Indian History Previous Year Questions (PYQ) with Answers – Page 45

The Scottish botanist secretly took tea plants, seeds and skilled tea workers out of China for the East India Company, which made large-scale tea growing in India possible.

Bagchi used Francis Buchanan-Hamilton's survey figures for Gangetic Bihar to argue that India went through deindustrialization in the 19th century.

Lord Wellesley founded the College of Fort William at Calcutta in 1800 to train young British civil servants of the East India Company.

The Dutch traveller wrote these words about the poverty of peasants under the Mughals during the reign of Jahangir.

The word barbarian comes from the Greek barbaros, a name for anyone who was not Greek, and the Romans later applied it to the peoples beyond their frontiers, such as the Germanic tribes, the Gauls and the Huns.

Saadat Khan, titled Burhan-ul-Mulk, was appointed governor of Awadh by the Mughal emperor Muhammad Shah in 1722 and founded the line of the Nawabs of Awadh.

Muqarrab Khan was a close companion of Jahangir from his days as Prince Salim and rose high in the nobility once Jahangir became emperor in 1605.

Haji Muhammad Arif Qandahari, a noble who served under Bairam Khan and later Akbar, wrote the Persian chronicle Tarikh-i-Akbari. Akbar's reign is one of the best recorded in Indian history because many writers of his court left Persian accounts.

The amara-nayakas were military commanders to whom the Vijayanagara rulers gave territories to govern. Under the amara-nayaka system, a key political innovation of the Vijayanagara Empire, the king granted a commander an area of land called amaram.

The Venetian Niccolao Manucci came to India as a boy, spent the rest of his life here, and died in India in the early eighteenth century.

The Surya Sukta (Rigveda X.85) describes the wedding of Surya, daughter of the Sun, and is the source of the Vedic marriage rites.

A silsila stood for all three ideas: the master-disciple link, the chain back to the Prophet and the flow of blessings to followers.

Kabir's verses survive in three separate but overlapping traditions: the Bijak, the Kabir Granthavali and the Adi Granth Sahib. Kabir, a weaver of Varanasi who lived around the fifteenth century, spoke of a formless God and mocked empty ritual in both Hindu and Muslim practice.

All three statements describe the Act of 1858 correctly: it ended Company rule and placed India directly under the Crown, governed from London with no Indian voice.

Bipin Chandra Pal was one of the leading Extremists, the "Pal" of the famous trio Lal-Bal-Pal. The trio were Lala Lajpat Rai of Punjab, Bal Gangadhar Tilak of Maharashtra and Bipin Chandra Pal of Bengal.

Annie Besant became the international president of the Theosophical Society in 1907 and led it until her death in 1933.

Nutmeg comes from the Banda Islands in the Moluccas of present-day Indonesia, and it was not one of the main goods India sent to Rome.

The dialogue is the Madhura Sutta, a discourse of the Majjhima Nikaya, in which Maha Kachchana answers Avantiputta, the king of Madhura (Mathura).

Sangam literature describes the vellalar as the large landowners of the Tamil region, while the people who actually worked the land are named separately.

The Gandatindu Jataka is one of the Jataka tales, the stories of the Buddha's earlier births, which were composed in Pali and preserved in the Buddhist canon.