Book "Causes of Indian revolt" is written by ?
Answer: D
It is by Sir Syed Ahmad Khan.
Asbab-i-Baghawat-i-Hind, written in 1858, argued that the revolt sprang from the exclusion of Indians from the legislative council and from British ignorance of Indian feeling, not from conspiracy. He had it translated and circulated among officials.
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Under whose leadership was the all India Muslim League set up?
Answer: C
It was set up under the Aga Khan.
The All India Muslim League was founded at Dhaka in December 1906 with the Aga Khan as its first president and the Nawab of Dhaka among its promoters. Sir Sayyid had died in 1898; Jinnah joined only in 1913.
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Sunga Dynasty was from
Answer: D
From 185 BCE to 73 BCE.
Pushyamitra Shunga founded the dynasty by killing the last Maurya at a military review, and it lasted 112 years until Devabhuti was killed by his minister Vasudeva Kanva. The Sanchi and Bharhut railings belong to this period.
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Second battle of Panipat was fought between ?
Answer: B
Between Akbar and Hemu.
The second battle of Panipat was fought on 5 November 1556. Hemu, commanding for the Suris, was winning until an arrow struck him in the eye and his army broke. Bairam Khan directed the Mughal side; Akbar was fourteen.
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The Turko-Afghan rule in India lasted for about
Answer: B
About three centuries.
Turko-Afghan rule ran from Qutbuddin Aibak's accession in 1206 to Ibrahim Lodi's defeat at Panipat in 1526 - five dynasties over 320 years, from the Slave kings to the Lodis.
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Who was the founder of the Gupta dynasty ?
Answer: C
Correct answer: Sri Gupta
Sri Gupta founded the line in the late third century, though the dynasty’s rise to imperial power began with Chandragupta I. Samudragupta then extended it widely, and the period is often called the classical age of Indian civilisation.
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During the period of the Shungas there was a revival of
Answer: B
There was a revival of Brahmanism.
Pushyamitra Shunga is said to have performed two ashvamedha sacrifices, and the period saw Sanskrit revive as a literary language and the composition of the Manusmriti. The Buddhist tradition accuses him of persecution, though the Bharhut and Sanchi railings were built in his time.
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Maurya Period was from ?
Answer: B
It ran from 322 BCE to 185 BCE.
Chandragupta took Magadha about 322 BCE, and the dynasty ended when Pushyamitra Shunga killed Brihadratha in 185 BCE - some 137 years covering the greatest extent of ancient Indian empire.
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The leader of the Young Bengal Movement was ?
Answer: D
It was Henry Vivian Derozio.
A teacher at Hindu College from 1826, he set his students to question orthodoxy in every form. The Young Bengal group he formed attacked caste and superstition, and he was dismissed in 1831 and died of cholera at twenty-two.
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Azad Hind was created with the assistance of
Answer: C
With the assistance of Japan.
The Provisional Government of Azad Hind was proclaimed at Singapore on 21 October 1943 with Japanese recognition, and was given the administration of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, which Bose renamed Shaheed and Swaraj.
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