The troops raised by the emperor but not paid directly the state and place under the charge of mansabadars were know as
Answer: D
They were the dakhili.
Dakhili troops were recruited and paid by the state but placed under a mansabdar's command, as against the walashahi who served the emperor directly and the barawardi raised for a particular campaign.
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The French Revolution took place in the year
Answer: D
It was 1789.
The Estates-General met in May, the Bastille fell on 14 July and the Declaration of the Rights of Man was adopted in August. Liberty, equality and fraternity entered Indian political vocabulary through it.
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The Qutub Minar at Delhi was built by ?
Answer: A
It was begun by Qutbuddin Aibak.
He raised the first storey in 1199; Iltutmish added three more and Firoz Shah Tughlaq rebuilt the top after lightning damage, which is why the upper storeys are of marble and sandstone rather than red sandstone alone.
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The territory of Porus who offered strong resistance to Alexander was situated between the rivers of
Answer: B
It lay between the Jhelum and the Chenab.
Porus ruled the Paurava kingdom in this doab, and Alexander crossed the Jhelum to fight him at the Battle of the Hydaspes in 326 BCE. Defeated but answering that he wished to be treated as a king, he was restored to his kingdom as a satrap.
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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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Which Veda contains cure of diseases ?
Answer: B
It is the Atharvaveda.
Alone among the four it deals with everyday life - charms against fever and snakebite, herbal remedies, spells for long life and for success - and it is the source usually cited for the beginnings of Indian medicine.
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First Governor-General of Bengal was
Answer: C
It was Warren Hastings.
The Regulating Act of 1773 turned the Governor of Bengal into the Governor-General of Bengal, with a council of four and a supervisory authority over Bombay and Madras. Hastings held the office from 1774 to 1785.
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Vedic Culture was from
Answer: A
It ran from 1500 BCE to 600 BCE.
The early Vedic or Rigvedic period is placed roughly between 1500 and 1000 BCE in the Punjab, and the later Vedic between 1000 and 600 BCE, when settlement moved east into the Ganga-Yamuna doab and the other three Vedas were composed.
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The Turko-Afghan rule in India lasted for about ?
Answer: B
About three centuries.
From Qutbuddin Aibak's accession in 1206 to Ibrahim Lodi's defeat in 1526 - 320 years and five dynasties, the Slave kings, Khaljis, Tughlaqs, Sayyids and Lodis.
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Goa was captured by Portuguese ?
Answer: D
It was taken in 1510.
Afonso de Albuquerque took Goa from the Sultan of Bijapur in November 1510 with the help of the Hindu corsair Timoja, and made it the seat of Portuguese power in the East. It remained Portuguese until 1961.
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