Indian History GK Questions with Answers – Page 64

Khizr Khan founded the Sayyid dynasty at Delhi in 1414 after taking the city from Daulat Khan Lodi.

Vatapi is today's Badami in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka, and it was the capital of the Chalukyas of Badami, founded by Pulakeshin the First in the sixth century.

The word Neolithic is built from the Greek neos, meaning new, and lithos, meaning stone, so the Neolithic is the New Stone Age.

The Lodis followed the Sayyids at Delhi. Bahlol Lodi, an Afghan noble who was governor of Sirhind, took the throne in 1451 when the last Sayyid ruler Alam Shah gave up Delhi and settled at Badaun.

Rudramadevi ruled the Kakatiya kingdom from Warangal, called Orugallu then, in what is now Telangana, in the second half of the thirteenth century.

Shortughai stands in north-eastern Afghanistan, near the Oxus or Amu Darya river, and is the northernmost Harappan settlement known.

The earliest and by far the longest phase of human prehistory is the Palaeolithic, or Old Stone Age, when people lived by hunting and gathering and used rough, unpolished tools made mostly of quartzite.

Nagabhata I founded the Gurjara-Pratihara dynasty in the middle of the eighth century, with his power centred on Avanti and Ujjain in western India.

The Ali brothers, Maulana Muhammad Ali and Shaukat Ali, led the Khilafat Movement that began in 1919. Its demand was that the British restore the position of the Ottoman Sultan, the Caliph, whose empire had been broken up after the First World War by the Treaty of Sevres.

Akbar founded Din-i-Ilahi in 1582, a small spiritual order that he built out of ideas drawn from several faiths.

The elections of 1937 were held under the Government of India Act, 1935, and the Congress swept the country, winning a clear majority in five provinces and emerging as the largest party in most of the rest.

This Act, formally the Indian Councils Act of 1909, first gave Muslims a separate electorate, in which Muslim voters chose Muslim members from Muslim-only constituencies.

The Charter Act of 1833 ended the East India Company's last trading privilege, its monopoly over trade with China and in tea, and turned the Company into a purely administrative body holding India in trust for the British Crown.

The Battle of Ten Kings, or Dasarajna, is described in the seventh book of the Rigveda.

The Congress met in Philadelphia in May 1775, soon after the fighting at Lexington and Concord, and in June it appointed George Washington commander-in-chief of the newly created Continental Army.

The conference met in Bombay in 1931 and resolved that the depressed classes must be allowed to elect their own representatives through separate electorates, a demand Dr B. R. Ambedkar carried to the Second Round Table Conference in London the same year.

Gandhi's mother Putlibai belonged to the Pranami sect, a Vaishnava tradition that drew on both Hindu and Islamic teaching and held that faiths are one; the household he grew up in therefore treated religious tolerance as ordinary.

The British wanted Russian influence kept out of Kabul, but they did not want a strong Afghan state on the north-west frontier either, because a powerful neighbour would be hard to control.

The Kushana gold coins were struck on the same weight standard as the Roman aureus of the time, not on a different one, because the dynasty traded briskly with the Roman world and found it convenient to match that standard.

The Nizam Shahis ruled from Ahmadnagar, founded by Malik Ahmad in 1490, while Bijapur belonged to the Adil Shahis of Yusuf Adil Shah.