Daily Quiz: UPSC Prelims Marathon- July 17

Both the statements are incorrect.

Statement 1 is incorrect because the Khilafat Movement (1919-20) was a movement to express the Muslim support for the Caliph of Turkey against the allied powers.

Statement 2 is incorrect. Gandhi did not call Maulana Muhammad Ali and Shaukat Ali to launch Khilafat Movement.

More about Khilafat movement 1919-20:

• The period 1919-22 is understood as the heyday of Hindu-Muslim unity against the colonial rule.
• After 1922 a series of differences between the Khilafat and Non-Cooperation leaderships intersected with growing popular conflict between Hindu and Muslim communities.

The correct pairing is:

• Franchise Committee – Lord Southborough
• Functions Committee – Richard Feetam
• Committee on Home Administration- Lord Crewe (Marquess of Crewe)

About Montague declaration:

• The Montague declaration was titled: “Increasing association of Indians in every branch of administration, and the Gradual development of self governing Institutions with a view to the progressive realization of responsible governments in India as an Integral part of the British Empire”.
• The Keyword was Responsible Government; the rulers must be answerable to the elected representatives.

Statement 1 is incorrect. Communist party of India was launched in Tashkent in October 1920.

Statement 2 is correct.

More Details:

• In 1924, Satyabhakta announced the formation of CPI and he became the secretary.
• Most of these of groups came together at Kanpur in December 1925 and founded an all India organization under the name of Communist Party Of India in December 1925. V. Ghate became general secretary of CPI.

Option b is the correct answer.

Explanation:

Nasadiya Sukta which talks about the origin of the Universe is in 10th Mandala. It begins by paradoxically stating “not the non-existent existed, nor did the existent exist then” and has attracted large body of literature of commentaries both in Indian theology and in Western philology.

Option b is the correct answer.

Nirvana in Buddhism:

• Nirvana is part of the Third Truth on “cessation of dukha” in the Four Noble Truths.
• The term nirvana describes a state of freedom from suffering and rebirth.
• Nirvana literally means extinguishing or unbinding. The implication is that it is freedom from whatever binds you, from the burning passion of desire, jealousy, and ignorance. Once these are totally overcome, a state of bliss is achieved, and there is no longer the need the cycle of birth and death. All karmic debts are settled.

All the above statements are correct.

More Information:

• In 1773, he was appointed the Governor General of Fort Williams, commonly called as Governor General of India.
• The first thing Warren Hastings did was to end the Dual System put forth by his predecessor Clive. When he abolished the system, he cut down the Nawab of Bengal’s Pension to one-half.
• Next step that he took was to stop the payments of Tributes to the Delhi Emperor.

Neither of the statements is incorrect.

Major points of Poona Pact:

• 148 seats were to be allotted to the depressed classes in the provincial legislatures. This was more than double from the 71 seats as promised in the Communal Award.
• Certain percentage of the seats allotted to the general Non-Muslim electorate would be reserved for the depressed classes.
• Congress agreed that adequate representation would be given to the depressed classes in the civil services.
• The depressed classes agreed to adhere to the principle of Joint Electorate.

 Joint Electorate:

• The election to the seats (as mentioned above) was to be by joint electorates. This means that all the members of the depressed classes registered in the general electoral roll in a constituency would form an electoral college which would elect a panel of four candidates belonging to the depressed classes of the reserved seats by the method of the single vote.
• The four members getting the highest number of votes in such primary election would be candidates for each such reserved seats by the general electorate.