Indian History Based on Questions asked in various Exams (Part 17)

161.      Who\r\nstarted the first English newspaper in India ?

        (1) BalGangadharTilak

        (2) Raja Rammohan Roy

        (3) J.A. Hickey

        (4) Lord William Bentinck

(SSC CPO Sub-Inspector Exam. 26.05.2005)

162.      The\r\nAhmed abad Satyagraha of Gandhi was directed against

        (1) British mill owners and goverment officials

        (2) Indian mill owners and non government officials

        (3) British non-government officials

        (4) Indian government officials

(SSC CPO Sub-Inspector Exam. 26.05.2005)

163.      The\r\nformer princely state Nahan is part of which State now ?

        (1) Punjab

        (2) Haryana

        (3) Uttarakhand

        (4) Himachal Pradesh

(SSC Section Officer (Audit) Exam. 05.06.2005)

164.      Correlate\r\nthe UNSECO enlisted heritage sites/ monuments and their locations:

        Site/Monument

              (A) Cave paintings

              (B) Rock-cut shrines

              (C) Basilica of Bom Jesus

              (D) Sun temple

        Location

        l. VelhaGoa        2.\r\nKonark

        3. Ajanta            4.\r\nEllora

                     A          B          C          D

        (1)        1          2          2          4

        (2)        3          4          1          2

        (3)        2          3          4          1

        (4)        4          2          1          3

(SSC Section Officer (Audit) Exam. 05.06.2005)

165.      With\r\nwhom is ‘Junagarh Rock Inscription’ associated ?

        (1) Rudradaman

        (2) Bimbisara

        (3) Chandragupta II

        (4) Gautamiputra Satakarni

(SSC Section Officer (Audit)

Exam. 05.06.2005)

166.      Nalanda\r\nUniversity was a great centre of learning, especially in

        (1) Buddhism     (2)\r\nJainism

        (3) Vaishnavism     (4)\r\nTantra

(SSC Section Officer (Audit) Exam. 05.06.2005)

167.      ‘Lakh\r\nBaksh’ was a title given to the ruler

        (1) Iltutmish       (2)\r\nBalban

        (3) Raziya

        (4) Qutub-ud-dinAibak

(SSC Section Officer (Audit) Exam. 05.06.2005)

168.      The\r\nRathas of Mahabalip-uram was built during the reign of the

        (1) Palas              (2)\r\nCholas

        (3) Rashtrakutas     (4)\r\nPallavas

(SSC Section Officer (Audit) Exam. 05.06.2005)

169.      Which\r\ntown/city in India has got a tower (minaar) named after Muhammad Ali Jinnah ?

        (l) Mumbai         (2)Aligarh

        (3) Calicut          (4)\r\nGuntur

(SSC Section Officer (Audit) Exam. 05.06.2005)

170.      Who is\r\nhailed as the “God of Medicine” by the practitioners of Ayurveda ?

        (1) Susruta          (2)\r\nChyavana

        (3) Dhanwantari     (4)\r\nCharaka

(SSC Section Officer (Audit) Exam. 05.06.2005)

161. (3) The\r\nfirst major newspaper in India—The Bengal Gazette—was started in 1780 under the\r\nBritish Raj by James Augustus Hickey. Other newspapers such as The India\r\nGazette, The Calcutta Gazette, The Madras Courier (1785), The Bombay Herald\r\n(1789) etc. soon followed. These newspapers carried news of the areas under the\r\nBritish rule. James Augustus Hicky was a highly eccentric Irishman. The paper\r\nceased publication on March 23, 1782.

162. (2) A\r\ndispute between the textile mill-owners and the labourers at Ahmedabad arose in\r\n1918, about the grant of bonus and dearness allowance. The labourers wanted 50%\r\nincrease allowance due to steep rise in prices. The mill-owners were ready to\r\ngiveonly 20% increase. Gandhi was approached to find a solution. He persuaded\r\nboth the parties to agree to arbitration. But after a few days, some\r\nmisunderstanding led to a strike. The mill-owners seized the opportunity and\r\ndeclared lock-out. Gandhi studied the case. He thought that 35% increase would\r\nbe reasonable. He advised the labourers to demand the same. Regular strike\r\nbegan on the 26th February 1918. This campaign attracted less publicity because\r\nit was directed against Indian employers, not government officials. During this\r\nepisode, the mill-owners was led by Shri Ambalal Sarabhai. His sister Ansuyaben\r\nled the labourers.

163. (4) Nahan is\r\na town in Himachal Pradesh in India and is the headquarters of the Sirmaur\r\nDistrict. A well-laid out picturesque town, Nahan is situated on a hill top in\r\nthe Shiwalik Hills, overlooking green hills. Traditionally, saints and princes\r\nare linked with the origin of Nahan. The city was founded as a capital by Raja\r\nKaran Prakash in 1621. He was very fond of flying kites and he started a\r\ntradition of flying kites on rakshabandhan day - a tradition followed till\r\ntoday.

