Indian History Based on Questions asked in various Exams (Part 5)

41.   In which\r\nof the following movements did Mahatma Gandhi make the first use of Hunger\r\nStrike as a weapon?

        (1) Non-Cooperation Movement, 1920-22

        (2) Rowlatt Satyagraha, 1919

        (3) Ahmedabad Strike, 1918

        (4) Bardoli Satyagraha

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42.   Who led\r\nthe Salt Satyagraha Movement with Gandhi?

        (1) Annie Besant

        (2) Mridula Sarabhai

        (3) MuthuLakshmi

        (4) Sarojini Naidu

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43.   Yavanika\r\nor curtain was introduced in Indian theatre by which of the following?

        (1) Shakas          (2)\r\nParthians

        (3) Greeks           (4)\r\nKushans

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44.   Who\r\nstarted the Saka Era which is still used by the Government of India?

        (1) Kanishka

        (2) Vikramaditya

        (3) Samudra Gupta

        (4) Asoka

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45.   The\r\nBahmani kingdom was founded by

        (1) Ahmad Shah I

        (2) Alauddin Hasan

        (3) Mahmud Gavan

        (4) Firuz Shah Bahmani

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46.   The\r\nDilwara temple at Mount Abu in Rajasthan were built by the followers of

        (1) Buddhism     (2)Jainism

        (3) Hinduism      (4)\r\nSikhism

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47. Sati was prohibited by____

        (1) Warren Hastings

        (2) Lord Wellesley

        (3) Lord William Bentinck

        (4) Lord Dalhousie

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48.   What\r\ninspired the paintings of Ajanta?

        (1) Compassionate Buddha

        (2) Radha-Krishan Leela

        (3) Jain Thirthankaras

        (4) Mahabharata encounters

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49.   Alberuni\r\ncame to India with

        (1) Mahmud of Ghazni

        (2) Alexander

        (3) Babur

        (4)Timur

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50.   The Simon\r\nCommission was formed to review

        (1) legislatures in India

        (2) fitness of India for further reforms

        (3) the position of the viceroy

        (4) a Constitution for India

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41.   (3) In\r\n1918, Mahatma Gandhi intervened in a dispute between the workers and\r\nmill-owners of Ahmedabad. He advised the workers to go on strike and to demand\r\na 35 per cent increase in wages. But he insisted that the workers should not\r\nuse violence against the employers during the strike. He undertook a fast unto\r\ndeath (first among the 17 such fasts) to strengthen the workers’ resolve to\r\ncontinue the strike. But his fast also put pressure on the millowners who\r\nrelented on the fourth day and agreed to give the workers a 35 per cent\r\nincrease in wages.

42.   (4) The\r\nDandi march was undertaken by Gandhiji and about 78 of his followers, starting\r\nfrom Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad. The Satyagrahis set out on foot, for the\r\ncoastal village of Dandi, Gujarat, about 240 miles away. The walk lasted for 23\r\ndays and passed through 48 villages. The marchers were received with great\r\nenthusiasm and the support from the masses was very evident. During the course\r\nof the journey, thousands of Satyagrahis joined the walk, including leaders\r\nlike Sarojini Naidu.

43.   (3) The\r\nmost interesting term in Indian drama with Greek connotation is yavanika, which\r\nmeans a stage curtain. For the first time in Panini’s grammar, there is a\r\nreference to Yavana and Yavanani writing. However, the theory is not only\r\nerroneous but ridiculous because there is no curtain in the Greek drama and\r\nal§o there is no word “yavanika” in Sanskrit language. There is Yavani meaning\r\nGreek woman.

44.   (1) The\r\nmightiest of the Kushan rulers in India was Kanishka. He was in power from 78\r\nAD to 120 AD. It was Kanishka who initiated the Saka Era in 78 AD. Through\r\ninheritance and conquest, Kanishka’s kingdom covered an area extending from\r\nBukhara (now in Uzbekistan) in the west to Patna in the Ganges Valley in the\r\neast, and from the Pamirs (now in Tajikistan) in the north to central India in\r\nthe south. His capital was Purushpura (Peshawar).

45.   (2) The\r\nsultanate was founded on 3 August, 1347 by governor Ala-ud-Din Hassan Bahman\r\nShah, a Persian (Tajik) descent from Badakhshan, who revolted against the\r\nSultan of Delhi, Muhammad bin Tughlaq. Nasiruddin Ismail Shah who had revolted\r\nagainst the Delhi Sultanate stepped down on that day in favour of Zafar Khan\r\nwho ascended the throne with the title of Alauddin Bahman Shah. His revolt was\r\nsuccessful, and he established an independent state on the Deccan within the\r\nDelhi Sultanate’s southern provinces.

46.   (2) The\r\nJain Dilwara temples of India are located about \r\nkilometers from Mount Abu, Rajasthan’s only hill station. These temples\r\nbuilt by Chalukya between the 11th and 13th centuries AD are world famous for\r\ntheir stunning use of marble. The five legendary marble temples of Dilwara are\r\na sacred pilgrimage place of the Jains. Some consider them to be one of the\r\nmost beautiful Jain pilgrimage sites in the world

47.   (3)\r\nHistorically, efforts to prevent Sati by formal means were extent even before the\r\nMughal rulers came to power. Under the Delhi Sultanates (circa 1325) permission\r\nhad to be sought prior to any Sati. In their own sphere of influence the\r\nPortuguese, Dutch and French banned Sati but efforts to stamp out Sati were\r\nformalised only under Lord William Bentinck after 1829. William Cavendish\r\nBentinck succeeded Lord Amherst as the Governor General of India. He took over\r\nthe charge of Indian administration in the year 1828. Bentinck took effective\r\nsteps to root out social evils like Sati and infanticide.

48.   (1) The Ajanta Caves in\r\nAurangabad district of Mahar- ashtra, India are 30 rock-cut cave monuments\r\nwhich date from the 2nd century BCE to the 600 CE. The caves include paintings\r\nand sculptures considered to be masterpieces of Buddhist religious art (which\r\ndepict the Jataka tales) as well as frescos which are reminiscent of the\r\nSigiriya paintings in Sri Lanka.The Ajanta cave paintings depict the life of\r\nGautam Buddha.

49.   (1) The\r\nfirst significant intrusion of Islam into India was led by Mahmud of Ghazni. In\r\n1017, Mahmud of Ghazni took Rey. Most scholars, including al-Biruni, were taken\r\nto Ghazna, the capital of the Ghaznavid dynasty. Biruni was made court\r\nastrologer and accompanied Mahmud on his invasions into India, living there for\r\na few years. Biruni became acquainted with all things related to India. He may\r\neven have learned some Sanskrit. During this time he wrote the Kitab ta’rikh\r\nal-Hind, finishing it around 1030.

50.   (2) The\r\nIndian Statutory Comm- ission was a group of seven British Members of\r\nParliament that had been dispatched to India in 1927 to study constitutional\r\nreform in Britain’s most important colonial dependency. It was commonly\r\nreferred to as the Simon Comm- ission after its chairman, Sir John Simon. The\r\nIndian national leaders had been continuously demanding constitutional reforms\r\nsince 1919 when the Montague-Chelmsford Reform (1919) was introduced by the British government.\r\nUnder the circumstances, in 1927 the British government in England formally\r\nconstituted an enquiry commission to recommend further constitut- ional reform\r\nthat may be introduced in India. It was meant to review constitutional progress\r\nso far and decide upon the future course.

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