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Questions & Answer of Revolt of 1857 (Chapter -6)
- When was the new Enfield Rifle with greased cartridges introduced in the British Army?
47th BPSC Pre 2005
(a) November 1856
(b) December 1856
(c) January 1857
(d) February 1857
Ans:- (b) December 1856
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- The immediate cause of India’s first war of independence was:
RAS/RTS Pre 1993
(a) Doctrine of Lapse by Lord Dalhousie
(b) Suspicion about British interference in religion
(c) Military discount
(d) Economic exploitation of india
Ans:- (b) Suspicion about British interference in religion
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- Which of the following was not a reason for making the sepoys of the East India Company rebellious?
BPSC Pre 2018
(a) The efforts of the officers of the company to spread Christianity
(b) The order to the sepoys to travel on ships
(c) The Stoppage of Bhatta
(d) The inefficiency of the officers
(e) None of the above/More the one of the above
Ans:- (d) The inefficiency of the officers
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- Mangal Pandey incident took place at:-
Uttrakhand PCS Mains 2002
(a) Meerut
(b) Barrackpore
(c) Ambala
(d) Lucknow
Ans:- (b) Barrackpore
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- With which uprising is Mangal Pandey associated?
UPPCS Pre 2010
(a) Barrackpore
(b) Meerut
(c) Delhi
(d) None of the above
Ans:- (a) Barrackpore
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- Mangal Pandey was the sepoy of-
UPPSC RI 2014
(a) 19th Native Infantry
(b) 25th Native Infantry
(c) 49th Native Infantry
(d) 94th Native Infantry
Ans:- Here no option is correct, Mangal Pandey was a sepoy of 34th Bengal native Infantry
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- Who among the following was bestowed with the title of Saheb-e-Alam bahadur by Bahadur Shah during the uprising of 1857?
UPRO/ARO Pre 2016
(a) Azimullah
(b) Birjis Qadr
(c) Bakht Khan
(d) Hasan khan
Ans:- (c) Bakht Khan
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- What was the main cause of 1857 revolt?
UPPCS Pre 1990
(a) Public Outrage
(b) Military discount
(c) Management of Christian Missionary
(d) Policy of the British Empire
Ans:- (d) Policy of the British Empire
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- The first war of Independence 1857 started from :-
UPPCS Pre 1994, UPPCS Pre 1990
(a) Lucknow
(b) Jhansi
(c) Meerut
(d) Kanpur
Ans:- (c) Meerut
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- The first event relating to the war of Independence of 1857 was-
UPPCS Mains 2008
(a) Kanpur’s Revolt and taking over the leadership by Nana Saheb
(b) Begum Hazrat Mahal’s leadership of Oudh
(c) Marching of Sepoys to Delhi’s Red Fort
(d) Revolt by Rani of Jhansi
Ans:- (c) Marching of Sepoys to Delhi’s Red Fort
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- The symbol of 1857 Independence struggle was-
MPPCS Pre 1990
(a) Lotus and Chapatis
(b) Eagle
(c) Scarf
(d) Two sword
Ans:- (a) Lotus and Chapatis
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- Which one of the following centres of the uprising of 1857 was recaptured by the English?
UPPCS Mains 2015
(a) Jhansi
(b) Meerut
(c) Delhi
(d) Kanpur
Ans:- (c) Delhi
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- The birth place of Maharani Laxmi Bai, the heroine of the 1857 freedom struggle is:-
UPPCS SPL PRE 2008
(a) Agra
(b) Jhansi
(c) Varanasi
(d) Vrindavan
Ans:- (c) Varanasi
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- Who among the following was the leader of the revolt during 1857 at Bareilly?
UPPCS Pre 1998
(a) Khan Bahadur
(b) Kunwar Singh
(c) Maulvi Ahmad Shah
(d) Virzis Kadir
Ans:- (a) Khan Bahadur
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- Where is the Samadhi of Maharani Laxmibai situated?
