Question

Begum Hazrat Mahal was associated with?
a) Aligarh
b) Kanpur
c) Jhansi
d) Lucknow

Answer 1

Hint: Reading the question, we immediately understand that the context here is with regards to the Revolt of 1857. Since we know the major places of the revolt, we can associate each location with its leader.

Complete Step by Step answer: Before proceeding to the details of Begum Hazrat Mahal, let us first have a small recollection of the Revolt of 1857.
The Sepoy Mutiny or the uprising of 1857 has its immediate cause to be identified as the ‘Enfield Cartridge’ incident, but there are muktipleother social , political, economic and religious causes as well. This revolt was unsuccessful and was very clearly suppressed by the Colonisers in its earliest phase itself. However, the most significant change brought about by this was that the power was immediately transferred from the British East India Company to The British Government.
There were several major hotspots of the revolt including Delhi,led by Mughal Dynasty ruler Bahadur shah Zafar, Kanpur, led by the legendary Nana sahib, the greatest Heroine of Freedom struggle, Rani Laxmibai led from Jhansi, and and Kunwar headed Arrah in Bihar.
Revolting against the Doctrine of lapse, the revolt at Lucknow was led by the Begum of Avadh, Begum Hazrat Mahal, who had proclaimed her young son, Birjis Kadr, as the Nawab of Avadh.
Hence option d is the correct answer.

Note: Born at Faizabad, Awadh, India, she was a courtesan by profession and her actual name was Muhammadi Khanum. Her tomb is located in Jama Masjid of Kathmandu, Nepal, as she finally took refuge there and died.