Indian History Based Questions asked in various Exams (Part 28)

281.      The\r\nprovince of Bengal was partitioned into two parts in 1905 by

        (1) Lord Lytton

        (2) Lord Ripon

        (3) Lord Dufferin

        (4) Lord Curzon

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282.      The\r\nIndian Councils Act of 1909 is also known as

        (1) The Montagu Declaration

        (2) The Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms

        (3) The Morley-Minto Reforms

        (4) The Rowlatt Act

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283.      The\r\nHome Rule League was started by

        (1) M.K.Gandhi

        (2) B.G.Tilak

        (3) Ranade

        (4) KT.Telang

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284.      The\r\nSimon Commission was boycotted by Indians because

        (1) it sought to curb civil liberties of the Indians

        (2) it proposed to partition India

        (3) it was an all-white commission without Indian\r\nrepresentation

        (4) it proposed measures to contain nationalism

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285.      The\r\nword ‘Veda’ means

        (1) knowledge    (2) wisdom

        (3) skill                (4)\r\npower

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286.      Ain-i-Akbariwas\r\nwritten by

        (1) Farishta         (2)\r\nIbn-Batuta

        (3) Abul Fazl      (4)\r\nBirBal

287.      The\r\nmedieval city of Vijayanagar is now known as

        (1) Chandragiri  (2) Halebidu

        (3) Hampi           (4)\r\nKondavidu

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288.      Which\r\none of the following Mughal buildings is said to possess the unique feature of\r\nbreing exactly equal in length and beadth?

        (1) Agra Fort      (2)\r\nRed Fort

        (3) Taj Mahal    (4)\r\nBuland Darwaza

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289.      The\r\nfounder of the ‘Brahmo Samaj’ was

        (1) Swami Dayananda Saraswati

        (2) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

        (3) Raja Ram Mohun Roy

        (4) Swami Vivekananda

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290.      The\r\ncorrect chronological order in which the British established their trading\r\ncentre in the places mentioned below is

        (1) Calcutta, Bombay, Madras, Surat

        (2) Bombay, Madras, Surat,\r\nCalcutta

        (3) Surat, Madras, Bombay, Calcutta

        (4) Surat, Madras,Calcutta, Bombay

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281. (4) The\r\ndecision to effect the Partition of Bengal was announced in July 1905 by the\r\nViceroy of India, Lord Curzon. The partition took effect in October 1905 and\r\nseparated the largely Muslim eastern areas from the largely Hindu western\r\nareas. Indians were outraged at what they recognised as a “divide and rule”\r\npolicy, where the colonizers turned the native population against itself in\r\norder to rule, even though Curzon stressed it would produce administrative\r\nefficiency. The partition animated the Hindus and led the Muslims to form their\r\nown national organization. Bengal was reunited in 1911

282. (3) Government\r\nof India Act of 1909 is also known as Morley- Minto Reforms. After Lord\r\nCurzon’s partitioning of Bengal, terrorism invoked in the land of Bengal and it\r\nwas an absolute necessity to restore stability of the British Raj. So in order\r\nto crack down the terrorist act in Bengal, John Morley, the Liberal Secretary\r\nof State for India and The Earl of Minto, the Conservative Governor General of\r\nIndia, together came to a common opinion that a dramatic step was required.\r\nThis Act also gave security to the loyal followers of Indian upper classes and\r\nupcoming westernized section of the population.

283. (2) The All\r\nIndia Home Rule League was a national political organization founded in 1916 to\r\nlead the national demand for self-government, termed Home Rule, and to obtain\r\nthe status of a Dominion within the British Empire. Between 1916 and 1918, when\r\nthe war was closing, prominent Indians like Joseph Baptista, Bal Gangadhar\r\nTilak, G. S. Khaparde, Sir S. Subramania Iyer and the leader of the\r\nTheosophical Society, Annie Besant decided to organize a national alliance of\r\nleagues across India, specifically to demand Home Rule, or self-government\r\nwithin the British Empire for all of India. Tilak founded the first League in\r\nthe city of Pune, Maharashtra.

284. (3) In\r\nNovember 1927, the British

         government appointed the Indian Statutory Commission, known\r\npopularly after the name of its chairman as the Simon Commission, to go into\r\nthe question of further constitutional reform. All the members of the\r\nCommission were Englishmen. This announcement was greeted by a chorus of\r\nprotest from all Indians. What angered them most was the exclusion of Indians\r\nfrom the Commission and the basic notion behind this exclusion that foreigners\r\nwould discuss and decide upon India’s fitness for self-government.

285. (1) The\r\nVedas (“knowledge”) are a large body of texts originating in ancient India.\r\nComposed in Vedic Sanskrit, the texts constitute the oldest layer of Sanskrit\r\nliterature and the oldest scriptures of Hinduism. The Vedas are apauruveya\r\n(“not of human agency”). They are supposed to have been directly revealed, and\r\nthus are called sruti (“what is heard”), distinguishing them from other\r\nreligious texts, which are called smriti (“what is remembered”).

286. (3) The\r\nAin-i-Akbari ( “Constitu- tion of Akbar”, is a 16th century, detailed document\r\nrecording the administration of emperor Akbar’s empire, written by his vizier,\r\nAbu’I-Faztibn Mubarak. It makes the Volume III and the final part of the much\r\nlarger document, the Akbarnarna (the Book of Akbar, also by Abul Fazl, and it\r\nitself is in three volumes. It is at present kept in the Hazarduari Palace, in\r\nWest Bengal.

287. (3) Vijayanagara is in\r\nBellary District, northern Karnataka. It is the name of the now-ruined capital\r\ncity that surrounds modern-day Hampi, of the historic Vijayanagara empire which\r\nextended over the southern part of India. The name translates as ‘City of\r\nVictory’, from vijaya (victory) and nagara (city). As the prosperous capital of\r\nthe largest and most powerful kingdom of its time in all oflndia, Vijayanagara\r\nattracted people from

         all around the world.

288. (3) The Taj\r\nMahal is a white marble mausoleum located in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was\r\nbuilt by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his third wife, Mumtaz Mahal.\r\nThe tomb is the central focus of the entire complex of the Taj Mahal. The\r\nmarble dome that surmounts the tomb is the most spectacular feature. Its height\r\nof around 35 metres is about the same as the length of the base, and is\r\naccentuated as it sits on a cylindrical “drum” which is roughly 7 metres high.

289. (3) Brahmo\r\nSamaj was conceived at Kolkata in 1830 by Devendranath Tagorc and Ram Mohan Roy\r\nas reformation of the prevailing Brahmanism of the time (specifically Kulin\r\npractices) and began the Bengal Renaissance of the 19th century pioneering all\r\nreligious, social and educational advance of the Hindu community in the 19th\r\ncentury, n practice, a Brahmo Samaj is an assembly of all sorts and\r\ndescriptions of people without distinction, meeting publicly for the sober,\r\norderly, religious and devout adoration of “the (nameless) unsearchable\r\nEternal, Immutable Being who is the Author and Preserver of the Universe.

290. (3) 1613-14:\r\nBritish East India Company set up trading post at Surat; 1639: The local king\r\nof Madras granted the Company a lease; 1662: King Charles II of England was\r\ngiven Bombay as dowry after marrying the Portuguese princess; and, 1667: The\r\nEnglish obtained the royal farman to trade in Bengal from the Mughal Emperor\r\nAurangzeb. The three small villages in the east of India called Sutanati, Gobin\r\ndapore and Kalikata were renamed Calcutta in 1690.

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