Answer: A
Answer: C
Statement 1 is correct: It defined the boundary between India and Afghanistan. It was setup to improve the diplomatic ties between the British establishment in India and the Afghan Kingdom.
Statement 2 is correct: It was set up in 1893 during the tenure of Lord Lansdowne (1888 to 1894).
Answer: A
First Famine Commission
It was set up in 1878 under the Chairmanship of Sir Richard Strachey. The commission recommended state interference in food trade in the event of famine. India witnessed another major famine in 1896-97.
Second Famine Commission
It was constituted in 1897 under the Chairmanship of Sir James Lyall. This commission recommended the development of irrigation facilities.
Third Famine Commission
It was set up in 1900 under the Chairmanship of Sir Anthony (Later Lord) McDonnel to re-evaluate and recommend changes in report of the previous commission, based on the findings of the recent famine. This Commission recommended that the official machinery dealing with a famine must work around the year so that the scarcity of food grains could be controlled well in time.
Answer: D
1.‘The Golden Threshold’-Sarojini Naidu
2.‘Hind Swaraj’-Mahatma Gandhi
3.‘India Divided’ Rajendra Prasad
Answer: A
Answer: B
Answer: C
Answer: D
He refused to recognise India as a nation, and insulted Indian nationalists and the intelligentsia by describing their activities as “letting off of gas”.
Answer: D
Formal proclamation of Swadeshi movement against government
Adopted four resolutions on: Swaraj (Self Government), Boycott Movement, Swadeshi & National Education
Split in Congress- Moderates & Extremist Adjournment of Session
Answer: C
Answer: A
Explanation :
Lord Ripon appointed the Indian Education Commission on 3rd February 1882, with Sir William Hunter as its
Chairman. It is known as Hunter Commission of 1882 to assess the position of primary education in India and to suggest measures for its reform.
Statement 1 is correct: After the transfer of administrative power from the East India Company, it was considered necessary to assess the development of education in the country. It was felt that the grant -in- aid system as suggested by Wood’s Despatch was not properly carried out. So Lord Ripon appointed the
Hunter Commision to review the working of Wood’s Despatch of 1854.
Statement 2 is not correct: According to the commission Government should gradually withdraw itself from the field of secondary education.
Statement 3 is not correct: It stated that expansion of secondary education should be entrusted to efficient private enterprise.
Answer: D
Answer: B
Statement 1 is not correct: As per the Charter Act of 1833, an Indian Law Commission was established. The
first Law Commission had Lord Macaulay as its chairman.
Statement 2 is correct: It increased the functions of legislative councils and gave them the power of discussing and right to ask questions on the budget which was barred in the Indian Councils Act 1861.
Answer: C
Answer: D
Barindra Kumar Ghosh 1880-1959
3.He was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1906 but was released in 1919, and then he associated himself with The Statesman and Basumati.
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