Insights Static Quiz -353, 2019–History

Solution: c)

Paleolithic or Old Stone Age sites are generally located near water sources.

Some of the famous sites of Old Stone Age in India are:

1. The Soan valley and Potwar Plateau on the northwest India.
2. The Siwalik hills on the north India.
3. Bhimpetka in Madhya Pradesh.
4. Adamgarh hill in Narmada valley.
5. Kurnool in Andhra Pradesh and
6. Attirampakkam near Chennai.

Domestication of animals, horticulture and primitive cultivation started during Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age.

Solution: a)

The Portuguese captured Goa from rulers of Bijapur in 1510 and not in 1499.

Solution: b)

Government of India Act of 1858:

• The act known as the Act for the Good Government of India, abolished the East India Company, and transferred the powers of government, territories and revenues to the British Crown.
• It provided that India henceforth was to be governed by, and in the name of, Her Majesty. It changed the designation of the Governor-General of India to that of Viceroy of India. He (viceroy) was the direct representative of the British Crown in India. Lord Canning thus became the first Viceroy of India.
• It ended the system of double government by abolishing the Board of Control and Court of Directors.

Indian Councils Act of 1861 made a beginning of representative institutions by associating Indians

with the law-making process.

Solution: b)

• Gandhi was so thoroughly persuaded by Rajkumar Shukla, an indigo cultivator from Champaran that he decided to investigate into the matter.
• Gandhi’s method of inquiry at Champaran was based on surveys by the volunteers. The respondents who willingly gave statements should sign the papers or give thumb impressions.
• For those unwilling to participate, the reasons must be recorded by the volunteers. The principal volunteers in this survey were mostly lawyers like Babu Rajendra Prasad, Dharnidhar Prasad, Gorakh Prasad, Ramnawami Prasad, Sambhusaran and Anugraha Narain Sinha.

Solution: a)

In 1923, the first May day was celebrated in India in Madras.

1928 – Nehru Report

Dandi March – March 12-April 6, 1930

First Round Table Conference – November 1930 – January 1931