Indian History Based on Questions asked in various Exams (Part 16)

151. Rantharnbhor was

        (1) a Mughal palace

        (2) a Rajput fort

        (3) capital of the Khaljis

        (4) a Buddhist pilgrimage centre

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152.      How was\r\nBurma (now Myanmar) known to ancient Indians ?

        (1) Malayamandalam

        (2) Yavadwipa

        (3) Suvarnabhumi

        (4) Suvarnadwipa

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153.      Who\r\nscripted Gandhiji’s favorite song ‘Vaishnav Jan To....” ?

        (1) Narsinh Mehta

        (2) Premanand

        (3) Chunilal        (4)\r\nDharmiklal

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154.      Who was\r\nthe first Indian to be made a fellow of the Royal Society of London ?

        (1) Srinivas Ramanujam

        (2) A.C.Wadia   (3)\r\nC.V.Raman

        (4) PC. Mahalanobis

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155.      Which\r\nof these battles proved decisive in the Anglo-French rivalry in India ?

        (1) Battle of Wandiwash

        (2) Battle of Assaye

        (3) Battle of Chillianwala

        (4) Battle of Seringapatam

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156.      ‘Do or\r\nDie’ is the famous slogan given by

        (1) Mahatma Gandhi

        (2) Vallabhbhai Patei

        (3) Jawaharlal Nehru

        (4) Rajiv Gandhi

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157.      The\r\nEnglish established their first factory in India at

        (1) Bombay       (2)\r\nSurat

        (3) Sutanati        (4)\r\nMadras

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158.      In\r\nwhich of the following years, 26th January was celebrated as an independence\r\nday ?

        (1) 1930              (2)\r\n1929

        (3) 1942              (4)\r\n1946

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159.      Permanent\r\nRevenue Settlement of Bengal was introduced by

        (l) Clive               (2)\r\nHastings

        (3) Wellesley      (4)\r\nCornwallis

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160.      Who\r\nspoke : “At the stroke of midnight, when the world sleeps, India awakes to life\r\nand freedom” ?

        (1) Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose

        (2) Mahatnia Gandhi

        (3) Jawaharlal Nehru

        (4) C. Rajagopalachari

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151. (2)\r\nRanthambore Fort is a formidable fort and has been a focal point of historical\r\ndevelopments of Rajasthan. It is situated near Sawai Madhopur town in\r\nRajasthan. This fort is known for the glory and valor of brave Hammir Dev of\r\nChauhan dynasty. The fortress was captured by the kingdom of Mewar under Rana\r\nHamir Singh (1326-1364) and Rana Kumbha (1433-1468). After the reign of Rana\r\nKumbha’s successor Rana Udai Singh I (1468-1473) the fortress passed to the\r\nHada Rajputs of Bundi. Sultan Bahadur Shah of Gujarat captured the fortress\r\nfrom 1532 to 1535. The Mughal Emperor Akbar captured the fortress in 1559.

152. (3)\r\nSuvarnabhumi is a Sanskrit term meaning the “Golden Land” or “Land of Gold”,\r\ncoined by the ancient Indians which refers broadly to Southeast Asian region\r\nacross Gulf of Bengal and Eastern Indian Ocean; Lower Burma, Lower Thailand,\r\nLower Malay Peninsula, and Sumatra. Although it seems to cover vast region in\r\nSoutheast Asia, it is generally accepted that the name Suvarnabhumi was first\r\nused to refer more specifically to Lower Burma. Another term which was used by\r\nthe ancient Indians is Suvarnadvipa which means the “Golden Peninsula/Island”.\r\nSuvarnabhumi may have been used primarily as a vague general designation of an\r\nextensive region in Southeast Asia, but, over time, different parts of it came\r\nto be designated by the additional epithets of island, peninsula or city.

153. (1) Narsingh\r\nMehta was a poet-saint of Gujarat, India, and a member of the Nagar Brahmins\r\ncommunity, notable as a bhakta, an exponent of Vaishnava poetry. He is\r\nespecially revered in Gujarati literature, where he is acclaimed as its Adi\r\nKavi (Sanskrit for “first among poets”). His bhajan, Vaishnav Jan To was Mahatma\r\nGandhi’s favorite and had become synonymous to him. The bhajan tells us about\r\nthe life, ideals and mentality of a Vaishnav Jana (A follower of Vishnu or\r\nKrishna).

