Insights Static Quiz -69, 2018 –History

Answer – a

• Even before the Meerut incident, there were rumblings of resentment in various cantonments. The19th Native Infantry at Berhampur, which refused to use the newly introduced Enfield rifle, wasdisbanded in March 1857. A young sepoy of the 34th Native Infantry, Mangal Pande, went a stepfurther and fired at the Sergeant Major of his regiment. He was overpowered and executed and hisregiment too, was disbanded.
• Simon Fraser, the PoliticalAgent at Delhi, and several other Englishmen were killed by the sepoys who turned to Delhi for leadership after their revolt
• Provincial assemblies were introduced under Charter Act 1861

Answer – d

• At Kanpur, the natural choice was Nana Saheb, the adopted son of the last Peshwa, Baji Rao II. Hehad refused the family title and, banished from Poona, was living near Kanpur
• Begum Hazrat Mahaltook over the reigns at Lucknow, where popular sympathy was overwhelmingly in favour of thedeposed Nawab.
• In Bihar, the Revolt was led by Kunwar Singh, the zamindar of Jagdishpur, a 70-year-old man on thebrink of bankruptcy. He nursed a grudge against the British. He had been deprived of his estates bythem and his repeated appeals to be entrusted with their management again fell on deaf ears. Eventhough he had not planned an uprising, he unhesitatingly joined the sepoys when they reached Arrahfrom Dinapore

Answer – b

• Immediately after the capture of Delhi a letter was addressed to the rulers of all theneighbouring states and of Rajasthan soliciting their support and inviting them to participate.
• In Delhi,a court of administrators was established which was responsible for all matters of state. The courtconsisted of ten members, six from the army and four from the civilian departments. All decisionswere taken by a majority vote. The court conducted the affairs of the state in the name of the Emperor.The Government at Delhi seems to have been a sort of constitutional The king was king and honoured as such, like a constitutional monarch; but instead of aParliament, he had a council of soldiers, in whom power rested, and of whom he was no degree amilitary commander.

Answer – b

• Displaced peasants and demobilized soldiers of Bengal led by religious monks and dispossessedzamindars were the first to rise up in the Sanyasi rebellion, made famous by Bankim ChandraChatterjee in his novel Anand Math, that lasted from 1763 to 1800.
• It was followed by the Chuaruprising which covered five districts of Bengal and Bihar from 1766 to 1772 and then, again, from1795 to 1816.
• In South India, Dewan Velu Thampi of Travancore organized a heroic revolt in 1805. Velu Thampi was publicly hangedeven after he was dead.

Answer – d

• The colonial intrusion and the triumvirate of trader, moneylender and revenue farmer in sumdisrupted the tribal identity to a lesser or greater degree. In fact, ethnic ties were a basic feature of thetribal rebellions. At the same time, not all outsiders were attacked as enemies. Often there was no violence againstthe non-tribal poor, who worked in tribal villages in supportive economic roles, or who had socialrelations with the tribals, such as telis, gwalas, lohars, carpenters, potters, weavers, washermen,barbers, drummers, and bonded labourers and domestic servants of the outsiders. They were not onlyspared, but were seen as allies.
• The tribal people, spread over a large part of India, organized hundreds of militant outbreaks andinsurrections during the 19th century. These uprisings were marked by immense courage and sacrificeon their part and brutal suppression and veritable butchery on the part of the rulers.