This Rajasthan quiz on 1857 and Peasant and Tribal Movements (Bijolia, Bhil) puts 12 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.
12 questions with answers and explanations
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 →Monck Mason, the Political Agent at Jodhpur, was killed in which battle of 1857?
Thakur Kushal Singh of Auwa met a combined British and Jodhpur force at Chelawas on 18 September 1857 and defeated it, and Monck Mason, the Political Agent posted at Jodhpur, was killed in that fighting.
Read the full explanation →Who was the Agent to the Governor-General for Rajputana during the revolt of 1857, with his headquarters at Mount Abu?
The whole of Rajputana was supervised by a single Agent to the Governor-General, and in 1857 that post was held by Patrick Lawrence, who worked from Mount Abu and spent the year keeping the princely rulers on the British side.
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 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 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 →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 →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 →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.
Read the full explanation →The Eki movement among the Bhils and Garasias of Mewar and Sirohi, begun in 1921, was led by
Tejawat, from Koliyari in Udaipur, began the Eki movement in 1921, asking the Bhils and Garasias to stop paying illegal cesses and to refuse begar, and set out their demands in a charter known as the Mewar ki Pukar.
Read the full explanation →Amar Chand Bathiya of Bikaner, hanged in 1858 for funding the rebels while serving as a treasurer at Gwalior, is remembered by which title?
Amar Chand Bathiya belonged to Bikaner and was treasurer of the Scindia state at Gwalior; he put the treasury at the service of the rebel forces and was hanged for it in 1858.
Read the full explanation →Which pair relating to the peasant movements of Rajasthan is correctly matched?
The Jat cultivators of the Shekhawati belt agitated against raised rents from 1922 to 1935, held the Jat Prajapati Mahayagya at Sikar in 1934, and were fired on at Kudan village in Sikar on 25 April 1935.
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