Indian History Previous Year Questions (PYQ) with Answers – Page 47

The events run Air India's nationalisation (1953), the birth of the State Bank of India (1955), the Kerala communist government (1957) and Goa's liberation (1961).

Warren Hastings founded the Calcutta Madarsa, but the other two institutions are linked with the wrong founders. Hastings set up the Calcutta Madrasa in 1781 to train Muslim scholars in Arabic and Persian learning and in Islamic law, which the Company courts needed.

Neeldarpan, the Bengali play about the cruelty of European indigo planters towards the peasants of Bengal, was written by Dinabandhu Mitra in 1858–59 and published in 1860, earlier than the other three events.

In 1920 Mahatma Gandhi became president of the All India Home Rule League, and under him it was renamed the Swarajya Sabha.

All three were steps on the road to English education in India.

Earning a steady income was not the purpose of the Subsidiary Alliance. Lord Wellesley, Governor-General from 1798 to 1805, used the system to bring Indian states under British control without fighting a war for each.

In Buddhist belief Maitreya is the Buddha of the future, a bodhisattva who now waits in the Tushita heaven and will be born on earth when the teaching of Gautama Buddha has been forgotten.

He was a French gem merchant, and his travel account describes India's diamonds and mines in detail. Tavernier made six voyages to the East between about 1630 and 1668 and visited India several times during the reigns of Shah Jahan and Aurangzeb.

Ramanujam and G.G. Mehta.

The Champaran Satyagraha of 1917 was Gandhiji's first satyagraha in India, and its great significance was that it tied the grievances of peasants to the national movement.

In the mid-18th century the English East India Company's main exports from Bengal were cotton textiles, silk, saltpetre and opium.

The Majjhima Nikaya is part of the Pali Canon, the Tipitaka of Theravada Buddhism. The Tipitaka has three baskets: the Vinaya Pitaka on rules for monks and nuns, the Sutta Pitaka on the Buddha's discourses, and the Abhidhamma Pitaka on philosophy.

Dhaka, famous for its fine muslin, lost its trade and population after the mid-eighteenth century as the East India Company's rule and cheap British cloth destroyed its textile industry.

The Indian Independence Act did not lay down any Constitution for India; it left the making of the Constitution entirely to the Constituent Assemblies of the new Dominions.

Bodhisattas were seen as deeply compassionate beings who gathered merit by their efforts, but they used that merit to help others rather than to attain nibbana for themselves.

Siddhartha's mother, Queen Maya, died a few days after his birth, and her younger sister Mahapajapati Gotami brought him up as her own son.

All four were Russian Marxists, so they belong to one school of thought. Plekhanov is called the father of Russian Marxism; in 1883 he founded the Emancipation of Labour group in Geneva with Vera Zasulich, who had begun as a populist revolutionary.

British rule pushed Indian farmers to grow crops for sale and export rather than for their own food. Heavy land revenue had to be paid in cash, so peasants turned to cash crops such as indigo, cotton, jute, opium, tea and sugarcane, which fed British industry and trade.

Jainism holds that all of nature has life, and it teaches that a soul escapes karma only through strict self-discipline.

The mature Harappan phase shows a striking uniformity in its artefacts, but that uniformity broke down in the late Harappan phase.