Indian History Based Questions asked in various Exams (Part 34)

341.      Name\r\nthe clan Buddha belonged to

        (1) Gnathrika     (2)\r\nMaurya

        (3) Sakya            (4)\r\nKuru

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

342.      When\r\nMahatma Gandhi was assassinated, who said, “None will believe that a man like\r\nthis in body and soul ever walked on this earth” ?

        (1) Bertrand Russell

        (2) Leo Tolstoy

        (3) Albert Einstein

        (4) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

(SSC Combined Graduate Level

Prelim Exam. 27.07.2008 (Second Sitting)

343.      Who\r\nbuilt the Tower of Victory’ (Vijay Stambha) in the Chittor Fort?

        (1) RanaSanga

        (2) Rana Ratan Singh

        (3) Rana Hamir Deva

        (4) Rana Kumbha

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

344.      In\r\nviolation of the Salt Laws, Gandhiji started a movement called

        (1) Non-Cooperation movement

        (2) Swadeshi Movement

        (3) Civil Disobedience Movement

        (4) None of the above

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

345.      The\r\nCabinet Mission came to India in

        (1) 1943              (2)\r\n1944

        (3) 1945              (4)\r\n1946

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

346.      The\r\nfirst to come and last to leave India were

        (1) the Portuguese

        (2) the French

        (3) the English

        (4) the Dutch

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

347.      Who was\r\nthe author of the Kadambari, a great romantic play?

        (1) Banabhatta

        (2) Harshavardhana

        (3) Baskaravardhana

        (4) Bindusara

(SSC CPO Sub-Inspector Exam. 09.11.2008)

348.      The\r\nQutub Minar was completed by the famous ruler

        (1) Qutub-ud-din Aibak

        (2) Ututmish

        (3) FirozShahTughlaq

        (4) Alauddin Khilji

(SSC CPO Sub-Inspector Exam. 09.11.2008)

349.      Which\r\nof the following are incorrectly paired ?

        (1) Krishnadeva Raya

              —Amukta Malyada

        (2) Harshavardhana

              — Nagananda

        (3) Kalidasa — Ritusamhara

        (4) Visakhadatta

              — Kiratarjuniyam

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350.      Who was\r\nthe first Muslim President of the Indian National Congress ?

        (1) Muhammed Ali Jinnah

        (2) BadruddinTyabji

        (3) Sir Syed Ahmed Khan

        (4) AbulKalamAzad

(SSC CPO Sub-Inspector Exam. 09.11.2008)

341. (3) Shakya\r\nwas an ancient tribe (janapada) of the Indian Subcontinent in the 1st\r\nmillennium BCE. In Buddhist texts the Shakyas, the inhabitants of Shakya\r\njanapada, are mentioned as a Kshatriya clan of Gotama gotra. The most famous\r\nShakya was Gautama Buddha, a member of the ruling Gautama clan of Lumbini, who\r\nis also known as Shakyamuni Buddha, “sage of the Shakyas”, due to his\r\nassociation with this ancient kingdom. The Puranas mention Shakya as a king of\r\nIkshvaku dynasty

342. (3) In 1931,\r\nAlbert Einstein wrote a short letter of admiration to another of the world’s\r\ngreatest minds, Mohandas Gandhi. Despite their intentions, the pair never met\r\nin person. After Gandhi’s death, Einstein said: “Generations to come will find\r\nit difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this\r\nearth.”

343. (4) Vijay\r\nStambha or ‘Tower of Victory” is an imposing structure located in Chittorgarh\r\nfort in Rajasthan, India. It was constructed by Mewar king Rana  Kumbha between 1442 AD and 1449 AD to\r\ncommemorate his victory over the combined armies of Malwa and Gujarat led by\r\nMahmud Khilji. Dedicated to Vishnu, this 37.19 m high 9 storied tower is built\r\npartly of red sand stone and partly of white marble and is enriched by numerous\r\nimages of Hindu gods and goddesses with inscriptions at bottom of each.

344.  (3) The\r\nSalt March, also known as the Salt Satyagraha, began with the Dandi March on\r\nMarch 12, 1930. The Salt Satyagraha was the next significant nonviolent protest\r\nagainst the British, after the Non-Cooperation movement of 1920-22 and India’s\r\nFirst War of Independence 1857. It was a direct action campaign of tax\r\nresistance and nonviolent protest against the British salt monopoly in colonial\r\nIndia, and triggered the wider Civil Disobedience Movement. This was the most\r\nsignificant organized challenge to British authority since the Non-cooperation\r\nmovement of 1920-22, and directly followed the Purna Swaraj declaration of\r\nindependence by the Indian National Congress on January 26, 1930.

345. (4) The\r\nBritish Cabinet Mission of 1946 to India aimed to discuss and plan for the\r\ntransfer of power from the British Government to Indian leadership, providing\r\nIndia with independence. The Mission held talks with the representatives of the\r\nIndian National Congress and the All-India Muslim League, the two largest\r\npolitical parties in the Constituent Assembly of India.

346. (1) The\r\nfirst Portuguese encounter with India was on May 20, 1498 when Vasco da Gama\r\nreached Calicut on Malabar Coast. The Portuguese State of India was established\r\nin 1505 as a viceroyalty of the Kingdom of Portugal, six years after the\r\ndiscovery of a sea route between Portugal and India, to serve as the\r\nplenipotentiary governing body of a string of Portuguese fortresses and\r\ncolonies overseas. At the time of British India’s independence in 1947,\r\nPortuguese India included a number of enclaves on India’s western coast,\r\nincluding Goa proper, as well as the coastal enclaves of Daman and Diu, and the\r\nenclaves of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, which lie inland from Daman. The\r\nterritories of Portuguese India were sometimes referred to collectively as Goa.\r\nPortugal lost the last two enclaves in 1954, and finally the remaining three in\r\nDecember 1961, when they were taken by India after military action

347. (1)\r\nKadambari is a romantic novel

         in Sanskrit. It was substantially composed by Banabhatta in\r\nthe first half of the 7th century, who did not survive to see it through\r\ncompletion. The novel was completed by Banabhatta’s son Bhushanabhatta,\r\naccording to the plan laid out by his late father. It is conventionally divided\r\ninto Purvabhaga (earlier pa< t) written by Banabhatta, and Uttarabhaga\r\n(latter part) by Bhushanabhatta.

348. (2) The\r\nconstruction of Qutb Minar was begun by Qutub-ud-din Aibak in 1192 and was\r\ncompleted by Iltutmish. The soaring conical tower is an exquisite example of\r\nIndo-Islamic Afghan architecture. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Delhi.

349. (4)\r\nVisakhadatta is the author of the play (drama) Mudra Rakshasa that narrates the\r\nascent of the king Chandragupta Maurya to power in Northern India.\r\nMudrarakshasa is dated variously from the late 4th century to the 8th century

350. (2)\r\nBadruddin Tyabji was a Indian lawyer who served as the third President of the\r\nIndian National Congress. In 1902, he became the first Indian to hold the post\r\nof Chief Justice in Mumbai. He is considered to be one of the most moderate\r\nMuslims during the freedom movement of India.

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