Indian History Mixed Quiz: Set 126

The Mahanavami Dibba is a massive stone platform in the royal centre of Hampi, the Vijayanagara capital, with its base covered in relief carvings.

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…

Ramanuja, the eleventh-twelfth century teacher of Sriperumbudur, taught Vishishtadvaita or qualified non-dualism. Vishishtadvaita holds that Brahman is the only reality, but souls and matter are real parts of Brahman, as the body is to the soul, and that devotion to Vishnu leads to liberation.

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.

Sayyid Ahmad Khan founded the college at Aligarh, and he drew support for it from people of every faith. Sayyid Ahmad Khan started the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College at Aligarh in 1875 to give Indian Muslims a modern, Western-style education alongside Islamic learning; it became Aligarh Muslim University in 1920.

He ended the long rule of the Shaka Kshatrapas over Gujarat, Kathiawar and Malwa, took the title Shakari meaning enemy of the Shakas, and is also known by the title Vikramaditya.

Jahandar Shah won the throne in 1712 with the help of Zulfiqar Khan, and the Sayyid brothers, Abdullah Khan and Husain Ali Khan, helped his nephew Farrukhsiyar defeat and kill him in 1713.

Harshavardhana was a dramatist as well as a king, and three Sanskrit plays are credited to him: Ratnavali, Priyadarshika and Nagananda.

Phulaguri Dhawa was a peasant uprising of 1861 at Phulaguri in the Nagaon district of Assam.

Bhikaji Cama unfurled a flag of Indian independence at the International Socialist Congress held at Stuttgart in Germany in 1907, and appealed to the delegates to support the Indian cause.

The Lahore session of December 1929, presided over by Jawaharlal Nehru, adopted Purna Swaraj, complete independence, as the Congress goal.

It made Sikkim the twenty-second state of the Union after a referendum in which its people voted to end the rule of the Chogyal and to join India.

Cultural cooperation is not one of the five principles of Panchsheel. Panchsheel, the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, was set out in the agreement on trade and intercourse between India and the Tibet region of China, signed on 29 April 1954 by Jawaharlal Nehru's government and Zhou Enlai's. The five…

Mahendravarman I ruled the Pallava kingdom from Kanchipuram in the early seventh century, fought Pulakeshin II of Badami, began the rock-cut mandapas of the Tamil country and bore the titles Vichitrachitta and Mattavilasa, the second being the name of the Sanskrit farce attributed to him.

Easy credit from banks and a good transport network were both among the reasons Britain became the first country to industrialise.

Rajaraja I, who ruled from 985 to 1014, is regarded as the most powerful Chola ruler.

Archaeologists divide the Stone Age into the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic periods mainly by the kind of stone tools found and the way they were made.

The Poona Sarvajanik Sabha was founded in Pune in 1870 to act as a bridge between the government and the people and to put the grievances of the public, especially peasants, before the British authorities.

Under this last great Yadava king Marathi flourished as a language of administration and devotion, and the saint Jnaneshwar wrote the Jnaneshwari, also called the Bhavarthadipika, in 1290.

Sweeping arrests were made in March 1929, soon after the great strikes of 1928, and the trial at Meerut went on until 1933, making it one of the longest political trials of the colonial period.