[DAY 52] 60 DAY RAPID REVISION (RaRe) SERIES for UPSC Prelims 2022 – HISTORY, CURRENT AFFAIRS & CSAT; Test Series, Videos & Notes!

Though the Portuguese were the first to arrive in India, they were incapable of maintaining a trade monopoly in the East for a long because-

1. Its merchants enjoyed more power than its landed aristocrats.
2. Portuguese lagged behind in the development of shipping as compared to other European powers.
3. They followed a policy of religious intolerance.

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With reference to the Permanent Settlement, consider the following statements:

1. The right of ownership of land was made hereditary and transferable.
2. There was no provision for the delay in revenue payments by the Zamindars.
3. The land revenue was reviewed periodically with improvements in agricultural productivity.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Which of the following statements is not correct about the press in India?

Which of the following statements are correct with respect to the religious principles of Arya Samaj?

1. It accepted the authority of the later Hindu scriptures like the Puranas.
2. It supported Idolatry and Polytheism in the Hindu Society.
3. It subscribed to the Vedic notion of the four Varna system.
4. It accepted that the physical world is an illusion (Maya).

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Consider the following statements with respect to the important changes introduced by the British after 1857 Revolt:

1. The British were to respect the customary, religious and social practices of the people in India.
2. The proportion of Indian soldiers in the army was to be increased and the number of European soldiers was to be reduced.
3. The land and property of Muslims was confiscated on a large scale and they were treated with suspicion and hostility.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Which of the following factors resulted in popular support for the Home Rule League?

1. The World War destroyed the myth of racial superiority of the colonial powers.
2. Heavy taxation and high prices during the World War.
3. Failure of the Congress to launch mass movement under moderate leadership.

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Consider the following statements:

1. Congress Interim Government, under Vallabh Bhai Patel, was sworn-in in 1946.
2. The Muslim League boycotted the Constituent Assembly.
3. Jawahar Lal Nehru and the Congress rejected Plan Balkan by Mountbatten.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Concerning the Indian Independence movement, which of the following events took place after the end of World War II?

1. Tebhaga Movement
2. Worli Revolt
3. Eka Movement
4. Punnapra-Vayalar Episode

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With reference to INA agitation, consider the following statements:

1. Besides the Congress, the Muslim League and Hindu Mahasabha also supported the INA cause.
2. N. Katju and Bhulabhai Desai were among the leaders who organized the defense of INA prisoners in court.
3. Mass pressure against the trial of INA prisoners is described as ‘an edge of a volcano’.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

In the context of colonial history, the ‘Strachey Commission’ and ‘Woodhead Commission’ were appointed to-

Which of the following statements are correct, with reference to the work done by Congress Ministries after the provincial elections of 1937?

1. They repealed restrictions on the press and radical organizations.
2. Power of the police was curbed and political prisoners including a large number of revolutionary terrorists were released.
3. Agrarian legislation was passed dealing with tenancy rights and other protections to the peasant debtors.

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Consider the following statements with regard to Harappan civilization:

1. Grains found at Harappan sites include Wheat, barley, chickpea and lentil.
2. Domestication of animals like cattle, sheep, goat and buffalo was practiced.
3. Harappans ploughed and irrigated their agricultural fields.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements:

1. Rig Veda includes many hymns called sukta.
2. The battles during Rig Vedic period were fought for cattle, land, water and to capture people.
3. Samaveda contains charms and skills to ward off evils and diseases.

Which of the statements given above is/are incorrect?

In the context of Mahayana Buddhism, consider the following statements:

1. Kanishka held a Buddhist council in Kashmir, where the doctrines of Mahayana were finalized.
2. The fourth Buddhist council was presided over by Vasumitra.
3. Some of the scriptures of Mahayana school were based on Abhidharma texts.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Which of the statements given below is incorrect:

Consider the following statements regarding Khujraho school of temple:

1. It was developed by Chandela rulers and followed Panchayatan style.
2. The antarala was vestibular entrance to the garbhagriha in the temple.
3. They were made of sandstone and shikharas had created an impression of mountain range.

Which of the above statements are correct?

With reference to the temples outside India’s present boundary consider the following statements:

1. With spread of Indian culture in the South East Asian Region temple were also erected that has the dominant elements of Dravidic style of Indian temple architecture.
2. The Angkor group of temples were built in the period of Sailendra kingdom Sumatra.
3. The Preah Vihar Temple is dedicated to manifestation of Lord Shiva and remained boundary dispute between Cambodia and Thailand, later awarded to Thailand by ICJ in 1962.

Which of the above statement/s is/are incorrect?

Which of the following statements is/are correct regarding Traditional Theatre forms of India?

1. Dashavatar is a folk theatre form practised in the Konkan region of Maharashtra and Goa, in which ten incarnations of Lord Vishnu are depicted.
2. Nacha is a popular folk theatre of West Bengal, where Comedy is an essential aspect.
3. Mudiyettu is a ritual theatre form of Kerala where mythological tale of Mohini and Bhasmasur is the main subject.

