[Mission 2023] STATIC QUIZ, 27 April 2023 – History

Solution: b)

Their inscriptions refer to more than 400 terms for different kinds of taxes.

The most frequently mentioned tax is vetti, taken not in cash but in the form of forced labour, and kadamai, or land revenue.

There were also taxes on thatching the house, the use of a ladder to climb palm trees, a cess on succession to family property, etc.

Solution: c)

These were the major categories:

Vellanvagai: land of non-Brahmana peasant proprietors

Brahmadeya: land gifted to Brahmanas

Shalabhoga: land for the maintenance of a school

Devadana, tirunamattukkani: land gifted to temples

Pallichchhandam: land donated to Jaina institutions

Solution: c)

Nishan- order of a member of the royal family.

Farman- order of the emperor.

Parwana- orders issued by higher authorities.

Siyaha huzur- proceedings of the provincial court.

Solution: a)

Rampa rebellion of 1879 was an insurrection by the hill tribes in the Rampa region of the Vizagapatam Hill Tracts Agency of Vizagapatam District against the British government of the Madras Presidency.

The hill tracts of Vishakhapatanam were inhabited by hill tribes who led a more or less independent way of life for centuries. These tribes either spoke Telugu or Odia or tribal dialects and paid a regular tribute to a zamindar or mansabdar who was a subject of British India. The then zamindar of the region, an illegitimate son of his predecessor, was an oppressive tyrant, there had been smaller riots and uprisings before, but to make matters worse, the Madras government introduced a law making toddy tapping illegal and introducing a toddy tax, this wouldn’t have been a great deal to the Hill tribes, but toddy tapping was part of their culture. This led to a full-scale rebellion in early 1879.

Solution: c)

It was in 1942 when the world was going through the havoc caused by World War II. India too was facing the heat and after the Cripps Mission had failed, and on 8 August 1942, Mahatma Gandhi made a Do or Die call through the Quit India movement.

On August 8, 1942, Mahatma Gandhi made a Do or Die call in his Quit India speech which was delivered in Bombay at the Gowalia Tank Maidan.

Even though the speech caused some turmoil within the party and even leaders like Jawaharlal Nehru and Maulana Azad were apprehensive and critical of the call, but backed it and stuck with Gandhi’s leadership until the end.

Other key facts:

o Several national leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, Abdul Kalam Azad, Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel were arrested.

o The Congress was declared an unlawful association, leaders were arrested and its offices all over the country were raided and their funds were frozen.

o The first half of the movement was peaceful with demonstrations and processions. The peaceful protest was carried till Mahatma Gandhi’s release.

o The second half of the movement was violent with raids and setting fire at post offices, government buildings and railway stations. Lord Linlithgow adopted the policy of violence.

A significant feature of the Quit India Movement was the emergence of what came to be known as parallel governments in some parts of the country. The first one was proclaimed in Ballia, in East UP, in August 1942 under the leadership of Chittu Pande. In Tamluk in the Midnapur district of Bengal, the Jatiya Sarkar came into existence on 17 December, 1942 and lasted till September 1944. Satara, in Maharashtra, emerged as the base of the longest lasting and effective parallel government.