Indian History Based Questions asked in various Exams (Part 33)

331.      The\r\nrulers of Vijayanagar promoted

        (1) Hindi, Marathi and Sanskrit

        (2) Malayalam, Tamil and Sanskrit

        (3) Tamil, Telugu and Sanskrit

        (4) Telugu, Urdu and Sanskrit

(SSC .Section Officer (Audit) Exam. O6.01.2008)

332.      In\r\nMauryan dynasty Kalinga war took place in the year—

        (1) 260 BC         (2)\r\n261BC

        (3) 126 BC         (4)\r\n232 BC

(SSC Section Officer (Audit) Exam. 06.01.2008)

333.      Who was\r\nthe President of Indian National Congress when the Mountbatten Plan of\r\nindependence was accepted ?

        (1) Jawaharlal Nehru

        (2) SardarPatel

        (3) MaulanaAzad

        (4) Acharya J. B. Kripalani

(SSC Combined Graduate Level

Prelim Exam. 27.07.2008 (First Sitting)

334.      Who\r\ndeveloped the idea that “means justify the ends” ?

        (1) Kautilya

        (2) Raja Ram Mohan Roy

        (3) Swami Dayanand Saraswati

        (4) Mahatma Gandhi

(SSC Combined Graduate Level Prelim Exam. 27.07.2008 (First Sitting)

335.      Who\r\nsaid that ‘the real seat of taste is not the tongue, but the mind’?

        (1) Aurobindo Ghosh

        (2) Mahatma Gandhi

        (3) Bal GangadharTilak

        (4) Swami Vivekananda

(SSC Combined Graduate Level Prelim Exam. 27.07.2008 (First Sitting)

336.      The\r\ncaves and rock-cut temples at Ellora are

        (1) Hindu and Buddhist

        (2) BuddhistandJain

        (3) Hindu and Jain

        (4) Hindu, Buddhist and Jain

(SSC Combined Graduate Level

Prelim Exam. 27.O7.2O08 (First Sitting)

337.      The\r\noriginal name of Tansen, the most famous musician at the court of Akbar was

        (1) LalKalwant

        (2) Banda Bahadur

        (3) Ramatanu Pande

        (4) Markandey Pande

(SSC Combined Graduate Level Prelim Exam. 27.07.2008 (First Sitting)

338.      Provincial\r\nAutonomy was one of the important features of the Act of

        (1) 1935              (2)\r\n1919

        (3) 1909              (4)\r\n1858

(SSC Combined Graduate Level Prelim Exam. 27.07.2008 (First Sitting)

339.      The\r\nSeven Pagodas of Mahaba-lipuram are a witness to the art patronised by the

        (1) Pallavas        (2)\r\nPandyas

        (3) Cholas           (4)\r\nCheras

(SSC Combined Graduate Level Prelim Exam. 27.07.2O08 (First Sitting)

340.      Who was\r\nthe Governor-general of India during the Revolt of 1857?

        (1) Lord Dalhousie

        (2) Lord Canning

        (3) Lord Mayo

        (4) Lord Ripon

(SSC Combined Graduate Level Prelim Exam. 27.07.2008 (First Sitting)

331. (3) Telugu\r\nculture reached its zenith during the Vijayanagara rule under Sri\r\nKrishnadevaraya. The rulers patronized Kannada, Telugu and Sanskrit and Tamil\r\nscholars who wrote in the Jain, Virashaiva and Vaishnava traditions.The\r\nVijayanagar period was the golden age of Telugu literature. Sanskrit literature\r\nwas given patronage by the Vijayanagar kings. The early kings of the Sangama\r\ndynasty patronized the Sringeri saints while the Saluva and Tuluva kings\r\npatronised the Madhva saints of Udupi. Krishnadevaraya also patronised Tamil\r\npoet Harihara who wrote Irusamaya vilakkam (an exposition on saivism and\r\nValshnavism).

