Indian History GK Questions with Answers – Page 63

Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism, chose his devoted follower Bhai Lehna as his successor and gave him the name Guru Angad, setting aside the claim of his own sons.

Under the Tinkathia system the indigo planters of Champaran forced every tenant to grow indigo on three kathas out of every twenty kathas of his holding.

Ghazi Malik was the title of Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq, who founded the Tughlaq dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate in 1320. He was governor of Dipalpur under the Khiljis and won the throne by defeating Khusrau Khan, the usurper who had ended Khilji rule.

The Joint Parliamentary Committee that examined the White Paper on Indian constitutional reform was chaired by Lord Linlithgow, and its report of 1934 became the draft of the Government of India Act of 1935.

Lincoln is the only American President shot inside a theatre, so he is the one the question points to.

The Purusha Sukta is the ninetieth hymn of the tenth mandala of the Rigveda.

The iron pillar that now stands in the Qutb complex at Mehrauli in Delhi carries a Sanskrit inscription in Brahmi script praising a king called Chandra, taken to be Chandragupta II of the Gupta dynasty, and it was raised in the fourth or early fifth century as a standard of…

The Second Anglo-Mysore War ran from 1780 to 1784. Haidar Ali fought the English East India Company with the Marathas and the Nizam on his side, and after his death in December 1782 his son Tipu Sultan carried the war on and signed the Treaty of Mangalore in March 1784.

Mahmud of Ghazni, who ruled the Ghaznavid kingdom from 998 to 1030, is recorded as having led seventeen raids into India between about 1000 and 1027.

Around 850 AD Vijayalaya, until then a feudatory of the Pallavas, seized Thanjavur from the Muttaraiyar chiefs and made it his capital, and that conquest marks the beginning of the imperial Chola line.

The All Parties Conference set up a committee under Motilal Nehru in 1928, and the report it submitted that August, known as the Nehru Report, was a draft constitutional scheme for India.

Swami Sahajanand Saraswati set up the Bihar Provincial Kisan Sabha in 1929 to organise the peasants of Bihar against the zamindars.

The Ryotwari settlement rested on David Ricardo's theory of rent, which held that rent is the surplus left after the cost of cultivation is met, so the state could claim that surplus straight from the tiller.

Thanjavur was the capital of the Chola dynasty, which ruled the Tamil country from the ninth to the thirteenth century.

Razia Sultan was the daughter of Iltutmish, and Iltutmish belonged to the Slave dynasty, also called the Mamluk dynasty or the Ilbari Turks.

The Swadeshi Movement began as the answer to Lord Curzon's partition of Bengal, which came into effect on 16 October 1905.

Timur invaded India in 1398 and sacked Delhi, the Tughlaq hold on the city collapsed after that blow, and the Sayyid dynasty was the next to rule from Delhi.

Hyphasis is the Greek name of the Beas, and it was on its bank in 326 BC that Alexander's tired soldiers refused to march any further east, which is why the Beas marks the eastern limit of his campaign.

Subhas Chandra Bose proclaimed the Provisional Government of Free India, the Arzi Hukumat-e-Azad Hind, at Singapore on 21 October 1943.

Dadabhai Naoroji set up the East India Association in London in 1866 to place Indian questions before the British public and members of Parliament, and branches of it were soon opened in Bombay, Calcutta and Madras.