Set 14 of the Rajasthan mixed quiz has 20 multiple-choice questions from 8 different topics of the subject: Rajputs, Mughals and Marathas, 1857 and Peasant and Tribal Movements (Bijolia, Bhil), Origin of the Rajputs and Early Dynasties and more. A topic quiz checks one chapter; this set revises the whole subject at once, the way an exam paper does, where the next question can come from any chapter. Every question carries an explanation of why the correct option is right and why the others are wrong. Keep to the timer, read the explanations at the end, and go back to the notes of any topic where you slipped.
20 questions with answers and explanations
Who commanded the Mughal army against Maharana Pratap at the Battle of Haldighati in 1576?
The Battle of Haldighati was fought on 18 June 1576 in the pass near Khamnor in Rajsamand district.
Read the full explanation →In the Battle of Khanwa, fought in 1527, Babur defeated which Rajput ruler?
The Battle of Khanwa was fought on 17 March 1527 near Fatehpur Sikri, where Babur used his artillery and the tulughma flanking movement to break the Rajput confederacy led by Maharana Sanga.
Read the full explanation →In the revolt of 15 October 1857 the Political Agent Major Burton and his two sons were killed at which place?
On 15 October 1857 the Kota state troops, led by Jaidayal and Mehrab Khan, turned on the British residency, killed Major Burton and his two sons and held the city for about five months until General Roberts recovered it in March 1858.
Read the full explanation →The revolt of 1857 began in Rajasthan on 28 May 1857 at which cantonment?
The 15th Bengal Native Infantry stationed at Nasirabad in Ajmer district rose on 28 May 1857, burnt the cantonment and marched towards Delhi, which makes Nasirabad the first centre of the revolt anywhere in Rajputana.
Read the full explanation →The treaty of 1615 that ended the long conflict between Mewar and the Mughals was signed by which Maharana?
Amar Singh I, the son and successor of Maharana Pratap, fought Mughal columns for years before accepting terms in 1615 in Jahangir's reign.
Read the full explanation →Who was the founder of the Gurjara Pratihara dynasty, remembered for checking the Arab advance from Sindh?
He ruled in about the middle of the eighth century from Bhinmal in the Jalore region and is credited with stopping the Arab armies that had taken Sindh, a service which even the Rashtrakuta records acknowledge when they describe the Pratihara as the defender of the west.
Read the full explanation →The Bijolia peasant movement was fought in a thikana of Mewar that lies in which present-day district of Rajasthan?
Bijolia was a first-class thikana of Mewar and its village lies in Bhilwara district today. The movement of its mostly Dhakar cultivators against some eighty-four kinds of lag-bag ran from 1897 to 1941 and is counted the longest-running peasant movement in India.
Read the full explanation →Who founded the city of Udaipur, and in which year?
Udai Singh, saved in childhood by the nurse Panna Dhai from the usurper Banbir, founded a new capital in the valley beside Lake Pichola in 1559, moving the seat of Mewar away from the exposed hill fort of Chittorgarh.
Read the full explanation →Durgadas Rathore is remembered for protecting the infant heir of which Rajput state during Aurangzeb's reign?
Maharaja Jaswant Singh of Marwar died at Jamrud in 1678, and Aurangzeb tried to take the state under direct Mughal control.
Read the full explanation →Which ruler of Marwar is called the first freedom fighter of Rajasthan for refusing to submit to Akbar?
Chandrasen ruled from 1562 to 1581, never attended Akbar's court and carried on resistance from the hill country of Siwana and Bhadrajun even after Jodhpur was occupied by imperial troops.
Read the full explanation →Who founded the Rajasthan Seva Sangh at Wardha in 1919 and led the Bijolia movement from 1916?
Born Bhoop Singh in Bulandshahr, he took charge of the Bijolia agitation from 1916, gave it a press and an organisation, and founded the Rajasthan Seva Sangh at Wardha in 1919 to coordinate the peasant movements of the princely states.
Read the full explanation →Which ruler of Amer was the first Rajput ruler of Rajasthan to accept an alliance with Akbar in 1562?
In 1562 Bharmal of Amer, pressed by rivals and by imperial officers in the region, offered his submission to Akbar and sealed it with a marriage alliance; his daughter, known as Mariam-uz-Zamani, became the mother of Jahangir.
Read the full explanation →The Hurda conference of 1734 was convened by which ruler, and against whom?
By the 1730s Maratha armies were pressing into Rajputana for chauth and tribute, and Jai Singh II called the rulers to Hurda, in present Bhilwara district, in 1734.
Read the full explanation →The Sahariya, the only Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group of Rajasthan, live mainly in which district?
The Sahariya live in the Shahabad and Kishanganj tehsils of Baran district in south eastern Rajasthan, a forested tract on the edge of the Hadoti plateau.
Read the full explanation →The Begun peasant movement of 1921, whose settlement the Mewar government called the Bolshevik agreement, was led by
He organised the cultivators of the Begun thikana of Mewar, in present Chittorgarh district, from 1921; the terms he won were so unwelcome to the Mewar government that its officials described the settlement as a Bolshevik agreement, and the firing at Govindpura on 13 July 1923 killed the peasants Rupaji…
Read the full explanation →Ganeshwar, the site known as the cradle of copper, lies in which district?
Ganeshwar lies on the Kantli river in Sikar district in the Shekhawati region, close to the copper bearing rocks of the Khetri belt.
Read the full explanation →In the Battle of Bagru in 1748, Madho Singh defeated Ishwari Singh of Jaipur with the support of which Maratha chief?
After Sawai Jai Singh II died, his sons Ishwari Singh and Madho Singh fought over Jaipur. Ishwari Singh won the Battle of Rajmahal in 1747, but Madho Singh brought in Maratha help, chiefly Malhar Rao Holkar of Indore, and won the Battle of Bagru in 1748.
Read the full explanation →The firing of 14 May 1925 at Neemuchana, which Mahatma Gandhi described as double dyed dyerism, took place in which princely state?
Neemuchana was a village of Alwar state whose peasants resisted an increase in lagan; on 14 May 1925 the state forces fired on them, and Mahatma Gandhi, writing about the deaths, called the act double dyed dyerism, a comparison with General Dyer at Jallianwala Bagh.
Read the full explanation →At the Battle of Tunga in 1787, the combined forces of Jaipur and Jodhpur fought against which commander?
The Battle of Tunga was fought in 1787 near Lalsot in present Dausa district, where Maharaja Pratap Singh of Jaipur and Maharaja Vijay Singh of Jodhpur joined to resist Scindia's demands for tribute.
Read the full explanation →The Mangarh massacre of 17 November 1913, in which Bhil followers of Govind Guru were fired upon, took place on a hill in which district?
Mangarh hill stands in Banswara district on the border with Gujarat. Govind Guru had set up his dhuni there, and on 17 November 1913 state and British forces fired on the Bhils gathered around it, which is why Mangarh is called the Adivasi Jallianwala.
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