Select the statement which is incorrect regarding Kalidasa:
Answer: B
The incorrect statement is that he was one of the nine gems in the court of Chandragupta I.
The navaratna tradition places Kalidasa at the court of Chandragupta II Vikramaditya, who ruled about 375 to 415, not Chandragupta I. The other three statements are correct.
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The evidences of ‘pit-dwelling’ have been discovered from which ancient Indian sites?
Answer: B
They are from Burzahom and Gufkral.
Both are Neolithic sites in Kashmir where dwellings were dug into the loess, wide at the base and narrow at the top, reached by steps and with hearths inside - an answer to the cold. Burzahom also yielded dog burials with their masters.
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Who is the author of Tuzuk-i-Baburi ?
Answer: C
It is by Babur.
The Tuzuk-i-Baburi, better known as the Baburnama, was written in Chagatai Turkish and describes his campaigns along with the birds, fruits and climate of Hindustan. Abdur Rahim Khan-i-Khanan translated it into Persian for Akbar.
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Three major powers that emerged in southern India in the 7th century AD were
Answer: A
They were III, IV and V - the Chalukyas, Pallavas and Pandyas.
The Chalukyas of Badami, the Pallavas of Kanchi and the Pandyas of Madurai divided the south in the seventh century, the first two locked in a long contest under Pulakesin II and Narasimhavarman I. The Cholas rose again only in the ninth century, and the Cheras had faded after the Sangam age.
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What was the real name of Chanakya ?
Answer: C
It was Vishnugupta.
The Arthashastra colophon names its author Vishnugupta; Chanakya is the patronymic, from his father Chanaka, and Kautilya the gotra name. All three refer to the Brahmin of Takshashila who set Chandragupta on the Magadhan throne.
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Pali Texts are associated with ?
Answer: B
They belong to Buddhism.
The Pali canon, the Tipitaka, is the scripture of Theravada Buddhism, preserved orally and written down in Sri Lanka in the first century BCE.
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The term 'Yavanapriya' mentioned in ancient Sanskrit texts denoted
Answer: B
It denoted pepper.
Yavanapriya means dear to the Greeks, and the Sanskrit texts use it for the black pepper of the Malabar coast, the chief object of Roman trade with India and the commodity Pliny blamed for the drain of Roman gold.
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Universities in the Presidency towns in India were established in ?
Answer: B
It was 1857.
Universities were set up at Calcutta, Bombay and Madras that year, following Wood's Despatch of 1854. They examined and affiliated colleges on the London model rather than teaching.
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Under whose leadership was the all India Muslim League set up?
Answer: C
Under the Aga Khan.
The All India Muslim League was founded at Dhaka in December 1906 with the Aga Khan as first president. Sir Sayyid had died in 1898, and Jinnah joined only in 1913.
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Malik Kafur was General of ?
Answer: D
He served Alauddin Khalji.
Malik Kafur, bought as a slave at Khambhat, rose to be Alauddin's commander and led the campaigns into the Deccan against Devagiri, Warangal, Dwarasamudra and Madurai between 1307 and 1311, bringing back enormous treasure.
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