Indian History Mixed Quiz: Set 105

Gandhi landed at Bombay on 9 January 1915, and the Government of India now observes that date as Pravasi Bharatiya Divas to mark the contribution of the overseas Indian community.

Anandamath, published in 1882, draws on the rebellion of wandering monks and fakirs in Bengal and Bihar that ran from about 1763 to 1800, and the song Vande Mataram first appeared in this novel.

The Kol Uprising of 1831-32 spread over Ranchi, Hazaribagh, Palamau, Manbhum and Singhbhum in the Chhotanagpur plateau, and was led by Buddho Bhagat.

He patented the flying shuttle in England in 1733. The flying shuttle let a single weaver send the thread across the loom by pulling a cord, so wider cloth could be woven much faster.

Raj Kumar Shukla was a cultivator of Champaran who met Gandhi at the Lucknow session of the Congress in 1916 and followed him from place to place until Gandhi agreed to come and see the condition of the indigo tenants for himself.

The Mandal Commission, formally the Second Backward Classes Commission, had been appointed in 1979 under B. P. Mandal and submitted its report in 1980, recommending twenty-seven per cent reservation of central government posts for the Other Backward Classes.

When the Company refused to recognise her adopted son as heir and moved to annex the state, she took up arms in 1824, defeated the first British force sent against her and was captured in the second attack; her commander Sangolli Rayanna continued the struggle.

Atisha Dipankara Srijnana was the most famous teacher of Vikramashila, the Pala monastery at Antichak in Bhagalpur, and in the eleventh century he was invited to Tibet, where he reformed Buddhist practice and is remembered as one of its great masters.

Under the tinkathia system a tenant of Champaran had to grow indigo on three kathas out of every twenty kathas of his land for the European planter, and the crop had to be sold at a price the planter fixed.

The Moidams are the mound-burials of the Ahom royal family and nobles at Charaideo in Assam. The Tai-Ahoms, who ruled the Brahmaputra valley for about six centuries from the 13th century, buried their kings, queens and nobles in vaulted chambers covered by large earthen mounds.

The subsidiary treaty with the Company had placed a crushing payment on Travancore and given its resident wide powers; Velu Thampi issued the Kundara Proclamation in 1809 asking the people of the state to take up arms.

It is a text of the Sutta Pitaka of the Buddhist canon and it names the sixteen great states of the age of the Buddha, from Magadha and Kosala in the east to Gandhara and Kamboja in the north-west.

The strike of 1918 arose when the cotton mill owners of Ahmedabad withdrew the plague bonus they had been paying their workers.

Gupta gold coins were called dinaras, a name borrowed from the Roman denarius that had already reached India through trade and through Kushana coinage.

The Company wanted a road joining the Brahmaputra valley with Sylhet through Khasi territory, and brought in outside labour and troops to build it.

The Maharaja had hoped to stay out of both dominions and had signed a standstill arrangement, but when tribal raiders supported from across the border entered the valley and advanced towards Srinagar in late October 1947 he asked India for military help.

Vallabhbhai Patel, then a successful barrister of Ahmedabad, gave up his practice to work with Gandhi in the villages of Kheda in 1918, and the campaign began the partnership that later produced the Bardoli Satyagraha of 1928, after which he received the title Sardar.

The movement called on Muslims to give up practices it held un-Islamic, and it soon turned into an organised resistance by Muslim peasants to the illegal cesses of Hindu zamindars and to indigo planters.

The government appointed an enquiry committee on the Champaran question with Gandhi as one of its members, and the recommendations of that committee were given effect by the Champaran Agrarian Act of 1918, which abolished the tinkathia obligation and ordered the planters to refund a part of the illegal exactions…

The correct answer is A, Syed Ahmad Barelvi of Rae Bareli, who drew on the teachings of Shah Waliullah and organised the movement known in India as the Wahabi or Tariqah-i-Muhammadiya movement, with Patna as its Indian centre.