Indian History Based on Questions asked in various Exams (Part 20)

191.      The\r\nfilm Mangal Pandey released in August 2005 deals with

        (1) Jallianwala Bagh tragedy

        (2) Netaji Subash Bose’s fight against British occupation of\r\nIndia

        (3) the first war of Indian Independence in 1857

        (4) the partition of India and Pakistan

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192. Which was the only Indus city without a citadel ?

        (1) Kalibangan        (2)\r\nHarappa

        (3) Mohenjodaro

        (4) Chanhudaro

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193.      Ashoka\r\ncalled the Third Buddhist Council at

        (1) Pataliputra   (2)\r\nMagadha

        (3) Kalinga         (4)\r\nSarnath

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194.      The\r\ntutor of Alexander, the Great was

        (1) Darius            (2)\r\nCyrus

        (3) Socrates        (4)\r\nAristotle

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195.      Place  chronologically the following treaties:

        (a) Treaty of Amritsar

        (b) Treaty of Bassein

        (c) Treaty of Seringapatam

        (d) Treaty of Salbai

        (1) (a), (c), (b), (d)

        (2) (d), (c), (aT, (b)

        (3) (d), (c), (b), (a)  \r\nt

        (4) (b), (a), (d), (c)

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196.      The\r\nDelhi General who successfully advanced up to Madurai was

        (1) Khizr Khan

        (2) Muhammad Ghori

        (3) Malik Kafur

        (4) Muhammad bin Tughlaq

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197.      Which\r\nof the following literary works belongs to classical Sanskrit literature?

        (1) Dhammapada  (2)\r\nVedas

        (3) Meghadutam    (4)\r\nDighanikaya

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198.      Who\r\npropounded the ‘Eight-Fold

Path’ for the end of misery\r\nof mankind ?

        (1) Mahavir

        (2) Gautam Buddha

        (3) Adi Shankaracharya

        (4) Kabir

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199.      When is\r\nthe Independence Day of Pakistan celebrated ?

        (1) 15 August     (2) 4\r\nJuly

        (3) 16 August     (4)\r\n14August

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200.      The\r\nnumber system ‘Zero’ was invented by

        (1) Ramanujam

        (2) Aryabhatta

        (3) Patanjali

        (4) An unknown person

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191. (2) Mangal\r\nPandey: The Rising (released in India on 12 August 2005) is an Indian movie\r\nbased on the life of Mangal Pandey, an Indian soldier who is known for his role\r\nin the Indian Mutiny of 1857. It is directed by Ketan Mehta. Aamir Khan plays\r\nthe lead role of Mangal Pandey who was a Sepoy whose actions helped spark the\r\nIndian rebellion of 1857. The rebellion is also known as ‘The First War of\r\nIndian Independence”, ‘The Sepoy Mutiny” or ‘The Sepoy Rebellion”.

192. (4)\r\nExcavations at Chanhu-daro have revealed three different cultural layers from\r\nlowest to the top being Indus culture, the Jhukar culture and the Jhangar\r\nculture. The site is especially important for providing evidences about\r\ndifferent Harappan factories. These factories produced seals, toys and bone\r\nimplements. It was the only Harappan city without a citadel.

193. (1) The\r\nThird Buddhist council was convened in about 250 BCE at Asokarama in\r\nPataliputra, supposedly under the patronage of Emperor Asoka. The traditional\r\nreason for convening the Third Buddhist Council is reported to have been to rid\r\nthe Sangha of corruption and bogus monks who held heretical views. It was\r\npresided over by the Elder Moggaliputta Tissa and one thousand monks\r\nparticipated in the Council.

194. (4)\r\nAristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher\r\nof Alexander the Great. Together with Plato and Socrates (Plato’s teacher),\r\nAristotle is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy.\r\nAristotle’s writings were the first to create a comprehensive system of Western\r\nphilosophy, encompassing morality, aesthetics, logic, science, politics, and\r\nmetaphysics. Aristotle was invited by Philip II of Macedon to become the tutor\r\nto his son Alexander in 343 BC. Aristotle was appointed as the head of the\r\nroyal academy of Macedon. During that time he gave lessons not only to\r\nAlexander, but also to two other future kings: Ptolemy and Cassander. Aristotle\r\nencouraged Alexander toward eastern conquest.

