History Questions For UPSC, SSC CGL, CHSL, CPO, FCI, Quiz-5

Correct Answer –C. Lord Macaulay

Explanation: The first Law Commission was established in 1834 under the Charter Act of 1833 under the Chairmanship of Lord Macaulay which recommended codification of the Penal Code, the Criminal Procedure Code and a few other matters. Thereafter, the second, third and fourth Law Commissions were constituted in 1853, 1861 and 1879 respectively.

Correct Answer – D. Dadabhai Naoroji

Explanation:- Dadabhai  Naoroji  was a Member of Parliament (MP) in the United Kingdom House of Commons between 1892 and 1895, and the first Asian to be a British MP. Elected for the Liberal Party in Finsbury Central  at the 1892 general election, he was the first British Indian MP. He refused to take the oath on the Bible as he was not a Christian, but was allowed to take the oath of office in the name of God on his copy of Khordeh Avesta. In Parliament, he spoke on Irish Home Rule and the condition  of  the  Indian people. In his political campaign and duties as an MP, he was assisted by Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the future Muslim nationalist and founder of Pakistan.

Correct Answer – C. Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

Explanation:- These were the utterances of Bankim Chandra Chatterjee.

Correct Answer – B. I and IV are correct

Explanation:-Gandhi’s main tactic in his fight against the British was what he called Satyagraha, which means ‘Soul- Force’ or ‘The power of truth’. Gandhi developed Satyagraha as the practical extension of ahimsa and love; it meant standing firmly behind one’s ideals, but without hatred. Satyagraha took the form of civil disobedience and non-co- operation with evil. Civil disobedience involved breaking a specific law if it was believed to be unjust, and then facing the consequences. The other element of Satyagraha, non-cooperation with evil, consisted of pulling out all support for an unjust system, such as the British rule of India.

Correct Answer – B. Ghadar Movement

Explanation:-Lala Hardayal was a Indian nationalist revolutionary who founded the Ghadar Party in America. He was a polymath who turned down a career in the Indian Civil Service. His simple living and intellectual acumen inspired many expatriate Indians living in Canada and the USA to fight against British Imperialism during the First World War.

Correct Answer –C. Portuguese

Explanation:-Vasco da Gama was a Portuguese explorer, one of the most successful in the Age of Discovery and the commander of the first ships to sail directly from Europe to India. After decades of sailors trying to reach India with thou- sands of lives and dozens of vessels lost in shipwrecks and attacks, Gams landed in Calicut on the 20 May, 1498. This discovery was very impactful and paved the way for the Portuguese to establish a long lasting colonial empire in Asia.

Correct Answer –C. Bharat Vidhata

Explanation:-Jana Gana Mana was first published under the title ‘Bharat Vidhata’ in the Tatvabodhini Patrika, the official organ of Maharishi Devendranath Tagore’s Brahmo Samaj in January 1912. The song was subtitled Brahmo-Sangeet. However, the Eng- lish translation of the original in Bengali was published earlier, on Decem- ber 28, 1911, in the Bengalee. Much later, it was included in Tagore’s Dharma Sangeet, a collection of religious hymns.

Correct Answer –D. Mandalay

Explanation:-On 30 April 1908, two Bengali youths. Prafulla Chaki and Khudiram Bose, threw a bomb on a carriage at Muzaffarpur, in order to  kill the Chief Presidency Magistrate Douglas Kingsford of Calcutta fame, but erroneously killed some women travelling in it. Tilak, in his paper Kesari, defended the revolutionaries and called for immediate Swaraj or self- rule. The Government swiftly arrested him for sedition and was sent to Mandalay, Burma from 1908 to 1914. While in the prison he wrote the most-famous Gita Rahasya.

Correct Answer –B. Politics and religion must go hand in hand

Explanation:-Religion was central to Gandhi’s life, thoughts and work, and he regarded politics as applied religion. However, he was a lifelong opponent of ‘communalism’ (i.e., basing politics on religion). For him, the two things—the social reordering and the fight for political swaraj—must go hand in hand.

Correct Answer –B. Dadabhai Nauroji

Explanation:-The acknowledged high priest of the drain theory was Dadabhai Naoroji. It was in 1867 that Dadabhai Naoroji put forward the idea that Britain was draining India.