Bihar Mixed Quiz: Set 12

He was a son of Bahadur Shah I and a grandson of Aurangzeb, and he governed Bihar as subahdar from Patna.

It was fought on 26 June 1539 at Chausa on the Ganga, in present Buxar district of Bihar, and Sher Khan's victory broke Humayun's army; the emperor himself escaped across the river and the Mughal hold on the east collapsed.

The Santhal rebellion, the Hul, broke out in 1855 in the Damin-i-Koh region of the Rajmahal hills, then in Bihar, and was led by the brothers Sido and Kanhu Murmu against moneylenders, zamindars and the Company's officers.

The three regiments of Indian sepoys at Danapur cantonment near Patna rose on 25 July 1857, crossed the Son river and reached Arrah, the headquarters of Shahabad district, where Kunwar Singh joined them and took command.

Champaran is a district of north Bihar, with Motihari as its headquarters, and the satyagraha of 1917 was fought there against the indigo planters' tinkathia system.

The first Buddhist council met at Rajgriha, the Rajgir of today, in the Saptaparni cave soon after the Buddha's death, under the patronage of king Ajatashatru and the presidency of Mahakassapa.

Shukla was a cultivator of Champaran who followed Gandhi from the Lucknow session of the Congress in 1916 until he agreed to see the indigo districts for himself.

Hiuen Tsang reached Nalanda in the seventh century during the reign of Harshavardhana and spent several years there studying the Yogachara philosophy under Shilabhadra, who was then the abbot.

At Buxar in Bihar on 22 October 1764 Munro defeated the combined armies of Mir Qasim, the deposed Nawab of Bengal, Shuja ud Daula, the Nawab of Awadh, and the Mughal emperor Shah Alam II.

Sheikhpura, a small district carved out of Munger, had the smallest population of all the districts of Bihar in 2011, while Patna had the largest.

Kunwar Singh's estate lay in the old district of Shahabad, whose headquarters was Arrah. Shahabad was later divided, and Jagdishpur together with Arrah falls in the present district of Bhojpur, which is why exam answers use Bhojpur for the modern district and Shahabad for the district of 1857.

Mahapadma Nanda overthrew the Shishunagas and founded the Nanda dynasty in the fourth century BCE.

Shukla was a cultivator of Champaran who met Gandhi at the Lucknow session of the Congress in 1916 and followed him from place to place until Gandhi agreed to come to the district.

The factory at Madhepura builds high powered electric locomotives for Indian Railways and is the largest new industrial unit in the north east of the state.

Twenty kathas made a bigha, so the tenant had to put about a seventh of his holding under indigo for the European planter, on terms the planter fixed, and pay a string of illegal cesses besides.

Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University stands at Pusa in Samastipur district, on the campus where the Imperial Agricultural Research Institute was founded before it moved to New Delhi, and it was given the status of a central agricultural university in 2016.

The word tinkathia comes from the obligation to plant indigo on three kathas out of every twenty kathas of land, twenty kathas making one bigha in the local measure.

The Santhals of the Damin-i-Koh, pressed by moneylenders, revenue farmers and the railway contractors, rose under the brothers Sidhu and Kanhu, with Chand and Bhairav beside them, and declared an end to Company rule in their country in 1855.

When synthetic dye destroyed the market for natural indigo, the planters freed tenants from the obligation to grow it but raised their rent permanently; this enhancement was known as sharahbeshi.

The word means a great tumult or upheaval in Mundari, and it is the name given to Birsa Munda's rising of 1899 and 1900 against landlords, contractors and missionaries, and above all against the destruction of the khuntkatti system under which Munda families held land collectively.