Modern India- Questions & Answers

Modern India- Questions & Answers - 40
1056• The leader of Ramosi rebellion of Satara:
Chittur Singh

1057• Who is popularly known as "the prophet of the cultural renaissance of Western India"?
Mahadev Govind Ranade

1058• The central headquarter of the Wahhabi Movement was:
Patna

1059• The leader of Fakir Uprising of Bengal (1776-77):
Majnu Shah

1060• The Viceroy when the First World War was started:
Hardingell

1061• Veda Samaj was founded in 1864 by:
Sridharalu Naidu

1062• "What began as a fight for religion, ended as a war of independence" - this remarks
about the Revolt of 1857 was made by:
Dr. S.N. Sen

1063• Whom Sir Hugh Rose described "the best and bravest military leader of the rebels"
of 1857 revolt?
Rani Laxmi Bai

1064• During the 1857 Revolt, who was betrayed by one of his friends Man Singh?
Tantia Tope

1065• Who was born as Dhondu Pant and was a rebel Indi an leader during the Indian
Rebellion of 1857?
Nana Sahib

1066• Who was the commander in chief of the Mughal emperor during the Revolt of 1857?
Bakht Khan

1067• Who has the view that the Revolt of 1857 was the struggle of the soldier, peasant,
democratic combine against foreign as well as feudal bondage?
Karl Marx

1068• Who considered the revolt of 1857 as a war of orthodoxy against Christianity!
L.E.R. Rees

1069• During the revolt of 1857, Bahadur Shah was captured by the enemies from:
Humayun's Tomb

1070• In whose opinion the Revolt of 1857 was "Wholly unpatriotic and selfish sepoy muti
ny with no native leadership and no popular support"?
Sir John Seeley

1071• Name the historical who stated that the Revolt of 1857 was a conflict between civilization and barbarism?
T.R. Holmes
1072• During whose tenure as the Viceroy India were the great martyrs Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru hanged?
Lord Irwin

1073• Who was the Viceroy when the first Census was held in 1872?
Mayo

1074• Who started Nirankari Movement?
Dayal Das

1075• After defeating the Marathas, the British gained control over Delhi in:
1803

1076• In which year the Nizam of Hyderabad signed the Subsidiary Alliance?
1798

1077• Who established the first cotton mill in India?
Cowasjee Nanabhoy

1078• Who authored 'Nil Darpan'(1858-59)?
Dinabandhu Mitra

1079• Who organised Translation Society in 1864 which later became 'the Aligarh Scientific Society'?
Syed Ahmed Khan

1080• Who was the Viceroy during the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre?
Chelmsford

1081• Who started the Bengali paper 'Udbodhan'?
Vivekananda

1082• Where did B.R. Ambedkar form his Bahishkrit Hitakarini Sabha?
Bombay

1083• Who was the Chairman of the Partition Council?
Lord Mountbatten

1084• Who applied the 'Great Firm' theory to explain the decline of the Mughal Empire?
Karen Leonard

1085• Who opened a widow home at Pune, formed a widow remarriage association, married to a widow in 1893 and in 1916 founded a Women's University in Bombay?
Prof. D.K. Karve