Class Room Daily Dose Booklet: DDB No: Indian History Set 08 Answers and Explanations

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 DDB NO: Indian History 08
Indian History
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1 D. Land Revenue

2 D. Nadir Shah

3 B. Aurangzeb

4 B. Rigveda

5 C. Thanesar, Kannauj

Explanation: During the 7th century A.D, Harshavardhana united the kingdoms of Punjab, Bengal, Orissa along with a large portion of Indo-Gangetic Plain. He defeated the ruler of Kannauj and shifted his capital from Thanesar to Kannauj.

6 C. Harshavardhana

Explanation: Banabhatta was a Sanskrit scholar and poet of India. He was the Asthana Kavi in the court of King Harshavardhana, who reigned in the years 606’ 647 CE in north India. Bana’s principal works include a biography of Harsha, the Harshacharita and one of the world’s earliest novels, Kadambari. The other works attributed to him is the Parvatiparinaya.

7 D. Chandragupta Vikramaditya

Explanation: Kalidasa is generally associated with Chandragupta II who was one of the most powerful emperors of the Gupta empire in northern India. It was during his reign that the Gupta Empire achieved its zenith, art, architecture, and sculpture flourished, and the cultural development of ancient India reached its climax. Culturally, the reign of Chandragupta II marked a Golden Age. This is evidenced by later reports of the presence of a circle of poets known as the Nine Gems in his court. The greatest among them was Kalidasa.

8 B. Dunkirk

9 C. Firuz Tughluq

10 D. All the above

11 B. Shah Jahan

12 D. All the above

13 B. Pallavas

Explanation: Mahabalipuram was a 7th century port city of the South Indian dynasty of the Pallavas around 60 km south from the city of Chennai in Tamil Nadu. The name Mamallapuram is believed to have been given after the Pallava king Narasimhavarman I, who took on the epithet Maha-malla (great wrestler), as the favourite sport of the Pallavas was wrestling. It has various historic monuments built largely between the 7th and the 9th centuries, and has been classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

14 D. Balban

15 D. Dupleix

16 C. Akbar

17 A. British mercantile industrial capitalist class

18 B. Mir Kasim

19 C. Source of Hindu Philosophy

Explanation: The Upanishadsare a collection of texts that contain some of the central philosophical concepts of Hinduism. They are commonly referred to as Vedanta, variously interpreted to mean either the ‘last chapters, parts of the Veda’ or ‘the object, the highest purpose of the Veda’. The concepts of Brahman (Ultimate Reality) and Atman (Soul) are central ideas in the Upanishads.

20 C. Secretary of State for India

21 A. Akbar

22 C. 17th Century

23 D. Jawaharlal Nehru

24 D. Mughlai

25 B. Samarkand

26 B. Taxila

27 A. Undeciphered

Explanation: Although these seals and samples of Indus writing have been floating around the scholastic world for close to 70 years, little progress has been made on deciphering this elegant script. The Indus script is an undeciphered script.

28 D. Pulakesin II

Explanation: Harsha’s ambition of extending his power to the Deccan and Southern India were stopped by the great Chalukya Emperor of South India Pulakeshini-II, the Chalukya king of Vatapi in Northern Karnataka along the banks of river Narmada.Pulakeshi defeated Harsha’s army on the banks of the river Narmada in 620. A truce was agreed upon and the river Narmada was marked as the southern boundary of Harsha’s kingdom

29 B. Amritsar

30 C. Ahmad Shah

31 D. Brahmanism

32 D. Chausa

33 A. Narsimha Varman I

Explanation: The Pallava king Narsimhavarman I assumed the title of ‘Vatapikonda’ (Conqueror of Vatapi), when he defeated and killed Pulakesin II (Chalukya King) and captured the chalukyan capital, Badami in 642 AD. The Pallava victory resulted in the commencement of Pallava occupation of Vatapi which lasted until 654.

34 D. agriculture and cattle rearing

35 B. Diwan-i-Khas, Delhi

36 B. Demetrius

37 D. Jawaharala Nehru

38 D. Asaf-ud-Daula

39 C. The Enlightened one

Explanation: The word Buddha is a title for the first awakened being in an era. ‘Buddha’ is also sometimes translated as ‘The Enlightened One’.As Gautam fully comprehended the Four Noble Truths and as he arose from the slumbers of ignorance he is called a Buddha. Before His Enlightenment he was a bodhisattva which means one who is aspiring to attain Buddhahood. He was not born a Buddha, but became a Buddha by his own efforts. Every aspirant to Buddhahood passes through the bodhisattva period ‘ a period comprising many lives over a vast period of time.

