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History & Culture Test 5
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Negative marks are -0.33 per wrong answer
Right answer is 1 mark
No time limit but finish in 30 mins
Solution can be found at below chapters:
Test series is based on following chapters.
History & Culture Chapter 7:REVOLT OF 1857
History & Culture Chapter 8: LOCAL REBELLIONS
Q1: REVOLT OF 1857
Sepoy's of Meerut reached Delhi and killed the European officers and entered the red fort
They urged the Mughal Emperor Bahadur shah [a pensioner for the east India Company] to become their leader and give legitimacy to their cause
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Q2: REVOLT OF 1857
south India, Punjab and Bengal were marginally affected.
Capture of Delhi provided a rallying point to the movement.
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Q3: ____ infantry refused to use the Enfield rifles
barrackpore
behrampore
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Q4: Leadership of the 1857 revolt
At Kanpur Nana sahib was the leader [son of last Peshwa Baji rao II].
In Awadh Begum Hazrat Mahal took over leadership under her son Birjis Qadr’s name.
At Rohilkhand Bahadur khan offered resistance to the British by organizing an army. In Bihar Kunwar Singh a zamindar discontent with the British joined the mutiny.
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Q5: Which is true ?
Jhansi Rani Laxmibai joined the mutiny and was the most formidable opponent to the British.
Initially she offered to the British to keep Jhansi safe if they recognized her adopted son as the heir [under Dalhousie doctrine of lapse adopted heir couldn’t succeed to the throne]
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Q6:Reasons for Sepoy mutiny:
Lord Dalhousie’s policy of annexation had created strong anti British feelings
It was feared that the British were going to convert the army to Christianity and destroy the religion of the army.
Indian soldier had to go overseas to fight and this meant a caste was lost. Thus he would be disbarred from his fraternity.
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Q7:Revolt of 1857
Indian peasantry and artisans were exploited by the unfair British policies
Christian missionaries were allowed to preach to the soldiers. There were rumors that the cartridge of Enfield rifles was coated with grease of cow and pig.
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Q8: Reasons for the sepoy mutiny
He was given a poor remuneration compared to British counterpart. Also he was made to feel subordinate at every stage of promotion and privileges.
The military revolt was followed by revolt by civilians as the British policies of taxation had affected people from all sections of society.
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Q9: How did british taxation policies affect the taluqdars
Landed Taluqdars too faced humiliation as their lands were confiscated and hence they too joined the revolts.
The orthodox Hindus and Muslims too felt that the British legislations favored missionary work.
The educational institutes of Christian missionaries imparted western education in place of oriental subjects.
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Q10: Reasons for the failure of the revolt:
They had no source of arms and ammunition except the captured British arsenal. The British had the most modern weapons.
The Sepoy’s had no system of communication and were isolated from each other. Due to this no coordination was possible.
The intelligentsia, princely states and merchants actively supported the British. The princes even provided men and materials. This affected the Sepoy success.
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Q11: Reasons for the failure of the revolt:
The rebels had no effective leadership. Leaders like Bahadur shah and Zeenat Mahal negotiated with the British. Taluqdars supported the mutineers only till their interest was protected.
Half of the Indian Sepoy’s in the British army did not revolt but actively fought against their own kin. Rebels too lacked a vision. They were primarily fighting to gain lost privileges.
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Q12: 1857 Revolt was hailed as the first war of independence by
Benjamin disraeli
Gandhiji
VD Sawarkar
SC Bose
Q13: Who admitted it wasn’t a local revolt but a National Uprising.
John wilson
Lord canning.
Benjamin disraeli
Queen Elizabeth
Q14: Aftermath of the Revolt
The revolt led to change in the character of Indian administration
The administration was transferred from Company to the queen by a proclamation on 1st November 1858.
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Q15: last governor general and first viceroy
Dalhousie
Ripon
Bentinck
Canning
Q16: Queen Victoria’s proclamation:
Endorsed treaty made by the Company with the princes would be respected. The rights, powers, dignity and honor of princes would be protected.
Indians would get equal protection of law and freedom of religion and social practices.
Impartial admission to public services for Indians.
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Q17: British power was established in India after prolonged conquests and consolidation. These were met by minor resistances by routed Nawabs, zamindars, landowners and supported by tribals and peasants. The main cause of localized rebellions by civilians was the changes
British brought into agrarian society ruining it by imposing high land revenues
Traditional royalty also were removed and this caused a decline in patronage to Indian handicrafts
The zamindars and poligars were discontent since their lands were confiscated and they were replaced by government officials and moneylenders in the societal order.
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Q18:The rebellions by routed Nawabs, zamindars, landowners and supported by tribals and peasants were scattered; their effects were local and their purpose was.
restoring the traditional order.
freedom from foreign rule
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Q19: TRIBAL REBELLIONS FROM 1757-1857 were due to
The British had ended their isolation from the society and brought it in contact with colonialism.
influx of missionaries increasing religious interference.
The large number of moneylenders, traders and revenue farmers came to exploit tribals and made them into bankrupt, share croppers or landless people. They were evicted from lands that they had brought into cultivation.
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Q20: Santhal and birsa uprisings were due to
They could no longer access forest lands for shifting cultivation nor take forest produce due to British policies
The officials used to harass them and outsiders forced them to do unpaid labor. All this uprooted their traditional lives
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Q21: Indigo riots were due to the
oppression of indigo planter, who were European, on the peasants
They started translating ancient texts to help Indians rediscover ancient heritage and glory.
The planters forced the growers to produce indigo which would be processed in factories. The cultivators had to sow indigo on their best soil and put labor to sell the plant at a price below market.
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Q22: Ultimately the indigo planters surrendered and closed the factories as
The Indian society of intelligentsia was united behind them and so were the Christian missionaries
The government’s vary after the 1857 revolts pacified the rioters with a notification favoring their stand.
The unity amongst rioters irrespective of caste, religion
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Q23: PEASANT MOVEMENTS AND UPRISING AFTER 1857 had characteristics
based on legal tactics to solve cases and not armed rebellion.
They were for immediate resolution of grievances. They were against the zamindar and not the British rule
both.
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Q24: Aftermath of the Revolts by farmers and tribals
Post 1857 most princes, landlords and zamindars were ruined and cultivators assumed important role in agrarian society
The peasant didn’t oppose imposition of land revenue or zamindar but only was against high land revenue and oppressive attitude of zamindars.
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Q25: The mentality of the peasants in the aftermath of the post 1857 rebellions was
The feeling of humiliation of being under foreign rule wasn’t there.
The peasants didn’t understand the effect of colonialism at this stage.
However this was changed in 20th century when peasant discontent was merged with anti imperial discontent and they became part of the wider anti imperial struggle.
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