Uttar Pradesh Mixed Quiz: Set 10

On 10 May 1857 the sepoys of the 3rd Light Cavalry at Meerut rose in revolt, released the comrades who had been imprisoned for refusing the greased cartridge, killed their officers and marched on Delhi the next day, where they proclaimed Bahadur Shah Zafar emperor of Hindustan.

The Vatsa mahajanapada lay in the Ganga and Yamuna doab with its capital at Kaushambi, and its best known ruler was Udayana, who appears in Sanskrit literature and in Buddhist texts alike.

On 10 May 1857 the sepoys of the Meerut garrison rose against their officers, released the comrades who had been jailed for refusing the new cartridges, and marched to Delhi, where they proclaimed Bahadur Shah Zafar their emperor.

Firoz Shah Tughlaq founded Jaunpur in 1359 and named it after his cousin and predecessor Muhammad bin Tughlaq, whose earlier name was Juna Khan.

Mangal Pandey came from Nagwa village in Ballia district of eastern Uttar Pradesh and served in the 34th Native Infantry.

The Ganga Expressway is being built by UPEIDA from Bijauli in Meerut district to Judapur Dandu in Prayagraj district, a length of about 594 km, which makes it longer than the Purvanchal and Bundelkhand expressways put together.

A wife of the deposed Nawab Wajid Ali Shah, she took charge at Lucknow after the annexation of Awadh and had her young son Birjis Qadr proclaimed ruler, while the British garrison was besieged in the Residency.

Uttar Pradesh had 912 females for every 1,000 males in 2011, below the national figure, and its child sex ratio for the age group of nought to six years was 902.

Dhondu Pant, known as Nana Saheb, was the adopted son of the last Peshwa Baji Rao II, and the Company had refused him his father's pension and titles under the Doctrine of Lapse.

The sanctuary covers a stretch of the Ganga at Varanasi and was created so that turtles released into the river could clean it of organic waste and the species themselves be protected from the trade in shells and meat.

Chauri Chaura is a place in Gorakhpur district, where on 4 February 1922 a procession turned on the police and set fire to the police station, in which twenty-two policemen died.

Kalanamak is a scented rice of the Tarai districts around Siddharthnagar, close to Kapilvastu, and tradition links it with the Buddha, who is said to have given the grain to the people of the region; its husk is black, the grain fragrant, and it has been registered as a geographical…

Begum Hazrat Mahal, a wife of the deposed Nawab Wajid Ali Shah, had her young son Birjis Qadr proclaimed Nawab of Awadh in 1857 and led the resistance at Lucknow, where the British were besieged in the Residency and the Chief Commissioner Henry Lawrence was killed.

The town and the villages around it, together with neighbouring Mirzapur, form the largest hand knotted carpet belt of India and export most of what they weave.

The Hindustan Republican Association, organised at Kanpur in 1924, needed funds for arms, and Bismil planned and led the stopping of a train carrying government money near Kakori, outside Lucknow, on 9 August 1925.

After leaving the hills at Haridwar in Uttarakhand, the Ganga enters Uttar Pradesh in Bijnor district and then flows south-east past Kannauj, Kanpur, Prayagraj, Varanasi and Ghazipur before passing into Bihar near Ballia.

After Hugh Rose took the fort of Jhansi in April 1858 the Rani escaped, joined Tatya Tope, and with him seized Gwalior from the Scindia's forces.

Malaviya, a Congress leader from Allahabad, founded the Banaras Hindu University in 1916 and served as its head for many years; the university remains the largest institution the national movement created in the province.

He was a grandson of the Rohilla chief Hafiz Rahmat Khan and had served as a judicial officer under the Company before the revolt.

Azad had rebuilt the revolutionary party as the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association after the Kakori trial, and on 27 February 1931 he was surrounded by the police in Alfred Park at Allahabad and died there fighting.