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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Who wrote biography of Humayun ?
Answer: C
It was Gulbadan Begum.
Humayun's half-sister wrote the Humayun-nama at Akbar's request, in simple Persian and partly from memory of the household. It is the only history of the Mughals written by a woman, and gives detail of domestic life found nowhere else.
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Muhammad Ghori ascended the throne of Ghazni in the year
Answer: B
It was 1173.
Muizzuddin Muhammad, called Muhammad Ghori, received Ghazni from his brother Ghiyasuddin in 1173 and used it as the base for his Indian campaigns, losing at Tarain in 1191 and winning there in 1192.
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The treaty of Srirangapatna was signed between Tipu Sultan and
Answer: B
It was signed with Cornwallis.
The Treaty of Seringapatam of 1792 ended the Third Anglo-Mysore War. Tipu gave up half his territory to the Company, the Nizam and the Marathas, paid three crore rupees and left two sons as hostages.
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Who is writer of "Geet Govind"
Answer: D
It was Jayadeva.
The Gita Govinda, written in Sanskrit in twelfth-century Bengal at the court of Lakshmanasena, sings of Radha and Krishna in twenty-four ashtapadis set to raga and tala. It is sung daily at the Jagannath temple at Puri.
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Who is writer of Nuh-Siphir ?
Answer: D
It is by Amir Khusrau.
Nuh Sipihr, the nine skies, was written in 1318 in Alauddin's son Mubarak Shah's reign. Its third sphere praises India - its climate, its learning, its languages and its music - as the finest land on earth.
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The regulation prohibiting sati came into effect in India in
Answer: D
It came into effect in 1829.
Bengal Regulation XVII of 4 December 1829 declared sati illegal and punishable by the criminal courts. William Bentinck carried it after Ram Mohan Roy's campaign, and it was extended to Madras and Bombay the next year.
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