The First War of Independence, 1857

Question 1

The first hundred years of British rule in India

Answer 1

1757 to 1857

Question 2

Ever since which battle did the East India Company’s territorial power increase?

Answer 2

Battle of Plassey (June 1757)

Question 3

After which battle did the British get Bengal, Bihar and Odisha?

Answer 3

Battle of Buxar (1764)

Question 4

How did the EIC get most parts of Mysore

Answer 4

Anglo-Mysore wars (1767 to 1799)

Question 5

How did the British conquer the dominions of the Peshwas and the Marathas north and south of the narmada river

Answer 5

Third Anglo-Maratha war (1817 to 1818)

Question 6

How was Punjab annexed?

Answer 6

Second Anglo Sikh War (1849)

Question 7

Rulers who accepted the Subsidiary Alliance?

Answer 7

Nawab of Awadh, Nizam of Hydrabad, Ruler of Mysore, Raja of Tanjore

Question 8

Kingdoms brought under British control by doctrine of lapse?

Answer 8

Satara, Nagpur, Jaitpur, Udaipur, Sambalpur

Question 9

Which was the place which was annexed on the pretext of alleged misrule?

Answer 9

Awadh

Question 10

Who began plotting against the British?

Answer 10

Zeenat Mahal, the wife of Bahadur Shah

Question 11

Who was Nana Saheb?

Answer 11

Nana Saheb was the son of Bajirao II, the last Peshwa

Question 12

Any 3 reforms that interfered with the religious customs of the Indians

Answer 12

The Abolition of Sati (1829), Introduction of widow remarriage act (1865), and opening of Western education to girls

Question 13

Which was the crop which was very profitable to the British?

Answer 13

Indigo

Question 14

What was done with farmers who cultivated anything other than Indigo?

Answer 14

Their crops were destroyed and their cattle was taken as punishment

Question 15

Who were the landed Aristocracy?

Answer 15

Taluqdars and the hereditary landlords

Question 16

It was under which Act did the landed aristocracy lose their lands if they failed to produce evidence by which they held their land

Answer 16

Inam Commission (1852)

Question 17

Which rank couldn’t the Indian soldiers rise above in the British Army?

Answer 17

Subedar

Question 18

Which act withdrew the privilege of free postage enjoyed by the Sepoys

Answer 18

Post Office Act of 1854

Question 19

In which wars did the British lose?

Answer 19

First Afghan War (1838-42), Punjab Wars(1845-49) and Crimean War (1853-1856)

Question 20

Which was the act by virtue of which, the Indian soldiers could be sent overseas for duty?

Answer 20

General Service Enlistment Act (1856)