164. (2) The\r\nBasilica of Bom Jesus or Borea Jezuchi Bajilika is located in Goa, India, and\r\nis a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The basilica holds the mortal remains of St.\r\nFrancis Xavier. Konark Sun Temple is a 13th century Sun Temple, at Konark, in\r\nOrissa. It was constructed from oxidized and weathered ferruginous sandstone by\r\nKing Narasimhadeva-I of the Eastern Ganga Dynasty. Ellora also known as\r\nEllooru, is an archaeological site, 29 km North-West of the city of Aurangabad\r\nin the Indian state of Maharashtra built by the Rashtrakuta dynasty. Well known\r\nfor its monumental caves, Ellora is a World Heritage Site. Ellora represents\r\nthe epitome of Indian rock-cut architecture. The Ajanta Caves in Aurangabad\r\ndistrict of Maharashtra, India are 30 rock-cut cave monuments which date from\r\nthe 2nd century BCE to the 600 CE. The caves include paintings and sculptures\r\nconsidered to be masterpieces of Buddhist religious art (which depict the\r\nJataka tales).

165. (1) The\r\nJunagadh rock inscription, found in Junagadh, was carved under the orders of\r\nKing Rudradaman, who had obtained the title of Mahakshatrapa. He was the\r\ngrandson of the famous Mahakshatrapa Chastana and was a Saka ruler from the\r\nWestern Kshatrapa dynasty. The inscription is a chronicle about the rebuilding\r\nof a dam named Urjayat around the lake Sudarshana. The dam lay in the region of\r\nSaurashtra and the closest town appears to have been a place called Girinagar.\r\nIt was fed by the rivers Suvarnasikata and Palasini, along with other smaller\r\nstreams. The dam was originally built by Vaishya Pushyaguta who was the\r\ngovernor of the region under Chandragupta Maurya. Conduits from the dam were\r\nlater built under orders of his grandson; Emperor Asoka.

166. (1) Nalanda\r\nwas an ancient centre of higher learning in Bihar, India. It was a Buddhist\r\ncentre of learning from the fifth or sixth century CE to 1197 CE. Nalanda\r\nflourished between the reign of the Sakraditya (whose identity is uncertain and\r\nwho might have been either Kumara Gupta-I or Kumara Gupta-II) and 1197 CE,\r\nsupported by patronage from the Hindu Gupta rulers as well as Buddhist emperors\r\nlike Harsha and later emperors from the Pala Empire.

167. (4) Sultan\r\ngutb-ud-din Aibak also called “Lakh Baksh Sultan” (the donator of hundreds of\r\nthousands) was the first Muslim Emperor of India who ruled from his capital in\r\nDelhi where he built Qutb Minar and the Quwwat Al Islam mosque. He was of\r\nTurkic descent from central Asia, Turkic ruler, the first Sultan of Delhi and\r\nfounder of the Slave dynasty (also known as the Ghulam dynasty) of India. He\r\nruled as an emperor for only four years, from 1206 to 1210 but because of his\r\nsuper efficient administration and farsighted vision, his name has become\r\ninseparable from the history of South Asia.

168. (4) The city\r\nof Mahabalipuram was largely developed by the Pallava king Narasimhavarman I in\r\nthe 7th century AD. The mandapa or pavilions and the rathas or shrines shaped\r\nas temple chariots are hewn from the granite rock face, while the famed Shore\r\nTemple, erected half a century later, is .built from dressed stone. The Pancha\r\nRathas shrines were carved during the reign of King Mahendravarman I and his\r\nson Narasimhavarman I. The purpose of their construction is not known,\r\nstructures are not completed.

169. (4) A tower\r\nin memory of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Father of Pakistan, stands at Mahatma Gandhi\r\nRoad in Guntur in Andhra Pradesh.

170. (3)\r\nDhanvantri is an Avatar of Vishnu from the Hindu tradition. He appears in the\r\nVedas and Puranas as the physician of the gods (devas), and the god of\r\nAyurvedic medicine. It is common practice in Hinduism for worshipers to pray to\r\nDhanvantri seeking his blessings for sound health for themselves and/or others. Dhanvantri is depicted as\r\nVishnu with four hands, holding medical herbs in one hand and a pot containing\r\nrejuvenating nectar called amrita in another. The Puranas state that Dhanvantri\r\nemerged from the ‘Ocean of Milk’ and appeared with the pot of nectar during the\r\nstory of the Samudra or Sagar manthan whilst the ocean was being churned by the\r\ndevas and asuras, using the Mandara mountain and the serpent Vasuki.

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