Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Modern India: Rebels and the Raj

Question:

Match the following options in List 1 correctly with those in List 2:

List 1 List 2
(a) Henry Lawrence  (i) 1856
(b) Relief of Lucknow (Painting) (ii) 10 May 1857
(c) Sepoy Mutiny   (iii) Thomas Jones Barker
(d) Takeover of Awadh (iv)  Commissioner of Lucknow (1857)

 

Options:

(a)- i, (b)- iii, (c)- ii, (d)- iv

(a)- iv, (b)- iii, (c)- i, (d)- ii

(a)- iii, (b)- iv, (c)- ii, (d)- i

(a)- iv, (b)- iii, (c)- ii, (d)- i

Correct Answer:

(a)- iv, (b)- iii, (c)- ii, (d)- i

Explanation:

Henry Lawrence, the Commissioner of Lucknow, collected the Christian population and took refuge in the heavily fortified Residency during the revolt of 1857. Lawrence was killed in Nov 1857.

Relief of Lucknow” was painted by Thomas Jones Barker in 1859.

Late in the afternoon of 10 May 1857, the sepoys in the cantonment of Meerut broke out in mutiny. It began in the lines of the native infantry, spread very swiftly to the cavalry, and then to the city.

Awadh was annexed (as Oudh) by the British in 1856.