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The correct answer is John Simon.

Key Points

Cabinet Mission Plan:

• The Cabinet Mission plan was announced in the year 1946 by Attlee, the Prime minister of England.
• Cabinet Mission is composed of three Cabinet Ministers of England.
• Sir Pethick Lawrence, Sir Stafford Cripps, Alexander.
• The main objective of the Cabinet Mission Plan was to transfer the power from the British government to the Indian leadership
• The cabinet mission recommended an Undivided India and rejected the demand of the Muslim League for a separate Pakistan.

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Key Proposals of the Cabinet Mission Plan:

• Rejected the demand for a sovereign Pakistan.
• Grouping of existing assemblies into 3 sections A, B and C.
• Provincial autonomy and residual powers.
• Three-tier executive and legislature at the province, princely states, and union level.
• Union government will be in-charge only of defence, foreign affairs, and communications.

The corrcet answer is Lord Mayo.

Key Points

• Lord Mayo’s Resolution of 1870 on Financial Decentralisation visualised the development of local self-government institutions.
• Its resolution pertained to financial decentralization which was a legislative devolution inaugurated by the Indian Council Act of 1861.
• Apart from the annual grant from the imperial government, the provincial governments were authorized to resort to local taxation to balance their budgets.

Additional Information

Lord Mayo

• He served as the 4^th Viceroy of India from 12 January 1869 to 8 February 1872.
• He followed the policy of non-intervention.
• India’s census began during his tenure.
• He was assassinated at the penal settlement of Port Blair in the Andaman Islands.

The correct answer is Quit India Movement

Key Points

Quit India Movement:

• In August 1942, there were demonstrations and strikes at various places in Uttarakhand.
• In Deghat (Almora), the police opened fire on the agitators, in which Hiramani, Harikrishna, Badridutt, and Kandpal were martyred.
• On August 25, 1942, a battle of stones and bullets took place between the army and the public at Dhamdho (Salam) of Almora.
• Two prominent leaders Tika Singh and Narsingh Dhanak were martyred in this struggle.
• Like Salam, in the Salt region too, on September 5, 1942, at a place called Khumad, which was the headquarters of the Salt Congress, the British army opened fire on the Public and two real brothers named Gangaram and Khimdev were martyred.

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• Choodamani and Bahadur Singh, who was badly injured by bullets, were martyred a few days later.
• The role of Salt in the freedom movement was honoured by Mahatma Gandhi with the title of ‘Kumaon ka Bardoli’.
• Even today, Martyrs Memorial Day is celebrated on 5^th September every year in Khumad.
• Dak bungalows and many government buildings of Nainital and Chamoli were burnt during the Quit India Movement.
• The British government was shocked by the Garhwal movement.
• During the freedom movement, Sadanand Kukreti opened a national school in Silangi (Garhwal), Devaki Nandan Pandey and Bhagirathi Pandey established Prem Vidyalaya in Tarikhet.

The correct answer is Persian.

Key Points 

Raja Ram Mohan Roy (1772-1833)

• He wrote "A Gift to Monotheists"(Tulfat-ul-Muwahhidin) in Persian in 1804.
• He was an Indian reformer who was one of the founders of Brahmo Sabha.
• He abolished Sati Pratha.
• Mughal emperor Akbar II gave him the title of Raja.
• Raja Ram Mohan Roy was one of the founders of the Brahmo Sabha(1828), the precursor of the Brahmo Samaj, a social-religious reform movement in the Indian subcontinent.

Additional Information

• In 1814, Raja Ram Mohan Roy Formed Atmiya Sabha. Atmiya Sabha tried to initiate social and religious reforms in society.
• His influence was apparent in the fields of politics, public administration, education, and religion.
• He was known for his efforts to abolish the practices of Sati and child marriage.
• He was given the title of Bharatpathik by Rabindranath Tagore.
• Raja Ram Mohan Roy was given the title of "Father of the Indian Renaissance" by Gopal Krishna Gokhale.

The correct answer is Kausani.

Key Points

• In 1929 Mahatma Gandhi completed his translation of Anasakti Yoga at Kausani
• Kausani is a hill station and Village situated in Bageshwar district in the state of Uttarakhand,
• It is famous for its panoramic view of Himalayan peaks like Trisul, Nanda Devi and Panchchuli.
• Mahatma Gandhi called this place the 'Switzerland of India.

