INSIGHT UPSC QUIZ

With reference to the Young Bengal movement, which of the following issues were taken up by Derozians:

1. Rights of women

2. Grievances of peasants

3. Better treatment of Indian labours in British colonies abroad.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Which of the following methods was/were used by the indigo farmers during the Indigo revolt of 1859-60?

1. Peaceful demonstrations

2. Social boycotts

3. Maintenance of band of Lathiyals (armed retainers)

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Which-of-the-following-was/were-a-drawback-(s)-of-the-religious-and-social-reform-movements-in-India?

1. These movements widened the gap amongst the different religious communities in India.

2. Overemphasis on religious and philosophical aspects worked as a check on the spread of modern scientific thinking. 

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With reference to the cellular jail in Andaman, consider the following statements:

1. The idea of establishing the jail initiated during the revolt of 1857.

2. Revolutionaries involved in Lahore Conspiracy Case and Chittagong Armoury Raid case were imprisoned here.

3. V. D. Savarkar was imprisoned here in connection with his revolutionary activities abroad.

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

Which of the following factors led to Deccan agrarian riots in 1875?

1. Heavy taxation under the Ryotwari system.

2. Crash of cotton prices after the end of the American civil war.

3. Exploitation by the money lenders.

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In which of the following Harappan Cities, a signboard was discovered?

The historical works of which two historians of the Delhi Sultanate have the same “Tarikh-i-Firozshahi” as their title?

1. Amir Khusrau

2. Ziauddin Barani

3. Shams-i-Siraj Afif

4. Minhaj-us-Siraj

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With reference to the provisions of the Cripps Mission, consider the following statements:

1. It provided for a Dominion Status to India.

2. Princely states were not to be represented in the Constituent Assembly.

3. Provincial Assemblies were to elect their representatives to the Constituent Assembly.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

With respect to medieval Indian history, the terms Dahsala, Batai and Nasaq often referred to :

British formed a consultative body of the princely states known as Narendra Mandal, Which of the following statements are correct about this?

1. It was established by Royal Proclamation in 1921 on the recommendation of Montford Reforms

2. It used to consider on the issues, among others, the British empire as a whole.

3. The formation of such body was first expressed by Lord Lytton.

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