Insights Static Quiz -224, 2019–History

Solution: c)

The revolt of 1857 took place during the reign of Governor General Lord Canning. The immediate cause of the revolt of 1857 was that Mangal Pandey killed two British officers on parade at Barrackpore. The revolt began at Meerut, 58 km from Delhi, on May 10, 1857 and then, gathering force rapidly. This revolt spread in Lucknow, Ambala and Meerut cantonments.

The movement was confined to the Northern and Central India.

Solution: d)

The Kuka Movement was founded in 1840 by Bhagat Jawahar Mal (also called Sian Saheb) in western Punjab. A major leader of the movement after him was Baba Ram Singh. (He founded the Namdhari Sikh sect.) After the British took Punjab, the movement got transformed from a religious purification campaign to a political campaign. Its basic tenets were abolition of caste and similar discriminations among Sikhs, discouraging the consumption of meat and alcohol and drugs, permission for intermarriages, widow remarriage, and encouraging women to step out of seclusion.

Solution: b)

Raja Rammohan Roy described Sati system as a “murder according to every shastra”. He considered different religions as national embodiments of universal theism. He defended the basic and universal principles of all religions—such as the monotheism of the Vedas and unitarianism of Christianity—while attacking the polytheism of Hinduism and trinitarianism of Christianity. Rammohan Roy believed in the modern scientific approach and principles of human dignity and social equality.

He wrote Gift to Monotheists (1809) and translated into Bengali the Vedas and the five

Upanishads to prove his conviction that ancient Hindu texts support monotheism.

Solution: a)

The associations organised various campaigns before the Indian National Congress appeared on the scene. These campaigns were—

(i) for imposition of import duty on cotton (1875)

(ii) for Indianisation of government service (1878-79)

(iii) against Lytton’s Afghan adventure

(iv) against Arms Act (1878)

(v) against Vernacular Press Act (1878)

(vi) for right to join volunteer corps

(vii) against plantation labour and against Inland Emigration Act

(viii) in support of Ilbert Bill

(ix) for an All India Fund for Political Agitation (x) campaign in Britain to vote for pro-India party

(xi) against reduction in maximum age for appearing in Indian Civil Service; the Indian Association took up this question and organised an all-India agitation against it, popularly known as the Indian Civil Service agitation.

Solution: b)

The charter act of 1813, for the first time explicitly defined the constitutional position of the British territories in India.