Indian History Previous Year Questions (PYQ) with Answers – Page 5

The lion is not found among the animals carved on Harappan seals, although the tiger appears on several of them.

Samyag-darshana, or right faith, is the first of the three gems that Jainism lays down as the path to liberation.

The amara-nayakas were in fact expected to spend part of their revenue on temples and irrigation works. The amara-nayaka system was a key political innovation of the Vijayanagara Empire, and it drew on the iqta system of the Delhi Sultanate.

E. V. Ramasamy, known as Periyar, started the Self-Respect Movement in Tamil Nadu in 1925. Periyar left the Congress in 1925, unhappy with its attitude to caste, and began the movement to give non-Brahmins and the depressed castes a sense of dignity.

Swami Sahajanand Saraswati was elected president of the All India Kisan Sabha when it was founded at Lucknow in April 1936.

The ploughed field at Kalibangan lies below the Harappan city and belongs to the Early Harappan (pre-Harappan) phase, about 2800 BCE.

The four bodies were founded in 1870, 1876, 1884 and 1885 respectively, which is the order of the question. The Poona Sarvajanik Sabha was set up in 1870, and Justice M.G.

All three statements describe the Ghadar Movement correctly. The Ghadar Party was formed in 1913 on the Pacific coast of the USA by Indian immigrants, mostly Punjabi Sikh farmers and workers, with its headquarters, the Yugantar Ashram, in San Francisco.

Statement 4 is wrong because adhiyars and bargadars were both sharecroppers who worked the land of the jotedars. After the Permanent Settlement of 1793 by Lord Cornwallis, the Company tried to tame the zamindars: their troops were disbanded, their customs duties abolished and their courts placed under Company collectors.

All three come from the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics. Katapayadi is a way of writing numbers with letters, each consonant standing for a digit, so long astronomical tables could be memorised as verses.

The penal indenture system in the Assam tea gardens ended in 1926, when the Workman's Breach of Contract Act was repealed.

Pairs 2 and 3 are correct; pairs 1 and 4 are wrongly matched. Lakshmikarna, also called Karna, was an eleventh-century Kalachuri ruler of Tripuri, not a Pala king, though he fought the Palas of Bengal.

In Sufism a murid is the disciple who follows a spiritual master, called the pir or shaikh. Sufi orders, or silsilas, such as the Chishti and Suhrawardi, grew around a master and his disciples living in a khanqah (hospice).

As Viceroy, he issued the Resolution on Local Self-Government of 18 May 1882, remembered as its Magna Carta. Ripon, Viceroy from 1880 to 1884, wanted local boards and municipalities with a majority of elected, non-official members and an elected chairman where possible.

Sir Henry Lawrence, Chief Commissioner of Awadh, led a British force out of Lucknow and was defeated by the rebels at Chinhat on 30 June 1857.

Vichitrachitta, Chitrakarapuli and Chaityakari were titles (birudas) of the Pallava king Mahendravarman I, who ruled in the early seventh century.

This first act of the British Parliament to control the East India Company provided for a Supreme Court of Judicature at Calcutta.

In 1611 the English East India Company opened its first factory on the east coast at Masulipatam, the chief port of the Golconda kingdom.

Krishnadevaraya (ruled 1509-1529) of the Tuluva dynasty wrote the Amuktamalyada in Telugu.

Excavators found a ploughed field below the Harappan town at Kalibangan, in Hanumangarh district of Rajasthan, on the dry bed of the Ghaggar.