Indian History Previous Year Questions (PYQ) with Answers – Page 26

Ziyarat means a visit to a sacred place, and in India it came to mean the pilgrimage to the dargah of a sufi saint to seek blessings.

Naneghat is a mountain pass in the Western Ghats of Maharashtra, known for Satavahana cave inscriptions, not for a Chola Shiva temple.

Saguna bhakti is devotion to God with attributes, so it centres on particular deities and imagines them in human-like forms.

Ashoka's dhamma was a moral code for all his subjects and never asked people to honour or worship the king himself.

Bal Gangadhar Tilak started Kesari in Marathi in 1881 from Pune, together with Gopal Ganesh Agarkar and Vishnushastri Chiplunkar. Alongside Kesari, the same group brought out Mahratta, its English counterpart.

Balakot, along with Nageshwar in Gujarat, is described as a specialised centre for making shell objects. Both settlements lay near the coast, where shells were easy to collect, and excavations there have found large amounts of shell waste, unfinished pieces and finished items.

Faizi, Akbar's poet laureate and the elder brother of Abul Fazl, translated the Lilavati into Persian in 1587. The Lilavati is the arithmetic part of the Siddhanta Shiromani, written by the mathematician Bhaskaracharya (Bhaskara II) in the twelfth century, and it covers numbers, fractions, progressions and measurement.

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, a socialist and Congress leader, persuaded Gandhiji to let women join the salt satyagraha of 1930, which he had first planned with men alone.

Gopal Hari Deshmukh (1823–1892) of Maharashtra wrote under the pen name Lokahitawadi, meaning one who works for the good of the people, and the name stuck to him.

Ansari. Mukhtar Ahmad Ansari was a physician and a Congress leader who presided over the Madras session of the Congress in 1927; he had nothing to do with the communist prosecutions and was never an accused in the Kanpur Bolshevik Conspiracy Case.

The Congress resolution on non-cooperation, passed at the special Calcutta session of September 1920 and confirmed at Nagpur in December 1920, called for the renunciation of all voluntary association with the British Government.

Swami Dayanand Saraswati held the Vedas to be the only true and infallible source of knowledge, and his call was "Go back to the Vedas".

The Moderates, who led the Indian National Congress from 1885 to about 1905, did not seek to overthrow British rule; they believed in its basic fairness and wanted reforms within it.

Jahanara Begum, the eldest daughter of Shah Jahan, wrote the Munis al-Arwah ("Confidant of Souls") in 1640 as a biography of Shaikh Muinuddin Chishti, the founder of the Chishti order in India.

This official account of the reign of Firuz Shah Tughlaq, compiled around 1370, describes how the Ashokan pillar at Topra was carried to Delhi, and its manuscript carries painted illustrations of the operation.

Annie Besant founded the Central Hindu College (with its school) at Benaras in 1898, and it later became the nucleus of Banaras Hindu University.

The Prati Sarkar, a parallel government of the Quit India period, was set up in Satara district of Maharashtra. During the Quit India Movement that began in August 1942, people in some areas threw off British authority and ran their own governments.

All three statements correctly describe the Sanyasi and Faqir risings in late 18th-century Bengal and Bihar. After the Battle of Plassey and the grant of Diwani in 1765, heavy revenue demands and the terrible Bengal famine of 1770 hurt peasants and wandering ascetics alike.

All four belong to the First Anglo-Maratha War: Surat (1775), Purandar (1776), Wadgaon (1779) and Salbai (1782). In 1775 the Bombay government signed the Treaty of Surat with Raghunathrao, promising to put him in power as Peshwa in return for Salsette and Bassein.

The Law Commission under Macaulay set out to codify Indian law, and it was not opposed to a uniform system of courts.