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Q1

Consider the following events:

1. Afghan Wars

2. Barrackpore mutiny

3. Revolts in the British Indian Army in Bengal

4. Vellore mutiny

Which of the following is the correct chronological sequence of the above events?

Q2

With reference to the participation of the civilian population in the revolt of 1857, consider the following statements:

1. There was no significant participation of the civilian population in the north-western provinces and eastern India.

2. The peasants and small zamindars attacked the money-lenders and zamindars.

Which of the statement(s) given above is/are correct?

Q3

Which of the following were the results of the revolt of 1857?

1. Beginning of the era of annexations and expansion.

2. Recognition of the paramountcy of the British Crown by the Indian states.

3. Reformation of British of British military policy

4. Assumption of the Government of India by the sovereign of Great Britain.

Select the correct answer using the code given below:

Q4

Which of the following was/were revivalist movements?

1. The Brahmo Samaj

2. The Aligarh Movement

3. The Arya Samaj

4. The Deoband movement

Select the correct answer using the code given below:

Q5

Which of the following were economic causes of the revolt of 1857?

1. The disintegration of the old zamindari system.

2. The annexation of Indian states by the East India Company

3. The imposition of high tariff duties on Indian-made goods by the British

4. The emergence of a class of new landlords

Select the correct answer using the codes given below:

Q6

Which one of the following was the result of the Religious Disabilities Act, 1856?

Q7

In which of the locations the most ferocious battles were fought during the revolt of 1857?

1. Bundelkhand

2. Awadh

3. Rohilkhand

4. Western Bihar

5. Kathiawar

Select the correct answer using the codes given below:

Q8

With reference to the General Service Enlistment Act, which of the following statements is/are correct?

1. It was enacted during the time of Lord Canning.

2. It made all future recruits of the Bengal army to be ready for service both within and outside India.

Select the correct answer using the code given below:

Q9

Consider the following statement

  1. The Native Marriage Act or civil Marriage Act of 1872 prohibits child marriage.
  2. The Age of Consent Act of 1891 forbade the marriage of girls below the age of 12.
  3. The Child Marriage Restraint Act or Sarda Act of 1929 fixed the age of marriage for girls at 14 years and for boys at 18 years.

Which of the statement(s) given above is/are Incorrect?

Q10

Consider the following pairs

             Organisation                             Founder                                          

  1. Bharat Stree Mahamandal -   Sarla Devi Chaudhurani
  2. Ladies Social Conference  -  Pandita Ramabai Saraswati
  3. Arya Mahila Samaj            -  Ramabai Ranade

Which of the pairs given above is/are correct?

Q11

Consider the following statement

  1. Jagannath Shankar Seth was active promoters of girls education in Maharashtra.
  2. Vishnu Shastri Pandit started Satyaprakash, a weekly in Gujarati.
  3. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar was the most prominent campaigner of Widows Remarriage Act.

Which of the statement(s) given above is/are Incorrect?

Q12

With reference to the Revolt of 1857, Consider the following statement

  1. At Delhi, the symbolic leadership was to the Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah, but the real command was led by General Bakht Khan.
  2. Begum Hazrat Mahal took over the reign of Bareilly.
  3. Kanpur rose under Nana Saheb, Tantia Tope, Azimullah Khan.
  4. Rani Laxmibai assumed the leadership of the sepoys at Jhansi.

Which of the following statement(s) is correct?

Q13

Who among the following called the Revolt of 1857 as the ‘First War of Indian Independence’?

Q14

Who among the following was Governor-General during the Revolt of 1857?Who among the following was Governor-General during the Revolt of 1857?

Q15

What was/were the objects of Queen Victoria’s Proclamation(1858)?

  1. To expand the British power in India.
  2. To regulate East India Company trade with India.
  3. To place the Indian administration under the British Crown.