332. (2) In the\r\nMauryan dynasty, Kalinga

         war took place in the year 261 BC. The Kalinga war fought between\r\nthe Mourya Empire under Ashoka the Great and the state of Kalinga (Odisha). It\r\nwas fought in 262-261 BC. The Kalinga war is one of the major and bloodiest\r\nbattles in the history of India.

333. (4) Jivatram\r\nBhagwandas Kripalani, popularly known as Acharya Kripalani, was an Indian\r\npolitician, noted particularly for holding the presidency of the Indian\r\nNational Congress during the transfer of power in 1947. During the election for\r\nthe post of the future Prime Minister of India held by the Congress party, he\r\nhad the second highest number of votes after Sardar Patel. However, on Gandhi’s\r\ninsistence, both Patel and Kripalani backed out to allow Jawahar Lai Nehru to\r\nbecome the first Prime Minister of India.

334. (4) Gandhi\r\nfirmly believed that the means always justify the end. So he chose only good\r\nmeans to drive away the British from India. He never resorted to violence. He\r\nsaid, “For me it is enough to know the means. Means and end are convertible\r\nterms in my philosophy of life”.

335. (2) The\r\nStory of My Experiments with Truth An Autobiography’ brings out that all of his\r\nlife, experiments with food were to be part of Gandhi’s experiments with truth.\r\nWhile in England, ;vhere food is sometimes tasteless anyway, he decided he\r\ncould do without condiments, for “the real seat of taite [is] not the tongue\r\nbut the mind.”

336. (4) Ellora\r\nrepresents the epitome of Indian rock-cut architecture. The 34 “caves” actually\r\nstructures exca- vated out of the vertical face of the Charanandri hilis.\r\nBuddhist, Hindu and Jain rock-cut temples and viharas and mathas were built\r\nbetween the 5th century and 10th century. The 12 Buddhist (caves 1-12), 17\r\nHindu (caves 13-29) and 5 Jain (caves 30-34) caves, built in proximity,\r\ndemonstrate the religious harmony prevalent during this period of Indian\r\nhistory.

337. (3)\r\nMiaTansen (born as Ramtanu Pandey) was a prominent Hindu- stani classical music\r\ncomposer arid musician. He was an extraordinarily gifted vocalist, known for a\r\nlarge number of compositions, and also an instrumentalist who popularized and\r\nimproved the plucked rabab (of Central Asian origin). He was among the\r\nNavaratnas (nine jewels) at the court of the Mughal Emperor Akbar. Akbar gave\r\nhim the title Miyan (an honorific, meaning learned man).

338. (1) The Act\r\nof 1935 provided for the establishment of an All India Federation and a new\r\nsystem of government for the provinces on the basis of provincial autonomy. The\r\nfederation was to be based on union of the provinces of British India and the\r\nprincely states. There was to be a bicameral federal legislature in which the\r\nstates were given disproportionate weight age. Moreover, the representatives of\r\nthe states were not to be elected by the people, but appointed directly by the\r\nrulers.

339. (1) “Seven\r\nPagodas” has served as a nickname for the south Indian city of Mahabalipuram,\r\nalso called Mamallapuram, since the first European explorers reached it. The\r\nphrase “Seven Pagodas” refers to a myth that has circulated in India, Europe,\r\nand other parts of the world for over eleven centuries. Mahabalipuram’s Shore\r\nTemple, built in the 8th century CE under the reign of Pallava king\r\nNarasimhavarman II, stands at the shore of the Bay of Bengal. Legend has it\r\nthat six other temples once stood with it.

340. (2) In\r\nconsequence of the departure of Lord Dalhousie in 1855 and a vacancy in the\r\ngovernor-generalship of India, Lord Canning was selected by Lord Palmerston to\r\nsucceed to that great position. The most significant event during his\r\nadministration was the outbreak of the Sepoy Revolt, 1857. Lord Canning suppressed\r\nit and the Parliamentary Act of 1858 followed this great event. By the\r\nProclamation of the Queen, the East India Company’s rule ended and the Crown of\r\nEngland took over the government of India.

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