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 Kalinga was fought in
Answer: C
It was fought in 261 BCE.
Ashoka's thirteenth major rock edict records the war in the ninth year of his reign: a hundred and fifty thousand deported, a hundred thousand killed and many times that number dead of other causes. The remorse it expresses turned him to dhamma.
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Tolkappiyam is associated with the
Answer: B
It belongs to the second Sangam period.
Tradition places three Sangams at Madurai, and the Tolkappiyam, the oldest surviving Tamil work, is the only text assigned to the second to have come down to us. It treats grammar, phonology and the poetics of akam and puram.
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Were the Indus people the first in the world to produce cotton?
Answer: A
True.
Cotton was first cultivated and woven in the Indus valley - fragments of cotton cloth were found at Mohenjo-daro adhering to a silver vessel. The Greeks called it sindon, from Sindh.
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In which year did Nadir Shah invade India?
Answer: A
He invaded in 1739.
Nadir Shah of Persia defeated Muhammad Shah at Karnal in February 1739, occupied Delhi, and after a riot ordered a general massacre. He carried off the Peacock Throne and the Koh-i-Noor, and the empire never recovered.
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Who was the founder of dynasty "The Vakatakas" ?
Answer: C
It was Vindhyashakti.
He founded the Vakataka dynasty in the Deccan about 250 CE. Under his successors it became the chief power of central India, allied to the Guptas by the marriage of Prabhavatigupta, and the Ajanta caves were patronised by the Vakataka court.
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Simon Commission was appointed by the British government in which year ?
Answer: D
It was appointed in November 1927.
The Indian Statutory Commission under Sir John Simon was announced in November 1927 and reached Bombay in February 1928. Having no Indian member, it was met everywhere with black flags and the cry Simon go back.
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Which of following was not a varna of Society ?
Answer: D
Vaiswik was not one.
The four varnas of the Purusha Sukta are Brahmana, Kshatriya, Vaishya and Shudra. Vaiswik is not a varna at all.
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What was the time period of Indus Civilization / Harappan Civilization ?
Answer: D
It was 2500 BCE to 1750 BCE.
These are the dates of the mature Harappan phase as conventionally given, though radiocarbon has since pushed the early phase back to about 3300 BCE and the decline to about 1300 BCE in the late Harappan.
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When did Vasco-da-Gama come to India ?
Answer: D
He arrived in 1498.
Vasco da Gama reached Kappad near Calicut on 20 May 1498, guided across the Arabian Sea from Malindi, and was received by the Zamorin. It was the first sea route from Europe to India round the Cape.
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