Correct Answer :   Kulin Kulasarvasva

It was Kulin Kulasarvasva(“All about a Kulin Clan”) by Pandit Ramnarayan Tarkaratnan. A social satire against the practice of polygamy. It was the first social drama in a regional language(Bengali) attacking Brahmin polygamy, was presented by an aristocratic family in 1857.

Correct Answer :   1848

Satara. The princely state of Satara in central India was founded in 1674 by Shivaji the Great (1627-1680) and ruled by the Bhonsle dynasty (who also provided the rulers of the states of Chittor and Udaipur) from then until it was annexed by the British Raj in 1848.

Correct Answer :   M.A. Jinnah

The Non-cooperation movement was launched on 5th September 1920 by Mahatma Gandhi with the aim of self-governance and obtaining full independence. Among the above mentioned leaders, M. A. Jinnah was not a part of the Non-cooperation Movement.

Correct Answer :   Maharaja Hari Singh

Maharaja Sir Hari Singh GCSI GCIE GCVO (23 September 1895 – 26 April 1961) was the last ruling Maharaja of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir in the British Raj and later India. He was one of the two members from India on Churchill's British War Cabinet in World War II.

Correct Answer :   1739

In the year 1739, the Marathas capture Salsette and Bassein by defeating the Portuguese with the leadership of Chimaji Appa (Brother of Bajirao I). In the same year, Nadir Shah invaded India.

Correct Answer :   Surat

By January 1613, the first East India Company factory had come up at Surat. Four centuries later, those early footprints of the British Empire have been obliterated.

Correct Answer :   Sashastra Seema Bal

The Special Service Bureau (now Sashastra Seema Bal) was conceived in November 1962 and eventually created in March 1963 with the sole objective of achieving ‘Total security preparedness’ in the remote border areas for performing a ‘stay-behind’ role in the event of a war. SSB was started in North Assam, North Bengal, hill districts of Uttar Pradesh (now Uttarakhand), Himachal Pradesh, part of Punjab and Ladakh area of J&K.

Correct Answer :   Prince of wales

Prince of Wales arrived in India on 7th November, 1921 during the Viceroy Ship of Lord Chelmsford. He was greeted with empty streets and Hartals. Some violent clashes took place in Mumbai. Gandhiji adjourned his plans for the Civil Disobedience Movement.

Correct Answer :   Butler Commission Report

A three -member committee headed by Harcourt Butler, appointed on December 16, 1927 to examine the relations between the native states and the paramount power, declined to define what paramountcy was but clearly and fortrightly stated that “paramountcy must remain paramount”. The committee fully endorsed that the viceroy, not the governor general should remain the Crown agent in dealing with the native states. In fact the right to protect includes right to internal intervention. Paramountcy is the supreme sovereign power which was kept above the reach of law and interpretation, to be exercised at the appropriate time subject to resiraints of morality and constitutional propriety against an erring ruler of a native statewhen other correctional means had proved to be futile. It is a concept developed into a deterrent in the political relation between the British and the Indian rulers.

Correct Answer :   Lord Ellenborough

During the Lord Ellenborough from 1842 to 1844, the state of Sindh was fully merged in the British Empire in August, 1843. The main reason being the First Anglo-Afghan War.