When did Vasco-da-Gama come to India ?
Answer: D
He arrived in 1498.
Vasco da Gama reached Kappad near Calicut on 20 May 1498, guided across the Arabian Sea from Malindi, and was received by the Zamorin. It was the first sea route from Europe to India round the Cape.
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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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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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Who is the founder of Mahabalipuram ?
Answer: A
It was Narasimhavarman I.
The Pallava king, called Mamalla, gave Mamallapuram its name and had the five rathas and the great relief of Arjuna's penance cut there in the seventh century. His father Mahendravarman I began the rock-cut mandapas.
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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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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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Malik Kafur was General of ?
Answer: D
He served Alauddin Khalji.
Malik Kafur, bought as a slave at Khambhat, rose to be Alauddin's commander and led the campaigns into the Deccan against Devagiri, Warangal, Dwarasamudra and Madurai between 1307 and 1311, bringing back enormous treasure.
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Which of the following was the court language during the reign of Akbar ?
Answer: C
It was Persian.
Persian had been the language of administration since the Sultanate and remained so under Akbar, who made it compulsory for revenue records in 1582. It stayed the official language until Bentinck replaced it with English and the vernaculars in 1835.
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Which one the following kingdoms was founded by Raja Odeyar ?
Answer: C
It was Mysore.
Raja Wodeyar took Srirangapatna from the Vijayanagara viceroy in 1610 and made the Wodeyars independent. The family ruled Mysore until 1947, apart from the interval of Haidar Ali and Tipu Sultan.
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Who built the Ibadatkhana at Fatehpur Sikri ?
Answer: B
It was Akbar.
He built the Ibadat Khana, the house of worship, at Fatehpur Sikri in 1575, first for debate among Muslim divines and from 1578 open to Hindus, Jains, Parsis, Jews and the Jesuits. The discussions there led on to the Mahzar and the Din-i-Ilahi.
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