Indian History GK Questions with Answers – Page 30

Motupalli, on the Andhra coast, was the chief seaport of the Kakatiya kingdom of Warangal. The Kakatiyas ruled the Telugu country from Warangal between the 12th and early 14th centuries.

The 'Dancing Girl' of Mohenjo-daro is a small bronze statue, one of the best-known metal objects of the Harappan civilisation.

Phadke raised an armed band in Maharashtra in 1879 to overthrow British rule. Vasudeo Balwant Phadke was a clerk in the Military Finance Department at Pune.

In fact all the Mughal emperors gave grants for building and maintaining places of worship, so saying that not all of them did is incorrect.

The councils could discuss the budget but could not vote on it or amend it. The Indian Councils Act, 1892 raised the number of additional members in the Imperial and Provincial Legislative Councils and introduced an indirect, nominated form of election through bodies such as municipalities, district boards and universities.

Sulh-i kul, Akbar's ideal of absolute peace, gave every faith freedom of expression and was put into practice through state policy.

The Prarthana Samaj was a monotheistic Hindu reform body of Maharashtra, but it was influenced by the Brahmo Samaj, not the other way round.

Jainism holds that all of nature has life, and it teaches that a soul escapes karma only through strict self-discipline.

The rebel proclamations (ishtahars) recalled Mughal rule as a time when Hindus and Muslims lived together in harmony. During the Revolt of 1857, rebel leaders issued many proclamations and notices.

The Danish East India Company set up its first settlement at Tranquebar, now Tharangambadi, on the Tamil Nadu coast in 1620.

The Paramhansa Mandali was a secret society that worshipped one God and worked to break the rules of caste. The Paramhansa Mandali was founded in Bombay in 1840 (some sources give 1849) by Dadoba Pandurang, with Durgaram Mehtaji and others.

The brothers Harihara I and Bukka Raya I founded the Vijayanagara kingdom in 1336. Harihara and Bukka were sons of Sangama, so their line is called the Sangama dynasty, the first of four dynasties to rule Vijayanagara (Sangama, Saluva, Tuluva and Aravidu).

In Chola inscriptions, shalabhoga was land set aside for the upkeep of a school (shala). Chola inscriptions record many kinds of land, mostly gifts made by kings and wealthy people.

India's first satellite, launched in 1975, was named Aryabhata after the astronomer who wrote the Aryabhatiya in 499 CE, explained day and night by the rotation of the earth on its axis and gave a value of pi equivalent to 3.1416.

The Brihat-trayi or great triad of Ayurveda is made up of the Charaka Samhita on internal medicine, the Sushruta Samhita on surgery and the Ashtanga Hridaya of Vagbhata, who also wrote the Ashtanga Sangraha.

Madhava of Sangamagrama, who lived around the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, founded the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics, whose members obtained infinite series expansions for pi and for the sine and cosine, anticipating results that Europe reached much later; Nilakantha Somayaji of the same school wrote the Tantrasamgraha in…

The Sanskrit inscription on the Mehrauli pillar praises a king called Chandra, whom historians identify with the Gupta ruler Chandragupta II Vikramaditya, and the pillar's wrought iron has resisted corrosion for about sixteen centuries because of its phosphorus content and the protective film it forms, which is the standard example…

Kanada founded the Vaisheshika school, which classified the categories of existence and held that material things are made of paramanu, indivisible atoms that combine in pairs and larger groups to form the objects we see; the doctrine was reached by reasoning about divisibility rather than by experiment.

Mahaviracharya was a Jain mathematician of the ninth century associated with the Rashtrakuta court, and his Ganita Sara Sangraha is a systematic treatment of arithmetic operations, fractions, series and the areas and volumes of figures, and it was widely used in south India.

Varahamihira, who lived in the sixth century, summarised five earlier astronomical schools in the Panchasiddhantika, wrote the encyclopaedic Brihat Samhita covering astronomy, omens, architecture, gems and the finding of underground water, and composed the Brihat Jataka on horoscopy.