Modern Indian History
In 1867, the British government prepared to accept the demand of the Hindu communities of the United Provinces and Bihar to change the Perso-Arabic script of the official language Urdu to Devanagari and adopt Hindi as the second official language. This gave rise to a Hindi-Urdu controversy. Who among the following was the most vocal opponent of this change?

Mohsin-ul-Mulk
Maulana Hali
Syed Ahmed Khan
Syed Mahmood

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Modern Indian History
Which of the following literary personalities made the greatest contribution in arousing patriotism in the 19th century?

Bharatendu Harishchandra (1850-85) through his plays, poems and journals advocating use of Swadeshi articles and use of Hindi in courts
Dinbandhu Mitra's exposure of Indigo planters in Nil Darpana
Vishnu Krishna Chiplunkar's Journal Nibandhamaka (1874-81)
Bankim Chandra with his historical novels culminating with Ananda Math (1882)

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Modern Indian History
The Moplahs of Malabar (Kerala) who were largely Muslim leaseholders and cultivators, indulged in a series of rebellions in Kerala between 1836-1919. Which of the following regarding these Moplah uprisings is not true?

They were mainly directed against the upper caste Hindu landlords
Most of the Moplah martyrs were poor peasants of landless lobourers
These uprisings were a peculiar form of rural terrorism
A small band of Moplahs committed collective suicides in the belief of being called Shahids (martyrs)

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