Additional Information

• Anasakti Yoga is a philosophy and way of life advocated by Mahatma Gandhi that essentially encourages non-attachment to anything in the material world.
• Anasakti yoga is the practice of letting go of any attachment to the results of one’s actions

The correct answer is Manvendra Shah.

Key Points

• ​When India got independence, Manvendra Shah was the king of Tehri.
• ‘The land of celestial beauty is the title which is given to the Tehri Garhwal district of Uttrakhand.

Additional Information 

• It is believed that Vedas, shastras, and Mahabharta were written in Garhwal.
• In Garhwal, Kanak Pal was the first ruler.
• There was no influence of the mighty Mughals in the Garhwal region.
• The region emerged as an independent kingdom.
• The kings of the Garhwal region maintained diplomatic relations with the Mughals.
• Later, the Pala rulers were called Shahs.
• The Title of Shah was given by Mughal rulers.

The correct answer is Sudarshan Shah​.

Key Points King Sudarshan Shah:

• He established his capital at Tehri town and afterwards his successors Pratap Shah, Kirti Shah and Narendra Shah established their capital at Pratap Nagar, Kirti Nagar and Narendra Nagar respectively.
• Their dynasty ruled over this region from 1815 to 1949.
• During the Quit India Movement, people of this region actively participated for the independence of the country.
• Ultimately when the country was declared independent in 1947, the inhabitants of Tehri Riyasat started their movement for getting themselves freed from the clutches of Maharaja.
• Due to the movement, the situation became out of his control and was difficult for him to rule over the region.
• Consequently, the 60^th king of Pawar Vansh Manvendra Shah accepted the sovereignty of the Indian Government.
• Thus in 1949 Tehri Riyasat was merged into Uttar Pradesh and was given the status of a new district.
• Being a scattered region it posed numerous problems for expediting development.
• Resultantly on 24^th February 1960, the U.P. Government separated it’s one tehsil which was given the status of a separate district named Uttarkashi.

Tehri Garhwal Kingdom:

• Tehri Garhwal or the Garhwal Kingdom was a princely state ruled by the Parmar( Shah ) Dynasty.
• Later it became a part of the Punjab Hill States Agency of British India, which consists of the present-day Tehri Garhwal and most of the Uttarkashi district.

The correct answer is Revolt of 1857.

Key Points

Kalu Singh Mahara

• He was a Kumaoni leader during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
• He is known as a freedom fighter from the state of Uttarakhand, then in the United Province.
• Kalu Singh began a campaign named as Krantiveer. It became was popular among freedom-loving Kumaonis.
• Mahara is a surname found in Kumaon Division of Uttarakhand. Some people write their surname in its variant spelling in English as Mehra.
• Kalu Singh Mahara was Thakur of Bisung Patti of Kumaon(Kumaun), known as Karnakarayat now.

The correct answer is Babarnama. 

Key Point

• Babarnama is also known as Tuzuk-i-Baburi.
• Babur and Jahangir are the only two emperors of Mughal Empire who wrote their own biographies.
• He was the Founder of the Mughal Empire and a great-great-great-grandson of Timur.
• It is written in the Chatagatai language.
• Babur was an educated Timurid prince.
• His conservations and comments in his memoirs reflect an interest in nature, society, economic, and politics.

Additional Information

• 'Tarikh-e-Badauni' Badauni's History and contains the history of Muslim India.
• It criticized the religious practices of Akbar, thus was suppressed until the reign of Jahangir in the early 17^th century.
• Mughal Emperor Jahangir wrote autobiography "Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri".
• His autobiography also reflects the royal ideology views on various political, religious and social issues.
• Jahangir made various attempts to halt corruption within the Jagirdars.
• The Shahjahannama (Chronicle of Shah Jahan)
• It is a genre of works written about the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan.
• Padshahnama is a term for lavishly illuminated versions.
• A significant work in this genre was written by the historian Inayat Khan in the 17^th century.
• The first complete English translation from Persian appeared in the 19^th century by A. R. Fuller.

The correct answer is Mexico.

• The Equator does not pass through Mexico.

Key Points 

• The Equator passes through 13 countries, 3 continents, and 3 water bodies.
• South America: Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil
• Africa: Gabon, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Sao Tome and Principe, Somalia.
• Asia: Maldives, Indonesia, Kiribati (Oceania).
• Water Bodies: Indian Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean.

Additional Information 

• The Equator is the imaginary line around the middle of a planet or other celestial body.
• The equator divides the Earth into a Northern Hemisphere and a Southern Hemisphere.