Indian History GK Questions with Answers – Page 6

The voluntary union of a maiden and her lover is the Gandharva marriage, which is the sixth of the eight forms listed in the Manusmriti.

Under ijarah only the ijaradar's payment to the state was fixed; what he collected from the peasant was not, so the peasant faced rising and arbitrary demands.

The Treaty of Yandabo, signed on 24 February 1826, ended the First Anglo-Burmese War of 1824 to 1826. The war broke out when Burmese expansion into Manipur, Assam and the Cachar region brought Burma into conflict with the East India Company; Lord Amherst was Governor-General.

Madhyamika is the ancient town now called Nagari, about 13 km north of Chittorgarh in Rajasthan. The grammarian Patanjali, who lived in the time of Pushyamitra Shunga in the second century BCE, wrote in his Mahabhashya the examples "the Yavana besieged Saketa" and "the Yavana besieged Madhyamika".

Siddheshvara was not one of the poets at the court of Krishnadevaraya. Krishnadevaraya (ruled 1509-1529), the greatest ruler of the Tuluva dynasty of Vijayanagara, was himself a scholar who wrote the Telugu poem Amuktamalyada.

The Puranas, the Ramayana and the Kalpa-Sutra are Smriti texts, while the Vedas are Shruti. Ancient Indian literature is divided into two classes.

The Sri Narayana Dharma Paripalana (SNDP) Yogam was founded in Kerala in 1903 to carry forward the reform ideas of Sri Narayana Guru.

The Treaty of Yandabo was signed on 24 February 1826 and ended the First Anglo-Burmese War (1824–1826). The war began in 1824 after Burmese expansion into Assam, Manipur and Cachar brought Burma into conflict with the East India Company's Bengal frontier; Lord Amherst was the Governor-General.

By the Treaty of Deogaon (December 1803), Raghuji Bhonsle II of Nagpur ceded Cuttack, that is coastal Orissa including Balasore, to the East India Company.

Maulvi Ahmadullah Shah of Faizabad was among the rebel leaders who defeated the British force of Henry Lawrence at Chinhat near Lucknow on 30 June 1857.

This Spanish conquistador overthrew the Aztec Empire and brought Mexico under Spain between 1519 and 1521. Cortés landed on the Mexican coast in 1519, allied with peoples hostile to the Aztecs such as the Tlaxcalans, and reached the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan, where the ruler Moctezuma II received him.

Rajaraja I allowed and encouraged the Sailendra king of Srivijaya, Sri Mara Vijayottungavarman, to build a Buddhist vihara at Nagapattinam on the Chola coast.

The Tashkent Agreement was signed on 10 January 1966 by Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri of India and President Ayub Khan of Pakistan to end the war of 1965.

Prithivimahadevi, Dharmamahadevi, Dandimahadevi and Vakulamahadevi were queens of the Bhauma-Kara dynasty of Odisha, which is known for several women ruling in their own right.

The Satyashodhak Samaj came first in 1873, the Bardoli Satyagraha followed in 1928 and the Chipko Movement began in 1973.

In the Sangam poems of the early Tamil region, the ploughmen who worked the land were called uzhavar. The Sangam texts describe a rural society with clear groups.

Under the dadni system, European companies gave cash advances to weavers through middlemen to secure cloth for export. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the English, Dutch and French companies bought huge quantities of cotton and silk cloth in Bengal and other regions.

Sir William Jones, a judge of the Supreme Court at Calcutta, founded the Asiatic Society in January 1784 and served as its first president until his death in 1794.

A dastak was a free pass that let the English East India Company move goods without paying internal customs duties.

He travelled in the late thirteenth century, decades before the Vijayanagara Empire was founded in 1336, so he could not have described it.