Indian History Previous Year Questions (PYQ) with Answers – Page 48

Acharya Narendra Dev was a founder and leading thinker of the Congress Socialist Party, the socialist group inside the Congress.

Section 104 of the Government of India Act, 1935 vested residuary powers in the Governor-General, who could assign a subject to either the Centre or a province.

In early nineteenth-century Calcutta, lotteries paid for town improvement, and the fear of disease pushed the British towards planning. After Lord Wellesley's Minute of 1803 on the need for town planning in Calcutta, many committees were set up to improve the city.

Both statements are true, but the Poona Pact was the result of Gandhi's fast, not the reason for it, so Statement II does not explain Statement I. British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald announced the Communal Award in August 1932.

The British Government announced the Indian Statutory Commission in November 1927 under Sir John Simon to review the working of the Government of India Act, 1919; the commission itself reached Bombay on 3 February 1928 and submitted its report in 1930.

Wood's Dispatch introduced grants-in-aid and recommended universities, but it wanted the vernacular languages, not English, at the primary level. Sir Charles Wood, President of the Board of Control, sent this dispatch in 1854; it is called the "Magna Carta of English education in India".

The Punjab leader wrote these biographies, lived in the United States during the First World War and was elected to the Central Legislative Assembly in 1926.

The Act provided dyarchy at the Centre and autonomy in the provinces, two separate reforms. The Government of India Act, 1935 abolished dyarchy in the provinces, which the 1919 Act had begun, and replaced it with provincial autonomy: provinces got responsible governments with ministers answerable to elected legislatures.

In a broadcast on Azad Hind Radio in 1944, Bose addressed Mahatma Gandhi as the Father of the Nation and asked for his blessings for the Indian National Army's fight.

The Great Depression that began in 1929 pulled down the prices of primary produce such as wheat, cotton and jute far more sharply, and for far longer, than the prices of the manufactured goods the peasant had to buy.

In Poverty and Un-British Rule in India Naoroji gathered his estimates of India's national income and set out the theory of the drain of wealth, showing that a part of the country's wealth was carried to Britain every year without any return, through home charges, the salaries and pensions of…

The princely states were not a small fringe of the map. Standard accounts place their share at roughly two-fifths of the land area of the subcontinent, and some put it close to a half, with around a quarter of the population; about 565 states of every size, from Hyderabad and…

The Liberal leader Tej Bahadur Sapru, working with M. R. Jayakar, brought Gandhi and Viceroy Lord Irwin to the table and is remembered as the mediator of the pact.

These three were the members of the Cabinet Mission that reached Delhi on 24 March 1946: Lord Pethick-Lawrence, the Secretary of State for India, who headed it, Sir Stafford Cripps and A. V. Alexander.

Razia Sultan was the daughter of Iltutmish, and Iltutmish belonged to the Slave dynasty, also called the Mamluk dynasty or the Ilbari Turks.

Nagabhata I founded the Gurjara-Pratihara dynasty in the middle of the eighth century, with his power centred on Avanti and Ujjain in western India.

The Ali brothers, Maulana Muhammad Ali and Shaukat Ali, led the Khilafat Movement that began in 1919. Its demand was that the British restore the position of the Ottoman Sultan, the Caliph, whose empire had been broken up after the First World War by the Treaty of Sevres.

Akbar founded Din-i-Ilahi in 1582, a small spiritual order that he built out of ideas drawn from several faiths.

The socialist leader Yusuf Meherally, who had been Mayor of Bombay, coined the words Quit India, just as he had coined Simon Go Back in 1928, and the Congress adopted the phrase for its resolution of 8 August 1942.

Tanjore, or Thanjavur, was the capital of the Cholas and not of the Chalukyas, so this pair is wrongly matched.