Rise of Nationalism in India Online Test 12th History Lesson 1 Questions in English

1. Who among the following return from south Africa and his leadership of the Indian nationalist movement in 1919 Indian nationalism entered a mass phase?

In the pre-British days, the land revenue was realised by what?

Which among the following was the two major implications of the new land settlements introduced by the East India Company?

Which among the following statement is correct
1) The practice of sale in settlement of debt encouraged money lenders to advance money to landholders and resorting to every kind of trickery to rob them of their property.
2) As mentioned earlier, there was more private property in land in pre-British era. Now, land became a commodity that could be transferred only by way of the administration taking over land from holders, in lieu of default on payment of tax/rent. Land taken over in such cases was auctioned off to another bidder.
3) This created a new class of absentee landlords who lived in the cities and extracted revenue from the lands without actually living on the lands. In the traditional agricultural set-up, the villagers produced largely for their consumption among themselves. After the new land settlements, agricultural produce was predominantly for the market.

The company policy of de-industrialization of India was continued up to which period?

What is the other name of British Free Trade Policy?

Which among the following raw material were taken to Britain and transported back to the Indian markets as finished product?

Which among the following statement is correct?

• Prior to the arrival of the British, India was known for its handloom products and handicrafts. It commanded a good world market. However, as a result of the colonial policy, gradually Indian handloom products and handicrafts lost their market, domestic as well as international
• Import of English articles into India threw the weavers, the cotton dressers, the carpenters, the blacksmiths and the shoemakers out of employment. The finished products was available at a comparatively cheaper price than the Indian handloom cloth.

Which among the following crop was produced by farmers by British forcing them?

Which among the following statement is correct

1. The Indigo revolt of 1904-05 was one of the responses from the Indian farmer to the oppressive policy of the British. Indian tenants were forced to grow indigo by their planters who were mostly Indians. Used to dye the clothes indigo was in high demand in Europe.
2. Peasants were forced to accept meagre amounts as advance and enter into unfair contracts. Once a peasant accepted the contract, he had no option but to grow indigo on his land. The price paid by the planter was far lower than the market price. Many a times, the peasants could not even pay their land revenue dues.
3. Hoping that the authorities would address their concerns, the peasants wrote several petitions to authorities and organised peaceful protests. As their plea for reform went in vain, they revolted by refusing to accept any further advances and enter into new contracts. Peasants, through the Indigo revolt, were able to force the planters to withdraw from northern-Bengal.

William Digby, the editor of which news paper pointed out that in just ten years (1891-1900), nineteen million had died in India in famines alone?

Which among the following statement is correct

1. As India became increasingly deindustrialised and weavers and artisans engaged in handicrafts were thrown out of employment, there were recurrent famines due to the neglect of irrigation and oppressive taxation on land.
2. Before the arrival of the British, Indian rulers had no ameliorate even in the difficulties of the populace in times of famines the collected tax by regulating the grain prices but they banned food exports from famine-hit areas.
3. But the British extended their policy of non-intervention (laissez faire) even to famines. As a result, millions of people died of starvation during the Raj. It has been estimated that between 1770 and 1900, twenty-five million Indians died in famines.

During which famine in 1866 while a million and a half people starved to death, the British exported 200 million pounds of rice to Britain?

The Orissa Famine prompted which nationalist to begin his lifelong investigations into Indian poverty?

Which Viceroy adopted a hands-off approach similar to that followed in Orissa during a severe famine in the Madras Presidency during 1876-78?

Which year the Governor of Madras received a communication from the Governor of Ceylon asking for “coolies” to work on the coffee plantations?

Which among the following country is not part of British Empire colonies?

Which among the following statement is correct

1. The outbreak of two famines (1833 and 1843) forced the people, without any prompting from the government, to leave for Ceylon to work as coolies in coffee and tea plantations under the indentured labour system.
2. The abolition of slavery in British India in 1903 also facilitated the processes of emigration to Empire colonies. In 1917 the number of immigrant Tamil labourers employed in Ceylon coffee estate was estimated at 30,000. The industry developed rapidly and so did the demand for Tamil labour.
3. Besides Ceylon, many Indians opted to emigrate as indentured labour to other British colonies such as Mauritius, Straits Settlements, Caribbean islands, Trinidad, Fiji and South Africa. In 1843 it was officially reported that 30,218 male and 4,307 females had entered Mauritius as indentured labourers.

