WHEN PEOPLE REBEL

Question 1

NANA SAHEB, THE ADOPTED SON OF THE______, PLEADED THAT HE BE GIVEN HIS FATHER’S PENSION WHEN THE LATTER DIED.

Answer 1

PESHWA BAJI RAO 2.

Question 2

IN 1801, A SUBSIDIARY ALLIANCE WAS IMPOSED ON _______, AND IN 1856 IT WAS TAKEN OVER.

Answer 2

AWADH. GOVERNOR GENERAL DALHOUSIE DECLARED THAT THE TERRITORY WAS BEING MISGOVERNED AND BRITISH RULE WAS NEEDED TO ENSURE PROPER ADMINISTRATION.

Question 3

STEPS TAKEN BY COMPANY TO BRING THE MUGHAL EMPIRE DOWN?

Answer 3

1. THE NAME OF THE MUGHAL KING WAS REMOVED FROM THE COINS MINTED BY THE COMPANY.
2. IN 1849, GOVERNOR GENERAL DALHOUSIE ANNOUNCED THAT AFTER THE DEATH OF BAHADUR SHAH ZAFAR, THE FAMILY OF THE KING WOULD BE SHIFTED OUT OF THE RED FORT AND BE GIVEN ANOTHER PLACE IN DELHI TO RESIDE IN.
3. IN 1856, GOVERNOR GENERAL CANNING DECIDED THAT BAHADUR SHAH ZAFAR WOULD BE THE LAST MUGHAL KING AND AFTER HIS DEATH NONE OF HIS DESCENDANTS WOULD BE RECOGNIZED AS KINGS- THEY WOULD JUST BE CALLED PRINCES.

Question 4

1. IN 1824 THE SEPOYS WERE TOLD TO GO TO BURMA BY THE SEA ROUTE TO FIGHT FOR THE COMPANY, THEY REFUSED TO FOLLOW THE ORDER, THOUGH THEY AGREED TO GO BY THE LAND ROUTE.
2. IN 1856 THE COMPANY PASSED A NEW LAW WHICH STATED THAT EVERY PERSON WHO TOOK UP EMPLOYMENT IN THE COMPANY’S ARMY HAD TO AGREE TO SERVE OVERSEAS IF REQUIRED.
3. IN 1850, A NEW LAW WAS PASSED TO MAKE CONVERSION TO CHRISTIANITY EASIER. THIS LAW ALLOWED AN INDIAN WHO HAD CONVERTED TO CHRISTIANITY TO INHERIT THE PROPERTY OF HIS ANCESTORS.
   TRUE/FALSE.

Answer 4

1. TRUE
2. TRUE
3. TRUE

Question 5

MAJHA PRAVAAS IS WRITTEN BY?

Answer 5

VISHNUBHATT GODSE.
BOOK MENTIONS THE LIST OF EIGHTY FOUR RULES.

Question 6

FROM SEPOY TO SUBEDAR IS WRITTEN BY?

Answer 6

SUBEDAR SITARAM PANDE.

Question 7

ARRANGE IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
1. AT MEERUT REGIMENT SEPOYS REFUSED TO DO ARMY DRILL USING CARTRIDGES, WHICH WERE SUSPECTED OF BEING COATED WITH THE FAT OF COWS AND PIGS. EIGHTY FIVE SEPOYS WERE DISMISSED FROM SERVICE AND SENTENCED TO 10 YEARS IN JAIL FOR DISOBEYING THEIR OFFICERS.
2. A YOUNG SOLDIER, MANGAL PANDEY, WAS HANGED TO DEATH FOR ATTACKING HIS OFFICERS IN BARRACKPORE.
3. OVER 3000 REBELS CAME FROM BAREILLY, CROSSED THE RIVER JAMUNA, ENTERED DELHI.
4. THE SOLDIERS MARCHED TO THE JAIL IN MEERUT AND RELEASED THE IMPRISONED SEPOYS. THEY ATTACKED AND KILLED BRITISH OFFICERS. THEY CAPTURED GUNS AND AMMUNITION AND SET FIRE TO THE BUILDINGS AND PROPERTIES OF THE BRITISH AND DECLARED WAR ON FIRANGIS.

