Indian History Based Questions asked in various Exams (Part 32)

25 Mar 2015

321.      Who\r\namongst the following made it possible for the Indians to enter the Indian\r\nCivil Service through an open competitive examination?

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        (1) William Bentinck

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        (2) Dalhousie

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        (3) Mayo        (4)\r\nRipon

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322.      In\r\nwhich year Lala Lajpat Rai was deported to Mandalay for organising the agrarian\r\nmovement in Punjab?

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        (1) 1905              (2)\r\n1907

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        (3) 1909              (4)\r\n1911

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323.      Which\r\nGovernor General had entertained Ranjit Singh with great honour at Ropar?

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        (1) Mintol

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        (2) William Bentinck

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        (3) Hastings

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        (4) Auckland

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324.      The\r\nKhilji Sultans of Delhi were

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        (1) Mongols        (2)\r\nAfghans

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        (3) Turks             (4)  A Jat tribe

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325.      The\r\n“AryaSamaj” was founded by

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        (1) Swami Dayananda Saraswati

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        (2) Swami Vivekananda

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        (3) Keshav Chandra Sen

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        (4) Ishwar Chandra Vidya-sagar

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326.      Maulana\r\nAbul Kalam Azad started an Urdu Weekly, The Al-Hilal in 1912, but, on its being\r\nbanned by the Government, he founded at Al Balagh in

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        (1) 1913              (2)\r\n1914

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        (3) 1915              (4)\r\n1916

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327.      High\r\nCourts were established in Calcutta, Bombay and Madras in

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        (1) 1935              (2)\r\n1919

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        (3) 1892              (4)\r\n1861

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328.      Who was\r\nthe first Women President of Indian National Congress?

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        (1) Sarojini Naidu

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        (2) Sucheta Kripalani

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        (3) Rajkumari Amrit Kaur

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        (4) Annie Besant

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329.      Arabs\r\nwere defeated in 738 A.D. by

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        (1) Pratiharas

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        (2) Rashtrakutas

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        (3) Palas

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        (4) Chalukyas

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330.      Which\r\nof the following reform movements was the first to be started in the 19th\r\ncentury?

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        (1) Prarthana Samaj

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        (2) Brahrno Samaj

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        (3) AryaSamaj

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        (4) Rama Krishna Mission

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321. (2) For a\r\nlong time, only British officers were appointed to all covenanted posts. In\r\n1832, the posts of musif and sadar amin were created and opened to Indians. In\r\n1833, the posts of deputy magistrate and deputy collector were created and\r\nopened to Indians.The ICS Act of 1861 established the Indian Civil Service. The\r\nAct of 1853 had already established the practice of recruiting covenanted\r\ncivilians through competitive examinations. Till then, the Civil Servants were\r\nnominated by the Directors of the East India Company.

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322. (2) After\r\njoining the Congress Party and taking part in political agitation in the\r\nPunjab, Lajpat Rai was deported to Mandalay, Burma (Myanmar), without trial, in\r\nMay 1907. In November, -however, he was allowed to return when the viceroy,\r\nLord Minto, decided that there was insufficient evidence to hold him for\r\nsubversion.

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323. (2) Lord\r\nWilliam Bentinck met with Maharaja Ranjit Singh at Ropar, on the bank of the\r\nSutlej, in the spring of 1831. It was an occasion of a impressive ceremony and\r\ndisplay. Both sides met on the either side of Sutlej with their full forces.

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324. (3) The Khilji\r\ndynasty was a Muslim dynasty of Turkic Khalaj origin. The Khiljis ruled large\r\nparts of South Asia between 1290 and 1320. They were the second dynasty to rule the Delhi Sultanate\r\nof India. Led by their ruler, Ala-ud-din Khilji, they are noted for having repeatedly\r\ndefended India against the Mongol invasions of India.

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325.   (1) Arya Samaj is a Hindu\r\nreform movement founded by Swami Dayananda on 10 April 1875. On the 24th of\r\nJune, 1877, the second major Arya Samaj was established at Lahore.

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326. (3) With the\r\nonset of World War I, the British stiffened censorship and restrictions on\r\npolitical activity. Azad’s Al-Hilal was consequently banned in 1914 under the\r\nPress Act for spreading extremist views. From November 12, 1915, Azad started a\r\nnew journal, the Al-Balagh, which increased its active support for nationalist\r\ncauses and communal unity. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad again srarted propagating\r\nrevolutionary ideas and nationalism through this paper. During that time he\r\nsupported the Khilafat movement. In 1916 the government banned Al-Balagh under\r\nDefence of India Regulations Act.

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327. (4) British\r\nIndia’s three presidency towns of Madras (Chennai), Bombay (Mumbai), and\r\nCalcutta (Kolkata) were each granted a High Court by letters patent dated 26\r\nJune, 1862. The letters patent were issued by Queen Victoria under the\r\nauthority of the British parliament’s Indian High Courts Act 1861. The three\r\ncourts remain unique in modern India, having been established under British\r\nroyal charter; this is in contrast with the country’s other high courts, which\r\nhave been directly established under Indian legislation.

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328. (4) Annie\r\nBesant was the first woman President of Indian National Congress. She presided\r\nover the 1917 Calcutta session of the Indian National Congress. Annie Besant\r\nwas of Irish origin and was one of the few foreigners who played a significant\r\nrole in the Indian freedom movement.

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329. (4) The\r\nBattle of Rajasthan is a

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         battle (or series of battles) where the Hindu alliance\r\ndefeated the Arab invaders in 738 CE and removed the Arab invaders and\r\npillagers from the area east of the Indus River and protected whole India. The\r\nmain Indian kings who contributed to the victory over the Arabs were the north\r\nIndian ruler Nagabhata of the Pratihara Dynasty and the south Indian Emperor\r\nVikramaditya- II of the Chalukya dynasty in the 8th century.

\r\n\r\n330.        (2)\r\nThe Brahmo Samaj was the first modern Hindu reform movement. It was founded in\r\nCalcutta in 1828 by Ram Mohan Roy (1772-1833). As an expression of the social\r\nand religious views of a small but influential group of westernized Indians,\r\nthe Brahmo Samaj sought to create a purified form of Hinduism, a Hindu dharma\r\nfree of all Puranic elements such as temple rituals and image worship. Led by a\r\nseries of prominent Bengali intellectuals, the movement was a major factor in\r\nshaping Hindu responses to both secular and Christian influence from the West\r\nand thus helped pave the way for the so-called Hindu Renaissance in the late\r\n1800s.

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