Modern Sources and British Expansion Questions and Answers

Answer: A

The correct statements are 3 and 4, so the answer is 3 and 4.

Tipu Sultan planted a Tree of Liberty at Srirangapatna and became a member of the Jacobin Club set up there by French soldiers, signs of his interest in the French Revolution and his alliance with France against the British.

The two statements about Haidar Ali carry wrong years. He set up a modern arsenal at Dindigul with French help in 1755, not 1757, and he died in December 1782, during the Second Anglo-Mysore War, not in 1783. Every other option includes statement 1 or 2.

Answer: B

The correct matching is A-4, B-3, C-1, D-2.

Queen Victoria took the title Kaiser-i-Hind (Empress of India) under the Royal Titles Act of 1876 (D-2), and Lord Lytton held the Delhi Darbar on 1 January 1877 to proclaim it (A-4). The Second Anglo-Afghan War began in November 1878 (B-3).

The Kuka (Namdhari) movement is matched with 1872 (C-1), the year of the Kuka uprising at Malerkotla, after which Baba Ram Singh was exiled to Rangoon. The Namdhari sect itself is older, but 1872 is the date the key uses, and it is the only year in the list that fits. Every other option misplaces the Darbar or the war.

Answer: D

The answer is 2 and 4.

Statement 4 is correct: under the treaty that ended the Gorkha siege of Kangra fort, Maharaja Ranjit Singh's forces took possession of the fort on 24 August 1809.

Two statements are clearly wrong. Raja Sansar Chand of Kangra died in 1823, not 1825. And Zorawar Singh was a Dogra general of Gulab Singh of Jammu, not a Sikh one, who died on his Tibetan campaign in 1841, so he cannot have annexed anything in 1844.

Every other option contains statement 1 or 3, which leaves 2 and 4. The key accepts statement 2, Sansar Chand's invasion of Bilaspur (Kahlur) in the 1790s.

Answer: C

Statement I is correct and Statement II is incorrect, so the answer is Statement I is correct and Statement II is incorrect.

Statement I: at Lucknow the sepoys of the Native Infantry regiments and the cavalry rose on 30 May 1857, a few weeks after the outbreak at Meerut on 10 May, and the British were soon confined to the Residency. Statement II: at Kanpur the troops revolted on 4 to 5 June 1857, and Nana Sahib's forces then besieged General Wheeler's entrenchment from early June to 25 June. The surrender ended in the massacre at Satichaura Ghat on 27 June. So 28 June is not the day the revolt started in Kanpur, and the printed date is wrong.

Option A would need the Kanpur date to be right, option B needs the Lucknow date to be wrong, and option D reverses the verdicts. Dates of the 1857 stations are a standard test: Meerut 10 May, Delhi 11 May, Lucknow 30 May, Kanpur 4 to 5 June.

Answer: A

The chronological order is (1), (2), (4), (3).

1. Lord Auckland: Governor-General 1836-1842.
2. Lord Ellenborough: Governor-General 1842-1844.
3. Lord Elgin I: Viceroy 1862-1863.
4. Lord Lansdowne: Viceroy 1888-1894.

Option (1), (2), (3), (4) puts Lansdowne before Elgin I, and the options starting with Elgin I place a Viceroy of the 1860s before Governors-General of the 1830s and 1840s.

Answer: C

In chronological order the visitors are (3), (4), (1), (2): J.B. Fraser, Alexander Gerard, Captain Mundy (printed Munde) and Baron Hugel.

1. J.B. Fraser entered the hills from Nahan in 1815 and travelled through Sirmaur, Jubbal, Bushahr and Kumarsain.
2. Alexander Gerard surveyed the Sutlej valley and the Kinnaur side in 1817-18.
3. Captain Mundy toured the Shimla hills in 1829.
4. Baron Charles Hugel reached Shimla in 1835 and went on toward Kashmir.

Option A begins with Hugel, the latest, and option B begins with Gerard, so both miss that Fraser came first. Option D puts Hugel before Gerard, which breaks the order of years.

Answer: B

Only statements (3) and (4) are correct, so the answer is (3) and (4) only.

Statement (1) fails because the style His Exalted Highness was granted in 1918 to Mir Osman Ali Khan, the seventh Nizam, not to his father Mir Mahboob Ali Khan, the sixth. Statement (2) fails on the date: the Indian Independence Act received the royal assent on 18 July 1947, not 28 July. Statement (3) is the well-known anecdote of the Raja of Dholpur lamenting to Mountbatten the end of a bond that had lasted since 1765, and statement (4) is the quip by Pattabhi Sitaramayya on the Cripps proposal, as the question reports it.

Options A, C and D each include statement (1) or (2), which are wrong, so they are eliminated. The anecdote in (3) and the quotation in (4) rest on the question's account and the Commission's key.

Answer: A

The correct statements are (1) and (3) only.

Statement 3 is correct: the South Indian Liberal Federation, founded in 1916 by T.M. Nair and P. Theagaraya Chetty, became known as the Justice Party after its newspaper, Justice. Statement 1 is the assessment of Lord Lytton (Viceroy 1876-80) that the paper quotes from P.E. Roberts, and it is accepted as given.

Statement 2 is wrong because D.K. Karve founded the Indian Women's University (now SNDT Women's University) in 1916 in Pune. Statement 4 is wrong because the United Indian Patriotic Association was founded by Sir Syed Ahmad Khan in 1888, not by Bipin Chandra Pal. Removing 2 and 4 leaves only option (1) and (3).

Answer: B

The key's answer, as revised by the Commission, is Singhbhum.

Histories of Jharkhand date the first British entry into the region to 1767, when a Company force under Captain Ferguson marched into Dhalbhum in the Singhbhum area to subdue the local chiefs. The Commission changed its model answer from Palamu to Singhbhum after objections on this point.

Palamu came under British control later, after the campaigns of 1771. Pakur and Chatra are not linked with the first British entry.

Answer: C

The last Mughal emperor in 1857 was Bahadur Shah Zafar.

The rebels who reached Delhi in May 1857 proclaimed Bahadur Shah II (Zafar) Emperor of Hindustan. After the British recaptured Delhi he was tried and exiled to Rangoon, where he died in 1862, and the Mughal dynasty came to an end.

Aurangzeb died in 1707, Shah Alam II in 1806 and Akbar II in 1837, so none of them was emperor in 1857.