Palayakkarars & Vellore
Revolt – Questions with Answer

1. The first Palayakkarar to resist the East India
Company in Tamil Nadu was —
A) Veerapandya Kattabomman
B) Puli Thevar
C) Dheeran Chinnamalai
D) Marudhu Brothers
Answer: ✅ B) Puli
Thevar

2. The word “Palayam” refers to —
A) A type of taxation
B) Military camp or little kingdom
C) British administrative district
D) Revenue-free land
Answer: ✅ B) Military
camp or little kingdom

3. The Palayakkarar system in Tamil Nadu was
introduced by —
A) Tipu Sultan
B) Viswanatha Nayaka
C) Pratapa Rudhra
D) Hyder Ali
Answer: ✅ B) Viswanatha
Nayaka

4. Which of the following was an eastern Palayam?
A) Uthumalai
B) Thalavankottai
C) Ettayapuram
D) Singampatti
Answer: ✅ C)
Ettayapuram

5. The Kalakadu battle (1755–1767) involved —
A) Puli Thevar defeating Mahfuzkhan’s troops
B) Kattabomman defeating British
C) Marudhu Brothers fighting Tipu Sultan
D) Velunachiyar fighting Hyder Ali
Answer: ✅ A) Puli
Thevar defeating Mahfuzkhan’s troops

6. Velunachiyar sought military assistance from —
A) The French only
B) Hyder Ali and Gopala Nayakar
C) British East India Company
D) Marudhu Brothers
Answer: ✅ B) Hyder
Ali and Gopala Nayakar

7. Veerapandya Kattabomman was the Palayakkarar of —
A) Panchalamkurichi
B) Sivagangai
C) Kalaiyar Kovil
D) Tirunelveli
Answer: ✅ A)
Panchalamkurichi

8. The Marudhu Brothers are also known as —
A) Vella Marudhu and Chinna Marudhu
B) Puli Marudhu and Kattabomman
C) Chinnamalai Marudhu and Oomathurai
D) Tipu Marudhu and Velunachiyar
Answer: ✅ A) Vella
Marudhu and Chinna Marudhu

9. The Tiruchirappalli Proclamation of 1801 was
issued by —
A) Veerapandya Kattabomman
B) Marudhu Brothers
C) Puli Thevar
D) Dheeran Chinnamalai
Answer: ✅ B) Marudhu
Brothers

10. Dheeran Chinnamalai earned his name because —
A) He ruled Chinnamalai region
B) He confiscated taxes between Sivamalai and Chennimalai
C) He was the son of Chinnamalai
D) He defeated Tipu Sultan
Answer: ✅ B) He
confiscated taxes between Sivamalai and Chennimalai

11. The trigger of the Vellore Revolt (1806)
was —
A) Low salaries of sepoys
B) New military regulations affecting turban, caste marks, and earrings
C) Annexation of Coimbatore
D) Execution of Kattabomman
Answer: ✅ B) New
military regulations affecting turban, caste marks, and earrings

12. After suppression of the Vellore Revolt, the
rebels were punished by —
A) Exile to Penang only
B) Blown from guns, hanged, shot; Tipu’s sons sent to Calcutta
C) Imprisonment for life only
D) Pardoning all rebels
Answer: ✅ B) Blown
from guns, hanged, shot; Tipu’s sons sent to Calcutta