Indian History Mixed Quiz: Set 106

. In the Rig Veda, Sinivali is a goddess invoked for fertility and the gift of children.

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.

The Majjhima Nikaya is part of the Pali Canon, the Tipitaka of Theravada Buddhism. The Tipitaka has three baskets: the Vinaya Pitaka on rules for monks and nuns, the Sutta Pitaka on the Buddha's discourses, and the Abhidhamma Pitaka on philosophy.

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

All three statements are correct: Krishnadevaraya fought the Gajapati ruler of Orissa early in his reign, took Raichur from Ismail Adil Khan in 1520 and restored the Bahmani Sultan Mahmud Shah.

The slogan Jai Jawan Jai Kisan, the start of the Green Revolution and the war of 1965 belong to his short term.

Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire, was a devoted follower of the Naqshbandi saint Khwaja Ubaydullah Ahrar. The Naqshbandi order was the leading Sufi silsila of Central Asia, and Khwaja Ubaydullah Ahrar (died 1490) of Samarkand was its most powerful leader in the fifteenth century.

Gopala, the founder of the Pala dynasty in the eighth century, established the Odantapuri monastery in the region of Bihar Sharif, and its plan is said to have been followed when the first monasteries were built in Tibet.

Andal was a woman Alvar, a Vaishnava saint devoted to Vishnu, not a Nayanar. The Bhakti movement in Tamil Nadu grew between about the sixth and ninth centuries through two groups of poet-saints: the 63 Nayanars, devotees of Shiva, and the 12 Alvars, devotees of Vishnu.

Rana Kumbha of the Sisodia house of Mewar was both a builder and a scholar: he raised the fort of Kumbhalgarh and the Vijaya Stambha at Chittorgarh and wrote on music, the Sangeet Raj being the best known of his works, along with commentaries on the Gita Govinda.

Vivekananda began his famous address at Chicago on 11 September 1893 with the words "Sisters and Brothers of America", and the audience rose in a long ovation.

Around 850 AD Vijayalaya, until then a feudatory of the Pallavas, seized Thanjavur from the Muttaraiyar chiefs and made it his capital, and that conquest marks the beginning of the imperial Chola line.

The Moderates never demanded universal adult franchise; they asked only for a larger share for educated Indians in the legislative councils.

The Lahore session of December 1929, presided over by Jawaharlal Nehru, declared complete independence to be the goal of the Congress and called upon the country to observe 26 January 1930 as Independence Day; the tricolour was hoisted on the bank of the Ravi on 31 December 1929.

The Rowlatt Act (March 1919) came first, then the Jallianwala Bagh massacre (April 1919), the All-India Khilafat Conference in Delhi (November 1919) and finally the Non-Cooperation Movement (1920).

Also called the Delhi Pact, it was signed by Mahatma Gandhi and Viceroy Lord Irwin.

. The Act of 1919 did not make the Central Executive responsible to the Legislature; the Governor-General and his Executive Council stayed answerable only to the British Parliament.

The Junagadh rock inscription of the Shaka ruler Rudradaman I records how he restored the Sudarshana lake after a storm burst its dam.

Nattar does not mean a male serpent deity; the nattar were the members of the nadu, the assembly of a group of villages in early medieval Tamil Nadu.

In the mid-18th century the English East India Company's main exports from Bengal were cotton textiles, silk, saltpetre and opium.