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 DDB NO: Indian History 05
Indian History
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1    B. Bamiyan   
Explanation: The Buddhas of Bamiyan were two 6th century monumental statues of standing Buddha carved into the side of a cliff in the Bamyan valley in the Hazarajat region of central Afghanistan.They were dynamited and destroyed in March 2001 by the Taliban, on orders from leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, after the Taliban government declared that they were idols.On 8 September 2008 archeologists searching for a legendary 300-metre statue at the site of the already dynamited Buddhas announced the discovery of an unknown 19- metre (62-foot) reclining Buddha, a pose representing Buddha’s passage into nirvana

2    A. Bentinck   
3    D. Digambar   
Explanation: Digambara ‘sky-clad’ is one of the two main sects of Jainism, the other being Svetambara. Generally, Digambara monks wear no clothes whereas Svetambara ‘white-clad’ monks usually wear white clothes.
4    B. Temple with Shikhar   
Explanation: Sikhara, a Sanskrit word translating literally to ‘mountain peak’, refers to the rising tower in the Hindu temple architecture of North India.Sikhara over the sanctum sanctorum where the presiding deity is enshrined is the most prominent and visible part of a Hindu temple of North India. Sikhara was a major feature of the medieval times.
5    B. Megasthanese   
Explanation: Megasthenes was a Greek ethnographer and explorer who served as an ambassador of Seleucus I of the Seleucid dynasty to Chandragupta Maurya.His ‘Indika,’ throws light on the contemporary society, religious beliefs and social stratification.
6    C. Muslim League   
7    B. Deimachos   
8    D. Amar Das   
9    A. Panini   
10    D. Alauddin Khalji   
11    D. Jahangir’s mausoleum in Lahore   
12    A. The Episode of the Greased Cartridges   
13    A. Samudragupta   
14    B. Pali   
Explanation: Pali is a Middle Indo-Aryan language (of Prakrit group) of the Indian subcontinent. It is best known as the language of many of the earliest extant Buddhist scriptures, as collected in the Pali Canon or Tipitaka, and as the liturgical language of Theravada Buddhism. T. W. Rhys Davids in his book Buddhist India, and Wilhelm Geiger in his book Pali Literature and Language, suggested that Pali may have originated as a form of lingua franca or common language of culture among people who used differing dialects in North India, used at the time of the Buddha and employed by him.
15    A. Pandya   
16    D. Kanchipuram   
Explanation: The Pallavas ruled regions of northern Tamil Nadu and southern Andhra Pradesh between the second to the ninth century A.D. Their capital was Kanchipuram.Located on the banks of river Vegavathy, it served as the capital city of the Pallava Kingdom during the 4th to 9th century A.D.
17    A. Marx   
18    D. Magadhi   
19    B. It is the best weapon of the weak against the strong   
20    A. Religion   
21    A. Indian National Conference   
22    D. Pulkesin II   
23    C. A small band of Moplahs committed collective suicides in the belief of being called Shahids (martyrs)   
24    C. Susruta   
25    B. Tegh Bahadur   
26    C. extension of the empire   
27    C. Upanishadas   
28    C. Counsul   
29    B. Trisala   
30    A. Sama Veda   
31    A. Kautilya   
32    C. Dacca   
33    D. Jahangir   
34    D. Chandragupta Maurya   
Explanation: The Arthashastra was authored by Kautilya, also known as Vishnugupta, who was a
35    D. St Thomas    contemporary and mentor of Chandragupta Maurya, founder of the Mauryan Empire.It is an ancient Indian treatise on statecraft, economic policy and military strategy, written in Sanskrit.
36    C. Krishan-I   
Explanation: Kailashnath Temple is a famous temple, one of the 34 monasteries and temples, known collectively as the Ellora Caves located at Ellora, Maharashtra.It is designed to recall Mount Kailash, the abode of Lord Shiva. It is a megalith carved out of one single rock. It was built in the 8th century by the Rashtrakuta king Krishna-I.
37    A. September 1920   
38    A. A Enlibhtened one   
Explanation: The word Buddha means awakened one or "the enlightened one". "Buddha" is also used as a title for the first awakened being in an era.Gautam Buddha was born as Siddhartha in a royal family; he began to be called the Buddha after attaining enlightenment under the Bodhi tree in Gaya.""
39    B. System of Dyarchy   
40    C. Jainism   
41    B. Kavi Kalash   
42    D. Chamberlain   
43    B. 5 years   
44    D. The Government of India   
45    C. Dyer   
46    C. M.S. Vats   
Explanation: M.S. Vats’ ‘Excavations at Harappa,’ gives an account of archaeological excavations at Harappa carried out between the years 1920-1921 and 1933-34. M.S. Vats first excavated the Granary
47    A. Gulbarga   
48    D. Dharmachakrapravartan   
49    D. Palas   
50    D. Swami Vivekanand   
51    B. Pala Age   
Explanation: Both Beetapala and Dhiman were the artists during the Pala rule in Bengal who flourished in the 9th century A.D.The artistic centre of gravity was displaced after the decline of the Buddhist kings of Bengal when decadence in the style of Dhiman became apparent.
52    A. Gautamiputra Satkarni   
Explanation: Gautamiputra Satakarni (78-102 A.D) is often acknowledged by historians as the greatest of the Satavahana rulers.He defeated the Yavanas, Sakas, and Pallavas and re-established the ancient glory of the Satavahanas. He performed two Ashwamedha sacrifices.
53    B. Sisodiya   
54    A. Muhammad-bin-Tughluq   
55    B. Lala Hardayal   
56    A. 78 AD   
57    B. In the service of God   
58    C. All the above   
59    B. Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi   
60    B. Patanjali   
61    B. Swami Vivekananda   
62    C. 1757   
63    A. Harisena   
64    C. Rejection of seclusion of women   
65    C. Bimbisara   
66    D. Mohammed Iqbal   
67    A. Jallianwala Bagh Massacre   
68    A. six boards   
69    A. Establishment of the education system   
70    C. Bhoj (Mihir-Bhoj)   
Explanation: Mihira Bhoja I (836’885 CE) or Bhoja I is considered as the greatest and most powerful ruler of the Pratihara dynasty.At its height, Bhoja’s empire extended to Narmada River in the South, Sutlej River in the northwest, and up to Bengal in the east. He was a scholar as well.
71    C. Kanishka I   
72    C. Sakya   
Explanation: Shakya was an ancient tribe (janapada) of the Indian Subcontinent in the 1st millennium BCE. In Buddhist texts the Shakyas, the inhabitants of Shakya janapada, are mentioned as a Kshatriya clan of Gotama gotra.The most famous Shakya was Gautama Buddha, a member of the ruling Gautama clan of Lumbini, who is also known as Shakyamuni Buddha, ‘sage of the Shakyas’, due to his association with this ancient kingdom. The Puranas mention Shakya as a king of Ikshvaku dynasty
73    A. December 9, 1946   
74    A. Bicameral Legislature   
75    D. Asikru   
76    A. early forms of some of the modern Indian languages   
77    A. Chalukyas of Badami   
78    C. A List of Subjects for Princely States   
Explanation: Pulakesin II (610’642 AD) was the most famous ruler of the Chalukya dynasty. In his reign the Chalukyas of Badami saw their kingdom extend over most of the Deccan.
79    C. Magadha   
Explanation: Elephants were always part of warfare in India. However, it were the rulers of Magadha who first employed elephants as a weapon of large-scale destruction.According to Plutarch, at the time of Alexander’s invasion of India, the Nanda army comprised 6,000 war elephants which discouraged Alexander’s men from further advancement. According to Megasthenes, Chandragupta Maurya’s army consisted of 9,000 war elephants.
80    C. Henry Vivian Derozio   
81    A. Pulakeshin II   
82    A. Pulakeshin II   
83    A. Sri Gupta   
Explanation: Sri Gupta (240’280) was a pre-imperial Gupta king in northern India and start of the Gupta dynasty.The first evidence of Sri Gupta comes from the writings of I-tsing around 690 CE who describes that the Poona copper inscription of Prabhavati Gupta, a daughter of Chandra Gupta, describes ‘Maharaja Sri-Gupta’ as the founder of the Gupta dynasty
84    D. Dr Rajendra Prasad   
85    A. Silsilahs   
86    B. All the above   
87    A. Purushapura   
Explanation: The Kushan king Kanishka, who reigned from at least 127 AD, moved the capital from Pushkalavati (now called Charsadda in the Peshawar valley) to Purushapura (Peshawar) in the 2nd century AD.Following this move by the Kushans, Peshawar became a great center of Buddhist learning even though Zoroastrianism, Hindusim and animism seem to have survived in the majority population.