MPPCS Pre 2013
(a) Mandla
(b) Mandu
(c) Jabalpur
(d) Gwalior
Ans:- (d) Gwalior
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- Maharani Laxmibai had combated in last battle against-
MPPCS Pre 1992
(a) Hugh Rose
(b) Guff
(c) Niel
(d) Havlock
Ans:- (a) Hugh Rose
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- The revolt of 1857 at Lucknow was led by:-
48th to 52nd BPSC Pre 2008
(a) Begum of Oudh
(b) Tatya Tope
(c) Rani Lakshmibai
(d) Nana Saheb
Ans:- (a) Begum of Oudh
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- The revolutionary woman who led the revolution of 1857 in Oudh was
Uttrakhand PCS Pre 2010
(a) Lakshmibai
(b) Ahilyabai
(c) Aruna Asaf Ali
(d) Begum Hazrat Mahal
Ans:- (d) Begum Hazrat Mahal
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- Who was the leader of 1857 struggle for freedom in Lucknow?
UPPCS Re.exam Pre 2015
(a) zeenat Mahal
(b) Nana Saheb
(c) Hazrat Mahal
(d) Tatya Tope
Ans:- (c) Hazrat Mahal
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- who among the following was the leader of the 1857 uprising at Allahabad?
UPPCS Mains 2015
(a) Nana Saheb
(b) Azimullah
(c) Tatya Tope
(d) maulvi Liyaqat Ali
Ans:- (d) maulvi Liyaqat Ali
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- The Largest number of soldiers participated in the Struggle of 1857 came from-
UP Lower Sub Pre 2015
(a) Bengal
(b) Oudh
(c) Bihar
(d) Rajasthan
Ans:- (b) Oudh
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- Who was commander in chief of Nana sahib?
UP Lower Sub Spl Pre 2008
(a) Azimullah
(b) Birjis Quadir
(c) Tatya Tope
(d) None of the above
Ans:- (c) Tatya Tope
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- Azimullh khan was an advisor to
Uttrakhand PCS Pre 2012
(a) Nana Saheb
(b) Tatya Tope
(c) Rani Laxmi Bai
(d) Kunwar Singh
Ans:- (a) Nana Saheb
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- With reference to the ‘revolt of 1857’ who of the following was betrayed by ‘friends’ captured and put to death by the British?
IAS Pre 2006
(a) Nana Sahib
(b) Kunwar Singh
(c) Khan Bahadur Khan
(d) Tatya Tope
Ans:- (d) Tatya Tope
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25.The real name of which one of the following leaders of 1857 was ‘Ram Chandra Pandurang’?
UPPCS Pre 2011
(a) Kunwar Singh
(b) Tatya Tope
(c) Nana Sahib
(d) Mangal Pandey
Ans:- (b) Tatya Tope
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- Which one of the following places did Kunwar Singh, a prominent leader of the Revolt of 1857 belong to?
IAS Pre 2005
(a) Bihar
(b) Madhya Pradesh
(c) Rajasthan
(d) Uttar Pradesh
Ans:- (a) Bihar
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- Where did Kunwar Singh join the Rebellion of 1857 against the British?
64th BPSC Pre 2018
(a) Arrah
(b) Patna
(c) Bettiah
(d) Varanasi
(e) None of the above/More than one of the above
Ans:- (a) Arrah
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28.Who was the leader of revolutionaries in Bihar during the Revolt of 1857?
60th to 62nd BPSC Pre 2016
(a) Namdar Khan
(b) Babu Kunwar Singh
(c) Birsa Munda
(d) Shankar Shah
(e) None of the above/More than one of the above
Ans:- (b) Babu Kunwar Singh
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- Kunwar Singh led the revolt of 1857 in-
45th BPSC Pre 2001
(a) Punjab
(b) Bengal
(c) Bihar
(d) Maharashtra
Ans:- (c) Bihar
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- Who led the 1857 Revolt in Bihar?
65th BPSC Pre 2019
(a) Babu Amar Singh
(b) Hare Krishna Singh
(c) Kunwar Singh
(d) Raja Shahzada Singh
(e) None of the above /More than one of the above
Ans:- (c) Kunwar Singh
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- Who led the Revolt of 1857 in Bihar?
48th to 52nd BPSC Pre 2008, 42nd BPSC Pre 1997
(a) Khan Bahadur Khan
(b) Kunwar Singh
(c) Tatya Tope
(d) Rani Ramkunvari
Ans:- (b) Kunwar Singh
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- The Mutiny of 1857 at Patna was led by a dynamic old person known as
43rd BPSC Pre 1999
(a) Hyder Ali Khan
(b) Rajput Kunwar Singh
(c) Judhar Singh
(d) Kusal Singh
Ans:- (b) Rajput Kunwar Singh
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- Who among the following was the leader of the revolution of 1857 in Assam?
UPPCS Mains 2007
(a) Diwan Maniram Dutta
(b) Kandarpeshwar Singh
(c) Purandar Singh
(d) Piali Baruna
Ans:- (a) Diwan Maniram Dutta
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- The center of 1857 revolt in Bihar from 15th July, 1857 20th January 1857 was
43rd BPSC Pre 1999
(a) Rampur
(b) Hamirpur
(c) Dheerpur
(d) Jagdishpur
Ans:- (d) Jagdishpur
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- Which person of Jagdishpur took the lead of revolution during the revolt of 1857 AD.
48th to 52nd BPSC pre 2008
(a) Kunwar Singh
(b) Chandra Shekhar
(c) Tirath Singh
(d) Ram Singh
Ans:-(a) Kunwar Singh
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- The king of Jagdishpur was
43rd BPSC Pre 1999
(a) Nana Saheb
(b) Tatya Tope
(c) Lakshmi Bai
(d) Kunwar Singh
Ans:- (d) Kunwar Singh
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- Who defeated the joint army of British and Jodhpur during the revolt of 1857
RAS/RTS Pre 1993
(a) Tatya Tope
(b) Nawab Vazeer Khan of Tonk
(c) Maharaja Nawab Singh
(d) Thakur Kushal Singh of Auwa
Ans:- (d) Thakur Kushal Singh of Auwa
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- Which amongst the following place was not a centre of the revolution of 1857?
RAS/RTS Pre 2012
(a) Ajmer
(b) Jaipur
(c) Neemuch
(d) Auwa
Ans:- (b) Jaipur
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- Who of the following had struggle against Britishers in 1857?
MPPCS Pre 2000
(a) Chandrasekhar Azad
(b) Ramprasad Bismil
(c) Saadat khan
(d) Makhan Lal Chaturvedi
Ans:- (c) Saadat khan
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- which of the following brave from Bhopal led the main movement and sacrificed his life during the first struggle for Independence in 1857?
MPPCS Pre 2019
(a) Fazil Mohammad Khan
(b) Sheikh Ramzan
(c) Dost Mohammad Khan
(d) Habibulla Khan
Ans:- (a) Fazil Mohammad Khan
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- Who of the following was the bitterest enemy of the British during the revolt of 1857?
45th BPSC PRE 2001
(a) Maulavi Ahmadullah Shah
(b) Maulavi Imadadullah
(c) Maulana Fazi-i-Haq Khairabadi
(d) Nawab Liaquat Ali
Ans:- (a) Maulavi Ahmadullah Shah
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- The revolt of 1857 was witnessed by the poet-
45th BPSC Pre 2001
(a) Mir Taqi Mir
(b) Zauq
(c) Ghalib
(d) Iqbal
Ans:- (c) Ghalib
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- The original residence of Eminent Urdu Poet Mirza Ghalib was?
UP Lower sub Pre 2002
(a) Agra
(b) Delhi
(c) Lahore
(d) Lucknow
Ans:- (a) Agra
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- Who among the following was NOT associated with the revolt of 1857?
MPPCS Pre 2000
(a) Tatya Tope
(b) Rani Laxmibai
(c) Bahadurshah zafar
(d) Bhagat Singh
Ans:- (d) Bhagat Singh
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- Who among the following was not related to the Revolt of 1857?
UPPCS Pre 1996
(a) Begum Hazarat Mahal
(b) Kunwar Singh
(c) Uddham Singh
(d) Maulavi Ahmadullah
Ans:- (c) Uddham Singh
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- Which dynasty supported British Maximum during 1857 Freedom Movement?
MPPCS Pre 2010
(a) Scindias of Gwalior
(b) Holkers of Indore
(c) Bhonsles of Nagpur
(d) Lodhis of Ramgarh
Ans:- (a) Scindias of Gwalior
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- The educated middle class in India-
IAS Pre 1998
(a) Opposed the revolt of 1857
(b) Supported the revolt of 1857
(c) Remained neutral to the revolt of 1857
(d) Fought against native rulers
Ans:- (c) Remained neutral to the revolt of 1857
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48. Which of the following group did not participate in the revolt of 1857?
