Indian History Previous Year Questions (PYQ) with Answers – Page 30

The Home Rule Movement began in 1916, when two leagues were set up to demand self-government for India within the British Empire.

Vikramaditya VI ruled the Western Chalukya kingdom of Kalyani, and his court poet Bilhana wrote the Vikramankadevacharita on his life.

The Lucknow Pact of December 1916 was an agreement between the Indian National Congress and the All India Muslim League, by which the Congress accepted separate electorates for Muslims and the two bodies placed a joint demand for self government before the British.

Magadha was the first power of ancient India to use elephants in war on a large scale, taking them from the forests of its east Indian heartland.

Razia was the only woman to sit on the throne of Delhi, so she was both the first and the last woman ruler of the Sultanate.

The Indian Independence Act was introduced in the British Parliament in July 1947 on the basis of the Mountbatten Plan of 3 June 1947, received royal assent on 18 July 1947 and came into effect on 15 August 1947, creating the dominions of India and Pakistan.

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

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.

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.

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

Chin Qilich Khan, better remembered by his title Nizam-ul-Mulk Asaf Jah, was a Mughal noble appointed governor of the Deccan by Muhammad Shah.

Alexander and Porus fought the Battle of Hydaspes in 326 BCE on the banks of the Jhelum, the river the Greeks called Hydaspes and the Rig Veda calls Vitasta.

The All India Congress Committee, meeting at Gowalia Tank in Bombay, passed the Quit India resolution on 8 August 1942, and Gandhi gave his Do or Die speech the same evening.

Ibn Batuta, the Moroccan traveller, reached Delhi in the fourteenth century during the reign of Muhammad Bin Tughlaq, who appointed him the qazi of Delhi and later sent him as an envoy to China.

The Irish-born theosophist, who had made India her home and led the Theosophical Society from Adyar, presided over the Calcutta session of the Congress in 1917, the year in which the Government interned her for her Home Rule agitation.

Vande Mataram, written in Sanskritised Bengali by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay and included in his novel Anandamath, was sung for the first time at a Congress session at the Calcutta session of 1896, and Rabindranath Tagore himself set the tune and sang it.

Vidyasagar served as the secretary of the Hindu Female School, and the school was renamed after John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune, who had founded it in Calcutta in 1849.