History (Part-4) (CDS-Solved Paper)

Total Questions: 44

11. Upari refers to which one of the following? [Morning Shift-2015 (I)]

Correct Answer: (b) A category of tenancy tenure held under the Maratha regime
Solution:

Upari refers to a category of tenancy tenure held under the Maratha regime. Under this system the cultivator was taken land from landlords for farming purposes. The village Patil had the right to distribute land among cultivators.

The farmers were paying some parts of produced commodities as rent. The farmers were not enjoying ownership right of land.

12. Which of the following is/are the characteristic(s) of the Sannyasi and Fakir uprisings? [Morning Shift-2015 (I)]

1. These uprisings refer to a series of skirmishes between the English East India Company and a group of Sannyasis and Fakirs.
2. One reason for the uprising was the ban on free movement of the Sannyasis along pilgrimage routes.
3. In the course of the uprisings in 1773, Warren Hastings issued a proclamation banishing all Sannyasis from Bengal and Bihar.
4. Are contemporaneous with the Non- Cooperation Movement.
Select the correct answer using the codes given below:

Correct Answer: (c) 1, 2 and 3
Solution:

The Sannyasi and Fakir uprising took place in Bengal in the late 18th century. To the British these ascetic were looters and must be stopped from collecting money that belonged to the Company and possibly from even entering the province.

When the Company’s forces tried to prevent the Sannyasis and Fakirs from entering the province, fierce clashes was ensued. Hence, statements 1, 2 and 3 are true about characteristics of Sannyasi and Fakir uprising.

13. Which of the statements given below about the Mughal rule in India is false? [Evening Shift-2014 (II)]

Correct Answer: (a) Peasant communities were a united and homogeneous group.
Solution:

Maintaining the Mughal lifestyle meant higher taxes from which the tax-payers derived no benefit. Little money was invested in agricultural or technological development. Economic prosperity was regarded as a threat to the security of the state and so was discouraged.

Mughal state encouraged those crops that brought in more revenue. Indian peasantry in the Mughal Empire was highly stratified and there was considerable difference is the size of holdings, produce and resource of peasants with in same locality.

14. The Ghadar party, formed in the USA, was determined to start a revolt in India. Which among the following provinces did the party choose to begin its armed revolt? [Evening Shift-2014 (II)]

Correct Answer: (a) Punjab
Solution:

The Ghadar Party was an organisation founded by Punjabi Indians, in the USA and Canada with the aim to gaining India’s independence from British rule.

Key members included Lala Har Dayal, Sohan Singh Bhakna, Kartar Singh Sarabha and Ras Bihari Bose. Many of its most prominent activities were forced into exile to Canada and the USA. It ceased to play an active role in Indian politics after 1919.

15. The ruins of the Vijayanagara at Hampi were brought to light in 1800 by [Evening Shift-2014 (II)]

Correct Answer: (a) Colonel Colin Mackenzie
Solution:

Colonel Colin Mackenzie was Scottish army officer in the British East India Company and was a Collector of antiquities and an Orientalist. His collections consisting of thousands of manuscripts, inscriptions, translation, coins and paintings brought to light not only ruins of Vijayanagara empire but also other forbidden kingdoms.

16. Consider the following statements about colonial economy of Vietnam (Indo-China): [Evening Shift-2014 (II)]

1. The colonial economy in Vietnam was primarily based on rice cultivation and rubber plantations.
2. All the rubber plantations in Vietnam were owned and controlled by a small Vietnamese elite.
3. Indentured Vietnamese labour was widely used in the rubber plantations.
4. Indentured labourers worked on the basis of contracts that did not specify any rights of labourers but gave immense power to the employers.
Which of the statement(s) given above is/are correct?

Correct Answer: (a) 1, 3 and 4
Solution:

The colonial economy in Vietnam was primarily based on rice cultivation and rubber plantations owned by the French and a small Vietnamese elite. Indentured labour was widely used in the rubber plantations.

Labourers worked on the basis of contracts that did not specify any rights of labourers but gave immense power to employers. Hence from all the above it is clear that statements 1, 3 and 4 are true.

17. Which of the four linguistic regions in South India remained unaffected by the Non-Cooperation Movement (1921-22)? [Evening Shift-2014 (II)]

Correct Answer: (d) Karnataka
Solution:

Of the four linguistic regions of South India, three were effectively brought into the movement, while Karnataka remained unaffected.

18. Which of the following statement(s) about the penetration of English into Bengal is/are correct? [Evening Shift-2014 (II)]

1. Job Charnock arrived in Sutanati in August, 1690 and laid the foundation of Calcutta which later became the heart of the British Indian empire.
2. The French East India Company built a fort near the Fort William in Calcutta.
Select the correct answer using the codes given below:

Correct Answer: (a) Only 1
Solution:

Job Charnock arrived at Sutanati in August, 1690 and founded new city (i.e. Kalikata, Calcutta) by merging other two villages Gobindapur and Sutanati. Some historians regarded this attempt of Charnock as the penetration of English into Bengal. French East India company built Fort in Chandernagore.

19. Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct? [Evening Shift-2014 (II)]

1. Early Buddhist literature is generally composed of the canonical text.
2. The Buddhist schools classify their canonical literature as only the Pitakas.
Select the correct answer using the codes given below:

Correct Answer: (d) Neither 1 nor 2
Solution:

Buddhist texts can be categorised in a number of ways. The Western terms ‘scripture’ and ‘canonical’ are applied to Buddhism in consistent ways by Western scholars : for instance — one authority refers to “scriptures and other canonical texts” while another says that scriptures can be categorised into canonical, commentarial and pseudo-canonical. Canonical texts comprise three different kind of texts– the Sutras, Vinaya, and Abhidharma. Hence option (d) is the correct answer.

20. Read the following statements carefully and choose the correct option. [Evening Shift-2014 (II)]

Statement I The 12th century witnessed the emergence of a new movement in Karnataka led by a Brahmana named Basavanna.
Statement II The Lingayats worshipped Shiva in his manifestation as a Linga.

Correct Answer: (b) Both the statements are individually true, but statement II is not the correct explanation of statement I.
Solution:

Basavanna was an Indian social reformer in Karnataka. He fought against the practice of the caste system which discriminated against people based on their birth and other rituals in Hinduism.

Lingayats propounded a primarily monotheistic conception of divinity through the worship of Lord Shiva in the form of linga. Hence, both the statements are individually true , but statement II is not the correct explanation of statements I.