, linguist and made significant contribution towards the\r\nemancipation of women in Indian society during the British Raj. Satyendranath\r\nwas selected for the Indian Civil Service in June, 1863. He served in the ICS\r\nfor about thirty years and retired as Judge of Satara in Maharashtra in 1897.\r\nHe was a brother of Ravindranath Tagore. Surendranath Banerjee appeared at the\r\nexamination in 1869 and joined the service in 1871. Romesh Dutt and Behari Lai\r\nGupta were the second and third Indian to qualify in the Indian Civil Services\r\nExamination in 1869.

25.   (4)\r\nPotteries of the Harappan Civilization bring out the gradual evolutionary trend\r\nin the culture. It is on the basis of different types of potteries and ceramic\r\nart from found over the different stages of the civilization, it can be said\r\nthat Harappan culture was not static and did not disappear suddenly. While\r\nshowing signs of decay, in course of time it rejuvenated itself by reviving\r\nsome of the earlier ceramic traditions and evolving new ones in the\r\ntransitional phase.

26.   (4) In\r\nJainism, Rishabh was the first of the 24 Tirthankaras who founded the Ikshavaku\r\ndynasty and was the first Tirthankara of the present age. Because of this, he\r\nwas called Adinath. He is mentioned in the Hindu text of the Bhagavata Purana\r\nas an avatar of Vishnu. In Jainism, a Tirthankara is a human being who helps in\r\nachieving liberation and enlightenment as an “Arihant” by destroying all of\r\ntheir soul constraining (ghati) karmas, became a rolemodel and leader for those\r\nseeking spiritual guidance.

27.   (1) The\r\nSilk Road or Silk Route is a modern term referring to a historical network of\r\ninterlinking trade routes across the Afro-Eurasian landmass that connected\r\nEast, South, and Western Asia with the Mediterranean and European world, as\r\nwell as parts of North and East Africa. Extending 6,500 km, the Silk Road gets\r\nits name from the lucrative Chinese silk trade along it, which began during the\r\nHan Dynasty (206 BC - 220 AD). The Kushan empire incorporated Samarkand,\r\nBokhara and Fergana, bordering on the Silk Road towns of Kashgar, Yarkand and\r\nKhotan. The main route from Central Asia into India, connecting India with the\r\nSilk Roads and the Mediterranean, ran through Gandhara. Kanishka sought to\r\npromote the thriving trade with the Silk Road centres like Kashgar and beyond,\r\nsending an envoy to Ttajan in Rome.

28.   (4) The\r\nSeuna, Sevuna or Yadavas of Devagiri (850-1334) was an Indian dynasty, which at\r\nits peak ruled a kingdom stretching from the Tungabhadra to the Narmada rivers,\r\nincluding present-day Maharashtra, north Karnataka and parts of Madhya Pradesh,\r\nfrom its capital at Devagiri (present-day Daulatabad in modern Maharas- htra).\r\nThe Yadavas initially ruled as feudatories of the Western Chalukyas. Around the\r\nmiddle of the 12th century, as the Chalukya power waned, they declared\r\nindependence and established rule that reached its peak under Singhana II.

29.   (2) The\r\nIndian Councils Act 1909, commonly known as the Morley-Minto Reforms,\r\nintroduced the system of communal electorate in India. It provided that\r\nIndian Muslims be allotted reserved seats in the Municipal and District Boards,\r\nin the Provincial Councils and in the Imperial Legislature; that the number of\r\nreserved seats be in excess of their relative population (25 percent of the\r\nIndian population); and, that only Muslims should vote for candidates for the\r\nMuslim seals (‘separate electorates’). These concessions were a constant source\r\nof strife during 1909-47.

30.   (3) The\r\nGandhi-Irwin Pact opened the way for Congress participation

         in this conference. Mahatma

         Gandhi was invited from India and attended as the sole\r\nofficial Congress representative accompanied by Sarojini Naidu and also Madan\r\nMohan Malaviya, Ghanshyam Das Birla, Muhammad Iqbal, Sir Mirza Ismail Divvan of\r\nMysore, S.K. Dutta and Sir Syed Ali Imam. Gandhi claimed that the Congress\r\nalone represented political India; that the Untouchables were Hindus and should\r\nnot be treated as a “minority”; and that there should be no separate\r\nelectorates or special safeguards for Muslims or other minorities. These claims\r\nwere rejected by the other Indian participants.

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