The language of discourses of Gautama Buddha was
Answer: C
It was Pali.
The Buddha preached in the language of the common people rather than Sanskrit, and the Theravada canon preserves those discourses in Pali, a Middle Indo-Aryan language close to the speech of Magadha.
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The Sarvodaya Movement was initiated by
Answer: C
It was begun by Vinoba Bhave.
He started the Bhoodan movement at Pochampally in 1951, walking from village to village asking landowners for a share of their land for the landless, and it grew into the wider Sarvodaya movement. The word itself is Gandhi's, from his rendering of Ruskin.
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The Vijayanagara ruler, Kirshnadev Raya's work Amuktamalyada, was in
Answer: A
It was in Telugu.
Amuktamalyada, Krishnadeva Raya's poem on the life of the Vaishnava saint Andal, is a classic of Telugu literature and also sets out his own views on statecraft. His court kept the ashtadiggajas, eight Telugu poets.
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The Uprising of 1857 was described as the first Indian war of Independence by
Answer: D
It was V. D. Savarkar.
His The Indian War of Independence, 1857, written in 1909, was proscribed before publication and printed secretly in Holland. R. C. Majumdar rejected the description, and S. N. Sen called it a rising that became a war of independence.
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Who is the author of Kitab-fi-Tahqiq-ma-lil-Hind?
Answer: B
It is by Alberuni.
Kitab-fi-Tahqiq-ma-lil-Hind, usually called Kitab-ul-Hind, was written about 1030 after years of study in India. Al-Biruni learned Sanskrit and read the texts himself, and set out to describe Indian religion, science and custom without polemic.
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The first ruler of Pala dynasty was ?
Answer: C
It was Gopala.
He was chosen king about 750 by the notables of Bengal to end the matsyanyaya, the state in which the strong devoured the weak - an election unusual enough that the record of it survives. His son Dharmapala made the Palas an imperial power.
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Gautama Buddha renounced home at the age of ?
Answer: D
He was twenty-nine.
The Mahabhinishkramana, the great going forth, came after Siddhartha saw the old man, the sick man, the corpse and the ascetic. He left Kapilavastu on the night his son Rahula was born, and attained enlightenment six years later.
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Todar Mal, a minister of Akbar, held which portfolio?
Answer: B
He was the finance minister.
Raja Todar Mal was Akbar's diwan-i-ashraf and framed the zabti settlement: land measured with the bamboo jarib, classified by continuity of cultivation, and assessed in cash on a ten-year average of yields and prices.
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Which of the following statements about the Gupta Empire under Samudragupta is incorrect?
Answer: B
The incorrect statement is that Samudragupta was the first Gupta ruler to exercise direct administrative control over western and southern India.
The Allahabad pillar itself says he defeated the twelve southern kings and then restored them - grahana-moksha-anugraha - taking tribute, not territory. Western India came under direct Gupta rule only when Chandragupta II destroyed the Saka Kshatrapas.
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Maharaja Ranjit Singh died in ?
Answer: A
He died in 1839.
Ranjit Singh had ruled the Sikh empire from Lahore since 1801, and it held together only ten years after him: the two Anglo-Sikh wars followed and Punjab was annexed in 1849.
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