Indian History Based Questions asked in various Exams (Part 41)

411.      Harshvardhana\r\nwas dlefeated by

        (1) Prabhakaravardhanai

        (2) Pulakesin II

        (3) Narasimhasvarma Pallava

        (4) Sasanka

(SSC Combined Graduate Level Tier-I Exam. 16. 0B.2010 (Second Sitting)

412.      Who\r\namong the following was an illiterate?

        (l) Jahangir         (2)\r\nShah Jahan

        (3) Akbar            (4)\r\nAurangazeb

(SSC Combined Graduate Level Tier-I Exam. 16.06.2010 (Second Sitting)

413.      Which\r\nGovernor General is associated with Doctrine of Lapse?

        (1) Lord Ripon

        (2) Lord Dalhousie

        (3) Lord Bentinck

        (4) Lord Curzon

(SSC Combined Graduate Level\r\nTier-I Exam. 16.05.2010 (Second Sitting)

414.      India\r\nattained ‘Dominion Status ‘ on

        (1) 15thJanuary, 1947

        (2) 15th August, 1947

        (3) 15th August, 1950

        (4) 15th October, 1947

(SSC Combined Graduate Level Tier-I Exam. 16.05.2010 (Second Sitting)

415.      What is\r\nGandhi’s definition of Rama Raj ?

        (1) The rule as it was during the time of Rama

        (2) Sovereignty of the people based on pure moral authority

        (3) The greatest good of all

        (4) The absolute power concentrated in the hands of a king

(SSC SAS Exam. 26.06.2010 (Paper-1)

416.      Which\r\nof the following statements about the Guptas is NOT true?

        (1) They ruled mainly over parts of north and central India

        (2) Kingship was hereditary and the throne always went to the\r\neldest son

        (3) The judicial system was far more developed than in\r\nearlier times

        (4) Land taxes increased and taxes   on  \r\ntrade   and commerce decreased

(SSC SAS Exam. 26.06.2010 (Paper-1)

417.      Who\r\namong the following was the first to sign the ‘Instruments of Accession’ ?

        (1) The Maharaja of Baroda

        (2) The Dewan of Travancore

        (3) The Nizam of Hyderabad

        (4) The Raja of Jodhpur

(SSC SAS Exam. 26.06.2010 (Paper-1)

418.      Which\r\nof the following was NOT composed by Harshavadhana?

        (1) Harshacharita   (2)\r\nRatnavali

        (3) Priyadarshika    (4)\r\nNagananda

(SSC SAS Exam. 26.06.2010 (Paper-1)

419.      The\r\nfirst Indian Hindi Scholar of the Mughal period was

        (1) Malik Muhammed Jayasi

        (2) Abdur Rahim

        (3) Mulla Wajhi

        (4) Chand Bardai

(SSC SAS Exam. 26.06.2010 (Paper-1)

420.      The\r\nUpanishads were translated by Dara Shikoh in Persian under the title of

        (1) Mayma-ul-Bahrain

        (2) Sirr-i-Akbar

        (3) Al-Fihrist

        (4) Kitabul Bayan

(SSC SAS Exam. 26.06.2010 (Paper-1)

411. (2) In 630\r\nBC, Harshavardhana faced defeat at the hands of Pulakesin II, the Chalukya King\r\nof Vatapi, in Northern Karnataka. The defeat resulted in a truce between the\r\ntwo kings, with Harsha accepting River Narmada as the southern boundary for his\r\nkingdom.

412. (3) Akbar\r\nspent his childhood in the rough terrain of Afghanistan. His early years were\r\nspent learning how to hunt, fight and mature into a skillful warrior. He did\r\nnol find time to read and write and was illiterate. But his illiteracy did not\r\nhamper his quest for knowledge and desire to know about new things. Akbar had a\r\nhuge library and a vast collection of books andscriptures. His courtiers read\r\nout the books for him.

413. (2) The\r\nDoctrine of Lapse was an annexation policy purportedly devised by Lord\r\nDalhousie, who was the Governor General for the East India Company in India\r\nbetween 1848 and 1856. According to the Doctrine, any princely state or\r\nterritory under the direct iniluence of the British East India Company (the\r\ndominant imperial power in the subcontinent), as a vassal state under the\r\nBritish Subsidiary System, would automatically be annexed if the ruler was\r\neither “manifestly incompetent or died without a direct heir”.

