Indian History Previous Year Questions (PYQ) with Answers – Page 46

Kot Diji lies in the Khairpur district of Sindh, Pakistan, on the left (eastern) bank of the Indus, across the river from Mohenjo-daro, the largest Harappan city in Sindh.

The four Agnikula clans are the Pratiharas, the Chaulukyas (Solankis), the Paramaras and the Chahamanas (Chauhans). According to the Agnikula legend, told in Chand Bardai's Prithviraj Raso, the sage Vashishtha performed a great fire sacrifice on Mount Abu, and four warrior clans sprang from the fire to protect the land.

All four travellers are matched with their home countries correctly. Marco Polo was a Venetian merchant, from what is now Italy, who passed through south India in the late 13th century and described the Pandya kingdom.

The Dipavamsa is a Pali chronicle of Sri Lanka, not the biography of a king, while the other three are historical biographies of rulers.

The English East India Company built Fort St. George at Madras (Madraspatnam) in 1639 to 1644, and the city of Madras, now Chennai, grew around it.

Maulvi Ahmadullah Shah of Faizabad was among the rebel leaders who defeated the British force of Henry Lawrence at Chinhat near Lucknow on 30 June 1857.

As Governor-General he introduced the Permanent Settlement in Bengal, Bihar and Orissa in 1793. Under the Permanent Settlement the zamindars were recognised as owners of the land and the revenue they had to pay the Company was fixed for ever.

It was formed in Calcutta in October 1851 by merging the Landholders' Society and the Bengal British India Society. The British Indian Association was led by zamindars of Bengal such as Radhakanta Deb, its first president, with Debendranath Tagore as secretary.

Tilak founded the Indian Home Rule League at Belgaum in April 1916. Two Home Rule Leagues were set up in 1916 on the model of the Irish Home Rule movement, to demand self-government for India within the British Empire.

Vishnushastri Pandit led the society formed in Maharashtra to encourage the remarriage of widows, the Vidhava Vivahottejak Mandal. In nineteenth-century Maharashtra, widow remarriage was one of the main causes of social reformers.

The khilat was a robe of honour that had once been worn by the emperor, and giving it was believed to pass on his blessing to the person honoured.

In 1799 the Nawab of Awadh presented an illustrated manuscript of the Badshah Nama to King George III of Britain, and it is now kept in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle.

Renaissance humanists did not condemn wealth, power and glory; they saw them as worthy human aims, so this statement is the one that is not true.

The French set up their first factory in India at Surat in 1668, under François Caron. The French East India Company was founded in 1664 under the patronage of King Louis XIV and his minister Colbert, making it the last of the major European companies to reach India.

Olympe de Gouges wrote this in her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen in 1791. Olympe de Gouges was a French writer and one of the most active women of the French Revolution.

The Venetian merchant Nicolo de Conti visited Vijayanagara around 1420, during the reign of Deva Raya I. Conti travelled widely in Asia and later told his story to the papal secretary Poggio Bracciolini, who wrote it down in Latin.

The English economic historian Arnold Toynbee first used the term in English in his lectures on the Industrial Revolution in England.

The Stamp Act Congress met in New York City in October 1765 to protest against the Stamp Act passed by the British Parliament that year.

Ramanuja, the eleventh-twelfth century teacher of Sriperumbudur, taught Vishishtadvaita or qualified non-dualism. Vishishtadvaita holds that Brahman is the only reality, but souls and matter are real parts of Brahman, as the body is to the soul, and that devotion to Vishnu leads to liberation.

Chilli is native to the Americas and reached India through the Portuguese in the sixteenth century, after their voyages linked the New World with Asia.