Select the correct answer using the option given below

Q16

Consider the following statement

  1. Sri Narayan Guru organised the Self-Respect Movement.
  2. Br. Ambedkar established the Bahishkrit Hitakarni Sabha.
  3. E.V. Ramaswamy Naickar in Kerala led a struggle against upper caste domination.

Which of the statement(s) given above is/are Incorrect?

Q17

Which of the following act abolished all laws affecting the rights of persons converting to another religion or caste?

Q18

Correct the chronological sequence of the following events

  1. Establishment of Indian Women’s University
  2. Formation of the National Council of Women
  3. Woods Despatch on Education
  4. Establishment of the Bethune School

Select the correct code using the option given below

Q19

Which of the following was the Impact of 1857 revolt?Which of the following was the Impact of 1857 revolt?

Q20

‘Servants of India Society’, an association was formed to promote education, sanitation, health care and fight the social evils of untouchability and discrimination, poverty, oppression of women and domestic abuse was founded by?

Q1.

Consider the following events:

1. Afghan Wars

2. Barrackpore mutiny

3. Revolts in the British Indian Army in Bengal

4. Vellore mutiny

Which of the following is the correct chronological sequence of the above events?

a) 4-1-2-3
b) 3-4-2-1
c) 4-2-1-3
d) 3-1-2-4
Solution : b)
Unattempted. Explanation :-

Exp) The correct chronological sequence of the events is:

1. Revolts in the British Indian Army—in Bengal (1764)

2. Vellore (1806)

3. Barrackpore (1825) mutiny

4. Afghan Wars (1838-42)

Source)

Chapter 7; page number 188

 

Q2.

With reference to the participation of the civilian population in the revolt of 1857, consider the following statements:

1. There was no significant participation of the civilian population in the north-western provinces and eastern India.

2. The peasants and small zamindars attacked the money-lenders and zamindars.

Which of the statement(s) given above is/are correct?

a) 1 only
b) 2 only
c) Both 1 and 2
d) Neither 1 nor 2
Solution : b)
Unattempted. Explanation :-

Exp) Statement 1 is incorrect. During the revolt of 1857, the sepoys were accompanied by a rebellion of the civil population, particularly in the north-western provinces and Awadh. Their accumulated grievances found immediate expression and they rose en masse to give vent to their opposition to British rule.

Statement 2 is correct. There was widespread participation in the revolt by the peasantry, artisans, shopkeepers, day labourers, zamindars, religious mendicants, priests and civil servants which gave it real strength as well as the character of a popular revolt.

The peasants and petty zamindars gave free expression to their grievances by attacking the money-lenders and zamindars who had displaced them from the land. They took advantage of the revolt to destroy the money-lenders' account books and debt records. They also attacked the British-established law courts, revenue offices (tehsils), revenue records and police stations.

Source)

Chapter 7; Page number

 

Q3.

Which of the following were the results of the revolt of 1857?

1. Beginning of the era of annexations and expansion.

2. Recognition of the paramountcy of the British Crown by the Indian states.

3. Reformation of British of British military policy

4. Assumption of the Government of India by the sovereign of Great Britain.

Select the correct answer using the code given below:

a) 1, 3 and 4 only
b) 2 and 4 only
c) 2, 3 and 4 only
d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
Solution : c)
Unattempted. Explanation :-

Exp) Statements 2, 3 and 4 are correct.

The revolt of 1857 marks a turning point in the history of India. It led to changes in the system of administration and the policy of the Government. As a result of the revolt, the era of annexation and expansion ended and the British promised to respect the dignity and rights of the native princes. Hence, statement 1 is incorrect.

Q4.

Which of the following was/were revivalist movements?

1. The Brahmo Samaj

2. The Aligarh Movement

3. The Arya Samaj

4. The Deoband movement

Select the correct answer using the code given below:

a) 1 and 2 only
b) 3 and 4 only
c) 2, 3 and 4 only
d) None of the above
Solution : b)
Unattempted. Explanation :-

Exp) The reform movements could broadly be classified into two categories—the reformist movements and the revivalist movements. The Brahmo Samaj, the Prarthana Samaj, the Aligarh Movement were reformist movements while the Arya Samaj and the Deoband movement were the revivalist movements like.

