Indian History Based Questions asked in various Exams (Part 44)

06 Apr 2015

441.      Alberuni\r\nCame to Inda wth

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        (1) MuhmmedGauri

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        (2) Mahmmud Ghazni

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        (3) Babur

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        (4) None of these

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442.      Where\r\ndid Lord Budha breathe his last ?

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        (1) BodhGaye

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        (2) Sarnath

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        (3) Kushinagar

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        (4) Varanasi

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443.      Which\r\nSikh Guru called himself the ‘Sachcha Badshah’?

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        (1) Guru Gobind Singh

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        (2) Guru Hargovind

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        (3) Guru Tegh Bahadur

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        (4) GuruArjanDev

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444.      The\r\nCivil Disobedience Movement was launched by Mahatma Gandhi in

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        (1) 1928              (2)\r\n1930

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        (3) 1931              (4)\r\n1922

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445.      Fa-hien\r\nvisited India during the reign of

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        (1) Chandragupta II

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        (2) Samudragupta

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        (3) Ramagupta

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        (4) Kumaragupta

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446.      At\r\nwhich place in Bengal was the East India Company given permission to trade and\r\nbuild a factory by the Mughals in 1651?

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        (1) Calcutta        (2)\r\nQasim Bazar

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        (3) Singur            (4)\r\nBurdwan

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447.      Who\r\ngave the slogan “Inquilab Zindabad” ?

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        (1) Chandrashekhar Azad

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        (2) Subhash Chandra Bose

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        (3) Bhagat Singh

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        (4) Iqbal

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448.      Coronation\r\nof Shivaji took place in

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        (1) 1627 A.D.     (2)\r\n1674 A.D.

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        (3) 1680 AD.      (4)\r\n1670 A.D.

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449.      The\r\nSystem of Dyarchy was introduced in India in

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        (1) 1909              (2)\r\n1935

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        (3) 1919              (4)\r\n1945

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450.      The\r\nEditor of ‘Young India’ and ‘Harijan’ was

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        (1) Nehru            (2)\r\nAmbedkar

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        (3) Mahatma Gandhi

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        (4) Subash Chandra Bose

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441. (2) The\r\nfirst significant intrusion of Islam into India was led by Mahmud of Ghazni. He\r\nassembled in his court and the university he established at Ghazni (in modern\r\nAfghanistan) the greatest scholars and writers of the age. One such scholar was\r\nal-Biruni (973-1048; another was Firdausi), “commissioned” by Mahmud of Ghazni\r\nto produce his monumental commentary on Indian philosophy and culture — Kitab\r\nfi tahqiq ma li’l-hind.

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442. (3) At the\r\ntime of the Buddha, Kushinagar was the capital of the Mallas, and the scene of\r\nthe Buddha’s death. The Buddha died of old age, when he was eighty years old.\r\nThe death was triggered by his body reaction to a dish of wild mushroom.

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443. (3) Guru\r\nTegh Bahadur became the 9th Guru of Sikhs on 20 March 1665, following in the\r\nfootsteps of His Grand-Nephew, Guru Har Krishan Sahib. Tegh Bahadur was given\r\nthe title Bahadur by his father Guru Hargobind (sixth Guru of the Sikhs) as he\r\ndisplayed such bravery with the sword in battle. Later upon return to Eastern\r\nPunjab settling down at Anandpur his followers began to refer to him as the\r\n“Sacha Badshah” (True King). He was executed on the orders of Mughal Emperor\r\nAurangzeb in Delhi.

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444. (2) The\r\nCivil Disobedience Movement led by M K Gandhi, in the year 1930 was an\r\nimportant milestone in the history of Indian Nationalism. On the historic day\r\nof 12th March 1930, Gandhi inaugurated The Civil Disobedience Movement by\r\nconducting the historic Dandi Salt March, where he broke the Salt Laws imposed\r\nby the British Government.

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445. (1) Chandra\r\nGupta II was ihe third, and most significant of the Gupta kings. During his\r\nreign the famous Chinese pilgrim Fa-Hsien visited India and wrote a detaih d\r\naccount of his kingdom. The celebrated Chinese pilgrim was struck with\r\nadmiration by the famous royal palace and the houses for dispensing charity and\r\nmedicine at Pataliputra. He speaks highly of the system of government in the\r\nMadhya-desa and the benevolence of the people, especially the moneyed classes.

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446. (2) The\r\nfirst factory in the interior of Bengal was established in 1651 at Hughli. This\r\nwas followed by other factories at Patna and Qasim Bazar. The correct answer of\r\nthis question should be Hughli, but since the option is not given, the correct\r\nanswer will be Qasim Bazar. Calcutta was established by Job Charnock, in late\r\n17th century.

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447. (3) Inquilab\r\nZindabad is an Urdu phrase which translates to “Long Live the Revolutionist was\r\na revolutionary chant during the British rule over India. It was popularized in\r\nthe activities of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association by socialist\r\nrevolutionaries such as Ashfaqulla Khan, Bhagat Singh and Chandrashekhar Azad,\r\nwho used it to urge future generations to endorse and support the political\r\nparty’s rebellious actions. Bhagat Singh’s call, Inquilab Zindabad! became the\r\nwar-cry of the fight for freedom.

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448. (2) On 6th\r\nJune 1674, Shivaji’s coronation ceremony was performed according to the\r\nshastras by Vishweshwar, also called Gaga Bhatta, of Varanasi, a master of the\r\nfour Vedas, the six philosophies and all the Hindu scriptures after he had gone\r\nthrough the genealogy brought by Balaji Avji Prabhu, Shivaji’s secretary, which\r\nshowed that the Bhonsles were a branch of the highly respected Sisodias of\r\nMewar, the Kshatriyas of the purest Rajput clan.

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449. (3) The\r\nGovernment of India Act 1919 provided a dual form of government (a “dyarchy”)\r\nfor the major provinces. In each such province, control of some areas of\r\ngovernment, the “transferred list”, were given to a Government of ministers\r\nanswerable to the Provincial Council. The ‘transferred list’ included Agriculture,\r\nsupervision of local government, Health and Education. The Provincial Councils\r\nwere enlarged. At the same time, all other areas of government (the ‘reserved\r\nlist’) remained under the control of the Viceroy. The ‘reserved list’ included\r\nDefence (the military), Foreign Affairs, and Communications.

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450. (3) Indian\r\nOpinion, Young India, Harijan were famous weeklies of Gandhi. Mahatma Gandhi,\r\nin a journalistic career spanning nearly four decades, edited six journals.\r\nBetween 1933 and 1940, Harijan (English), Harijan Bandu (Gujarati) and Harijan\r\nSevak (Hindi) became the Mahatma’s voice to the people of India. These\r\nnewspapers found the Mahatma concentrating on social and economic problems.

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