Answer 7

1.ON 29 MARCH 1857, A YOUNG SOLDIER, MANGAL PANDEY, WAS HANGED TO DEATH FOR ATTACKING HIS OFFICERS IN BARRACKPORE.
2. 9 MAY 1857, AT MEERUT REGIMENT SEPOYS REFUSED TO DO ARMY DRILL USING CARTRIDGES, WHICH WERE SUSPECTED OF BEING COATED WITH THE FAT OF COWS AND PIGS. EIGHTY FIVE SEPOYS WERE DISMISSED FROM SERVICE AND SENTENCED TO 10 YEARS IN JAIL FOR DISOBEYING THEIR OFFICERS.
3. 10 MAY 1857, THE SOLDIERS MARCHED TO THE JAIL IN MEERUT AND RELEASED THE IMPRISONED SEPOYS. THEY ATTACKED AND KILLED BRITISH OFFICERS. THEY CAPTURED GUNS AND AMMUNITION AND SET FIRE TO THE BUILDINGS AND PROPERTIES OF THE BRITISH AND DECLARED WAR ON FIRANGIS.
4. ON 3 JULY 1857, OVER 3000 REBELS CAME FROM BAREILLY, CROSSED THE RIVER JAMUNA, ENTERED DELHI.

Question 8

IN ______ BIRJIS QADAR, THE SON OF THE DEPOSED WAJID ALI SHAH, WAS PROCLAIMED THE NAWAB AND A REGULAR ADMINISTRATION WAS ORGANIZED WITH THE IMPORTANT OFFICES SHARED EQUALLY BY MUSLIMS AND HINDUS.

Answer 8

LUCKNOW.

Question 9

__________, MOTHER OF BIRJIS QADAR TOOK AN ACTIVE PART IN THE UPRISING AGAINST THE BRITISH.

Answer 9

BEGUM HAZRAT MAHAL.

Question 10

AHMADULLAH SHAH, A MAULVI FROM ________ CAME TO _______ TO FIGHT THE BRITISH.

Answer 10

FAIZABAD, LUCKNOW.

Question 11

TERM GHAZIS MEANING IN MODERN INDIA?

Answer 11

RELIGIOUS WARRIORS THAT CAME TOGETHER IN DELHI TO WIPE OUT THE WHITE PEOPLE DURING 1857 REVOLT.

Question 12

BAKTH KHAN, A SOLDIER FROM ______, TOOK CHARGE OF A LARGE FORCE OF FIGHTERS WHO CAME TO ______.

Answer 12

BAREILLY, DELHI.

Question 13

IN ______, AN OLD ZAMIDAR, KUNWAR SINGH, JOINED THE REBEL SEPOYS AND BATTLED WITH THE BRITISH FOR MANY MONTHS.

Answer 13

BIHAR.

Question 14

RANI AVANTIBAI LODHI CONTRIBUTION TO 1857 REVOLT?

Answer 14

RANI AVANTIBAI LODHI OF RAMGARH GOT INITIAL VICTORY IN KHERI. LATER SHE DIED.

Question 15

AFTER THE RECAPTURE OF THE DELHI IN 1857 THE REBELLION DIED.
TRUE/FALSE.

Answer 15

FALSE.
THE REBELLION DID NOT DIE DOWN AFTER THAT. PEOPLE CONTINUED TO RESIST AND BATTLE THE BRITISH. THE BRITISH HAD TO FIGHT FOR TWO YEARS TO SUPPRESS THE MASSIVE FORCES OF POPULAR REBELLION.

Question 16

AFTER REVOLT OF 1857, WHAT HAPPENED TO BAHADUR SHAH AND DELHI?

Answer 16

1. DELHI WAS RECAPTURED IN SEPTEMBER 1857.
2. BAHADUR SHAH SENTENCED TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT.
3. HE AND HIS WIFE BEGUM ZINAT MAHAL WERE SENT TO PRISON IN RANGOON IN OCTOBER 1858. HE DIED IN RANGOON JAIL IN NOVEMBER 1862.

