Revolt of 1857 One Liner Questions & Answers
Revolt of 1857 One Liner Questions & Answers
| Questions | Answer | |
| 1 | When was the new Enfield Rifle with greased cartridges introduced in the British Indian Army? | December 1856 |
| 2 | The immediate cause of India’s first war of independence was – | Suspicion about British interference in religion |
| 3 | The Mangal Pandey incident took place at – | Barrackpore |
| 4 | Who was bestowed with the title of Saheb-e-Alam Bahadur by Bahadur Shah during the uprising of 1857? | Bakht Khan |
| 5 | What was the main cause of the 1857 revolt? | Policy of the British Empire |
| 6 | The first War of Independence (1857) started from – | Meerut |
| 7 | The first event relating to the War of Independence of 1857 was – | Marching of Sepoys to Delhi’s Red Fort. |
| 8 | The symbol of the 1857 independence struggle was – | Lotus and Chapatis |
| 9 | Which center of the uprising of 1857 was recaptured by the English? | Delhi |
| 10 | The birthplace of Maharani Laxmi Bai, the heroine of the 1857 freedom struggle, is – | Varanasi |
| 11 | Who was the leader of the revolt during 1857 at Bareilly? | Khan Bahadur |
| 12 | Where is the Samadhi of Maharani Laxmibai situated? | Gwalior |
| 13 | Maharani Laxmibai had combated in the last battle against – | Hugh Rose |
| 14 | The revolt of 1857 at Lucknow was led by – | Begum of Oudh |
| 15 | The revolutionary woman who led the revolution of 1857 in Oudh was – | Begum Hazrat Mahal |
| 16 | Who was the leader of the 1857 struggle for freedom in Lucknow? | Hazrat Mahal |
| 17 | Who was the leader of the 1857 uprising at Allahabad? | Maulvi Liaquat Ali |
| 18 | The largest number of soldiers who participated in the Struggle of 1857 came from – | Oudh |
| 19 | Who was the ‘commander-in-chief’ of Nana Saheb? | Tatya Tope |
| 20 | Azimullah Khan was an advisor to – | Nana Saheb |
| 21 | With reference to the ‘revolt of 1857’ who was betrayed by a ‘friend’ captured and put to death by the British? | Tatya Tope |
| 22 | The real name of which leaders of 1857 was ‘Ram Chandra Pandurang’? | Tatya Tope |
| 23 | Which place did Kunwar Singh, a prominent leader of the Revolt of 1857 belong to? | Bihar |
| 24 | Who spearheaded the 1857 Revolt in Bihar? | Kunwar Singh |
| 25 | Where did Kunwar Singh join the Rebellion of 1857 against the British? | Arrah |
| 26 | The Mutiny of 1857 at Patna was led by a dynamic old person known as – | Rajput Kunwar Singh |
| 27 | Who was the leader of the revolution of 1857 in Assam? | Diwan Maniram Dutta |
| 28 | The center of the 1857 revolt in Bihar from 15th July 1857 to 20th January 1858 was – | Jagdishpur |
| 29 | Which person of Jagdishpur took the lead of revolutionaries during the revolt of 1857 A.D. – | Kunwar Singh |
| 30 | Who defeated the joint army of the British and Jodhpur during the revolt of 1857 – | Thakur Kushal Singh of Auwa |
| 31 | Which brave from Bhopal led the main movement and sacrificed his life during the first struggle for Independence in 1857? | Fazil Mohammad Khan |
| 32 | Who was the bitterest enemy of the British during the Revolt of 1857? | Maulavi Ahmadullah Shah |
| 33 | The Revolt of 1857 was witnessed by the poet – | Ghalib |
| 34 | The original residence of Eminent Urdu Poet Mirza Ghalib was? | Agra |
| 35 | Which dynasty supported the British maximum during the 1857 Freedom Movement? | Scindias of Gwalior |
| 36 | The educated middle class in India – | Remained neutral to the revolt of 1857 |
| 37 | Who did not rebel against the British East India Company’s control over them? | Nizam of Hyderabad |
| 38 | Who was the Governor-General of India in 1857? | Canning |
| 39 | Who was the Governor-General of India during the Sepoy Mutiny? | Lord Canning |
| 40 | At the time of the 1857 Revolt who was the British Commanding officer at Barrackpore? | Hearsey |
| 41 | Who made Allahabad the emergency headquarters in 1857? | Lord Canning |
| 42 | Who was the British Prime minister during the revolt of 1857? | Palmerston |
| 43 | What was the main cause of the failure of the revolt of 1857? | Lack of common strategy and central organization |
| 44 | The British were able to suppress the uprising of 1857 in the Rajput state because – | The local Rajput rulers did not support revolutionaries |
| 45 | Who called the revolt of 1857 a conspiracy? | Sir James Outram and W. Taylor |
| 46 | Modern Historian, who called the revolt of 1857 the first Independence War was – | V. D. Savarkar |
| 47 | The official historian of the Indian Freedom struggle was – | S. N. Sen |
| 48 | The first Indian to write in the Indian language on the causes of the uprising of 1857 was – | Syed Ahmed Khan |
| 49 | Who wrote, “It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the so-called First National War of Independence of 1857 is neither first, nor National, nor a war of independence”? | R.C. Majumdar |
| 50 | Who was the prominent Indian Historian who did not accept the 1857 Revolution as a Revolution? | Dr. R.C. Majumdar |
| 51 | Who was the Correspondent of the Newspaper ‘Times’ published from London in 1857 wrote that “Nobody in North India looks at the white man’s car with friendly View”? | W.H. Russel |
| 52 | Which conceptions is true about the Revolt of 1857? |
It gave a death blow to the system of East India Company’s rule in India
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| 53 | When did Queen Victoria declare the taking over of the Indian Administration under the British crown? | 1 Nov. 1858 |
| 54 | Which commission is associated with the Army Reorganization after the suppression of the Revolt of 1857? | Peel Commission |
| 55 | After the revolt of 1857, the British recruited the Soldiers from the – | Gurkhas, Sikhs, and Punjabis in the North |