Indian History Previous Year Questions (PYQ) with Answers – Page 35

On 24 August 1925 Vithalbhai Patel became the first elected Indian (non-official) President, or Speaker, of the Central Legislative Assembly.

This was the heart of the 1719 agreement between Peshwa Balaji Vishwanath and the Mughal court. In 1718 Balaji Vishwanath, the first great Peshwa of Shahu, made a deal with the Sayyid brothers, the king-makers at Delhi.

In fact all the Mughal emperors gave grants for building and maintaining places of worship, so saying that not all of them did is incorrect.

Sulh-i kul, Akbar's ideal of absolute peace, gave every faith freedom of expression and was put into practice through state policy.

In 1221 Chenghiz Khan chased the Khwarizmian prince Jalal-ud-din Mangbarni up to the Indus but turned back without crossing it.

Ghiyasuddin Balban, who ruled from 1266 to 1287, broke the power of the Turkan-i-Chihalgani, the group of forty Turkish nobles.

Lingayats bury their dead and opposed child marriage while accepting widow remarriage, but they rejected the caste system and ideas of pollution.

Following the Communal Award of 1932, this Act reserved seats for women in the legislatures and divided them among the communities.

Karaikkal Ammaiyar was a Nayanar, one of the Tamil saints devoted to Shiva, so this statement is not correct. The early Bhakti movement of Tamil Nadu, from about the sixth century, was led by two groups of poet-saints: the Alvars, devotees of Vishnu, and the Nayanars, devotees of Shiva.

The Satavahanas ruled the Deccan and parts of western India, but the Sudarshana Lake was repaired by others.

The Dandi March of 1930 was a protest against the British salt tax, and common salt is sodium chloride, NaCl.

Formed in April 1918 by B. P. Wadia among the textile workers of Madras, it is regarded as India's first trade union in the modern, organised sense.

The Dharmashastras assigned the Vaishyas both the study of the Vedas and trade, along with agriculture and cattle-rearing. The Dharmasutras and Dharmashastras, such as the Manusmriti, laid down ideal occupations for the four varnas.

Kalinga does not appear in the list of sixteen mahajanapadas given in the Buddhist text Anguttara Nikaya. The sixteen mahajanapadas of the sixth century BCE were Anga, Magadha, Kashi, Kosala, Vajji, Malla, Chedi, Vatsa, Kuru, Panchala, Matsya, Surasena, Assaka, Avanti, Gandhara and Kamboja.

Steatite seals and bricks of a standard ratio are the hallmarks of the Harappan Civilisation. Harappan seals were usually carved from steatite, a soft stone, and carry animal motifs such as the unicorn together with signs of the undeciphered script.

Narayan Malhar Joshi was the main organiser behind the founding of the All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) in Bombay in October 1920.

In 1940 Subhas Chandra Bose joined hands with the Muslim League in Bengal and led the campaign to remove the Holwell Monument from Calcutta.

Mirza Ghulam Ahmad founded the Ahmadiyya Movement in 1889 at Qadian, a town in the Gurdaspur district of Punjab. The Ahmadiyya Movement was one of the Muslim reform movements of the late nineteenth century.

Annie Besant, Sarojini Naidu and Hirabai Tata all went before the Joint Select Committee in London in 1919 to argue for votes for Indian women.

Only the third pairing is right: Kalidasa is traditionally placed at the court of Chandragupta II Vikramaditya. Tradition counts Kalidasa, author of Abhijnanashakuntalam, Meghaduta and Raghuvamsha, among the nine gems (navaratnas) of King Vikramaditya, identified with the Gupta ruler Chandragupta II of the late fourth and early fifth century CE.