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The correct answer is Alauddin Hussein Shah.

Key Points

• Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was a contemporary of Alauddin Husain Shah, the founder of Husain Shahi Dynasty in Bengal.
• The reign of Husain Shah is also known for religious tolerance towards his subjects.
• Husain Shah offered all facilities to Sri Chaitanya in his religious propagation.

Chaitanya Mahaprabhu

• Chaitanya Mahaprabhu**(1486 - 1534)** was a Vedic spiritual leader.
• He founded Gaudiya Vaishnavism.
• Chaitanya was the advocator for the Vaishnava school of Bhakti yoga.
• He is revered as Krishna.
• He popularized the chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra.
• He composed the Siksastakam (eight devotional prayers) in Sanskrit.

Important Points Ala-ud-din Husain Shah

• Ala-ud-din Husain Shah (1494–1519) founded the Hussain Shahi dynasty.
• He was the son of Ashraf Husaini, a resident of Tirmiz in Turkistan.
• After assassinating Shams-ud-Din Muzaffar Shah, the Abyssinian Sultan under whom he had served as wazir, he became the ruler of Bengal.
• Husain Shah's and Nusrat Shah's reigns are widely considered the Bengal Sultanate's ‘golden age.’
• Husain's reign came to an end in 1519.

The correct answer is Sri Lanka .

Key Points

• Sri Lanka is gearing up to host the Fifth Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) Summit.

BIMSTEC

• BIMSTEC is a regional multilateral organization comprising 7 Member States lying in the littoral and adjacent areas of the Bay of Bengal.
• This sub-regional organization came into being on 6 June 1997 through the Bangkok Declaration.
• The seven Member States ae Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Thailand.
• It has its secretariat at Dhaka, Bangladesh.
• Initially, the economic bloc was formed with 4 Member States with the acronym ‘BIST-EC’ (Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka and Thailand Economic Cooperation).
• BIMSTEC Centres
• BIMSTEC Energy Centre
• BIMSTEC Centre on Weather and Climate

significance of BIMSTEC

• The BIMSTEC region is home to around 1.5 billion people which constitute around 22% of the global population with a combined GDP of 2.7 trillion economy.
• In the last five years, BIMSTEC member states have been able to sustain an average 6.5% economic growth trajectory despite global financial meltdown.
• BIMSTEC is a sector-driven cooperative organization focussing on agriculture, public health, poverty alleviation, counter-terrorism, environment, culture, climate change, etc.

The correct answer is Mahatma Gandhi.

Key PointsHind Swaraj 

• Gandhi wrote Hind Swaraj in 1908 during his return visit to South Africa from India via London by ship.
• He completed writing in just ten days, and that too with left hand when the right hand started paining.
• The book first appeared in installment in Indian Opinion, and then came in a book form (in Gujarati) in 1909.
• It was proscribed at once by the Government of Bombay. Following the Upanishad tradition, he cast the book in the form of a dialogue between himself the ‘The Editor’, and an interlocutor ‘The Reader’
• The book was banned in 1910 by the British government in India as a seditious text.
• The goal of Swaraj had to be the welfare of the whole people to be attained through the principle of Swadeshi.
• This signified that each person should serve his immediate neighbours rather than pretend to serve every individual in the universe. This was the only way to attain Home Rule.

Additional Information Mahatma Gandhi’s Important Books

Mahatma Gandhi Slogans

He gave various slogans during his freedom struggle such as

• Do or Die
• Nonviolence is a weapon of strong
• Be the change that you want to see in the world
• In a gentle way, you can shake the world

The correct answer is Winston Churchill.

Key Points

• Winston Churchill described Mahatma Gandhi as a 'Seditious Middle Temple Lawyer' now 'posing as a half-naked fakir', because of the latter’s decision to dress like a poor man to show his solidarity with the socially and economically deprived.
• In 1931, at the Round Table Conference in England, Gandhi wore a short dhoti and chaddar, eliciting the aforementioned comment from Churchill.
• The symbolic strength of Gandhi’s dress lay in its simplicity—he used it to show his support for the poor, to encourage the boycott of British goods, and to erase religious differences and class distinctions.

The correct answer is Butane.

