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Class 10 Social Science Chapter 3 Anti-British Rising and Peasant Revolts in Assam MCQ's
1 In which year did Moffat Mills came to India?
Answer: - 1853.
2 Who led the revolt of 1857 in Assam?
Answer: - Maniram Barbhandar Barua or Maniram Dewan.
3 Which Ahom King did the rebels of Assam want to reinstall on the throne in the revolt of 1857?
Answer: - Kandarpeswar Singha.
4 Who was the grandson of Ahom king Purandar Singha?
Answer:- Kandapeswar Singha.
5 Who was hanged with Maniram Dewan?
Answer: - Piyoli Barua.
6 When and where was Maniram Dewan hanged till death?
Answer: - 26th February 1858 in Jorhat jail.
7 The first peasant uprising against the British was known as__________?
Answer: - Phulaguri Dhawa.
8 In which year the incident of Phulaguri Dhawa took place?
Answer: - 1861.
9 Who was the Bengali Mukhtiyar who helped Maniram Dewan?
Answer: - Madhu Mallik.
10 Who set up a special court of justice wherein Maniram Dewan and Piyoli Barua were sentenced to be hanged to death on being found guilty of charges of conspiring against the British?
Answer: - Captain Holroyd.
11 Who was Moffat Mills?
Answer:- Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court.
12 By what name the Peasant Revolt of 24th December, 1893 was known as?
Answer: - Rangiya Raijmel.
13 Who established itself as a powerful ruler in India by the thirties and forties of the 19th century?
Answer: - The East India Company.
14 Who wrote an application to Moffat Mills in 1853?
Answer: - Anandaram Dhekiyal Phukan.
15 Which silks of Assam had a special demand in the Indian market from the time of Ahom Dynasty?
Answer: - Paat and Muga.
16 When did the British stop slavery in Assam?
Answer: - 1843.
17 Who planned to reinstate the Ahom monarchy with the grandson of former Ahom king Purandar Singha?
Answer: - Maniram Dewan.
18 Who led the peasant revolt in Assam in 19th century?
Answer: - Raij Mels.
19 In which year did the stamp duties implemented?
Answer: - 1858.
20 In which year did the income tax implemented?
Answer: - 1860.
21 In which year did the license tax implemented?
Answer: - 1860.
22 In which year did the grazing tax implemented?
Answer: - 1860.
23 Which ethnic community led the protest at Phulguri ?
Answer: - Tiwa ethnic community.
24 Name the Assistant Commissioner who was killed in the Phulaguri peasants Revolt?
Answer: - Lieutenant Singer.
25 When did the peasant revolt of Rangia break out?
Answer: - 24th December, 1893.
26 Name the tehsildar of Rangia and Tamulpur who was humiliated by the peasants during the revolt of 1893?
Answer: - Radhanath Barua
27 Where is Lachima located?
Answer: - Bajali region of North Kamrup district.
28 When did the peasant revolt of Lachima take place?
Answer: - 1894.
29 Where is the largest Raij Mel held?
Answer: - Panagaon Sapori.
30 When did the peasant revolt of Patharughat take Place?
Answer: - 1894.
31 Who tied the case of Maniram Dewan?
Answer: - Captain Holroyd.
32 Who was declared as the king of Manipur in September 1891?
Answer: - Churachandra (Minor king).
33 Who intercepted many letters written by Maniram Dewan wherein the conspiracy against the British government was clearly mentioned?
Answer: - Principal Assistant Captain Holroyd.
34 Who arrested Kandarpeswar Singha on September 7, 1857?
Answer: - Captain Louther.
35 How much amount had Manipur to pay to the British Government as compensation for the losses incurred during the revolt?
Answer: - Rs. 2.50 lakhs.
36 When did the British completely ban the cultivation of poppy?
Answer: - 1861.
37 How many peasants died during the police firing in the Patharughat revolt unofficially?
Answer: - 140 peasants.
38 How many peasants died during the police firing in the Patharughat revolt officially?
Answer: - 15 peasants.
39 When the Jayantia kingdom came into the hands of the British from the Jayantia king Rajendra Singha?
Answer: - 1835.
40 Who led the Jayantia Revolt in 1861?
Answer: - Ukiang Nongbah.
41 Who led the revolt f the ethnic tribes of North Cachar in 1881?
Answer: - Sambhuhan Kachari.
42 Who crushed the revolt of the Angami Nagas with an iron hand?
Answer: - Colonel Johnston.
43 Who wrote Doli Puran?
Answer: - Narottam Das.
