Indian History Mixed Quiz: Set 127

The Anglo-Indian teacher of Hindu College, Calcutta, inspired the radical student group known as Young Bengal in the late 1820s. Derozio taught at Hindu College from 1826 to 1831.

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.

The Stamp Act Congress met in New York City in October 1765 to protest against the Stamp Act passed by the British Parliament that year.

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.

Sarangadeva served at the court of Singhana II, the most powerful Yadava king, and his Sangita Ratnakara is the work from which both the Hindustani and the Carnatic traditions later drew their theory of ragas and talas.

Both statements describe the two offices wrongly, so neither can be accepted.

Spratt had been sent to India by the Communist Party of Great Britain and worked with the Workers and Peasants Parties; he was arrested in March 1929 and tried at Meerut along with Benjamin Francis Bradley and Lester Hutchinson, the three Englishmen in the dock.

After the First Anglo-Sikh War the Treaty of Lahore of 9 March 1846 imposed a war indemnity of one and a half crore rupees on the Sikh state, which it could not pay.

Sukaphaa was a Tai prince from the upper Irrawaddy region who crossed the Patkai hills with a small following and founded the Ahom kingdom in 1228, settling at Charaideo near present-day Sivasagar; Assam keeps his memory as Asom Divas on 2 December.

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, a socialist and Congress leader, persuaded Gandhiji to let women join the salt satyagraha of 1930, which he had first planned with men alone.

Constantinople, the capital of the eastern Roman or Byzantine empire, was captured by the Ottoman Turks under Sultan Mehmed the Second in 1453.

Alexander defeated Porus in 326 BCE in the Battle of the Hydaspes, fought on the banks of the Jhelum, the river the Greeks called the Hydaspes.

The English economic historian Arnold Toynbee first used the term in English in his lectures on the Industrial Revolution in England.

He was stabbed to death by Sher Ali Afridi, a convict, during a visit to the penal settlement at Port Blair in the Andaman Islands in February 1872, and remains the only Viceroy killed in office.

He built the Chennakesava temple at Belur in the Hassan district to mark his victories, including the defeat of the Cholas at Talakad, and his reign from about 1108 to 1152 also saw the beginning of the Hoysaleswara temple at Halebidu.

It was signed in 1765 by Robert Clive with the Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II and Nawab Shuja-ud-Daula of Awadh after the Company's victory at Buxar in 1764.

Both measures were aimed at the growing labour and communist movement, the first to deport foreign agitators and the second to curb strikes in public utility services, and the two young men threw bombs and leaflets to make, in their words, the deaf hear.

Sukaphaa settled at Charaideo near modern Sivasagar in 1228, and even after the administrative capital shifted the site remained the ritual centre of the dynasty, where the kings and queens were buried under earthen mounds called moidams; the Charaideo moidams were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2024.

Francesco Petrarch, an Italian poet and scholar of the fourteenth century, collected and studied classical Latin manuscripts and placed human life, reason and the individual at the centre of learning, which is why he is remembered as the father of humanism.

A lawyer of Madras who turned to the labour cause, Chettiar organised the first May Day meetings in India on 1 May 1923 and founded the Labour Kisan Party of Hindustan; a red flag was used on the occasion.