Key PointsLPG – Liquefied Petroleum Gas 

• LPG is composed mainly of propane and butane, while natural gas is composed of the lighter methane and ethane.
• The percentage of propane and butane in an LPG gas mixture ranges from 100% propane to 20% propane and 80% butane.
• Liquefied petroleum gas is mainly used like fossil fuel. It is mainly a non renewable source of energy that is extracted from natural gas and crude oil.
• Liquefied petroleum gas runs readily in the air.
• Liquefied petroleum gas mainly is considered as the heavy absorbable components that are recovered from petroleum components are distilled and used for the removal of hydrogen sulfate, water, and carbon dioxide.
• Liquefied consumption reaches domestic consumption and is delivered in the cylinder under relatively low pressure that is mainly to help to carry the gases from one place to another for domestic uses purposes but if it is not stored properly a fire explosion hazard can take place.
• It is economically cheap as well as it has excellent capacity used in heating.

The correct answer is Shinjo Abe.

Key Points

• Former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe was conferred with the Netaji Award 2022 by the Netaji Research Bureau on the 125^th birth anniversary of the freedom fighter, Netaji Subash Chandra Bose.
• Consul general of Japan in Kolkata, Nakamura Yutaka, received the honor on behalf of former PM Shinzo Abe.
• Shinzo Abe was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) from 2006 to 2007 and 2012 to 2020.
• He was the longest-serving prime minister in Japanese history, for almost nine years.

Additional Information 

• Abe was assassinated on 8 July 2022 while delivering a campaign speech in Nara two days before the 10 July upper house elections.
• The suspect, who was immediately arrested by police, confessed to targeting the former prime minister because of Abe's ties with the Unification Church.
• Abe's assassination was the first assassination of a former Japanese prime minister since 1936.

The correct answer is 1989.

Key Points

• Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana is a combination of the provisions under the Employment Assurance Scheme (EAS) and Jawahar Gram Samridhi Yojana (JGSY).
• Jawahar Rozgar Yojana (JRY) was launched on April 1, 1989, by merging National Rural Employment Programme and Rural Landless Employment Guarantee Programme by Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
• The urban version of this program was Nehru Rozgar Yojana.
• This was a consolidation of the previous employment programs and it was the largest National Employment Program of India at that time with a general objective of providing 90-100 Days of Employment per person particularly in backward districts.
• People below Poverty Line were the main targets.
• The Yojna was implemented on a rural scale.
• Every village was to be covered through Panchayati Raj Institutions.
• The village got aid and support from District Rural Development Authority.
• Expenditures were born by central & state in 80:20 ratios.

The correct answer is 1918.

Key Points

• The Montague-Chelmsford reforms were announced in 1918.
• They were also known as the Government of India Act 1919.
• According to the act, there were two parts to the central legislature.
• The subjects to be governed were divided into two parts, the reserved and the transferred.
• The reforms take their name from Edwin Montagu, the Secretary of State for India from 1917 to 1922, and Lord Chelmsford, the Viceroy of India between 1916 and 1921.
• The important features of this act were that:
• 1. The Imperial Legislative Council was now to consist of two houses: the Central Legislative Assembly and the Council of State.

2. The provinces were to follow the Dual Government System or dyarchy

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Additional Information

• The Montagu-Chelmsford report stated that there should be a review after 10 years. Sir John Simon headed the committee (Simon Commission) responsible for the review, which recommended further constitutional change.
• Three round table conferences were held in London in 1930, 1931, and 1932 with the representation of the major interests.
• Mahatma Gandhi attended the 1931 round table after negotiations with the British Government.
• The major disagreement between the Indian National Congress and the British was separate electorates for each community which Congress opposed but which were retained in Ramsay MacDonald's Communal Award.
• A new Government of India Act 1935 was passed continuing the move towards self-government first made in the Montagu-Chelmsford Report.

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The correct answer is Dadabhai Naoroji.

Key Points

• Dadabhai Naoroji affectionately known as "The Grand Old Man of India", was an ardent patriot, a great social and political reformer, and a prominent nationalist of progressive views.
• He was the first Indian to be elected to the British Parliament, and the first Indian to sit on a Royal Commission (the Welby Commission).
• He was also known as the "Unofficial Ambassador of India".
• His book Poverty and Un-British Rule in India brought attention to his theory of the Indian "wealth drain" into Britain.
• Naoroji's work focused on the drain of wealth from India to Britain during the period rule of British rule in India.