Indian History Based Questions asked in various Exams (Part 45)

451.      Who of\r\nthe following attended all the Three Round Table Conferences ?

        (1) B.R. Ambedkar

        (2) M.M.Malavia

        (3) Vallabhbhai Patel

        (4) Gandhiji

(SSC Combined Graduate Level Tier-I Exam. 19.06 2011 (Second Sitting)

452.      Who was\r\nthe first Indian to become member of British Parliament ?

        (1) Bankim Chander Chatterjee

        (2) W.C. Bannerjee,

        (3) Dadabhai Naoroji

        (4) None of the above

(SSC Combined Graduate Level Tier-I Exam. 19.06.2011 (Second Sitting)

453.      Mention\r\nthe place where Buddha attained enlightenment.

        (1) Sarnath         (2)\r\nBodh Gaya

        (3) Kapilavastu (4)Rajgriha

(SSC Combined Graduate Level Tier-I Exam. 19.06.2011 (Second Sitting)

454.      The\r\nGreek ambassador sent to Chandragupta Maurya’s Court was :

        (1) Kautilya

        (2) Seleucus Nicator

        (3) Megasthenes

        (4) Justin

(SSC Combined Graduate Level Tier-I Exam. 26.06.2011 (First Sitting)

455.      Identify\r\nthe European power from whom Shivaji obtained cannons and ammunition:

        (1) The French

        (2) The Portuguese

        (3) The Dutch

        (4) The English

(SSC Combined Graduate Level Tier-I Exam. 26.06.2011 (First Sitting)

456.      The\r\ncall of “Back to the Vedas” was given by :

        (1) Swami Vivekananda

        (2) Swami Dayanand Saraswati

        (3) Aurobindo Ghosh

        (4) Raja Ram Mohan Roy

(SSC Combined Graduate Level Tier-I Exam. 26.06.2011 (First Sitting)

457.      Simon\r\nCommission was boycotted by the nationalist leaders of India because :

        (1) they felt that it was only an eyewash

        (2) all the members of the Commission were English

        (3) the members of the Commission were biased against India

        (4) it did not meet the demands of the Indians

(SSC Combined Graduate Level Tier-I Exam. 26.06.2011 (First Sitting)

458.      Who\r\namong the following British persons admitted the Revolt of 1857 as a national\r\nrevolt ?

        (1) Lord Dalhousie

        (2) Lord Canning

        (3) Lord Ellenborough

        (4) Disraeli

(SSC Combined Graduate Level Tier-I Exam. 26.06.2011 (First Sitting)

459.      Who was\r\nthe architect of North and South Blocks of the Central Secretariate in Delhi ?

        (1) Sir Edward Lutyens

        (2) Herbert Baker

        (3) Robert Tor Russell

        (4) Antonin Raymond

(SSC Combined Graduate Level Tier-I Exam. 26.06.2011 (First Sitting)

460.      Hiuen\r\nTsang visited India during the reign of

        (1) Chandragupta I

        (2) Chandragupta II

        (3) Harshavardhana

        (4) Rudradaman

(SSC Combined Graduate Level Tier-I Exam. 26.06.2011 (Second Sitting)

451. (1) Dr.\r\nAmbedkar attended all the three Round Table Conferences in London and each\r\ntime, forcefully projected his views in the interest of the ‘untouchable’. He\r\nexhorted the downtrodden sections to raise their living standards and to\r\nacquire as much political power as possible. He was of the view that there was\r\nno future for untouchables in the Hindu religion and they should change their\r\nreligion if need be. In 1935, he publicly proclaimed,” I was born a Hindu\r\nbecause I had no control over this but I shall not die a Hindu”.

452. (3) Dadabhai\r\nNaoroji was a Member of Parliament (MP) in the United Kingdom House of Commons\r\nbetween 1892 and 1895, and the first Asian to be a British MP.

453. (2) Bodh\r\nGaya is a religious site and place of pilgrimage associated with the Mahabodhi\r\nTemple Complex in Gaya district in the Indian state of Bihar. It is famous for\r\nbeing the place where Gautama Buddha is said to have obtained Enlightenment\r\n(Bodhimandala).  According to Buddhist\r\ntraditions, circa 500 BC Prince Gautama Siddhartha, wandering as an ascetic,\r\nreached the sylvan banks of Falgu River, near the city of Gaya. There he sat in\r\nmeditation under a bodhi tree (Ficus religiosa). After three days and three\r\nnights of meditation, Siddharta claimed to have attained enlightenment and\r\ninsight, and the answers that he had sought.

454. (3) Megasthenes was a Greek\r\nethnographer and explorer in the Hellenistic period, author of the work,\r\nIndica. He was born in Asia Minor (modern day Turkey) and became an ambassador\r\nof Seleucus I of the Seleucid dynasty possibly to Chandragupta Maurya in\r\nPataliputra. Megasthenes’ Indica is the first well-known Western account of\r\nIndia and he is regarded as one of the founders of the study of Indian history\r\nin the West. He is also the first foreigner Ambassador to be mentioned in the\r\nIndian history.

455. (2) He used\r\ncannons and ammunition from the Portuguese to attack the English. In June 1661,\r\nShivaji’s soldiers plundered Rajapur and captured several Englishmen. This was\r\npayback for the English aid to Bijapur. The following year, he captured a band\r\nof Englishmen in Surat for supplying ammunition to his enemies.

456. (2) ‘Back to\r\nVedas’ was Swami Dayanand Saraswati’s call when he established the Arya Samaj.\r\nBy exhorting the nation to reject superstitious notions, his aim was to educate\r\nthe nation to ‘Go back to the Vedas’. He wanted the people who followed\r\nHinduism to go back to its roots and to follow the Vedic life, which he pointed\r\nout. By doing this, he felt that Hindus would be able to improve the depressive\r\nreligious, social, political, and economic conditions prevailing in India in\r\nhis times.

457. (2) Simon\r\nCommission was primarily boycotted because it had no Indian members. The Comm-\r\nission was a group of seven British Members of Parliament that had been\r\ndispatched to India in 1927 to study constitutional reform in India.

458. (4) Benjamin\r\nDisraeli, the leader of the conservative party of England has called it a\r\n“National revolt.” The motives of leadership of revolt, geographical extent of\r\nthe sway of revolt, its loose organizational infrastructure and the fragile\r\nbasis of national consciousness at that moment do not provide substance to the\r\nso-called characterization of sepoy mutiny as “National struggle.”

459. (2) The\r\nplanning of New Delhi began in earnest after Delhi was made capital of India in\r\n1911. Lutyens was assigned respons- ibility for town planning and the\r\nconstruction of Viceroy’s House (now Rashtrapati Bhavan); Herbert Baker, who\r\nhad practised in South Africa for two decades, 1892-1912, joined in as the\r\nsecond in command. Baker took on the design of the next important building, the\r\nSecretariat, which was the only building other than the Viceroy’s house to\r\nstand on Raisina Hill.

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