40 B. Pataliputra

Explanation: The Third Buddhist council was convened in about 250 BCE at Asokarama in Pataliputra, supposedly under the patronage of Emperor Asoka.The traditional reason for convening the Third Buddhist Council is reported to have been to rid the Sangha of corruption and bogus monks who held heretical views. It was presided over by the Elder Moggaliputta Tissa and one thousand monks participated in the Council.

41 D. yajnas

Explanation: Jainism and Buddhism arose us a protest against the ritualism of the Hindu religion.

42 B. Sitting near Explanation: Upanishad means ‘sitting down near’, referring to the student sitting down near the teacher while receiving esoteric knowledge.monier-Williams’ Sanskrit Dictionary adds that, ‘Upanishad means ‘setting to rest ignorance by revealing the knowledge of the supreme spirit.’’

43 D. A benevolent despot

44 C. Vaman

45 D. Bodh Gaya

Explanation: Bodh Gaya is a religious site and place of pilgrimage associated with the Mahabodhi Temple Complex in Gaya district in the Indian state of Bihar. It is famous for being the place where Gautama Buddha is said to have obtained Enlightenment (Bodhimandala). According to Buddhist traditions, circa 500 BC Prince Gautama Siddhartha, wandering as an ascetic, reached the sylvan banks of Falgu River, near the city of Gaya. There he sat in meditation under a bodhi tree (Ficus religiosa). After three days and three nights of meditation, Siddharta claimed to have attained enlightenment and insight, and the answers that he had sought.

46 D. Chandragupta

47 D. Vidyaranya

48 C. Bimbisara

Explanation: King of Magadha Bimbisara was contemporary of Lord Buddha. He was a great friend and protector of the Buddha. Bimbisara was born in 558 B.C. He was the emperor of the Magadha empire from 543 BC to his death in 491 B.C. Budhha was born in 563 B.C and died in 483 B.C. 102

49 A. Sister Nivedita

50 D. The mound of the dead

Explanation: Mohen jodaro is interpreted as ‘Mound of the Dead Men’ in Sindhi, and as ‘Mound of Mohan’ (where Mohan is Krishna). The city’s original name is unknown. Mohen jodaro is located west of the Indus River in Larkana District, Sindh, Pakistan.

51 C. Mohammad-bin-Tughluq

52 A. Ritualism

53 A. Satavahanas

54 B. Cyrus

55 B. Guru Arjan Dev

56 D. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

57 B. Mandalam

58 A. Kanishka

59 D. eight great scholars of Telugu literature

60 D. Mahendra Varman I

61 D. Chandragupta II

62 A. Chandragupta Maurya

63 B. Ashtadhyayi

64 C. Rock edicts

65 C. Asafjahi

66 D. Of the Jallianwala Bagh tragedy

67 C. 4

68 D. Marathas

69 D. Kanishka

Explanation: The mightiest of the Kushan rulers in India was Kanishka. He was in power from 78 AD to 120 AD. It was Kanishka who initiated the Saka Era in 78 AD.Through inheritance and conquest, Kanishka’s kingdom covered an area extending from Bukhara (now in Uzbekistan) in the west to Patna in the Ganges Valley in the east, and from the Pamirs (now in Tajikistan) in the north to central India in the south. His capital was Purushpura (Peshawar).

70 C. V A Smith

71 D. YajurVeda

72 D. Revenue from Seaports

73 C. Akbar

74 D. Upagupta

Explanation: Upagupta was a Buddhist monk. According to some stories in the Sanskrit Avadana he was the spiritual teacher of Asoka the great Mauryan emperor.Upagupta’s teacher was Sanavasi who was a disciple of Ananda, the Buddha’s attendant. Due to the absence of his name in Theravada literature it is assumed that Upagupta was a Sarvadin monk.

75 C. Digambar Vishnu Paluskar

76 C. Cow

Explanation: The Indus Valley Civilization made sculptures mainly in stone, metal and terracotta. Ranging in size from slightly larger than a human thumb to almost 30 cm. (one foot) in height, the anthropomorphic and animal terracotta figurines from Harappa and other Indus Civilization sites offer a rich reflection of some of the Harappan ideas about representing life in the Bronze Age.From the terracotta figurines, we come to know that the people of Harappa domesticated animals like oxen, buffaloes, pigs, goats and sheep.Camels and asses were used as means of transport. Dogs and cats were kept as pets. The humped bull was considered a great asset in the farming community.

