This Bihar quiz on 1857 and Veer Kunwar Singh puts 10 multiple-choice questions to you, the verified MCQs published with GK24's note on the topic. Every question carries a full explanation of why the correct option is right and why the other options are wrong, so you learn the fact behind the answer rather than the letter. Attempt it right after reading the note, keep to the timer, and use the explanations at the end to mark what needs another look. Sit it again before the exam as a quick revision of the topic.
10 questions with answers and explanations
Veer Kunwar Singh, the leader of the revolt of 1857 in Bihar, was the zamindar of which place?
Kunwar Singh belonged to the Ujjainiya Rajput house of Jagdishpur in Shahabad district, a district since divided, so that Jagdishpur now falls in Bhojpur district of Bihar.
Read the full explanation →The sepoys who mutinied at Danapur on 25 July 1857 marched to which town, where Kunwar Singh took their command?
The three regiments of Indian sepoys at Danapur cantonment near Patna rose on 25 July 1857, crossed the Son river and reached Arrah, the headquarters of Shahabad district, where Kunwar Singh joined them and took command.
Read the full explanation →Which British officer relieved the besieged garrison at Arrah in August 1857?
A first relief column sent towards Arrah was ambushed and driven back, and it was the column under Major Vincent Eyre that defeated Kunwar Singh at Bibiganj in early August 1857, raised the siege of the house at Arrah and then went on to destroy Jagdishpur.
Read the full explanation →On 23 April 1858 Veer Kunwar Singh defeated which British officer in the forest at Jagdishpur?
Returning to his own district in the spring of 1858, Kunwar Singh met and defeated the force under Captain Le Grand in the forest near Jagdishpur on 23 April 1858 and re-entered his capital.
Read the full explanation →When did Veer Kunwar Singh die?
Kunwar Singh was wounded in the fighting of his last campaign and died at Jagdishpur on 26 April 1858, three days after his victory over Captain Le Grand.
Read the full explanation →Who was the Commissioner of Patna during the revolt of 1857?
Tayler was the Commissioner of the Patna division in 1857, and it was he who arrested the leading suspects of the city, suppressed the rising of 3 July 1857 and ordered the hanging of Pir Ali Khan and others.
Read the full explanation →Pir Ali Khan, hanged in July 1857 and remembered as the martyr of Patna, worked as a
Pir Ali Khan kept a bookshop at Patna which served as a meeting place for those planning the rising, and he led the attack of 3 July 1857 in the city.
Read the full explanation →After the death of Veer Kunwar Singh, who led the revolt in Shahabad?
He took over the command in Shahabad after 26 April 1858 and kept the struggle alive in the district for several months, moving through the forests with the remaining rebels, and he was the last leader of the revolt in Bihar whom the British had to hunt down.
Read the full explanation →The Santhal rebellion of 1855-56, which preceded the revolt of 1857 in the region, was led by which pair of brothers?
The Santhal rebellion, the Hul, broke out in 1855 in the Damin-i-Koh region of the Rajmahal hills, then in Bihar, and was led by the brothers Sido and Kanhu Murmu against moneylenders, zamindars and the Company's officers.
Read the full explanation →Jagdishpur, the seat of Veer Kunwar Singh, lies in which present-day district of Bihar?
Kunwar Singh's estate lay in the old district of Shahabad, whose headquarters was Arrah. Shahabad was later divided, and Jagdishpur together with Arrah falls in the present district of Bhojpur, which is why exam answers use Bhojpur for the modern district and Shahabad for the district of 1857.
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