1. "Neel Darpan" was written in the context of

(A) Indigo Revolt

(B) Ramosi Rebellion

(C) Sepoy Mutiny

(D) Deccan Riots

1.What is the Ulgulan?

(A) Santhal uprising of 1840s and '50S

(B) KOI uprising in Chotanagpur

(C) Munda uprising. 1899-1900

(D) None of the above

1.The author of the book "The Indian war of independence 1857" was

(A) Sir Syed Ahmed Khan     (B) V. D. Savarkar         (C) R. S. Sharma               (D) R. C. Majumdar

2.The Revolt of 1857 did not acquire much intensity in

(A) Delhi          (B) Awadh       (C) Bombay     (D) The Chambal region

3.The administrative consequence of the Revolt of 1857 was the transfer of power from

(A) East India Company to the British Crown.

(B) British Crown to the East India Company.

(C) East India Company to the Governor General.

(D) British Crown to the Board of Directors.

4.The revolt of the Khasis against the British was led by

(A) Surendra Rai      (B) Titu Mir      (C) Birsa Munda       (D) Utirot Sing

5.Rani Gaidinliu a rebel leader against the British was from

(A) Tripura       (B) Assam       (C) Nagaland       (D) Manipur

6.The Kuka Movement was started in the mid nineteenth century in

(A) Western Punjab     (B) Maharastra            (C) Bengal       (D) Madhya Pradesh

1.Which of the following was the chief organizer of the Revolt of 1857 in Bihar ?

(A) Amar Singh       (B) Kunwar Singh           (C) Pir Ali  .      (D) Imaduddin

1.Tebhaga Movement was launched by Bengal Provincial Kisan Sabha to force implementation of the recommendations of —— commissions through mass struggle.

(A) Fowler Commission           (B) Frazer Commission           (C) Sapru Commission       (D) Floud Commission

2.Some of the peasant rebellion were participated exclusively by the tribal population. Arrange the following tribal movements chronologically by and choose the correct answer from the codes given below:

(i) Gudem Rampa rebellion led by Alluri Sitaramaraju

(ii) Kol rebellion led by Buddha Bhagat

(iii) Hul rebellion led by Sidho and Kanho

(iv) Thadoe Kuki movement led by Jadonang and his niece Gaidinilu

(A) (ii), (iii), (i), (iv)      (B) (i), (iv), (ii), (iii)       (C) (i), (iii), (ii), (iv)       (D) (ii), (i), (iv), (iii)

3.Ho and Munda tribesmen were from

(A) Chotanagpur        (B) Araballi hills           (C) Sahayadri hills          (D) None of the above

4.The tribal leader who was regarded as the Father of the World (Dharti Aba) was

(A) Buddha Bhagat      (B) Tilka Manjhi      (C) Birsa Munda              (D) Bonangi Pandu Paral

5.Arrange the following armed resistance in the nineteenth century against the colonial rule in chronological order and choose the correct answer from the codes given below:

(i) Satara disturbance

(ii) Gadkari rebellion

(iii) Revolt of Rao Bharamal

(iv) Rebellion of Birabhadra Raju

Codes:

(A) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)      (B) (iv), (iii), (ii). (i)       (C) (iv), (i), (ii), (iii)       (D) (i), (iv), (iii), (ii)

6.In many of the peasant revolt religion played an important role. Who among the following was the leader of the Fakirs leading the Sannyasi-Fakir uprising in Bengal ?

(A) Tipu Shah       (B) Karim Shah      (C) Majnu Shah           (D) Golam Masum

7.Match List I with List II and choose the correct answer from the codes given below:

Codes:

(A) (a)-(ii), (b)-(i), (c)-(iv), (d)-(iii)

(B) (a)-(iii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(ii), (d)-(i)

(C) (a)-(ii), (b)-(iii), (c)-(iv), (d)-(i)

(D) (a)-(ii), (b)-(i), (c)-(iii), (d)-(iv)

Who among the following was the founder of Wahabi movement in India ?

(A) Waliullah

(B) Shah Muhammad Hossein

(C) Muhammad Abdul Wahab

(D) Syed Ahmed of Rai Bareilly

8.Titu Mir defeated —— the Indigo Planter.

(A) Okenelly       (B) Davis      (C) Thornton       (D) Alexander

9.Who among the following was the leader of the Farajis ?

