Indian History Previous Year Questions (PYQ) with Answers – Page 4

Intercontinental ballistic missiles came first in 1957, communication satellites followed from 1958 onwards, and the World Wide Web arrived only around 1989 to 1991.

. In the Rig Veda, Sinivali is a goddess invoked for fertility and the gift of children.

Katyayana commented on Panini's grammar, and Patanjali in turn commented on both Panini and Katyayana. Panini wrote the Ashtadhyayi, the foundational Sanskrit grammar of about 4,000 sutras, around the 5th or 4th century BCE.

Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Sikh Guru, founded the Khalsa at Anandpur Sahib on Baisakhi day in 1699. At that gathering he initiated the first five Sikhs, the Panj Pyare, with amrit, a baptism of sweetened water stirred with a double-edged sword.

Both were killed in 1942 during the Quit India Movement, Matangini Hazra in Bengal and Lakshman Naik in Odisha. The Quit India Movement began after the Congress passed the Quit India resolution in Bombay on 8 August 1942, with Gandhi's call of 'Do or Die'.

The manjaniq was a siege engine that hurled heavy stones at fort walls and defenders. The word comes from Arabic and is related to the Greek and Latin words that also gave English the term mangonel.

The Kalaram temple stands at Panchavati in Nashik, Maharashtra, where Dr B. R. Ambedkar led the famous temple entry satyagraha.

It created a Board of Control in Britain to supervise the civil, military and revenue affairs of the East India Company, while the Court of Directors kept its commercial work.

Sandhyakara Nandi wrote the Sanskrit poem Ramacharita in Bengal in the 12th century, under the Pala kings.

A kunta is a spear or lance, a thrusting weapon, while the other three are Sanskrit names for the bow.

In Sanskrit 'ishu' means arrow, and 'krit' and 'kara' mean one who makes, so both words name the arrow maker.

Both men were local leaders of 1857, one among the peasants of western Uttar Pradesh and the other among the tribals of Chotanagpur.

Periyar launched the Self-Respect Movement in the Madras Presidency in 1925 to fight caste discrimination and Brahmin dominance. Periyar had left the Congress after he felt it did little for non-Brahmins.

Ibn Battuta came in the 14th century, Nikitin in the 15th, Monserrate in the 16th and Peter Mundy in the 17th.

Shortughai, a Harappan trading settlement in north-eastern Afghanistan, is the site where traces of irrigation canals have been found. Most Harappan farmers relied on river floods and wells, and no canals have been found in the Indus heartland.

Kalsi, near Dehradun in Uttarakhand, has a full set of Ashoka's fourteen Major Rock Edicts carved on a single boulder.

After the Poona Pact of September 1932, Gandhi made the upliftment of the Harijans a central part of his work.

Malaviya, with Krishna Kant Malaviya, defended the peasants accused in the Chauri Chaura case. On 5 February 1922, at Chauri Chaura in Gorakhpur district, a crowd of Non-Cooperation volunteers set fire to a police station after the police fired on them, and 22 policemen died.

The 'Dancing Girl' of Mohenjo-daro is a small bronze statue, one of the best-known metal objects of the Harappan civilisation.

In Chola inscriptions, shalabhoga was land set aside for the upkeep of a school (shala). Chola inscriptions record many kinds of land, mostly gifts made by kings and wealthy people.