Question 17

WHEN WAS LUCKNOW TAKEN BACK AFTER REVOLT OF 1857?

Answer 17

LUCKNOW WAS TAKEN BACK IN MARCH 1858.
RANI LAKSHMIBAI WAS DEFEATED AND KILLED IN JUNE 1858.
TANTIA TOPE TRIED AND KILLED IN APRIL 1859.

Question 18

COMPLETE CONTROL OF THE COUNTRY AFTER 1857 WAS REGAINED BY?

Answer 18

THE BRITISH HAD REGAINED CONTROL OF THE COUNTRY BY THE END OF 1859.

Question 19

CHANGES INTRODUCED BY THE BRITISH AFTER 1857?

Answer 19

1. THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT PASSED A NEW ACT IN 1858 AND TRANSFERRED THE POWERS OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY TO THE BRITISH CROWN IN ORDER TO ENSURE A MORE RESPONSIBLE MANAGEMENT OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. A MEMBER OF THE BRITISH CABINET WAS APPOINTED SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA AND MADE RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL MATTERS RELATED TO THE GOVERNANCE OF INDIA. HE WAS GIVEN A COUNCIL TO ADVISE HIM, CALLED THE INDIA COUNCIL, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA WAS GIVEN THE TITLE OF VICEROY, THAT IS, A PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CROWN. THROUGH THESE MEASURES THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT ACCEPTED DIRECT RESPONSIBILITY FOR RULING INDIA.
2. AIL RULING CHIEFS OF THE COUNTRY WERE ASSURED THAT THEIR TERRITORY WOULD NEVER BE ANNEXED IN FUTURE. THEY WERE ALLOWED TO PASS ON THEIR KINGDOMS TO THEIR HEIRS, INCLUDING ADOPTED SONS.
   HOWEVER, THEY WERE MADE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE BRITISH QUEEN AS THEIR SOVEREIGN PARAMOUNT. THUS THE INDIAN RULERS WERE TO HOLD THEIR KINGDOMS AS SUBORDINATES OF THE BRITISH CROWN.
3. IT WAS DECIDED THAT THE PROPORTION OF INDIAN SOLDIERS IN THE ARMY WOULD BE REDUCED AND THE NUMBER OF EUROPEAN SOLDIERS WOULD BE INCREASED. IT WAS ALSO DECIDED THAT INSTEAD OF RECRUITING SOLDIERS FROM AWADH, BIHAR, CENTRAL INDIA AND SOUTH INDIA, MORE SOLDIERS WOULD BE RECRUITED FROM AMONG THE GURKHAS, SIKHS AND PATHANS.
4. THE LAND AND PROPERTY OF MUSLIMS WAS CONFISCATED ON A LARGE SCALE AND THEY WERE TREATED WITH SUSPICION AND HOSTILITY. THE BRITISH BELIEVED THAT THEY WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE REBELLION IN A BIG WAY.
5. THE BRITISH DECIDED TO RESPECT THE CUSTOMARY RELIGIOUS AND SOCIAL PRACTICES OF THE PEOPLE IN INDIA.
6. POLICIES WERE MADE TO PROTECT LANDLORDS AND ZAMIDARS AND GIVE THEM SECURITY OF RIGHTS OVER THEIR LANDS.

Question 20

MAJOR CENTRES OF REVOLT OF 1857?

Answer 20

1. DELHI
2. MEERUT
3. BAREILLY
4. KANPUR
5. LUCKNOW
6. JHANSI
7. FAIZABAD.

Question 21

TERM GANJ MEANING IN MODERN INDIA?

Answer 21

SMALL FIXED MARKET.

Question 22

WHAT WAS GULFAROSHAN?

Answer 22

FESTIVAL OF FLOWERS.

Question 23

RENAISSANCE MEANING?

Answer 23

REBIRTH OF ART AND LEARNING.