88    D. Rishabha   
Explanation: In Jainism, Rishabh was the first of the 24 Tirthankaras who founded the Ikshavaku dynasty and was the first Tirthankara of the present age.Because of this, he was called Adinath. He is mentioned in the Hindu text of the Bhagavata Purana as an avatar of Vishnu.
89    A. Nalanda   
Explanation: Nalanda was an ancient center of higher learning in Bihar which was a religious center of learning from the fifth or sixth century CE to 1197 CE.At its peak, the university attracted scholars and students from as far away as Tibet, China, Greece, and Persia. Nalanda was ransacked and destroyed by an army under Bakhtiyar Khilji in 1193.
90    A. Gupta   
91    B. Worship of Murugan   
92    A. Porus   
Explanation: The Battle of the Hydaspes was fought by Alexander the Great in 326 BC against King Porus of the Paurava kingdom on the banks of the river Hydaspes (Jhelum) in the Punjab near Bhera.The battle resulted in a complete Macedonian victory and the annexation of the Punjab. dragupta gave away his throne to his son, Bindusara, and spent his life as an ascetic.He accepted Jainism and spent his last days at Sravanabelagola in Karnataka along with Bhadrabahu. He gave up his life by the strict Jain ritual of sallakhena
93    D. The Parliament of Britain   
94    A. Shiva   
Explanation: Most of the Chola temples were dedicated to Shiva. The great living Chola temples are important Hindu kovils that were built during the 10th-12th centuries in the South India. In all these temples, the chief deity who has been depicted and worshipped is Lord Shiva.
95    D. restoration of the old status of the Caliph (Khilafat Demand) and attainment of Swaraj for India   
96    C. Ramakrishna Mission   
97    D. sanitation and public health   
98    D. Mahatma Gandhi   
99    B. Sama Veda   
100    D. Six   
101    D. Seringapatam   
102    B. West Bengal   
103    C. Lothal    Detail: Lothal, located along the Bhogava river, a tributary of Sabarmati, in the Gulf of Khambat in Gujarat, was the only port-town of the Indus Valley Civilisation.It had a basin with vertical wall, inlet and outlet channels which has been identified as a tidal dockyard. Lothal’s dock was the earliest known dock found in the world, equipped to berth and service ships.
104    C. Devaputra   
105    C. Guptas    Detail: Some coins throw significant light on the personal events of certain Gupta rulers like
106    D. Mongol converts to Islam   
107    C. Faujdar   
108    B. Dara Shukoh   
109    A. Radio Carbon-14 dating   
110    B. Babar and Rana Sanga   
111    B. Ibn-Batuta   
112    A. Krishnadeva Roya   
113    D. Mewar   
114    B. Kanishka   
Explanation: Charaka was one of the principal contributors to the ancient art and science of Ayurveda, a system of medicine and lifestyle developed in Ancient India.
115    C. Malwa   
116    D. Bankim Chandra Chatterjee   
117    A. Sir John Lawrence   
118    B. Rashtrakuta Ruler Krishna I   
Explanation: The Kailasa temple at Ellora, Maharashtra, was built in the 8th century by the Rashtrakuta king Krishna I as attested in Kannada inscriptions.This is one of the 34 temples and monasteries known collectively as the Ellora Caves. It is a megalith carved out of one single rock.
119    C. Tilak   
120    A. The Lieutenant Governor   
121    C. Viceroy   
122    C. Cabral   
123    A. Bronze age   
124    D. Manu   
125    C. Aryabhatta   
126    B. Harappa   
Explanation: The people of the Indus Civilization achieved great accuracy in measuring length, mass, and time. They were among the first to develop a system of uniform weights and measures.Their smallest division, which is marked on an ivory scale found in Lothal, was approximately 1.704 mm, the smallest division ever recorded on a scale of the Bronze Age.
