Uttar Pradesh Mixed Quiz: Set 11

Known as the Maulvi of Faizabad, he had been preaching against Company rule before 1857 and was in prison when the revolt broke out.

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.

At their sessions held at Lucknow in 1916 the two bodies agreed on a joint scheme of reforms, with the Congress accepting separate electorates for Muslims, and the Moderates and Extremists of the Congress came together again in the same session.

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.

Awadh had been a loyal ally of the Company for decades and had an heir, so the Doctrine of Lapse could not be applied; Dalhousie therefore annexed it in 1856 on the plea that it was badly governed, and Nawab Wajid Ali Shah was pensioned off and exiled to Calcutta.

After his enlightenment the Buddha walked to the deer park at Sarnath near Varanasi and preached to the five ascetics who had been his companions.

Mangal Pandey came from Nagwa village in Ballia district of the then United Provinces and was serving with the 34th Native Infantry at Barrackpore in Bengal, where in March 1857 he attacked his officers and was hanged.

After the invasion of Timur shattered Tughlaq authority, Malik Sarwar, who held the title Malik us Sharq or lord of the east, made Jaunpur independent in 1394, and his successors ruled as the Sharqis until 1479.

Campbell, the Commander in Chief, had already relieved the Residency at the end of 1857 and returned with a large force to retake Lucknow in March 1858, after which the rebel hold on Awadh and Rohilkhand was broken.

The North Eastern Railway, one of the zones of the Indian Railways, has its headquarters at Gorakhpur in eastern Uttar Pradesh and runs the Lucknow, Varanasi and Izzatnagar divisions.

During the Quit India movement the people of Ballia took over the district administration for a few days in August 1942 under Chittu Pandey, who is remembered as the Sher-e-Ballia.

The literacy rate of Uttar Pradesh in 2011 was 67.68 per cent, with male literacy at 77.28 per cent and female literacy at 57.18 per cent, so the gap between men and women was about twenty percentage points.

Canning read the Queen's Proclamation at a durbar at Allahabad on 1 November 1858.

The TX2 award, named for the global goal of doubling wild tiger numbers, was given for the first time in 2020, and the Pilibhit Tiger Reserve in the Terai of Uttar Pradesh received it after its tiger count rose sharply in the years following its notification as a tiger reserve.

A Congress leader who had taken part in the Quit India movement, she became Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh in 1963 and was the first woman to hold that office in any Indian state, which is how the question is usually framed.

Uttar Pradesh is divided into nine agro-climatic zones so that crop advice can follow soil, rainfall and temperature rather than district boundaries.

After the defeat of Turkey in the First World War, Indian Muslims feared for the position of the Sultan of Turkey as Khalifa, and an All India Khilafat Committee was formed in 1919, holding its first conference at Delhi in November of that year.

Aligarh has made locks since the colonial period and the trade grew into a cluster of small workshops making locks, hinges, builders hardware and brass fittings, which is also the One District One Product of the district.

Shaukat Ali and his brother Muhammad Ali, the Ali brothers of Rampur in the United Provinces, led the Khilafat agitation and met Mahatma Gandhi to argue that the Khilafat cause and swaraj should be fought together.

This branch strikes the Ganga delta, is turned west by the Himalaya and moves up the Ganga plain, so it reaches eastern Uttar Pradesh about the middle of June and then travels on to the west, which is why the east of the state gets both earlier and heavier rain.