CLASS XII HISTORY THEME 11 'REBELS AND THE RAJ'

CLASS-   XII
CHAPTER – 11 (REBELS AND THE RAJ)
1.What does Mutiny mean? (pg. 287)
 Ans. Rebellion by the soldiers                                                                                                       
2.When was rebellion started? (pg.287)
 Ans. 10 May 1857
3. Where did Mutiny started revolt?  (pg.287) 
Ans. Meerut
4. A storeroom in which weapons are kept____________. (pg.289)
Ans. (Bell of arms)
5. A term for Persian origin ___________.( pg. 289)
Ans.(firangi)
6. Rebellion was started in the month of ____________. (pg.288)
Ans. (Ramzan)
7. Sepoy captured (pg.288)
     a) buildings            b) houses               c) farms                d)bell of arms 
8. Who was last emperor of Mughal Empire? (pg.288)
Ans. Bahadur Shah Zafar
9.Sepoy reached Red Fort on _________.
Ans. (11 May 1847)  pg.(288)
10. Revolt started in Lucknow, Kanpur and Jhansi. (True 0r False) pg.292 
Ans. True
11.________________is a local Zamindar in Arrah (Bihar) participated in the rebel.                                                            (Kunwar Singh) pg. 292
12.Who was the young son of Nawab Wajid?  (pg. 292)
Ans. Birjis Qadr
13.Nana Sahib is the successor of _______________. (pg.292)
Ans. Peshwa Baji Rao -II
14.Shah Mal mobilised the villagers of _______________in Uttar Pradesh.      (pg.292)
Ans. Pargana Barout
15. Name a young soldier from Meerut was hanged to death ____________.
Ans. Mangal Pandey 
16.Who was a tribal cultivator of Singhbhum in Chotanagpur became rebel leader?(pg.292)
Ans. Gonoo
17.Who was the last Nawab of Awadh? (pg. 292)
Ans. Wajid Ali Shah
18. Bullets were coated with the fat of _______ and______ which the sepoy’s had to bite with their teeth.
Ans. the fat of cows and pig
19. _____________was defeated at Kanpur by the British. 
Ans. Nana Sahib
20._______________ from the Awadh Military Police has been given protection by his Indian subordinate during the mutiny. (pg.291)
Ans. Captain Hearsey 
21.When was the battle of Plassey fought?(pg. 294)
Ans. 23 June 1757
22.Who introduced various reforms for Indian Society in late 1820’s?(pg.295)
Ans. Lord William Bentinck
23. Who said these lines regarding annexation of  Awadh ”a cherry that will drop into our mouth one day”? (pg.296)
Ans. Governor General Lord Dalhousie
24. Awadh was annexed by Britishers in ____________. (pg. 296)
Ans. 1856
25. Are the rebellions were against British only?  (True or False) (pg.304)
Ans. False
26.Name any one law made by the British which caused uproar among the people in 1857. (pg.295)
Ans. Sati (1829) and remarriage of Hindu widows
27.Maulavi Ahmadullah Shah was also known as ____________. (pg.293)
Ans Danka Shah
28.Who was captured and kept in exile in Rangoon? 
Ans. Bahadur Shah Zafar
29. Bahadur Shah Zafar died in ________.
Ans. 1862
30. Where was Wajid Shah sent on pension?
Ans. Calcutta 
31.Who devised Subsidiary Alliance? (pg. 296)
Ans. Lord Wellesley in 1798
32. Where the British spent 50,000 rupees to incite the Hindu population against the Muslims? (pg.301)
Ans. In Bareilly in Western U.P.in Dec. 1857
33.When was Martial Law started ? (pg.305)
Ans. May & June 1857
34. Which city was finally captured in late September?(pg.306)
Ans. Delhi
35. When was Awadh again in the control of British? (306)
Ans. March 1858
36.Which English lady defended herself bravely against the Indian rebels in Kanpur? (pg.310) 
Ans. Miss Wheeler
37. “Relief of Lucknow” was painted by Thomas Jones Barker in 1859. (True or False )   (pg.307)
Ans. True
38. ___________was Commissioner of Lucknow in 1859? (pg.307)
Ans. Henry Lawrence
39. On 25th September 1859 ____________ and Henry Lawrence arrived to rebel forces.   (pg.307)
Ans .James Outram
40.Name the new commander of British forces in India in 1859.(pg.307)
a) James Outram       b) Havelock       c) Henry Lawrence      d) Colin Campbell
41. Name the British heroes on the canvas of Barker’s paintings.(pg.308)
Ans. Campbell, Outram and Havelock
42. _______________ was painted by Joseph Noel Paton two years after mutiny.
Ans. In Memoriam
43.What was celebrated as the First War of Independence? (pg.313)
Ans. Revolt of 1857
44.Who wrote the poem “khoob lari mardani-----------Jhansi wali Rani thi”?(pg.313)
Ans. Subhadra Kumari Chauhan
45. Who was called ‘ nursery of the Bengal Army’? (pg.300) Ans. Awadh
46.Sepoys and White were not friends before the revolt of 1857? (True or False) (pg.299)
Ans. False
47.Name the wife of Nawab of Awadh. (pg. 299)
Ans. Begum Hazrat Mahal