Battle of Buxar was fought in ?
Answer: B
It was fought in 1764.
At Buxar on 22 October 1764 Hector Munro defeated the combined forces of Mir Qasim, Shuja-ud-Daula of Awadh and the emperor Shah Alam II. The victory brought the diwani of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa to the Company the next year.
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Vikramaditya, a king of Ujjain, started the Vikrama samvat in 58 BC in commemoration of his victory over
Answer: B
It commemorated his victory over the Sakas.
The Vikrama Samvat begins in 58 BCE, traditionally from the defeat of the Saka invaders by Vikramaditya of Ujjain. The Saka era of 78 CE runs from the other side of the same contest, and is the era of the national calendar.
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The title given by the British Government to Mahatma Gandhi which he surrendered during the non-cooperation movement was
Answer: B
It was Kaiser-i-Hind.
Gandhi received the medal in 1915 for his ambulance work in South Africa, and returned it to the Viceroy in August 1920 in protest at the Jallianwala Bagh massacre and the Khilafat wrong, as he launched non-cooperation.
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The year 788 AD was a good one for Hinduism. Why?
Answer: A
Shankaracharya was born that year.
Tradition places his birth at Kaladi in Kerala in 788 and his death at thirty-two in 820. In that short life he wrote the commentaries on the Brahma Sutras, the Gita and the principal Upanishads, and founded the four mathas that still bear his name.
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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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Who asserted, "Swaraj is my Birth Right and I will have it." ?
Answer: B
It was Bal Gangadhar Tilak.
He used the phrase from about 1916, in the Home Rule campaign, and it became the slogan of the extremist wing. He had earlier been sentenced to six years' transportation at Mandalay for sedition.
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The twenty-third Jaina teacher, Parsva, the immediate predecessor of Mahavira enjoined on his disciples four great vows. To these Mahavira addes which of the followings as the fifth vow?
Answer: C
He added brahmacharya.
Parsva's four vows were non-injury, truth, non-stealing and non-possession. Mahavira added continence as the fifth, making the panchamahavrata that the Jaina ascetic takes.
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When was Mahavira born ?
Answer: B
He was born in 540 BCE.
Mahavira was born at Kundagrama near Vaishali to Siddhartha and Trishala of the Jnatrika clan, renounced the world at thirty, gained kevala after twelve years, and died at Pavapuri in 468 BCE.
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Chandragupta dethroned the last Nanda ruler, His name was ?
Answer: A
It was Dhana Nanda.
The last of the Nandas was hated for his exactions and, in the Greek accounts, was the king whose army on the Ganga deterred Alexander's men from advancing. Chandragupta, with Chanakya, overthrew him about 322 BCE.
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To conquer and annex Peshawar and Punjab, Mahmud of Ghazni defeated ?
Answer: D
He defeated the Hindushahis.
Mahmud broke Jayapala at Peshawar in 1001 and Anandapala in 1008, ending Hindushahi rule in the Kabul valley and Punjab and opening the way to his later raids on the plains.
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