Where did British first open their factories in Eastern part of India ?
Answer: B
It was in Orissa.
The English opened their first factory in eastern India at Hariharpur in the Mahanadi delta and at Balasore in 1633, under a farman obtained from the Mughal governor of Orissa. Hooghly and the Bengal factories followed.
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To evolve a peaceful settlement of the conflict between India and China, which of the following non-aligned Afro-Asian nations participated in a conference held in December 1962?
Answer: D
All of the above took part.
The Colombo Conference of December 1962 brought together six non-aligned states - Burma, Cambodia, Ceylon, Ghana, Indonesia and the United Arab Republic - to propose terms for settling the Sino-Indian conflict. India accepted the proposals; China did not accept them in full.
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Universities in the Presidency towns in India were established in
Answer: A
It was 1857.
Universities were established at Calcutta, Bombay and Madras in 1857, following Wood's Despatch of 1854. They were examining and affiliating bodies on the London model, not teaching institutions.
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"Jatakas" are sacred text associated with :
Answer: C
They belong to Buddhism.
The Jatakas are 547 stories of the Buddha's former births, in the Khuddaka Nikaya of the Pali canon. They are also a rich source for the social and economic life of early India, and their scenes are carved at Bharhut and Sanchi.
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Tripitakas are sacred books of
Answer: A
They are Buddhist.
The Tipitaka, or three baskets, is the Pali canon: the Vinaya Pitaka of monastic rule, the Sutta Pitaka of discourses and the Abhidhamma Pitaka of doctrinal analysis. It was written down in Sri Lanka in the first century BCE.
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How many Mandalas Rig Veda contains ?
Answer: B
It contains ten mandalas.
The ten books hold 1,028 hymns and some 10,600 verses. Books two to seven are the family books and the oldest; the first and tenth are the latest, and the tenth contains the Purusha Sukta and the Nasadiya hymn of creation.
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The system of Dual Government during the latter half of the 18th century AD is associated with the name of
Answer: A
It is associated with Clive.
After the grant of the diwani in 1765 the Company held the revenues of Bengal while the Nawab retained the nizamat - power without responsibility on one side, responsibility without power on the other. Warren Hastings ended the arrangement in 1772.
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The ‘Saptanga Theory of State’ (Theory of Seven Limbs of the State) was put forward by :
Answer: A
It was Kautilya, in the Arthashastra.
The saptanga names seven limbs of the state - swami the ruler, amatya the ministers, janapada the territory and people, durga the fort, kosha the treasury, danda the army and mitra the ally - each dependent on the rest, so that weakness in one weakens the whole.
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Ustad Mansur was a famous painter in the region of
Answer: D
He painted under Jahangir.
Ustad Mansur held the title Nadir-ul-Asr, wonder of the age, and specialised in natural history - the dodo, the Siberian crane, the Bengal florican and the flowers of Kashmir - painted with a precision that matched the emperor's own interest in observation.
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Which Vedic Texts gives a systematic exposition of the ‘theory of rebirth’ for the first time?
Answer: A
It is the Chhandogya Upanishad.
Its fifth chapter gives the panchagni vidya, the doctrine of the five fires, tracing the soul's passage after death and its return through rain, plant, food and seed - the first systematic statement of rebirth, together with the two paths of devayana and pitriyana.
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