Indian History Based on Questions asked in various Exams (Part 11)

101.      The\r\noriginal name of Swami Dayananda Saraswati was

        (1) Abhi Shankar

        (2) Gowri Shankar

        (3) Daya Shankar

        (4) Mula Shankar

(SSC CPO Sub-Inspector Exam. 07.09.2003)

102.      The\r\nSwadeshi Movement was launched

        (1) as a protest against division of Bengal

        (2) with a view to improve the economic condition of the\r\npeople by encouraging consumption of Indian goods

        (3) as a protest against the massacre of Indian people at Jallianwala\r\nBagh

        (4) due to the failure of the British Government to introduce\r\nresponsible Government in India

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103.      Epigraphy\r\nmeans

        (1) The study of coins

        (2) The study of inscriptions

        (3) The study of epics

        (4) The study of geography

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104.      The\r\n19th Century reawakening in India was confined to the

        (1) Priestly class

        (2) Upper middle class

        (3) Rich peasantry

        (4) Urban landlords

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105.      Who was\r\nthe first Indian to be elected to the British Parliament?

        (1) Dadabhai Naoroji

        (2) Gopala Krishna Gokhale

        (3) Bipin Chandra Pal

        (4) Lala Lajpat Rai

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106.      Who\r\nintroduced the perma-nent settlement in Bengal ?

        (1) Lord Cornwallis

        (2) Lord Dalhousie

        (3) William Bentinck

        (4) Lord Curzon

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107.      When\r\nwas the first passenger train run in India ?

        (1) January 1848         (2)\r\nApril 1853

        (3) May 1857          (4)\r\nApril 1852

(SSC Section Officer (Commercial Audit) Exam. 16.11.2003)

108.      Who\r\ndesigned the national flag of Independent India ?

        (1) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

        (2) RabindranathTagore

        (3) Mahatma Gandhi

        (4) PingaliVenkaiah

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109.      Which\r\nof the following European Colonisers did not have a settlement on the Eastern\r\nCoast of India?

        (1) French           (2)\r\nPortuguese

        (3) Dutch            (4)\r\nDanish

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110.      In\r\nwhich session of Indian National Congress the tricolour flag was unfurled for\r\nthe first time?

        (1) Calcutta Session, 1920

        (2) Annual Session of Congress at Nagpur, 1920

        (3) Lahore Congress, 1929

        (4) Haripura Congress Conference, 1938

(SSC Section Officer (Audit) Exam. 14.12.2003)

101. (4)\r\nDayananda Saraswati was an important Hindu religious scholar, reformer, and\r\nfounder of the Arya Samaj, a Hindu reform movemert. He was the first to give\r\nthe call for Swarajya- “India for Indians” - in 1876, later taken up by\r\nLokmanya Tilak. Since he was born under Mul Nakshatra, he was named\r\n“Moolshankar”, and led a comfortable early life, studying Sanskrit, the Vedas\r\nand other religious texts to prepare himself for a future as a Hindu priest.

102. (1) The\r\nSwadeshi movement, part of the Indian independence movement and the developing\r\nIndian nationalism, was an economic strategy aimed at removing the British\r\nEmpire from power and improving economic conditions in India by following the\r\nprinciples of swadeshi (self-sufficiency), which had some success. Strategies\r\nof the Swadeshi movement involved boycotting British products and the revival\r\nof domestic products and production processes. The Swadeshi Movement started\r\nwith the partition of Bengal by the Viceroy of India, Lord Curzon, 1905 and\r\ncontinued up to 1908.

103. (2) Epigraphy is the study of inscriptions on rocks, pillars, temple\r\nwalls, copper plates and other writing material. It is the study of\r\ninscriptions or epigraphs as writing; it is the science of identifying\r\ngraphemes,

100.   clarifying their meanings, classifying their uses according to dates and\r\ncultural contexts, and drawing conclusions about the writing and the writers.\r\nIt serves as primary documentary evidence to establish legal, socio-cultural,\r\nliterary, archaeological, and historical antiquity on the basis of engravings.

104. (2) The 19th century awakening in India was on the hand led by the\r\nvery presence of the British rule in India and the education of the middle\r\nclasses. The soil for the growth of Indian nationalism and political awakening\r\nwas prepared by the socio-religious reform movements of the 19th century.\r\nAlthough the English educated class was a minority of the whole population of\r\nIndia but its influence and leadership could mould public opinion as the\r\nnewspapers, educational institutions and the advocates of the legal courts were\r\nall greatly influenced by the opinion of this group.

105. (1) Dadabhai Naoroji, known as the Grand Old Man of India, was a\r\nParsi intellectual, educator, cotton trader, and an early Indian political and\r\nsocial leader. His book Poverty and Un-British Rule in India brought attention\r\nto the draining of India’s wealth into Britain. He was a Member of Parliament\r\n(MP) in the United Kingdom House of Commons between 1892 and 1895, and the\r\nfirst Asian to be a British Member of Parliament. He is also credited with the\r\nfounding of the Indian National Congress, along with A.O. Hume and Dinshaw\r\nEdulji Wacha.

106. (1) The Permanent Settlement was an agreement between the East India\r\nCompany and Bengali landlords to fix revenues to be raised from land, with\r\nfar-reaching consequences for both agricultural methods and productivity in the\r\nentire Empire and the political realities of the Indian countryside. It was\r\nconcluded in 1793, by the Company administration headed by Charles, Earl\r\nCornwallis. It formed one part of a larger body of legislation enacted known as\r\nthe Cornwallis Code.

107. (2) The first train in India had become operational on 22 December\r\n1851 for localized hauling of canal construction material in Roorkee. A year and\r\na half later, on 16 April 1853, the first passenger train service was\r\ninaugurated between Bori Bunder in Bombay and Thane. Covering a distance of 34\r\nkilometres, it was hauled by three locomotives, Sahib, Sindh, and Sultan. This\r\nwas soon followed by opening of the first passenger railway line in North India\r\nbetween Allahabad and Kanpur on March 3, 1859.

108. (4) The National flag of I ndia is a horizontal rectangular tricolor\r\nflag, of India saffron, white and India green; with the Ashok Chakra, a 24-spoke\r\nwheel, in navy blue at its centre. It was adopted in its present form during a\r\nmeeting of the Constituent Assembly held on 22 July 1947, when it became the\r\nofficial flag of the Dominion of India. The flag is based on the Swaraj flag, a\r\nflag of the Indian National Congress designed by Pingali Venkayya. During the\r\nNational conference of Indian National Congress at Kakinada, Venkayya suggested\r\nthat India should have a national flag of its own and Mahatma Gandhi liked this\r\nproposal. He suggested that Venkayya could come up with a

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109. (4) The Eastern Coastal Plains refer to a wide stretch of landmass\r\nof India, lying between the Eastern Ghats and the Bay of Bengal. These plains\r\nare wider and level as compared to the western coastal plains. It stretches\r\nfrom Tamil Nadu in the south to West Bengal in the north. Of all the foreigners\r\nwho established themselves on the Malabar Coast the Danes were the least\r\nsuccessful. There were several factors which brought to pass this eventuality.\r\nThe limited resources of Denmark, with its inadequate manpower, were no match\r\nfor those of their fellow traders like the Portuguese, the Dutch and the\r\nEnglish.

110. (3) On December 31, 1929, the newly adopted tricolour flag was\r\nunfurled at the Lahore session of the Indian National Congress. At this\r\nsession, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru as the newly elected president spoke the\r\nfollowing inspiring words: ‘I have just unfurled the National Flag of\r\nHindustan. What is the meaning of this flag? It is symbol of India’s unity. The\r\nflag under which you stand today and which you have just saluted does not\r\nbelong to any particular section of society or community. It is the flag of the\r\ncountry. All those who stand today under this flag are Indians, not Hindus, not\r\nMuslims, but Indians. Remember once again, now that this flag is unfurled, it\r\nmust not be lowered so long as a single Indian, man, woman, or child lives in\r\nIndia.”

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