Indian History Previous Year Questions (PYQ) with Answers – Page 6

Statements 1, 3 and 4 describe Shankardeva correctly; statement 2 is wrong because Gaudiya Vaishnavism was founded by Chaitanya Mahaprabhu of Bengal.

The standard account of Mughal-era agriculture records that maize came into India via Africa and Spain, and by the seventeenth century it was listed among the major crops of western India.

He founded the Sikkim Praja Mandal in 1945 to oppose the feudal landlord system and the absolute rule of the Chogyal.

Panchsheel says nothing about nuclear weapons; its five principles concern sovereignty, non-aggression, non-interference, equality and peaceful coexistence.

Both statements are correct about the Non-Cooperation Movement of 1920-22. The special Calcutta session of the Congress in September 1920 accepted Gandhi's programme of non-cooperation, and the Nagpur session in December 1920 confirmed it and changed the Congress creed: its goal became the attainment of Swaraj by all peaceful and…

The Pradeshika, the Rajuka and the Yukta were officers of district-level administration in the Mauryan empire. Ashoka's Third Major Rock Edict orders the Yuktas, the Rajukas and the Pradeshikas to go on tours of inspection every five years to teach dhamma along with their regular work.

Only pairs I (Asmaka: Godavari) and IV (Kosala: Sarayu) are correct. Asmaka was the only mahajanapada in the south, lying on the banks of the Godavari, with Potana (Paudanya) as its capital.

Vinoba Bhave asked every landowner to treat him as a son and give him a son's share, one-sixth of the land, for the landless.

This law let the government imprison people suspected of political activity without trial for up to two years. Officially the Anarchical and Revolutionary Crimes Act, it was passed in March 1919 on the advice of the Sedition Committee headed by Justice S.A.T.

Around 1025 CE Rajendra Chola I sent a naval expedition that raided Kadaram (Kedah) and other ports of the Srivijaya kingdom.

Fa-hien was in India from about 399 to 414 CE, when Chandragupta II Vikramaditya ruled the Gupta empire. Faxian was a Chinese Buddhist monk who set out overland to collect Buddhist texts, especially rules of monastic discipline.

The Pallava king who ruled in the early 7th century took these titles, and they appear in the inscriptions of the cave temples he cut.

The araghatta was a water-lifting wheel that carried a chain or ring of pots down into a well and brought them up full.

The Vajji mahajanapada was a gana-sangha, ruled by an assembly of clan chiefs rather than by a single king. Of the sixteen mahajanapadas named in Buddhist texts such as the Anguttara Nikaya, most were monarchies, but Vajji and Malla were ganas or sanghas.

She became Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh in October 1963, the first woman to head a state government in India.

Items I, II and IV were part of the Non-Cooperation programme, but item III was not: Indians were asked to give up their titles, not keep them quietly.

Ram Mohan Roy respected the philosophical heritage of the East while urging Indians to adopt reason, science and social equality.

The operations fall in 1965, 1971, 1984 and 1999, in that order: Riddle, Cactus Lily, Meghdoot, Safed Sagar. Operation Riddle was the Indian Army's thrust towards Lahore in September 1965, during the second India–Pakistan war.

Most Harappan seals were carved from steatite, a soft soapstone that hardens when fired. Steatite is easy to cut, so craftsmen could carve fine animal figures and signs of the Harappan script on it.

The second industrial revolution, from about 1850 to 1914, was driven by steel, chemicals, electricity and oil. The first industrial revolution began in Britain around 1760 and rested on cotton textiles, coal, iron and the steam engine.