Indian History Previous Year Questions (PYQ) with Answers – Page 51

The SGPC was born in 1920 out of the Gurdwara reform (Akali) movement, not out of the Singh Sabhas of the nineteenth century.

In 1585 Akbar moved his capital from Fatehpur Sikri to Lahore, not to Delhi, so this statement is not correct.

He wrote the Badshah Nama, the official history of the reign of Shah Jahan. Abdul Hamid Lahori was a pupil of Abul Fazl and was chosen by Shah Jahan to write the history of his reign in the same style as the Akbarnama.

Muhammad Husayn Kashmiri, the finest calligrapher at Akbar's court, was given the title "Zarrin Kalam", meaning Golden Pen. Calligraphy was the most honoured art at the Mughal court, and Akbar ran a large imperial workshop where manuscripts were copied, painted and bound.

Kandukuri Viresalingam saw education for all, including girls, as the base of social reform. Viresalingam (1848–1919) was the leading social reformer of Andhra in the nineteenth century and is often called the father of the Telugu renaissance.

He led the no-tax campaign of the peasants of Bardoli taluka in Gujarat against an unjust rise in land revenue.

Herbert Hope Risley, Home Secretary to the Government of India, wrote these words in an official note in December 1904.

The Congress did support the Khilafat movement, so this statement does not describe it. After the First World War, Indian Muslims feared that the Allies would strip the Ottoman Sultan, the Khalifa, of his power and of control over the holy places of Islam.

With the leaders in jail, people in several regions set up their own governments. The Quit India resolution was passed at the Bombay session of the Congress on 8 August 1942, with Gandhi's call of Do or Die.

Surya Sen was a schoolteacher in Chittagong, not a lawyer in Dhaka, so statement B is not correct. Surya Sen, called Masterda by his followers, taught mathematics at a school in Chittagong.

In it Ashoka says plainly that he has been a lay follower (upasaka) of the Buddha. Minor Rock Edict 1 is found at places such as Maski, Brahmagiri, Rupnath, Sasaram and Gujarra.

The Philosophy of the Bomb was drafted by Bhagwati Charan Vohra of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association, and Yashpal worked on it with him.

He belonged to the Suhrawardi order, not the Chishti order. Shaikh Bahauddin Zakariya founded the Suhrawardi order in India at Multan in the thirteenth century.

Under the Subsidiary Alliance the British promised to protect the ally from internal threats as well as external ones, so B was not a feature.

Ibn Battuta lived at the court of Muhammad bin Tughlaq and described his reign at first hand. Ibn Battuta, a traveller from Tangier in Morocco, reached India in 1333.

No such prophecy is recorded among the causes of the revolt. Rumours and prophecies spread fast in the months before May 1857 and stirred fear and anger.

Amuktamalyada is a Telugu work, not a Sanskrit one, so this statement is wrong. Krishnadevaraya (ruled 1509–1529) was the greatest king of the Tuluva dynasty of Vijayanagara.

The Bill proposed only a limited criminal jurisdiction for Indian officials over Europeans, and it met fierce European opposition that forced a diluted version.

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.

Jahandar Shah won the throne in 1712 with the help of Zulfiqar Khan, and the Sayyid brothers, Abdullah Khan and Husain Ali Khan, helped his nephew Farrukhsiyar defeat and kill him in 1713.