The term Khalisa in Mughal administration signified the
Answer: B
It signified land owned by the emperor himself.
Khalisa was crown land held directly by the emperor, its revenue going straight into the imperial treasury rather than being assigned as jagir to a mansabdar. Its proportion of the empire's land varied under each ruler.
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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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Who is the author of Ruqaat-i-Alamgiri?
Answer: B
It is by Aurangzeb.
Ruqaat-i-Alamgiri is a collection of his own letters to his sons and officers, gathered after his death. They are terse and show his temper and his method of governing more directly than any court chronicle.
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The Vedas contain all the truth was interpreted by
Answer: B
It was Swami Dayananda.
The founder of the Arya Samaj held that the Vedas are the only authority and contain all knowledge, and his call was back to the Vedas. He rejected idol worship, pilgrimage and the later Puranic tradition.
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Though Ashoka had many sons, the inscriptions mentioned only one who is not mentioned in any other source. He is
Answer: B
It is Tivara.
He is named with his mother Karuvaki in the Queen's Edict, the second separate rock edict at Allahabad, and appears nowhere else. Kunala, Mahendra and Jalauka are known only from later Buddhist and Kashmiri tradition.
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Gandhi Irwin Pact happened in ?
Answer: B
It was signed in 1931.
Gandhi and Irwin agreed on 5 March 1931 that civil disobedience would be suspended, political prisoners released and salt-making allowed on the coast, and that the Congress would attend the second Round Table Conference.
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Pulakesin II was the most famous ruler of ?
Answer: A
He was a Chalukya.
Pulakesin II of Badami ruled from 610 to 642, stopped Harsha on the Narmada and received a Persian embassy, before being defeated and killed by the Pallava Narasimhavarman I.
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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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Who was first Governor General of free India ?
Answer: D
It was Mountbatten.
He stayed on as Governor-General of the dominion of India from 15 August 1947 to June 1948, at Nehru's request. C. Rajagopalachari succeeded him and was the last to hold the office.
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The title of 'Viceroy' was added to the office of the Governor-General of India for the first time in
Answer: C
It was 1858.
The Government of India Act of that year transferred power from the Company to the Crown, and the Governor-General became also the Viceroy, the Crown's personal representative. Canning was the first to hold the double title.
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