Indian History Based on Questions asked in various Exams (Part 13)

121.      Which\r\namong the following ‘MATH’ is related with Buddhism?

        (1) Dakhrna       (2)\r\nChaitya

        (3) Khangah       (4)\r\nAngeri

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122.      Which\r\namong the following fort was known as the ‘Key of Deccan’?

        (1) Kalinjar         (2)\r\nAjaygarh

        (3) Asirgarh        (4)\r\nGulbarga

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123.      Select\r\nthe correct order-

        (1) Nizamuddin Auliya, Kabir, Mirabai, Tulsidas

        (2) Mirabai, Kabir, Niza-muddin Auliya, Tulsidas

        (3) Kabir, Nizamuddin Auliya, Tulsidas, Mirabai

        (4) Tulsidas, Mirabai, Kabir,\r\nNizamuddin Auliya

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124.      Given\r\nbelow are the names of prominent leaders and their respective operational areas\r\nduring the revolt period. Select the incorrect pair.

        (1) Rani Laxmibai-Indore

        (2) Khan Bahadur Khan-Ruhelkhand

        (3) Kunwar Singh-Sahabad

        (4) Nana Saheb-Kanpur

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125.      Who is\r\nknown as the ‘Lady with the Lamp’ ?

        (1) Sarojini Naidu

        (2) Joan of Arc

        (3) Mother Teresa

        (4) Florence Nightingale

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126.      Where\r\nhas the world’s large :st monolithic statue of Buddlha been installed ?

        (1) Bamiyan      (2)\r\nHyderabad

        (3) Kandy           (4)\r\nLhasa

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127.      Who was\r\nthe architect of North and South Blocks of the Central Secretariat in Delhi ?

        (1) Sir Edward Lutyens

        (2) Herbert Bakers

        (3) Robert Tor Tussell

        (4) Antonin Raymond

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128.      Which\r\namidst the following sites/monuments in India is NOT on the UNESCO’s list of\r\nWorld Cultural Heritages?

        (1) Ellora Caves

        (2) Kashi Viswanath Tempi e

        (3) QutabMinar

        (4) Manas Wild-life Sanctuary

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129.      In\r\nShivaji’s Council of Ministers the Prime Minister was call ed

        (1) Peshwa          (2)\r\nSachiv

        (3) Mantri           (4)\r\nSamanta

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130.      The\r\nHarappan Civilisation was discovered in the year :

        (1) 1935              (2)\r\n1942

        (3) 1901              (4)\r\n1922

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121. (2) A chaitya is a Buddhist\r\nor Jain shrine including a stupa. In modern texts on Indian architecture, the\r\nterm chaitya-griha is often used to denote assembly or prayer hall that houses\r\na stupa. Chaityas were probably constructed to hold large numbers of devotees\r\nand to provide shelter for them.

122. (3) Asirgarh\r\nQila is an Indian fortress (qila) situated in the Satpura Range, in Burhanpur\r\nDistrict of Madhya Pradesh state. The fortress commands a pass through the\r\nSatpuras connecting the valleys of the Narmada and Tapti rivers, one of the\r\nmost important routes from northern India to the Deccan in the south-west. It\r\nis known as the “key to the Deccan”.

123. (1)\r\nNizamuddin Auliya (1238 - 3 April 1325), also known as Hazrat Nizamuddin, was a\r\nfamous Sufi saint of the Chishti Order in the Indian Subcontinent. Kabir\r\n(1440-1518) was a mystic poet and sant of India, whose writings have greatly\r\ninfluenced the Bhakti movement. Meerabai (c. 1498 - c. 1547 AD) was an\r\naristocratic Hindu mystical singer and devotee of Lord Krishna from Rajasthan\r\nand one of the most significant figures of the Sant tradition of the Vaishnava\r\nbhakti movement. Tulsidas (1497/1532-1623) was a Hindu poet-saint, reformer and\r\nphilosopher renowned for his devotion for the god Rama.

124. (1) Rani\r\nLakshmibai was the queen of the Maratha ruled princely state of Jhansi,\r\nsituated in the north central part of India. She was one of the leading figures\r\nof the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and for Indian nationalists a symbol of\r\nresistance to the rule of the British East India Company in the subcontinent.

125. (4) Florence\r\nNightingale was a celebrated English nurse, writer and statistician. She was\r\ndubbed ‘The Lady with the Ump” after her habit of making rounds at night.\r\nNightingale laid the foundation of professional nursing with the establishment,\r\nin 1860, of her nursing school at St Thomas’ Hospital in London, the first\r\nsecular nursing school in the world, now part of King’s College London.

126. (1) The Buddhas of Bamiyan\r\nwere two 6th century monumental statues of standing buddha carved into the side\r\nof a cliff in the Bamyan valley in the Hazarajat region of central Afghanistan.\r\nThey were dynamited and destroyed in March 2001 by the Taliban, on orders from\r\nleader Mullah Mohammed Omar, after the Taliban government declared that they\r\nwere idols. On 8 September 2008 archeologists searching for a legendary\r\n300-metre statue at the site of the already dynamited Buddhas announced the\r\ndiscovery of an unknown 19-metre (62-foot) reclining Buddha, a pose\r\nrepresenting Buddha’s passage into nirvana

127. (1) Edwin\r\nLandseer Lutyens had originally intended the Kingsway (Rajpath ) to slope up to\r\nthe Viceroy’s palace. However, Herbert Baker, his colleague, felt it necessary\r\nto level the space between the two secretariat buildings, thus creating the\r\ngreat central vista called the North & South Block. The two secretariat\r\nbuildings are raised on a plinth so as to be level with the Rashtrapati Bhavan.\r\nThe secretariat buildings are now the offices of the Government of India. The\r\nHome affairs & Finance ministries are in the North Block and the Prime\r\nMinister’s office, External Affairs Ministry and the Defence Ministry are in\r\nthe South Block.

128. (2) Kashi\r\nVishwanath Temple is one of the most famous Hindu temples dedicated to Lord\r\nShiva and is located in Varanasi, the Holiest existing Place of Hindus, where\r\nat least once in life a Hindu is expected to do pilgrimage, and if possible,\r\nalso pour the remains (ashes) of cremated ancestors here on the River Ganges.\r\nIt is in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. The temple stands on the western\r\nbank of the holy river Ganges, and is one of the twelve Jyotirlingas, the\r\nholiest of Shiva temples.

129. (1) A Peshwa\r\nwas the titular equivalent of a modern Prime

         Minister. Emperor Shivaji created the Peshwa designation in order\r\nto more effectively delegate administrative duties during the growth of the\r\nMaratha Empire. The word Peshwa has roots in the Persian language meaning\r\n‘foremost’. After the coronation of Shivaji in 1674, he appointed Moropant\r\nTrimbak Pingle as the first Peshwa.

130. (4) In\r\n1872-75 Alexander Cunningham published the first Harappan seal (with an\r\nerroneous identification as Brahmi letters). It was half a century later, in\r\n1912, that more Harappan seals were discovered by J. Fleet, prompting an\r\nexcavation campaign under Sir John Hubert Marshall in 1921-22 and resulting in\r\nthe discovery of the civilization at Harappa by Sir John Marshall, Rai Bahadur\r\nDaya Ram Sahni and Madho Sarup Vats, and at Mohenjo-daro by Rakhal Das\r\nBanerjee, E. J. H. MacKay, and Sir John Marshall. 

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