77 D. Babur

78 C. Al-Beruni

79 D. In the name of the Crown

80 C. Lothal

81 B. a ‘Rummindei Pillar’ of Ashok Maurya

Explanation: Lumbini, the birthplace of Lord Buddha, is marked by a commemorative pillar erected by Mauryan Emperor Ashoka of India during his pilgrimage to the holy site in 249 BC. The inscription on the Ashoka Pillar indentifies the Sacred Garden ‘ spread over 9 sq. km ‘ as the spot where the Enlightened One was born. Lumbini was known as Rummindei in Asoka’s time.

82 D. Hindukush

83 C. Poona

84 D. Raichur Doab

85 D. SN Banerjee

86 D. Yajur Veda

87 C. Rajendra Chola

Explanation: Rajendra Chola I extended the influences of the already vast Chola empire up to the banks of the river Ganges in the north and across the ocean.Rajendra’s territories extended coastal Burma, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Maldives, conquered the kings of Srivijaya (Sumatra, Java and Malay Peninsula in South East Asia) and Pegu islands with his fleet of ships.He defeated Mahipala, the Pala king of Bengal and Bihar, and to commemorate his victory he built a new capital called Gangaikonda Cholapuram.

88 B. Dandi March to break the Salt Laws

89 C. Shah Jahan

90 C. Burhanpur

91 A. Calicut

92 C. Astronomy

Explanation: The most famous work by Varahamihira is the treatise on mathematical astronomy called the Pancha Siddhantika (‘Five Astronomical Treatises’). it is dated 575 AD. It is a summary of five earlier astronomical systems, namely the Surya, Romaka, Paulisa, Vasistha and Paitamaha.

93 A. Gobind Singh

94 B. Chandragupta Maurya

Explanation: Seleucus I Nicator was a leading officer of Alexander the Great’s League of Corinth and one of the Diadochi.In the Wars of the Diadochi that took place after Alexander’s death, Seleucus established the Seleucid dynasty and the Seleucid Empire. He was defeated by the emperor of India, Chandragupta Maurya and accepted a matrimony alliance for 500 elephants after ceding the territories considered as part of India.

95 D. Nasir-ud-din Mahmud

96 C. All of the above

97 D. Chandragupta Maurya

98 A. Thanjavur

Explanation: The Brihadeshwara Temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to Lord Shiva located in Thanjavur in Tamil Nadu. Also known as Raja Rajeswara Temple, it was built by Chola ruler Raja Raja Chola I and completed in 1010. The temple is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site known as the ‘Great Living Chola Temples.’

99 A. 20 years

100 A. Calicut

101 B. Lord Mountbatten

102 C. Sir Richard Strachey

103 D. the Mauryas

104 D. Jaydev

105 B. Mir Kasim

106 B. Brahmanism

107 D. Indo-Greeks

Explanation: The Indo-Greek kings were the first to issue gold coins in India and their coins were special in the sense that each king had his own distinctive coins by which he could be definitely identified. The names of at least thirty Bactrian kings are known with the help of numerous coins, and they help in the reconstruction of the history of the kings. The coins carry legends in Greek and also in Kharosthi and Brahmi.

108 D. Saadat Khan

109 C. follow three jewels and five vows

110 A. Ghiyasuddin Tughluq

111 A. Vikramaditya

Explanation: Chandragupta II was the third ruler of the Gupta Empire of India who took the epithet of Vikramaditya. 4th century CE Sanskrit poet Kalidasa, credits Chandragupta Vikramaditya with having conquered about twenty one kingdoms, both in and outside India. The title’Vikramaditya’ was later used by 16th century Hindu king Samrat Hem Chandra Vikramaditya as well.

112 D. Cabinet Mission Plan

113 C. Lead

Explanation: The Satavahana kings mostly used lead as the material for their coins. Most of their coins are in that metal. Silver coins are very rare. Next to lead they used an alloy of silver and copper, called ‘potin’. Many copper coins are also available. Although the Satavahana coins are devoid of any beauty or artistic merit, they constitute a valuable source-material for the dynastic history of the Satavahanas.

