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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To which of the republic of Buddha belong?
Answer: B
He belonged to the Sakyas.
Siddhartha was born at Lumbini into the Sakya clan, whose capital was Kapilavastu and whose government was of the gana-sangha type. Hence his title Sakyamuni, the sage of the Sakyas.
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There was a sharp class division at Harappa and Mohen-jodaro. This is clear from the
Answer: D
It is clear from the different types of dwellings excavated.
At both sites the citadel carries large structures - the granary, the Great Bath, the pillared hall - while the lower town holds smaller houses, and at Harappa rows of one-roomed barracks stand beside the working floors, implying a labouring population set apart.
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The title given by the British Government to Mahatma Gandhi which he surrendered during the non-cooperation movement was
Answer: B
It was Kaiser-i-Hind.
Gandhi received the medal in 1915 for his ambulance work in South Africa, and returned it to the Viceroy in August 1920 in protest at the Jallianwala Bagh massacre and the Khilafat wrong, as he launched non-cooperation.
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Tipu sultan was the ruler of
Answer: C
He ruled Mysore.
Tipu succeeded Haidar Ali in 1782 and ruled from Seringapatam until he was killed defending it in 1799. He fought four wars against the Company and introduced a new calendar, coinage and land revenue system.
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The term yavanika meant
Answer: C
It meant curtain.
The yavanika was the stage curtain of the Sanskrit theatre, and the word itself means Greek or Ionian - taken as evidence that the device, or the cloth, came through contact with the Greeks.
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The term Khalisa in Mughal administration signified the
Answer: B
It signified land owned by the emperor himself.
Khalisa was crown land held directly by the emperor, its revenue going straight into the imperial treasury rather than being assigned as jagir to a mansabdar. Its proportion of the empire's land varied under each ruler.
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Visakhadatta sketches the event after the death of Samudragupta in his work
Answer: A
It is the Devichandraguptam.
Vishakhadatta's play deals with Ramagupta, who succeeded Samudragupta and agreed to surrender his queen Dhruvadevi to the Saka king, and with Chandragupta II, who killed the Saka, then his brother, and married Dhruvadevi. Mudrarakshasa, his other play, is about Chandragupta Maurya.
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The system of Dual Government during the latter half of the 18th century AD is associated with the name of
Answer: A
It is associated with Clive.
After the grant of the diwani in 1765 the Company held the revenues of Bengal while the Nawab retained the nizamat - power without responsibility on one side, responsibility without power on the other. Warren Hastings ended the arrangement in 1772.
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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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