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Pop the 1857 centresRead the answer and worked solution →Find the real nameRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the 1857 wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Before or after 1857Read the answer and worked solution →Which centreRead the answer and worked solution →Type the yearRead the answer and worked solution →1857 bingoRead the answer and worked solution →The Muslim League argued that India was made of two peoples, Hindus and Muslims. What was this called?Read the answer and worked solution →Why did Pakistan emerge as two separate territories in 1947?Read the answer and worked solution →Which leader of the North Western Frontier Province, called Frontier Gandhi, opposed the two-nation theory?Read the answer and worked solution →Which two provinces were split at district level because both had large non-Muslim areas?Read the answer and worked solution →About how many people were forced to migrate across the new border in 1947?Read the answer and worked solution →What share of India's population was Muslim in 1951, after Partition migration?Read the answer and worked solution →Gandhi's last fast, which calmed communal violence in Delhi, was in which month and year?Read the answer and worked solution →Who shot Mahatma Gandhi at his evening prayer on 30 January 1948?Read the answer and worked solution →Which organisation was banned for some time after Gandhi's assassination?Read the answer and worked solution →How many princely states became legally free when British paramountcy lapsed?Read the answer and worked solution →Which princely state was the first to announce it would stay independent?Read the answer and worked solution →Who, as Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister, negotiated the princely states into India?Read the answer and worked solution →Rulers who agreed to join India signed which document?Read the answer and worked solution →How was the accession of Junagadh finally settled?Read the answer and worked solution →The Nizam of Hyderabad signed a Standstill Agreement with India in which month?Read the answer and worked solution →What was the Nizam's para-military force that attacked the people of Hyderabad called?Read the answer and worked solution →When did the Indian army move into Hyderabad, forcing the Nizam to surrender?Read the answer and worked solution →Which was the first part of India to hold an election on universal adult franchise, in June 1948?Read the answer and worked solution →Congress accepted the linguistic principle for its own organisation after which session?Read the answer and worked solution →Potti Sriramulu died after a fast of how many days for a separate Andhra?Read the answer and worked solution →The States Reorganisation Commission was set up in 1953. Its Act of 1956 created how many states?Read the answer and worked solution →Maharashtra and Gujarat were carved from bilingual Bombay state in which year?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the hard casesRead the answer and worked solution →

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Pop the 1857 centres

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Other terms
  1. Madras
  2. Bombay
  3. Goa
Matching terms
  1. Meerut
  2. Delhi
  3. Kanpur
  4. Lucknow
Instructions
Pop the towns that were centres of the 1857 uprising.
_Source: syllabus History, Our Pasts III, Chapter 5, When People Rebel, 1857 and After._

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Find the real name

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Questions
  1. Correct
    Meerut
    Choices
    1. Meerut
    2. Meerat
    3. Meeraz
  2. Correct
    Zafar
    Choices
    1. Zafir
    2. Zafar
    3. Zafur
  3. Correct
    Tantia
    Choices
    1. Tantio
    2. Tantoa
    3. Tantia
  4. Correct
    Kunwar
    Choices
    1. Kunwar
    2. Kunwer
    3. Kunwor
  5. Correct
    Bakht
    Choices
    1. Bakhat
    2. Bakht
    3. Bakhit
  6. Correct
    Awadh
    Choices
    1. Awodh
    2. Awudh
    3. Awadh
Instructions
Pick the lane with the real name from the 1857 revolt. The other two are made up.
_Source: syllabus History, Our Pasts III, Chapter 5, When People Rebel, 1857 and After._

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Slice the 1857 words

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Does not match the category
  1. Comet
  2. Sonnet
  3. Retina
  4. Pollen
Matches the category
  1. Sepoy
  2. Meerut
  3. Zafar
  4. Peshwa
  5. Viceroy
  6. Cartridge
Instructions
Slice only the words from the story of 1857.
_Source: syllabus History, Our Pasts III, Chapter 5, When People Rebel, 1857 and After._

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