DAY – 43 (InstaTest-43): Insta 75 Days Revision Plan-2022: Topic – MODERN INDIA, Subject-wise Tests 7,21 April 2022 CA – INSIGHTSIAS

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Solution: A

Sanyasi Revolt (1763-1800)

The disastrous famine of 1770 and the harsh economic order of the British compelled a group of sanyasis in Eastern India to fight the British yoke. Originally peasants, even some evicted from land, these sanyasis were joined by a large number of dispossessed small zamindars, disbanded soldiers and rural poor. They raided Company factories and the treasuries, and fought the Company’s forces. It was only after a prolonged action that Warren Hastings could subdue the sanyasis. Equal participation of Hindus and Muslims characterised the uprisings, sometimes referred to as the Fakir Rebellion. Majnum Shah (or Majnu Shah), Chirag Ali, Musa Shah, Bhawani Pathak and Debi Chaudhurani were important leaders.

 

Debi Chaudhurani’s participation recognizes the women’s role in early resistances against the British. Anandamath, a semi-historical novel by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, is based on the Sanyasi Revolt. Bankim Chandra also wrote a novel, Devi Chaudhurani, as he saw the importance of women too taking up the struggle against an alien rule that posed a threat to traditional Indian values.

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Solution: D

Tipu was a patron of science and technology. He is credited as the ‘pioneer of rocket technology’ in India. He wrote a military manual explaining the operation of rockets. He was also a pioneer in introducing sericulture to the Mysore State.

Tipu was a great lover of democracy and a great diplomat. He gave his support to the French soldiers at Seringapatam in setting up a Jacobin Club in 1797. He ordered a salute of 2,300 cannons and 500 rockets to celebrate the occasion. Tipu himself became a member of the Jacobin Club and allowed himself to be called Citizen Tipu. He planted the Tree of Liberty at Seringapatam.

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Solution: A

• The decisive battle of the Third Carnatic War was won by the English on January 22, 1760 at Wandiwash (or Vandavasi) in Tamil Nadu.

 

• General Eyre Coote of the English totally routed the French army under Count Thomas Arthur de Lally and took Bussy as

 

• Pondicherry was gallantly defended by Lally for eight months before he surrendered on January 16, 1761.

 

• With the loss of Jinji and Mahe, the French power in India was reduced to its lowest. Lally, after being taken as prisoner of war at London, returned to France where he was imprisoned and executed in 1766

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Solution: C

Nair Movement was led by C.V. Raman Pillai, K. Rama Krishna Pillai, and M. Padmanabha Pillai (1891; Kerala).

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Solution: A

Lord Lytton 1876-1880

(i) Famine of 1876-78 affecting Madras, Bombay, Mysore, Hyderabad, parts of central India and Punjab; appointment of Famine Commission under the presidency of Richard Strachey (1878).

(ii) Royal Titles Act (1876), Queen Victoria assuming the title of ‘Kaiser-i-Hind’ or Queen Empress of India.

(iii) The Vernacular Press Act (1878).

(iv) The Arms Act (1878).

(v) The Second Afghan War (1878-80).

 

Lord Ripon 1880-1884

(i) Repeal of the Vernacular Press Act (1882).

(ii) The first Factory Act (1881) to improve labour conditions.

(iii) Continuation of financial decentralisation.

(iv) Government resolution on local self-government (1882).

(v) Appointment of Education Commission under chairmanship of Sir William Hunter (1882).

(vi) The Ilbert Bill controversy (1883-84).

(vii) Rendition of Mysore.

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Solution: B

Indian nationalists and revolutionaries living abroad published newspapers and journals—

 

Indian Sociologist (London, Shyamji Krishnavarma),

 

Bande Matram (Paris, Madam Cama),

 

Talwar (Berlin, Virendranath Chattopadhyay), and

 

Ghadar (San Francisco, Lala Hardayal)— to infuse a feeling of nationalism among Indians living abroad.

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Solution: B

Social Service League

A follower of Gokhale, Narayan Malhar Joshi founded the Social Service League in Bombay with an aim to secure for the masses better and reasonable conditions of life and work.. They organized many schools, libraries, reading rooms, day nurseries and cooperative societies. Their activities also included police court agents’ work, legal aid and advice to the poor and illiterate, excursions for slum dwellers, facilities for gymnasia and theatrical performances, sanitary work, medical relief and boys’ clubs and scout corps. Joshi also founded the All India Trade Union Congress (1920).

 

Gopal Krishna Gokhale (1866-1915), a liberal leader of the Indian National Congress, founded the Servants of India Society in 1905 with the help of M.G. Ranade.

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Solution: D

The revolutionary activity in this region was dominated by the Hindustan Republican Association/Army or HRA (later renamed Hindustan Socialist Republican Association or HSRA). The HRA was founded in October 1924 in Kanpur by Ramprasad Bismil, Jogesh Chandra Chatterjee and Sachin

Sanyal, with an aim to organize an armed revolution to overthrow the colonial government and establish in its place the Federal Republic of United States of India whose basic principle would be adult franchise.

Determined to overcome the Kakori setback, the younger revolutionaries, inspired by socialist ideas, set out to reorganize Hindustan Republic Association at a historic meeting in the ruins of Ferozshah Kotla in Delhi (September 1928). Under the leadership of Chandra Shekhar Azad, the name of HRA was changed to Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (HSRA). The participants included Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, Bhagwaticharan Vohra from Punjab and Bejoy Kumar Sinha, Shiv Verma and Jaidev Kapur from the United Provinces. The HSRA decided to work under a collective leadership and adopted socialism as its official goal.

 

The famous statement of the revolutionary position is contained in the book The Philosophy of the Bomb written by Bhagwaticharan Vohra.

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Solution: C

Lahore Congress and Purna Swaraj

Jawaharlal Nehru, who had done more than anyone else to popularise the concept of purna swaraj, was nominated the president for the Lahore session of the Congress (December 1929) mainly due to Gandhi’s backing (15 out of 18 Provincial Congress Committees had opposed Nehru).

 

The following major decisions were taken at the Lahore session.

• The Round Table Conference was to be boycotted.
• Complete independence was declared as the aim of the Congress.
• Congress Working Committee was authorised to launch a programme of civil disobedience including non-payment of taxes and all members of legislatures were asked to resign their seats.
• January 26, 1930 was fixed as the first Independence (Swarajya) Day, to be celebrated everywhere.

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Solution: C

Bengal National College, inspired by Tagore’s Shantiniketan, was set up with Aurobindo Ghosh as its principal. Soon national schools and colleges sprang up in various parts of the country. On August 15, 1906, the National Council of Education was set up to organise a system of education— literary, scientific and technical—on national lines and under national control. Education was to be imparted through the vernacular medium. A Bengal Institute of Technology was set up for technical education and funds were raised to send students to Japan for advanced learning.

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Solution: C

The Indian National Congress, meeting in 1905 under the presidentship of Gokhale, resolved to (i) condemn the partition of Bengal and the reactionary policies of Curzon, and (ii) support the anti-partition and Swadeshi Movement of Bengal.

The militant nationalists led by Tilak, Lajpat Rai, Bipin Chandra Pal and Aurobindo Ghosh wanted the movement to be taken outside Bengal to other parts of the country and go beyond a boycott of foreign goods to become a fullfledged political mass struggle with the goal of attaining swaraj. But the Moderates, dominating the Congress at that time, were not willing to go that far.

However, a big step forward was taken at the Congress session held at Calcutta (1906) under the presidentship of Dadabhai Naoroji, where it was declared that the goal of the Indian National Congress was “self-government or swaraj like the United Kingdom or the colonies” of Australia or Canada.

The word swaraj was mentioned for the first time, but its connotation was not spelt out, which left the field open for differing interpretations by the Moderates and the Extremists.

 

The Moderate-Extremist dispute over the pace of the movement and techniques of struggle reached a deadlock at the Surat session of the Indian National Congress (1907) where the party split with serious consequences for the Swadeshi Movement.

