Indian History Based on Questions asked in various Exams (Part 9)

81.   Which\r\nSufi’s dargah is at Ajmer?

        (1) BabaFarid

        (2) Qutb-din Bakhtiyar Kaki

        (3) Moinuddin Chisti

        (4) Khwaja Bahuddin

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82.   Who was\r\nthe architect who designed Taj Mahal’ ?

        (1) Mohammad Hussain

        (2) Ustad-Isa

        (3) Shah Abbas (4)\r\nIsmail

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83.   Out of the\r\nfollowing remains excavated in Indus Valley, which one indicates the commercial\r\nand economic development ?

        (1) The Pottery  (2)\r\nSeals

        (3) The boats     (4)\r\nThe houses

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84.   Who,\r\naccording to the Buddhists, is believed to be the next incarnation of Gautam\r\nBuddha ?

        (1) Atreya           (2)\r\nMaitreya

        (3) Nagarjuna    (4)\r\nKalki

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85.   What did\r\nthe Hunter Commission appointed by the Viceroy probe ?

        (1) Bardoli Satayagraha

        (2) Khilafat Agitation

        (3) Jallianwala Bagh tragedy  \r\n5^

        (4) Chauri Chaura incident

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86.   Who among\r\nthe following were contemporaries of Kanishka ?

        (1) Kamban, Banabhatta, Asvagosha

        (2) Nagarjuna, \r\nAsvagosha, Vasumitra

        (3) Asvagosha, Kalidasa, Banabhatta

        (4) Kalidasa, Kamban, Va-sumitra

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87.   The Assam\r\nState derives its name from that of a tribe that conquered the region. Where\r\ndid the tribesmen come from ?

        (1) Tibet

        (2) Mongolia

        (3) Burma (now Myanmar)

        (4) Siam (now Thailand)

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88.   Which rulers\r\nbuilt the Ellora temples?

        (1) Chalukya     (2)\r\nSunga

        (3) Rashtrakuta (4)\r\nPallava

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89.   Who\r\namongst the following also had the name ‘Devanama Piyadassi’?

        (1) Mauryan King Ashoka

        (2) Mauryan King Chandragupta Maurya

        (3) Gautam Buddha

        (4) Bhagwan Mahavira

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90.   The\r\nsubject-matter of Ajanta Paintings pertains to

        (1) Jainism          (2)\r\nBuddhism

        (3) Vaishnavism     (4)\r\nShaivism

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81.   (3)\r\nMoinuddin Chishti, also known as Gharib Nawaz “Benefactor of the Poor” was the\r\nmost famous Sufi saint of the Chishti Order of the Indian Subcontinent who\r\nintroduced and established the order in South Asia. Dargah Sharif or Ajmer\r\nSharif is a sufi shrine of sufi saint, Moinuddin Chishti located at Ajmer,\r\nRajasthan, India. The shrine has the grave (Maqbara) of the revered saint,\r\nMoinuddin Chisti. It is said that the brass candlesticks taken from the Kalika\r\ntemple after its destruction were given to the Dargah Sharif shrine of\r\nMoinuddin Chishti is in Ajmer, a shrine that Akbar vowed to rebuild

         after his victory.

82.   (2) Isa\r\nMuhammad Effendi or Ustad Isa was a Persian architect from Iran he and his\r\ncolleague Ismail Effendi entered the service of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan\r\nafter the Ottoman Sultan Murad IV and the Mughals exchanged ambassadors. Isa\r\nMuhammad Effendi is often described as the chief architect of the Taj Mahal.\r\nRecent research suggests the Persian architect, Ustad Ahmad Lahauri was the\r\nmost likely candidate as the chief architect of the Taj, an assertion based on\r\na claim made in writings by Lahauri’s son Lutfullah Muhandis.

83.   (2) The\r\nseals of the Indus Valley Civilization have been one of the major sources for\r\ninformation about the period. Apart from giving plethora of informations about\r\nthe social and religious life of the period, they give insight into the\r\neconomic activities. The economy of the Indus civilization was based on a\r\nhighly organized agriculture, supplemented by an active commerce, probably\r\nconnected to that of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia. Trade amongst\r\nthe civilizations is suggested by the finding of hundreds of small seals,\r\nsupposedly produced by the Indus peoples, at the excavation sites of ancient\r\nMesopotamian cities that were existent around the same time. Some of the seals\r\nmention the rulers of different countries.

