Indian History GK Questions with Answers – Page 10

Kanaklata Barua was shot dead on 20 September 1942 while leading a procession during the Quit India Movement in Assam.

Both statements describe the 1905 Revolution in Russia correctly. On 22 January 1905 (9 January by the old Russian calendar), workers led by Father Gapon marched peacefully to the Winter Palace in St Petersburg with a petition to the Tsar.

Shortughai lay close to the Badakhshan mines of north-eastern Afghanistan, the best-known ancient source of the blue stone lapis lazuli.

The iron stirrup gave the rider a firm seat, and that firm seat made the lance charge possible, so both statements are correct.

Both Shvetaketu and Nachiketa are young seekers in the Upanishads whose stories show that knowledge is won by asking questions and refusing easy answers.

This Harappan city in the Rann of Kutch, Gujarat, is known above all for its water management, with large cisterns and reservoirs in both the citadel and the lower town.

Statements 1 and 3 describe the Industrial Revolution correctly, but it began in Britain, not Germany. The Industrial Revolution turned largely rural, farming societies into urban ones where most people worked in factories, mines and workshops, which is what statement 1 says.

The English economic historian Arnold Toynbee first used the term in English in his lectures on the Industrial Revolution in England.

The Stamp Act Congress met in New York City in October 1765 to protest against the Stamp Act passed by the British Parliament that year.

In March 1927 Dr Ambedkar led the Mahad Satyagraha to assert the right of the depressed classes to draw water from the public Chavdar tank at Mahad.

Cultural cooperation is not one of the five principles of Panchsheel. Panchsheel, the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, was set out in the agreement on trade and intercourse between India and the Tibet region of China, signed on 29 April 1954 by Jawaharlal Nehru's government and Zhou Enlai's. The five…

Easy credit from banks and a good transport network were both among the reasons Britain became the first country to industrialise.

The Lahore session of December 1929, presided over by Jawaharlal Nehru, adopted Purna Swaraj, complete independence, as the Congress goal.

The Anglo-Indian teacher of Hindu College, Calcutta, inspired the radical student group known as Young Bengal in the late 1820s. Derozio taught at Hindu College from 1826 to 1831.

Ramanuja, the eleventh-twelfth century teacher of Sriperumbudur, taught Vishishtadvaita or qualified non-dualism. Vishishtadvaita holds that Brahman is the only reality, but souls and matter are real parts of Brahman, as the body is to the soul, and that devotion to Vishnu leads to liberation.

Sayyid Ahmad Khan founded the college at Aligarh, and he drew support for it from people of every faith. Sayyid Ahmad Khan started the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College at Aligarh in 1875 to give Indian Muslims a modern, Western-style education alongside Islamic learning; it became Aligarh Muslim University in 1920.

He founded the Khudai Khidmatgar movement among the Pathans of the North-West Frontier Province in 1929. The Khudai Khidmatgars, meaning Servants of God, were a non-violent volunteer body pledged to social reform and to the freedom struggle.

All three statements describe the Rowlatt Act and the protest against it correctly. The Act, based on the Sedition Committee chaired by Justice Sidney Rowlatt, was rushed through the Imperial Legislative Council in March 1919 although every elected Indian member opposed it; Jinnah resigned in protest.

Under the Subsidiary Alliance, introduced by Lord Wellesley (Governor-General 1798–1805), the Indian ruler gave up exactly this freedom: he could not make war, sign treaties or even employ other Europeans without the Company's consent, and he had to keep a British Resident at his court.

The Sahajiya cult grew out of late Tantric Buddhism in eastern India, especially Bengal, and is often called Sahajayana, a branch of Vajrayana.