Indian History Based on Questions asked in various Exams (Part 27)

261.      Gandhiji\r\nconsidered Khadi as a symbol of

        (1) industrialisation

        (2) economic independence

        (3) economic growth

        (4) moral purity

(SSC Section Officer (Audit) Exam. 10.12.2006)

262.      “India\r\nWins Freedom” is the autobiography of

        (1) AbulKalamAzad

        (2) Muhammad Ali

        (3) Zakir Hussain

        (4) Syed Ahmad Khan

(SSC Section Officer (Audit) Exam. 10.12.2006)

263.      Laws of\r\nheredity was put forward by

        (1) Mendel          (2)\r\nMendeleev

        (3) Pavlov           (4)\r\nKoch

(SSC Section Officer (Audit) Exam. 10.12.2006)

264.      The\r\nRound table conference at London met for the discussion of

        (1) Provision of Provincial Autonomy

        (2) A future Administration of India

        (3) Gandhi’s demands for calling off Civil Disobedience\r\nMovement

        (4) Congress claim to be the sole representative of Indians

(SSC Section Officer (Audit) Exam. 10.12.2006)

265.      Where\r\ndo you find the temple of Angkor Wat?

        (1) In Thailand  (2) In\r\nMalaysia

        (3) In Cambodia     (4)\r\nIn Myanmar

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266.      Whose\r\nachievements are recorded in the Allahabad Pillar inscription ?

        (1) Chandra Gupta Maurya

        (2) Samudra Gupta

        (3) Vikramaditya

        (4) Skand Gupta

(SSC Combined Graduate Level Prelim Exam. 04.02.2007 (Prist Sitting)

267.      Sardar\r\nVallabhbhai Patel was equated with

        (1) Mazzini         (2)\r\nCavour

        (3) Garibaldi       (4)\r\nBismarck

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268.      Which\r\nof the following was not ordered by Alauddin Khalji to control black-marketing\r\nand hoarding ?

        (1) Land revenue should be collected in kind

        (2) Cultivators should sell the harvested crops on the field\r\nonly

        (3) Merchants should sell all commodities in the open

        (4) More privileges should be given to Khuts and Muqad-dams

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269.      For\r\nwhich community were seats reserved by the Morley-Minto reforms ?

        (1) Jews               (2)\r\nMuslims

        (3) Christians     (4)\r\nSikhs

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270.      In Gandhian\r\nSocialism

        (1) State is required

        (2) State is not required

        (3) State is sometimes required and sometimes not required

        (4) State is neither required nor not required

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261. (2) The\r\nKhadi movement aimed at boycotting foreign goods and promoting Indian goods,\r\nthereby improving India’s economy. Mahatma Gandhi began promoting the spinning\r\nof khadi for rural self-employment and self-reliance (instead of using cloth\r\nmanufactured industrially in Britain) in 1920s India thus making khadi an\r\nintegral part and icon of the Swadeshi movement. The freedom struggle revolved\r\naround the use of khadi fabrics and the dumping of foreign-made clothes.

262. (1) Abul\r\nKalam Azad spent the final years of his life focusing on writing his book India\r\nWins Freedom, an exhaustive account of India’s freedom struggle and its\r\nleaders, which was published in 1957.

263. (1) The laws\r\nof heredity were discovered by Gregor Mendel in about 1856-1863. Mendel\r\nconducted experiments in plant hybridization, collecting the results of\r\ncross-fertilizing hundreds of edible pea plants. The results from Mendel’s\r\nexperiments confirmed his ideas about heredity: the law of segregation, which\r\nhas become known as Mendel’s First Law, and the law of independent assortment,\r\nalso known as Mendel’s Second Law.

264. (2) Round\r\nTable Conference (1930-32), in Indian history, was a series of meetings in\r\nthree sessions called by the British government to consider the future\r\nconstitution of India. The conference resulted from a review of the Government\r\nof India Act of 1919, undertaken in 1927 by the Simon Commission, whose report\r\nwas published in 1930. The conference was held in London.

265. (3) The\r\ntemple of Angor Vat is located in Angkor, Siem Reap Province, in Cambodia. It\r\nis the largest Hindu temple complex in the world. The temple was built by King\r\nSuryavarman II in the early 12th century In Yasodharapura, the capital of the\r\nKhmer Empire, as his state temple and eventual mausoleum. Breaking from the\r\nShaivism tradition of previous kings, Angkor Wat was instead dedicated to\r\nVishnu. As the best-preserved temple at the site, it is the only one to have\r\nremained a significant religious centre since its foundation - first Hindu,\r\ndedicated to the god Vishnu, then Buddhist. It has become a symbol of Cambodia,\r\nappearing on its national flag, and it is the country’s prime attraction for\r\nvisitors.

266. (2)\r\nAllahabad Stone Pillar Inscription of Samudra Gupta is writings in stone pillar\r\nduring the term of King Samudra Gupta located in Allahabad which mentioned\r\nevents during his tenure in and around his empire. It is one of the most\r\nimportant epigraphic evidences of the Imperial Guptas. Composed by Harisena, it\r\ndelineates the reign of the Guptas in ancient India. Achievements of different\r\nrulers of the Gupta lineage are also mentioned in the Allahabad Pillar\r\nInscription. Harisena was the court poet and minister of Samudragupta.

267. (4) Sardar\r\nVallabhbhai Jhaverbhai

         Patel played an unparalleled role in the country’s struggle\r\nfor independence and guided its integration into a united, independent nation.\r\nTherefore he is also regarded as the “Bismarck of India” and “Iron Man of\r\nIndia”. In India and across the world, he was often addressed as Sardar, which\r\nmeans Chief in Hindi, Urdu, and Persian.

268. (4) In order\r\nto accomplish his price control measure, Alauddin promulgated the following\r\nseven ordinances according to theTarikh-i-Firuzhshai: (1) all food prices were\r\nto be fixed; (ii) a high ranking official was to ensure that no tampering was\r\ndone; (iii) large storages of grain was established in Delhi; (iv) grain trade\r\nand transport were controlled by the government; (v) peasants and traders were\r\nprohibited from hoarding grains; (vi) the collection of revenue was to be made\r\nin kind and the government procurement of grain was to be done in the field to\r\neliminate the private storage of grain; and (vii) a daily status report on\r\nmarket prices had to be submitted to the Sultan.

269. (2) The\r\nIndian Councils Act 1909, commonly known as the Morley-Minto Reforms, gave the\r\nright of separate electorate to the Muslims. Before these reforms, Muslims had\r\nexpressed serious concern that a ‘first past the post’ British type of\r\nelectoral system would leave them permanently subject to Hindu majority rule.\r\nThe Act of 1909 stipulated, as demanded by the Muslim leadership that Indian\r\nMuslims be allotted reserved seats in the Municipal and District Boards, in the Provincial Councils\r\nand in the Imperial Legislature; that the number of reserved seats be in excess\r\nof their relative population (25 percent of the Indian population): and, that\r\nonly Muslims should vote for candidates for the Muslim seats (‘separate\r\nelectorates’).

270. (2) Gandhian\r\nsocialism is the branch of socialism based on theories of Gandhi. The theory is\r\ninspired from Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule written by Gandhi.\r\nDecentralization of political and economical power, Skeptic approach towards\r\ntechnology and large scale industrialization, Emphasis on Self-employment,\r\nEmphasis on self-reliance are the few features of Gandhian Socialism. Gandhi\r\nrepudiated both State and -reformist socialism because the first attempted to\r\nimpose socialism from the top, whilst the second tolerated and sometimes even\r\ncondoned violence as an inescapable means to attain its ends

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