Q40. The Kundara Proclamation, which openly called for taking up arms against the British, is associated with which freedom fighter?
[RRB NTPC Undergraduate CBT-1, 7 August 2025, Shift 3]
(A) Velu Thampi
(B) Wazir Ali Khan
(C) Gajapatiraju
(D) Kattabomman Nayakan
Answer: (A) Velu Thampi
Explanation: Velu Thampi Dalawa, the Dewan of Travancore, issued the Kundara Proclamation in January 1809. It urged resistance against growing East India Company interference and financial demands. The proclamation became a defining episode of his uprising against British political influence in Travancore.
Q39. The Moplah Uprising of 1921, against British rule and landlords, took place in which location?
[RRB NTPC Undergraduate CBT-1, 24 June 2025, Shift 2]
(A) Kerala
(B) Uttar Pradesh
(C) Bengal
(D) Bombay
Answer: (A) Kerala
Explanation: The Moplah uprising broke out among Mappila communities of Malabar in present-day Kerala. Longstanding grievances about tenancy and landlord power intersected with the Non-Cooperation–Khilafat climate in 1921. The violent course of the rebellion caused major suffering across local communities.
Q38. Which of the following can be considered an immediate cause of the Sanyasi Rebellion?
[RRB NTPC Graduate CBT-1, 24 June 2025, Shift 1]
(A) Implementation of the Chota Nagpur Tenancy Act of 1908
(B) Development of a broad sense of Indian nationalism
(C) British occupation of Madras and new landlord laws there
(D) Restrictions imposed by the British upon pilgrims visiting holy places among both Hindus and Muslims
Answer: (D) Restrictions imposed by the British upon pilgrims visiting holy places among both Hindus and Muslims
Explanation: Company restrictions affected itinerant Hindu sanyasis and Muslim fakirs who traditionally visited shrines and collected contributions. Combined with harsh revenues and the Bengal famine, interference with pilgrimage and customary livelihood intensified resistance in the late eighteenth century.
Q37. Which of the following is NOT correctly matched?
[RRB NTPC Graduate CBT-1, 13 June 2025, Shift 2]
(A) Ramosi Rebellion — Maharashtra
(B) Lushai Revolt — Assam
(C) Heraka Movement — West Bengal
(D) Kol Rebellion — Jharkhand
Answer: (C) Heraka Movement — West Bengal
Explanation: The Heraka movement arose among Naga communities rather than in West Bengal. The other pairs are consistent with their historical regions: Ramosi resistance in Maharashtra, Lushai uprisings in the northeast and Kol rebellion in Chotanagpur. Thus, the Heraka–West Bengal pairing is incorrect.
Q36. The Poligars rebelled against the British in which Presidency when the British tried to take away their military and land rights?
[RRB NTPC Graduate CBT-1, 6 June 2025, Shift 3]
(A) Madras Presidency
(B) Agra Presidency
(C) Bombay Presidency
(D) Bengal Presidency
Answer: (A) Madras Presidency
Explanation: Poligars were southern military chieftains who controlled palayams and exercised local fiscal authority. They resisted Company attempts to remove their armed power and land-revenue privileges in the Madras Presidency. These conflicts included the Polygar wars around the turn of the nineteenth century.
Q35. Arrange the following revolts in chronological order: 1. Pabna; 2. Indigo; 3. Kuka; 4. Sanyasi.
[UPPSC PCS Prelims 2025, General Studies Paper I]
(A) 4, 2, 3, 1
(B) 3, 4, 2, 1
(C) 3, 4, 1, 2
(D) 4, 3, 2, 1
Answer: (A) 4, 2, 3, 1
Explanation: The Sanyasi rebellion began in the eighteenth century, followed by the Indigo revolt of 1859–60. The Kuka movement gained prominence before the Pabna agrarian agitation of 1873–76. Accordingly, their earliest-to-latest order is Sanyasi, Indigo, Kuka, Pabna.
Q34. The Moplah Rebellion of 1921 took place in which of the following regions?
[RRB JE CBT-1, 16 December 2024, Shift 3]
(A) Assam
(B) Kerala
(C) Punjab
(D) Bengal
Answer: (B) Kerala
Explanation: The 1921 Mappila or Moplah rebellion occurred in Malabar, a region now within Kerala. Rural tensions arose from landholding arrangements, high rents and insecure tenancies. Khilafat-era political mobilisation gave the movement a wider context, while colonial suppression followed intense violence.
Q33. The Moplah Uprising, an organised opposition of Muslim cultivators, occurred in which modern state of India?
[SSC MTS, 14 October 2024, Shift 1]
(A) Punjab
(B) Kerala
(C) Tamil Nadu
(D) Bihar
Answer: (B) Kerala
Explanation: Moplahs, also called Mappilas, were predominantly Muslim communities of Malabar in Kerala. Many cultivators protested against exploitative tenurial relations and British policies. In 1921 these grievances fed into the wider Malabar uprising amid Non-Cooperation and Khilafat activities.
Q32. Whose original name was Kumarasamy Nayak?
[TNPSC Group II, 14 September 2024]
(A) Kattabomman
(B) Oomaithurai
(C) Dheeran Chinnamalai
(D) Marudhu Pandiyar
Answer: (B) Oomaithurai
Explanation: Oomaithurai, also known as Kumarasamy Nayak, was the brother of Veerapandiya Kattabomman of Panchalankurichi. He continued resistance during the Polygar wars and became associated with the southern coalition against Company expansion. His role illustrates the military character of early Tamil resistance.
Q31. Bankim Chandra Chatterjee wrote Anand Math based on which of the following rebellions or revolts?
[SSC CHSL Tier I, 5 July 2024, Shift 1]
(A) Paika Rebellion
(B) Kuki Revolt
(C) Sanyasi Rebellion
(D) Mappila Rebellion
Answer: (C) Sanyasi Rebellion
Explanation: Anand Math draws its setting from the Sanyasi rebellion in eighteenth-century Bengal. Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay published the novel in 1882, and its patriotic song Vande Mataram later became closely associated with Indian nationalism. The plot is a fictional interpretation of historical unrest.
