Who is the author of Kitab-fi-Tahqiq-ma-lil-Hind?
Answer: B
It is by Alberuni.
Kitab-fi-Tahqiq-ma-lil-Hind, usually called Kitab-ul-Hind, was written about 1030 after years of study in India. Al-Biruni learned Sanskrit and read the texts himself, and set out to describe Indian religion, science and custom without polemic.
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The first ruler of Pala dynasty was ?
Answer: C
It was Gopala.
He was chosen king about 750 by the notables of Bengal to end the matsyanyaya, the state in which the strong devoured the weak - an election unusual enough that the record of it survives. His son Dharmapala made the Palas an imperial power.
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Gautama Buddha renounced home at the age of ?
Answer: D
He was twenty-nine.
The Mahabhinishkramana, the great going forth, came after Siddhartha saw the old man, the sick man, the corpse and the ascetic. He left Kapilavastu on the night his son Rahula was born, and attained enlightenment six years later.
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Todar Mal, a minister of Akbar, held which portfolio?
Answer: B
He was the finance minister.
Raja Todar Mal was Akbar's diwan-i-ashraf and framed the zabti settlement: land measured with the bamboo jarib, classified by continuity of cultivation, and assessed in cash on a ten-year average of yields and prices.
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Which of the following statements about the Gupta Empire under Samudragupta is incorrect?
Answer: B
The incorrect statement is that Samudragupta was the first Gupta ruler to exercise direct administrative control over western and southern India.
The Allahabad pillar itself says he defeated the twelve southern kings and then restored them - grahana-moksha-anugraha - taking tribute, not territory. Western India came under direct Gupta rule only when Chandragupta II destroyed the Saka Kshatrapas.
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Maharaja Ranjit Singh died in ?
Answer: A
He died in 1839.
Ranjit Singh had ruled the Sikh empire from Lahore since 1801, and it held together only ten years after him: the two Anglo-Sikh wars followed and Punjab was annexed in 1849.
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Where did British first open their factories in Eastern part of India ?
Answer: B
It was in Orissa.
The English opened their first factory in eastern India at Hariharpur in the Mahanadi delta and at Balasore in 1633, under a farman obtained from the Mughal governor of Orissa. Hooghly and the Bengal factories followed.
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To evolve a peaceful settlement of the conflict between India and China, which of the following non-aligned Afro-Asian nations participated in a conference held in December 1962?
Answer: D
All of the above took part.
The Colombo Conference of December 1962 brought together six non-aligned states - Burma, Cambodia, Ceylon, Ghana, Indonesia and the United Arab Republic - to propose terms for settling the Sino-Indian conflict. India accepted the proposals; China did not accept them in full.
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Universities in the Presidency towns in India were established in
Answer: A
It was 1857.
Universities were established at Calcutta, Bombay and Madras in 1857, following Wood's Despatch of 1854. They were examining and affiliating bodies on the London model, not teaching institutions.
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"Jatakas" are sacred text associated with :
Answer: C
They belong to Buddhism.
The Jatakas are 547 stories of the Buddha's former births, in the Khuddaka Nikaya of the Pali canon. They are also a rich source for the social and economic life of early India, and their scenes are carved at Bharhut and Sanchi.
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