[Mission 2023] STATIC QUIZ, 12 June 2023 – History

Solution: b)

Statement 2 is incorrect.

It 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 and Zamindars.

The hill tracts of Vizagapatam were inhabited by hill tribes who led a more or less independent way of life for centuries.

These tribes paid a regular tribute to a zamindar or mansabdar who was a subject of British India.

The then zamindar of the region was an oppressive tyrant. There were 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: b)

The Polygar Wars or Palaiyakkarar Wars were fought between the Polygars of the former Tirunelveli Kingdom in Tamil Nadu and the British East India Company forces between 1799 to 1805 over pending taxes, oppressive land revenue system etc.

The British finally won after carrying out gruelling protracted jungle campaigns against the Polygar armies and finally defeated them.

The British victory over the Polygars brought large parts of the territories of Tamil Nadu under British control, enabling them to get a strong hold in Southern India.

Solution: a)

First Anglo-Mysore war – (1766–1769)

First Anglo Maratha war – (1775–1782)

First Anglo Burmese war – (1824–1826)

First Anglo Sikh war – (1845–46)

Solution: b)

Statement 2 is incorrect.

Features of the Charter Act of 1833:

1. It made the Governor-General of Bengal as the Governor-General of India and vested in him all civil and military powers. Thus, the act created, for the first time, a Government of India having authority over the entire territorial area possessed by the British in India. Lord William Bentick was the first governor-general of India.
2. It deprived the governor of Bombay and Madras of their legislative powers. The Governor-General of India was given exclusive legislative powers for the entire British India. The laws made under the previous acts were called as Regulations while laws made under this act were called as Acts.
3. It ended the activities of the East India Company as a commercial body, which became a purely administrative body. It provided that the company’s territories in India were held by it ‘in trust for His Majesty, His heirs and successors’.

Charter Act of 1853 introduced an open competition system of selection and recruitment of civil servants.

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.