Indian History Previous Year Questions (PYQ) with Answers – Page 27

Chaitanya Mahaprabhu worshipped God in a personal form, as Krishna, so he belonged to the Saguna school of Bhakti, not the Nirguna school.

The Charter Act of 1833 authorised the creation of a fourth presidency with its seat at Agra, and the Presidency of Agra was actually carved out of the Bengal Presidency in 1834, taking in almost the whole of what is now Uttar Pradesh; in 1836 the territory was placed under…

Raja Radhakanta Deb founded the Dharma Sabha in Calcutta in 1830 to defend orthodox Hindu customs against reformers. The Dharma Sabha was set up mainly to oppose Lord William Bentinck's regulation of 1829 that banned sati, which Raja Rammohan Roy had campaigned for.

The first hill stations grew out of military needs: cantonments for troops and places where soldiers could be kept healthy.

The Congress Socialist Party was formed in 1934 by Acharya Narendra Deva and Jayaprakash Narayan, and in 1936 Nehru asked the Congress to adopt socialism.

Gandhi's first major public appearance in India was his speech at the opening of the Banaras Hindu University in February 1916.

Khema was a Buddhist nun, not a Jain teacher; the other three are well-known Jain acharyas. Khema was a queen of King Bimbisara of Magadha who became a disciple of the Buddha and joined the order of nuns.

John Kay, an English inventor, patented the flying shuttle in 1733, one of the first machines of the Industrial Revolution.

Alexander Cunningham, the first Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India, identified the site of ancient Taxila near Rawalpindi in the 1860s. Cunningham used the accounts of Greek writers on Alexander's campaign and of the Chinese pilgrim Xuanzang to match the city named in Indian texts with the ruins…

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The rebel proclamations (ishtahars) recalled Mughal rule as a time when Hindus and Muslims lived together in harmony. During the Revolt of 1857, rebel leaders issued many proclamations and notices.

The Paramhansa Mandali was a secret society that worshipped one God and worked to break the rules of caste. The Paramhansa Mandali was founded in Bombay in 1840 (some sources give 1849) by Dadoba Pandurang, with Durgaram Mehtaji and others.

Chin Qilich Khan, a powerful Mughal noble, took the title Nizam-ul-Mulk Asaf Jah and founded the independent state of Hyderabad.

Each of the three British land revenue systems is matched with the official most closely linked to it. The Permanent Settlement was introduced by Lord Cornwallis in Bengal, Bihar and Odisha in 1793.

The amara-nayakas were paid with territory to govern, not with cash, so statement 2 is the one that is wrong.

Gandhi set up the All India Harijan Sevak Sangh in 1932 to fight untouchability, and he argued that untouchability had no sanction in the Hindu shastras.

The Indian Factories Act of 1881, passed under Viceroy Lord Ripon, was mainly about child labour and capped the working day of children aged 7 to 12 at nine hours.

Statements 1, 2 and 3 are true, but in 1585 Akbar moved his capital to Lahore, not back to Agra.

This is false: Indians entered the service through its open examination from the 1850s. The medical service of the East India Company began in Bengal in 1764, and the separate presidency services were later joined into a single Indian Medical Service in 1896.

The ryotwari system was meant to do the opposite: it bypassed the zamindars and dealt with the peasant directly. The ryotwari settlement was worked out by Alexander Read and Thomas Munro and introduced in the Madras Presidency in 1820, and later extended to the Bombay Presidency.