The Venetian traveler who travelled with his wife and reached Vijayanagar around 1420 was
Answer: B
It was Nicolo de Conti.
The Venetian reached Vijayanagara about 1420, in Deva Raya I's reign, and left the earliest European description of the city - its circuit of walls, the number of its men able to bear arms, and the festivals of Mahanavami and Holi.
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The two principles monuments of Alaud-din Khilji's reign - the Jama at Kana Masjid and Alai Darwaza - were constructed at
Answer: B
They were built at Delhi.
The Alai Darwaza of 1311 is the southern gateway to the Quwwat-ul-Islam enclosure at the Qutb, and the first building in India to use a true dome and true arch. The Jamaat Khana Masjid stands at Nizamuddin.
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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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Kanva Dynasty was from
Answer: A
From 73 BCE to 28 BCE.
Vasudeva Kanva founded the dynasty by killing the last Shunga, and four kings ruled for forty-five years before the Satavahanas ended it.
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When was Burma separated from India
Answer: B
It was separated in 1937.
The Government of Burma Act of 1935 came into force on 1 April 1937, giving Burma its own governor and legislature under the same Crown. Aden was separated in the same year.
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Through which one of the following, the king exercised his control over villages in the Vijayanagar Empire?
Answer: D
Through the mahanayakacharya.
He was the officer standing between the village and the central government in the Vijayanagara system, through whom the king's authority reached the villages. The nayakas held military tenures, and the dandanayaka was a commander.
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The Ali brothers, launched Khilafat Movement against British in 1920. Names of Ali brothers were :
Answer: D
They were Muhammad Ali and Shaukat Ali.
The Ali brothers led the Khilafat agitation over the treatment of the Ottoman Caliph after the First World War, and joined Gandhi in non-cooperation - the one period of united Hindu-Muslim mass action in the freedom movement.
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Battle of Plassey was fought in ?
Answer: D
It was fought in 1757.
Clive met Siraj-ud-Daula at Plassey on 23 June 1757, and Mir Jafar's contingent stood aside by prior arrangement. The battle was brief, and it made the Company the effective power in Bengal.
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To which of the republic of Buddha belong?
Answer: B
He belonged to the Sakyas.
Siddhartha was born at Lumbini into the Sakya clan, whose capital was Kapilavastu and whose government was of the gana-sangha type. Hence his title Sakyamuni, the sage of the Sakyas.
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Mahajanapada Period was from ?
Answer: D
It ran from 600 BCE to 325 BCE.
The Buddhist Anguttara Nikaya lists sixteen mahajanapadas in the sixth century BCE. Magadha absorbed the rest over the following two centuries, and the period closes with Chandragupta Maurya's accession about 322 BCE.
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