Which of the following was the court language during the reign of Akbar ?
Answer: C
It was Persian.
Persian had been the language of administration since the Sultanate and remained so under Akbar, who made it compulsory for revenue records in 1582. It stayed the official language until Bentinck replaced it with English and the vernaculars in 1835.
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Under Akbar, the Mir Bakshi was required to look after
Answer: A
The head of the military was called the Mir Bakshi, appointed from among the leading nobles of the court. The Mir Bakshi was in charge of intelligence gathering, and also made recommendations to the emperor for military appointments and promotions.
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Who is known as "Father of Indian Renaissance"?
Answer: B
It is Raja Ram Mohan Roy.
He founded the Brahmo Sabha in 1828, campaigned successfully for the abolition of sati, argued for English and scientific education, and edited papers in Bengali, Persian and English - the range that earned him the title.
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The treaty of Mangalore was signed between
Answer: B
Between the English East India Company and Tipu Sultan.
The Treaty of Mangalore of 1784 ended the Second Anglo-Mysore War on terms of mutual restitution - the last occasion on which an Indian power dictated terms to the Company. Haidar Ali had died in 1782, during the war.
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The term yavanika meant
Answer: C
It meant curtain.
The yavanika was the stage curtain of the Sanskrit theatre, and the word itself means Greek or Ionian - taken as evidence that the device, or the cloth, came through contact with the Greeks.
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First Governor-General of India
Answer: C
It was William Bentinck.
The Charter Act of 1833 made the Governor-General of Bengal the Governor-General of India, with legislative authority over all British territory. Bentinck, already in office, became the first to hold the new title.
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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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The Sarvodaya Movement was initiated by
Answer: C
It was begun by Vinoba Bhave.
He started the Bhoodan movement at Pochampally in 1951, walking from village to village asking landowners for a share of their land for the landless, and it grew into the wider Sarvodaya movement. The word itself is Gandhi's, from his rendering of Ruskin.
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The Vijayanagara ruler, Kirshnadev Raya's work Amuktamalyada, was in
Answer: A
It was in Telugu.
Amuktamalyada, Krishnadeva Raya's poem on the life of the Vaishnava saint Andal, is a classic of Telugu literature and also sets out his own views on statecraft. His court kept the ashtadiggajas, eight Telugu poets.
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The Uprising of 1857 was described as the first Indian war of Independence by
Answer: D
It was V. D. Savarkar.
His The Indian War of Independence, 1857, written in 1909, was proscribed before publication and printed secretly in Holland. R. C. Majumdar rejected the description, and S. N. Sen called it a rising that became a war of independence.
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