44 When Kulachandra became the king of Manipur?
Answer: - 21st September, 1890.
45 Which Chief Commissioner of Assam was killed by the Manipuris?
Answer: - J.W.Quinton.
46 Which British Officer along with his security was killed by the Nagas in 1878?
Answer: - British Officer Damante.
47 What is the centre of the North Cachar Revolt of 881-82?
Answer: - Maibang.
48 When was the Kuki force formed by the British?
Answer: - 1880.
49 Why was the Kuki force formed?
Answer: - To counter the attack on North Cachar by the Angami Nagas.
50 In which place Ukiang Nongbah was hanged to death?
Answer: - Jowai.
51 In which year Jayantia Revolt came to an end?
Answer: - 1863.
52 Who was appointed as the Deputy Commissioner of Khashi Jayantia Hills?
Answer: - B.W.Morton.
53 Where is Patharughat situated?
Answer: - In the Mangaldai circle of Darrang district.
54 Who was the Circle Officer of Mangaldai during the Patharughat Revolt?
Answer: -Mr. Ransom.
55 Who was the Circle Officer of Barpeta during the revolt of Lachima?
Answer: - Madhab Chandra Bordoloi.
56 Which Chief Commissioner of Assam increased land revenue by 100% in 1892?
Answer: -Sir William Ward.
57 Who was the Commissioner of Assam during the Phulaghuri Dhawa?
Answer: - Major Henry Hopkinson.
58 Where is Phulaghuri located?
Answer: -Near Nowgaon.
59 Which community was the native inhabitant of Phulaghuri?
Answer: - Tiwa Community.
60 What was the commercial cultivation crop of the Tiwa Community of the Phulaghuri village?
Answer: -Poppy.
61 Opium is extracted from ___________________?
Answer: - Poppy.
62 Who was the Deputy Commissioner of Nowgaon at the time of Phulaghuri Dhawa (1861)?
Answer: - Herbert Sconce.
63 Name the peasants that were given death sentence on the charge of the murder of Singer?
Answer: - Lakkhan Deka, Songbor Lalung, Rongbor Deka.
64 Where is Koliyapani situated?
Answer: - Andaman and Nicobar islands.
65 Which two communities had voluntarily participated in the Phulaghuri Dhawa?
Answer: - Lalung (Tiwa) and Kaibortta (fishing).
66 Who was the Commissioner of Assam at the time of Phulaghuri Dhawa?
Answer: - Major Henry Hopkinson.
67 Who supervises the Raij Mels?
Answer: - Gaonburah, Doloi and Gosain of the society.
68 In which districts of Assam the British imposed the excise duties?
Answer: - Kamrup, Darrang and Nowgaon.
69 After the Revolt of 1857 through which act all the powers of the East India Company were transferred to the Queen of England?
Answer: - Queen’s Proclamation of 1858.
70 In which year Maniram Dewan was appointed as Shirastadar (Revenue Book Keeper) by the British Government?
Answer: - 1828 in Jorhat.
71 Which major incident occurred in Assam in 1894?
Answer: - Patharughat peasants’ uprising and Lachima uprising.
72 During the Anti British revolt in Asam Raij Mel was a ________________?
Answer: - People’s Assembly.
73 When was the Assam Tea Company established?
Answer: - 1839.
74 When did Maniram Dewan resigned from Assam Tea Company?
Answer: - 1844.
75 When and where did Maniram Dewan set up his own tea garden?
Answer: - 1844 in Jorhat.
76 Who was the Chief Officer of Sibsagar district in 1851?
Answer: - Captain Holroyd.
77 Who, along with Maniram Dewan, refused the pension of Rs. 1000 from the British?
Answer: - Prince Kameswar Singha.
78 When did Kameswar Singha expired?
Answer: - 1851.
79 Who was the father of the Ahom prince Kameswar Singha?
Answer: - Purandar Singha.
80 When Maniram Dewan went to Calcutta?
Answer: - Early part of 1857.
81 In which special jail Kandarpeswar Singha was kept?
Answer: - Special jail in Bardhaman.
82 Till which year Kandarpeswar Singha was kept in Bardhaman jail?
Answer: - 1860.
83 Kandarpeswar Singha was given a pension of how much rupees?
Answer: - Rs. 500/- (effect from 1853)
84 When did the British established tea gardens in Upper Assam?
Answer: - Early part of 19thcentury.
85 In which years cholera and measles took an epidemic form in Upper Assam?
Answer: - 1839, 1847 and 1852.