(A) Duddu Miyan        (B) Titu Mir      (C) Karim Shah            (D) Majnu Fakir

10.The first sign of revolt led by Titu Mir was a raid on zamindar —— .

(A) Ramram Chakraborty        (B) Kaliprasanna Mukhopadhyay        (C) Debnath Roy       (D) Krishnadeva Roy

11.The first Indian ruler who joined the Subsidiary Alliance was

(A) Nawab of Oudh       (B) Nizam of Hyderabad       (C) Peshwa Baji Rao II          (D) King of Travancore

12.Arrange according to the chronological order the following kingdoms annexed by Dalhousi as per the 'Doctrine of Lapse'.

(i) Baghat         (ii) Sambhalpur            (iii) Satara        (iv) Jhansi

(A) (i), (iii), (ii), (iv)      (B) (iv), (i), (ii), (iii)        (C) (iii), (ii), (i), (iv)       (D) (i), (iv), (ii), (iii)

13.Some of the army regiments have revolted several times before 1857. Vellore mutiny took place in the year ——— .

(A) 1805       (B) 1806              (C) 1807          (D) 1810

14.Arrange the following sepoy mutinies in the chronological order and choose the correct answer from the codes given below:

(i) Vellore Mutiny

(ii) 47 Native Infantry Mutiny

(iii) Sholapur Mutiny

(iv) Sindh 34th Native Infantry Mutiny

(A) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)      (B) (i), (iv), (ii), (iii)       (C) (iv), (iii), (ii), (i)      (D) (iv), (i), (ii), (iii)

15.Mangal Pandey, a sepoy of 34th Native Infantry stationed at Barrackpore mutinied on

(A) 21 March, 1857       (B) 29 March, 1857               (C) 23 May, 1857               (D) 22 June, 1857

16.Match important centres of the Revolt of 1857 with their leaders and choose the correct answer from the codes given below :

(a) Bakht Khan            (i) Jhansi

(b) TantiaTope             (ii) Kanpur

(c) Hazrat Mahal          (iii) Delhi

(d) Lakshmibai            (iv) Lucknow

Codes:

(A) (a)-(i), (b)-(ii), (c)-(iv), (d)-(iii)

(B) (a)-(iii), (b)-(ii), (c)-(iv), (d)-(i)

(C) (a)-(ii), (b)-(iii), (c)-(iv), (d)-(i)

(D) (a)-(iii), (b)-(iv), (c)-(ii), (d)-(i)

17.The Revolt of 1857 in Bareilly was led by

(A) Bahadur Shah II       (B) Kunwar Singh        (C) Khan Bahadur Khan                (D) Firoz Shah

18.Arrange the following places witnessing the sepoy revolts according to chronological order

(i) Delhi            (ii) Bareilly       (iii) Kanpur       (iv) Meerut

Codes:

(A) (i), (iv), (ii), (iii)       (B) (iv), (i), (iii), (ii)       (C) (iv), (i), (ii), (iii)       (D) (iv), (ii), (i), (iii)

19.When British army started pushing back the revolting Indian soldiers several commanders played leading role in claiming back the flash points. Among the following pairs find out the incorrect match

(A) Delhi - James Neill

(B) Kanpur - Sir Hugh Wheeler

(C) Lucknow - Sir Colin Campbell

(D) Jhansi - Sir Hugh Rose

1.Which of the following was not a storm-centres of the Revolt of 1857 ?

(A) Madras      (B) Arrah          (C) Jhansi        (D) Bareilly

2.Which Mughal ruler became the unifying symbol of the Revolt of 1857 ?

(A) Bahadur Shah I      (B) Bahadur Saha Jafar        (C) Saha Alam I              (D) None of the above

1.Which of the following Classes did not participate in the Revolt of 1857 ?

(i) Money lenders

(ii) Merchants

(iii) Modern intelligentsia

(iy) Old Zamindars

(v) Urban based absentee landlords

Choose the answers from codes gjven below :

(A) (i), (ii), (iv) and (v)              (B) (ii), (iii), (iv) and (v)            (C) (i), (iii), (iv) and (v)      (D) (i), (ii), (iii), and (v)

2.Who described the Quit India movement (1942) as "by far the most serious rebellion since 1857" ?