114 A. Chandragupta Maurya

115 D. Samudragupta

116 C. All of the above

117 A. the Ganges

118 D. Jhelum

Explanation: The Battle of the Hydaspes River was fought by Alexander the Great in 326 BC against King Porus of the Hindu Paurava kingdom on the banks of the Hydaspes River (Jhelum River) in the Punjab. battle resulted in a complete Macedonian victory and the annexation of the Punjab. The battle is historically significant for opening up India for Greek political (Seleucid Empire, Indo-Greeks) and cultural influence (Greco-Buddhist art) which was to continue for many centuries.

119 C. Danubyu

120 B. Cholas

121 A. Ashoka

122 C. By a bloodless revolution

123 A. Sohan Singh Bhakna

124 A. Ajmer

125 A. early forms of some of the modern Indian languages

126 A. Vanguard

127 B. Ajmal Khan

128 B. Nandi Varman II

Explanation: Thiru Parameswara Vinnagaram or Vaikunta Perumal Temple in Kanchipuram is believed to have been built by the Pallava king Nandivarman II, with later contributions from Medieval Cholas and Vijayanagara kings. It is constructed in the Dravidian style of architecture.

129 C. Birsa Munda

130 D. Sabha and Samiti

131 A. Commander-in-Chief

132 D. It laid the foundation for British rule in India

133 C. Laws forbidding intermarriages between Indians and the British

134 A. Savita

135 C. A literary guild

136 B. 1920

137 A. Guptas

Explanation: The Gupta Empire was an ancient Indian empire which existed from approximately 320 to 550 CE and covered much of the Indian Subcontinent.Scholars of this period include Varahamihira and Aryabhatta, who is believed to be the first to come up with the concept of zero, postulated the theory that the Earth moves round the Sun, and studied solar and lunar eclipses. The most famous works of Aryabhatta are the Aryabhatiya and the Arya-siddhanta. Varahamihira was an Indian astronomer, mathematician, and astrologer who lived in Ujjain. He is considered to be one of the nine jewels (Navaratnas) of the court of legendary ruler Vikramaditya (thought to be the Gupta emperor Chandragupta II Vikramaditya).

138 A. Rajendra Prasad

139 A. Prithviraj

140 B. Khadphises I

Explanation: Kujula Kadphises (also known as Kadphises I) is believed to be the founder of Kushana dynasty in India in 78 A.D. According to the Rabatak inscription, he was the grandfather of the great Kushan king Kanishka I.

141 B. Pallavas

142 C. Emperor

143 A. Mawali leaders

144 A. Iron

145 B. Violence erupting at Chauri Chaura

146 B. Shah Jahan

147 D. Kolaba

148 B. Syed Ahmed Khan

149 C. 1858

150 C. Damayak

151 C. practice of land grants                       

152 D. sect contemporary to the Buddha

Explanation: Ajivika (‘living’ in Sanskrit) was a system of ancient Indian philosophy and an ascetic movement of the Mahajanapada period in the Indian subcontinent. Ajivika was primarily a heterodox Hindu (Nastika) or atheistic system.The Ajivikas may simply have been a more loosely-organized group of wandering ascetics (shramanas or sannyasins). One of their prominent leaders was Makkhali Gosal. Ajivikas are is thought to be contemporaneous to other early Hindu nastika philosophical schools of thought, such as Charvaka, Jainism and Buddhism, and may have preceded the latter two systems.

153 D. Narasinghavarman I

Explanation: Pancha Rathas is an example of monolith Indian rock-cut architecture dating from the late 7th century, located at Mahabalipuram.The Pancha Rathas shrines were carved during the reign of King Mahendravarman-I and his son Narasimhavarman-I. The purpose of their construction is not known, structures are not completed.

154 D. Banabhatta

Explanation: Banabhatta was a Sanskrit prose writer and poet of India. He was the Asthana Kavi in the court of King Harshavardhana, who reigned in the years century. 606’647 CE in north India.

155 C. Vishnu Sharma

Explanation: The Panchatantra is attributed to Vishnu Sharma. It an ancient Indian collection of interrelated animal fables in verse and prose arranged within a frame story. The original Sanskrit work, some scholars believe was composed around the 3rd century BC.

156 A. Udaipur

157 C. Indus Valley civilization

Explanation: Indus Valley civilization was the oldest civilization to have flourished in the Indian subcontinent. Generally dated between 3000 B.C to 1800 B.C, it was one of three early civilizations of the Old World along with Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. It was a Bronze Age civilization.

