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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 →Rani Lakshmibai asked the Company to recognise whom as heir to Jhansi?Read the answer and worked solution →Awadh was taken over by the Company in:Read the answer and worked solution →Which Governor-General announced in 1849 that Bahadur Shah Zafar's family would leave the Red Fort after his death?Read the answer and worked solution →The maulvi from Faizabad who prophesied the end of British rule was:Read the answer and worked solution →Sepoys believed the new rifle cartridges were greased with the fat of:Read the answer and worked solution →On 8 April 1857, Mangal Pandey was hanged for attacking his officers at:Read the answer and worked solution →On 10 May 1857 the Meerut soldiers first marched to the:Read the answer and worked solution →The rebel sepoys in Delhi proclaimed as their leader:Read the answer and worked solution →Bahadur Shah Zafar wrote to chiefs and rulers asking them to form a:Read the answer and worked solution →Nana Saheb expelled the British garrison from which city?Read the answer and worked solution →Rani Avantibai Lodhi of Ramgarh fought the British in the Mandla region of:Read the answer and worked solution →Bakht Khan, a key military leader of the uprising in Delhi, was a soldier from:Read the answer and worked solution →The old zamindar who joined the rebel sepoys in Bihar was:Read 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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