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Consider the following pairs:

Book                                               Associated with

1. Manzil-abadi             Religious and Cultural traditions
2. Sipah-abadi               Military and civil administration
3. Mulk-abadi                Fiscal side of the empire

Which of the pairs given above are correctly matched?

Consider the following statements:

1. Milkiyat lands were cultivated for the private use of zamindars.
2. The buying and selling of zamindaris accelerated the process of monetization in the countryside.
3. Most zamindars had armed contingent comprising units of cavalry, artillery and infantry.

Which of the statement given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements regarding ‘Solid Fuel Ducted Ramjet technology’

1. SFDR is a missile propulsion system that utilizes a solid fueled air-breathing ramjet technology
2. The SFDR-based propulsion enables the missile to intercept aerial threats at very long range at supersonic speeds
3. It is an extremely long-range missile with a projected range of 3500 km

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Consider the following statements regarding ‘Rashtriya Gram Swaraj Abhiyan’:

1. It is a centrally sponsored scheme to develop governance capabilities of Panchayat Raj Institutions(PRIs)
2. The scheme extends to all states and UTs and also includes institutions of rural local governments where panchayats do not exist

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With reference to ‘UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)’, consider the following statements:

1. It is a specialized agency of the United Nations established by the UN Charter
2. It is elected by the UN General Assembly for a period of two years

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Consider the following countries:

1. Djibouti
2. Qatar
3. Ethiopia
4. Sudan
5. Eritrea

Which of the countries mentioned above border Red Sea?

Consider the following statements regarding ‘National Cyber Security Incident Response Exercise’:

1. It is launched with an aim to simulate a response to major cyber security breach to a critical infrastructure
2. It is conducted by CERT-IN and I4C
3. The participants will be trained on Intrusion Detection Techniques, Malware Information Sharing Platform (MISP), Vulnerability Handling & Penetration Testing

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A trader sells 85 m of cloth for Rs. 9520 at the profit of Rs. 15/m of cloth. What is the cost price of 1 m of cloth?

A person bought a car and sold it for Rs. 4,20,000. If he incurred a loss of 20%, then how much did he spend to buy the car?

Cost price of 12 guavas is equal to the selling price of 9 guavas and the discount on 10 guavas is equal to the profit on 5 guavas. What is the percentage point difference between the profit percentage and discount percentage?

Amrutha and Harshitha invested some amount of money in the ratio of 3 : 5 for the same period in the business. They decided that at the end of the year 20% profit was to be given to a charity as a donation. Out of the remaining, 75% was to be reinvested and the rest of the profit was to be divided as interest on their capitals. If the difference in their share is Rs. 1500. Find the total profit?

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow each passage. Your answer to these questions should be based on passage only.

It is a curious and prevalent opinion that literature, like all art, is a mere play of imagination, pleasing enough, like a new novel, but without any serious or practical importance. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Literature preserves the ideals of a people; and ideals–love, faith, duty, friendship, freedom, reverence–are the part of human life most worthy of preservation. The Greeks were a marvelous people; yet of all their mighty works we cherish only a few ideals,–ideals of beauty in perishable stone, and ideals of truth in imperishable prose and poetry. It was simply the ideals of the Greeks and Hebrews and Romans, preserved in their literature, which made them what they were, and which determined their value to future generations. Our democracy, the boast of all English-speaking nations, is a dream; not the doubtful and sometimes disheartening spectacle presented in our legislative halls, but the lovely and immortal ideal of a free and equal manhood, preserved as a most precious heritage in every great literature from the Greeks to the Anglo-Saxons. All our arts, our sciences, even our inventions are founded squarely upon ideals; for under every invention is still the dream of Beowulf, that man may overcome the forces of nature; and the foundation of all our sciences and discoveries is the immortal dream that men “shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.”

In a word, our whole civilization, our freedom, our progress, our homes, our religion, rest solidly upon ideals for their foundation. Nothing but an ideal ever endures upon earth. It is therefore impossible to overestimate the practical importance of literature, which preserves these ideals from fathers to sons, while men, cities, governments, civilizations, vanish from the face of the earth. It is only when we remember this that we appreciate the action of the devout Mussulman, who picks up and carefully preserves every scrap of paper on which words are written, because the scrap may perchance contain the name of Allah, and the ideal is too enormously important to be neglected or lost.

We are now ready, if not to define, at least to understand a little more clearly the object of our present study. Literature is the expression of life in words of truth and beauty; it is the written record of man’s spirit, of his thoughts, emotions, aspirations; it is the history, and the only history, of the human soul. It is characterized by its artistic, its suggestive, its permanent qualities. Its two tests are its universal interest and its personal style. Its object, aside from the delight it gives us, is to know man, that is, the soul of man rather than his actions; and since it preserves to the race the ideals upon which all our civilization is founded, it is one of the most important and delightful subjects that can occupy the human mind.

 Which among the following can be correctly inferred from the passage?