127    A. work for harijan welfare   
128    C. All of the above   
129    D. Monarchical government   
130    A. Buddhist Art.   
Explanation: Greco-Buddhist art is the artistic manifestation of Greco-Buddhism, a cultural syncretism between the Classical Greek culture and Buddhism, which developed over a period of close to 1000 years in Central Asia, between the conquests of Alexander the Great in the 4th century BCE, and the Islamic conquests of the 7th century CE.Under the Indo-Greeks and then the Kushans, the interaction of Greek and Buddhist culture flourished in the area of Gandhara, in today’s northern Pakistan, before spreading further into India, influencing the art of Mathura, and then the Hindu art of the Gupta empire, which was to extend to the rest of South-East Asia.
131    D. Chandragupta I   
Explanation: Chandragupta I was known as ‘Lichchavidauhitra.’ His marriage with the Lichchavi Princess Kumaradevi was one of the significant events in the Gupta rule.The importance of this marriage can be known further from Samudragupta’s Allahabad inscription in which he has described himself as ‘Lichchhavis-dauhitra or daughter’s son of the Lichchavis.
132    B. Vaishali   
133    D. Deliverance Day   
134    D. 1875   
135    C. Dadu   
136    D. Vallabhbhai Patel   
137    A. Curzon   
138    C. Ashoka   
Explanation: The National Emblem of India is derived from the time of the Emperor Ashoka. It is a replica of the Lion of Sarnath, near Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh.The Lion Capital was erected in the Emperor Ashoka in 3rd century B.C. to mark the spot where Buddha first proclaimed his gospel of peace and emancipation.
139    B. Ustad Isa   
140    D. C Rajagopalachari   
141    C. 1921   
142    C. All the above   
143    D. a speech group   
144    D. Sri Aurobindo Ghose   
145    B. Village functionaries   
146    B. July 1947   
147    D. Banabhatta   
Explanation: Kadambari is a romantic novel in Sanskrit. It was substantially composed by Banabhatta in the first half of the 7th century, who did not survive to see it through completion.The novel was completed by Banabhatta’s son Bhushanabhatta, according to the plan laid out by his late father. It is conventionally divided into Purvabhaga (earlier part) written by Banabhatta, and Uttarabhaga (latter part) by Bhushanabhatta.
148    A. Krishnadeva Raya   
149    C. Ranchi   
Explanation: The Great Stupa at Sanchi was built by Mauryan emperor Ashoka. Dhamek Stupa in Sarnath is thought to be the oldest Stupa in existence.The stupa of Bharhut is between Allahabad and Jabalpur situated in the erstwhile Nagod state of Madhya Pradesh.
150    A. Patanjali   
Explanation: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali are 196 Indian sutras (aphorisms) that constitute the foundational text of Raja yoga. In the Yoga Sutras, Patanjali prescribes adherence to eight limbs or steps (the sum of which constitute "Ashtanga Yoga
151    D. To treat the communal problem as a national issue   
152    A. Gulbarga   
153    C. Iltutmish   
154    A. The Government of India Act, 1858   
155    C. Mahmud Ghazni   
156    D. Indian Prisoners of war under the Japanese   
157    C. his forces refused to go further   
158    B. Mula Shankar   
159    A. The journey beyond the three seas   
160    D. Shah Qulihan Mehran   
161    A. Sapta Sindhu   
Explanation: The region where the Aryans settled in India around 1500 B.C. was called Sapta Sindhu (Seven Rivers), also referred to as the Brahmavarta.They spread to Indo-Gangetic plains in the later Vedic Period and this region came to be known as Aryavarta (1000 BC to 600 BC).
162    A. Kosa   
163    B. Right Table Manners   
164    B. Pucca bricks   
Explanation: The Indus Valley Civilization, marked by its remarkable level of urbanization despite being a Bronze Age culture, is noted for its cities built of brick, roadside drainage system, and multistoried houses.Houses were one or two stories high, made of baked brick, with flat roofs, and were just about identical.Each was built around a courtyard, with windows overlooking the courtyard. The outside walls had no windows. Each home had its own private drinking well and its own private bathroom.
165    B. Kaivalya   
166    B. Tipu Sultan   
167    D. Shipbuilding   
168    A. Kautilya   
Explanation: The Arthasastra is an ancient Indian treatise on statecraft, economic policy and military strategy which identifies its author by the names ‘Kautilya’ and ‘Vishnaugupta’, both names that are traditionally identified with Chanakya (c. 350’283 BC), who was a scholar at Takshashila and the teacher and guardian of Emperor Chandragupta Maurya, the founder of Mauryan Empire. Because of its harsh political pragmatism, the Arthasastra has often been compared to Machiavelli’s The Prince.