84.   (2)\r\nMaitreya is foretold as a future Buddha of this world in Buddhist eschatology.\r\nIn some Buddhist literature, such as the Amitabha Sutra and the Lotus Sutra, he\r\nor she is referred to as Ajita Bodhisattva. Maitreya is a bodhisattva who in\r\nthe Buddhist tradition is to appear on Earth, achieve complete enlightenment,\r\nand teach the pure dharma. According to scriptures, Maitreya will be a\r\nsuccessor of the historic Sakyamuni Buddha.

85.   (3) On 14\r\nOctober, 1919, after orders issued by the Secretary of State for India, Edwin\r\nMontagu, the Government of India announced the formation of a committee of\r\ninquiry into the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. Referred to as the Disorders\r\nInquiry Committee, it was later more widely known as the Hunter Commission. It\r\nwas named after the name of chairman, Lord William Hunter, former\r\nSolicitor-General for Scotland and Senator of the College of Justice in\r\nScotland. The stated purpose of the commission was to “investigate the recent\r\ndisturbances in Bombay, Delhi and Punjab, about their causes, and the measures\r\ntaken to cope with them”

86.   (2) The\r\neminent Buddhist writers Nagarjuna, Asvaghosha, Parsva and Vasumitra flourished\r\nat the court of Kanishka. Nagarjuna was the great exponent of Mahayana doctrine\r\nand Asvaghosha, a multifaceted personality, was known as a poet, musician,\r\nscholar and zealous Buddhist monk. Charaka, the most celebrated authority on\r\nAyurveda was the court physician of Kanishka and Mathara, a politician of rare\r\nmerit, was his minister. Vasumitra presided over the fourth Buddhist Council.

87.   (4) The\r\nstate of Assam derived its name from the word ‘Asom’ which means unequal or\r\nunrivalled. True to the meaning of its name, the state is unrivalled in terms\r\nof its natural beauty and the simplicity of the people. In the Mahabharata and\r\nthe Puranas, Assam has been referred to as ‘Kamarupa’. The inhabitants of the\r\nstate are a mixture of the Mongol-Aryan culture. The Ahoms ventured into Assam\r\nsomewhere around 1228 A.D.The present name Assam derives from the name of a\r\nSino-Tibetan tribe, the Ahoms, who came to Assam from China and Thailand, began\r\ntheir rule from 1228 AD and remained a force to reckon with in the political\r\narena till 1828 AD.

88.   (3) These\r\nreligious establishments

         could have received royal patronage from various dynasties,\r\neven though inscriptional evidences are lacking for most of them. The\r\nonly definite inscriptional evidence is that of Rashtrakuta Dantidurga (c.\r\n753-57 A.D.) The majority of the Brahmanical establishments and the remaining\r\nBuddhist ones can be attributed to the Rashtrakuta times which indicate the\r\nreligious tolerance of the contemporary period. The Jaina caves definitely\r\npost-date the Rashtrakutas as indicated by the style of execution and\r\nfragmentary inscriptions. This region was under the control of Kalyani\r\nChalukyas and Yadavas of Deogin (Daulatabad) during this period.

89.   (1) The\r\nEdicts of Ashoka are a collection of 33 inscriptions on the Pillars of Ashoka,\r\nas well as boulders and cave walls, made by the Emperor Ashoka of the Mauryan\r\ndynasty during his reign from 269 BCE to 231 BCE. These inscriptions are\r\ndispersed throughout the areas of modern-day Bangladesh, India, Nepal and\r\nPakistan and represent the first tangible evidence of Buddhism. In these\r\ninscriptions, Ashoka refers to himself as “Beloved of the Gods” and “King\r\nPriya-darshi.” The identification of King Priya-darshi with Ashoka was\r\nconfirmed by an inscription discovered in 1915 by C. Beadon at Maski, the\r\nvillage in Raichur district of Karnataka. Another minor rock edict is found at\r\nthe village Gujarra in Datia district of Madhya Pradesh. This also shows the\r\nName “Asoka” in addition to usual “Devanam Piyadasi”.

90.   (2) The\r\nAjanta Caves are the treasure house of delicate paintings

         that portray scenes from Jataka tales and from the life of\r\nLord Buddha. Celebrated for its archaic wonder and laced with the series of carved\r\nartistry, Ajanta Cave paintings echo the quality of Indian creativity in\r\nperhaps the subtlest way. In the Ajanta wall-paintings, there is a profound\r\nmodification from the art of early Buddhism. The Ajanta paintings stresses on\r\nreligious romanticism with lyric quality, a reflection of the view that every\r\naspect of life has an equal value in the spiritual sense and as an aspect of\r\nthe divine.

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