Under Indentured Labour penal contract system (indenture), labourers were hired for a period of how many years?

Among the Hindus, who had the exclusive privilege to acquire higher religious and philosophical knowledge?

Brahmins studied in special seminaries such as _____

Which was the medium of instruction, which was considered as the sacred language by Brahmins?

Which among the following statement is correct?

1. The colonial government failed to spread of modern education in India for a different reason than educating and empowering the Indians. To administer a large colony like India, the British needed a division of personnel to work for them.
2. It was impossible for the British to import the educated lot, needed in such large numbers, from Britain. With this aim, the English Education Act was passed by the Council of India in 1835.

Who drafted the colonial system of education introduced in India?

Who were the agents allowed by Colonial state to trick or kidnap indigent landless labourers?

Who among the following was the India’s first law member of the Governor General in Council from 1834 to 1838?

Before Macaulay arrived in India which was formed in 1823 with the responsibility to guide the East India Company on the matter of education and the medium of instruction?

The General Committee of Public Instruction was split into how groups?

. Which famous book was written by Macaulay while he was on the side of Anglicists in 1835?

Which among the following statement is correct

1. The economic and administrative transformation on the one side and the growth of Western education on the other gave the space for the growth of new social classes. From within these social classes, a modern Indian intelligentsia emerged.
2. The “neo-social classes” created by the British Raj, which included the Indian trading and business communities, landlords, money lenders, English-educated Indians employed in imperial subordinate services, lawyers and doctors, initially adopted a positive approach towards the colonial administration.
3. However, soon they realised that their interests would be better served only in independent India. People of the said social classes began to play a prominent role in promoting patriotism amongst the people. The consciousness of these classes found articulation in a number of associations prior to the founding of the Indian National Congress at the national level.

Which among the following was not the three inherent rights, which their European counterparts held dear to their heart, and the educated Indians too desired to cling to?

Which among the following establishment made people could meet and discuss the issues affecting their interests?

Inspired by what, Christian missionaries attacked polytheism and caste inequalities that were prevalent among the Hindus?

Who felt the need for reforming the society before involving the people in any political programmes?

Who among the following founded Brahmo Samaj?

Who among the following represented the Aligarh Movement?

Which among the following is not the Revivalist movements?

Who among the following led social movement in Pune?

Who among the following did not led social movement in Tamil Nadu?

When Brahmo Samaj was founded by Ram Mohan Roy?

Which among the following became the main concerns for Roy’s reformers?

Which among the following statement is correct

1. Indian national movement dates its birth from the 1892 uprising. The outrages committed by the British army after putting down the revolt remained “avenged”. Even the court-martial law and formalities were observed.
2. Officers who sat on the court martial swore that they would hang their prisoners, guilty or innocent and, if any dared to raise his voice against such indiscriminate vengeance, he was silenced by his angry colleagues. Persons condemned to death after the mockery of a trial were often tortured by soldiers before their execution, while the officers looked on approvingly.

Which among the following statement is correct

1. The English followed a policy of racial discrimination. The systematic exclusion of the Indians from higher official positions came to be looked upon as an anti-Indian policy measure and the resultant discontent of the Indian upper classes led the Indians to revolt against the British rule.
2. When civil service examinations were introduced the age, limit was fixed at thirty. When Indians were making it, with a view to debarring the Indians from entering the civil services, the age limit was reduced to twenty-four.
3. Similarly, despite requests from Indian educated middle class to hold the civil service examinations simultaneously in India, the Imperial government refused to concede the request.

Which act of censoring the press evoked protest?

On which product British abolished custom duty imported from England and levy of excise duty on same product manufactured in India created nationwide discontent?

During the viceroyalty of Ripon the Indian judges were empowered through which Bill to try Europeans?

Which among the following News Paper was published by Raja Ram Mohan Roy?

The introduction of which in India helped people to spread, modern ideas of self-government, democracy, civil rights and industrialisation?

