Indian History Mixed Quiz: Set 108

National Handloom Day falls on 7 August precisely to honour the Swadeshi Movement launched on that date in 1905. On 7 August 1905, a large meeting at the Calcutta Town Hall passed the boycott resolution against British goods in protest against the partition of Bengal, formally launching the Swadeshi Movement.

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.

In April 1930, C. Rajagopalachari led a band of volunteers from Tiruchirappalli, then called Trichinopoly, to Vedaranyam on the Tanjore coast, where they broke the salt law.

The rising spread through the Damin-i-Koh in the Rajmahal hills against zamindars, mahajans and the Company's police, and the Santhals declared Company rule at an end.

Ramanujam and G.G. Mehta.

In July 1969 the government of Indira Gandhi nationalised the fourteen largest commercial banks, each with deposits above fifty crore rupees, in order to take banking to the villages and to direct credit towards agriculture, small industry and the weaker sections, which were together termed the priority sectors.

Watt's improvements turned the steam engine from a device that merely pumped water out of mines into a source of power for factory machines.

Later Tibetan accounts call the library of Nalanda Dharmaganja, the treasury of the law, and say that it consisted of three buildings named Ratnasagara, Ratnodadhi and Ratnaranjaka, the tallest of which is described as a nine-storeyed structure.

The Champaran Satyagraha of 1917 was Gandhiji's first satyagraha in India, and its great significance was that it tied the grievances of peasants to the national movement.

All three were busy harbours of the Sangam age, through which the Tamil kingdoms traded with Rome, West Asia and South-East Asia.

The poligars were military chiefs of the Tirunelveli and Madurai region who held land in return for keeping troops.

All four rose much later, between the 10th and 12th centuries, mostly as feudatories who broke away from the declining Western (Kalyani) Chalukyas or the Pratiharas.

Cornwallis, Governor General from 1786 to 1793, is called the father of the civil services in India because he fixed adequate salaries for the Company's servants, forbade them from carrying on private trade or taking presents, and made promotion depend on seniority instead of patronage, which together turned a trading…

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.

It discussed questions of public interest and sent representations to the government, and because it came before every other body of its kind it is counted as the first political association in India.

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics broke up in 1991: a failed coup against Mikhail Gorbachev in August that year destroyed the centre's authority, the republics declared independence one after another, and on 25 December 1991 Gorbachev resigned.

All three statements are true: Lachit Borphukan was the Ahom commander who defeated the Mughals at Saraighat, and the NDA's best cadet receives a gold medal in his name.

All five were British officials and scholars who excavated and documented ancient sites, mostly in South India. Walter Elliot, a Madras civil servant, dug at the Buddhist stupa of Amaravati in the 1840s and sent its sculptures to Madras and later London.

During the First Anglo-Burmese War the 47th Regiment of Native Infantry at Barrackpore was ordered to Burma. The sepoys objected because crossing the sea meant loss of caste, and because no allowance had been granted for the carriage of their baggage as service custom required.

This Act took away the Company's right to nominate its civil servants and threw recruitment open to competition, after which the committee headed by Lord Macaulay in 1854 settled the syllabus and the first competitive examination was held in London in 1855.