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EARLY REVOLTS AGAINST THE BRITISH RULE IN INDIA
1. The Battle of Plassey took place on June 23, 1757.
2. Siraj-ud-Daula was the Nawab of Bengal in 1757.
3. The Barassi movement was started in 1818 by Haji Hariyatullah.
4. Tutumiyan said that the land belonged to God.
5. The place where the Wahhabi rebellion originated was the Barasat region of Bengal (1827).
6. The Wahhabi rebellion was led by Titu Mir.
7. The site of the first major offensive of the Wahhabi Rebellion was Purnia Nagar, (6 November 1831)
8. The year of the Kohl Rebellion was (1831-1832)
9. Bind Rai and Singhrai were the leaders of the kohl rebellion.
10. Chhota Nagpur and Singhbhum were the places where the kohl rebellion took place.
11. The Santhals are those who have been driven out of their own land as per the scheme of creating
zamindars under permanent residence.
12. Bir Singh led the Santhals rebellion.
13. Bahadur Shah II was known as Shahinshah-Shah-Hindustan.
14. Birsa Munda led the Munda uprising
15. It was Sidhu and Kanu (1855) who declared that they had received the message of God from God to
lead the rebellion of the Santhals brothers.
16. Major General Hakweiler was the British commander who was killed by Nana Sahib.
17. The year of the IndiGo rebellion was 1859.
18. On May 11, 1857, the revolutionaries marched towards Delhi.
19. In the revolt of 1857, educated Indians did not support the revolution.
20. In Nadia district of Bengal, farmers revolted that they would no longer cultivate indigo.
21. Nil Darpan (The Indigo Mirror) is a Bengali play written by Dinabandhu Mitra (1858–1859).
22. The Deccani riots first erupted in May 1875 in the village of Subha near Pune.
23. During colonial period, British capital was mainly invested in Agriculture
24. The British India Society was formed in 1839
25. Four leaders fought against British in 1857 Revolt is Kunwar Singh- Bihar, Tanitia Tope- Gwalior,
Nana Saheb- Kanpur, Maulavi Ahmaduallah- Faizabad.
26. It was Birsa Munda who proclaimed himself to be the messenger of God.
27. The Chhota Nagpur Tenancy Act was enacted in 1908
28. The policy of Doctrine of lapse was introduced by Lord Dalhousie
29. The term of office fixed by Regulating Act,1773 for Governor General was fixed for 5 years.
30. During the first hundred years of the British rule in India, people’s resentment and opposition to the
British policies mainly surfaced in the form of tribal uprisings, peasant uprisings.
31. After the year 1853, a substantial amount of British capital had been invested in the railways.
32. On June 18th 1858, Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi, one of the most important figures of India’s First War
of Independence, died while fighting against the British in battle of Gwalior
33. The British Indian Association was founded on October 29, 1851 at Calcutta
34. Benziman Disraeli admitted the revolt of 1857 as a National Revolt.
35. V.D. SavarKar describe the 1857 revolt as the Indian’s first struggle for Independence.
36. The State Jhansi was made a part of the British Empire in India through the Doctrine of Lapse
37. William Digby, editor of the Madras Times Newspaper
38. During the Orissa famine, the British government exported 200 million pounds of rice to Britain.
39. Lord Macaulay (1834-1838) was the first member of the Governor-General's Advisory Board.
40. The year 1876-1878 was the year of the Great Famine in the Madras Presidency.

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41. Lord Lytton was the then Viceroy at the time of the famine in the Madras Presidency.
42. Indentured labourers moved to Ceylon (Sri Lanka, 5-year contract) for wage work
43. Slavery in India was abolished in 1843.
44. After the fall of Vijayanagara, the Wodeyar dynasty became the independent ruler of the region.
45. The year in which the General Council for General Education was formed was 1823
46. T.B. Macaulay designed the English education system to be introduced in India.
47. The year 1857 was the year in which universities were established at Bombay, Madras and Calcutta.
48. The Great Revolt of 1857 came to an end after Gwalior fell into the hands of the British.
49. Mangal Pandey fired the first shot of the Revolt of 1857 at Barrackpore
50. The administrative consequences of the Revolt of 1857 was the transfer of power from East India
Company to the British Crown
51. Mopla Revolt of 1921 took place in Kerala.
52. Kuka Movement was organized by Guru Ram Singh.
53. Centre Declares Birsa Munda's Birth Anniversary On Nov 15 As 'Janjatiya GauravDivas'.
54. Didumir was deeply inspired by the teachings of Wahhabi.
55. The Bapna Rebellion (1873-76) was started by Keshabchandra Roy at Yusufsakhi Pargana in Bapna,
Bengal.
56. The newspaper Hindu and Deshbhaktan repeatedly brought to light the plight of the indigo growers.
57. In 1900, the "Punjab Transfer of Land Rights Act" was passed and implemented on an experimental
basis to protect the peasants of Punjab.
58. On February 12, 1928, the peasants launched a tax-free movement, refusing to pay the raised land
tax.
59. In 1855, a law was passed to create a separate zone called the Santhal Pargana Mandal to regulate
the areas held by the Santhals.
60. Colonel Mallisan, in the small journal "The Making of the Bengal Army" the Formation of the Bengal
Army, notes that "a soldier's revolt quickly changed its character and became a national uprising."
61. The places connected under the doctrine of lapse were Satara in 1848, Jaipur and Sambalpur in
1849, Bhagat in 1850, Udaipur in 1852, Jhansi in 1853 and Nagpur in 1854.
62. The Inam Commission (1852) was a commission appointed by the Government of Bombay to inquire
into cases relating to rent-free land.
63. Driven out of their motherland, the Santhals revised the area around the Rajmahal hills and called it
Tamin-e-Ko (land of the Santhals).
64. After the Great Revolution, Emperor Bahadur Shah II was arrested in Delhi and deported to Rangoon.
65. The siege of Kanpur was a major chapter in the revolt of 1857.
66. Lord Canning was governor-general during the Great Revolt of 1857.
67. In 1850, the Lex Loci Act granted the right to converts to Christianity to have a fair share in ancestral
property.
68. The statement issued by Queen Victoria was read out by Lord Canning at the Allahabad Durbar Hall.
69. The Victoria Declaration of 1858 is known as the Charter of the Rights of the People of India.
70. The People of Munda are known for farming as Gundkatti.
71. During the Great Revolt of 1857, the real commander-in-chief of Delhi was General Bakht Khan.
72. Fat-coated bullets became the fundamental and immediate cause of the Great Revolution of 1857.
73. Another name for the Ulukulan rebellion, a tribal revolt in Ranchi, was the Munda rebellion.
74. The birthplace of Maharani Laxmi Bai, the heroine of the 1857 freedom struggle is Varanasi
75. 'India was of Independence 1857' book is written by V. D. Savarkar.
76. After the revolt of 1857 the British recruited the soldiers from the---Gurkhas, Sikhs, and Punjabis in
the North.
77. The leader of the Bardoli Satyagraha (1928) was Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel.
78. The main grievance of the peasants in the Champaran Satyagrah (1917) was regarding the Tinkathiya
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