Indian History Based Questions asked in various Exams (Part 40)

401.      Who was\r\nthe first English President of the Indian National Congress ?

        (1) George Yule

        (2) William Wedderburn

        (3) A.O. Hume

        (4) Henry Cotton

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402.      Which\r\none of the following personalities is known as ‘Grand Old Man of India’?

        (1) Bal GangadharTilak

        (2) Dadabhai Naoroji

        (3) Motilal Nehru

        (4) Lala Lajpat Rai

(SSC CPO Sub-Inspector Exam. 06.09.2009)

403.      Who\r\nwrote Akbarnama ?

        (1) Akbar            (2)\r\nBirbal

        (3) Abul Fazal    (4)\r\nBhagavan Das

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404.      The\r\npledge for “Poorna Swaraj-was taken at the Congress Session of

        (1) Calcutta        (2)\r\nLahore

        (3) Allahabad    (4)\r\nMadras

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405.      Arrange\r\nthe following in chronological order:

        a. Tughlaqs        b.\r\nLodis

        c. Sayyids           d.\r\nIlbari Turks

        e. Khiljis

        (1) a, b, c, d, e    (2)\r\ne, d, c, b, a

        (3) b, d, e, c, a    (4)\r\nd, e, a, c, b

(S5SC Combined Graduate Level Tier-I Exam. 16.08.2010 (First Sitting)

406.      Who was\r\nthe founder of the ‘Servants of India Society’ ?

        (1) G.K. Gokhale

        (2) M.G. Ranade

        (3) B.G.Tilak

        (4) Bipin Chandra Pal

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407.      Mahatma\r\nGandhi was profoundly influenced by the writings of

        (1) Bernard Shaw   (2)\r\nKarl Marx

        (3) Lenin                   (4)\r\nLeo Tolstoy

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408.      Who is\r\nrightly called the “Father of Local Self Government” in India ?

        (1) Lord Mayo   (2) Lord\r\nRipon

        (3) Lord Curzon      (4)\r\nLord Clive

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409.      The\r\nmonk who influenced Ashoka to embrace Buddhism was

        (1) Vishnu Gupta

        (2) Upagupta

        (3) Brahma Gupta

        (4) Brihadratha

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410. The Lodi dynasty was founded by

        (1) Ibrahim Lodi     (2)\r\nSikandar Lodi

        (3) Bahlol Lodi  (4)\r\nKhizr Khan

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401. (1) George\r\nYule was a Scottish merchant in England and India who served as the fourth\r\nPresident of the Indian National Congress in 1888, the first non-Indian to hold\r\nthat office. He was founder of George Yule & Co. of London, and headed\r\nAndrew Yule & Co., of Calcutta. He served as Sheriff of Calcutta and as\r\nPresident of the Indian Chamber of Commerce.

402. (2) Dadabhai\r\nNaoroji, of Bombay Parsee origin, is the “Grand Old Man of India” and the\r\n“Father of Indian Nationalism” who worked with perseverance and unshakeable\r\nfaith towards the goal of Swaraj was the first Indian to claim self-government\r\nfor his people. Dadabhai Naoroji was also the first Indian to show that India\r\nwas being drained of its wealth under the British rule and thus was fast\r\nsuccumbing to poverty. He played a key role in founding the Indian National\r\nCongress in 1885 and was associated with the organisation till his death.

403. (3) The\r\nAkbarnama, which literally means Book of Akbar, is the official chronicle of\r\nthe reign of Akbar, the third Mughal Emperor, commissioned by Akbar himself, by\r\nhis court historian and biographer, Abul Fazl who was one of the nine jewels in\r\nAkbar’s court. It includes vivid and detailed descriptions of his life and\r\ntimes. The first volume of Akbarnama deals with the birth of Akbar, the history\r\nof Timur’s family and the reigns of Babur and Humayun and the Suri sultans of\r\nDelhi. The second volume describes the detailed history of the reign of Akbar\r\ntill 1602, and records the events during Akbar’s reign.

