initial modern india Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions

Answer: (a)

Sanyasi Rebellion was made famous by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee in his novel Anand Math. The restrictions imposed on visits to holy places estranged the Sanyasis. The Sanyasis retaliated by organizing raids on the company’s factories and state treasuries.

Answer: (c)

The Whitley Commission was concerned with Labour. An Irish scholar and lawyer Whitley Stokes (1830 – 1909), worked in India for about 20 years. After a period during which he drafted procedural codes for both civil and criminal law, he was appointed president of a commission charged with drawing up a comprehensive code of law for India.

Answer: (c)

Pandit Jugal Kishore Shukla was the editor of the first all Hindu newspaper “ Udanta-Martanda” published from Kanpur in the year 1826. The newspaper was started on May 20, 1826; with it for the first time a newspaper was published completely in Hindi, using Devanagari script.

Udant Martand employed a mix of Khari Boli and Braj Bhasha dialects of Hindi. The first issue printed 500 copies, and the newspaper was published every Tuesday.

Answer: (c)

The Hindu Widows’ Remarriage Act of 1856, enacted in response to the campaign of Pandit Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, provided legal safeguards against loss of certain forms of inheritance for a remarrying Hindu widow.

Answer: (b)