INSIGHT UPSC QUIZ

With reference to the efforts during the British rule (1770s-1820s) to promote western education in India, consider the following statements:

1. The Charter Act of 1793 granted permission to the Christian missionaries to freely enter India and spread western education.

2. The East India Company never favoured Indian traditional education and always promoted modern Western education.

3. The Charter Act of 1813 provided finances for the promotion of knowledge of the sciences in India.

Which of the statement(s) given above is/are correct?

Which of the following is/are the causes of disintegration of the Mughal Empire?

1. Attacks from Nadir Shah, the Marathas and the British East India Company

2. The religious and political intolerance imposed upon Sikhs, Rajputs and Marathas

3. War of succession among sons of Aurangzeb

Select the correct answer using the code given below

Who inscribed the name of Khalifa of Baghdad on his coins?

During the British period, the term 'imperial preference' was applied to which of the following?

Consider the following statements:

1. Bankim Chandra felt that the ideas of western civilization could be applied to India.

2. Leaders like Dayanand and Vivekanand derived their inspiration from the European texts.

3. Economic nationalism, cultural nationalism and religious nationalism all followed different paths to arrive at the same end.

Which of the statement(s) given above is/ are correct?

With reference to Inland Emigration Act of 1859, which of the following statement(s) is/are correct?

1. According to this act, plantation workers were not permitted to leave the tea gardens without permission.

2. Plantation workers successfully participated in Non-Cooperation movement and repealed the act.

Select the correct answer using the code given below.

Consider the followings about ‘Sufi Sect’.

1. It was originated and developed in Islam

2. They never opposed Jizya (Tax imposed on non-believers) levied on Hindus in Islamic India though secularists.

3. Most popular Sufis were Rabia, Hallaj, Ghazali.

4. Muslims of India prominently follow Chistiya, Naqshbandiya, Qadiriya and Suharabardiya

Which of the statements given above are correct?

Consider the following pairs about ‘Main Departments of Mughals :

1. Diwan I -Ala - Finance

2. Kama I Saman – Head of Royal Household

3. Sadar us surd – Religious affairs of state

4. Qazi –ul-Quzzat – Judiciary Department

Which of the pairs given above are correctly matched?

Who was the first Persian emperor to conquer a part of India, that became his twentieth satrapy?

Which of the following pairs is not correctly matched?