INSIGHT UPSC QUIZ

Consider the following statements regarding Home Rule League:

1. Home Rule League (Annie Besant) was in Maharashtra, Karnataka, the central provinces and Berar.

2. Home Rule League (Tilak) was in Rest of India.

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

Which one of the following statements is incorrect?

Consider the following statements:

1. Subhash Chandra Bose resigned from Congress after his defeat in the election for the Presidentship of Tripuri session.

2. Subhash Chandra Bose started the Forward Block and All India Agragami Kisan Sabha.

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

With reference to the Partition of Bengal consider the following statements. Which of the following statement(s) is/are incorrect?

1. The official reason given for partition of Bengal was that Bengal has become too big to be administered.

2. After the partition of Bengal, Bengali speaking population was in minority in newly created province of Bengal.

3. The real motive of Partition of Bengal was the British desire to make Bengal a centre of Indian nationalism.

Select the correct answer from the code given below.

Consider the following statements regarding Rashtrakutas

1. The kingdom was founded by Dantidurga,who fixed his capital at Pratisthan

2. They patronized Shaivism and Vaishnavism, and persecuted followers of Jainism

3. Parantaka- I defeated the rashtrakuda king Krishna III and setup a pillar of victory to commemorate the occasion.

Which of the above statement(s) is/are not correct?

Consider the following statements regarding activities of Indians abroad during freedom struggle:

1. Some leaders of freedom struggle went abroad because they wanted to publish revolutionary literature.

2. Some revolutionaries went abroad to gather arms to fight against British rule in India.

3. Annie Besant started Indian Home Rule Society in London.

Which of statements given above are correct?

Which of the following statements are correct about the Brahmo Samaj movement?

1. It was against idolatry

2. It was against priesthood

3. It allowed only selected sacrifices

4. It accepted the doctrine of karma.

Select the correct answer using codes given below.

Which of the following were the causes that led to the failure of the 1857 revolt?

1. Limited territorial base as Central and western India remained mostly unaffected by the revolt.

2. Lack of coordination between the rebels.

3. Lack of resources of the rebels as compared to the British.

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Which Pallava ruler was contemporary of Sankaracharya?

Which of the following objectives led British to wage wars with Afghanisthan?

1. To serve as a base for Central Asia in their quest for territorial expansion.

2. To check French military influence.

Select the correct answer using the code given below.