Indian History Previous Year Questions (PYQ) with Answers – Page 52

Saadat Khan Burhan-ul-Mulk was appointed governor of Avadh by the Mughal emperor Muhammad Shah in 1722 and made it a virtually independent state.

Phulaguri Dhawa was a peasant uprising of 1861 at Phulaguri in the Nagaon district of Assam.

Ganapatideva of the Kakatiya dynasty issued an inscription at Motupalli known as the Abhaya Shasana, which assured foreign merchants of the safety of their ships and goods and fixed the duties they would pay, and the port became the kingdom's main window to the sea trade of the Bay of…

The Second Round Table Conference came in 1931, the Quit India Movement in 1942 and the Royal Indian Navy mutiny in 1946.

Under dyarchy the provincial subjects were split into transferred and reserved subjects. Dyarchy was introduced in the provinces by the Government of India Act, 1919, based on the Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms.

Under the Mahalwari system the land belonged to the village community (the mahal), which was jointly responsible for the revenue; it did not belong to the Government.

Motupalli, on the Andhra coast, was the chief seaport of the Kakatiya kingdom of Warangal. The Kakatiyas ruled the Telugu country from Warangal between the 12th and early 14th centuries.

Radhakanta Deb headed the British Indian Association and Surendranath Banerjee founded the Indian Association; pair 2 is wrong. The British Indian Association was formed in Calcutta in 1851 by the landed gentry of Bengal, with Raja Radhakanta Deb as its first president and Debendranath Tagore as secretary.

This statement is false: Saurashtra was a Gupta province after Chandragupta II defeated the Western Kshatrapas. Chandragupta II (Vikramaditya) ended the rule of the Shaka Western Kshatrapas in Gujarat and Malwa around the end of the fourth century, adding Saurashtra and the western ports to the empire.

Marco Polo did describe the pearl fishery of the Tuticorin coast, so the statement that he did not is wrong.

In Mughal times a mauza was a village, the basic unit of revenue records, not a rebellious territory. Mughal revenue records were kept village by village, and each village was called a mauza.

The Linguistic Provinces Commission under Justice S.K. Dhar was set up in June 1948 for this purpose.

Passed after the Revolt of 1857, this Act ended the rule of the East India Company and created the office of the Secretary of State for India.

The Butler Committee was set up to examine the ties between the British paramount power and the princely states. The Indian States Committee was appointed in 1927 under Sir Harcourt Butler, with its report coming in 1929.

Lord Cornwallis fought the Third Anglo-Mysore War of 1790 to 1792 against Tipu Sultan and closed it with the Treaty of Srirangapatnam; he had no connection with the Third Anglo-Maratha War, which was fought in 1817 and 1818, long after his time, and which ended with the Treaty of Mandsaur…

Only statement 2 is right: Narayan Meghaji Lokhande is regarded as the father of the labour movement in India. Lokhande, an associate of Jyotirao Phule, organised the textile mill workers of Bombay and in 1890 founded the Bombay Mill Hands Association, often called India's first labour organisation.

Under colonial rule laissez-faire meant that the state left the economy open to British goods and capital; it did nothing to promote Indian capitalism and in practice left Indian enterprise unprotected.

These four dynasties ruled the Vijayanagara empire one after another. Harihara I and Bukka I of the Sangama dynasty founded Vijayanagara in 1336 on the banks of the Tungabhadra.

The 1835 resolution did the opposite: it stopped fresh stipends to students of Oriental institutions and stopped spending on printing Oriental texts.

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