NCERT MCQs • Practice Sets 327
17. Consider the following observations relating to            22. Consider the following statements regarding
    the reign of the Mughal Emperor Akbar.                         causes of Revolt of 1857.
    1. Akbar strengthened his control on the nobility and          1. Denial of the adoption of child by the childless
        the army by introducing the Mansabdari system.                 king.
    2. Under the Mansabdari system, every officer was              2. The British Policy of looking down upon Indian
        assigned a rank (Mansab).                                      subjects.
    3. The ranks were divided into Zat, Sawar and Chehra.          3. Discriminations among English and Indian
    Which of the statement(s) given above is/are correct?              soldiers.
    (a) Only 1                  (b) Only 2                         4. Social reform and conversion to Christianity.
    (c) 1 and 2                 (d) All of these                   Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
                                                                   (a) Only 1                   (b) 2, 3 and 4
18. Which one of the following pairs is correctly                  (c) 1, 2 and 3               (d) All of these
    matched?
        Bhakti Saint       Philosophy                          23. Consider the following statements.      (IAS Pre 2017)
    (a) Shankara       –   Avadhuta                                1. The factories Act, 1881 was passed with a view to
    (b) Ramananda      –   Kevaladvaita                                fix the wages of industrial workers and to allow
    (c) Ramanuja       –   Vishishtadvaita                             the workers to form trade unions.
    (d) Chaitanya      –   Advaita                                 2. NM Lokhanda was a pioneer in organising the
                                                                       Labour movement in British India.
19. In 1663 AD, who was deputed by Aurangzeb to                    Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
    put down the rising power of Shivaji? (IAS Pre 2010)
                                                                   (a) Only 1
    (a) Khafi Khan                (b) Shaista Khan                 (b) Only 2
    (c) Diler Khan                (d) Mubariz Khan                 (c) Both 1 and 2
20. Consider the following Assertion (A) and Reason                (d) Neither 1 nor 2
    (R) and choose the correct code.                           24. Consider the following statements.
    Assertion (A) The French were defeated by the                  “No Indian could have started the Indian National
    British in the Third Carnatic War.                             Congress, if the founder of the Congress had not
    Reason (R) The Indian rulers did not supported the             been a great Englishman and a distinguished
    French.                                                        ex-official, such was the distrust of political
    Codes                                                          agitation in those days that the authority would
    (a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct                 have at once found some way or the other to
        explanation of A.                                          suppress the movement.”
    (b) Both A and R are true, but R is not the correct            Who among the following gave the statement on
        explanation of A.                                          the establishment of Indian National Congress?
    (c) A is true, but R is false.                                 (a) W Wedderburn
    (d) A is false, but R is true.                                 (b) GK Gokhale
21. The movements launched by Dayananda                            (c) R Palme Dutt
    Saraswati, which proved to be very controversial               (d) Allan Octavian Hume
    were                                                       25. In collaboration with David Hare and Alexander
    (a) cow protection and Shuddhi Movement.                       Duff, who among the following established
    (b) call to go back to the Vedas and complete discard of       Hindu College at Calcutta?           (IAS Pre 2009)
        caste system.
                                                                   (a) Henry Louis Vivian Derozio
    (c) Shuddhi Movement and complete rejection of caste
                                                                   (b) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
        system.
                                                                   (c) Keshab Chandra Sen
    (d) challenging the conservative Hinduism and admitting
        the non-Hindus to the fold of Hinduism.                    (d) Raja Ram Mohan Roy