The Vedic deity Indra was the god of
Answer: C
He was the god of rain and thunder.
Indra is the foremost deity of the Rigveda, with about 250 hymns to his name. He wields the vajra, slays Vritra and releases the waters - the myth read both as thunderstorm and as the breaking of dams.
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Who of the following Prime Ministers sent Cripps Mission to India ?
Answer: D
It was Winston Churchill.
Stafford Cripps came to India in March 1942 with an offer of dominion status after the war and the right of provinces to stay out of the union. Gandhi called it a post-dated cheque, and the Congress rejected it.
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Todar Mal was associated with
Answer: C
He was associated with finance.
Raja Todar Mal was Akbar's revenue minister and framed the zabti or bandobast system: land measured with the bamboo jarib, classified by continuity of cultivation, and assessed on a ten-year average of prices and yields.
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The Vijayanagara king who employed skilled archers of the Turkish clan and raised the fighting capacity of his bowmen was
Answer: B
It was Deva Raya I.
He took Turkish archers into his service and had his own bowmen trained by them, and also built the dam on the Tungabhadra and the aqueduct that carried water to the capital.
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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 alone are authoritative and contain all knowledge, and his slogan was back to the Vedas. He rejected idol worship, pilgrimage and the later Puranic tradition.
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In which year Swaraj Party formed ?
Answer: C
It was formed in 1922.
C. R. Das and Motilal Nehru founded the Swaraj Party at Gaya in December 1922 after the Congress rejected their proposal to contest the legislative councils. They wanted to enter the councils and obstruct from within rather than stay outside.
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The system of competitive examination for civil service was accepted in principle in the year
Answer: B
It was 1853.
The Charter Act of 1853 ended the Company directors' patronage and threw the covenanted civil service open to competition. The Macaulay Committee reported the next year and the first examination was held in 1855, in London.
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The trident-shaped symbol of Buddhism does not represent
Answer: A
It does not represent nirvana.
The triratna, the trident-shaped mark, stands for the three jewels - the Buddha, the Dhamma and the Sangha - in which a Buddhist takes refuge. Nirvana is the goal of the path, not one of the three.
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To which king belongs the Lion capital at Sarnath?
Answer: B
It belongs to Ashoka.
The Lion Capital crowned his pillar at Sarnath, where the Buddha first preached, and was adopted as the state emblem in 1950 - three lions visible of four, above a frieze with the Dharmachakra, and the bull, horse, elephant and lion.
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The term Nirgrantha is associated with ?
Answer: C
It is associated with the Jainas.
Nirgrantha means free from bonds, and was the older name for the Jaina monks. Buddhist texts call Mahavira Nigantha Nataputta, and Ashoka's edicts name the nirgranthas among the sects he supported.
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