Indian History GK Questions with Answers – Page 72

The Ilbert Bill of 1883 sought to remove the rule that European British subjects could be tried only by European judges.

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar founded Abhinav Bharat at Nashik in 1904, together with his brother Ganesh. It grew out of an earlier group called Mitra Mela and took its name from Mazzini’s Young Italy, whose biography Savarkar translated into Marathi.

The Battle of Talikota, fought in January 1565, broke the Vijayanagara empire. The Deccan sultanates of Bijapur, Golconda, Ahmadnagar and Bidar joined hands against it, and their combined army defeated Aliya Rama Raya, the regent of the Aravidu dynasty, who was captured and killed on the field.

Jatindranath Mukherjee, known as Bagha Jatin, planned an armed rising against the British with German help during the First World War.

Ibrahim Lodi was the last ruler of the Lodi dynasty and the last Sultan of Delhi; he was killed in the First Battle of Panipat in 1526, where Babur defeated him and began Mughal rule in India.

Raja Nand Kumar, a Brahmin revenue officer of Bengal, accused Warren Hastings of taking bribes. Soon afterwards Nand Kumar himself was charged with forgery, tried by the Supreme Court at Calcutta under Chief Justice Elijah Impey and hanged in 1775.

Both slogans belong to Netaji and to the Azad Hind Fauj, the Indian National Army he led from 1943.

India's village iron smelters were ruined by two pressures at once. Cheap iron and steel made in British factories was brought into India in large quantities from the middle of the nineteenth century, and local smiths could not match its price, so demand for their metal fell away.

A mansabdar was an officer who held a mansab, a rank that fixed his position at court, his pay and the number of horsemen he had to keep ready.

The Third Battle of Panipat was fought on 14 January 1761 between the Marathas, led by Sadashivrao Bhau with Vishwasrao, and the Afghan ruler Ahmad Shah Abdali, who was helped by Najib-ud-Daulah of Rohilkhand and Shuja-ud-Daulah of Awadh.

The Nizam of Hyderabad was the first Indian ruler to accept the Subsidiary Alliance, signing the treaty with Lord Wellesley in 1798, the year Wellesley took charge as Governor-General.

The Sutta Pitaka is the basket of the Buddha's discourses and is divided into five collections called Nikayas: Digha, Majjhima, Samyutta, Anguttara and Khuddaka.

Lord Dalhousie annexed Awadh in February 1856, in the last month of his term as Governor General.

Sardeshmukhi was a levy of one tenth, that is ten per cent, of the land revenue, which the Marathas claimed in territory outside their own kingdom.

The All India Trade Union Congress was formed in Bombay in October 1920 and Lala Lajpat Rai was elected its first President, with Dewan Chaman Lall as the first General Secretary.

Mahmud Gawan, a Persian trader and scholar who came to the Bahmani court in 1453, was given the title Malik ut Tujjar, meaning Chief of the Merchants, by Sultan Humayun Shah, who ruled from 1458 to 1461.

Raigad is the hill fort in Maharashtra that Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj made his capital, and it has nothing to do with the Buddha.

The British East India Company captured Pondicherry from the French in 1761, during the Third Carnatic War, after Sir Eyre Coote had broken French power in the south at the Battle of Wandiwash in 1760.

Dharmapala, the second and greatest ruler of the Pala dynasty of Bengal and Bihar, founded the Vikramshila monastery and university in the late eighth century in what is now Bhagalpur district of Bihar, and he also restored and supported the older university at Nalanda.

The Moplahs, or Mappilas, were Muslim cultivators of the Malabar region of northern Kerala, and their long struggle against the jenmi landlords grew into the Malabar or Moplah rebellion of 1921.