Velu Thampi led a revolt against the British in state of
Answer: A
It was in Travancore.
Velu Thampi Dalawa, minister of Travancore, rose against the subsidiary alliance in 1808-09 and issued the Kundara Proclamation calling on the people to drive out the English. He took his own life rather than be captured.
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Which was the largest site of Indus Civilization ?
Answer: A
It was Mohenjo-daro.
At about 200 hectares it is the largest of the Indus cities, laid out on a grid with a citadel carrying the Great Bath, the granary and the pillared hall, and a lower town with drains along every street. It lies in Sindh, in Pakistan.
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To which professions earlier leaders who struggled for freedom of India mainly belonged?
Answer: D
All of the above.
The early Congress leadership was drawn from the English-educated professions - lawyers such as Pherozeshah Mehta and W. C. Bonnerjee, teachers such as Gokhale, journalists such as Surendranath Banerjea. The law predominated, but not exclusively.
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Pulakesin II belongs to
Answer: C
He belongs to the Chalukyas.
Pulakesin II was the greatest of the Chalukyas of Badami, whose Aihole inscription by Ravikirti records his victory over Harsha.
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The term Khalisa in Mughal administration signified the
Answer: B
It signified land owned by the emperor himself.
Khalisa was crown land held directly by the emperor, its revenue going straight into the imperial treasury rather than being assigned as jagir to a mansabdar. Its proportion of the empire's land varied under each ruler.
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Swami Vivekananda attended the "Parliament of the World's Religions" in America in the year ?
Answer: A
It was 1893.
Vivekananda addressed the Parliament of the World's Religions at Chicago on 11 September 1893, opening with sisters and brothers of America, and spoke on Hinduism as a religion of tolerance and universal acceptance.
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Who is the author of Ruqaat-i-Alamgiri?
Answer: B
It is by Aurangzeb.
Ruqaat-i-Alamgiri is a collection of his own letters to his sons and officers, gathered after his death. They are terse and show his temper and his method of governing more directly than any court chronicle.
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The Vedas contain all the truth was interpreted by
Answer: B
It was Swami Dayananda.
The founder of the Arya Samaj held that the Vedas are the only authority and contain all knowledge, and his call was back to the Vedas. He rejected idol worship, pilgrimage and the later Puranic tradition.
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Though Ashoka had many sons, the inscriptions mentioned only one who is not mentioned in any other source. He is
Answer: B
It is Tivara.
He is named with his mother Karuvaki in the Queen's Edict, the second separate rock edict at Allahabad, and appears nowhere else. Kunala, Mahendra and Jalauka are known only from later Buddhist and Kashmiri tradition.
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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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