Indian History Previous Year Questions (PYQ) with Answers – Page 3

The Indian Legion came first (1942), then the Azad Hind Government (October 1943), then the INA trials (November 1945) and finally the Bombay naval strike (February 1946).

Vithalbhai Patel was a pro-changer: he backed entry into the legislative councils and joined the Swaraj Party. After the Non-Cooperation Movement was called off in 1922, Congress split over council entry.

It records that Kharavela of Kalinga broke up a confederacy of Tamil states that had been a threat to his kingdom for 113 years.

Kodumanal is an excavated Sangam-age settlement in Erode district, on the northern bank of the Noyyal river, a tributary of the Kaveri.

Uranus cannot normally be picked out by the naked eye and was discovered only in 1781, so ancient Indian astronomers never wrote about it.

The territories of the amara-nayakas were not hereditary; the Vijayanagara kings transferred them from one place to another from time to time.

Lord Curzon's partition of Bengal came into effect on 16 October 1905, years before the other three events. Curzon announced the partition in July 1905, claiming it was for administrative convenience, but it was widely seen as a way to divide Hindus and Muslims and weaken Bengali nationalism.

Statements 2 and 3 are correct; the taluqdars were disarmed and their forts destroyed, not left with them. Dalhousie annexed Awadh in February 1856 on the ground of misgovernment.

Udiyanjeral was a Chera king, not a Chola, so pair 2 is the only wrong one. Sangam poems name three crowned dynasties of Tamilakam: the Cheras on the western (Kerala) coast, the Cholas in the Kaveri delta and the Pandyas around Madurai.

All three statements match what inscriptions tell us about how the decimal place-value system spread. In the place-value system, the value of a digit depends on its position, so nine digits and a zero can write any number.

Jainism names four states of existence, called gatis, and Yaksha is not one of them.

On 20 March 1927 Dr B R Ambedkar led thousands of Dalits to the Chavdar tank at Mahad in Maharashtra and drank its water, asserting the right of the depressed classes to use a public water source.

Sanikatta lies near Gokarna in the Uttara Kannada district of coastal Karnataka. Sanikatta is one of the oldest traditional salt pans on the west coast, where sea water is let into the fields at the mouth of the Aghanashini river and dried by the sun.

The Dandi March came first in 1930, then the Gandhi-Irwin Pact and the Second Round Table Conference in 1931, and the Lahore Resolution for Pakistan in 1940.

This statement is wrong: in 1956 Dr. Muthulakshmi Reddy received the Padma Bhushan, not the Bharat Ratna. Muthulakshmi Reddy (1886–1968) of the Madras Presidency broke several barriers.

Sir Cyril Radcliffe, a British lawyer who had never been to India before, chaired the two Boundary Commissions, one for Punjab and one for Bengal, set up under the Indian Independence Act of 1947.

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 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.

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

Ashoka's empire covered almost the whole subcontinent, but the Brahmaputra valley lay beyond its eastern limit.