Source)

Chapter 8; page number 215

 

Q5.

Which of the following were economic causes of the revolt of 1857?

1. The disintegration of the old zamindari system.

2. The annexation of Indian states by the East India Company

3. The imposition of high tariff duties on Indian-made goods by the British

4. The emergence of a class of new landlords

Select the correct answer using the codes given below:

a) 1, 2 and 3 only
b) 1 and 4 only
c) 2 and 3 only
d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
Solution : d)
Unattempted. Explanation :-

Exp) All the statements are correct.

The colonial policies of the East India Company destroyed the traditional economic fabric of Indian society. Due to the highly unpopular revenue settlement of East India Company, the peasants resorted to loans from money-lenders/traders at usurious rates, the latter often evicting the former from their land on non-payment of debt dues. These money-lenders and traders emerged as the new landlords, while the scourge of landless peasantry and rural indebtedness has continued to plague Indian society to this day. The older system of zamindari was forced to disintegrate.

For the artisans and handicrafts people, the annexation of Indian states by the Company cut off their major source of patronage the native rulers and the nobles. The native rulers and the nobles could not now afford to be patrons of the crafts workers. British policy discouraged Indian handicrafts and promoted British goods. The highly skilled Indian craftsmen were forced to look for alternate sources of employment that hardly existed, as the destruction.

British imposed high tariff duties on Indian-made goods. At the same time, the import of British goods into India attracted low tariffs, thus encouraging their entry into India.

The traditional landed aristocracy or the Zamindars often saw their land rights forfeited with frequent use of a quo warranto by the administration. This resulted in a loss of status for them in the villages. In Awadh, the storm centre of the revolt, 21,000 taluqdars had their estates confiscated.

Source)

Chapter 7; Page number 186

Q6.

Which one of the following was the result of the Religious Disabilities Act, 1856?

a) It aimed at banning the practice of Sati and child marriage system in India.
b) It made the conversion from Hinduism to Christianism legally protected.
c) It restricted the Christian missionaries to set up schools in tribal areas.
d) It negated the perception of traveling overseas as a sin.
Solution : b)
Unattempted. Explanation :-

Exp) The Religious Disabilities Act, 1856, which modified Hindu customs, for instance declaring that a change of religion did not debar a son from inheriting the property of his heathen father.

Source)

Chapter 7; page number

Q7.

In which of the locations the most ferocious battles were fought during the revolt of 1857?

1. Bundelkhand

2. Awadh

3. Rohilkhand

4. Western Bihar

5. Kathiawar

Select the correct answer using the codes given below:

a) 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5
b) 2 only
c) 4 and 5 only
d) 1, 2, 3 and 4 only
Solution : d)
Unattempted. Explanation :-

Exp) The most ferocious battles were fought in Delhi, Awadh, Rohilkhand, Bundelkhand, Allahabad, Agra, Meerut and western Bihar. The rebellious forces under the commands of Kanwar Singh in Bihar and Bakht Khan in Delhi gave a stunning blow to the British. In Kanpur, Nana Sahib was proclaimed as the Peshwa and the brave leader Tantya Tope led his troops. Rani Lakshmibai was proclaimed the ruler of Jhansi who led her troops in the heroic battles with the British.

 

The limited territorial spread was one factor; there was no all-India veneer about the revolt. The eastern, southern and western parts of India remained more or less unaffected. This was probably because the earlier uprisings in those regions had been brutally suppressed by the Company.

The revolt began at Meerut on May 10, 1857 and then, gathering force rapidly, soon embraced a vast area from the Punjab in the north and the Narmada in the south to Bihar in the east and Rajputana in the west.

Source)

Chapter 7; page number

Page number 194/95

https://www.india.gov.in/people-groups/life-cycle/kids/indian-freedom-struggle-1857-1947

Q8.

