The term samanta, meaning a feudatory from the sixth century AD, originally meant a
Answer: C
It originally meant neighbour.
Samanta first meant simply one who lives nearby. From about the sixth century it came to mean a defeated ruler left in possession of his land as a vassal, and so a feudatory - the shift itself marking the growth of the samanta system.
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Tipu sultan was the ruler of ?
Answer: D
He ruled Mysore.
Tipu succeeded Haidar Ali in 1782 and ruled from Seringapatam until he died defending it against the Company in 1799.
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Which veda is important for Indian Music ?
Answer: A
It is the Samaveda.
Its verses are drawn almost entirely from the Rigveda but set to melody for chanting at the soma sacrifice, and it preserves the earliest notation of Indian music. Indian classical music traces its descent from it.
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The term Nirgrantha is associated with
Answer: C
It is associated with the Jainas.
Nirgrantha means free from bonds or knots, and was the older name for the Jaina monks. The Buddhist texts call Mahavira Nigantha Nataputta, and Ashoka's edicts mention the nirgranthas among the sects he supported.
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With whose permission did the English set up their first factory in Surat?
Answer: B
It was Jahangir.
Captain William Hawkins reached Agra in 1609 and Sir Thomas Roe followed as James I's ambassador in 1615. The factory at Surat was established in 1613 under a farman from Jahangir, after the English defeated a Portuguese squadron at Swally.
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Which one of the following began with the Dandi March ?
Answer: C
It was the Civil Disobedience Movement.
Gandhi walked 240 miles from Sabarmati to Dandi between 12 March and 6 April 1930 and broke the salt law by picking up natural salt from the shore. The breach of one law spread into the refusal of many.
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Velu Thampi led a revolt against the British in state of ?
Answer: C
It was in Travancore.
Velu Thampi Dalawa, the 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 killed himself rather than be taken.
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Which of these deities were associated with the Rig Vedic period?
1. Purandara
2. Varuna
3. Savitri
4. Usha
Choose the correct option:
Answer: D
All four belong to the Rigvedic period.
Purandara, the breaker of forts, is an epithet of Indra; Varuna is the guardian of rita and the cosmic order; Savitri is the solar deity of the Gayatri mantra; and Ushas, the dawn, has some twenty hymns of her own.
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The Upanishads are
Answer: A
They are a source of Hindu philosophy.
The Upanishads close the Vedic corpus - hence Vedanta, the end of the Veda - and turn from ritual to the nature of brahman and atman. The principal ones number about a dozen, and all the Vedanta schools take them as authority.
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Vaikhanasa the five-fold conception of Vishnu consists of
Answer: D
The five are I, III, IV, V and VI.
The Vaikhanasa school of Vaishnavism conceives Vishnu in five aspects - brahman, prakriti, satya, achyuta and aniruddha. Purusha is not counted among them. The Vaikhanasa agama still governs worship at Tirupati and many south Indian Vishnu temples.
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