Indian History Based Questions asked in various Exams (Part 35)

351.      During\r\nwhich Gupta King’s reign did the Chinese traveller Fa-hien visit India ?

        (1) Chandra Gupta I

        (2) Samudra Gupta

        (3) Chandra Gupta II

        (4) Kumara Gupta

(SSC CPO Sub-Inspector Exam. 09.11.2008)

352.      The\r\nadministrative consequence of the Revolt of 1857 was transfer of power from

        (1) East India Company to the British Crown

        (2) British Crown to the East India Company

        (3) East India Company to the Governor General

        (4) British Crown to the Board of Directors

(SSC CPO Sub-Inspector Exam. 09.11.2008)

353.      The\r\nissue on which the Civil Disobedience Movement of 1930 was launched was

        (1) equal employment opportunities for Indians

        (2) the proposed execution of Bhagat Singh

        (3) salt monopoly exercised by the British Government

        (4) complete freedom

(SSC CPO Sub-Inspector Exam. 09.11.2008)

354.      Who was\r\nthe last Governor-General of India ?

        (1) Sir Cripps

        (2) Lord Mountbatten

        (3) C. Rajagopalachari

        (4) SirAttlee

(SSC CPO Sub-Inspector Exam. 09.11.2008)

355.      Which\r\nDirective Principle bears the direct impact of Gandhi’s moral philosophy ?

        (1) Equal pay for equal work

        (2) Provision of free legal aid and advice

        (3) Prohibition of the slaughter of cows

        (4) Protection of the monuments of historical importance

(SSC CPO Sub-Inspector Exam. 09.11.2008)

356.      Who\r\nrepresented India in the Second Round Table Conference?

        (1) SarojaniNadu

        (2) AnneBesaint

        (3) ArunaAsaf Ali

        (4) None of these

(SSC CPO Sub-Inspector Exam. 09.11.2008)

357.      Who\r\ngave the concept of Total Revolution ?

        (1) Jayaprakash Narayan

        (2) Mahatma Gandhi

        (3) Karl Marx

        (4) Lenin

(SSC CPO Sub-Inspector Exam. 09.11.2008)

358.      Who\r\ndeclared as his ultimate aim the wiping of every tear from every eye?

        (1) Jawaharlal Nehru

        (2) Gandhiji.

        (3) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

        (4) SardarPatel

(SSC Section Officer (Audit) Exam. 30.11.2008)

359.      In ends\r\nand means relationship, Gandhiji believed

        (1) Means become good if they serve the end

        (2) Means and ends are watertight compartments

        (3) Means determine the end

        (4) End is everything, no matter what or how the means are

(SSC Section Officer (Audit)

Exam. 30.11.2008)

360.      The\r\nFirst Victory & Governor-General of British India was

        (1) Lord Dalhousie

        (2) Sir John Lawrence

        (3) Warren Hastings

        (4) Lord Canning

(SSC Section Officer (Audit) Exam. 30.11.2008)

351. (3)\r\nChandragupta II The Great (was one of the most powerful emperors of the Gupta\r\nempire in northern India. His rule spanned c. 380-413/415 CE, during which the\r\nGupta Empire achieved its zenith, art, architecture, and sculpture flourished,\r\nand the cultural development of ancient India reached its climax. Fa Hsien was\r\nthe first of three great Chinese pilgrims who visited India from the fifth to\r\nthe seventh centuries CE, in search of knowledge, manuscripts and relics.\r\nFaxian arrived during the reign of Chandragupta II and gave a general\r\ndescription of North India at that time. Among the other things, he reported\r\nabout the absence of capital punishment, the lack of a poll-tax and land tax.\r\nMost citizens did not consume onions, garlic, meat, and wine.

