Indian History Mixed Quiz: Set 120

The Maski minor rock edict in Raichur district, Karnataka, calls the king Devanampiya Asoka, and it was the first inscription found to name him as Ashoka.

Firoz Shah Tughlaq was the greatest city builder of the Sultanate. He founded Firozabad on the Yamuna in Delhi, where the Firoz Shah Kotla stands, and outside Delhi he laid out Hisar, known as Hissar-Firoza, along with Fatehabad, Firozpur and Jaunpur, the last named in memory of Muhammad bin Tughlaq…

All three statements about Shankardeva are correct. Shankardeva (Sankaradeva) was the leading Vaishnava saint of Assam in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.

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 Indian Independence Act did not keep the Crown as the source of authority; it ended British authority over India from 15 August 1947.

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.

Mrichchhakatika, meaning 'The Little Clay Cart', is a ten-act Sanskrit play attributed to King Shudraka. The play tells the love story of Charudatta, a generous Brahmin merchant of Ujjayini who has lost his wealth, and Vasantasena, a rich and noble courtesan.

She presided over the Calcutta session of 1917 and was the first woman president of the Congress, in the same years in which she was leading the Home Rule League.

Yashovarman ruled Kannauj in the first half of the eighth century, between the age of Harsha and the rise of the Gurjara-Pratiharas.

Alexander and Porus fought the Battle of Hydaspes in 326 BCE on the banks of the Jhelum, the river the Greeks called Hydaspes and the Rig Veda calls Vitasta.

Naneghat is a mountain pass in the Western Ghats of Maharashtra, known for Satavahana cave inscriptions, not for a Chola Shiva temple.

The Simla Agreement was signed on 2 July 1972 by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto after the war of 1971 and the creation of Bangladesh.

Peasant risings against moneylenders were common in the 19th century, and the Deccan Riots began at Supa in May 1875.

All seven members of the Indian Statutory Commission were British members of Parliament, among them Clement Attlee, and Indians of every party read this as a declaration that they were unfit to decide their own constitution; hence the boycott and the slogan 'Simon, go back'.

William Carey, Joshua Marshman and William Ward, the 'Serampore Trio', ran the Baptist mission at Serampore. Carey reached Bengal in 1793, and Marshman and Ward joined him in 1799.

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…

Panchsheel is a set of five principles of peaceful relations between states, and the threat of nuclear weapons has no place in it.

All three statements correctly describe the spinning and weaving machines that drove the British cotton industry in the late eighteenth century.

The Regulating Act of 1773 turned the Governor of Bengal into the Governor-General of Bengal, and Warren Hastings, who was already Governor, became the first holder of the post in 1774.

All three titles were in use in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century India, and each pair is matched correctly. Gajapati means 'lord of elephants' and was the title of a powerful ruling family of Orissa, the Gajapatis who succeeded the Eastern Gangas.