158 D. Pali

Explanation: Buddha preached his messages in Pali, the vernacular language spoken then in north India.The language of the ancient Buddhist scriptures was Pali.Tripitaka is the collection of the teachings of the Buddha in the Pali language. It consists of three sections of the Buddha’s Teachings:Vinaya Pitaka, Sutta Pitaka and Abhidhamma Pitaka.

159 B. Bharat Vidhata

160 A. Rana Sanga

161 A. They depict the techniques used in Ancient India

Explanation: The Ajanta Caves in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra are about 30 rock-cut Buddhist cave monuments which date from the 2nd century BC to about 480 or 650 CE. 

162 B. Sir William Wedderburn

163 D. Fargana

164 C. Ashoka

165 A. Pataliputra

Explanation: Pataliputra, the ancient city of Patna in Bihar, served as the capital city of the Mauryan empire. It reached the pinnacle of prosperity under Chandragupta Maurya and Ashoka. Greek ambassador, Megasthenes, has left a detailed account of its splendor. Pataliputra was originally built by Magadha ruler Ajatsatru in 490 BC.

166 A. Ahmednagar

167 A. Aga Khan Palace

168 D. Kalanjar

169 C. monarchy

170 A. Tamil Nadu

Explanation: Sangam period is the period in the history of ancient southern India (known as the Tamilakam) spanning from c. 30th century BC to c. 4th century CE. It is named after the famous Sangam academies of poets and scholars centered in the city of Madurai. In old Tamil language, the term Tamilakam referred to the whole of the ancient Tamil-speaking area, corresponding roughly to the present-day Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, parts of Andhra Pradesh, parts of Karnataka and northern Sri Lanka.

171 A. The Indian Council Act of 1909

172 D. Kanishka I

173 A. Humayun

174 D. Komagata Maru Incident

175 B. 1912

176 C. Mathura

177 A. Deccan Education Society

178 C. Jinnah

179 A. Alauddin Khalji

180 B. Rashtrakutas

Explanation: The Ellora caves were patronized mainly by the Chalukya and the Rashtrakuta Dynasty rulers between the middle of sixth century and the eleventh century A.D. Ajanta Caves in Maharashtra are 28-30 rock-cut cave monuments created during the first century BC and 5th century AD, containing paintings and sculptures considered to be masterpieces of both Buddhist religious art and universal pictorial art.

181 D. Keshub Chandra Sen

182 B. Rajagriha, Vaishali, Pataliputra, Kashmir or Jullandhar

183 D. Pallava

Explanation: Mahabalipuram, derived from ‘Mamallapuram’ is the prior and colloquial name of a town in Kancheepuram district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, now officially called Mamallapuram.Mahabalipuram was a 7th century port city of the South Indian dynasty of the Pallavas near the city of Chennai in TamilNadu.The name Mamallapuram is believed to have been given after the Pallava king Narasimhavarman I, who took on the epithet Maha-malla (great wrestler), as the favourite sport of the Pallavas was wrestling. It has various historic monuments built largely between the 7th and the 9th centuries, and has been classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

184 C. Copper

185 D. Kalasoka

186 A. Ramanuja

187 D. All the above

188 A. Right Desire

Explanation: The Noble Eightfold Path is one of the principal teachings of the Buddha, who described it as the way leading to the cessation of suffering (dukkha) and the achievement of self-awakening. The path comprises right view, right aspiration, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration.

189 A. Rajasthani school of art

190 C. Southern India

191 D. Amarakosa

192 B. February 20, 1947

193 A. Srigupta

Explanation: The history of the Gupta dynasty begins with its founding by Sri-Gupta around 240 CE. He has been described as Maharaja in edicts. The most likely time for the reign of Sri Gupta is c. 240’280 CE. Chinese traveller I-Tsing mentioned about Sri Gupta in his writings

194 C. The Railways

195 D. Aurangzeb

196 A. town planning

197 C. Aryans

Explanation: A majority of historians believe that the Aryans were the first to invade India in the later stages of the Indus Valley Civilization around 1700 B.C. The Aryans came to India in bands and over several centuries in the 2nd millennium B.C. Historians are divided on the issue of their original homeland.

198 D. Krishnadevaraya

Explanation: Krishnadevaraya (1509’1530), the greatest emperor of the Vijayanagara Empire, composed Amuktamalyada. Considered a masterpiece in Telugu literature, the epic poem is believed to have been written and dedicated to Lord Venkateswara. The administration of the empire was carried on along the lines indicated in his Amuktamalyada.

199 B. Babylon

200 B. 1942