352. (1) The\r\nrebellion led to the dissolution of the East India Company in 1858. It also led\r\nthe British to reorganize the army, the financial system and the administration\r\nin India. In August, by the Government of India Act 1858, the company was\r\nformally dissolved and its ruling powers over India were transferred to the\r\nBritish Crown. A new British government department, the India Office, was\r\ncreated to handle the governance of India, and its head, the Secretary of State\r\nfor India, was entrusted with formulating Indian policy. The Governor-General\r\nof India gained a new title (Viceroy of India), and implemented the policies\r\ndevised by the India Office.

353. (3) On the\r\nhistoric day of 12th March 1930, Gandhi inaugurated The Civil Disobedience\r\nMovement by conducting the historic Dandi Salt March, where he broke the Salt\r\nLaws imposed by the British Government.

354. (3) C.\r\nRajagopalachari was the last Governor-General of India from 1948 to 1950. Later\r\nhe was Union Home Minister from 1951 to 1952 and as Chief Minister of Madras\r\nstate from 1952 to 1954. In 1959, he resigned from the Indian National Congress\r\nand founded the Swatantra Party, which stood against the Congress in the 1962,\r\n1967 and 1972 elections. Rajaji was instrumental in setting up a united\r\nAntiCongress front in Madras state under C. N. Annadurai, which swept the 1967\r\nelections.

355. (3) Two\r\nDirective Principles of State Policy which are based on the Gandhian ideals\r\nare: (i) promotion of cottage industries on an individual and co-operative\r\nbasis in rural areas; and (ii) prevention of slaughter of cows and calves and\r\nother milch cattle.

356. (1) On\r\nAugust 29, 1931, Gandhi sailed for England in the SS

         Rajputana to attend the Second Round Table Conference, He\r\nwent as the sole representative of the Indian National Congress. He was\r\naccompanied by Sarojini Naidu and also Madan Mohan Malaviya, Ghanshyam Das\r\nBirla, Muhammad Iqbal, Sir Mirza Ismail Diwan of Mysore, S.K. Dutta and Sir\r\nSyed Ali Imam. The conference failed to reach agreement, either\r\nconstitutionally or on communal representation.

357. (1)\r\nJayaprakash Narayan was an Indian Independence activist and political leader,\r\nremembered especially for leading the opposition to Indira Gandhi in the 1970s\r\nand for giving a call for peaceful Total Revolution’. He called for Sampoorna\r\nKranti on the 5th of June, 1975 - total revolution at a historic rally of\r\nstudents at Patna’s Gandhi Maidan.

358. (2) Gandhiji\r\nhad said that his mission in life was “to wipe every tear from every eye.”

359. (3) The\r\ntheory of satyagraha sees means and ends as inseparable. The means used to\r\nobtain an end are wrapped up in and attached to that end. Therefore, it is\r\ncontradictory to try to use unjust means to obtain justice or to try to use\r\nviolence to obtain peace. As Gandhi wrote: “They say, ‘means are, after all,\r\nmeans’. I would say, ‘means are, after all, everything’. As the means so the\r\nend’. Gandhi rejected the idea that injustice should, or even could, be fought\r\nagainst “by any means necessary-if you use violent, coercive, unjust means,\r\nwhatever ends you produce will necessarily embed that injustice.

360. (4) Lord\r\nCanning was the first Viceroy of India. The title of Viceroy was created in\r\n1858 after the mutiny of 1857. Before 1858, East India Company was ruling large\r\nparts of India and the head of administration of the East India Company was\r\ncalled Governor General. This office was created in 1773. The title Governor General\r\nhad administrative control over the British Provinces of India (Punjab, Bengal,\r\nBombay, Madras, United Provinces etc.). After the mutiny of 1857, the British\r\nGovernment took control of the administration from East India Company. To\r\nreflect the Governor General’s role as representative from the monarch, the\r\nterm Viceroy of India was applied to him. The title remained in existence from\r\n1858 till 1947. Lord Caning was Governor General of India from 1856 to 1858 and\r\nViceroy of India from 1858 to 1862.

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