414. (2)\r\nIndependence coincided with the partition of India, in which the British Indian\r\nEmpire was divided along religious lines into two new states, the Dominion of\r\nIndia (later the Republic of India) and the Dominion of Pakistan (later the\r\nIslamic Republic of Pakistan and Bangladesh); the partition was accompanied by\r\nviolent communal riots. The Dominion of India, also known as the Union of\r\nIndia, was a prede cessor to modern-day India and an independent state that\r\nexisted between 15 August 1947 and 26 January 1950. Although it was transformed\r\ninto the Republic of India by promulgation of the Constitution of India on 26\r\nJanuary 1950, the term “Union of India” (or simply “the Union”) is still used\r\nby the Indian judicial system.

415. (3) In\r\npost-colonial India, Ram Rajya as a concept was first mooted by Mahatma Gandhi.\r\nGandhiji announced that Ram Rajya would be brought once Independence arrived.\r\nWhen he was asked about the ideal state, he talked about Ram Rajya. By using\r\nthe Ram Rajya slogan, Gandhiji implied an ideal Rajya where values of justice,\r\nequality, idealism, renunciation and sacrifice were practised. On the subject\r\nof Ram Rajya, Gandhi wrote on February 26, 1947, “Let no one commit the mistake\r\nof thinking that Ram Rajya means a rule of Hindus. My Ram is another name for\r\nKhuda or God. I want Khuda Raj which is the same thing as the Kingdom of God on\r\nEarth.” Obviously this meant an ideal society where everybody follows a code of\r\nrighteous living, lives content and happy and meet their essential needs. Ram\r\nRajya according to many scholars meant that the state (Rajya) was the sole\r\nlegitimate power, which imposes limits upon its exercise of power, either for\r\nthe greater happiness of the people, or to evade a greater tyranny that could\r\nbe caused by moral outrage or self-righteousness.

416. (2) Kingship\r\nwas hereditary. Though succession to the throne was generally decided by law of\r\nprimogeniture, that is, the eldest son succeeding his father, there were many\r\nexceptions to this rule. Sometimes kings were even elected by nobles and\r\ncouncillors. As head of the government, the King was overseer of all administrative\r\nactivities of his realm. He was the supreme judge, and he usually led his army\r\nto the battlefields.

417. (2) The\r\nInstrument of Accession

         was a legal document created in 1947 to enable each of the\r\nrulers of the princely states under British suzerainty to join one of the new\r\ndominions of India or Pakistan created by the Partition of British India. When\r\nUnited Kingdom accepted demands for a partition and announced its intention to\r\nquit India, the king of Travancore, Chithira Thirunal, issued a declaration of\r\nindependence on June 18, 1947. The declaration was unacceptable to the\r\nGovernment o( India; many rounds of negotiation were conducted among the Diwan,\r\nC. P. Ramaswami Iyer, and the Indian representatives. In July 23, 1947 they\r\ndecided in favour of the accession to the Indian Union, pending approval by the\r\nking. An assassination attempt on the Diwan by the Communists on the July 25,\r\n1947 caused to hasten the accession of Travancore state to

         the Indian Union

418. (1) The\r\nHarshacharita, is the biography of Indian Emperor Harsha by Banabhatta, also\r\nknown as Bana, who was a Sanskrit writer of 7th century in India. He was the\r\n‘Asthana Kavi’, meaning ‘Court Poet’, of King Harsha.

419. (1) Malik\r\nMuhammad Jayasi was an Indian poet who wrote in the Avadhi dialect of Hindi.\r\nHis most famous work is Padmavat (1540), a poem describing the story of the\r\nhistoric siege of Chittor by Alauddin Khilji in AD 1303, who attacked Chittor\r\nafter hearing of the beauty of Queen Rani Padmini, the wife of King Rawal Ratan\r\nSingh. His other important works are Akhrawat and Akhiri Kalaam.

420. (2) Dara\r\nShikoh, Emperor Shah Jahan’s son and brother of Aurangzeb, tranlsated the\r\nUpanishads into Persian, with the help of several pundits of Banaras. His\r\ntranslation of the Upanishads is appropriately called Sirr-i-Akbar, The\r\nGreatest Secret.’ Before Sirri-Akbar he had written several other books, the\r\nmost famous of which is Majma ul-Bahrain (The Mingling of Two Oceans’], an\r\nindependent work devoted to discovering the affinities between Vedantic and\r\nSufi perceptions of the Ultimate Truth.

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