- Agricultural Labour 2. Sahukar 3.Farmers 4. Landlords
Select your answer from the following codes:
(a) Only 1 (b) 1 and 2
(c) Only 2 (d) 2 and 4
Ans:- (d) 2 and 4
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- Who among the following did not rebel against the British East India Company’s control over them?
BPSC Pre 2018
(a) Raja of Vijaynagar
(b) Nizam of Hyderabad
(c) Polygar of Tamil Nadu
(d) Dewan Velu Thampi of Travancore
(e) None of the above
Ans:- (b) Nizam of Hyderabad
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- Which one of the following territories was not affected by the Revolt of 1857?
Uttrakhand PCS Mains 2006
IAS Pre 2005
(a) Jhansi
(b) Chittor
(c) Jagdishpur
(d) Lucknow
Ans:- (b) Chittor
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- Which part of Bihar was unaffected with the revolt of 1857?
41st BPSC Pre 1996
- Danapur 2. Patna
- Arrah 4. Muzaffarnagar
- Munger
Chose the correct answer from the code given below:
(a) IV (b)Only V
(c) Only IV (d) III, IV, V
Ans:- (b)Only V
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- Which one of the following pair is not correctly matched?
UPPCS Pre 2018
Place Leadership
(a) Sambhalpur Surender Sahi
(b) Ganjan Radhakrishna Dandsena
(c) Kashmir Gulab Singh
(d) Lucknow Liyaqat Ali
Ans:- (d) Lucknow Liyaqat Ali
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- Who was the Governor General of India during the revolt of 1857?
(a) Lord Dalhousie
(b) Lord Minto
(c) Lord Canning
(d) Lord Bentinck
Ans:- (c) Lord Canning
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- Who was the Governor General of India during the Sepoy Mutiny?
IAS Pre 2006
(a) Lord Canning
(b) Lord Dalhousie
(c) Lord Harding
(d) Lord Lytton
Ans:- (a) Lord Canning
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- At the time of 1857 Revolt who was the British Commanding Officer at Barrckpore?
UPPCS RI 2014
(a) Henry Lawrence
(b) Colonel Finnis
(c) Hearsey
(d) Sir Hugh Wheeler
Ans:- (c) Hearsey
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- Who has made Allahabad the Emergency headquarters in 1857?
UPPCS Pre 2005
(a) Lord Canning
(b) Lord Cornwallis
(c) Lord Wellesley
(d) Lord William Bentinck
Ans:- (a) Lord Canning
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- Who was the British Prime Minister during the Revolt of 1857?
UPPCS Pre 1991
(a) Churchil
(b) Palmerston
(c) Attlee
(d) Gladstone
Ans:- (b) Palmerston
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- What was the main cause of the failure of the revolt of 1857?
41st BPSC Pre 1996
(a) Lack of Hindu Muslim unity
(b) Lack of common strategy and central organization
(c) Its effect was within a limited area
(d) Non – participation of Landlords
Ans:- (b) Lack of common strategy and central organization
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- The first freedom struggle of 1857 failed because
UP Lower Sub Pre 1998
(a) There was lack of the unity of purpose in Indian sepoys
(b) Generally, Native Kings supported British
(c) British Soldier were better equipped and organized rather than Indians
(d) All of the above
Ans:- (d) All of the above
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- The British were able to suppress the uprising of 1857 in Rajput state because:
RAS/RTS Pre 1996
(a) The Local Rajput rulers did not support revolutionaries.
(b) The educated middle class supported the British
(c) The soldiers in cantonments were not prepared to accept leadership of revolution from outside Rajasthan.
(d) The newspaper could not project the true aim of the revolution.
Ans:- (a) The Local Rajput rulers did not support revolutionaries.
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- Which among the following British officers lost their lives at Lucknow?
1. General John Nicholson 2. General Neil
3. Major Havlock 4. Sir Henry Lawrence
Select the correct answer from the code given below-
(a) 1,2 and 3 (b) 1,3 and 4
(c) 2,3 and 4 (d) All of the above
UPPCS Pre 2008
Ans:- (c) 2,3 and 4
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- Whose name amongst the following is not associated with the Revolt of 1857?
UPPCS Mains 2017
(a) Col St Legar
(b) Lt Col Gibbs
(c) Col Wallace
(d) All of the above
Ans:- (d) All of the above
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- Who called the revolt of 1857 a conspiracy ?
