Nimra S 6 Question Bank PDF

Total Quizzes: 13 Quiz 1 (4 September, 2024) 1. The genealogy of the two-nation theory is generally traced to Sir Syed Ahmed Khan. 2. What idea did Rehmat Ali present in his 1945 pamphlet "India: The Continent of Dinia or the Country of Doom"? (2 marks) Rahmat Ali's ma...

Total Quizzes: 13 Quiz 1 (4 September, 2024) 1. The genealogy of the two-nation theory is generally traced to Sir Syed Ahmed Khan. 2. What idea did Rehmat Ali present in his 1945 pamphlet "India: The Continent of Dinia or the Country of Doom"? (2 marks) Rahmat Ali's main concern was to demolish the "myth of Indianism" as nothing more than a treacherous attempt by caste Hindus and the British to enslave seven "non-Indian nations"-Muslims, Dravidians, Akhoots (Depressed Castes), Christians, Sikhs, Buddhs, and Parsis-and deny them sovereignty in the continent of "Dinia," a construction he arrived at by transposing the central " "D" in India to first place so that it could literally mean the "abode of religions." Rahmat Ali's supracommunal Dinia Continental Movement aimed at reversing the processes of Indianism and helping non-Indian nations establish their sovereignty. The Muslim components of Dinia included a "Pakistan" consisting of the Muslimmajority provinces in the northwest, "Bangistan" or "Bang-i-Islamistan" (Bengal) and several innovatively named Muslim sovereign states. Although Rahmat Ali's rollicking imagination confined "Hindoostan" to a shrunken space in northern India with a vengeance, it allowed for non-Muslim countries like "Sikhia," "Akhoostan," "Dravidha," and such sovereign linguistic states as Andhra, Karnatar, Mahrashtar 3. Iqbal’s political vision of the future for Indian Muslims was: a) an exercise in imagination b) a pragmatic response 4. Which major Indian politician described himself as a “cold-blooded logician”? Muhammad Ali Jinnah 5. Which leader’s regime is condemned in a state-sanctioned textbook for being “a staunch Communist”, and “an Un-Islamic minded man”? Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto 6. What were the findings of the Munir Report in the aftermath of 1953 anti-Ahmadi riots in Punjab? (2 marks)  no two religious divines could agree on the definition of a Muslim. Agreement on the rights of non-Muslims, variously referred to as kuffar, zimmis, or mu'ahids, was even more difficult. According to a representative of the Jamat-i-Islami, non-Muslims could not have equal rights of citizenship in an Islamic state.20 By the same token, no true Muslim could be a loyal citizen of a non-Muslim state. 7. What is Wali Khan’s (Bacha Khan’s son) critique of the Muslim League leaders? (2 marks) "Did the Muslim League launch any movement, wage any struggle, render any sacrifice to qualify for that right?" Wali Khan asks rhetorically. Far from committing "sacrifices in the cause of independence" the Muslim League played "no role in liberating this land from British slavery." The "untold sacrifices" of the Khudai KhidThis content downloaded from 169.229.32.137 on Thu, 8 May 2014 16:34:18 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions Conjuring Pakistan: History as Official Imagining 85 matgars [those in the service of God] were rejected simply because they had closed ranks with the congress to oust the British colonialists. They were "blamed for being the progeny of Hindus," but no sooner was independence won than Muslim Leaguers rushed hither and yon to appropriate the property of the Hindus as if it were their birthright. Wali Khan deems it unpardonable that minority-province Muslim League leaders escaped to the "safety, prosperity and comfort of Pakistan," abandoning crores of poor Muslims who had "made all the sacrifices" at their behest. And yet these selfish, irresponsible, and acquisitive rulers of Pakistan claimed higher moral ground by exploiting Islam-"they do not report history, they manufacture it." Quiz 2 (19 September, 2024) 1. An average Hindi speaker today would say that the language they speak, ‘Hindi’ started with the poet Amir Khusrau 2. What did the word Urdu-e-Mualla mean during the early years of Mughal rule? (the exalted camp, or court) 3. When did the language, now known as Urdu, come to be used in the Mughal courts? (Year) 1772 during the rule of emperor (Name) Shah Alam II when he moved to Delhi. 4. According to Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, despite Sayyid Suleman Nadvi preferring the word Hindustani to refer to this language, the common people continued to refer to this language as Hindi or Rekhta. 