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The first Gandharva Mahavidyalaya, a music training school, was set up in 1901 by Vishnu Digambar Paluskar inRead the answer and worked solution →Who among the following was the founder of the 'Self-Respect Movement'?Read the answer and worked solution →By which one of the following Acts was the Governor General of Bengal designated as the Governor General of India?Read the answer and worked solution →Order the opening events of the revoltRead the answer and worked solution →Dates and placesRead the answer and worked solution →True or false: how the revolt beganRead the answer and worked solution →Tap every target the rebels struck at MeerutRead the answer and worked solution →Meerut or Delhi?Read the answer and worked solution →Complete the opening of the revoltRead the answer and worked solution →Assertion and reasonRead the answer and worked solution →Two are true, one is notRead the answer and worked solution →Three of these are wrong. Find the one that holds.Read the answer and worked solution →Flip and pair: detail with its place in the storyRead the answer and worked solution →Spot the one that does not belongRead the answer and worked solution →True or false: the spread of the revoltRead the answer and worked solution →Who took part?Read the answer and worked solution →Reading the chapterRead the answer and worked solution →Order the spread within MeerutRead the answer and worked solution →

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The first Gandharva Mahavidyalaya, a music training school, was set up in 1901 by Vishnu Digambar Paluskar in

  1. Delhi
  2. Gwalior
  3. Ujjain
  4. Lahore
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Correct answer: D. Lahore

UPSC CSE Prelims 2025 (GS-I, Set A), Q.18. Official answer key: D.

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Who among the following was the founder of the 'Self-Respect Movement'?

  1. 'Periyar' E. V. Ramaswamy Naicker
  2. Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
  3. Bhaskarrao Jadhav
  4. Dinkarrao Javalkar
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Correct answer: A. 'Periyar' E. V. Ramaswamy Naicker

UPSC CSE Prelims 2025 (GS-I, Set A), Q.78. Official answer key: A.

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By which one of the following Acts was the Governor General of Bengal designated as the Governor General of India?

  1. The Regulating Act
  2. The Pitt's India Act
  3. The Charter Act of 1793
  4. The Charter Act of 1833
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Correct answer: D. The Charter Act of 1833

Answer: D. The Charter Act of 1833 designated the Governor-General of Bengal as Governor-General of India. The Charter Act 1833 was a landmark in British Indian administrative consolidation: - Renamed Governor-General of Bengal (created by Regulating Act 1773 and Pitt's India Act 1784) to GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA - Vested all civil and military authority in him for the entire British Indian territory - Made him head of the four presidencies (Bengal, Madras, Bombay, Agra) - Lord William Bentinck became the FIRST Governor-General of India in 1833 Distractors: (A) Regulating Act 1773 created the post of Governor-General of FORT WILLIAM (Bengal) with Warren Hastings as the first. (B) Pitt's India Act 1784 created the Board of Control but did not change the Governor-General's territorial designation. (C) Charter Act 1793 continued the existing system renewal of EIC charter. Source: syllabus Indian Constitution at Work Ch 1 / Themes in Indian History Part III.

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