With reference to the General Service Enlistment Act, which of the following statements is/are correct?

1. It was enacted during the time of Lord Canning.

2. It made all future recruits of the Bengal army to be ready for service both within and outside India.

Select the correct answer using the code given below:

a) 1 only
b) 2 only
c) Both 1 and 2
d) Neither 1 nor 2
Solution : c)
Unattempted. Explanation :-

Exp) Statement 1 is correct. In 1856 Lord Canning's Government passed the General Service Enlistment Act.

Statement 2 is correct. The General Service Enlistment Act which decreed that all future recruits to the Bengal Army would have to give an undertaking to serve anywhere their services might be required by the Government. This caused resentment among the sepoys.

Source)

Chapter 7; Page number 178

 

 

 

Q9.

Consider the following statement

  1. The Native Marriage Act or civil Marriage Act of 1872 prohibits child marriage.
  2. The Age of Consent Act of 1891 forbade the marriage of girls below the age of 12.
  3. The Child Marriage Restraint Act or Sarda Act of 1929 fixed the age of marriage for girls at 14 years and for boys at 18 years.

Which of the statement(s) given above is/are Incorrect?

a) 1 only
b) 1 and 3 only
c) 2 and 3 only
d) None of the above
Solution : d)
Unattempted. Explanation :-

Explanation:

  • All of the given statements are Correct:
    • The Native Marriage Act passed in 1872 legalised unorthodox inter-caste marriage. The Native Marriage Act signified legislative action in prohibiting child marriage.
    • The Age of Consent Act, 1891, was legislation enacted in British India on 19 March 1891 which raised the age of consent for sexual intercourse for all girls, married or unmarried, from ten to twelve years in all jurisdictions, its violation subject to criminal prosecution as rape.
    • The Child Marriage Restraint Act, 1929, passed on 28 September 1929, in the Imperial Legislative Council of India, fixed the age of marriage for girls at 14 years and boys at 18 years which was later amended to 18 for girls and 21 for boys.
Q10.

Consider the following pairs

             Organisation                             Founder                                          

  1. Bharat Stree Mahamandal -   Sarla Devi Chaudhurani
  2. Ladies Social Conference  -  Pandita Ramabai Saraswati
  3. Arya Mahila Samaj            -  Ramabai Ranade

Which of the pairs given above is/are correct?

a) 1 only
b) 1 and 2 only
c) 2 and 3 only
d) 3 only
Solution : a)
Unattempted. Explanation :-

Explanation:

  • Pair 1 is Correct: Bharat Stree Mahamandal was the first women's organisation in India founded by Sarala Devi Chaudhurani in Allahabad in 1910.
  • Pair 2 is Incorrect: Arya Mahila Samaj was founded by Pandita Ramabai Saraswati to provide a support network for newly educated women.
  • Pair 3 is Incorrect: Ramabai Ranade founded the Ladies Social Conference(Bharat Mahila Parishad), under the parent organisation National Social Conference, in 1904 in Bombay

 

Q11.

Consider the following statement

  1. Jagannath Shankar Seth was active promoters of girls education in Maharashtra.
  2. Vishnu Shastri Pandit started Satyaprakash, a weekly in Gujarati.
  3. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar was the most prominent campaigner of Widows Remarriage Act.

Which of the statement(s) given above is/are Incorrect?

a) 1 only
b) 2 only
c) 1 and 2 only
d) 2 and 3 only
Solution : b)
Unattempted. Explanation :-

Explanation:

  • Statement 1 is Correct:  Jagannath Shankar Seth was active in the educational field. In 1856, the British Government had announced some grant in aid to private institution but Nana taking advantage of this started an English Marathi school in Girgaum. He contributed funds to the girl’s school started by Student’s Literary and Scientific Society, in spite of strong opposition from the Hindu community.
  • Statement 2 is Incorrect: Karsondas Mulji started Satyaprakash, a weekly in Gujarati, in which he attacked what he perceived to be the immoralities of the Maharajas or hereditary high priests of the Pushtimarg Vaishnavism.
  • Statement 3 is Correct: Vidyasagar pressed on and urged the British to pass legislation that will allow Hindu widows to remarry. To support his request, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar collected almost 1000 signatures and sent his petition to the Indian legislative council. The council received thousands of signatures for and against this measure but the members finally decided to support the enlightened minority, The Hindu widow remarriage act was passed in 1856.
Q12.

