Indian History Previous Year Questions (PYQ) with Answers – Page 42

Damin-i-koh was the tract in the Rajmahal hills that the British marked out in 1832 for settling the Santals. The Santals had moved into the Rajmahal hills area in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, clearing forests and taking up settled farming.

Sohgaura, in Gorakhpur district of Uttar Pradesh, is known for a Mauryan-period copper plate inscription, not for Harappan remains. The Sohgaura copper plate, written in Prakrit in the Brahmi script, is one of the earliest copper plate records of India and is usually dated to the Mauryan age.

All three organisations are correctly paired with the leaders who founded or led them. Mahatma Gandhi founded the All India Anti-Untouchability League in September 1932, soon after the Poona Pact; it was renamed the Harijan Sevak Sangh in 1933.

The Swadeshi Movement against the Partition of Bengal both revived Indian crafts and industry and set up national education. The movement was formally launched on 7 August 1905 at the Calcutta Town Hall.

A jagir was a temporary, transferable revenue assignment given mainly in lieu of salary for military service, while zamindari rights were hereditary.

The Lucknow Pact of 1916 was an agreement between the Congress and the Muslim League. It was signed at the Lucknow session, where Ambika Charan Mazumdar presided for the Congress.

Tipu openly identified with the French Revolution: he planted a Tree of Liberty at Seringapatam, allowed a Jacobin club to be formed there, let himself be addressed as a citizen and sought a French alliance against the English.

Dantidurga founded the Rashtrakuta dynasty in the middle of the eighth century, threw off the overlordship of the Chalukyas of Badami by defeating Kirtivarman II, and took imperial titles; his successors ruled from Manyakheta, the modern Malkhed.

The Supreme Court set up in 1774 sat at Fort William in Calcutta, the city now called Kolkata. It was created by the Regulating Act of 1773, the first British law to take direct notice of the Company's rule in India.

Gandhi called off the Non-Cooperation and Khilafat Movement after a crowd at Chauri Chaura in Gorakhpur district set fire to a police station on 5 February 1922, in which about twenty-two policemen died.

The first summit of the Non-Aligned Movement met at Belgrade, then the capital of Yugoslavia, in September 1961, and twenty-five countries took part.

Aibak was a Turkish slave of Muhammad Ghori and took charge of the Indian territories after Ghori died in 1206, founding the Slave or Mamluk dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate.

Under the putting out system the merchant handed the raw material to the weaver and took back the finished cloth at a price he himself fixed, which was low.

The Indian Councils Act of 1909, known as the Morley-Minto Reforms, introduced separate electorates for Muslims and so gave communal representation legal shape for the first time in British India.

Savarkar had founded a youth body called Mitra Mela at Nasik in 1899 and converted it into the Abhinav Bharat Society in 1904, which spread in Maharashtra and later had branches in London through India House.

A retired officer of the Indian Civil Service who had served in the North-Western Provinces, Hume issued an appeal to the graduates of Calcutta University in 1883, organised the body he called the Indian National Union, and brought its first session together at Bombay in December 1885, where it took…

The Act of 1813 broke the Company's trade monopoly and asserted the Crown's sovereignty, but left the revenues where they were, so the first two statements stand and the third does not.

Both statements describe the two offices wrongly, so neither can be accepted.

Begum Hazrat Mahal, a queen of the deposed ruler of Awadh, led the revolt at Lucknow in 1857 and had her young son Birjis Qadr proclaimed the ruler of Awadh.

Nana Sahib, the adopted son of the last Peshwa Baji Rao II, led the revolt of 1857 at Kanpur.