Which among the following statement is correct

1. Orientalists like William Jones, Charles Wilkins and Max Muller explored and translated religious, historical and literary texts from Sanskrit, Persian and Arabic into Hindi and made them available to all Indians.
2. Influenced by the richness of Indian traditions and scholarship, many of the early nationalists made a fervent plea to revive the pristine glory of India.
3. Swami Vivekananda would write, ‘The mission of Nationalism, in our view, is to recover Indian thought, Indian character, Indian perceptions, Indian energy, Indian greatness and to solve the problems that perplex the world in an ancient spirit and from the British-India standpoint.’

Which social reform movement played huge role among the Muslims?

When Madras Native Association (MNA) was formed?

Who inspired the foundation of Madras Native Association (MNA), was a prominent businessman in Madras city?

Which among the following statement is correct

1. The Association presented its grievances before British Parliament when it was discussing the East India Company’s rule in India before the passing of the Charter in 1883. In a petition submitted in December 1889, the MNA pointed out that the Mahalwari systems had thrown agricultural classes into deep distress.
2. It urged the revival of the ancient village system to free the peasantry from the oppressive interference of the zamindars and the Company officials. The petition also made a complaint about the judicial system which was slow, complicated and imperfect.
3. It pointed out that the appointment of judges without assessing their judicial knowledge and competence in the local languages affected the efficiency of the judiciary. The diversion of state funds to missionary schools, under the grants-in-aid system, was also objected to in the petition.

Who was Chairman of the Indian Reform Society, came to Madras in October 1853 to discussed in the Parliament in March 1853?

Which among the following statement is correct

1. The Charter Act of 1853 allowed British East India Company to continue its rule in India, the MNA organised an agitation for the transfer of British territories in India to the direct control of the Crown. MNA sent its second petition to British Parliament, signed by fourteen thousand individuals, pleading the termination of Company rule in India.
2. The life of MNA was short. Lakshminarasu died in 1866 and by 1881, the association ceased to exist. Though the MNA did not achieve much in terms of reforms, it was the beginning of organised effort to articulate Indian opinion. In its lifetime, the MNA operated within the boundaries of Madras Presidency.
3. The grievances that the MNA raised through its petitions and the agitations it launched were from the point of view of the elite, particularly the landed gentry of Madras Presidency. What was lacking was a national political organisation representing every section of the society, an organisation that would raise the grievances and agitate against the colonial power for their redress

Which political organisation was formed in May 1884 the Madras Native Association became defunct in Madras Presidency?

Who among the following was not the prominent participants of the inaugural meeting of Madras Mahajana Sabha held on 16 May 1884?

Which among the following statement is correct

1. The idea of forming a political organisation that would raise issues and grievances against the colonial rule emerge in a vacuum on 1857 revolt. Between 1857 and 1865 there were many agitations against British policies in India.
2. The Indian textile industry was campaigning for imposition of cotton import duties in 1875. In 1877, demands for the Indianisation of Government services were made vociferously. There were protests against the Vernacular Press Act of 1878. In 1883, there was an agitation in favour of the Ilbert Bill.
3. But these agitations and protests were sporadic and not coordinated. There was a strong realisation that these protests would not impact on the policy makers unless a national political organisation was formed. From this realisation was born the Indian National Congress.

In December 1884, who presided over a meeting of the Theosophical Society in Madras?

The idea of forming which political party emerged in 1884 Theosophical Society in Madras.?

Where Indian National Congress was formed on 28 December 1885?

Which among the following statement is correct

1. Though the activities of the INC then revolved around petitions and memoranda, from the very beginning the founders of the INC worked to bring every section of the society into its ambit. One of the main missions of the INC was to weld the Indians into a nation.
2. They were convinced that the struggle against the colonial rule will be successful only if Indians saw themselves as the members of a nation. To achieve this, the INC acted as a common political platform for all the movements that were being organised in different parts of the country.
3. The INC provided the space where the political workers from different parts of the country could gather and conduct their political activities under its banner. Even though the organization was small with less than a hundred members, it had an all India character with representation from all regions of India.

