Indian History Based on Questions asked in various Exams (Part 23)

221.      Muslim\r\nLeague was founded in the year

        (1) 1900              (2)\r\n1905

        (3) 1906              (4)\r\n1902

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222.      The\r\nlanguage used to write source materials in ancient time was

        (1) Sanskrit         (2)\r\nPali

        (3) Brahmi          (4)\r\nKharosthi

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223.      India’s\r\ntrade with the Roman Empire came to an end with the invasion of Rome by the

        (1) Arabs             (2)\r\nHungarians

        (3) Hunas           (4)\r\nTurks

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224.      ‘Ain-i-Akbari’\r\nhas been authored by

        (1) AbulFazl       (2)\r\nAlBiruni

        (3) Ferishta         (4)\r\nAmirKhusru

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225.      The\r\nfamous revolutionary song ‘Sarfaroshi ki tamanna ab hamare dil mein hai was\r\ncomposed by

        (1) Bhagat Singh

        (2) Khudiram Bose

        (3) Chandrasekhar Azad

        (4) Ramprasad Bismil

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226.      The\r\nfirst Viceroy of India was

        (1) Lord Canning

        (2) Lord Hardinge

        (3) Lord Dalhousie

        (4) Lord Elgin

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227.      From\r\nwhich of the following Upanishads the words ‘Satyameva Jayate’ inscribed in\r\nDevanagari Script below the abacus of the State Emblem are ?

        (1) Prashna         (2)\r\nMundaka

        (3) Mandukya   (4)\r\nIshavasya

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228.      Most of\r\nthe chola temples were dedicated to

        (l) Ganesh           (2)\r\nShiva

        (3) Durga            (4)\r\nVishnu

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229.      ‘Bull’\r\nin Buddhism is associated with which event of Buddha’s life?

        (1) Birth

        (2) Great departure

        (3) Enlightenment

        (4) Mahaparinirvan

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230.      Who was\r\nthe Guru of Shivaji?

        (1) Namdev        (2)\r\nRamdas

        (3) Eknath          (4) Tukaram

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221. (3) The\r\nAll-India Muslim League was a political party during the period of the British\r\nRule which advocated the creation of a separate Muslim-majority nation. It was\r\nfounded by the All India Muhammadan Educational Conference at Dhaka (now\r\nBangladesh), in 1906, in the context of the circumstances that were generated\r\nover the partition of Bengal in 1905

222. (2) Pali is\r\na Middle Indo-Aryan language (of Prakrit group) of the Indian subcontinent. It\r\nis best known as the language of many of the earliest extant Buddhist\r\nscriptures, as collected in the Pali Canon or Tipitaka, and as the liturgical\r\nlanguage of Theravada Buddhism. T. W. Rhys Davids in his book Buddhist India,\r\nand Wilhelm Geiger in his book Pali Literature and Language, suggested that\r\nPali may have originated as a form of lingua franca or common language of\r\nculture among people who used differing dialects in North India, used at the\r\ntime of the Buddha and employed by him.

223. (3) Roman\r\ntrade with India started around the beginning of the Common Era following the\r\nreign of Augustus and his conquest of Egypt. Following the Roman-Persian Wars\r\nKhosrow I of the Persian Sassani an Dynasty captured the areas under the Roman\r\nByzantine Empire. The Arabs, led by ‘Amr ibn al-’As, crossed into Egypt in late\r\n639 or early 640 C.E. That advance marked the beginning of the Islamic conquest\r\nof Egypt and the fall of ports such as Alexandria, used to secure trade with\r\nIndia by the Greco Roman world since the Ptolemaic dynasty. The decline in\r\ntrade saw Southern India turn to Southeast Asia for international trade, where\r\nit influenced the native culture to a greater degree than the impressions made\r\non Rome. The Hunas invaded the Roman Empire under Attila the Hun in 454 C.E.

224. (l)TheAin-i-Akbari\r\n(“Constitution of Akbar”, isa 16th century, detailed document recording the\r\nadminist- ration of emperor Akbar’s empire, written by his vizier, Abu’1-Fazl\r\nibn Mubarak. It makes the Volume III and the final part of the much larger\r\ndocument, the Akbarnama, the Book of Akbar, also by Abul Fazl, and it itself is\r\nin three volumes. The Ain-i-Akbari is the third volume of the Akbarnama\r\ncontains information regarding Akbar’s reign in the form of, what would be called\r\nin modern times, administration reports, statistical compilations, or\r\ngazetteers. It contains the ain (i.e., mode of governing) ofAkbar, and is, in\r\nfact, the administration report and statistical Return of his government. The\r\nfirst volume of the Akbarnama contains the history of Timur’s family and the\r\nreigns of Babar, the Stir kings, and Humayun. The second volume is devoted to\r\nthe detailed history of the nearly forty-six years of the Akbar’s reign.

225. (4)\r\nSarfaroshi ki Tamanna is a pau iotic poem in Urdu, written by Pandit Ram\r\nPrasad, (pen name: Bismil) he was an Indian Independence Movement leader, known\r\npopularly with Kakori Train Robbery, during British Raj in India.

226. (1) Charles\r\nJohn Canning, known as The Viscount Canning from 1837 to 1859, was an English\r\nstatesman and Governor-General of India during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. In\r\n1858 he was rewarded by being made the first Viceroy of India. In April 1859 he\r\nreceived the thanks of both Houses of Parliament for his great services during\r\nthe rebellion. He was also made an extra civil grand cross of the Order of the\r\nBath, and in May of the same year he was raised to the dignity of an Earl, as\r\nEarl Canning.

227. (2)\r\nSatyameva Jayate (Truth Alone Triumphs) is a mantra from the ancient Indian scripture\r\nMundaka Upanishad which is one of the earlier, “primary” (mukhya) Upanishads. a\r\ngenre of Hindu scriptures commented upon by Shankara. It is associated with the\r\nAtharva Veda. Upon independence of India, it was adopted as the national motto\r\nof India. The origin of the motto is a well-known mantra 3.1.6 from the\r\nMundajca Upanishad.

228. (2) Most of\r\nthe Chola temples were dedicated to Shiva. The great living Chola temples are\r\nimportant Hindu kovils that were built during the 10th-12th centuries in the South\r\nIndia. In all these temples, the chief deity who has been depicted and\r\nworshipped is Lord Shiva.

229. (1) The live\r\ngreat “events in Buddha’s life are represented by symbols as under: (a) Birth\r\nby Lotus and Bull, (b) Great Renunciation by Horse, (c) Nirvana by Bodhi Tree,\r\n(d) First Sermon by Dharmachakra or Wheel find (e) Parintrvana or death by the\r\nstupa.

230. (2) Samarth\r\nRamdas was a prominent Marathi saint and religious poet in the Hindu tradition\r\nin Maharashtra, India. Samarth Ramdas was a devotee of Lord Hanuman and Lord\r\nRama. His birth name was Narayan Suryajipant Kulkarni Thosar. Ramdas was the\r\npolitical strategist and spiritual guru of Shivaji. It is said that Shivaji\r\nMahar&j requested Shri Ramdas swami to move his residence to a fort named\r\nParali & establish his permanent nionastery there. The fort was\r\nsubsequently renamed Sajjangad - Fort of the sacred.

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