UPSC NDA I 2021 General Ability Solved Paper

The correct answer is both 1 and 2.
Key Points
- The uprising began at Supa village in the district of Poona when moneylenders refused the farmer's loans.
- In 1875, farmers attacked a market place where many moneylenders lived.
- They burnt account books and looted grain shops.
- They also burnt the houses of sahukars.
- Sahukars were people who were both traders and moneylenders.
- When the revolt spread in the Deccan, the Government of India, worried by the memory of 1857 , pressurised the Government of Bombay to set up a commission of enquiry to investigate into the causes of the riots.
- The commission produced a report that was presented to the British Parliament in 1878.
- The commission held enquiries in the districts where the riots spread, not in unaffected districts. Hence statement 1 is correct.
- They recorded statements of ryots, sahukars and eyewitnesses, compiled statistical data on revenue rates, prices and interest rates in different regions, and collated the reports sent by district collectors. Hence statement 2 is correct.