Indian History Previous Year Questions (PYQ) with Answers – Page 39

When the Bengal National College was set up in Calcutta in 1906, Aurobindo Ghosh left his post in Baroda to become its first principal.

The voluntary union of a maiden and her lover is the Gandharva marriage, which is the sixth of the eight forms listed in the Manusmriti.

Under ijarah only the ijaradar's payment to the state was fixed; what he collected from the peasant was not, so the peasant faced rising and arbitrary demands.

The Treaty of Yandabo was signed on 24 February 1826 and ended the First Anglo-Burmese War (1824–1826). The war began in 1824 after Burmese expansion into Assam, Manipur and Cachar brought Burma into conflict with the East India Company's Bengal frontier; Lord Amherst was the Governor-General.

Lenin set out the April Theses soon after he returned to Petrograd from exile in Switzerland in April 1917. The February Revolution of 1917 ended the rule of Tsar Nicholas II and brought a Provisional Government to power.

The colonists protested with the slogan "No taxation without representation" and backed it with a boycott of British goods.

. The Act set aside the Missouri Compromise and let the settlers of the two territories decide on slavery by vote.

The word 'algorithm' comes from the Latin form of his name, Algoritmi, used in translations of his work on Hindu-Arabic numerals.

The Truman Doctrine pledged American support to countries resisting communist pressure, so as to stop the spread of Soviet influence.

Napoleon defeated Austria at Wagram near Vienna in July 1809, and Austria signed the Treaty of Schönbrunn in October 1809.

The Karachi session of March 1931 adopted the resolution on Fundamental Rights and National Economic Programme, which gave the State this role.

The Alvars were twelve Tamil poet-saints, active roughly between the 6th and 9th centuries, whose name means 'those who are immersed' in devotion to Vishnu.

The Oudh Kisan Sabha was set up in October 1920 at Pratapgarh by Baba Ramchandra, Gauri Shankar Misra, Jawaharlal Nehru and others, to unite the tenants of Awadh against high rents, illegal cesses and eviction by taluqdars.

The last Mughal emperor was exiled by the British to Rangoon in Burma, where he died in 1862. The rebels of 1857 proclaimed Bahadur Shah II the leader of the revolt.

Maulana Azad was India's first Education Minister, serving in Jawaharlal Nehru's Cabinet from 1947 until his death in 1958. Azad was a scholar, journalist and Congress leader who had been the youngest president of the Indian National Congress in 1923 and its president again from 1940 to 1946.

He passed the Indian Civil Service examination in London in 1863 and joined the service in 1864, the first Indian to do so.

The Indian Independence Act did not keep the Crown as the source of authority; it ended British authority over India from 15 August 1947.

Basavanna did lead the Virashaiva movement, but the Virashaivas encouraged post-puberty marriage and widow remarriage precisely because the Dharmashastras disapproved of them.

The Ahmedabad mill strike of 1918 was Gandhi's satyagraha for industrial workers. A dispute arose between the cotton mill owners and the workers over the plague bonus, which the owners wanted to withdraw.

The remark comes from Abbé Jean-Antoine Dubois, a French Catholic missionary who lived in south India, mostly in Mysore, from 1792 to 1823.