Bihar Mixed Quiz: Set 11

The Mahabodhi Temple Complex at Bodh Gaya was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2002, recognised as the place of the Buddha's enlightenment, with the Bodhi tree, the Vajrasana set by Ashoka and the brick temple of the Gupta centuries standing together at one site.

He was born Farid Khan, the son of Hasan Khan, an Afghan of the Sur clan who held the jagir of Sasaram in what is now Rohtas district of Bihar.

The archaeological site of Nalanda Mahavihara in Bihar was added to the World Heritage List in 2016, in recognition of a monastic and scholastic institution that functioned without a break from the third century before the Common Era to the thirteenth century.

Kunwar Singh belonged to the Ujjainiya Rajput house of Jagdishpur in Shahabad district, a district since divided, so that Jagdishpur now falls in Bhojpur district of Bihar.

Sher Shah withdrew the debased mixed coins in circulation and issued a silver rupiya of about one hundred and seventy eight grains of fixed purity, along with a copper dam, and set a rate between them.

Tripitaka is a Pali and Sanskrit word in which pitaka means a basket, so the whole means three baskets, a name that came from the practice of keeping the palm leaf manuscripts of each collection in a separate basket.

Returning to his own district in the spring of 1858, Kunwar Singh met and defeated the force under Captain Le Grand in the forest near Jagdishpur on 23 April 1858 and re-entered his capital.

The Gupta emperor Kumaragupta the first, who appears in the records with the title Shakraditya, founded the monastic university at Nalanda in the fifth century.

The Sadak e Azam ran from Sonargaon in eastern Bengal through Bihar, Agra, Delhi and Lahore to the Indus in the northwest, and Sher Shah lined it with wells, shade trees and sarais.

Bihar had 918 females for every 1,000 males in 2011, below the national figure, while its child sex ratio for ages nought to six was 935, which is better than the national child sex ratio.

Kunwar Singh was wounded in the fighting of his last campaign and died at Jagdishpur on 26 April 1858, three days after his victory over Captain Le Grand.

Shulka was a duty on goods, collected at the gates of towns and at ferries and frontiers on trade, not on land or its produce.

Sher Shah had the land measured, graded it as good, middling or bad, fixed the state's share at about one third of the average produce, and then issued every cultivator a patta, a title deed setting out his holding and what he owed, so that no intermediary could demand more.

Banjari lies in Rohtas district, where the Kaimur hills carry the limestone that the cement works uses, and the same district once held the large paper and chemical complex of Dalmianagar.

Tayler was the Commissioner of the Patna division in 1857, and it was he who arrested the leading suspects of the city, suppressed the rising of 3 July 1857 and ordered the hanging of Pir Ali Khan and others.

The Kahalgaon super thermal power station, run by NTPC, stands at Kahalgaon on the Ganga in Bhagalpur district of eastern Bihar, close to the coal routes from the Jharkhand and Bengal fields and to the river that supplies its cooling water.

Sher Shah was besieging the Bundelkhand fort of Kalinjar when a gunpowder explosion on 22 May 1545 fatally injured him; the fort fell on the same day.

Pir Ali Khan kept a bookshop at Patna which served as a meeting place for those planning the rising, and he led the attack of 3 July 1857 in the city.

Hemu, also called Hem Chandra Vikramaditya, was the Hindu general and chief minister of the Sur ruler Muhammad Adil Shah.

He took over the command in Shahabad after 26 April 1858 and kept the struggle alive in the district for several months, moving through the forests with the remaining rebels, and he was the last leader of the revolt in Bihar whom the British had to hunt down.