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Solution: C

Balshastri Jambhekar (1812-1846) was a pioneer of social reform through journalism in Bombay; he attacked Brahminical orthodoxy and tried to reform popular Hinduism. He started the newspaper Darpan in 1832. Known as the father of Marathi journalism, Jambhekar used the Darpan to awaken the people to awareness of social reforms, such as widow remarriage, and to instil in the masses a scientific approach to life. In 1840, he started Digdarshan which published articles on scientific subjects as well as history. Jambhekar founded the Bombay Native General Library and started the Native Improvement Society of which an offshoot was the Students Literary and Scientific Library. He was the first professor of Hindi at the Elphinston College, besides being a director of the Colaba Observatory.

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Solution: D

Tilak set up his Indian Home Rule League in April 1916. Tilak held his first Home Rule meeting at Belgaum. Poona was the headquarters of his league. His league was restricted to Maharashtra (excluding Bombay city), Karnataka, Central Provinces and Berar. It had six branches and the demands included swarajya, formation of linguistic states and education in the vernacular.

Besant’s League

Annie Besant set up her All-India Home Rule League in September 1916 in Madras (now Chennai) and covered the rest of India (including Bombay city). It had 200 branches, was loosely organised as compared to Tilak’s league and had George Arundale as the organising secretary. Besides Arundale, the main work was done by B.W. Wadia and C.P. Ramaswamy Aiyar.

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Solution: A

Gandhi was requested by Rajkumar Shukla, a local man, to look into the problems of the farmers in context of indigo planters of Champaran in Bihar. The European planters had been forcing the peasants to grow indigo on 3/20 part of the total land (called tinkathia system). When towards the end of the nineteenth century German synthetic dyes replaced indigo, the European planters demanded high rents and illegal dues from the peasants in order to maximise their profits before the peasants could shift to other crops. Besides, the peasants were forced to sell the produce at prices fixed by the Europeans.

When Gandhi, joined now by Rajendra Prasad, Mazharul-Haq, Mahadeo Desai, Narhari Parekh, and J.B. Kripalani, reached Champaran to probe into the matter, the authorities ordered him to leave the area at once. Gandhi defied the order and preferred to face the punishment. This passive resistance or civil disobedience of an unjust order was a novel method at that time. Finally, the authorities retreated and permitted Gandhi to make an enquiry. Now, the government appointed a committee to go into the matter and nominated Gandhi as a member. Gandhi was able to convince the authorities that the tinkathia system should be abolished and that the peasants should be compensated for the illegal dues extracted from them. As a compromise with the planters, he agreed that only 25 per cent of the money taken should be compensated.

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Solution: B

 

 

 

1836—Bangabhasha Prakasika Sabha

1843—Bengal British India Society

1851—British Indian Association

1866—East India Association

1870—Poona Sarvajanik Sabha

1875—Indian League

1876—Indian Association of Calcutta or Indian National Association

1885—Bombay Presidency Association

1884—Madras Mahajan Sabha

Political Associations Before the Indian National Congress

The Bangabhasha Prakasika Sabha was formed in 1836 by associates of Raja Rammohan Roy.

 

The Bengal British India Society was founded in 1843 with the object of “the collection and dissemination of information relating to the actual condition of the people of British India.

 

The East India Association was organised by Dadabhai Naoroji in 1866 in London to discuss the Indian question and influence public men in England to promote Indian welfare. Later, branches of the association were started in prominent Indian cities.

 

The Poona Sarvajanik Sabha was founded in 1867 by Mahadeo Govind Ranade and others, with the object of serving as a bridge between the government and the people.

The Bombay Presidency Association was started by Badruddin Tyabji, Pherozshah Mehta and K.T. Telang in 1885.

 

The Madras Mahajan Sabha was founded in 1884 by M. Viraraghavachari, B. Subramaniya Aiyer and P. Anandacharlu.

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Solution: A

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• Khijadiya Bird Sanctuary is a bird sanctuary located in Jamnagar district of Gujarat, India. About 300 species of migratory birds have been recorded here.
• It was recently included in Ramsar sites.
• The Khijadiya Bird Sanctuary near Jamnagar in Gujarat and Bakhira Wildlife Sanctuary in Uttar Pradesh have been listed as Wetlands of International Importance. With this, the total number of Ramsar sites in India goes up to 48.