40th BPSC Pre 1995
(a) Sir James Outram and W Taylor
(b) Sir John K
(c) Sir John Lawrence
(d) TR Homes
Ans:- (a) Sir James Outram and W Taylor
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- Modern Historian, who called the revolt of 1857 as the first Independence War was –
MPPCS Pre 2008
(a) Dr RC Mazumdar
(b) Dr SN Sen
(c) VD Savarkar
(d) Ashok Mehta
Ans:- (c) VD Savarkar
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- Who termed the uprising 1857 as the first war of independence?
UPPCS Mains 2015
(a) VA Smith
(b) PE Roberts
(c) VD Savarkar
(d) All of the above
Ans:- (c) VD Savarkar
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- The official historian of Indian Freedom Struggle was:-
UPPCS Pre 2010
(a) RC Mazumdar
(b) Tarachandra
(c) VD Savarkar
(d) SN Sen
Ans:- (d) SN Sen
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- The first Indian to write in Indian language on the cause of uprising of 1857 was
UP Lower Sub Pre 2009
(a) Syed Ahmed Khan
(b) VD Savarkar
(c) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
(d) None of the above
Ans:- (a) Syed Ahmed Khan
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- The statement “the so-called first national war of independence was neither first, nor national, nor a war of independence’ is associated with
UPPCS Pre 2010
(a) RC Mazumdar
(b) SN Sen
(c) Tarachand
(d) VD Savarkar
Ans:- (a) RC Mazumdar
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- Who wrote , ‘It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the so-called first National War of Independence of 1857 is neither first, nor National, nor a war of independence’?
RO/ARO Pre 2017
(a) RC Mazumdar
(b) Syed Ahmed
(c) Robert
(d) Coupland
Ans:- (a) RC Mazumdar
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- Who was the prominent Indian Historian who did not accept 1857 Revolution as a Revolution?
Chhattisagarh PCS Pre 2016
(a) Tarachand
(b) Dr SN Sen
(c) Swarkar
(d) Dr RC Majumdar
(e) None of these
Ans:- (d) Dr RC Majumdar
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- Which one of the following conceptions is true about the Revolt of 1857?
UPPCS Mains 2010
(a) Indian historians have described it as an Indian mutiny.
(b) British historians have described it as a war of independence
(c) It gave a death blow to the system of East India Company’s rule in India
(d) It was for the improvement of the administrative machinery in India
Ans:- (c) It gave a death blow to the system of East India Company’s rule in India
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- When did Queen Victoria declare the taking over of Indian Administration under British Crown?
48th and 52nd BPSC Pre 2008
(a) 1 Nov 1858
(b) 31 Dec 1857
(c) 6 Jan 1958
(d) 17 Nov 1859
Ans:- (a) 1 Nov 1858
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- Indians were assured of many things in the declaration by Queen Victoria in 1858. Which among the following assurances was fulfilled by the British Government:
UPPCS pre 1994
(a) Policy of annexation will be abandoned
(b) “Status Quo” of the native rulers would be maintained
(c) Equal treatment would be given to all subjects, Indians, and Europeans
(d) There would be no interference in the social and religious beliefs of the Indians
Ans:- (a) Policy of annexation will be abandoned
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73.What was/were the object/objects of Queen Victoria’s Proclamation (1858)?
- To disclaim any intention to annex the Indian States
- To place the Indian administration under the British Crown
- To regulate East India Company’s trade with India
IAS Pre 2014
Select the correct answer using the code given below
(a) 1 and 2 only
(b) 2 only
(c) 1 and 3 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3 only
Ans:- (a) 1 and 2 only
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- Which one of the following commission is associated with the Army Reorganization after the suppression of Revolt of 1857?
45th BPSC Pre 2001
(a) Public Service Commission
(b) Peel Commission
(c) Hunter Commission
(d) Simon Commission
Ans:- (b) Peel Commission
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- After the revolt of 1857, the British recruited the Soldier from the
48th to 52nd BPSC Pre 2008
(a) Brahmains of UP & Bihar
(b) Bengalis and Orria’s from the East
(c) Gurkhas, Sikhs, and Punjabis in the North
(d) Madras presidency and Marathas
Ans:- (c) Gurkhas, Sikhs, and Punjabis in the North