5. John Gilchrist insisted that Hinduwee should be dealt exclusively as the language of Hindus, which was pervasive before the Moosulman ‘invasion’. 6. The earliest printed source for the above-mentioned theory was perpetrated by an Indian author writing at Fort William College, Mir Amman Dehalvi, who wrote (name of text) BaghoBahar. 7. Gilchrist claimed that the word hindu in Persian meant Negro. 8. Who is regarded as the father of modern standard Hindi?. Bharatendu Harishchandra 9. Which language did the first Mughal emperor Babur speak? Persian 10. The word ‘Urdu’ originates from which language? Persian Quiz 3 (7 November, 2024) 1. On the outbreak of the Second World War, the Viceroy Lord Linlithgow declared India at war with Hitler’s Germany. How did the Congress respond to this? the Congress ministries in the provinces resigned. 2. In 1942, which British imperialist figure said that he had not become the king’s chief minister ‘to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire’? Winston Churchill 3. Which Indian nationalist, anticipating a British defeat in the war, rejected the Cripps offer as a ‘postdated cheque on a failing bank’? Gandhi 4. In 1942, the Congress started a mass civil disobedience movement against the British which is known as the Quit India Movement movement. 5. Ayesha Jalal has argued in The Sole Spokesman that Jinnah saw Pakistan not practically as a separate state, but a Bargaining chip 6. Which Indian Congress leader, after being denied the Congress presidency, went and joined the fascist powers in World War 2? Subhas Chandra Bhose 7. What was the proportion of Indian civil servants in ICS by the year 1945? More than 50 % 8. Whose help did Jinnah seek to undermine the dominance of the Unionist Party in Punjab? (two parties) (2 marks) tribal ties, landlords and tenants both hindu and muslim in punjab 9. Why did the Congress not agree to the Cabinet Mission Plan? Be specific. the Congress, especially its socialist wing headed by Nehru, wanted a central government that could direct and plan for an India, free of colonialism, that might eradicate its people’s poverty and grow into an industrial power. India’s business community also supported the idea of a strong central government. Indeed, in 1944 a group of leading industralists had already formulated, in the Bombay Plan, a scheme for the rapid development of basic industries under the leadership of the state. In a provocative speech on 10 July 1946, Nehru repudiated the notion of compulsory grouping of provinces, the key to Jinnah’s Pakistan. Provinces, he said, must be free to join any group, or none Quiz 4 (8 October, 2024) 1. What were the Indian mistresses of British officials and soldiers in India called during the late eighteenth century? Bibis/ Memsahibs 2. Describe the ‘subsidiary alliance’ system between the British and local princes/rulers. What did it result in? Be specific. (3 marks). Devised in Clive’s time, these alliances, between the Company and Indian princes, were justified as a way of securing Bengal from attack by deploying its troops within states  friendly to it. The prince on his side secured protection against his enemies, external and internal, and agreed to meet the cost of the troops and to accept a British resident at his court. By this arrangement the prince could be sure of a powerful ally, while the British could meet their enemies at a safe distance from their own territories, and share with others the cost of maintaining their expensive army 3. According to the reading, what were the ‘Home Charges’ that India had to cover? e ‘Home Charges’, including pensions, debt service, and the cost of maintaining the Company’s offices 4. Describe the thuggee campaign that the British undertook in India. (2 marks) In similar fashion, groups such as the Banjara carriers, whose pack animals had accompanied eighteenth-century armies, together with herders such as Gujars and Bhattis, found their grazing grounds restricted by assessment of waste lands and the creation of private property rights, while their employment opportunities declined with the disbandment of armies. Those who persisted in wandering found themselves the objects of suspicion, and began to be stigmatized as ‘criminal tribes’. Such suspicion fuelled one of the most famous episodes in the history of British India – the campaign against thagi (thuggee), which gave the English language the word thug. Notorious for