The Ali brothers, launched Khilafat Movement against British in 1920. Names of Ali brothers were :
Answer: D
They were Muhammad Ali and Shaukat Ali.
The Ali brothers led the Khilafat agitation over the treatment of the Ottoman Caliph after the First World War, and joined Gandhi in non-cooperation - the one period of united Hindu-Muslim mass action in the freedom movement.
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Battle of Plassey was fought in ?
Answer: D
It was fought in 1757.
Clive met Siraj-ud-Daula at Plassey on 23 June 1757, and Mir Jafar's contingent stood aside by prior arrangement. The battle was brief, and it made the Company the effective power in Bengal.
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To which of the republic of Buddha belong?
Answer: B
He belonged to the Sakyas.
Siddhartha was born at Lumbini into the Sakya clan, whose capital was Kapilavastu and whose government was of the gana-sangha type. Hence his title Sakyamuni, the sage of the Sakyas.
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Mahajanapada Period was from ?
Answer: D
It ran from 600 BCE to 325 BCE.
The Buddhist Anguttara Nikaya lists sixteen mahajanapadas in the sixth century BCE. Magadha absorbed the rest over the following two centuries, and the period closes with Chandragupta Maurya's accession about 322 BCE.
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The term samanta, meaning a feudatory from the sixth century AD, originally meant a
Answer: C
It originally meant neighbour.
Samanta first meant simply one who lives nearby. From about the sixth century it came to mean a defeated ruler left in possession of his land as a vassal, and so a feudatory - the shift itself marking the growth of the samanta system.
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Tipu sultan was the ruler of ?
Answer: D
He ruled Mysore.
Tipu succeeded Haidar Ali in 1782 and ruled from Seringapatam until he died defending it against the Company in 1799.
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Which veda is important for Indian Music ?
Answer: A
It is the Samaveda.
Its verses are drawn almost entirely from the Rigveda but set to melody for chanting at the soma sacrifice, and it preserves the earliest notation of Indian music. Indian classical music traces its descent from it.
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The term Nirgrantha is associated with
Answer: C
It is associated with the Jainas.
Nirgrantha means free from bonds or knots, and was the older name for the Jaina monks. The Buddhist texts call Mahavira Nigantha Nataputta, and Ashoka's edicts mention the nirgranthas among the sects he supported.
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With whose permission did the English set up their first factory in Surat?
Answer: B
It was Jahangir.
Captain William Hawkins reached Agra in 1609 and Sir Thomas Roe followed as James I's ambassador in 1615. The factory at Surat was established in 1613 under a farman from Jahangir, after the English defeated a Portuguese squadron at Swally.
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Which one of the following began with the Dandi March ?
Answer: C
It was the Civil Disobedience Movement.
Gandhi walked 240 miles from Sabarmati to Dandi between 12 March and 6 April 1930 and broke the salt law by picking up natural salt from the shore. The breach of one law spread into the refusal of many.
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