Indian History Mixed Quiz: Set 114

The Second Round Table Conference came in 1931, the Quit India Movement in 1942 and the Royal Indian Navy mutiny in 1946.

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.

On 18 April 1951, at Pochampally village in Nalgonda district of the then Hyderabad State (now in Telangana), landowner V. Ramachandra Reddy offered about 100 acres to landless Dalit families, and this became the first gift of the Bhoodan Movement.

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.

These two Neolithic sites of the Kashmir valley are known for people living in pits dug into the ground.

The correct answer is A, Syed Ahmad Barelvi of Rae Bareli, who drew on the teachings of Shah Waliullah and organised the movement known in India as the Wahabi or Tariqah-i-Muhammadiya movement, with Patna as its Indian centre.

The Kachhwaha ruler Sawai Jai Singh II moved his capital down from the hill fort of Amer and founded Jaipur in 1727, laying it out on a grid of nine rectangular blocks with the help of the scholar and planner Vidyadhar Bhattacharya, which makes it the first planned city of…

The panel showing the submission of the mad elephant Nalagiri, sent by Devadatta to kill the Buddha and calmed by him in the street of Rajagriha, is among the best known carvings of the Amaravati stupa on the lower Krishna in Andhra Pradesh.

Under the Sharqi sultans, and especially Ibrahim Shah Sharqi, Jaunpur attracted so many scholars of Persian and Arabic, theologians and musicians that it was compared with Shiraz, the city of learning and poetry in Iran.

Harishena was the court poet and a high officer of Samudragupta, and he composed the Prayag Prashasti in ornate Sanskrit, partly in verse and partly in prose.

Arikamedu, near Puducherry on the Coromandel Coast, has yielded clear evidence of trade with the Roman world between about the first century BCE and the second century CE.

Harishena belonged to an earlier century altogether: he was the court poet of Samudragupta and composed the Prayag Prashasti, the Allahabad Pillar Inscription.

The events run Air India's nationalisation (1953), the birth of the State Bank of India (1955), the Kerala communist government (1957) and Goa's liberation (1961).

The tenth and last human Guru of the Sikhs founded the Khalsa at Anandpur Sahib on Baisakhi day in 1699.

The Ahar culture, also called the Banas culture, is a Chalcolithic (copper and stone age) culture of south-east Rajasthan, spread along the Banas river and its tributary the Berach, roughly between 3000 and 1500 BCE.

Jatindranath Mukherjee, known as Bagha Jatin, planned an armed rising against the British with German help during the First World War.

The fifth ruler of the Qutb Shahi dynasty founded Hyderabad in 1591 on the banks of the Musi, a short distance from the crowded hill fort of Golconda, and the Charminar was raised in his reign at the centre of the new city.

He moved the capital of Gujarat from Anhilwara Patan to a new city on the Sabarmati in 1411, named it after himself, and built there the Jama Mosque and the ceremonial Teen Darwaza.

Utnur in present-day Andhra Pradesh is a Neolithic site of the southern Deccan, known for its ash mounds. These ash mounds formed where Neolithic cattle-keepers burnt the dung collected inside large cattle pens, and they belong to the same culture as Kupgal, Kodekal and Piklihal.

Devagiri in the Deccan, the old Yadava capital, was renamed Daulatabad by Muhammad bin Tughlaq, who ordered the transfer of the court and the population of Delhi there in 1327 so that he could control both north and south from the centre of his empire.