Indian History GK Questions with Answers – Page 47

Kautilya's daily time-table for the king does not include moving through the town in disguise; he learns about his people through spies instead.

A. V. Thakkar, known as Thakkar Bapa, founded the Bhil Seva Mandal in 1922 to work for the Bhil tribals of the Panchmahal district of Gujarat.

The Limitation Law of 1859 was meant to stop debts from piling up over many years. In the Deccan, ryots borrowed from moneylenders (sahukars) and signed bonds.

Under the pact, signed on 5 March 1931, Congress agreed to attend the next conference in London, and Gandhi went as its sole representative.

Panna in Bundelkhand, now in Madhya Pradesh, is India's historic diamond belt, and diamonds were mined there in the medieval period.

Around 1025 CE Rajendra Chola I sent a naval expedition that raided Kadaram (Kedah) and other ports of the Srivijaya kingdom.

The Punjab leader wrote these biographies, lived in the United States during the First World War and was elected to the Central Legislative Assembly in 1926.

Vishti was unpaid labour that subjects owed to the king, so it worked like a tax paid in work instead of money or grain.

Fa-hien was in India from about 399 to 414 CE, when Chandragupta II Vikramaditya ruled the Gupta empire. Faxian was a Chinese Buddhist monk who set out overland to collect Buddhist texts, especially rules of monastic discipline.

All three are marks of Mahayana Buddhism, the 'Great Vehicle' that grew from around the beginning of the Common Era.

The Pallava king who ruled in the early 7th century took these titles, and they appear in the inscriptions of the cave temples he cut.

A relief panel from the stupa at Kanganahalli in Karnataka shows a king with his queens and carries the label 'Raya Asoko' (Ranyo Ashoka), making it the only known portrait of Ashoka named in an inscription.

The araghatta was a water-lifting wheel that carried a chain or ring of pots down into a well and brought them up full.

The English East India Company was chartered in 1600 and the Dutch company in 1602, and Vasco da Gama landed near Calicut in May 1498.

In 1639 the English Company obtained a grant of land at Madraspatam on the Coromandel coast and built Fort St. George there.

The Vajji mahajanapada was a gana-sangha, ruled by an assembly of clan chiefs rather than by a single king. Of the sixteen mahajanapadas named in Buddhist texts such as the Anguttara Nikaya, most were monarchies, but Vajji and Malla were ganas or sanghas.

Most Ashokan inscriptions are in Brahmi, and the script already shows regional differences in the shapes of its letters. Ashoka's edicts were written mostly in Prakrit, in the Brahmi script, which James Prinsep deciphered in 1837-38.

She became Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh in October 1963, the first woman to head a state government in India.

Damin-i-koh was the tract in the Rajmahal hills that the British marked out in 1832 for settling the Santals. The Santals had moved into the Rajmahal hills area in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, clearing forests and taking up settled farming.

The movement was a non-violent withdrawal of cooperation, not an attempt to seize the government's machinery. The Non-Cooperation Movement was approved at the Calcutta special session in September 1920 and confirmed at the Nagpur session in December 1920.