Two of the great Mughals wrote their own memories. There were
Answer: C
They were Babur and Jahangir.
Babur wrote the Baburnama in Chagatai Turkish and Jahangir the Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri in Persian. Humayun's life was written by his sister Gulbadan Begum and his ewer-bearer Jauhar, not by himself.
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To which king belongs the Lion capital at Sarnath?
Answer: B
It belongs to Ashoka.
The Lion Capital crowned his pillar at Sarnath, where the Buddha first preached, and was adopted as the state emblem in 1950 - three lions visible of four, above a frieze with the Dharmachakra, and the bull, horse, elephant and lion.
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The use of spinning wheel (Charkha) became common during the
Answer: D
It became common in the fourteenth century.
The charkha reached India from Iran in the Sultanate period and spread in the fourteenth century, multiplying the output of spun yarn several times over the hand spindle and underpinning the growth of the cotton textile trade.
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The language of discourses of Gautama Buddha was
Answer: C
It was Pali.
The Buddha preached in the language of the common people rather than Sanskrit, and the Theravada canon preserves those discourses in Pali, a Middle Indo-Aryan language close to the speech of Magadha.
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There were widespread risings against the British in the 1820s. Which one of the following did not revolt in the 1820s?
Answer: A
The Santhals did not.
The Santhal hool broke out in 1855 under Sido and Kanhu. The Ahom revolt came in 1828, the Pagal Panthi risings under Tipu Shah in the 1820s and 1830s, and the Ramosi risings in 1822 and 1825-26.
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Velu Thampi led a revolt against the British in state of
Answer: A
It was in Travancore.
Velu Thampi Dalawa, minister of Travancore, rose against the subsidiary alliance in 1808-09 and issued the Kundara Proclamation calling on the people to drive out the English. He took his own life rather than be captured.
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Under the Mountbatten Plan of 1947 the people of ___ were given the right to decide through a plebiscite whether they wished to join Pakistan or India.
Answer: D
It was the North-West Frontier Province and Sylhet.
The plan of 3 June 1947 provided for a referendum in the NWFP, where a Congress ministry governed a Muslim-majority province, and in the Sylhet district of Assam. Both voted to join Pakistan.
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Three major powers that emerged in southern India in the 7th century AD were
Answer: A
They were III, IV and V - the Chalukyas, Pallavas and Pandyas.
The Chalukyas of Badami, the Pallavas of Kanchi and the Pandyas of Madurai divided the south in the seventh century, the first two locked in a long contest under Pulakesin II and Narasimhavarman I. The Cholas rose again only in the ninth century, and the Cheras had faded after the Sangam age.
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The term 'Yavanapriya' mentioned in ancient Sanskrit texts denoted
Answer: B
It denoted pepper.
Yavanapriya means dear to the Greeks, and the Sanskrit texts use it for the black pepper of the Malabar coast, the chief object of Roman trade with India and the commodity Pliny blamed for the drain of Roman gold.
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The Timariots Governors and the Revenue Contractors, on their part reason in this manner: "Why should the neglected state of this land create uneasiness in our minds and why should we expend our money and time to render it fruitful? We may be deprived of it in a single moment, and our exertions would benefit neither ourselves nor our children." This statement was made by
Answer: D
It was Bernier.
Francois Bernier, physician at the Mughal court from 1658 to 1670, argued in Travels in the Mogul Empire that the absence of private property in land destroyed any incentive to improve it - the passage that later fed European theories of oriental despotism.
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