Mangal Pandey was a sepoy at ?
Answer: B
He was of the 34th Bengal Native Infantry.
Mangal Pandey attacked his officers at Barrackpore on 29 March 1857 and was hanged on 8 April. His regiment was disbanded in May, and the mutiny at Meerut followed on 10 May.
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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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Second battle of Panipat was fought between ?
Answer: B
Between Akbar and Hemu.
The second battle of Panipat was fought on 5 November 1556. Hemu, commanding for the Suris, was winning until an arrow struck him in the eye and his army broke. Bairam Khan directed the Mughal side; Akbar was fourteen.
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Who was the founder of Madras ?
Answer: A
It was Francis Day.
He obtained the strip of coast from the Nayak of Chandragiri in 1639 and built Fort St George there, around which Madras grew - the first English fortified settlement in India.
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Who is writer of "Geet Govind"
Answer: D
It was Jayadeva.
The Gita Govinda, written in Sanskrit in twelfth-century Bengal at the court of Lakshmanasena, sings of Radha and Krishna in twenty-four ashtapadis set to raga and tala. It is sung daily at the Jagannath temple at Puri.
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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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Swami Vivekananda attended the "Parliament of the World's Religions" in America in the year ?
Answer: A
It was 1893.
Vivekananda addressed the Parliament of the World's Religions at Chicago on 11 September 1893, opening with sisters and brothers of America, and spoke on Hinduism as a religion of tolerance and universal acceptance.
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What is meaning of Mati Jnana in Jainism ?
Answer: A
It is perception through the sense organs.
Mati jnana is the first of the five kinds of knowledge in Jainism - what is gained through the senses and the mind. Shruta is knowledge from scripture, avadhi is clairvoyance, manahparyaya telepathy and kevala omniscience.
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Maurya Period was from ?
Answer: B
It ran from 322 BCE to 185 BCE.
Chandragupta took Magadha about 322 BCE, and the dynasty ended when Pushyamitra Shunga killed Brihadratha in 185 BCE - some 137 years covering the greatest extent of ancient Indian empire.
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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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