Indian History GK Questions with Answers – Page 44

The peasants of Bardoli taluka in Surat district refused to pay a steep increase in land revenue, Vallabhbhai Patel organised the resistance, the government was forced to appoint an inquiry and roll back most of the increase, and the women of Bardoli gave him the title Sardar.

The correct answer is A, Chittaranjan Das, the Bengal leader who gave up a large legal practice for the non-cooperation movement, defended the Alipore bomb case accused, and founded the Swaraj Party with Motilal Nehru in 1923 to contest the legislatures from within.

The correct answer is B, Valentine Chirol, a British journalist of The Times who used the phrase for Tilak in his book on Indian unrest, holding his writings responsible for turning the people against the government; Tilak sued him for defamation and lost, and the title stuck as a mark…

The correct answer is B, Subhas Chandra Bose, who called Gandhi the Father of the Nation in a radio broadcast in 1944, asking for his blessings for the fight the Indian National Army was carrying on from the east.

He launched the Marathi fortnightly Mooknayak, meaning leader of the voiceless, in January 1920 with help from Shahu Maharaj of Kolhapur, and used it to argue the case of the depressed classes; Bahishkrit Bharat, Janata and Prabuddha Bharat followed.

The order is the Cornwallis Code (1793), the Vernacular Press Act (1878), the first Indian Factory Act (1881) and the Morley-Minto Reforms (1909).

The British settlement in Awadh treated the talukdars as intruders who had gained land by force and fraud. After Awadh was annexed in 1856, the British introduced the Summary Settlement of land revenue there.

Lord Curzon's partition of Bengal came into effect on 16 October 1905, years before the other three events. Curzon announced the partition in July 1905, claiming it was for administrative convenience, but it was widely seen as a way to divide Hindus and Muslims and weaken Bengali nationalism.

The Indigo Revolt (1859–60) of Bengal's peasants against European indigo planters won strong support from the Bengali intelligentsia, press and missionaries.

On 13 April 1919 troops fired without any warning on an unarmed crowd in Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar, on the orders of Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer.

Walangkar, a pioneer of the Dalit movement in Maharashtra, brought out the Vital-Vidhvansak from 1888. Gopal Baba Walangkar belonged to the Mahar community and had served in the army before turning to social reform.

Each person held the position shown against his name. Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru, an eminent lawyer and Moderate, was a leading figure of the All India (National) Liberal Federation formed by Moderates who left the Congress in 1918, and served as its president; he also attended the Round Table Conferences.

The pact invited the Congress to the Round Table Conference, withdrew the emergency ordinances and released non-violent prisoners, but it did not grant an enquiry into police excesses.

Gandhi did campaign to end indentured labour, and the Congress was outlawed after the Salt Satyagraha, but he supported the recruitment resolution at the War Conference.

The All Parties Conference of 1928 set up a committee under Motilal Nehru, and its draft constitution is known as the Nehru Report.

Dadabhai Naoroji founded it in London in 1866 to put the Indian point of view before the British public and Parliament.

The amara-nayaka system was the main political innovation of the Vijayanagara Empire, under which military commanders were given territories to govern.

He was called Danka Shah, the drum-beating maulvi, because he moved from place to place with drums announcing his preaching against British rule.

Gokhale moved the Elementary Education Bill in the Imperial Legislative Council in 1911 to make primary education free and compulsory.

He got the title Vidyasagar from the Sanskrit College, Calcutta, and he argued for widow remarriage precisely on the basis of the scriptures.