Indian History Based on Questions asked in various Exams (Part 25)

241.      Who is\r\ngenerally acknowledged as the pioneer of local self-government in modern India\r\n?

        (1) Ripon            (2)\r\nMayo

        (3) Lytton           (4)\r\nCurzon

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242.      The\r\nillustrious names of Aryabhatta and Varahamihir are associated with the age of\r\nthe

        (1) Guptas          (2)\r\nKushanas

        (3)  Mauryas      (4) Pa las

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243.      Who\r\namong the following was the religious Guru of Shivaji ?

        (1) Tukaram      (2)\r\nRamdas

        (3) Eknath          (4)\r\nJnanadeva

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244.      After\r\nthe Bardoli Satyagraha, the title of ‘Sardar’ to Vallabhbhai Patel was given by

        (1) Jawaharlal Nehru

        (2) Motilal Nehru

        (3) Mahatma Gandhi

        (4) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

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245.      ‘Sati’ was abolished by

        (1) Lord Ripon

        (2) Warren Hastings

        (3) Lord Cornwallis

        (4) William Bentinck

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246.      A new\r\ncoin called the’ Rupla’ was issued for the first time by

        (1) Ala-ud-din Khilji

        (2) Mohammed Shah Tughluq

        (3) SherShahSuri

        (4) Akbar

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247.      Mohan\r\nDas Karamchand Gandhi was called as ‘Mahatma’ by

        (1) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

        (2) Motilal Nehru

        (3) Jawaharlal Nehru

        (4) Rabindra Nath Tagore

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248.      The\r\n‘Mohammadan Anglo-Oriental College’ later became the

        (1) Osamania University

        (2) Jamia-Milia Muslim University

        (3) Baraktullah University

        (4) Aligarh Muslim University

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249.      ‘Poorna\r\nSwaraj’ (Complete Independence) was declared to be the goal of the Indian\r\nNational Congress in its Session of

        (1) Lucknow, 1916

        (2) Lahore, 1929

        (3) Tripuri, 1939

        (4) Lahore, 1940

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250.      Who was\r\nthe author of the book My Experiments with Truth ?

        (1) Aurobindo    (2) Tilak

        (3) Gandhi          (4)\r\nVinoba

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241. (1) Lord\r\nRipon’s Resolution of 18 May, 1882 is hailed as the Magna Carat of government\r\nand got for him the title of “father of local self-government in India. The\r\nresolution on local self-government recognised the twin considerations of local\r\ngovernment: (i) administrative efficiency and (ii) political education. The\r\nRipon Resolution, which focused on towns, provided for local bodies consisting\r\nof a large majority of elected non-official members and presided over by a\r\nnon-official chairperson.

242. (1) The\r\nGupta Empire was an ancient Indian empire which existed from approximately 320\r\nto 550 CE and covered much of the Indian Subcontinent. Scholars of this period\r\ninclude Varahamihira and Aryabhatta, who is believed to be the first to come up\r\nwith the concept of zero, postulated the theory that the Earth moves round the\r\nSun, and studied solar and lunar eclipses. The most famous works of Aryabhatta\r\nare the Aryabhatiya and the Arya-siddhanta.Varaha- mihira was an Indian\r\nastronomer, mathematician, and astrologer who lived in Ujjain. He is considered\r\nto be one of the nine jewels (Navaratnas) of the court of legendary ruler\r\nVikramaditya (thought to be the Gupta emperor Chandragupta II Vikramaditya).

243. (1) Ramdas\r\nwas the pjlitical strategist and spiritual guru of Shivaji. Samarth Ramdas\r\nfound that Shivaji had all the potential virtues to be a great leader and\r\ncreate a “Swarajya” (one’s own kingdom). Ramdas described Shivaji as “ |He is\r\nthe one with) a rock solid resolve, [He is] a source of support to the masses,\r\n[He is] the great unifier, [He is] a noble and just King).” Shivaji requested\r\nSamarth Ramdas to come and stay at Sajjangad (Fort Sajjangad near Satara) and\r\ncontinue his spiritual guidance to him and others in his kingdom.

244. (3) The\r\nBardoli SatySgraha of 1928, in the state of Gujarat, India during the period of\r\nthe British Raj, was a major episode of civil disobedience and revolt in the\r\nIndian Independence Movement. Its success gave rise to Vallabhbhai Patel as one\r\nof the greatest leaders of the independence struggle. While Patel credited\r\nGandhi’s teachings and the farmers’ undying resolve, people across the nation\r\nrecognized his vital leadership. Gandhi and his fellow satyagrahis called him\r\nSardar for the first time, which in Gujarati and most Indian languages means\r\nChief or Leader. It was after Bardoli that Sardar Patel became one of India’s\r\nmost important leaders.

245. (4) The\r\nsystem of Sati was abolished in India during the governor-generalship of Lord\r\nWilliam Bentinck. It was on 4 December 1829, when the practice was formally\r\nbanned in all the lands under Bengal Presidency by Bentinck. By this\r\nregulation, the people who abetted sati were declared guilty of “culpable\r\nhomicide.” Under the British control, Jaipur banned the practice in 1846.

246. (3) The\r\nsystem of tri- metalism which came to characterize Mughal coinage was\r\nintroduced by Sher Shah. While the term rupya had previously been used as a\r\ngeneric term for any silver coin, during his rule the term rupiya came to be\r\nused as the name for a silver coin of a standard weight of 178 grains, which\r\nwas the precursor of the modern rupee. Rupee is today used as the national\r\ncurrency in Pakistan, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Mauritius, Maldives,\r\nSeychelles among other countries. Gold coins called the Mohur weighing 169 grains\r\nand copper coins called Dam were also minted by his government.

247. (4) The\r\nhonorific Mahatma (“Great

         Soul”), was given to him in 1915 by his friend Rabindranath\r\nTagore. He never accepted the title because he considered himself unworthy of\r\nit. There are several accounts to this story but generally it is believed that\r\nthe poet Rabindranath Tagore called him Mahatma. Other story is that Nautamlal\r\nBhagavanji Mehta or the Nagar Sheth of Jetpur was the first to use and bestow\r\nMahatma for Gandhiji on January 21, 1915 at Kamri Bai School, Jetpur, India.

248. (4) Aligarh\r\nMuslim University was established by Sir Syed Ahmed Khan as Madrasatul Uloom\r\nMusalmanan-e-Hind, in 1875 which later became Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College\r\n(MAO College). It was designed to train Muslims for government service in India\r\nand prepare them for advanced training in British universities. The Mohammedan\r\nAnglo-Oriental College became Aligarh Muslim University in 1920.

249. (2) The\r\nannual session of Indian National Congress was held on the banks of river Ravi\r\nat Lahore in December 1929. Pt. Jawahar Lai Nehru was the Congress President.\r\nThe place where this session held was named as the Lajpat Rai Nagar. Nehru\r\ndrafted the Indian declaration of independence.

250. (3) The\r\nStory of My Experiments with Truth is the autobiography of Mohandas Karamchand\r\nGandhi, covering his life from early childhood through to 1921. It was written\r\nin weekly installments and published in his journal Navjivan from 1925 to 1929.\r\nIts English translation also appeared in installments in his other journal\r\nYoung India. It was initiated at the insistence of Swami Anand and other close\r\nco-workers of Gandhi, for him to explain the background of his public\r\ncampaigns. In 1999, the book was designated as one of the “100 Best Spiritual\r\nBooks of the 20th Century.”

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