[Mission 2023] STATIC QUIZ, 8 December 2022 – History

Solution: a)

Contributions by Firoz Shah Tughlaq:

established the Diwan-i-Khairat — office for charity.

established the Diwan-i-Bundagan — department of slave

established Sarais (rest house) for the benefits of merchants and other travellers

adopted the Iqtadari framework.

Established four new towns, Firozabad, Fatehabad, Jaunpur and Hissar.

established hospitals known as Darul-Shifa, Bimaristan or Shifa Khana.

Solution: d)

Mughal prince Dara Shikoh (1615-59). 

The eldest son of Shah Jahan, Dara Shikoh was killed after losing the war of succession against his brother Aurangzeb. Dara Shikoh is described as a “liberal Muslim” who tried to find commonalities between Hindu and Islamic traditions. He translated into Persian the Bhagavad Gita as well as 52 Upanishads.

Solution: a)

Born in 1879, Periyar is remembered for the Self Respect Movement to redeem the identity and self-respect of Tamils. He envisaged a Dravida homeland of Dravida Nadu, and launched a political party, Dravidar Kazhagam (DK).

He associated himself with the Justice Party and the Self Respect Movement.

Periyar’s fame spread beyond the Tamil region during the Vaikom Satyagraha of 1924, a mass movement to demand that lower caste persons be given the right to use a public path in front of the famous Vaikom temple.

Periyar took part in the agitation with his wife, and was arrested twice.

In the 1940s, Periyar launched Dravidar Kazhagam, which espoused an independent Dravida Nadu comprising Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, and Kannada speakers.

As a social reformer, he focused on social, cultural and gender inequalities, and his reform agenda questioned matters of faith, gender and tradition.

He asked people to be rational in their life choices. He argued that women needed to be independent, not mere child-bearers, and insisted that they be allowed an equal share in employment.

Solution: c)

The Royal Indian Navy revolt (also called the Royal Indian Navy mutiny or Bombay mutiny) encompasses a total strike and subsequent revolt by Indian sailors of the Royal Indian Navy on board ship and shore establishments at Bombay harbour on 18 February 1946.

While the immediate trigger was the demand for better food and working conditions, the agitation soon turned into a wider demand for independence from British rule.

From the initial flashpoint in Bombay, the revolt spread and found support throughout British India, from Karachi to Calcutta. The mutiny was repressed with force by British troops and Royal Navy warships. Only the Communist Party supported the strikers; the Indian National Congress and the Muslim League condemned it.

Solution: d)

• Lal Bahadur Shastri became a life member of the Servants of the People Society (Lok Sevak Mandal), founded by Lala Lajpat Rai. There he started to work for the upliftment of backward classes, and later he became the President of that Society.
• He participated in the non-cooperation movement and the Salt Satyagraha.
• He promoted the White Revolution, a national campaign to increase milk production. He also promoted the Green Revolution, to increase the food production in India.
• In 1964, he signed an agreement with the Sri Lankan Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike, in concern with the status of Indian Tamils in Ceylon. This agreement is known as Srimavo-Shastri Pact.
• He signed Tashkent Declaration on 10 January, 1966 with the Pakistan President, Muhammad Ayub Khan to end the 1965 war.