Modern Indian History Mixed Practice — MCQs with Answers (Set 16)

Chilli was called “Pernambuco pepper” in mid-16th-century Goa, after the Brazilian colony it was shipped from.

Taluqdari-held villages fell from roughly two-thirds of Awadh’s villages to just over a third under the new settlement. Henry Lawrence was Chief Commissioner during its implementation — James Outram had already left that post months earlier, in May 1856.

British forces disarmed the taluqdars and demolished many of their forts after annexation. This was a deliberate break with the old Awadh order, not a negotiated transition.

The settlement’s theory treated taluqdars as outsiders. Officials believed many had usurped proprietary rights that originally belonged to village communities.

Coverley Jackson drafted the 1856 Summary Settlement. Henry Lawrence, the Chief Commissioner, applied it on the ground.

The correct date is 7 February 1856. Governor-General Dalhousie annexed Awadh that day, citing years of misgovernment under Nawab Wajid Ali Shah.

The Eka Movement ended by March 1922 after the government responded with mounted and armed police and a cavalry squadron, forcing Madari Pasi and other leaders underground. Even so, it forced a real concession, the Awadh Rent (Amendment) Act, 1921, which regulated rents and addressed bedakhali and nazrana.

Peasants vowed to pay only the recorded rent on time, refuse forced labour, resist illegal ejection, and obey Panchayat decisions. Boycotting British-made cloth was a Non-Cooperation Movement tactic, not part of Eka’s oath.

Leadership passed to Madari Pasi, a low-caste peasant leader unwilling to keep the movement strictly non-violent. Baba Ramchandra, Swami Sahajanand Saraswati, and N. G. Ranga were real peasant leaders of the era, but from other movements, not Eka.

Eka’s core grievance was rent, not government revenue. Landlords and their thekedars charged rent 40–50% above the recorded rate, on top of nazrana and arbitrary ejection. A government land-revenue hike was the trigger for the separate Bardoli Satyagraha, not Eka.

The Eka Movement began in November 1921 in Awadh, in present-day Uttar Pradesh. It spread from Lucknow into Hardoi, Bahraich, Sitapur, and Unnao districts.

Sardar Patel guided the creation of the Kaira District Co-operative Milk Producers’ Union, the cooperative that later became the Amul brand.

The Statue of Unity, inaugurated on 31 October 2018 at Kevadia, Gujarat, stands 182 metres tall, making it the tallest statue in the world.

Narendra Dev represented Uttar Pradesh in the Rajya Sabha from 1952 until his death on 19 February 1956, while still a sitting member.

Narendra Dev began teaching history at Kashi Vidyapith in 1921, and became its Principal around 1926.

Katju’s grandson, Markandey Katju, became a judge of the Supreme Court of India, continuing a family legal legacy that also included Katju’s son, Brahma Nath Katju, Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court.

Katju was one of the original founders of Associated Journals Ltd, publisher of the National Herald newspaper.

Katju served as Governor of Orissa from 1947 to 1948, then as Governor of West Bengal from 1948 to 1951.

Katju served as Minister of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs in Govind Ballabh Pant’s United Provinces government, from July 1937 to November 1939.

Kailash Nath Katju was born on 17 June 1887 in Jaora, a princely state in present-day Madhya Pradesh.

The Sri Guru Ravidas Janam Asthan Mandir, which the Dera helped build, is located at Seer Govardhanpur in Varanasi, Guru Ravidas’s traditional birthplace.

Sant Sarwan Dass, the second Gaddi Nashin, led Dera Sach Khand from 1928 to 1972, emphasising education and healthcare.

The armed attack at a Dera-linked religious gathering in Vienna, Austria, took place on 24 May 2009.

The spiritual head of Dera Sach Khand Ballan is called the Gaddi Nashin, a title Sant Niranjan Dass has held since 1994.

Sampurnanand served as the 2nd Governor of Rajasthan from 1962 to 1967, after his term as UP Chief Minister ended.