Who led the revolt of 1857 at Lucknow in the name of her minor son Birjis Qadr?
- A.Rani Lakshmibai
- B.Begum Hazrat Mahal
- C.Rani Avantibai
- D.Zeenat Mahal
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, Begum Hazrat Mahal. 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. She refused the later offers of a pension and withdrew to Nepal.
Option A is wrong because Rani Lakshmibai led at Jhansi and fought on to Gwalior in 1858. Option C is wrong because Rani Avantibai led the rising at Ramgarh in the Mandla region of what is now Madhya Pradesh. Option D is wrong because Zeenat Mahal was a wife of Bahadur Shah Zafar at Delhi and did not lead the Awadh resistance.
Three more details are asked with her name: the Residency at Lucknow where the British garrison was besieged, the death there of the Chief Commissioner Henry Lawrence, and her refusal to accept terms after the recapture of the city.
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Practice Questions
View allThe revolt of 1857 began with the rising of sepoys at which town on 10 May 1857?
- A.Barrackpore
- B.Meerut
- C.Kanpur
- D.Lucknow
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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.
Read the full explanation →The Chauri Chaura incident of 4 February 1922, after which the Non-cooperation movement was withdrawn, took place in which district?
- A.Gorakhpur
- B.Ballia
- C.Barabanki
- D.Azamgarh
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Read the full explanation →Who led the Kakori train action of 9 August 1925?
- A.Chandra Shekhar Azad
- B.Ram Prasad Bismil
- C.Bhagat Singh
- D.Sachindra Nath Sanyal
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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.
Read the full explanation →Banaras Hindu University was founded in 1916 by which leader?
- A.Madan Mohan Malaviya
- B.Motilal Nehru
- C.Purushottam Das Tandon
- D.Annie Besant
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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.
Read the full explanation →Chandra Shekhar Azad died fighting the police on 27 February 1931 at which place?
- A.Kakori, near Lucknow
- B.Alfred Park, Allahabad
- C.Lahore Central Jail
- D.Chauri Chaura, Gorakhpur
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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.
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