Indian History Previous Year Questions (PYQ) with Answers – Page 49

He founded the Atmiya Sabha, a society of friends for religious and philosophical discussion, at Calcutta in 1815, and it was the first of his organised efforts against idol worship and empty ritual.

The Panditrao was the ecclesiastical head in the Ashta Pradhan, fixing the dates of religious ceremonies, supervising grants to temples and learned men, and punishing offences against religious custom.

The Third Battle of Panipat was fought on 14 January 1761 between the Marathas, led by Sadashivrao Bhau with Vishwasrao, and the Afghan ruler Ahmad Shah Abdali, who was helped by Najib-ud-Daulah of Rohilkhand and Shuja-ud-Daulah of Awadh.

The Nizam of Hyderabad was the first Indian ruler to accept the Subsidiary Alliance, signing the treaty with Lord Wellesley in 1798, the year Wellesley took charge as Governor-General.

Krishnadevaraya of the Tuluva dynasty ruled from 1509 to 1529 and his reign is treated as the golden age of Vijayanagara: the Raichur doab was won back, Odisha's Gajapati ruler was humbled, Telugu literature flourished under the eight court poets called the Ashtadiggajas, and the Vitthalaswamy and Hazara Rama temples…

Excavations at Lothal found graves in which a man and a woman were buried together in one pit, a custom archaeologists call couple or double burial.

Ahimsa, or non-violence, is the first and greatest vow of Jainism, and every other rule of Jain life follows from it, down to the mask and the soft broom a Jain monk carries to avoid harming the smallest creature.

Bal Gangadhar Tilak started Kesari in 1881 and used it to carry the message of swaraj to Marathi readers. Tilak brought out two papers from Pune in the same year, Kesari in Marathi and Maratha in English.

The Hundred Years' War was fought between England and France from 1337 to 1453, so it actually ran for 116 years with long truces in between.

Chandragupta II extended Gupta rule to Gujarat around 390 AD by defeating the Western Kshatrapas, the Saka rulers of Malwa, Gujarat and Kathiawar.

Triratna means the three jewels in which a Buddhist takes refuge. Buddha is the enlightened teacher, Dhamma is his teaching of the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path, and Sangha is the order of monks and nuns that carries the teaching forward.

The Boston Tea Party took place on 16 December 1773, when American colonists threw British tea into Boston harbour. The protest was against the Tea Act of 1773, which let the East India Company sell tea in the colonies without paying the usual duties and undercut local merchants.

King George V announced at the Delhi Durbar on 12 December 1911 that the capital of British India would move from Calcutta to Delhi.

The Jama Masjid of Delhi was built by Shah Jahan between 1650 and 1656 as the main mosque of his new capital, Shahjahanabad.

Under the tinkathiya system, European planters forced the peasants of Champaran in Bihar to grow indigo on 3 out of every 20 katthas (one bigha) of their land.

The Hathigumpha or ‘elephant cave’ inscription is carved in the Udayagiri hills near Bhubaneswar in Odisha and is the main record of Kharavela, the Jain king of Kalinga of the Mahameghavahana (Chedi) dynasty, who ruled around the first century BCE.

The Bengal Tenancy Act was passed in 1885, under Viceroy Lord Dufferin, to protect tenants in Bengal and Bihar from their zamindars.

Minhaj-us-Siraj wrote this Persian history in Delhi around 1260 and gave the first account of Bakhtiyar Khilji's raid on Bihar.

Finch was the English traveller who described Akbar's palace of forty pillars in the Allahabad fort and the huge labour force behind it.

Amir Khusro was the court poet and musician of Alauddin Khalji, and he lived in the courts of several Delhi sultans from Balban's time to Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq.