Indian National Movement | Revolution of 1857

Indian National Movement | Revolution of 1857

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1. Mangal Pandey incident took place at

Meerut
Barrackpore
Ambala
Lucknow

2. The immediate cause of India's first war of independence was

Doctrine of Lapse by Lord Dalhousie
Suspicion about British interference in religion
Military discontent
Economic exploitation of India

3. When was the new Enfield Rifle with greased cartridges introduced in the British Indian Army?

November, 1856
December, 1856
January, 1857
February, 1857

4. With which uprising is Mangal Pandey associated?

Barrackpore
Meerut
Delhi
None of these

5. Which one of the following conceptions is true about the Revolt of 1857?

Indian historians have described it as an Indian mutiny
British historians have described it as a war of independence
It gave a death blow to the system of East India Company's rule in India
It was for the improvement of the administrative machinery in India

6. Who among the following was bestowed with the title of Saheb- e-Alam Bahadur by Bahadur Shah during the uprising of 1857?

Azimullah
Birjis Qadir
Bakht Khan
Hasan Khan

7. The first war of Independence (1857) started from

Lucknow
Jhansi
Meerut
Kanpur

8. The first event relating to the war of Independence of 1857 was

Kanpur's Revolt and taking over the leadership by Nana Saheb
Begum Hazrat Mahal's leadership of Oudh
Marching of Sepoys to Delhi's Red Fort
Revolt by Rani of Jhansi

9. Symbol of 1857 independence struggle was

Lotus and Chapatis
Eagle
Scarf
Two swords

10. Which one of the following centres of the uprising of 1857 was recaptured by the English?

Jhansi
Meerut
Delhi
Kanpur

11. The birthplace of Maharani Lakshmi Bai, the heroine of the 1857 freedom struggle, is

Agra
Jhansi
Varanasi
Vrindaban

12. Who among the following was the leader of the revolt during 1857 at Barielly?

Khan Bahadur
Kunwar Singh
Maulvi Ahmad Shah
Virzis Qadir

13. Where is the Samadhi of Maharani Lakshmi Bai situated?

Mandla
Mandu
Jabalpur
Gwalior

14. Maharani Lakshmi Bai had combated in last battle against

Hugh Rose
Guff
Niel
Havlock

15. The revolt of 1857 at Lucknow was led by

Begum of Awadh
Tatya Tope
Rani Lakshmi Bai
Nana Saheb

16. The revolutionary woman who led the revolution of 1857 in Oudh was

Lakshmi Bai
Ahilya Bai
Aruna Asaf Ali
Begum Hazrat Mahal

17. The largest number of soldiers participated in the struggle of 1857 came from

Bengal
Awadh
Bihar
Rajasthan

18. Who amongst the following was the leader of the 1857 uprising at Allahabad?

Nana Saheb
Azimullah
Tatya Tope
Maulvi Liyaqat Ali

19. Who was the leader of 1857 struggle for freedom in Lucknow?

Zeenat Mahal
Nana Saheb
Hazrat Mahal
Tatya Tope

20. Who was 'commander-in-chief of Nana Saheb?

Azimullah
Birjis Qadir
Tatya Tope
None of these

21. Azimullah Khan was an advisor to

Nana Saheb
Tatya Tope
Rani Lakshmi Bai
Kunwar Singh

22. With reference to the 'revolt of 1857 who of the following was betrayed by 'friend' captured and put to death by the British?

Nana Saheb
Kunwar Singh
Khan Bahadur Khan
Tatya Tope

23. The real name of which one of the following leaders of 1857 was 'Ram Chandra Pandurang'?

Kunwar Singh
Tatya Tope
Nana Saheb
Mangal Pandey

24. Who was the leader of revolutionaries in Bihar during the Revolt of 1857?

Namdar Khan
Babu Kunwar Singh
Birsa Munda
Shankar Shah

25. Which one of the following commissions is associated with the Army Reorganization after the suppression of the Revolt of 1857?

