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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 →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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Order the opening events of the revolt

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  1. Sepoys at the Meerut cantonment break out in mutiny on 10 May 1857
  2. The rising spreads from the native infantry to the cavalry and the city
  3. Ordinary people of the town and villages join the sepoys
  4. Government buildings are destroyed and the telegraph line to Delhi is cut
  5. A group of sepoys rides for Delhi and reaches the Red Fort on 11 May
The chapter's own sequence, from Meerut to the Red Fort. Source: syllabus History, Rebels and the Raj.

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