Who wrote biography of Humayun ?
Answer: C
It was Gulbadan Begum.
Humayun's half-sister wrote the Humayun-nama at Akbar's request, in simple Persian and partly from memory of the household. It is the only history of the Mughals written by a woman, and gives detail of domestic life found nowhere else.
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Muhammad Ghori ascended the throne of Ghazni in the year
Answer: B
It was 1173.
Muizzuddin Muhammad, called Muhammad Ghori, received Ghazni from his brother Ghiyasuddin in 1173 and used it as the base for his Indian campaigns, losing at Tarain in 1191 and winning there in 1192.
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The treaty of Srirangapatna was signed between Tipu Sultan and
Answer: B
It was signed with Cornwallis.
The Treaty of Seringapatam of 1792 ended the Third Anglo-Mysore War. Tipu gave up half his territory to the Company, the Nizam and the Marathas, paid three crore rupees and left two sons as hostages.
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Who is writer of "Geet Govind"
Answer: D
It was Jayadeva.
The Gita Govinda, written in Sanskrit in twelfth-century Bengal at the court of Lakshmanasena, sings of Radha and Krishna in twenty-four ashtapadis set to raga and tala. It is sung daily at the Jagannath temple at Puri.
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Who is writer of Nuh-Siphir ?
Answer: D
It is by Amir Khusrau.
Nuh Sipihr, the nine skies, was written in 1318 in Alauddin's son Mubarak Shah's reign. Its third sphere praises India - its climate, its learning, its languages and its music - as the finest land on earth.
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The regulation prohibiting sati came into effect in India in
Answer: D
It came into effect in 1829.
Bengal Regulation XVII of 4 December 1829 declared sati illegal and punishable by the criminal courts. William Bentinck carried it after Ram Mohan Roy's campaign, and it was extended to Madras and Bombay the next year.
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Dandi March stated on ?
Answer: B
It began on 12 March 1930.
Gandhi left Sabarmati with 78 followers and walked 240 miles to Dandi, reaching the coast on 5 April and breaking the salt law on the morning of 6 April.
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Quit India Movement started in ?
Answer: C
It started in 1942.
The Congress passed the Quit India resolution at Bombay on 8 August 1942, and Gandhi gave the call to do or die. The entire leadership was arrested the next morning, and the movement went on without them.
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There was a sharp class division at Harappa and Mohen-jodaro. This is clear from the
Answer: D
It is clear from the different types of dwellings excavated.
At both sites the citadel carries large structures - the granary, the Great Bath, the pillared hall - while the lower town holds smaller houses, and at Harappa rows of one-roomed barracks stand beside the working floors, implying a labouring population set apart.
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First battle of Panipat was between ?
Answer: B
Between Ibrahim Lodi and Babur.
Babur won on 21 April 1526 with about 12,000 men against a far larger army, using the tulughma flanking movement and field guns behind a screen of chained carts. Ibrahim was killed on the field.
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