[Mission 2022] QUIZ – 2021: INSIGHTS STATIC , 04 September 2021 – History

Solution: b)

• Young Bengal Movement was launched by Henry Louis Vivian Derozio (1809-1831), who had come to Calcutta in 1826 and was appointed in the Hindu College as a teacher.
• Drawing inspiration from the great French Revolution, Derozio inspired his pupils to think freely and rationally, question all authority, love liberty, equality and freedom, and oppose decadent customs and traditions. The Derozians also supported women’s rights and education.
• The Derozians, however, failed to have a long-term impact. Derozio was removed from the Hindu College in 1831 because of his radicalism. The main reason for their limited success was the prevailing social conditions at that time, which were not ripe for the adoption of radical ideas.
• Further, there was no support from any other social group or class.

Solution: c)

• The Proclamation of Queen Victoria was announced by Lord Canning at Allahabad.
• This royal Proclamation was translated into Indian languages and publicly read in many important places. It announced the end of Company’s rule in India and the Queen’s assumption of the Government of India.
• It endorsed the treaty made by the Company with Indian princes and promised to respect their rights, dignity and honour.
• It assured the Indian people equal and impartial protection of law and freedom of religion and social practices.
• The Proclamation of Queen Victoria gave a practical shape to the Act of 1858.

Solution: b)

The Indigo rebellion in 1859 was caused due to harsh agri-economic conditions under which Indigo cultivators were put by the British planters.

Pabna Agrarian Leagues:

During the 1870s and 1880s, large parts of Eastern Bengal witnessed agrarian unrest caused by oppressive practices of the zamindars. The zamindars resorted to enhanced rents beyond legal limits and prevented the tenants from acquiring occupancy rights. The peasants of Yusufshahi Pargana in Patna district formed anagrarian league or combination to resist the demands of the zamindars. The league organised a rent strike—the ryots refused to pay the enhanced rents, challenging the zamindars in the courts. Funds were raised by ryots to fight the court cases. The struggles spread throughout Patna and to other districts of East Bengal. The main form of struggle was that of legal resistance; there was very little violence.

Solution: d)

Earlier, in December 1927, a large number of Muslim leaders had met at Delhi at the Muslim League session and evolved four proposals for their demands to be incorporated into the draft constitution. These proposals, which were accepted by the Madras session of the Congress (December 1927), came to be known as the ‘Delhi Proposals’. These were:

• joint electorates in place of separate electorates with reserved seats for Muslims;
• one-third representation to Muslims in Central Legislative Assembly;
• representation to Muslims in Punjab and Bengal in proportion to their population;
• formation of three new Muslim majority provinces— Sindh, Baluchistan and North-West Frontier Province.

Solution: c)

Khudai Khidmatgar was non-violent struggle against the British Empire by the Pashtuns in North West frontier province.

M K Gandhi coined the term Harijan to address the depressed classes.