Indian History Mixed Quiz: Set 113

Dhauli (Odisha) and Erragudi (Andhra Pradesh) are matched correctly, while Jaugada and Kalsi are placed in the wrong States. Ashoka's fourteen major rock edicts were carved at points across his empire, often near borders and trade routes.

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 Congress resolution on non-cooperation, passed at the special Calcutta session of September 1920 and confirmed at Nagpur in December 1920, called for the renunciation of all voluntary association with the British Government.

The movement called on Muslims to give up practices it held un-Islamic, and it soon turned into an organised resistance by Muslim peasants to the illegal cesses of Hindu zamindars and to indigo planters.

Raiyat, muzarian and asami were all used for the peasant in Mughal-period sources, while majur means a labourer. The Indo-Persian sources of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries most often called the peasant raiyat (plural riaya) or muzarian; the words kisan and asami also appear.

His government passed the 44th Amendment of 1978, which undid much of the 42nd Amendment, and appointed the Mandal Commission in 1979.

Warren Hastings founded the Calcutta Madarsa, but the other two institutions are linked with the wrong founders. Hastings set up the Calcutta Madrasa in 1781 to train Muslim scholars in Arabic and Persian learning and in Islamic law, which the Company courts needed.

The Pala king Dharmapala founded Vikramashila at Antichak in the Bhagalpur district of Bihar about the turn of the ninth century, and it became famous for tantric studies and for the scholars called dvarapanditas who examined candidates at its gates.

Ram Manohar Lohia, the socialist thinker and leader, put forward the idea of Sapta Kranti, or seven revolutions, as the programme of Indian socialism.

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.

Bagor lies on the Kothari river in Bhilwara district of Rajasthan and is the largest and best-documented Mesolithic site in India.

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

The Bower Manuscript is valued above all for its medical texts, which make it one of the oldest surviving records of Ayurveda.

Kwame Nkrumah led Ghana and was one of the five founders of the Non-Aligned Movement. He took Ghana to independence in 1957, the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to break free of colonial rule, and served first as its Prime Minister and then as its President.

Statements 1 and 2 are correct, but statement 3 is not. Statement 1 is correct: the Bombay Presidency Association was founded in January 1885 by Pherozeshah Mehta, Badruddin Tyabji and K. T. Telang, and its members hosted the first session of the Indian National Congress in Bombay that December.

Avanti covered the Malwa region and had two capitals: Ujjain in its northern half and Mahishmati on the Narmada in its southern half.

Udayin, also called Udayabhadra, was the son of Ajatashatru and the ruler of the Haryanka dynasty who built a fort at the meeting point of the Ganga and the Son and shifted the Magadhan capital there from Rajagriha.

A noble of the later Tughlaq court, Malik Sarwar was sent east in 1394 with the title Malik-us-Sharq, the Master of the East, and he made himself independent of Delhi; the title gave his line the name Sharqi.

Arikamedu, near Puducherry on the Coromandel coast, was a busy port from about the 2nd century BCE, and its remains show trade with the Roman world.

Araghatta was the name for a water-lifting wheel used to irrigate fields in early medieval India.