169    A. Vikramaditya   
170    D. Rajagriha   
Explanation: The first Buddhist Council was held at Rajgir in 483 BC during the reign of Ajatasatru.
171    A. R. Shamashastri    Explain: In 1905, R. Ramashashtri discovered and published the Arthashastra, an ancient Indian treatise on statecraft. He transcribed, edited and published the Sanskrit edition in 1909. He proceeded to translate it into English, publishing it in 1915.
172    D. signing the Gandhi-Irwin Pact of March 1931   
173    C. G K Gokhale   
174    B. Lokmanya Tilak   
175    B. Satavahanas   
Explanation: Land grants formed an important feature of the Satavahana rural administration. Inscriptions show that the Satavahanas started the practice of granting fiscal and administrative immunities to Brahmins and Buddhist monks. Earlier, the grants to individuals were temporary but later grants to religious beneficiaries were permanent.Perhaps the earliest epigraphic grant of land is found in the Nanaghat Cave Inscription of naganika, who bestowed villages (grama) on priests for officiating at Vedic sacrifices, but it does not speak of any concessions in this context. These appear first in grants made by Gautamiputra Satakarni in the first quarter of the second century A.D.
176    C. Amir Khusrau   
177    D. Shivaji   
178    A. Peshwa Baji Rao II   
179    D. Panini   
Explanation: Panini is considered as the first grammarian of Sanskrit language. He is particularly known for his formulation of the 3,959 rules of Sanskrit morphology, syntax and semantics in the grammar known as Ashtadhyayi, the foundational text of the grammatical branch of the Vedanga, the auxiliary scholarly disciplines of the historical Vedic religion.
180    C. Meghadutam   
Explanation: Meghadutam (cloud messenger) is a lyric poem written by Kalidasa, considered to be one of the greatest Sanskrit poets.In Sanskrit literature, the poetic conceit used in the Meghadutam spawned the genre of sandesha kavya or messenger poems, most of which are modeled on the Meghaduta (and are often written in the Meghaduta’s mandakranta metre)
181    D. A-4, B-1, C-3, D-2   
Explanation: Statue of a Priest: also known as ‘Priest King’, it is the bust portrait of a bearded nobleman or high priest that was discovered at Mohenjodaro in Sindh, Pakistan;
182    D. The Greeks   
183    A. Ashtapradhan   
184    D. Warren Hastings   
185    B. Samiti   
Explanation: Several tribal assemblies, such as sabha, samiti, vidatha, and gana mentioned in the Rig Veda exercised deliberative, military and religious functions. But from the political point of view important were the sabha and Samiti.We have also some traces of the election of tribal chiefs by the tribal assembly called the samiti.
186    C. Sardar Patel   
187    D. Prakrit   
188    C. Khjuraho - Chandelas   
Explanation: Khajuraho was the cultural capital of Chandel Rajputs, a Hindu dynasty that ruled this part of India from the 10-12th centuries. The political capital of the Chandelas was Kalinjar.The Khajuraho temples were built over a span of 200 years, from 950 to 1150.
189    A. Purusa-sukta of Rigveda   
190    C. Maurya   
Explanation: The Maurya Empire was a geographically extensive Iron Age historical power in ancient India, ruled by the Mauryan dynasty from 321 to 185 BC. Originating from the kingdom of Magadha in the IndoGangetic plains (modern Bihar, eastern Uttar Pradesh and Bengal) in the eastern side of the Indian subcontinent, the empire had its capital city at Pataliputra (modern Patna).The Empire was founded in 322 BC by Chandragupta Maurya. The Gupta Empire was an ancient Indian empire which existed from approximately 320 to 550 CE and covered much of the Indian Subcontinent.The Kushan Empire was originally formed in the early 1st century AD under Kujula Kadphises in the territories of ancient Bactria around the Oxus River (Amu Darya), and later based near Kabul, Afghanistan. The Kanva dynasty was a Brahman dynasty founded by Vasudeva Kanva, the minister of Devabhuti, the last Sunga king in 75 BCE
191    A. Oudh   
192    B. 1853   
193    A. Bhima II   
194    B. Bahadur Shah Zafar   
195    C. 1858