QUIZ – 2020: INSIGHTS STATIC , 13 August 2021 – History – INSIGHTSIAS

Solution: d)

Treaty of Salbai was signed between the Marathas and the British East India Company. As per this treaty:

• British acknowledged Madhavrao II Narayan as Peshwa of the Maratha Empire
• British Recognized the Territorial claims of Mahadji Shinde in west of Yamuna River.
• Raghunath Rao was freed and a pension was fixed for them.
• British East India Company got the control of the Salsette.
• British promised to support Marathas in case they attack Hyder Ali of Mysore and retake the territories of Carnatic.
• In summary, the Treaty of Salbai which was the outcome of the First Anglo Maratha war maintained the status quo.
• Gujarat was restored to the Marathas; and only Salsette, with Elephanta and two other small islands in Bombay harbor was retained by the English.

Solution: a)

Radicals

• They went beyond the narrow criticism and imperialistic outlook of the Conservatives and the Imperialists and applied advanced humanistic and rational thought to the Indian situation. They thought that India had the capacity to improve and that they must help the country do that.
• They wanted to make India a part of the modern progressive world of science and humanism and therefore advocated the introduction of modern western science, philosophy and literature. Some of the British officials who came to India after 1820 were Radicals. They were strongly supported by Raja Rammohan Roy and other like-minded reformers.

Solution: b)

The most famous Mauryan ruler was Ashoka. He was the first ruler who tried to take his message to the people through inscriptions. Most of Ashoka’s inscriptions were in Prakrit and were written in the Brahmi script. 

Between 2200 and 1900 years ago, Arikamedu was a coastal settlement where ships unloaded goods from distant lands. A massive brick structure, which may have been a warehouse, was found at the site.

Solution: d)

Although A.O.Hume played a prominent role in establishing Indian National Congress, he never served as its president.

George Yule became the Congress President in the 1888 Allahabad Congress session.

In 1904, Henry Cotton became the Congress President in its 20th session in Bombay.

Solution: c)

Like Lord William Bentinck, Lord Ripon was a champion of education of the Indians. Ripon wanted to review the working of the educational system on the basis of the recommendations of the Wood’s Despatch.

• For further improvement of the system Ripon appointed a Commission in 1882 under the chairmanship of Sir William Hunter. The Commission came to be known as the Hunter Commission.
• The Commission recommended for the expansion and improvement of the elementary education of the masses.
• The Commission suggested two channels for the secondary education-one was literary education leading up to the Entrance Examination of the university and the other preparing the students for a vocational career.
• The Commission noted the poor status of women education. It encouraged the local bodies in the villages and towns to manage the elementary education.
• This had resulted in the extraordinary rise in the number of educational institutions in India.