Which among the following was not the major objectives and demands of INC?

Which among the following statement is correct

1. Opportunity for participation in the government was one of the major demands of the Indian National Congress. It demanded Indian representation in the government.
2. High land revenue was one of the major factors that contributed to the oppression of the peasants. It demanded reduction in the land revenue and protection of peasants against exploitation of the zamindars. The Congress also advocated the imposition of heavy tax on the imported goods for the benefit of swadeshi goods
3. Higher officials who had responsibility of administration in India were selected through civil services examinations conducted in India. This meant that educated Indians especially Brahmins can afford to go to London and get the opportunity to get high administrative jobs. Therefore, Indianisation of services through Indian Civil Services Examinations in India was a major demand of the Congress.

Which among the following statement is correct

1. Because of the partial treatment against the Indian political activists by English judges it demanded the single form of the Judiciary. The early nationalists in the INC came from all sections of the society. Lawyers, college and university teachers, doctors, journalists and such others represented the Congress.
2. However, they came from different regions of the country and this made INC a truly a national political organisation. These leaders of the INC adopted the constitutional methods of presenting petitions, prayers and memorandums and thereby earned the moniker of “Moderates”. It was also the time some sort of an understanding about colonialism was evolving in India.
3. There was no ready-made anti-colonial understanding available for reference in the late nineteenth century when the INC was formed. It was the early nationalists who helped the formulation of the idea of we as a nation. They were developing the indigenous anti-colonial ideology and a strategy on their own which helped future mass leaders like M. K Gandhi.

Who among the following was the extremists in INC?

Who raised the clarion call “Swaraj is my birth right and I shall have it” in 1897?

Which year partition of Bengal took happen?

Which movement of 1905 directly opposed the British rule and encouraged the ideas of national enterprise, national education, self-help and use of Indian languages?

Which among the following statement is correct

1. Both the Moderates and the Radicals were of the same view when it came to accepting the fact that they needed to fulfil the role of educators.
2. They tried to instil nationalist consciousness through various means including the press. When the INC was founded in 1805, two-third of the members were journalists. Most stalwarts of the early freedom movement were involved in journalism and Textiles.
3. This is the means that they used to educate the common people about the colonial oppression and spread nationalist ideas. News regarding the initiatives taken by the INC were taken to the masses through these newspapers.

Who among the following founded and edited two journals called Voice of India and Rast Goftar?

Surendranath Banerjea edited the newspaper called _____

Which among the following News Paper edited by Bal Gangadhar Tilak?

Who was a firm believer that the lower middle classes, peasants, artisans and workers could play a very important role in the national movement?

Who is known as the ‘Grand Old Man of Indian Nationalism’, was a prominent early nationalist?

Dadabhai Naoroji was elected to which Municipal Corporation and Town Council during the 1870s?

Who was arrested and charged under Section 124 A of the Indian Penal Code on 27 July 1897 for using his newspapers to articulate the discontent among the people against the oppressive colonial rule?

Which among the following was founded by Dadabhai Naoroji after being Elected to the British Parliament in 1892?

Which book of Dadabhai Naoroji was considered as major contribution to the Indian nationalist movement and he put forward the concept of ‘drain of wealth’?

Which among the following statement is correct

1. Dadabhai Naoroji stated that in any country the tax raised would have been spent for the wellbeing of the people of that country. But in British India, taxes collected in India were spent for the welfare of England.
2. Naoroji argued that India had exported an average of 10 million pounds worth of goods to Britain each year from 1664 to 1917 with no corresponding return. All these, going in the name of Tax Charges, Naoroji asserted, made up a loss of 7 million pounds a year.
3. The goods were in lieu of payments for profits to Company shareholders living in Britain, guaranteed interest to investors in railways, pensions to retired officials and generals, interest for the money borrowed from England to meet war expenses for the British conquest of territories in India as well as outside India.

Match the following List I with List II and choose correct answer

•                  List I                                      List II

1. Bal Gangadhar Tilak                   1. Voice of India
2. Surendranath Banerjea               2. Kesari
3. Dadabhai Naoroji                        3. Minute on Indian Education
4. Macaulay                                     4. Bengalee