Indian History Mixed Quiz: Set 107

In 1800 Colin Mackenzie, an engineer and surveyor of the East India Company, prepared the first survey map of the ruins of Hampi.

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.

He was a French gem merchant, and his travel account describes India's diamonds and mines in detail. Tavernier made six voyages to the East between about 1630 and 1668 and visited India several times during the reigns of Shah Jahan and Aurangzeb.

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.

The Satapatra series (Shatapatre, "a hundred letters") was written by Gopal Hari Deshmukh, known as Lokahitawadi. Gopal Hari Deshmukh (1823-1892) was an early social reformer of Maharashtra.

The agreement was signed at Tashkent, then in Soviet Uzbekistan, on 10 January 1966 by Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri and President Ayub Khan of Pakistan, with the Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin acting as host and mediator.

The Swadeshi Movement grew out of the protest against the partition of Bengal, and the Extremists, Aurobindo Ghosh among them, wanted to turn it into a nationwide mass struggle.

Valabhi, in the Saurashtra region of Gujarat, was the capital of the Maitraka rulers and a famous centre of Hinayana Buddhist learning; the pilgrim I-tsing wrote that it stood beside Nalanda in reputation, and students went from there into royal service.

The Prati Sarkar, a parallel government of the Quit India period, was set up in Satara district of Maharashtra. During the Quit India Movement that began in August 1942, people in some areas threw off British authority and ran their own governments.

The Famine Inquiry Commission of 1944, under the former Chief Secretary of Bengal Sir John Woodhead, enquired into the Bengal famine of 1943 and held administrative failure, the loss of Burmese rice and the absence of a proper relief policy responsible for the deaths.

Eripatti and Ghatikas are described correctly, but Taniyurs were not villages gifted to Brahmins. These terms come from inscriptions of early medieval South India, especially of the Pallava and Chola periods.

The four bodies were founded in 1870, 1876, 1884 and 1885 respectively, which is the order of the question. The Poona Sarvajanik Sabha was set up in 1870, and Justice M.G.

Cowasjee Nanabhoy Davar, a Parsi businessman of Bombay, set up the Bombay Spinning and Weaving Company, which began production in 1856 and is regarded as India's first modern cotton mill.

The Nizam Shahis ruled from Ahmadnagar, founded by Malik Ahmad in 1490, while Bijapur belonged to the Adil Shahis of Yusuf Adil Shah.

Annie Besant founded the Central Hindu College (with its school) at Benaras in 1898, and it later became the nucleus of Banaras Hindu University.

The fanam was a small gold (and later silver) coin used widely in South India in medieval times. The word comes from the Tamil 'panam', meaning money.

Gandhiji regarded Gopal Krishna Gokhale as his political guru, his Rajya Guru. Gandhi first met Gokhale in 1896 and they grew close when Gokhale visited South Africa in 1912.

The socialist leader Ram Manohar Lohia proposed the Chaukhamba Raj, a Four Pillar State, to spread power away from the centre.

Intercontinental ballistic missiles came first in 1957, communication satellites followed from 1958 onwards, and the World Wide Web arrived only around 1989 to 1991.

All four statements correctly describe Gandhi's method of Satyagraha. Gandhi first used Satyagraha in South Africa, beginning in 1906 in the Transvaal against the law forcing Indians to register and carry passes.