INSIGHT UPSC QUIZ

With reference to the administration of Ranjit Singh in Punjab, consider the following statements:

1. He built up a powerful and well- equipped army along European lines.

2. He made transformative changes in the system of land revenue promulgated earlier by the Mughals.

3. His religious policy was conservative in nature.

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

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

Which was the first work to recognise the payment of officers by Grants of Land?

With reference to the plague in Poona in 1897, consider the following statements:

1. Bal Gangadhar Tilak supported the measures taken by the government to control the plague.

2. Resentment against official plague measures resulted in assassination of Rand and Lt. Ayerst by the Chapekar brothers.

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

Given below are two statements, one labeled as Assertion (A) and the other labeled as Reason (R).

Which of the following statement is/are correct?

Assertion (A): Swarajists wanted to end the boycott of legislative councils after the arrest of Gandhi in 1922.

Reason (R): They believed that this neglect is leading to the loss of constructive work and revolutionary zeal.

Select the correct answer using the code given below:

With reference to the Indian Civil Services (ICS) under the British rule, consider the following statements:

1. Cornwallis set up a college at Fort William to train the civil servants.

2. Satyendra Prasad Sinha was the first Indian to qualify the ICS.

3. Aitchison Commission recommended holding simultaneous examinations in India and England to allow more Indians into the civil services posts.

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

Battle of Rakshasa Tangadi was fought between which of the following?

Sepoys of 1857 revolt turned to aristocrats and feudal chiefs for leadership because :

Consider the followings about ‘Vikramshila University’

1. Dharmapala, king of Pala dynasty, constructed Vikramshila University.

2. It is one of the Five Mahaviharas.

3. It was destroyed by Bakhtiyar Khilji in 1200 AD.

4. Atisa Dipankara, who is founder of Sarma tradition of Tibetan- Buddhism, was a scholar at Vikramshila University.

Which of the statements given above are correct?

With reference to the Queen Victoria's Proclamation, 1858, consider the following statements:

1. It declared against further extension of British territorial possessions in India.

2. It provided for entry of Indians in the civil services.

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