Indian History GK Questions with Answers – Page 46

Akbar was only about thirteen years old in 1556, and his regent Bairam Khan commanded the army that defeated Hemu, the able general of the Sur side who had captured Delhi and crowned himself Hemchandra Vikramaditya.

The following year Sher Shah defeated him again at Kannauj, also called Bilgram, and Humayun left India for about fifteen years while the Sur dynasty ruled Delhi.

Babur defeated and killed Ibrahim Lodi, the last Sultan of the Lodi dynasty, on the field of Panipat in 1526, using the tulughma flanking division and field guns served by Ustad Ali Quli and Mustafa Rumi, and founded the Mughal Empire.

Ghori had been defeated by Prithviraj Chauhan at the First Battle of Tarain in 1191 and returned the next year with a better organised army of mounted archers; the Second Battle of Tarain in 1192 ended in the defeat and death of Prithviraj and opened north India to Turkish rule.

Porus ruled the Paurava kingdom between the Jhelum and the Chenab and fought Alexander on the Hydaspes, the Greek name for the Jhelum.

He later ran Bahishkrit Bharat from 1927, Samata and Janata, which became Prabuddha Bharat.

After years of work in the United States, Mangoo Ram returned to Punjab and founded the Ad Dharm movement in 1926, arguing that the so-called untouchable castes were the original inhabitants of the land and formed a religion of their own; the census of 1931 recorded lakhs of people as…

Gulamgiri, meaning slavery, was published in 1873 in Marathi and compared the condition of the lower castes in India with that of enslaved people in the United States, dedicating the work to those who fought slavery there.

He left the Congress in 1925 and launched the Self-Respect Movement, which rejected priestly ritual, conducted marriages without Brahmin priests and without religious ceremony, campaigned for widow remarriage and for women rights, and later turned into the Dravidar Kazhagam in 1944.

Vaikom lies in the former princely state of Travancore, in present-day Kottayam district of Kerala, and the satyagraha of 1924 and 1925 demanded that the lower castes be allowed to use the public roads around the Mahadeva temple there.

The Communal Award announced by Ramsay MacDonald in August 1932 gave the depressed classes separate electorates.

The SNDP Yogam was founded in 1903 in Travancore under his inspiration, with Dr Palpu as the organiser and the poet Kumaran Asan as its first secretary, to work for the Ezhava community through schools, temples open to all and the slogan of one caste, one religion and one God…

In March 1927 Ambedkar led thousands of people to the Chavdar tank at Mahad in the Kolaba district of Bombay Presidency and drank its water, asserting that a public tank opened by a municipal resolution belonged to every citizen.

Omprakash Valmiki published Joothan in 1997, and it is the best known Dalit autobiography in Hindi; the title refers to the leftover food that upper-caste households gave to Dalit families, and the book records humiliation in school, in the village and at work.

The fourfold varna order of classical texts consists of Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya and Shudra.

He founded the Satyashodhak Samaj, or Truth Seekers Society, at Pune in 1873, the same year in which his book Gulamgiri appeared.

Vinoba Bhave asked every landowner to treat him as a son and give him a son's share, one-sixth of the land, for the landless.

This law let the government imprison people suspected of political activity without trial for up to two years. Officially the Anarchical and Revolutionary Crimes Act, it was passed in March 1919 on the advice of the Sedition Committee headed by Justice S.A.T.

The districts taken from Awadh and given to Shah Alam II were Kora and Allahabad, not Banaras. After the Battle of Buxar (1764), Robert Clive signed two treaties at Allahabad in August 1765.

Congress was represented by Jawaharlal Nehru and Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, its president, not by Sardar Patel. With Japan advancing in South-East Asia, the British War Cabinet sent Sir Stafford Cripps to India in March 1942, after he had persuaded it to accept a draft declaration.