their secrecy, their presumed devotion to the blood-thirsty goddess Kali, and their custom of ritual murder of travellers by strangling, thags fed British fears, and fantasies, of an exotic India beyond their reach. Hence the British created an imagined conspiracy, in which diverse bands of highway robbers were forged into a fraternity of criminals by birth and profession, and the force of the colonial state was then unleashed upon it. In the sweeping arrests that followed, the ordinary procedures of the criminal law were set aside. But the 1839 announcement of the ‘extirpation’ of thagi set off an orgy of self-congratulation. The British could now conceive of India as a pacified land, composed of a law-abiding, tax-paying peasantry. 5. What was the Anglicist stance with regards to the education of Indian people, and did they succeed in implementing this vision? (2 marks) As opinion began to shift, this policy came under attack from the so-called ‘Anglicists’, who insisted that Western subjects and the English language should form the basis of study. The Anglicists’ victory, in 1835, propelled by the powerful rhetoric of Macaulay’s ‘Minute’, was followed by the establishment of government schools in India’s major cities, though not in the countryside, and no attention was given to primary education. No government-run schools existed at the time in England, where education was controlled by religious denominations. Here, as with the contemporaneous trigonometrical survey, the separate cemetery, and the subsequent introduction of competitive examinations for the Indian Civil Service, the institutions of the modern state took shape in the colony, which can be seen as something of a laboratory of administrative practice, before making their way back to England  6. The Tagore family was influenced by which famous Indian reformer? a) Dwarkanath b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak c) Ram Mohan Roy d) Papadu Quiz 4, S6 25 September, 2024 Q. 1 Why is the Slave-King dynasty called thus? (1.5 marks) Muslim states, Muslim dynasties did chart new directions. For over 600 years following the establishment of the first Turkic dynasty in Delhi by the Mamluk or Slave ruler, Qutbu’d-din Aibak, in 1206, the language of the Muslim ruling elite was Persian Q.2 Which name were the Turk invaders in the 11th century and onwards called by the local Indians and what did it mean? Mleccas (Barbarians) Q.3 Which city did Taimur invade in North India in 1398? Delhi Q.4 What is the origin of the word ‘Mughal’? (1.5 marks) Mongol Q.5 Briefly describe the mansabdari system. (2 marks). Nobles were awarded ranks, known as mansab, demarcated decimally, and were expected to provide horsemen according to the rank number for the emperor’s use. They were appointed to positions in two parallel hierarchies, one with civil responsibilities and one military – thus a check on each other – at levels from district, to province, to centre, throughout the empire. Nobles were assigned the right to collect the assessed tax revenue of pieces of land, jagirs, as the basis of their remuneration. By rotating these assignments frequently, nobles were incapacitated from building a local base that could challenge Mughal authority Q.6 Which Maratha leader was the biggest threat to Aurangzeb’s empire? Shivaji Bhonsle Q.7 What was the name of Aurangzeb’s brother who translated the Upanishads into Persian and wrote a treatise Majma-ul-Bahrain trying to merge Sufi thought with Upanishads? Dara Shikoh Q.8 Which city did Akbar build? Fatehpur Sikri Quiz 6 (24 October, 2024) 1. Which building in Bombay, completed in 1887, was architecturally similar to colonial buildings in London and Melbourne, and made visible India’s central position in the larger imperial system, later becoming a popular subject for painting and photography? s neo-Gothic Victoria Terminus, 2. The manufacturing of which product was the Indian pioneering giant Jamsetji Tata involved in? Tata Iron and Steel in Bihar 3. Which infrastructural development in the Punjab made commercial agriculture a ‘success story’? ‘canal colonies 4. Which benefits to Britain from its possession of India defy measurement according to the author? s its role in enhancing national pride and, in generating that shared emotion, masking Britain’s own hierarchies of gender and class 5. What was the Punjab Land Alienation Act of 1901? Land Alienation Act prohibits transfer outside agricultural classes 6. The Muslim leadership in India was cultivated as a potential bulwark of _____________ by the British. (a) threat (b) invasion (c) stability (d) unrest (e) dissenters 7. Akbar Allahahbadi reminded the loyalist Muslims of ___________ of the few crumbs held out to them by the British. (a) Meerut (b) Delhi (c) Allahabad (d) Aligarh (e) Lucknow 8. Which British officer helped form the Indian National Congress in 1885? Allan Octavian Hume 9. Which British measure in 1881 provided an important stimulus for the recognition of group status? The decennial census 10. Following the lead of mid-century British scholars of the Dravidian languages, non-Brahmans of the south identified themselves as the original Dravidian inhabitants in contrast to the Aryan Brahmans who had supposedly entered from the north. Quiz 9 (31 October, 2024) 1. Gandhi secured Congress approval of non-cooperation only by forming an alliance with Muslim supporters of Ottoman khilafat, without whose votes the non-cooperation motion at the 1920 Congress would have failed. 2. Which province was Gandhi’s birthplace region where he also set up his first ashram? Gujrat 3. Which Indian politician became Gandhi’s chosen successor? Jawaharlal Nehru 4. In February 1922, an incident caused a horror-stricken Gandhi to call off the entire non-cooperation movement after which he went on a five-day fast. Which incident was this? Chaura Chauri incident  5. Which Indian politician who was committed to constitutionalism resigned from Congress rather than support a mass movement suffused with religious symbols (Khilafat movement)? Jinnah 6. Which British Prime Minister dismissed Gandhi by calling him a ‘half-naked fakir’? Winston Churchill 7. For Gandhian nationalists, Khadi’s significance extended far beyond its role as a signifier of swadeshi production. It constructed an India that was united, disciplined, and cohesive. 8. In December 1928, Bhagat Singh (name) killed a senior British police official in Lahore and threw bombs into the legislative chamber several months later, for which he was convicted and hanged. 9. Which episode first brought Gandhi international attention, especially the United States? Salt March 10. Which Congress President said the following lines: I am proud of being an Indian. Islam has now as great a claim on the soil of India as Hinduism. Just as a Hindu can say with pride that he is an Indian and follows Hinduism, so also can we say with equal pride that we are Indians and follow Islam. Maulana Azad Quiz 10 (21 November, 2024) 1. The Partition of India was done along which lines? a) Ethnic b) Linguistic c) Religious d) Racial 2. Students of which educational institution did a mass contact campaign for All India Muslim League in the 1940s? a) Deoband b) Bareilly c) Aligarh d) Murshidabad 3. Which of the following best describes the Radcliffe award? a) Document on the electoral representation of Hindus and Muslims b) Document advocating for Dominion status for India c) The demarcation of boundaries of Partition d) An award given to Gandhi by Cyril Radcliffe for his contribution to independence 4. Jinnah demanded the Partition of Punjab and Bengal. True or False? F  5. Which Indian nationalist leader said this: "You may laugh at me, but a time will come soon when you will not only understand what the Umbrella is but... use it to the advantage of every one of you." Jinnah 6. Nehru voted for the Partition of India. True or false? T 7. In which city was Gandhi present on the day of 14 and 15 August 1947? Calcutta 8. In June 1947, Jinnah expressed the desire to hold the session of the Constituent Assembly of a new Pakistan in Delhi. True or False? T 9. After the 1946 elections, only one province in present-day Pakistan had a Congress ministry. Which one? a) Sindh b) Balochistan c) NWFP/Khyber Pakhtunkhwa d) Punjab 10. Why did the negotiations at Simla arranged by Lord Wavell in 1945 to bring Congress and Muslim League to a common ground fail? conference failed because congress refused to concede to jinnah's point about the League selecting the Muslims for the viceroys executive council Quiz 11 (14 November, 2024) 1. Who was the last viceroy of British India? Mountbatten 2. What was the outcome of Jinnah’s Direct Action day in 1946? Great Calcutta Killing: Mobs roamed the city, killing almost 4000 people 7K Muslims in Bihar Lesser Hindus in Bengal 3. When was the transfer of power from British to Indian hands originally supposed to happen, that was later rescheduled to the earlier date of August 1947? June 1948 4. “Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge.” Which Indian leader said these words in a famous speech? Jawaharlal Nehru (first speech in the parliament chamber) 5. Why did the Maharaja of Kashmir accede his state to the Indian Union?  Because Pakistan militant groups had launched an attack on kashmir that he could not fend off 6. What was the last intervention that Gandhi made in the Indian political landscape before his assassination? Gandhi’s last political intervention was handing Pakistan its share of cash assets of undivided India, some 40 million pounds. 7. An avowedly Hindu nationalism can be traced back to the _cow protection___ movement of the later 19th century according to Barbara and Thomas Metcalf. 8. Hindu nationalism took on a militant shape with the founding of which organization? RSS 9. What was the eventual fate of the princely state of Hyderabad after 1947? (2 marks) The state was surrounded on all sides by Indian territory; the bulk of his subjects were Hindus; and his irregular force was unable to subjugate even the Telengana rebels. In September 1948 the Indian Army marched in to end the Nizam’s two centuries’ long dynasty, and with it the only site for patronage of Islamic culture and learning in the Deccan Quiz 12 (17 October, 2024) 1. Define a joint-stock organization/enterprise, and how it was different from other forms of companies and business ventures preceding it? joint-stock organization allowed merchants to share the risk of trade, and enabled them to raise further funds as needed 2. Name at least two exports from India that became valuable in the European markets in the seventeenth century. textiles, iron and steel goods, 3. Where was the first British EIC factory established in the subcontinent? Surat 4. Describe the event known as the ‘Black Hole of Calcutta’. (2 marks) When Siraj ud Daula marched on Calcutta, he defeated the British and imprisoned some 40 soldiers in a small, poorly ventilated prison cell in Fort William, Calcutta and they died overnight from suffocation. 5. Define what was meant by the diwani. revenue collecting rights,  6. Who were the nabobs? The Company’s servants in India, determined to amass fortunes for themselves, refused any check on their rapacious activities. In the process, as they lived ever more extravagantly, they became known as nabobs, from the Mughal term nawab (governor) Quiz 13 (28 November, 2024) 1. After Partition, almost the entire non-Muslim population of Pakistani Punjab with the exception of a few pockets of Sikhs in Nankana (place) were forced to leave. 2. Which region’s Muslim community migrating from India to Pakistan carried ‘a semblance of voluntary movement’? North Indians 3. Which word acquired considerable legal importance in subsequent discussions about citizenship laws in post-independence Pakistan? Intend 4. After the enactment of which law (name of law and year) did Hindus and Sikhs effectively and legally lose their right to return and claim properties in Pakistan? Citizenship Law 1951 5. Which term did the Pakistani state prefer for the migrants coming from India to Pakistan? Muhajireen/Hijrat 6. What was a popular route to survival for higher caste groups or propertied classes of non-Muslims who wished to either stay or (having temporarily traveled) come back to Pakistan? Conversion to Islam 7. What did Section 7 of the final draft of the Citizenship Act of 1951 stipulate? This was the main provision whereby anyone who had left areas that constituted Pakistan after March 1947 was automatically denied any claim to Pakistani citizenship. The omission was deliberate, preventing any claims of mitigating circumstances that Hindus and Sikhs could have used to return to their homes 8. For what pragmatic reason could Pakistan “not afford a return of Hindus and Sikhs”?  Their residencies had been taken up by bureaucrats to establish operations and could not be returned to them + population was getting too much 9. The number of Muslims leaving Pakistan were far greater than those of Hindus allowed to return to Bengal or Singh. True or False? 10. What was the maximum concession that non-Muslim members of Pakistan’s Constituent Assembly could secure in the debate on citizenship laws and resident protections? more fluid visa regimes and minimum border restrictions This final version now correctly includes the full sets of questions for all 13 quizzes of PAMSA S6, including the complete Quiz 9 and Quiz 13 sets as provided in the text.