With reference to the Revolt of 1857, Consider the following statement

  1. At Delhi, the symbolic leadership was to the Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah, but the real command was led by General Bakht Khan.
  2. Begum Hazrat Mahal took over the reign of Bareilly.
  3. Kanpur rose under Nana Saheb, Tantia Tope, Azimullah Khan.
  4. Rani Laxmibai assumed the leadership of the sepoys at Jhansi.

Which of the following statement(s) is correct?

a) 1, 2 and 3only
b) 1, 3 and 4 only
c) 1 and 3 only
d) 2 and 4 only
Solution : b)
Unattempted. Explanation :-

Explanation:

  • Statement 1 is Correct: At Delhi, the symbolic leadership was to the Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah, but the real command was led by General Bakht Khan.
  • Statement 2 is Incorrect: Begum Hazrat Mahal took over the reign of Lucknow and Birjis Qadir, her son, was declared Nawab. Henry Lawrence, the British resident, was killed. The remaining Europeans were evacuated by Sir Colin Campbell, the new commander - in - chief.
  • Statement 3 is Correct: Kanpur rose under Nana Saheb, Tantia Tope, Azimullah Khan. Sir Hugh Wheeler, commanding the station, surrendered. Nana Saheb declared himself the Peshwa and Bahadhur Shah as Emperor of India
  • Statement 4 is Correct: Rani Laxmibai, the most outstanding leader of the revolt, was driven out of Jhansi with the application of Lapse's Doctrine as Lord Dalhousie, the Governor-General refused to allow her adopted son to succeed to the throne.

 

Q13.

Who among the following called the Revolt of 1857 as the ‘First War of Indian Independence’?

a) Aurobindo Ghosh
b) Bipin Chandra Pal
c) Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
d) Dadabhai Naoroji
Solution : c)
Unattempted. Explanation :-

Explanation:

  • 1857 revolt came to be interpreted as a “planned war of national independence”, by V.D. Savarkar in his book, The Indian War of Independence,1857. Savarkar called the revolt the “Firsts War of Independence”.
Q14.

Who among the following was Governor-General during the Revolt of 1857?Who among the following was Governor-General during the Revolt of 1857?

a) Lord Irwin
b) Lord Lytton C
c) Lord Canning
d) Lord Willingdon
Solution : c)
Unattempted. Explanation :-

Explanation:

  • One of the famous revolt in the history of India which occurred in the governor-generalship of Lord Canning in the year 1857.

 

Q15.

What was/were the objects of Queen Victoria’s Proclamation(1858)?

  1. To expand the British power in India.
  2. To regulate East India Company trade with India.
  3. To place the Indian administration under the British Crown.

Select the correct answer using the option given below

a) 1 only
b) 1 and 2 only
c) 1 and 3 only
d) All of the above
Solution : c)
Unattempted. Explanation :-

Explanation:

  • Statement 1 and 3 is Correct: The objects of Queen Victoria’s Proclamation in 1858 were to disclaim any intention to annex the Indian States as the announcement reversed Lord Dalhousie’s pre-war policy of political unification through princely state annexation. It was also to place the Indian administration under the British Crown.
  • Statement 2 is Incorrect: However, it was not to regulate East India Company’s trade with India.

 

Q16.

Consider the following statement

  1. Sri Narayan Guru organised the Self-Respect Movement.
  2. Br. Ambedkar established the Bahishkrit Hitakarni Sabha.
  3. E.V. Ramaswamy Naickar in Kerala led a struggle against upper caste domination.

Which of the statement(s) given above is/are Incorrect?

a) 1 only
b) 2 only
c) 1 and 3 only
d) 2 and 3 only
Solution : c)
Unattempted. Explanation :-

Explanation:

  • Statement 1 is Incorrect: Narayana Guru was a spiritual leader and social reformer in India. Born into a family of the Ezhava caste. He led a reform movement in Kerala, against the injustice in the caste-ridden society of Kerala in order to promote spiritual enlightenment and social equality.
  • Statement 2 is Correct: Bahishkrit Hitakarini Sabha is a central institution formed by Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar for removing difficulties of the untouchables and placing their grievances before the government.
  • Statement 3 is Incorrect: Erode Venkatappa Ramasamy commonly known as Periyar, also referred to as Thanthai Periyar, was an Indian social activist, and politician who started the Self-Respect Movement and Dravidar Kazhagam.
Q17.

Which of the following act abolished all laws affecting the rights of persons converting to another religion or caste?

a) Abolition of Sati (1829)
b) Hindu Widow Remarriage Act (1856)
c) Religious Disabilities Act of 1850
d) None of the above
Solution : c)
Unattempted. Explanation :-

Explanation:

  • The Religious Disabilities Act of 1850 was a law passed in British India under East India Company rule that abolished all laws affecting the rights of persons converting to another religion or caste. The new Act allowed Indians who converted from one religion to other religion equal rights under no law, especially in the case of inheritance.
Q18.

Correct the chronological sequence of the following events

  1. Establishment of Indian Women’s University
  2. Formation of the National Council of Women
  3. Woods Despatch on Education
  4. Establishment of the Bethune School

Select the correct code using the option given below

a) 4-2-1-3
b) 4-3-1-2
c) 2-4-1-2
d) 1-3-2-4
Solution : b)
Unattempted. Explanation :-

Explanation:

  • Bethune College was founded as a secular Native Female School (for the secular education of girls) in 1849 by John Elliot Drinkwater Betune.
  • In 1854, Charles Wood prepared a despatch on an educational system for India. This document is considered as the "Magna Carta of English Education in India".
  • The National Council of Women in India (NCWI) was formed in 1925.
  • The Indian Women’s University set up by Professor D.K.Karve in 1916 was one of the outstanding institutions imparting education to women.
Q19.

Which of the following was the Impact of 1857 revolt?Which of the following was the Impact of 1857 revolt?

a) Abolished the doctrine of Lapse.
b) Termination of Peshwaship and the Mughal rule.
c) Control of Indian administration was passed on to the British Crown
d) All of the above
Solution : d)
Unattempted. Explanation :-

Explanation:

  • The Revolt of 1857 was an extremely important event in Indian history. It was more a product of Sepoy but was accumulated grievances of the people against the Company’s administration and of their dislike for the foreign regime. The control of Indian administration was passed on to the British Crown by the Government of India Act, 1858 which resulted in the withdrawal of the Doctrine of lapse and the beginning of a new rule which means the end of the Mughal rule as Peshwa rule.
Q20.

‘Servants of India Society’, an association was formed to promote education, sanitation, health care and fight the social evils of untouchability and discrimination, poverty, oppression of women and domestic abuse was founded by?

a) Jyotiba Phule
b) Lokmanya Tilak
c) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
d) Babasaheb Ambedkar
Solution : c)
Unattempted. Explanation :-

Explanation:

  • The Servants of India Society was formed in Pune, Maharashtra, on June 12, 1905, by Gopal Krishna Gokhale, who left the Deccan Education Society to form this association. Along with him were a small group of educated Indians, as Natesh Appaji Dravid, Gopal Krishna Deodhar and Anant Patwardhan who wanted to promote social and human development and overthrow the British rule in India. The Society organized many campaigns to promote education, sanitation, health care and fight the social evils of untouchability and discrimination, alcoholism, poverty, oppression of women and domestic ab