Indian History GK Questions with Answers – Page 13

The Buranjis are the official and family histories kept by the Ahom state and its nobles, written first in the Tai Ahom language and script and later in Assamese, and they are the main written source for the political history of the Brahmaputra valley between the thirteenth and the nineteenth…

The treaty of 1826 ended the First Anglo-Burmese War, and by it Burma gave up its claims over Assam, Manipur, Cachar and Jaintia and ceded Arakan and Tenasserim, so Assam passed to the East India Company and six centuries of Ahom rule came to a close.

Mir Jumla, Aurangzeb's governor of Bengal, marched up the valley in 1662, occupied the capital Garhgaon and forced the Ahom king Jayadhwaj Singha to accept the Treaty of Ghilajharighat in 1663, under which the Ahoms paid a heavy indemnity, ceded territory and gave hostages.

Lachit Borphukan commanded the Ahom forces in 1671 and destroyed the Mughal flotilla at Saraighat near Gauhati by fighting a cavalry army on water during the rains; his birth anniversary is kept as Lachit Divas on 24 November, and the best passing cadet of the National Defence Academy receives a…

Pratap Singha, also called Susenghphaa, who ruled in the first half of the seventeenth century, created the Borphukan as viceroy of the lower Brahmaputra valley with his seat at Gauhati, and the Borbarua as the chief executive and judicial officer of the upper valley.

Suhungmung, better known as the Dihingia Raja, ruled from 1497 to 1539, annexed the Chutiya kingdom of the upper valley in 1523, broke Kachari power, and was the first Ahom king to take a Hindu title, Swarganarayan, which marks the dynasty's entry into the wider Indian religious world; the Bengal…

The Ahom administration graded its officers by the number of paiks, the men liable to compulsory service, placed under them, and the Hazarika commanded a thousand, the name itself coming from the word for a thousand.

Sukaphaa settled at Charaideo near modern Sivasagar in 1228, and even after the administrative capital shifted the site remained the ritual centre of the dynasty, where the kings and queens were buried under earthen mounds called moidams; the Charaideo moidams were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2024.

Sukaphaa was a Tai prince from the upper Irrawaddy region who crossed the Patkai hills with a small following and founded the Ahom kingdom in 1228, settling at Charaideo near present-day Sivasagar; Assam keeps his memory as Asom Divas on 2 December.

Maulana Azad was India's first Education Minister, serving in Jawaharlal Nehru's Cabinet from 1947 until his death in 1958. Azad was a scholar, journalist and Congress leader who had been the youngest president of the Indian National Congress in 1923 and its president again from 1940 to 1946.

The brothers Harihara I and Bukka Raya I founded the Vijayanagara Empire in 1336, with its capital on the banks of the Tungabhadra at Hampi.

The rulers of Vijayanagara claimed to rule on behalf of the god Virupaksha, a form of Shiva and the guardian deity of Hampi.

The limestone hills around Sukkur and Rohri in Sindh contain rich beds of fine chert, a hard, flint-like stone. Excavations there have found hundreds of Harappan quarry and workshop sites, where long, sharp chert blades were struck in large numbers and sent to towns across Sindh, including Mohenjodaro.

Ayodhya is not counted among the centres of the Revolt of 1857; in Awadh the rising was centred on Lucknow, the capital.

Korkai, near the mouth of the Tamraparni river in the present Thoothukudi district of Tamil Nadu, was the chief port of the early Pandyas.

The Kushanas, who ruled a vast empire from Central Asia to the Ganga valley in the first centuries CE, presented their kings as god-like figures, and the clearest evidence of this comes from their coins and statues.

Archaeologists divide the Stone Age into the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic periods mainly by the kind of stone tools found and the way they were made.

The Karachi Session of March 1931, presided over by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, passed the resolution on Fundamental Rights and Economic Policy.

The Poona Sarvajanik Sabha was founded in Pune in 1870 to act as a bridge between the government and the people and to put the grievances of the public, especially peasants, before the British authorities.

In his Gettysburg Address of 19 November 1863 he spoke of government of the people, by the people, for the people, and the phrase became the classic definition of democracy.