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

291.      The\r\nRevolt of 1857 was started by

        (1) the Sepoys

        (2) the Zan indars

        (3) the Peasants

        (4) the Plantation Workers

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292.      After\r\nleaving the Congress, Subhash Chandra Bose formed, in 1939, his own party,\r\nnamed

        (1) Socialist Bloc

        (2) Revolutionary Socialist\r\nBloc

        (3) Forward Bloc

        (4) Socialist-Congress Bloc

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293.      Bal\r\nGangadhar Tilak was given the epithet of Lokamanya during

        (1) his imprisonment in 1908

        (2) Home Rule Movement

        (3) Revoelutionary Movement

        (4) Swadeshi Movement

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294.      ‘Do or\r\nDie’ (Karenge ya Marenge) — Gandhiji gave this Mantra to the nation on the eve\r\nof which mass movement ?

        (1) Rowlatt Satyagraha

        (2) Salt Satyagraha

        (3) Quit India Movement

        (4) Non-Cooperation Movement

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295.      Which\r\nof the following was established by B.R. Ambedkar ?

        (1) Swaraj Party

        (2) Samaj Samata Party

        (3) All India Scheduled Castes Federation

        (4) The Independent Labour Party

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296.      Who was\r\nin favour of a partyless democracy ?

        (1) Jai Prakash Narain

        (2) Bhupendra Nath Dutta

        (3) M.N. Roy

        (4) Jawaharlal Nehru

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297.      The\r\nfirst Defence Minister of India was

        (1) K. M. Cariappa

        (2) Gopalaswami Aiyangar

        (3) Baldev Singh

        (4) Sardar Patel

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298.      Provincial\r\nautonomy was introduced in India by the

        (1) Indian Councils Act, 1909

        (2) Government of India Act, 1919

        (3) Government of India Act, 1935

        (4) Indian Independence Act, 1947

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299.      The\r\nfirst woman to become a Chief Minister of any State in India was

        (1) Nandini Satpathy

        (2) Dr. J. Jayalalitha

        (3) Sucheta Kripalani

        (4) Ms. Mayawati

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300.      Which metal was first used by\r\nthe Vedic people ?

        (1) Silver             (2)\r\nGold

        (3) Iron                (4)\r\nCopper

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291. (1) The\r\nIndian Rebellion of 1857 began as a mutiny of sepoys of the East India\r\nCompany’s army on 10 May 1857, in the town of Meerut, and soon escalated into\r\nother mutinies and civilian rebellions largely in the upper Gangetic plain and\r\ncentral India, with the major hostilities confined to present-day Uttar\r\nPradesh, Bihar, northern Madhya Pradesh, and the Delhi region.

292. (3) The All\r\nIndia Forward Bloc is a leftwing nationalist political party in India which\r\nemerged as a faction within the Indian National Congress in 1939, led by Subhas\r\nChandra Bose. The Forward Bloc of the Indian National Congress was formed on 3\r\nMay 1939 by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, who had resigned from the presidency of\r\nthe Indian National Congress on April 29 after being outmaneuvered by Mohandas\r\nK. Gandhi.

293. (2) Bal\r\nGangadhar Tilak was conferred with the honorary title of “Lokamanya”, which\r\nliterally means “Accepted by the people (as their leader)”. He was honored with\r\nthe title ‘Lokamanya’ in 1893 which became synonymous with him in the 1900.\r\nTilak rejoined the Indian National Congress in 1916. He also helped found the\r\nAll India Home Rule League in 1916-18, with G. S. Khaparde and Muhammad Ali\r\nJinnah and Annie Besant. After years of trying to reunite the moderate and\r\nradical factions, he gave up and focused on the Home Rule League, which sought\r\nself-rule. Tilak traveled from village to village trying to conjure up support\r\nfrom farmers and locals to join the movement towards self-rule.

294. (3) The Quit\r\nIndia Movement or the August Movement (August Kranti) was a civil disobedience\r\nmovement launched in India in August 1942 in response to Mohandas Gandhi’s call\r\nfor immediate independence. The All-India Congress Committee proclaimed a mass\r\nprotest demanding what Gandhi called “an orderly British withdrawal” from\r\nIndia. The call for determined, but passive resistance appears in his call to\r\nDo or Die, issued on 8 August at the Gowalia Tank Maidan in Bombay.

295. (3)\r\nScheduled Castes Federation, was a political party in India, founded by Dr.\r\nAmbedkar in 1942 to fight for the rights of the Dalit community. SCF was the\r\nsuccessor organization of the Independent Labour Party led by Ambedkar. SCF\r\nlater evolved into the Republican Party oflndia.

296. (1) In\r\nIndia, two great leaders, M.N. Roy and Jayaprakash Narayan, have at different\r\ntimes advocated partyless democracy. Jayprakash Narayan never held a formal\r\nposition in the government, but remained a leading political personality\r\noperating outside party politics. Late in his life, he regained prominence as\r\nan active critic of the increasingly authoritarian policies of Prime Minister\r\nIndira Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi’s daughter. His reform movement called for\r\n“partyless democracy,” decentrali- zation of power, village autonomy and a more\r\nrepresentative legislature. Narayan was popular for his Four Theories-Marxism,\r\nDemocratic Socialism, Partyless Democracy based on Sarvodaya and Total Revolution.

297. (3) Baldev\r\nSingh was an Indian Sikh political leader who was an Indian independence\r\nmovement leader and the first Defence Minister of India. Moreover, he\r\nrepresented the Punjabi Sikh community in the processes of negotiations that\r\nresulted in the independence of India, as well as the Partition of India in\r\n1947. After independence, Baldev Singh was chosen to become as the first\r\nMinister of Defence, and served in this post during the first Kashmir war\r\nbetween India and Pakistan.

298. (3) The most\r\nsignificant aspects of the Government of lndia Act 1935 were: the grant of a\r\nlarge measure of autonomy to the provinces of British India (ending the system\r\nof dyarchy introduced by the Government of India Act 1919) and provision for\r\nthe establishment of a “Federation oflndia”, to be rrfede up of both British\r\nIndia and some or all of the “princely states”. However, the degree of autonomy\r\nintroduced at the provincial level was subject to important limitations: the\r\nprovincial Governors retained important reserve powers, and the British\r\nauthorities also retained a right to

         suspend responsible government.

299. (3) Sucheta\r\nKriplani, born Sucheta Mazumdar, was an Indian freedom fighter and politician\r\nin Uttar Pradesh, India. She became the first woman to be elected Chief\r\nMinister of Uttar Pradesh in 1963. The highlight\r\nof her tenure was the firm handling of a state employees strike. The first-ever\r\nstrike by the state employees which continued for 62 days took place during her\r\nregime. She relented only when the employees’ leaders agreed for compromise.

300.      (4) The Rig Veda mentions such artisans as the carpenter, the\r\nchariot-maker, the weaver, the leather worker, the potter, etc. This indicates\r\nthat they practiced all these crafts. The term, ayas used for copper or bronze\r\nshows that metal working was known. Gold was known as ‘hiranya’.

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