195. (3) The\r\nTreaty of Amritsar was signed on March 16, 1846, to settle a dispute over\r\nterritory in Kashmir after the First Sikh War with the United Kingdom, ceding\r\nsome land to Maharaja,Gulab Singh Dogra. The Treaty of Bassein (Now called\r\nVasai) was a pact signed on December 31, 1802 between the British East India\r\nCompany and Baji Rao II, the Maratha Peshwa of Pune (Poona) in India after the\r\nBattle of Poona. The Third Mysore War ended with the Treaty of Srirangapatnam\r\nconcluded between Mysore and the English in 1792. The Treaty of Salbai was\r\nsigned on May 17, 1782, by representatives of the Maratha Empire and the\r\nBritish East India Company after long negotiations to settle the outcome of the\r\nFirst Anglo-Maratha War.

196. (3) Malik\r\nKafur was a slave who became a head general in the army of Alauddin Khilji,\r\nruler of the Delhi sultanate from 1296 to 1316 AD. Between 1309 and 1311, Malik\r\nKafur led two campaigns in South India. The first was against Warangal and\r\nother against Dwar Samudra, Mabar and Madurai.

197. (3)\r\nMeghadutam (cloud messenger) is a lyric poem written by Kalidasa, considered to\r\nbe one of the greatest Sanskrit poets. In Sanskrit literature, the poetic\r\nconceit used in the Meghadutam spawned the genre of sandesha kavya or messenger\r\npoems, most of which are modeled on the Meghaduta (and are often written in the\r\nMeghaduta’s mandakranta metre)

198. (2) The\r\nNoble Eightfold Path is one of the principal teachings of the Buddha, who\r\ndescribed it as the way leading to the cessation of suffering (dukkha) and the\r\nachievement of self-awakening. It is used to develop insight into the true\r\nnature of phenomena (or reality) and to eradicate greed, hatred, and delusion.\r\nThe Noble Eightfold Path is the fourth of the Buddha’s Four Noble Truths: the\r\nfirst element of the Noble Eightfold Path is, in turn, an understanding of the\r\nFour Noble Truths. It is also known as the Middle Path or Middle Way.

199. (4) The\r\nmodern state of Pakistan was established on 14 August 1947 in the eastern and\r\nnorthwestern regions of British India, where there was a Muslim majority. It\r\ncomprised the provinces of Balochistan, East Bengal, the North-West Frontier\r\nProvince, West Punjab and Sindh. From 1947 to 1956, Pakistan was a dominion in\r\nthe Commonwealth of Nations under two monarchs. In 1947, King George VI\r\nrelinquished the title of Emperor of India and became King of Pakistan. He\r\nretained that title until lys death on 6 February 1952, after which Queen\r\nElizabeth II became Queen of Pakistan. She retained that title until Pakistan\r\nbecame an Islamic and Parliamentary republic in 1956.

200. (2) The\r\nconcept of zero as a number and not merely a symbol for separation is\r\nattributed to India, where, by the 9th century AD, practical calculations were\r\ncarried out using zero, which was treated like any other number, even in case\r\nof division. The credit for inventing ‘zero (0)’ goes to Indian mathem-\r\naticians and the number zero first appears in a book about ‘arithmetic’ written\r\nby an Indian mathematician ‘Brahamagupta’. Zero signifies ‘nothing’ and the\r\ncurrent definition calls it an ‘additive identity’. The Indian mathematicians\r\nBhaskara, Mahavira and Brahamagupta worked on this new number and they tried to\r\nexplain its properties. It wasn’t that somebody suddenly came up with the idea\r\nof the zero and the mathematicians throug- hout the world accepted it. Around\r\n500 AD, Aryabhatta, an Indian mathematician, devised a numbers system and the\r\nsymbol he used for the number zero was also the number used to represent an\r\nunknown element (x).

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