Indian History Previous Year Questions (PYQ) with Answers – Page 53

Dadabhai Naoroji founded it in London in 1866 to put the Indian point of view before the British public and Parliament.

. The Trade Disputes Act, 1929 set up machinery of courts of inquiry and boards of conciliation and banned certain strikes.

Alexander Read and Thomas Munro introduced the Ryotwari Settlement; Lord Cornwallis is linked to the Permanent Settlement. The Ryotwari system was first tried by Captain Alexander Read in the Baramahal district in 1792, with Thomas Munro working under him.

The districts taken from Awadh and given to Shah Alam II were Kora and Allahabad, not Banaras. After the Battle of Buxar (1764), Robert Clive signed two treaties at Allahabad in August 1765.

Congress was represented by Jawaharlal Nehru and Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, its president, not by Sardar Patel. With Japan advancing in South-East Asia, the British War Cabinet sent Sir Stafford Cripps to India in March 1942, after he had persuaded it to accept a draft declaration.

The Rigveda describes armour and the horse as central to Aryan life, while the Harappan remains show neither armour nor clear use of the horse; but the Harappans did not know iron.

On 4 July 1776 the Second Continental Congress, meeting at Philadelphia, adopted the Declaration of Independence, by which thirteen colonies broke away from British rule.

Lord Mountbatten, the last Viceroy, announced his partition plan on 3 June 1947, which is why it is also called the June Third Plan.

Ghazi Malik was the title of Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq, who founded the Tughlaq dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate in 1320. He was governor of Dipalpur under the Khiljis and won the throne by defeating Khusrau Khan, the usurper who had ended Khilji rule.

The Ghadar Party was founded in 1913 at San Francisco by Indian emigrants, mainly Punjabi workers and farmers on the Pacific coast of North America.

The Congress met in Philadelphia in May 1775, soon after the fighting at Lexington and Concord, and in June it appointed George Washington commander-in-chief of the newly created Continental Army.

Gandhi's mother Putlibai belonged to the Pranami sect, a Vaishnava tradition that drew on both Hindu and Islamic teaching and held that faiths are one; the household he grew up in therefore treated religious tolerance as ordinary.

The Nehru Report of August 1928 was the draft constitution prepared by a committee of the All Parties Conference under Motilal Nehru, with Tej Bahadur Sapru, Subhas Chandra Bose and others, as Indians’ answer to Lord Birkenhead’s taunt that they could not agree on a constitution of their own.

In early Buddhist art the Buddha was never shown in human form, so the events of his life were carved as symbols, and the stupa stands for his mahaparinirvana, that is his death at Kushinagar.

The Ilbert Bill of 1883 sought to remove the rule that European British subjects could be tried only by European judges.

The Khalji or Khilji dynasty held the throne of Delhi only from 1290, when Jalaluddin Khalji seized power, to 1320, when Khusrau Khan was overthrown by Ghazi Malik.

The Rig Veda is the oldest of the four Vedas, so it describes the earliest Vedic culture. It is a collection of 1,028 hymns arranged in ten books called mandalas, composed in the land of the seven rivers in the north-west.

The main Kushana capital was Purushapura, the modern Peshawar, which Kanishka I developed as his seat of power. As the empire spread into the Ganga-Yamuna plain, Mathura on the Yamuna became its second capital and the southern headquarters of the family.

The Rakshasa form, one of the eight forms of marriage described in the Dharmashastras, meant taking a bride away by force, often after defeating her relatives.

Silappadikaram was written by Ilango Adigal, a prince who became a Jaina monk, and Jaina ideas run through its story.