Indian History Based Questions asked in various Exams (Part 49)

11 Apr 2015

491.      Humayun\r\nNama was written by

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        (1) Humayun     (2)\r\nAkbar

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        (3) Abul Fazl

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        (4) Gulbadan Begum

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492.      The\r\nFrench East India Company was founded in

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        (1) 1600              (2)\r\n1620

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        (3) 1664              (4)\r\n1604

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493.      Who\r\ndeclared “Swaraj is my birth right and I shall have it”?

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        (1) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

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        (2) BalGangadharaTilak

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        (3) Lala Lajpat Rai

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        (4) K.T.Telang

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494.      The\r\nIndian council Act of 1909 was popularly known as :

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        (1) Parliament Act

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        (2) Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms

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        (3) Minto-Morely Reforms

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        (4) The Judiciary Act

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495.      Gautama\r\nBuddha was born at

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        (1) Kusinagar     (2)\r\nSamath

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        (3) Bodh Gaya  (4)\r\nLumbini

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496.      Who\r\namong the following was responsible for the revenue reforms during the rule of\r\nAkbar?

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        (1) Birbal            (2)\r\nTodarmal

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        (3) Jaisingh         (4)\r\nBiharimal

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497.      Who was\r\nthe mother of Mahavira? (1) Yasoda              (2)\r\nAnojja

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        (3) Chetaka        (4)\r\nDevanandi

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498.      What\r\nwas the name of the Hall of Worship constructed by Akbai ?

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        (1) Diwan-e-Khas

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        (2) Diwan-e-Aam

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        (3) IbadatKhana

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        (4) Buland Darwaza

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499.      Off the\r\nfollowing scholars, who was the first to discovr the traces of the Harappan\r\nCivilisation?

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        (1) Sir John Marshall

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        (2) R. D. Baneji

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        (3) A. Cunningham

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        (4) Daya Ram Sahani

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500.      “Monolithic\r\nRathas” of the Palla-vas are found at

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        (1) Kanchipuram    (2)\r\nPuri

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        (3) Mahabalipuram    (4)\r\nAgra

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491. (4) Gulbadan\r\nBegum was a Perso-Turkic Princess, the daughter of Emperor Zahir ud Din\r\nMohammad Babur of India, who is most known as the author of Humayun Nama, the\r\naccount of the life of her brother, Humayun. Akbar commissioned Gulbadan Begum\r\nto chronicle the stoiy of her brother Humayun. She took the challenge and\r\nproduced a document titled Ahwal Humayun Pad:- ah Jamah Kardom Gulbadan Begum\r\nbint Babur Padshah annua Akbar Padshah. It came to be known as Hiimayun-nama.

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492. (3) The\r\nFrench East India Company was a commercial enterprise, founded in 1664 to\r\ncompete with the British and Dutch East India companies in the East Indies.\r\nPlanned by Jean-Baptiste Colbert, it was chartered by King Louis XIV for (lie\r\npurpose of trading in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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493. (2) Bal GangadharTilak was\r\none of the first and strongest advocates of “Swaraj” (sell rule) and a strong\r\nradical in Indian consciousness. I lis famous quote. “Swaraj is my birthright,\r\nand I shall have it!’ is well-remembered in India even tdelay. Known as the lather\r\nof the Indian unrest, Tilak was the first popular leader of the Indian\r\nindependence Movement.

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494. (3) The Indian Councils Act\r\n1909. commonly known as the Morley-Minto Reforms, was an Act ol the Parliament\r\nof the United Kingdom that brought about a limited increase in the\r\niiivolvenu-nt of Indians in the governance of British India. It effectively\r\nallowed the election of Indians to the various legislative councils in India\r\nfor the first time.

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495. (4) Lumbini\r\nis a Buddhist pilgrimage site in the Rupandehi district of Nepal. It is the\r\nplace where Queen Mayadevi gave birth to Siddhartha Gautama, who as the Buddha\r\nGautama founded the Buddhist tradition. The Buddha lived between roughly 563\r\nand 483 BC.

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496. (2) Todar\r\nMai was the Finance Minister in Akbar’s Darbar of the Mughal empire. He was\r\nmade in charge of Agra and settled in Gujarat. Later, he was made in charge of\r\nGujarat as well. He also managed Akbar’s Mint at Bengal as well as served in\r\nPunjab.

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497. (*) Trishala\r\nwas the Mother of Mahavira, the 24th Tirthankara of Jainism, and wife of the\r\nJain monarch, Siddartha of Kundgraam. She finds mention in the classical Jain\r\nAgamas, the Kalpa sutra, written by Acharya Bhadrabahu (433 - 357 BC), which is\r\nprimarily a biography of theTirthankaras.

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498. (3) The\r\nIbadat Khana was a meeting house built in 1575 CE by the Mughal Emperor Akbar\r\nat his palace in Fatehpur Sikri to gather religious leaders of many faiths in\r\ndiscussion. He built it originally as a debating house open only to Sunni\r\nMuslims, but following a series of petty squabbles which turned ugly, Akbar\r\nencouraged Hindus, Roman Catholics and even atheists to participate. Religious\r\nleaders and philosophers from around this diverse empire, as well as those\r\npassing through, were invited to Akbar’s Thursday evening discussions.

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499. (3) The ruins of Harrappa\r\nwere first described in 1842 by Charles Masson in his Narrative of Various\r\nJourneys in Balochistan, Afghanistan. In 1856, General Alexander Cunningham,\r\nlater director general of the archeological survey of northern India, visited\r\nHarappa. In 1872-75 Alexander Cunningham published the first Harappan seal. The\r\nexcavation campaign under Sir John Hubert Marshall in 1921-22 resulted in the\r\ndiscovery of the civilization at Harappa by Sir John Marshall, Rai Bahadur Daya\r\nRamSahni and Madho Sarup Vats, and at Mohenjo-daro by Rakhal Das Banerjee, E.\r\nJ. H. MacKay, and Sir John Marshall.

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500. (3) Mahabalipuram, derived\r\nfrom ‘Mamallapuram’ is the prior and collocpjial name of a town in Kancheepuram\r\ndistrict in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, now officially called Mamallapuram.\r\nThe monuments here are constituted by cave temples, monolithic rathas\r\n(chariots), sculpted reliefs and structural temples which are excellent\r\nexamples of Pallava art.

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