INSIGHT UPSC QUIZ

Consider the following statements with respect to Lord Curzon's tenure in British India:

1. Official Secrets Act was passed to curb freedom of press during his tenure.

2. Section 124 A was added in Indian Penal Code during his tenure which made sedition a criminal offence.

3. Calcutta Corporation Act was passed during his tenure which aimed at curbing Indian industries and increase in import of British Manufactured goods in India.

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

Consider the following statements.

1. Arab Merchant Sulaiman, who visited India in the middle of the ninth century, has written an account of Rashtrakutas.

2. Dharmapala of the Pala dynasty was the founder of the famous Vikramasila University.

3. Manyakhet was the capital of the Palas of Bengal

4. The first Kannada book on poetics was written by Amoghavarsha, the Rashtrakuta ruler.

Which of the above statements are correct?

Which of the following activities was/ were carried out under Constructive Work by 'No- changers'?

1. Hindu Muslim Unity.

2. Removing untouchability.

3. Setting up of National schools and colleges.

Select the correct answer using the code given below.

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 Plantation workers successfully participated in Non-Cooperation movement and repealed the act.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 following organisations:

1. Abhinav Bharat

2. Anushilan Samiti

3. Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (HSRA)

Which of the above mentioned organisations was/ were engaged in assassination of oppressive officials?

With reference to the Shivaji’s Administration, consider the following statements.

1. Chauth was an annual tax nominally levied on land revenue. 

2. Sardeshmukhi was an additional levy on those lands over which Maratha claimed hereditary rights.

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

Consider the following statements with regard to young revolutionaries of 1920s:

1. Chandra Shekhar Azad was critical of socialist ideas.

2. The Hindustan Republican Association was formed to organise an armed revolution.

3. Bhagat Singh wanted to use the legislative assembly as a forum for debate and discussion.

Which of the statements given above are not correct?

Who wrote historical account during the Mughal period?

Which of the following was/were correct about ideological positioning of Hindustan Republican Association?

1. Advocated privatisation of railways

2. Nationalisation of steel, ship building industries

3. Strengthening of labour and peasant unions

Select the correct answer from the code given below.

During the reign of which great Mughal was tobacco introduced in India?