Which was capital of Harshavardhana ?
Answer: D
It was Kannauj.
Harshavardhana began at Thanesar in 606 and moved his capital to Kannauj after uniting the two kingdoms, making it the chief city of north India for the next two centuries. Hiuen Tsang describes his court and the assembly held there.
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Where Buddha delivered his first sermon ?
Answer: D
It was at Sarnath.
In the deer park at Isipatana near Varanasi he preached to the five ascetics who had left him - the Dhammachakkappavattana Sutta, setting out the four noble truths and the eightfold path. The event is the turning of the wheel of the law.
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Who is known as father of Local Self-government ?
Answer: C
It is Lord Ripon.
His resolution of 1882 provided for elected local boards with elected non-official chairmen and a defined income of their own, treating them as an instrument of political education rather than of administration.
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Kalinga War was fought in ?
Answer: C
It was fought about 260 BCE.
Ashoka's thirteenth rock edict places the war in the ninth year of his reign and records a hundred thousand killed, a hundred and fifty thousand deported and many more dead of its effects. It turned him to dhamma.
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First battle of Panipat was between ?
Answer: B
Between Ibrahim Lodi and Babur.
Babur won on 21 April 1526 with about 12,000 men against a far larger army, using the tulughma flanking movement and field guns behind a screen of chained carts. Ibrahim was killed on the field.
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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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Gandhi Irwin Pact happened in ?
Answer: B
It was signed in 1931.
Gandhi and Irwin agreed on 5 March 1931 that civil disobedience would be suspended, political prisoners released and salt-making allowed on the coast, and that the Congress would attend the second Round Table Conference.
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The regulation prohibiting sati came into effect in India in
Answer: D
It came into effect in 1829.
Bengal Regulation XVII of 4 December 1829 declared sati illegal and punishable by the criminal courts. William Bentinck carried it after Ram Mohan Roy's campaign, and it was extended to Madras and Bombay the next year.
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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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Who was last Governor General of free India ?
Answer: D
It was C. Rajagopalachari.
He succeeded Mountbatten in June 1948 and held the office until 26 January 1950, when the Constitution came into force and the President replaced the Governor-General. He was the only Indian to hold the post.
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