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1. During the 1857 Mutiny, who was the trusted general to the Queen of Jhansi?
Nana Sahib
Tantia Tope
Man Singh
2. Who fired the first shot to ignite the mutiny among the disaffected Indian troopers of East India Company's Army?
Mangal Pandey
Jemadar Ishwari Prasad
Shaikh Paltu
3. Who had declared himself the emperor of whole of India when the sepoys had captured Delhi?
Bahadur Shah Zafar
Nana Sahib
Akbar Shah II
4. Who was the British commander of Lucknow when the Siege of Lucknow took place?
Herbert Edwardes
Henry Lawrence
John Nicholson
5. Which event led the British to impose a more formalised system of 'direct rule' in place of the previous 'indirect' system?
The Battle of Plassey
The Sepoy Mutiny
The 'Salt March' |
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6. What was the name of former Sardar of Gwalior Army, who betrayed Tatia Tope on April 7, 1859 and handed him to the British Army?
Man Singh
Gulab Singh
Lal Singh
7. Who led the Central India Field Force when the British Army laid a siege to Jhansi in March 1858?
Henry Havelock
Captain Mowbray Thomson
Sir Hugh Rose
8. General Lord Dalhousie’s “Doctrine of lapse” was connected with...?
Hiking of land revenue
Abolition of sati
Annexation of princely states
9. Who was the British officer who had shot Bahadur Shah Zafar's sons - Mirza Mughal, Mirza Khizr Sultan, and Mirza Abu Bakr - at Khooni Darwaza?
Gen Wheeler
William Hodson
Joyce Hearsay
10. Which Peshwa of the Marathas had led the rebelling sepoys in the siege of Cawnpore?
Nana Sahib
Madhava Rao
Baji Rao
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