Public Service Commission
Peel Commission
Hunter Commission
Simon Commission

26. After the revolt of 1857, the British recruited the Soldiers from the

Brahmins of U.P. and Bihar
Bengalis and Orria's from the East
Gurkhas, Sikhs and Punjabis in the North
Madras presidency and Marathas

27. When did Queen Victoria declare the taking over of Indian Administration under British crown?

1 November, 1858
31 December, 1857
6 January, 1958
17 November, 1859

28. Who among the following was the leader of the revolution of 1857 in Assam?

Diwan Maniram Dutta
Kandarpeshwar Singh
Purandar Singh
Piali Barua

29. The centre of 1857 revolt in Bihar from 15th July, 1857 to 20th January, 1858 was

Rampur
Hamirpur
Dheerpur
Jagdishpur

30. Which person of Jagdishpur took the lead of revolutionaries during the revolt of 1857 A.D.?

Kunwar Singh
Chandra Shekhar
Tirath Singh
Ram Singh

31. The King of Jagdishpur was

Nana Saheb
Tatya Tope
Lakshmi Bai
Kunwar Singh

32. Who defeated the joint army of British and Jodhpur during the revolt of 1857?

Tatya Tope
Nawab Vazeer Khan of Tonk
Maharaja Ram Singh
Thakur Kushal Singh of Auwa

33. Which amongst the following place was not a centre of the revolution of 1857?

Ajmer
Jaipur
Neemuch
Auwa

34. Who of the following had struggled against Britishers in 1857?

Chandrashekhar Azad
Ramprasad Bilsmil
Shahdat Khan
Makhan Lal Chaturvedi

35. Who of the following was the bitterest enemy of the British during the Revolt of 1857?

Maulvi Ahmadullah Shah
Maulvi Imadadullah
Maulana Fazi-i-Haq Khairabadi
Nawab Liaquat Ali

36. The Revolt of 1857 was witnessed by the poet

Mir Taqi Mir
Zauq
Ghalib
Iqbal

37. Original residence of Eminent Urdu Poet Mirza Ghalib was

Agra
Delhi
Lahore
Lucknow

38. Who among the following was not associated with the Revolt of 1857?

Tatya Tope
Rani Lakshmi Bai
Bahadur Shah Jafar
Bhagat Singh

39. Who among the following was not related with the Revolt of 1857?

Begum Hazrat Mahal
Kunwar Singh
Uddham Singh
Maulvi Shemadullah

40. Which dynasty supported British maximum during the 1857 Freedom Movement?

Scindias of Gwalior
Holkers of Indore
Bhonsles of Nagpur
Lodhis of Ramgarh

41. The educated middle class in India

Opposed the revolt of 1857
Supported the revolt of 1857
Remained neutral to the revolt of 1857
Fought against native rulers

42. Which one of the following territories was not affected by the Revolt of 1857?

Jhansi
Chittor
Jagdishpur
Lucknow

43. Who was the Governor-General of India during the Revolt of 1857?

Lord Dalhousie
Lord Minto
Lord Canning
Lord Bentinck

44. Who was the Governor-General of India during the Sepoy Mutiny?

Lord Canning
Lord Dalhousie
Lord Hardinge
Lord Lytton

45. At the time of 1857-Revolt who was the British Commanding Officer at Barrackpore?

Henry Lawrence
Colonel Finnis
Hearsey
Sir Hugh Wheeler

46. Who has made Allahabad the emergency headquarters in 1857?

Lord Canning
Lord Cornwallis
Lord Wellesley
Lord William Bentinck

47. Who was the British Prime Minister during the Revolt of 1857?

Churchill
Palmerston
Attlee
Gladstone

48. What was the main cause of the failure of the Revolt of 1857?

Lack of Hindu-Muslim unity
Lack of common strategy and central organization
Its effect was within limited area
Non-participations of Land-lords

49. First freedom struggle of 1857 failed because

There was lackness of the unity of purpose in Indian sepoys
Generally, Native Kings supported British
British Soldiers were better equipped and organised rather than Indians
All of the above

50. The British were able to suppress the uprising of 1857 in Rajput state because

The local Rajput rulers did not support revolutionary
The educated middle class supported the British
The soldiers in cantonments were not prepared to accept leadership of revolution from outside Rajasthan
The newspaper could not project. the true aim of revolution

51. Who called the Revolt of 1857 a conspiracy?

Sir James Outram and W. Taylor
Sir John K.
Sir John Lawrence
T.R. Homes

52. Modern Historian, who called the Revolt of 1857 as the first Independence War was

Dr. R.C. Mazumdar
Dr. S.N. Sen
V.D. Savarkar
Ashok Mehta

53. The first Indian to write in Indian language on on the causes of the uprising of 1857 was

Syed Ahmed Khan
V.D. Savarkar
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
None of the above

54. The statement 'the so-called first national war of independence was neither first, nor national, nor a war of independence' is associated with

R.C. Majumdar
S.N. Sen
Tarachand
V.D. Savarkar

55. Who was the prominent Indian Historian who did not accepted 1857 Revolution as a Revolution?

Tarachand
Dr. S.N. Sen
Savarkar
Dr. R.C. Majumdar