Indian History GK Questions with Answers – Page 5

His Arthashastra advises the king, in times of famine, to start public works such as forts and irrigation projects and to pay the workers in food.

Sangam literature describes the vellalar as the large landowners of the Tamil region, while the people who actually worked the land are named separately.

Kunzru, a member of the Servants of India Society, organised the Seva Samiti at Allahabad in 1914 to carry out social service and relief work.

Castro came to power in Cuba only in 1959 and was not among the founders of the Non-Aligned Movement; he became prominent in it later and chaired the 1979 Havana summit.

The Gandatindu Jataka is one of the Jataka tales, the stories of the Buddha's earlier births, which were composed in Pali and preserved in the Buddhist canon.

This Act provided for a Federal Court, which was set up at Delhi in October 1937 to settle disputes between the Centre and the provinces.

This statement is wrong: in 1956 Dr. Muthulakshmi Reddy received the Padma Bhushan, not the Bharat Ratna. Muthulakshmi Reddy (1886–1968) of the Madras Presidency broke several barriers.

Tavernier was a French gem merchant, not Dutch, so this pair is wrong. Jean Baptiste Tavernier travelled to India six times between about 1640 and 1667, during the reigns of Shah Jahan and Aurangzeb.

Kot Diji lies in the Khairpur district of Sindh, Pakistan, on the left (eastern) bank of the Indus, across the river from Mohenjo-daro, the largest Harappan city in Sindh.

. According to the Manusmriti and other Dharmashastras, the paternal estate was to be divided equally among the sons after the death of the parents, with a special share for the eldest, while women could not claim a share of it.

Sir Cyril Radcliffe, a British lawyer who had never been to India before, chaired the two Boundary Commissions, one for Punjab and one for Bengal, set up under the Indian Independence Act of 1947.

The four Agnikula clans are the Pratiharas, the Chaulukyas (Solankis), the Paramaras and the Chahamanas (Chauhans). According to the Agnikula legend, told in Chand Bardai's Prithviraj Raso, the sage Vashishtha performed a great fire sacrifice on Mount Abu, and four warrior clans sprang from the fire to protect the land.

The Singpho people of upper Assam and Arunachal Pradesh were brewing tea from the wild Assam tea plant long before the British began tea gardens.

All four travellers are matched with their home countries correctly. Marco Polo was a Venetian merchant, from what is now Italy, who passed through south India in the late 13th century and described the Pandya kingdom.

Colin Mackenzie, an engineer and surveyor of the East India Company, brought the ruins at Hampi to light in 1800.

When Harshavardhana died around 647 CE without an heir, his minister Arunashva, also called Arjuna, seized the throne of Kanyakubja (Kannauj).

The Sylhet Referendum was held in early July 1947, just before Partition, to decide whether Sylhet district of Assam would stay with India or join East Bengal, which was going to Pakistan.

The Dipavamsa is a Pali chronicle of Sri Lanka, not the biography of a king, while the other three are historical biographies of rulers.

The English East India Company built Fort St. George at Madras (Madraspatnam) in 1639 to 1644, and the city of Madras, now Chennai, grew around it.

When the Bengal National College was set up in Calcutta in 1906, Aurobindo Ghosh left his post in Baroda to become its first principal.