Samudragupta's reign was
Answer: A
It was 335 to 380 CE.
Samudragupta's campaigns are recorded in the Allahabad pillar inscription of Harisena: nine kings of the north uprooted, twelve of the south defeated and restored as tributaries. He performed the ashvamedha and issued a coin showing himself playing the veena.
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Who built the Ibadatkhana at Fatehpur Sikri ?
Answer: B
It was Akbar.
He built the Ibadat Khana, the house of worship, at Fatehpur Sikri in 1575, first for debate among Muslim divines and from 1578 open to Hindus, Jains, Parsis, Jews and the Jesuits. The discussions there led on to the Mahzar and the Din-i-Ilahi.
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Who was Channa ?
Answer: B
He was the Buddha's charioteer.
Channa drove Siddhartha out of Kapilavastu on the night of the renunciation, and took back his ornaments and the horse Kanthaka. He later became a monk, and the Vinaya records the brahmadanda imposed on him for his arrogance.
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To which king does the Lion Capital at Sarnath belong?
Answer: C
It belongs to Ashoka.
The capital crowned his pillar at Sarnath, where the Buddha preached his first sermon. Adopted as the state emblem in 1950, it shows three of its four lions above a frieze with the Dharmachakra and the bull, horse, elephant and lion.
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First battle of Panipat was fought between ?
Answer: A
Between Babur and Ibrahim Lodi.
Babur won at Panipat on 21 April 1526 with about 12,000 men against Ibrahim's far larger force, using the tulughma flanking manoeuvre and field guns chained behind carts. Ibrahim was killed, and the Mughal empire founded.
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Government of India Act passed in ?
Answer: B
It was passed in 1935.
The Government of India Act 1935 provided for provincial autonomy, an all-India federation that never came into being, and a federal court. Much of it was carried into the Constitution of India.
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Select the statement which is incorrect regarding Kalidasa:
Answer: B
The incorrect statement is that he was one of the nine gems in the court of Chandragupta I.
The navaratna tradition places Kalidasa at the court of Chandragupta II Vikramaditya, who ruled about 375 to 415, not Chandragupta I. The other three statements are correct.
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The evidences of ‘pit-dwelling’ have been discovered from which ancient Indian sites?
Answer: B
They are from Burzahom and Gufkral.
Both are Neolithic sites in Kashmir where dwellings were dug into the loess, wide at the base and narrow at the top, reached by steps and with hearths inside - an answer to the cold. Burzahom also yielded dog burials with their masters.
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Who is the author of Tuzuk-i-Baburi ?
Answer: C
It is by Babur.
The Tuzuk-i-Baburi, better known as the Baburnama, was written in Chagatai Turkish and describes his campaigns along with the birds, fruits and climate of Hindustan. Abdur Rahim Khan-i-Khanan translated it into Persian for Akbar.
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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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