Indian History Mixed Quiz: Set 131

The Great Bath was surrounded by rooms, and a large well in one of the rooms on its eastern side supplied the water for the tank.

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…

The Portuguese traveller Domingo Paes visited Vijayanagara and left a detailed account of the capital. