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Question 61. Who said, “Like summer gale revolt of Meerut was unprecedented and short-lived”?
  1.    S.B. Chaudhari
  2.    S.N. Sen
  3.    R.C. Majumdar
  4.    V.D. Savarkar
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> S.N. Sen
Answer: (b)
The Revolt of 1857 began as a mutiny of sepoys of the East India Company’s army on 10 May 1857, in the town of Meerut.
The Merrut 1857 uprising was described by Dr. Surendra Nath Sen “Like summer gale revolt of Meerut was unprecedented and shortlived”.In 1956, the Indian government commissioned him to write a history of the Indian popular uprising of 1857–59; the work, entitled Eighteen Fifty-seven, was published in 1957.
Question 62. Who was the biographer of A.O. Hume?
  1.    George Yule
  2.    V. Chirol
  3.    W. Wedderburn
  4.    None of these
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> W. Wedderburn
Answer: (c)W. Wedderburn was the biographer of A.O. Hume.
Question 63. Match List-I and List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below the lists:
 
List-I (Place of 1857 revolt)
List-II (Leader of the revolt)
A. Lucknow
1. Maulavi Ahmadullah
B. Kanpur
2. Kunwar Singh
C. Bihar
3. Nana Sahib
D. Rohilkhand
4. Beghum Hazrat Mahal
Codes: A B C D
  1.    2 1 4 3
  2.    2 3 4 1
  3.    4 1 2 3
  4.    4 3 2 1
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> 4 3 2 1
Answer: (d)
Question 64. In which of the following places, Hindu Mahasabha was for the first time organized in 1915?
  1.    Allahabad
  2.    Haridwar
  3.    Varanasi
  4.    None of these
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> Haridwar
Answer: (b)
In Haridwar, the Hindu Mahasabha was for the first time, organized in 1915. Hindu Mahasabha was founded in 1915 by Madan Mohan Malviya. It worked with Arya Samaj and other Hindu communal organizations.
It was directly linked with Rashtriya Swam Sevak Sangh founded in 1925 at Nagpur by K.B. Hegewar. The first All India Hindu Mahasabha Conference was organized at Hardwar in 1915. The Sabha became more aggressive after 1929 and started propagating Hindu Rashtra which was totally different from Gandhiji’s Ram Rajya.
Question 65. Arrange the following in chronological order:

  1. Surat split

  2. Partition of Bengal

  3. Foundation of Muslim League


  1.    3, 2, 1
  2.    2, 3, 1
  3.    1, 2, 3
  4.    2, 1, 3
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> 2, 3, 1
Answer: (b)
Partition of Bengal announced in 1905.
Foundation of Muslim League took place in 1906.
The Surat split came into effect in 1907.
Question 66. The first President of the Muslim league was
  1.    Hidayat Hussain Khan
  2.    Nawab Vakar-ul-Mulk
  3.    Miyan Abdul Aziz
  4.    Mohammad Ali Jinnah
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> Nawab Vakar-ul-Mulk
Answer: (b)
The first president of the Muslim league was Nawab Vakar-ul-Mulk. Muslim League, a political organization of India and Pakistan, founded in 1906 as the All-India Muslim League by Aga Khan III. Its original purpose was to safeguard the political rights of Muslims in India.
Nawab Mushtaq Husain Vakar-ul-Mulk, also known as Mushtaq Hussain, was a Muslim politician and one of the founders of the All India Muslim League. He is also known for his involvement in the Aligarh Movement.
Question 67. The system of indirect election was introduced in India in the year
  1.    1909
  2.    1861
  3.    1892
  4.    1919
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> 1892
Answer: (c)The system of indirect election was introduced in India in the year 1892. The Indian Councils Act 1892 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that authorized an increase in the size of the various legislative councils in British India.
Question 68. Match the following leaders and their places of the first war of Independence and choose the correct answer from the codes given below:
 
List-I (Leaders)
List-II (Places)
A. Begum Hazarat Mahal
1. Lucknow
B. Maulvi Ahmadullah Shah
2. Faizabad
C. Begum Zinat Mahal
3. Delhi
D. Kunwar Singh
4. Arrah
Codes: A B C D
  1.    3 2 4 1
  2.    1 2 3 4
  3.    2 3 1 4
  4.    3 2 1 4
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> 1 2 3 4
Answer: (b)
Begum Hazrat Mahal led from Lucknow.
Maulvi Ahmadullah Shah led from Faizabad.
Begum Zinat Mahal led from Delhi and
Kunwar Singh led from Arrah.
Question 69. Which one of the following historians has written about the nature of the movement of 1857 that “It was neither first nor national nor a war of Independence”?
  1.    S.B. Chudhari
  2.    T.R. Holmes
  3.    R.C. Majumdar
  4.    G.B. Mallison
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> R.C. Majumdar
Answer: (c)R.C. Majumdar has written about the nature of the movement of 1857 that “It was neither first nor national nor a war of independence.”
Question 70. Who among the following had founded the Theosophical Society in the United States of America?
  1.    Madam Blavatsky
  2.    Swami Dayanand Saraswati
  3.    Lala Hardayal
  4.    Madam Bhikaji Cama
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> Madam Blavatsky
Answer: (a)A group of westerners led by Madam H.P. Blavatsky (1831–1891) and colonel M.S. Olcott, who were inspired by Indian thought and culture founded the Theosophical Society in the United States in 1875.

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