Vaikhanasa the five-fold conception of Vishnu consists of
Answer: D
The five are I, III, IV, V and VI.
The Vaikhanasa school of Vaishnavism conceives Vishnu in five aspects - brahman, prakriti, satya, achyuta and aniruddha. Purusha is not counted among them. The Vaikhanasa agama still governs worship at Tirupati and many south Indian Vishnu temples.
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The troops raised by the emperor but not paid directly the state and place under the charge of mansabadars were know as
Answer: D
They were the dakhili.
Dakhili troops were recruited and paid by the state but placed under a mansabdar's command, as against the walashahi who served the emperor directly and the barawardi raised for a particular campaign.
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The treaty of Mangalore was signed between
Answer: B
Between the English East India Company and Tipu Sultan.
The Treaty of Mangalore of 1784 ended the Second Anglo-Mysore War on terms of mutual restitution - the last occasion on which an Indian power dictated terms to the Company. Haidar Ali had died in 1782, during the war.
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To conquer and annex Peshawar and Punjab, Mahmud of Ghazni defeated
Answer: D
He defeated the Hindushahis.
Mahmud broke Jayapala at Peshawar in 1001 and his son Anandapala at Chach in 1008, ending Hindushahi power in the Kabul valley and Punjab and opening the plains to his later raids.
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To which professions earlier leaders who struggled for freedom of India mainly belonged?
Answer: D
All of the above.
The early Congress leadership was drawn from the English-educated professions - lawyers such as Pherozeshah Mehta and W. C. Bonnerjee, teachers such as Gokhale, journalists such as Surendranath Banerjea. The law predominated, but not exclusively.
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The victories of Karikala are well portrayed in
Answer: C
They are portrayed in the Pattinappalai.
This Sangam poem of the Pattuppattu describes the Chola port of Kaveripattinam and the deeds of Karikala, including his victory at Venni and the raising of the embankments of the Kaveri.
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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 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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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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Vikramaditya, a king of Ujjain, started the Vikrama samvat in 58 BC in commemoration of his victory over
Answer: B
It commemorated his victory over the Sakas.
The Vikrama Samvat begins in 58 BCE, traditionally from the defeat of the Saka invaders by Vikramaditya of Ujjain. The Saka era of 78 CE runs from the other side of the same contest, and is the era of the national calendar.
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