Pulakesin II was the most famous ruler of ?
Answer: A
He was a Chalukya.
Pulakesin II of Badami ruled from 610 to 642, stopped Harsha on the Narmada and received a Persian embassy, before being defeated and killed by the Pallava Narasimhavarman I.
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Mangal Pandey was a sepoy at ?
Answer: B
He was of the 34th Bengal Native Infantry.
Mangal Pandey attacked his officers at Barrackpore on 29 March 1857 and was hanged on 8 April. His regiment was disbanded in May, and the mutiny at Meerut followed on 10 May.
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Who was first Governor General of free India ?
Answer: D
It was Mountbatten.
He stayed on as Governor-General of the dominion of India from 15 August 1947 to June 1948, at Nehru's request. C. Rajagopalachari succeeded him and was the last to hold the office.
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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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Battle of Buxar was fought in ?
Answer: B
It was fought in 1764.
At Buxar on 22 October 1764 Hector Munro defeated the combined forces of Mir Qasim, Shuja-ud-Daula of Awadh and the emperor Shah Alam II. The victory brought the diwani of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa to the Company the next year.
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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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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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The year 788 AD was a good one for Hinduism. Why?
Answer: A
Shankaracharya was born that year.
Tradition places his birth at Kaladi in Kerala in 788 and his death at thirty-two in 820. In that short life he wrote the commentaries on the Brahma Sutras, the Gita and the principal Upanishads, and founded the four mathas that still bear his name.
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The Timariots Governors and the Revenue Contractors, on their part reason in this manner: "Why should the neglected state of this land create uneasiness in our minds and why should we expend our money and time to render it fruitful? We may be deprived of it in a single moment, and our exertions would benefit neither ourselves nor our children." This statement was made by
Answer: D
It was Bernier.
Francois Bernier, physician at the Mughal court from 1658 to 1670, argued in Travels in the Mogul Empire that the absence of private property in land destroyed any incentive to improve it - the passage that later fed European theories of oriental despotism.
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Who asserted, "Swaraj is my Birth Right and I will have it." ?
Answer: B
It was Bal Gangadhar Tilak.
He used the phrase from about 1916, in the Home Rule campaign, and it became the slogan of the extremist wing. He had earlier been sentenced to six years' transportation at Mandalay for sedition.
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