154. (2) Ardaseer\r\nCursetjee Wadia was the first Indian to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal\r\nSociety on May 27, 1841 which credited him with both the introduction of gas\r\nlighting to Bombay, as well as having “built a (sea-going] vessel of 60 tons to\r\nwhich he adapted a Steam Engine. He was an Indian shipbuilder and engineer.

155. (1) Battle\r\nof Wandiawash, (January 22, 1760), in the history of India, was a confrontation\r\nbetween the French, under the comte de Lally, and the British, under Sir Eyre\r\nCoote. It was the decisive battle in the Anglo-French struggle in southern\r\nIndia during the Seven Years’ War (1756-63). This was the Third Carnatic War\r\nfought between the French and the British.

156. (1) In 1942,\r\nalthough still committed in his efforts to “launch a non-violent movement”,\r\nGandhi clarified that the Quit India Movement would not be stopped by\r\nindividual acts of violence, saying that the “ordered anarchy” of “the present\r\nsystem of administration” was “worse than real anarchy.” He called on all\r\nCongressmen and Indians to maintain discipline via ahimsa, and Karo ya maro\r\n(“Do or die”) in the cause of ultimate freedom

157. (2) The\r\nBritish presence in India dates back to the early part of the seventeenth\r\ncentury. On 31 December, 1600, Elizabeth, then the monarch of the United\r\nKingdom, acceded to the demand of a large body of merchants that a royal\r\ncharter be given to a new trading company, The Governor and Company of\r\nMerchants of London, Trading into the East-Indies.” Between 1601 and 1613,\r\nmerchants of the East India Company took twelve voyages to India, and in 1609\r\nWilliam Hawkins arrived at the court of Jahangir to seek permission to\r\nestablish a British presence in India. Hawkins was rebuffed by Jahangir, but\r\nSir Thomas Roe, who presented himself before the Mughal Emperor in 1617, was\r\nrather more successful. Two years later, Roe gained Jahangir’s permission to\r\nbuild a British factory in Surat, and in 1639, this was followed by the\r\nfounding of Fort St. George (Madras).

158. (1) The\r\nPurna Swaraj declaration, or Declaration of the Independence of India was\r\npromulgated by the Indian National Congress on January 26, 1930, resolving the\r\nCongress and Indian nationalists to fight for Purna Swaraj, or complete\r\nself-rule independent of the British Empire. The flag of India had been hoisted\r\nby Congress President Jawaharlal Nehru on December 31, 1929, on the banks of\r\nthe Ravi River in Lahore, modern-day Pakistan. The Congress asked the people of\r\nIndia to observe January 26 as Independence Day.

159. (4) In 1784\r\nBritish Prime Minister Pitt the Younger tried to alter the Calcutta\r\nAdministration with Pitt’s India Act and in the year 1786 Charles Cornwallis\r\nwas sent out to India to supervise the alteration. In 1786 the Court of\r\nDirectors of East India Company first proposed The Permanent Settlement Act for\r\nBengal. Between 1786 and 1790 the Governor General Lord Cornwallis and Sir John\r\nShore (the later Governor General himself) debated over whether or not to\r\nintroduce Permanent settlement Act in Bengal. Shore’s point of argument was\r\nthat the native Zamindars could not trust the permanent Settlement and it would\r\ntake a long time for them to realize the genuineness of this act. But\r\nCornwallis believed that they would immediately accept Permanent Settlement Act\r\nand start investing in improving their land. In 1790 the Court of Directors\r\npassed a ten-year (Decennial) Settlement Act to the Zamindars, which was later\r\nchanged to Permanent Settlement Act on 1793.

160. (3)\r\nJawaharlal Nehru, gave this following speech as India’s first Prime Minister to\r\nthe Constituent Assembly in New Delhi at midnight on August 14, 1947: “At the\r\nstroke of midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and\r\nfreedom. A moment comes which comes but rarely in history, when we step out\r\nfrom the old to the new, then an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long\r\nsuppressed, finds utterance. It is fitting that at this solemn moment we take\r\nthe pledge of dedication to India and her people and to the still larger cause\r\nof humanity.”

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