Indian History Previous Year Questions (PYQ) with Answers – Page 34

Archaeologists divide the Stone Age into the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic periods mainly by the kind of stone tools found and the way they were made.

The Karachi Session of March 1931, presided over by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, passed the resolution on Fundamental Rights and Economic Policy.

Bhagwati Charan Vohra, a leading thinker of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association, wrote The Philosophy of the Bomb in 1930.

The Guptas are famous for their gold coins, not copper ones; their copper issues were few, so the statement that most of their coins were copper is not correct.

Made on 8 August 1940, it was the first time the British government accepted that framing India's new constitution should be mainly the responsibility of Indians.

Panchsheel is a set of five principles of peaceful relations between states, and the threat of nuclear weapons has no place in it.

The rebels wanted Hindus and Muslims to stand together against British rule. Proclamations issued in the name of Bahadur Shah Zafar called on everyone to join the fight, recalling the Mughal past when different communities had lived together.

Satavahana kings prefixed their mother's name to their own, as in Gautamiputra Satakarni, "son of Gautami", and Vasishthiputra Pulumavi, "son of Vasishthi".

Ram Manohar Lohia, the socialist thinker and leader, put forward the idea of Sapta Kranti, or seven revolutions, as the programme of Indian socialism.

In October 1925 Tambe, a Swarajist member from the Central Provinces, accepted a seat on the Governor's Executive Council. He became the first Swarajist to take office under the dyarchy that the party had vowed to wreck from within.

The Moderates never demanded universal adult franchise; they asked only for a larger share for educated Indians in the legislative councils.

The Satapatra series (Shatapatre, "a hundred letters") was written by Gopal Hari Deshmukh, known as Lokahitawadi. Gopal Hari Deshmukh (1823-1892) was an early social reformer of Maharashtra.

Bhilsa and Girinagar are matched correctly; Dwarasamudra and Sthanesvara are not. Bhilsa is the old name of Vidisha in Madhya Pradesh, near Sanchi, where the Heliodorus pillar stands.

Sangam literature describes Tamilakam as the land stretching from the Venkatam hills, around Tirupati, in the north to Kumari, the southern tip of the peninsula.

The Paramahansa Mandali was a Maharashtra body, founded in Bombay, not in Bengal by Swami Vivekananda, while the Prarthana Samaj was indeed a Maharashtra reform movement.

The Harappan script has never been deciphered, so no one can say what it refers to; the name Meluhha comes from Mesopotamian texts, not from Harappan writing.

The Stockton and Darlington Railway in north-east England opened on 27 September 1825 and was the first public railway to use steam locomotives and carry passengers.

When the Salt March began in March 1930, Time magazine mocked Gandhi's thin frame and doubted that the march would reach Dandi; within a week, struck by the crowds and the response, it was hailing him as a saint and a statesman.

He was Viceroy from 1926 to 1931, which covers the Dandi March of 1930.

Gandhiji first used and shaped Satyagraha there while fighting racial laws against Indians. Gandhiji went to South Africa in 1893 as a lawyer and stayed about 21 years.