(A) Viceroy Lord Linlithgow              (B) Franklin Roosevelt             (C) Chiang Kai Shek         (D) Winston Churchill

3.Which of the following movements emerged in South India under the leadership of E.V. Ramaswamy Naicker "Periyar" ?

(A) Self-respect Movement     (B) Justice Party Movement (C) Mahar Movement       (D) Sanskrit Movement

4.In which year Tebhaga Movement was launched in Bengal ?

(A) 1942       (B) 1946              (C) 1947          (D) 1952

5.Which of the following movements was started by Swami Sahajanand Saraswati in Bihar ?

(A) Zamidari Movement           (B) Socialist Movement      (C) Kisan Sabha Movement       (D) Labour Movement

6.Which of the following was perhaps the most widespread, most intense and most organized peasant movement in the history of colonial India ?

(A) Tebhaga Movement          (B) Telangana Movement       (C) Indigo Movement       (D) Deccan Riots

7.Which of the following was perhaps the most widespread, most intense and most organized peasant movement in the history of colonial India ?

(A) Tebhaga Movement          (B) Telangana Movement       (C) Indigo Movement       (D) Deccan Riots

8.Which movement, though started as a religious reform movement, became a movement for the restoration of Sikh sovereignty by the annexation of Punjab by the British ?

(A) Kittur Rising           (B) Bundela Revolt        (C) Kuka Movement               (D) Satavandi Revolt

9.Which of the following are correct to describe the character of the Aligarh movement ?

(i) Anti-British   (ii) Pro-British  (iii) Anti-Congress   (iv) Pro-Congress (v)  Anti-Hindu       (vi) Pro-Hindu

Select the answer from codes given below :

(A) (i), (ii) and (iii)        (B) (ii), (iii) and (iv)       (C) (ii), (iii) and (v)       (D) (i), (iii) and (v)

10.At the time of which of the following events / movements Jawaharlal Nehru admitted that : "Never before in history had such unified sentiments been manifested by various divergent sections of the population" ?

(A) Quit India Movement         (B) Imphal campaign of the INA        (C) INA Trial                (D) RIN mutiny

11.Which of the following movements were 'temple entry' movement organized in early 20th century ?

(A) Vaikkam Satyagraha 1924-25

(B) Guruvayur Satyagraha (1931-33) in Malabar

(C) Munshiganj Kali temple Satyagraha in Bengal (1929)

(D) All of the above

12.Which movement, though started as a religious reform movement, became a movement for the restoration of Sikh sovereignty by the annexation of Punjab by the British ?

(A) Kittur Rising           (B) Bundela Revolt        (C) Kuka Movement               (D) Satavandi Revolt

13.Which one of the following periods of trade union movement in India witnessed growing influence of communist ideology on trade unionism for the first time ?

(A) 1918-1924       (B) 1924-1934       (C) 1934-1939             (D) 1939-1945

14.Which of the following are correct to describe the character of the Aligarh movement ?

(i) Anti-British   (ii) Pro-British  (iii) Anti-Congress   (iv) Pro-Congress (v)  Anti-Hindu       (vi) Pro-Hindu

Select the answer from codes given below :

(A) (i), (ii) and (iii)        (B) (ii), (iii) and (iv)       (C) (ii), (iii) and (v)       (D) (i), (iii) and (v)

1.Which of the following pairs are correctly matched  ?

(A) Banaras  - Sir Colin Campbell          (B) Jhansi - Sir Hugh Rose

(C) Kanpur - Brigadier General Neil   (D) Lucknow - Major General Havelock

2.During whose period did the European soldiers stage the so called 'White-Mutiny' in India ?

(A) Dalhousie        (B) Canning          (C) Mayo         (D) Ripon

1.A leading British parliamentarian and politician who admitted that the Revolt of 1857 was 'a national revolt' and not a military mutiny was :

(A) David George       

(B) William Hilderband              

(C) Disraeli  

(D) George Bingsley

2.What was the primary aim of the Akali movement which rose in the Punjab in 1920s ?

(A) To voice the political grievances of the Sikhs

(B) To bring about modernization in the Sikh social customs

(C) To streamline the management of the gurudwaras or Sikh Shrines

(D) To purge Sikhism of its superstitious accretions and irrational incrustations.