UGC NTA NET/JRF EXAM, December 2022 HISTORY (Shift-I)

Total Questions: 77

31. Dada Bhai Naoroji presented the case of 'drain of wealth' from India before which Commission in 1895.

Correct Answer: (a) Welby Commission
Solution:

Dada bhai Naoroji presented the case of drain of wealth from India before welby commission. welby commission was established by British government In year 1895 under official name 'Royal commission on expenditure Administration of India' Main objective of commission was to find out the income and expenditure of the nation. Dadabhai Naoroji was the commissions first Indian member.
• Macdonald Commission - 1900 by curzon to enquire into the Famine of 1873-74 in Bengal & Bihar.
• Strachey Commission-1880 first famine commission. It was established to develop general strategy to tackle famines.

32. The Fergusson college was developed from which institution of 1880s

Correct Answer: (b) New English School
Solution:

The Fergusson college was developed from New English school of 1880s. In 1880 V.K. Chiplunkar, Balgangadhar Tilak and M.B. Namjoshi started new English school in Pune with the objective of cheapening and facilitating education. The founders of the Fergusson college had first started the new English school, Pune in 1880 and Later established the 'Deccan Education society in 1884. Fergusson College was started in 1885.

33. Who was the President of the 1929 Congress sub-committee on untouchability?

Correct Answer: (c) Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya
Solution:

Pandit madan mohan Malaviya was the president of the 1929 congress sub committee on untouchability.
Madan Mohan Malviya was educationist social reformer and freedom fighter. He was elected as the president of the congress committee (Four times) in 1909, 1918, 1932 and 1933. Mahatma Gandhi gave him title of 'Mahamana'. Dr. S. Radha Krishnan gave him status of Karmayogi. He founded Hindu Mahasabha in 1905. He founded Banaras Hindu university in 1916.

34. Who was the Propounder of the theory of 'Utilitarianism'?

Correct Answer: (b) J.S. Mill
Solution:

J.S. Mill was Propounder of the theory of 'utilitarianism'. Utilitarianism was a developed in Britain. Main objective of utilitarianism is "maximum satisfaction for maximum number of people."

35. Where was Herodotus born?

Correct Answer: (a) Halicarnassus
Solution:

Herodotus was born in Halicarnassus. now in Turkey. Herodotus is known as "Father of history".Herodotus earned this title from Roman statesman. Cicro because he authored the first authoritative historical text that systematically recorded historical events. Herodotus wrote books the Histories and The tale of the great Persian war.

36. Leni Riefenstahl's film Triumph of the willdeals with _______.

Correct Answer: (c) Nazi propaganda.
Solution:

Triumph of the will is a 1935 German Nazi propaganda film directed and produced by Leni Riefenstahl's. It chronicles the 1934 Nazi party congress in Nuremberg. Which was attended by more than 700000 Nazi Supporters. The film contains excerpts speeches given by Nazi leaders at the congress including Hitler.

37. Who said, "As works of the imagination, the historian's work and the novelist's do not differ. Where they do differ is that the historian's picture is meant to be true".

Correct Answer: (a) R.G. Collingwood
Solution:

R.G. Collingwood said "As works of the Imagination. the historian's work and the novelist's do not differ. where they do differ is that the historian's picture is meant to be true."
R.G. Collingwood was great historian from England. Не is best known for his works "The principles of Art (1938) and the posthumously Published" "The Idea of History".

38. Who said "History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in".

Correct Answer: (c) Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Solution:

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. said "History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in". Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. was an American Jurist who served as an associate justice of the supreme court of the united states from 1902-1932.

39. Ramoshi Rebellion of 1831 was led by whom?

Correct Answer: (d) Umaji Raje
Solution:

Ramoshi Rebellion of 1831 was led by Umaji Raje. Ramosis, the hill tribe of western ghat resented the policy of Annexation after the Annexation of Maratha territories by British. The Ramosis who had been employed by Maratha administration, lost their means of livelihood they rose under chittur Singh in 1822. from 1825-26 to 1831 Ramosi rebellion was led by Umaji Raje

40. Raja Rammohan Roy's Brahmo Samaj was a successor to :

Correct Answer: (b) Atmiya Sabha
Solution:

Raja Rammohan Roy's Brahmo samaj was a successor to Atmiya Sabha. In 1814 Raja Rammohan Roy set up Atmiya Sabha in Calcutta to propagate the monotheistic ideals of the Vedanta and to campaign against Idolatary. Caste rigidities, meaningless rituals and other social ills. In 1828 he founded Brahmo samaj.