Indian History GK Questions with Answers – Page 27

It created a Board of Control in Britain to supervise the civil, military and revenue affairs of the East India Company, while the Court of Directors kept its commercial work.

When the Salt March began in March 1930, Time magazine mocked Gandhi's thin frame and doubted that the march would reach Dandi; within a week, struck by the crowds and the response, it was hailing him as a saint and a statesman.

Sandhyakara Nandi wrote the Sanskrit poem Ramacharita in Bengal in the 12th century, under the Pala kings.

The proposals led to the Government of India Act, 1919, which changed how British India was governed. Edwin Montagu, the Secretary of State for India, announced in August 1917 that Britain aimed at the gradual development of self-governing institutions in India.

The Arthashastra records all three rules about slavery. Kautilya's Arthashastra, the treatise on statecraft linked to the Mauryan court of Chandragupta Maurya, has a section on dasas, or slaves.

"Kulah-Daran" means wearers of the peaked cap, a name given to the Sayyids in medieval India. In Persian, kulah is a tall, pointed cap and daran means those who wear or hold it.

Raja Radhakanta Deb founded the Dharma Sabha in Calcutta in 1830 to defend orthodox Hindu customs against reformers. The Dharma Sabha was set up mainly to oppose Lord William Bentinck's regulation of 1829 that banned sati, which Raja Rammohan Roy had campaigned for.

The first hill stations grew out of military needs: cantonments for troops and places where soldiers could be kept healthy.

The Congress Socialist Party was formed in 1934 by Acharya Narendra Deva and Jayaprakash Narayan, and in 1936 Nehru asked the Congress to adopt socialism.

He was Viceroy from 1926 to 1931, which covers the Dandi March of 1930.

He patented the flying shuttle in England in 1733. The flying shuttle let a single weaver send the thread across the loom by pulling a cord, so wider cloth could be woven much faster.

Gandhiji first used and shaped Satyagraha there while fighting racial laws against Indians. Gandhiji went to South Africa in 1893 as a lawyer and stayed about 21 years.

Gandhi's first major public appearance in India was his speech at the opening of the Banaras Hindu University in February 1916.

A kunta is a spear or lance, a thrusting weapon, while the other three are Sanskrit names for the bow.

Khema was a Buddhist nun, not a Jain teacher; the other three are well-known Jain acharyas. Khema was a queen of King Bimbisara of Magadha who became a disciple of the Buddha and joined the order of nuns.

In Sanskrit 'ishu' means arrow, and 'krit' and 'kara' mean one who makes, so both words name the arrow maker.

Both men were local leaders of 1857, one among the peasants of western Uttar Pradesh and the other among the tribals of Chotanagpur.

Rani Abbakka Chowta ruled Ullal near Mangaluru in the sixteenth century, when the Portuguese were trying to control the pepper and spice trade of the Malabar and Tulunadu coast, and she fought them for decades, which is why she is often called the first woman freedom fighter of the Indian…

Tarabai was the wife of Rajaram, the younger son of Shivaji, and the daughter of the Maratha commander Hambirrao Mohite.

Kittur Chennamma ruled the small state of Kittur in present Karnataka; when her son died, the Company refused to recognise her adopted son Shivalingappa as heir, and she resisted in arms in 1824, defeating the first British force before being overcome, so she is counted among the earliest rulers to…