EXPANSION OF BRITISH SUPREMACY MCQS SET 43

EXPANSION OF BRITISH SUPREMACY MCQS SET 43

421) The Revolt of 1857 was witnessed by the poet
A) Mir Taqi Mir
B) Zauq
C) Ghalib
D) Iqbal

Answer: Ghalib
   
422) Who of the following was the bitterest enemy of the British during the Revolt of 1857?
A) Maulavi Ahmdullah Shah
B) Maulavi Imadulah
C) Maulana Fazi-i-Haq Khairabadi
D) Nawab Liaquat Ali

Answer: Maulavi Ahmdullah Shah
   
423) Which one of the following commissions is associated with the Army Re-organisation, after the suppression of Revolt of 1857?
A) Public Service Commission
B) Peel Commission
C) Hunter Commission
D) Simon Commission

Answer: Peel Commission
   
424) After the Revolt of 1857, the British recruited the soldiers from the
A) Brahmins of UP and Bihar
B) Bengalis and OrrUPSC from the East
C) Gurkhas, Sikhs and Punjabis in the North
D) Madras Presidency and Marathas

Answer: Gurkhas, Sikhs and Punjabis in the North
   
425) The birth place of Maharani Laxmibai, the heroine of the 1857 freedom struggle is
A) Agra
B) Jhansi
C) Varanasi
D) Vrindavan

Answer: Varanasi

426) Consider the following centres of the Revolt of 1857
1. Delhi
2. Faizabad
3. Bareilly
4. Banaras
Which of these were the main centres of the revolt of 1857?
A) 1, 2 and 3
B) 1 and 2
C) 2 and 3
D) 1, 2, 3 and 4

Answer: 1, 2, 3 and 4
   
427) Why modern educated Indians did not Support the Revolt of 1857?
A) They believed that British rule would help the modernisation of India, which led to end the backwardness of the country
B) They wanted to invest in the British Companies in England, thus to safeguard their wealth
C) Both 'a' and 'b' are the reasons
D) None of the statements is the reasons

Answer: They believed that British rule would help the modernisation of India, which led to end the backwardness of the country
   
428) 'In this instance, we could not play off the Mohammedans against the Hindus'. To which one of the following events did this remark of Atkinson relate?
A) Revolt of 1857
B) Champaran Satyagraha (1917)
C) Khilafat and Non Cooperation Movement
D) August Movement of 1942

Answer: Revolt of 1857
   
429) With reference to the Revolt of the year 1857, who of the following was betrayed by a friend: captured and put to death by the British?
A) Nana Saheb
B) Kunwar Singh
C) Khan Bahadur Khan
D) Tantiya Tope

Answer: Tantiya Tope
   
430) The effect of Indian Revolt of 1857 on East India Company was
A) it was dissolved.
B) it was strengthened by increase of administrative powers.
C) Crown of England recognised it.
D) British crown took over it.

Answer: it was dissolved.