Indian History Based on Questions asked in various Exams (Part 26)

251.      Lothal\r\nis a site where dockyards of which of the following civillzation were found ?

        (1) Indus Valley      (2)\r\nMesoptamian

        (3) Egyptian       (4) Persian

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252.      The\r\nworld famous ‘Peacock Throne’ was kept in which of the following Mughal\r\nbuildings ?

        (1) Diwan-r-Khasa-Fatehpur Sikri

        (2) New Agra Fort

        (3) The Rang Mahal of the Red\r\nFort at Delhi

        (4) TheDiwan-i-Am of theRed Fort at Delhi

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253.      Which\r\nwas the birth place of Guru Nanak ?

        (1) Gurdasput    (2)\r\nAmritsar

        (3) Lahore          (4)\r\nTalwandi

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254.      Motilal\r\nNehru and Chittaranjan Das were the foundermembers of the

        (1) Communist Party of India

        (2) Forward Block

        (3) Socialist-Swarajist Party

        (4) Swarajya Party

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255.      The\r\nimmortal national song Bande Mataram has been written by

        (1) Rabindranath Tagore

        (2) Sarat Chandra Chatto-padhyaya

        (3) Bankim Chandra Chatto-padhyaya

        (4) Surendranath Bandopad-hyaya

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256.      The\r\nMohemmadan Anglo-Oriental College at Aligarh was fotihded by

        (1) Md.Ali Jinnah

        (2) Mohammad Ali

        (3) SaukatAli

        (4) Sir Syed Ahmed Khan

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257.      Who\r\namong the following is generally regarded as the pioneer of Local\r\nSelf-Government in Modern India ?

        (1) Ripon            (2)\r\nLytton

        (3) Mayo            (4)\r\nCurzon

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258.      Which\r\none of the following was not a French settlement in India?

        (1) Puducherry   (2)\r\nMane

        (3) Goa                (4)\r\nChandarnagar

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259.      The\r\nfamous Kohinoor diamond was produced from one of the mines in

        (1) Orissa            (2)\r\nChhotaNagpur

        (3) Bijapur          (4)\r\nGolconda

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260.      ‘Buddha’means

        (1) The Enlightened one

        (2) The Religious Preacher

        (3) The Genius

        (4) The Powerful

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251. (1) Lothal\r\nis one of the most prominent cities of the ancient Indus valley civilization.\r\nLothal’s dock—the world’s earliest known, connected the city to an ancient\r\ncourse of the Sabarmati river on the trade route between Harappan cities in\r\nSindh and the peninsula of Saurashtra when the surrounding Kutch desert of\r\ntoday was a part of the Arabian Sea. It was a vital and thriving trade centre\r\nin ancient times, with its trade of beads, gems and valuable ornaments reaching\r\nthe far corners of West Asia and Africa.

252. (*) In the\r\nDiwan-i-Aam or the Hall of Public Audiences of the Red Fort in Delhi, the\r\nemperor, seated in a canopied alcove, would hear complaints and pleas of the\r\ncommoners through ajharokha (balcony). In the Diwan-i-Khas or the Hall of\r\nPrivate Audiences the Emperor held private meetings with courtiers and state\r\nguests. At the centre of the chamber, the famous Peacock Throne throne was\r\nplaced over a marble pedestal. The throne was looted in 1739 by Nadir Shah. The\r\noriginal peacock throne was housed inside the Diwan-i-Am (Hall of Public\r\nAudience) of Agra Fort form where it was shifted to Delhi.

253. (4) Guru\r\nNanak was the founder of the religion of Sikhism and the first of the ten Sikh\r\nGurus. Guru Nanak was born on 15 April 1469, now celebrated as Prakash Divas of\r\nGuru Nanak Dev, into a Hindu Khatri family in the village of Rai Bhoi di\r\nTalwandi, now called Nankana Sahib, near Lahore, Pakistan. Today, his\r\nbirthplace is marked by Gurdwara Janam Asthan.

254. (4) The\r\nSwaraj Party, established as the Congress Khilafat Swarajaya Party, was a\r\npolitical party formed in India in 1923 that sought greater self-government and\r\npolitical freedoms for the Indian people from the British Raj. It was inspired\r\nby the concept of Swaraj. In December 1922, Chittaranjan Das, Narasimha\r\nChintaman Kelkar and Motilal Nehru formed the Congress- Khilafat Swarajaya\r\nParty with Das as the president and Nehru as one of the secretaries. Other\r\nprominent leaders included Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy and Subhas Chandra Bose of\r\nBengal, Vithalbhai Patel and other Congress leaders who were becoming\r\ndissatisfied with the Congress.

255. (3) Vande\r\nMataram is a poem from Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay’s 1882 novel Anandamath. It\r\nwas written in Bengali and Sanskrit. It is a hymn to Goddess Durga, identified\r\nas the national personification of India. It played a vital role in the Indian\r\nindependence movement, first sung in a political context by Rabindranath Tagore\r\nat the 1896 session of the Indian National Congress.

255. (4) MAO\r\nCollege (or Muhammadan

         Anglo-Oriental College) was founded by Sir Syed Ahmed Khan,\r\nthe leader of Muslim lenaissance in Indian subcontinent, in 1875 at Aligarh.\r\nThis later became Aligarh Muslim University in 1920. Mohammedan Anglo Oriental\r\n(MAO) College in 1875 marks one of the most important events in the educational\r\nand social history of modern India. Its establishment is considered as the\r\nfirst significant response of the Indian Muslims to the challenges of post 1857\r\nera. It was an important catalyst in a process of social change among Muslims.\r\nLord Lytton laid the foundation stone of the Muhammadan Anglo Oriental College\r\non January 8, 1877. It became Aligarh Muslim University In 1920 by the act of\r\nParliament of India.

257. (1) The real\r\nbenchmarking of the government policy on decentralization is attributed to Lord\r\nRipon who, in his famous resolution on local self-government on May 18, 1882,\r\nrecognised the twin considerations of local government: (i) administrative\r\nefficiency and (ii) political education.

258. (3) Goa is a\r\nformer Portuguese colony, the Portuguese overseas territory of Portuguese India\r\nexisted for about 450 years until it was annexed by India in 1961. In 1510, the\r\nPortuguese defeated the ruling Bijapur kings with the help of a local ally,\r\nTimayya, leading to the establishment of a permanent settlement in Velha Goa (or\r\nOld Goa).

259. (4) The\r\nKoh-i-Noor, meaning “Mountain of Light” in Persian language, also spelled\r\nKoh-i-noor, Kuh-e Nur or Koh-i-Nur, is a 105.6 metric carats diamond, weighing\r\n21.6 grammes in the most recent cut state, and once the largest known diamond.\r\nThe Koh-i Nur is believed by some to have originated in the state of Andhra\r\nPradesh in India together with its double, the Darya-ye Noor (the “Sea of\r\nLight”). The diamond came from the Kollur mines, near the village Kollur in the\r\npresent-day Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh in India

260. (1) The word\r\nBuddha is a title for the first awakened being in an era. “Buddha” is also\r\nsometimes translated as ‘The Enlightened One”. As Gautam fully comprehended the\r\nFour Noble Truths and as he arose from the slumbers of ignorance he is called a\r\nBuddha. Before His Enlightenment he was a bodhisattva which means one who is\r\naspiring to attain Buddhahood. He was not born a Buddha, but became a Buddha by\r\nhis own efforts. Every aspirant to Buddhahood passes through the bodhisattva\r\nperiod — a period comprising many lives over a vast period of time.

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