Velu Thampi led a revolt against the British in state of ?
Answer: C
It was in Travancore.
Velu Thampi Dalawa, the minister of Travancore, rose against the subsidiary alliance in 1808-09 and issued the Kundara Proclamation calling on the people to drive out the English. He killed himself rather than be taken.
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Which of these deities were associated with the Rig Vedic period?
1. Purandara
2. Varuna
3. Savitri
4. Usha
Choose the correct option:
Answer: D
All four belong to the Rigvedic period.
Purandara, the breaker of forts, is an epithet of Indra; Varuna is the guardian of rita and the cosmic order; Savitri is the solar deity of the Gayatri mantra; and Ushas, the dawn, has some twenty hymns of her own.
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The Upanishads are
Answer: A
They are a source of Hindu philosophy.
The Upanishads close the Vedic corpus - hence Vedanta, the end of the Veda - and turn from ritual to the nature of brahman and atman. The principal ones number about a dozen, and all the Vedanta schools take them as authority.
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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 Upanishads are ?
Answer: B
They are a source of Hindu philosophy.
They close the Vedic corpus - hence Vedanta - and turn from ritual to brahman and atman. The principal Upanishads number about a dozen, and every school of Vedanta argues from them.
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To meet the educational needs of the people, the Madarasa-I Nasiri was built in the region of
Answer: B
It was built under Iltutmish.
The Madrasa-i-Nasiri at Delhi was named after his eldest son Nasiruddin Mahmud. Iltutmish was the first sultan to organise the Delhi Sultanate properly, introducing the silver tanka and the copper jital and creating the Chalisa, the corps of forty nobles.
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The title ‘Punjab Kesari’ was conferred on ?
Answer: A
It was Lala Lajpat Rai.
He was the Punjab member of the Lal-Bal-Pal trio, founded the Punjab National Bank and the Servants of the People Society, and died in November 1928 of injuries from a lathi charge while leading a protest against the Simon Commission at Lahore.
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The Satavahana dynasty ruled from
Answer: B
From 60 BCE to 225 CE.
The Satavahanas ruled the Deccan from Pratishthana and Amaravati. Gautamiputra Satakarni, their greatest king, broke the Saka Kshatrapas, and the dynasty issued the earliest Indian coins bearing a ruler's portrait.
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