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The Summary Settlement of 1856 was based on which one of the following assumptions?

 

A) The Talukdars were the rightful owners of the land B) The Talukdars were interlopers with no permanent stakes in the land.
C) The Talukdars could evict the peasants from the lands D) The Talukdars would take a portion of the revenue which flowed to the State
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) The Talukdars were interlopers with no permanent stakes in the land.

Explanation:

The British land revenue policy further undermined the position and authority of the taluqdars. After annexation, the first British revenue settlement, known as the Summary Settlement of 1856, was based on the assumption that the taluqdars were interlopers with no permanent stakes in land: they had established their hold over land through force and fraud.

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Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

"Tryst with Destiny" was a speech delivered by Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of independent India, to the Indian Constituent Assembly in Parliament, on 14th August 1947. It is considered to be one of the greatest speeches of all times and to be a landmark oration that captures the essence of the triumphant culmination of the largely non­violent Indian independence struggle against the British Empire in India.

"Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. Freedom and power bring responsibility. The responsibility rests upon the assembly, a sovereign body representing the sovereign people of India. The service of India means the service of the millions who suffer. It means the ending of poverty and ignorance and disease and inequality of opportunity. We cannot encourage communalism or narrow­mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought or in action.

To the people of India, whose representatives we are, this is no time for petty and destructive criticism, no time for ill will or blaming others. We have to build the noble mansion of free India where all her children may dwell".

Choose the answer which captures Nehru's belief.

A) Nehru believed that India could achieve perfection immediately. B) Nehru said the India's struggle for freedom was new and sudden.
C) Nehru believed that India could take huge steps towards realising its dreams. D) Nehru believed that India's dreams were too unrealistic.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Nehru believed that India could take huge steps towards realising its dreams.

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To make the number pad act as a directional arrow, we press

A) Num lock B) Caps lock
C) Arrow lock D) Shift
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Shift

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In the 'Index of Eight core Industries'

which one of the following is given the highest weight?

A) Coal Produciton B) Electricity Generation
C) Fertilizer Production D) Steel Production
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Electricity Generation

Explanation:

The Eight Core Industries comprise nearly 38 % of the weight of items included in the Index of Industrial Production (IIP).  Electricity generation (weight: 10.32%)

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I don’t know whether the Madras Photographic Society has anything to do with the recently-publicised Chennai Photo Biennales, the first last year and the next scheduled for 2018, but participant or not, it certainly deserves a bow for being the country’s first photographic society. Its founder was an Army doctor, Alexander Hunter. The Society was founded in 1857, shortly after Lord Canning arrived as Governor-General. Canning and Lady Canning, both photography enthusiasts, were responsible for creating the famed Government series, The People of India. Hunter had still earlier, in 1850, privately started the Madras School of Arts. The School, taken over by Government in 1852, moved from Popham’s Broadway to Poonamallee High Road. There, he and an eight-member committee revised the syllabus, offering two streams, Industrial and Artistic. Hunter was put in charge of the institution, renamed the Government School of Industrial Arts, in 1855. It was the first formal school of Art in the country. In it, Hunter introduced Photography.

Hunter retired in 1868, to be succeeded by Robert Chisholm. No mean photographer, Hunter encouraged the School, it is now the Government College of Arts and Crafts to build up a photographic collection. Unfortunately, little is left of his work, especially the monuments of South India captured by Government photographer Linnaeus Tripe and his assistant C Iyahsawmi. Hunter himself did a series of pictures of the ‘Seven Pagodas’ (Mahabalipuram) and worked with his wards on photographs of the five hill tribes of the Nilgiris. It was at a prize-giving of the School that Hunter urged the Governor to provide it more suitable premises. They came up on the PH Road site in Chisholm’s time and to his design — and remain there.

 

Besides Artistic which was the other course on offer at the erstwhile Madras School of Arts?

A) Industrial B) History
C) Journalism D) Craft
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Industrial

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What will be the compound interest earned on an amount of Rs. 5000 in 2 years?

I. The simple interest on the same amount at the same rate of interest in 5 years is Rs.2000.

II. The compound interest and the simple interest earned in one year is the same.

III. The amount becomed more than double on compound interest in 10 years.

A) I only B) .I and II only
C) II and III only D) I and III only
 
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Bone deformities occur due to the excess intake of

A) Phosphorus B) Potassium
C) Fatty acid D) Fluorine
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Fluorine

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Select the synonym of

snatch

A) detonate B) bequeath
C) confer D) wrench
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) wrench

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