Indian History Based Questions asked in various Exams (Part 50)

501.      Krishna\r\nDeva Raya was a contemporary of

        (1) Shershah       (2)\r\nHumayun

        (3) Babur            (4)\r\nAkbar

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502.      The\r\npaintings of Ajanta depict the stories of

        (1) Ramayana   (2)\r\nMahabharta

        (3) Jataka           (4)\r\nPanchatantra

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503.      Which\r\nis the port-town of Indus valley civilisation?

        (1) Kalibangan  (2)\r\nLothal

        (3) Ropar            (4)\r\nMohenjodaro

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504.      Poet\r\nKalidasa lived in the court of

        (1) Chandragupta Maurya

        (2) Samudragupta

        (3) Chandragupta Vikramaditya

        (4) Harsha.

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505.      What is\r\nthe name of the era on which the National Calendar of India is based?

        (1) Vikramaera  (2) Kali\r\nera

        (3) Sakaera        (4)\r\nNone of above

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506. Federal form of Government at the centre was\r\nintroduced in India under :

        (1) Government of India Act of 1919

        (2) Indian Councils Act of 1909

        (3) Government of India Act of 1935

        (4) Indian Independence Act of 1947

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507.      Which\r\nwas the oldest University?

        (1) Gandhara     (2)\r\nKanauj

        (3) Nalanda        (4)\r\nVaishali

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508.      The\r\nfirst muslim women who ruled Northern India was

        (1) Razia Sultana   (2)\r\nMumtaz

        (3) Nurjahan      (4)\r\nNone of above

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509.      The\r\nSikh military sect ‘the Khal-sa’ was introduced by—

        (1) HarRai

        (2) Harkishan

        (3) Gobind Singh

        (4) Tegh Bahadur

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510.      Who is\r\ncalled as the ‘Second Ashoka?

        (1) Samudra Gupta

        (2) Chandra Gupta Maurya

        (3) Kanishka

        (4) Harshavardhana

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501. (3) Krishna\r\nDeva Raya was an Emperor of the Vijayanagara Empire who reigned from 1509-1529\r\nCE. The time period of Babur’s reign in India was from 1526 to 1530.

502. (3) The\r\nscenes depicted in the Ajanta paintings are mostly didactic, devotional, and\r\nornamental, with scenes from the Jataka stories of the Buddha’s former\r\nexistences as a bodhisattva), the life of the Gautama Buddha, and those of his\r\nveneraiion. The two most famous individual painted images at Ajanta are the two\r\nover-life size figures of the protective bodhisatlvas Padmapani and Vajrapani\r\non either side of the entrance to the Buddha shrine on the wall of the rear\r\naisle.

503. (2) Lothal\r\nis one of the most prominent cities of the ancient Indus valley civilization.\r\nIt was the most important port of this civilization and was one of the most\r\nimportant centres of export of beads, unguent vessels, chank shells, ladles and\r\ninlays. Lothal engineers accorded high priority to the creation of a dockyard\r\nand a warehouse to serve the purposes of naval trade.

504. (3) Kalidasa\r\nis generally associated with Chandragupta II who was one of the most powerful\r\nemperors of the Gupta empire in northern India. It was during his reign that\r\nthe Gupta Empire achieved its zenith, art, architecture, and sculpture\r\nnourished, and the cultural development of ancient India reached its climax.\r\nCulturally, the reign of Chandragupta II marked a Golden Age. This is evidenced\r\nby later reports of the presence of a circle of poets known as the Nine Gems in\r\nhis court. The greatest among them was Kalidasa.

505. (3) The\r\nIndian national calendar (sometimes called Saka calendar) is the official civil\r\ncalendar in use in India. It is used, alongside the Gregorian calendar, by The\r\nGazette of India, news broadcasts by All India Radio, and calendars and\r\ncommunications issued by the Government of India. The reformed calendar\r\npromulgated by the Indian government from 1957 is reckoned by this era. It is\r\nvariously alleged to have been founded by King Kanishka.

506. (3) The\r\nGovernment of India Act 1935 made provision for the establishment of a\r\n“Federation of India”, to be made up of both British India and some or all of\r\nthe “princely states.” The parts of the Act intended to establish the\r\nFederation of India never came into operation, due to opposition from rulers of\r\nthe princely states.

507. (3) Nalanda\r\nwas an ancient center of higher learning in Bihar which was a religious center\r\nof learning from the fifth or sixth century CE to 1197 CE. At its peak, the\r\nuniversity attracted scholars and students from as far away as Tibet, China,\r\nGreece, and Persia. Nalanda was ransacked and destroyed by an army under\r\nBakhtiyar Khilji in 1193.

508. (1) Razia\r\nSultana was the Sultana of Delhi in India from 1236 to May 1240. She succeeded\r\nher father Shams-ud-din Iltulmish to the Sultanate of Delhi in 1236. Iltutmish\r\nbecame the first sultan to appoint a woman as his successor when he designated\r\nhis daughter R, .zia as his heir apparent. Razia was the first and last women\r\nruler of Delhi Sultanate.

509. (3) Khalsa\r\nis the collective body of Singhs and Kaurs represented by the five beloved-ones\r\nand is the final temporal Guru/leader of the Sikhs. It was inaugurated on March\r\n30, 1699, by Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Sikh Guru. The Khalsa is responsible\r\nfor all executive, military and civil authority.

510. (3) Kanishka\r\nworked for preaching of Buddhism. He spread Buddhism to China, Japan, Central\r\nAsia and Tibet; and convened the 4th Buddhist Council at Kundalvana in Kashmir.\r\nDue to his works he is often called Second Asoka’.

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