Modern Indian History Mixed Practice — MCQs with Answers (Set 23)

He joined chief Lalburha in planning resistance to British tax collection during the 1890-92 Lushai Rising.

Expanding tea estates in Assam encroached on the Lushais’ traditional hunting grounds, driving much of the resistance.

He raided and looted the Kala Naga Police Station with his cousin Vanhnuailiana in February 1868.

Biswambhar Parida wrote ‘Mukti Sangramare Odisha,’ a book tracing the independence movement from Odisha’s own perspective.

After independence, Biswambhar Parida became a journalist, working for more than 40 years at leading Odia newspapers including Samaja and Prajatantra.

476 sailors were dismissed and court-martialled; Khan and most leaders were barred from future government employment.

Nearly 20,000 ratings joined the mutiny within days, across roughly 78 ships and shore establishments.

The mutiny began at the HMIS Talwar signals establishment in Bombay on 18 February 1946.

Rebels particularly targeted Sikh and Muslim thikadars, the contractors responsible for tax collection under the new landholding system.

The Kol Rebellion mobilised Kol, Munda, Oraon, Bhumij, and Ho communities together against British-imposed landholding systems.

Budhu Bhagat was captured and killed alongside two of his sons, Haldhar Bhagat and Giridhar Bhagat, at Silagai on 13 February 1832.

The rebellion’s core grievance was the replacement of the Khuntkatti communal land system by British-imposed Zamindari and Thikadari systems.

The ICHR removed him, along with hundreds of other Moplah Rebellion participants, amid disputes over the rebellion’s association with communal violence against Hindus.

He was executed by hanging at Coimbatore in early 1922, with sources differing on the exact date.

He mentored Variyamkunnath Kunjahammed Haji, and together they seized the Eranad and Valluvanad taluks from British control.

The rebellion began at Tirurangadi, growing out of anger fuelled by the wider Khilafat Movement.

He served as a Muslim scholar and Imam of the Tirurangadi Masjid, before becoming a leader of the rebellion.

Kalu Singh Mahara was imprisoned by British authorities after his defeat. Unlike many national 1857 leaders, his exact later fate is not clearly documented.

Sir Henry Ramsay, the British Commissioner of Kumaon, sent the military contingents that defeated Kalu Singh Mahara’s forces at the Battle of Bastia.

Kalu Singh Mahara led an attack that set fire to the British barracks at Lohaghat, forcing a British retreat.

The letter from Awadh promised that hill areas would be governed by local Pahadi people, once British rule ended.

Kalu Singh Mahara was a Thakur from Bisung Patti, near Lohaghat, in present-day Champawat district.

Angre naval power ended in February 1756, when his son Tulaji was captured at Gheriah by a combined British-Maratha assault.

Angre released the captured Algerine in 1713 in exchange for a 30,000 rupee ransom, one of several profitable naval captures against the British.

Angre established Vijaydurg (“Victory Fort”) in 1698, one of several strongholds, alongside Kolaba near Alibag, from which he controlled the Konkan coast.