404. (2) In\r\nDecember 1929, the Congress held its annual session at Lahore. Jawaharlal Nehru\r\nwas the president at this session. In this session, the Congress declared\r\n‘Purna Swaraj’ or Complete Independence as its ultimate goal. It asked all Congressmen\r\nand nationalists not to participate in elections to the legislatures and to\r\nresign from the legislatures. It was decided that 26 January would be\r\nhenceforth observed as the Independence Day every year. To achieve the aim of\r\ncomplete independence, the Congress decided to launch another mass movement -\r\nthe Civil Disobedience Movement.

405. (4) The\r\nDelhi Sultanate is a term used to cover five short-lived dynasties, Delhi based\r\nkingdoms or sultanates, mostly of Turkic and Pashtun (Afghan) origin in medieval\r\nIndia. The sultanates ruled from Delhi between 1206 and 1526, when the last was\r\nreplaced by the Mughal dynasty. The five dynasties were the Mamluk dynasty\r\n(1206-90); the Khilji dynasty (1290-1320); the Tughlaq dynasty (1320-1414); the\r\nSayyid dynasty (1414^51); and the Afghan Lodi dynasty (1451-1526). The Mamluk\r\nDynasty or Slave Dynasty, directed into India by Qutb-ud-din Aibak, a Turkish\r\ngeneral of Central Asian birth, was the first of five unrelated dynasties to\r\nrule India’s Delhi Sultanate from 1206 to 1290.

406. (1) The\r\nServants of India Society was formed in Pune, Maharashtra, on June 12, 1905 by\r\nGopal Krishna Gokhale, who left the Deccan Education Society to form this\r\nassociation. Along with him were a small group of educated Indians, as Natesh\r\nAppaji Dravid, Gopal Krishna Deodhar and Anant Patwardhan who wanted to promote\r\nsocial and human development and overthrow the British rule in India. The\r\nSociety organized many campaigns to promote education, sanitation, health care\r\nand fight the social evils of untouchability and discrimination, alcoholism,\r\npoverty, oppression of women and domestic abuse.

407. (4) When\r\nMohandas Karamchand Gandhi started to practice law in South Africa as a young\r\nbarrister in the 1890s, he was confronted with glaring racial discrimination as\r\nwell as various other injustices. It was then that he began to develop his\r\nsatyagraha philosophy of nonviolence, through which he would later lead India\r\nto independence. Perhaps the most profound influence on Gandhi at this time\r\nwere the ideas and living example of the Russian author Leo Tolstoy who, in the\r\nlast year of his life, became Gandhi’s mentor on nonviolence. By directly\r\ninfluencing Mahatma Gandhi with this idea through his work The Kingdom of God\r\nIs Within You, Tolstoy has had a huge influence on the nonviolent resistance\r\nmovement to this day.

408. (2) Lord\r\nRipon is known as the father of local self-government in

         India. The advent of Lord Ripon (1880-84) marked a new\r\nchapter in the history of local self-government in India. Before him, the\r\ncondition of the local bodies was far from satisfactory. There was hardly any\r\ntrace of election, much less of independent authority, and no specific powers\r\nwere granted to local authorities. Lord Ripon, in 1882 issued a comprehensive\r\nresolution, recommending the removal of all the existing defects in the local\r\nbodies and also making them the instruments of political education.

409. (2) Upagupta\r\nwas a Buddhist monk. According to some stories in the Sanskrit Avadana he was\r\nthe spiritual teacher of Asoka the great Mauryan emperor. Upagupta’s teacher\r\nwas Sanavasi who was a disciple of Ananda, the Buddha’s attendant. Due to the\r\nabsence of his name inTheravada literature it is assumed that Upagupta was a\r\nSarvadin monk.

410. (3) Lodi\r\nDynasty was a Pashtun*dynasty that was the last dynasty to rule the Delhi\r\nSultanate. The dynasty founded by Bahlul Lodi ruled from 1451 to 1526. The last\r\nruler of this dynasty, Ibrahim Lodi was defeated and killed by Babur in the\r\nfirst Battle of Panipat on April 20, 1526.

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