UPSC History of India: Past Question and Answer Set – 01 1

Consider the following statements in regard to Rowlatt Act: 
1. Rowlatt Act was passed in 1919
2. It was an act which gave the British government massive power to repress political Activities.
3. The act allowed that government to arrest anybody without a trial for two years.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements in regard to Khilafat Movement’:
1. ‘Khilafat Movement’, an organization that wanted to protect the position of the Ottoman sultan as spiritual leader of all Muslims
2. The Khilafat committee was formed in Bombay in March 1919 to defend the power of Khalifa.
3. Brother Muhammad Ali and And Shaukat Ali were two active Khilafat leaders.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

For the Karachi session of Indian National Congress in 1931, presided over by Sardar Patel, who drafted the Resolution on Fundamental Rights and Economic Programme? [UPSC 2010 (CS-P)] 

Who among the following were official Congress negotiators with Cripps Mission? [UPSC 2010 (CS-P)]

After Quit India Movement, C. Rajagopalachari issued a pamphlet entitled “The Way Out”.
Which one of the following was a proposal in this pamphlet? [UPSC 2010 (CS-P)]

By a regulation in 1793, the District Collector was deprived of his judicial powers and made the collecting agent only. What was the reason for such regulation? [UPSC 2010 (CS-P)]

Consider the following statements:
1. Dr. Rajendra Prasad persuaded Mahatma Gandhi to come in Champaran to investigate the problem of peasants.
2. Acharya J. B. Kriplani was one of the Mahatma Gandhi’s colleagues in his Champaran investigation.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct? [UPSC 2010 (CS-P)]

Four resolutions were passed at the famous Calcutta session of Indian National Congress in 1906. The question of either retention OR of rejection of these four resolutions became the cause of a split in Congress at the next Congress session held in Surat in 1907. Which one of the following was not one of those resolutions? [UPSC 2010 (CS-P)]

In the ‘individual Satyagraha’, Vinoba Bhave was chosen as the first Satyagrahi. Who was the second? [UPSC 2009(CS-P)]

Match the Sufi Saints with the Silsilas with which they were associated. Answer the questions on the basis of codes provided below [UPSC 2008]
List -I
p. Shaikh Nizamuddin Auliya
q. Bahauddin Zakariya
r. Mian Mir
s. Ahmad Sirhindi
List-II
(i) Qadiri
(ii) Suhrawardi
(iii) Chistiya
(iv) Naqshbandi
Codes: