Insights Static Quiz -40, 2018 – Indian National Movement

Solution: b)

India’s struggle for Independence, Bipan Chandra Chapter – 3

First statement is wrong as it was the British planters who enforced these contracts (not Zamindars)

The indigo planters, nearly all Europeans, compelled the tenants to grow indigo which they processed in factories set up in rural (mofussil) areas.  The planters forced the peasants to take a meager amount as advance and enter into fraudulent contracts. The price paid for the indigo plants was far below the market price.

The planters could not withstand the united resistance of the ryots, and they gradually began to close their factories. The cultivation of indigo was virtually wiped out from the districts of Bengal by the end of 1860.

Solution: c)

India’s struggle for Independence, Bipan Chandra Chapter – 3

Dinabandhu Mitra is primarily known for his play about the plight of indigo farmers Nil Darpan. The Indigo Revolt (1858) or Nilbidraha in Bengali was the revolt of the indigo farmers against the indigo planters. It was just one year after the Sepoy Revolt Bengal saw one more important revolt in its history. Mitra stormed the social and the literary circle of Bengal by his most notable play Nildarpan in the year 1860. It was published from Dhaka and soon after its publication it ignited a major argument in the newspapers.[1] His first hand experience of the indigo cultivators, while on the job as the post master in rural Orissa and Bengal, were reflected in the drama. Michael Madhusudan Dutt translated the play into English immediately after it was published

Solution: b)

India’s struggle for Independence, Bipan Chandra Chapter – 3

Note the word ‘END’ in the question. During the Civil War, cotton export boomed and farmers were happy. However, the end of War resulted in acute depression in cotton exports and a crash in prices in India because the British manufacturers reverted to procuring cotton from America.

Moneylenders who had lent money to ryots started forcing them to pay back loans. They did not make profits as they too suffered due to price crash as all ryots were not in a position to pay back.

Though third statement is subjective, the second one is the most appropriate and right answer.

Solution: b)

India’s struggle for Independence, Bipan Chandra Chapter – 6

Akshay Kumar Dutt and Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar were agnostics who refused to be drawn into any discussion on supernatural questions. Asked about the existence of God, Vidyasagar quipped that he had no time to think about God, since there was much to be done on earth. Bankim Chandra Chatterjee and Vivekananda emphasized the secular use of religion and used spirituality to take cognizance of the material conditions of human existence.

Solution: c)

India’s struggle for Independence, Bipan Chandra Chapter – 6

Gopal Hari Deshmukh (18 February 1823 – 9 October 1892) was an Indian activist, thinker, social reformer and writer from Maharashtra. His original surname was Shidhaye. Because of ‘Vatan’ (right of Tax collection) that the family had received,the family was later called Deshmukh.[2] Deshmukh is regarded as an important figure of the Social Reform Movement in Maharashtra.

To Gopal Han Deshmukh, popularly known as Lokahitavadi whether social reforms had the sanction of religion was immaterial. If religion did not sanction these, he advocated that religion itself should be changed as it was made by man and what was laid down, in the scriptures need not necessarily be of contemporary relevance.