Indian History Mixed Quiz: Set 104

Keshab Chandra Sen founded the Tabernacle of New Dispensation and the Indian Reform Association, but not the Calcutta Unitarian Committee.

He patented the flying shuttle in England in 1733. The flying shuttle let a single weaver send the thread across the loom by pulling a cord, so wider cloth could be woven much faster.

Gandhi left for South Africa in 1893 to appear for Dada Abdullah and Company, a Gujarati merchant firm of Durban, in a commercial dispute, and the one year engagement stretched into a stay of twenty-one years.

It inserted the Tenth Schedule and amended Articles 101, 102, 190 and 191 so that a member of Parliament or of a state legislature who voluntarily gives up the membership of the party on whose ticket the member was elected, or votes against the party whip, may be disqualified, the…

Anandamath, published in 1882, draws on the rebellion of wandering monks and fakirs in Bengal and Bihar that ran from about 1763 to 1800, and the song Vande Mataram first appeared in this novel.

The Chinese pilgrim Xuan Zang studied the Yogachara philosophy at Nalanda under Shilabhadra, who was then the aged head of the monastery, during the reign of Harshavardhana in the seventh century.

The Law Commission under Macaulay set out to codify Indian law, and it was not opposed to a uniform system of courts.

The Moidams are the mound-burials of the Ahom royal family and nobles at Charaideo in Assam. The Tai-Ahoms, who ruled the Brahmaputra valley for about six centuries from the 13th century, buried their kings, queens and nobles in vaulted chambers covered by large earthen mounds.

These four early communists were convicted in the Cawnpore (Kanpur) Bolshevik Conspiracy Case of 1924 and sentenced to four years in jail.

Motupalli, on the Andhra coast, was the chief seaport of the Kakatiya kingdom of Warangal. The Kakatiyas ruled the Telugu country from Warangal between the 12th and early 14th centuries.

The Natal Indian Congress, founded in 1894, was the first political organisation of Indians in South Africa and it was created to oppose a bill that sought to take away the right of Indians to vote in Natal.

The Congress Socialist Party was formed in 1934 by Acharya Narendra Deva and Jayaprakash Narayan, and in 1936 Nehru asked the Congress to adopt socialism.

The Vellore Mutiny broke out on 10 July 1806 when sepoys of the Madras army in Vellore fort turned on their officers.

The first summit of the Non-Aligned Movement was held in September 1961 at Belgrade, then the capital of Yugoslavia, and twenty-five countries took part in it.

Gandhi started the weekly Indian Opinion in 1903 in South Africa, and it was printed at the Phoenix Settlement in English and Gujarati, carrying the arguments of the Indian community against discriminatory laws.

The seventh mandala of the Rigveda describes how Sudas, the king of the Bharata tribe, defeated a confederacy of ten tribes on its banks, and the battle is the clearest political event recorded in the whole of Rigvedic literature.

The paikas were a hereditary militia who held rent-free jagir land for their military service; the Company took that land, raised the revenue demand and abolished the cowrie currency, forcing payment in silver.

Tolstoy Farm was founded in 1910 near Johannesburg on land given by Hermann Kallenbach, a German-born architect and close friend of Gandhi, and it housed the families of satyagrahis who had gone to jail, training them in manual labour and self-discipline.

The rising spread through the Damin-i-Koh in the Rajmahal hills against zamindars, mahajans and the Company's police, and the Santhals declared Company rule at an end.

Gandhi read John Ruskin's Unto This Last on a train journey in South Africa in 1904, and the idea that the good of the individual lies in the good of all led him at once to found the Phoenix Settlement near Durban; he later rendered the book into Gujarati under…