Insights Static Quiz -333, 2019–History

Solution: a)

The Punjab Hindu Sabha founded under the leaders U.N. Mukherji and Lal Chand, in 1909, laid the foundations of Hindu communal ideology and politics. The first session of the All-India Hindu Mahasabha was held under the presidentship of the Maharaja of Kasim Bazar, in April 1915.

Solution: c)

In a bid to rectify the defects of the Regulating Act of 1773, the British Parliament passed the Amending Act of 1781, also known as the Act of Settlement. The next important act was the Pitt’s India Act2 of 1784.

Features of the Act

1. It distinguished between the commercial and political functions of the Company.
2. It allowed the Court of Directors to manage the commercial affairs but created a new body called Board of Control to manage the political affairs. Thus, it established a system of double government.
3. It empowered the Board of Control to supervise and direct all operations of the civil and military government or revenues of the British possessions in India.

Thus, the act was significant for two reasons: first, the Company’s territories in India were for the first time called the ‘British possessions in India’; and second, the British Government was given the supreme control over Company’s affairs and its administration in India.

Solution: c)

The term mansabdar refers to an individual who holds a mansab, meaning a position or rank. It was a grading system used by the Mughals to fix (1) rank, (2) salary and (3) military responsibilities.

Rank and salary were determined by a numerical value called zat. The higher the zat, the more prestigious was the noble’s position in court and the larger his salary.

The mansabdar’s military responsibilities required him to maintain a specified number of sawar or cavalrymen.

The mansabdar brought his cavalrymen for review, got them registered, their horses branded and then received money to pay them as salary.

Solution: c)

The Lucknow Pact between the Congress and the Muslim League could be considered an important event in the course of the nationalistic struggle for freedom. The Congress accepted the Muslim League’s position on separate electorates.

At the Karachi Congress Session—1931, two resolutions were adopted—one on Fundamental Rights and the other on National Economic Programme— which made the session particularly memorable.

Solution: c)

Public safety bill aimed to stop Communist movement in India by cutting it off from British & foreign communist organizations. It called to deport the foreigners suspected of propagating socialist and communist ideas.