Khijadiya, which is part of the Central Asian Flyway, has become the fourth wetland of Gujarat to get the Ramsar tag. Nalsarovar Bird Sanctuary, Thol Wildlife Sanctuary and Wadhwana wetland are the other Ramsar sites in the state. The last two were included in April last year

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Solution: B

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• Even as one Quad finds its feet in the Indo-Pacific, a new quad is arriving in town. Late last month, foreign ministers from India, Israel, the United Arab Emirates and the United States came together to form what they called an “international forum for economic cooperation.

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Solution :A

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• Article 324 to 329 in part XV of the constitution deals with elections.

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Solution: C

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• SC drew a distinction between Articles 142 and 129 and stated that power to punish for contempt is a constitutional power which cannot be abridged or taken away even by legislative enactment.
• Civil contempt involves disobeying the court.
• Criminal contempt involves scandalising the court and interfering with judicial proceedings.

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Solution: D

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• The Parliament can create new All-India Services (including an All-India Judicial Service), if the Rajya Sabha passes a resolution declaring that it is necessary or expedient in the national interest to do so.
• The 42nd Constitutional amendment in 1976 amended Article 312 (1) empowering Parliament to make laws for the creation of one or more All-India Services, including an AIJS, common to the Union and the States.(*)

 

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Solution: B

Solution: It is a  Protozoan parasite of Leishmania genus.The parasite migrates to the internal organs such as liver, spleen (hence visceral), and bone marrow, and, if left untreated, will almost always result in the death of the host. Only infects humans (no other animal known to harbor the infection in Asia) and humans are considered the only reservoir of the parasite.  

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Solution : C

Solution : Cord blood (short for umbilical cord blood) is the blood that remains in the umbilical cord and placenta post-delivery.  It contains special cells called hematopoietic stem cells that can be used to treat some types of diseases. They can treat cancer, blood diseases like anemia, and some immune system disorders, which disrupt your body‘s ability to defend itself.

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Solution : A

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Solution : B

 

Solution : NEST is  division Ministry of External Affairs has set up New and Emerging Strategic Technologies (NEST) Division is to engage in technology diplomacy and deal with the foreign policy and international legal aspects of new and emerging technologies. It will help in collaboration with foreign partners in the field of 5G and artificial intelligence. programme of  Ministry of External Affairs.

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Solution: B

Solution : Public key cryptography consists of a public key (which may be known to others) and also a  private key (which may not be known by anyone except the owner).The generation of such key pairs depends on cryptographic algorithms which are based on mathematical problems termed one-way functions

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Answer : A

Given series 9, 90, 154, 203, 239, 264, ?

Multiply second last number by 2 i.e. 2 × 239=478 > 264

So, take common difference between them

90 – 9 = 81

154 – 90 = 64

203 – 154 = 49

239 – 203 = 36

264 – 239 = 25

By observing the above pattern, they are square numbers i.e 92,82,72,62,52,42 respectively So, 42 + 264 = 280

Therefore, series is 9, 90, 154, 203, 239, 264, 280

 

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Answer : B

 

Code Sentence

Il be pee roses are blue

Sik hee red flowers

Pee mithee flowers are vegetables

In II and III code ‘hee’ stands for ‘flowers’. So ‘sik’ stands for ‘red’

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Answer : A

 

Explanation:

Clearly, A’s new position is 15th from the left. But this is the same as B’s earlier position which is 9th from the right.

 

 

4.In each of the questions given below, there are two statements marked as Assertion (A) and Reason (R). Mark your answer as per the codes provided below:

Assertion (A): Himalayas used to lay under the sea.

Reason (R): Fossils of various marine creatures are traced on the Himalayas.

1. Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
2. Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A. C. A is true but R is false.
3. A is false but R is true.

Answer : A

Himalayas are the young fold mountains that at one time are believed to lie inside the Tethys Sea. This is evident from the recovery of fossils of marine creatures on its peaks.

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Answer : A

Himalayas are the young fold mountains that at one time are believed to lie inside the Tethys Sea. This is evident from the recovery of fossils of marine creatures on its peaks.

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Answer : D

 

This is a tricky question. Only statement 1 will seem to be direct implication. But there is no such option. So extrapolated thinking is needed to choose any option. All options have 2 so its correct. Logically acquifiers will vanish as it is said desertifaction is spreading. If we go for extrapolation it is logical to consider that sandstorms may occur since desertification increases its frequency.

So D is answer.