Modern Indian History Mixed Practice — MCQs with Answers (Set 29)

Baba Ram Singh founded the Namdhari movement at Bhaini Sahib, in Ludhiana district, Punjab, on 12 April 1857.

Queen Victoria consulted Ethel Grimwood, widow of Political Agent Frank Grimwood, who said she did not hold Tikendrajit personally responsible for her husband’s death.

Thangal General was hanged alongside Tikendrajit on the same day. Raja Kulachandra Singh was also sentenced to death, but this was commuted to transportation for life.

The correct answer is Patriots’ Day. Tikendrajit and Thangal were executed on 13 August 1891. That day is observed as Patriots’ Day in Manipur, and the Shaheed Minar at Bir Tikendrajit Park in Imphal commemorates the martyrs.

Chief Commissioner J.W. Quinton arrived in Manipur on 22 March 1891 with troops. On 24 March the British tried to seize Tikendrajit by force. Manipuri soldiers resisted, killing five British officers, including Quinton.

Tikendrajit held the position of Senapati, commander of the Manipuri army, after a 1890 palace revolution installed his brother Kulachandra as Raja.

The British gave no clear public reason for moving Lahiri’s execution two days earlier than his co-accused.

Lahiri was hanged on 17 December 1927, at Gonda Jail — two days before his three Kakori co-accused.

Lahiri was sentenced to 10 years’ rigorous imprisonment for his role in the earlier Dakshineswar bomb case.

Lahiri was studying for an M.A. in History, at Banaras Hindu University, when he became involved in revolutionary activity.

Udham Singh’s remains were received in India by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1974, before being distributed to major Sikh sites.

Udham Singh’s suppressed courtroom statement was only published in 1996, decades after his 1940 trial.

Udham Singh adopted the name “Ram Mohammad Singh Azad” in custody, representing Punjab’s three major faiths and his ideal of freedom.

Udham Singh was present at the Jallianwala Bagh massacre on 13 April 1919, and survived it.

Mahadev Vinayak Ranade helped kill the informants and was hanged on 10 May 1899, alongside the surviving Chapekar brothers.

Damodar Hari Chapekar, arrested first, was hanged on 18 April 1898, over a year before his two brothers.

Damodar Hari called out “Gondya ala re” (“Gondya has come”), the brothers’ prearranged signal to fire.

The brothers were angered by the brutal, invasive measures British troops used to contain a bubonic plague outbreak in Pune.

The Chapekar brothers are considered the first armed revolutionaries to assassinate a British official in India.

Sangolli Rayanna commanded her forces in both battles and kept up guerrilla resistance after her capture, until his hanging in 1831.

Collector St. John Thackeray was killed in the first battle, and two British officers were taken hostage.

The Company refused to recognise her adopted son as heir and moved to annex Kittur, anticipating the later Doctrine of Lapse.

After independence, Durgawati Devi lived quietly in Ghaziabad, and later opened a school for poor children in Lucknow.

In 1929, Durgawati Devi took part in an attempt to assassinate Lord Hailey, the former Governor of Punjab. He escaped unharmed, though some of his associates were injured.

Durgawati Devi posed as Bhagat Singh’s wife, with her young son, while he travelled by train in disguise, clean-shaven and in Western clothes.