INSIGHT UPSC QUIZ

In 1893- Champaner, Bhuvan enters into a wager with British administration to play a cricket match. If he lost the entire village had to pay 3 times the amount of normal taxes and if he won the village would not pay any tax for 3 years. The entire village was drawn into the wager because the land was jointly owned by a collective body of village. Which of the following inferences can be made?

1. Champaner was under Mahalwari system of Land tenure.

2. Champaner was under Ryotwari system of Land tenure.

3. Champaner was most likely to be a village in present day UP, Punjab or Haryana.

4. Champaner was most likely a village in present day Maharashtra or Tamil Nadu.

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With respect to education and empowerment of women during freedom struggle, consider the following statements.

1. Ishwar Chandra Vidya Sagar founded Sanskrit college at Calcutta, to improve women education in India.

2. In western India, Professor D K Karve made efforts for promotion of women education and widow remarriage.

3. Ishawar Chandra Vidya Sagar founded the Bethune school.

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

Consider the following statements :

1. Harisena’s Brihatkathakosh was a medieval work on travel-writing.

2. The chief Indian port in the Eastern coast of India was Tamralipti.

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

Which among the following can be attributed to the absence of revolutionary activities during the Non-Cooperation movement?

1. Mahatma Gandhi and C.R. Das pleaded the revolutionaries to suspend their activities.

2. The revolutionaries enthusiastically participated in the Non-Cooperation movement.

3. There was brutal repression on the revolutionaries during the Non-Cooperation movement.

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Which of the following were related to the Non-cooperation Movement?

1. Volunteer Corps

2. Parallel Governments

3. Gandhi - Reading talks

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Consider the following statements:

1. Jyotiba Phule founded the Satyasodhak samaj.

2. Jyotiba Phule believed that education of the masses would promote the process of nation-making.

3. Jyotiba Phule also moved in The Trade Union Movement.

4. Narayan Meghaji Lokhande, a trade union activist, was prominent colleague of Jotibha.

Which of the statements given above are correct ?

Which bhakti saint is associated with Melukote temple?

Which of the following offers were made in 'August Offer'?

1. An immediate expansion of Imperial Legislative council by enlarging Indian representation.

2. The establishment of war advisory council consisting of representatives of British India and Indian states.

3. The promotion of practical steps to arrive on an agreement on the form of post war representative body.

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With reference to Ramosi peasant uprising in the 19th century, which of the following statements is not correct?

Which of the following was/were the changes brought in the field of administration in the aftermath of Sepoy mutiny ?

1. Company Rule was put to end, power to govern India was transferred to British Crown.

2. Governor General was given the title of Viceroy of India.

3. The post of Secretary of state was created who was a member of British cabinet.

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