Indian History GK Questions with Answers – Page 21

These two Neolithic sites of the Kashmir valley are known for people living in pits dug into the ground.

Araghatta was the name for a water-lifting wheel used to irrigate fields in early medieval India.

All three were steps on the road to English education in India.

Earning a steady income was not the purpose of the Subsidiary Alliance. Lord Wellesley, Governor-General from 1798 to 1805, used the system to bring Indian states under British control without fighting a war for each.

In Buddhist belief Maitreya is the Buddha of the future, a bodhisattva who now waits in the Tushita heaven and will be born on earth when the teaching of Gautama Buddha has been forgotten.

The Rig Veda has only a few words for cereals, and the main ones are yava and dhanya.

Bagor lies on the Kothari river in Bhilwara district of Rajasthan and is the largest and best-documented Mesolithic site in India.

In October 1925 Tambe, a Swarajist member from the Central Provinces, accepted a seat on the Governor's Executive Council. He became the first Swarajist to take office under the dyarchy that the party had vowed to wreck from within.

This official account of the reign of Firuz Shah Tughlaq, compiled around 1370, describes how the Ashokan pillar at Topra was carried to Delhi, and its manuscript carries painted illustrations of the operation.

At its meeting at Bezwada (Vijayawada) in March 1921, the AICC set three targets to carry the Non-Cooperation Movement forward: one crore members for the Congress, one crore rupees for the Tilak Swaraj Fund, and twenty lakh charkhas to be distributed among the people by 30 June 1921.

The Bower Manuscript is valued above all for its medical texts, which make it one of the oldest surviving records of Ayurveda.

The Indian Civil Service was a modern, merit-based bureaucracy filled through open competitive examinations from 1853, but Indians were kept out of it in practice for decades.

The Bengali poet Mukundaram Chakrabarti, honoured with the title Kavikankan, composed the Chandimangala in the sixteenth century. Mangalkavyas are long Bengali narrative poems in praise of a deity, and the Chandimangala celebrates the goddess Chandi.

In April 1930, C. Rajagopalachari led a band of volunteers from Tiruchirappalli, then called Trichinopoly, to Vedaranyam on the Tanjore coast, where they broke the salt law.

He was a French gem merchant, and his travel account describes India's diamonds and mines in detail. Tavernier made six voyages to the East between about 1630 and 1668 and visited India several times during the reigns of Shah Jahan and Aurangzeb.

Eripatti and Ghatikas are described correctly, but Taniyurs were not villages gifted to Brahmins. These terms come from inscriptions of early medieval South India, especially of the Pallava and Chola periods.

National Handloom Day falls on 7 August precisely to honour the Swadeshi Movement launched on that date in 1905. On 7 August 1905, a large meeting at the Calcutta Town Hall passed the boycott resolution against British goods in protest against the partition of Bengal, formally launching the Swadeshi Movement.

All five were British officials and scholars who excavated and documented ancient sites, mostly in South India. Walter Elliot, a Madras civil servant, dug at the Buddhist stupa of Amaravati in the 1840s and sent its sculptures to Madras and later London.

Ramanujam and G.G. Mehta.

In 1800 Colin Mackenzie, an engineer and surveyor of the East India Company, prepared the first survey map of the ruins of Hampi.