Who started Arya Samaj ?
Answer: D
It was Swami Dayananda Saraswati.
He founded the Arya Samaj at Bombay in 1875 on the authority of the Vedas alone, rejecting idol worship, pilgrimage and hereditary caste, and introduced shuddhi for reconversion. His Satyarth Prakash sets out the doctrine.
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There were widespread risings against the British in the 1820s. Which one of the following did not revolt in the 1820s?
Answer: A
The Santhals did not.
The Santhal hool broke out in 1855 under Sido and Kanhu. The Ahom revolt came in 1828, the Pagal Panthi risings under Tipu Shah in the 1820s and 1830s, and the Ramosi risings in 1822 and 1825-26.
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Which two Indus sites found in Afghanistan ?
Answer: C
They are Shortughai and Mundigak.
Shortughai lies on the Oxus in north-east Afghanistan, a trading outpost near the lapis lazuli mines of Badakhshan; Mundigak is near Kandahar. Lothal and Daimabad are in Gujarat and Maharashtra.
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Who is known as father of Local Self-government ?
Answer: C
It is Lord Ripon.
His resolution of 1882 provided for elected local boards with elected non-official chairmen and a defined income of their own, treating them as an instrument of political education rather than of administration.
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To which of the following dynasties did King Bhoja, a great patron of literature and art, belong?
Answer: C
He belonged to the Paramara dynasty.
Bhoja ruled at Dhara in Malwa in the eleventh century and wrote on poetics, architecture, grammar and astronomy. He founded the Bhojshala at Dhar and is remembered in the verse lamenting that learning lost its patron at his death.
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The ultimate ownership of land during the post-Gupta period lay with
Answer: C
It lay with the king.
Post-Gupta land grants transfer revenue and administrative rights over villages to donees, and the formulae of the copper plates assume the king's ultimate title. The cultivator held possession and the village community regulated use, but neither owned in the fuller sense.
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The term Brahmadeya occurs for the first time in
Answer: C
It first occurs in pre-Gupta inscriptions.
Brahmadeya means land granted to Brahmins, usually free of revenue and often with administrative rights. The term appears in inscriptions from the early centuries CE, before it becomes common in the land-grant charters of the Gupta and post-Gupta periods.
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Kalinga War was fought in ?
Answer: C
It was fought about 260 BCE.
Ashoka's thirteenth rock edict places the war in the ninth year of his reign and records a hundred thousand killed, a hundred and fifty thousand deported and many more dead of its effects. It turned him to dhamma.
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Who is consider as the chief architect of Tajmahal ?
Answer: C
It was Ustad Ahmad Lahauri.
He is named as the chief architect in his son Lutfullah Muhandis's account, and also worked on the Red Fort at Delhi. Makramat Khan and Mir Abdul Karim were the superintendents of the works.
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Who is the author of Khulasat-ul-Tawarikh ?
Answer: A
It is by Sujan Rai Khatri.
Khulasat-ut-Tawarikh, completed in 1695 during Aurangzeb's reign, is a general history of India by a Punjabi Khatri munshi, also known as Sujan Rai Bhandari. It is valued for its account of the provinces and their revenues rather than for its dynastic narrative.
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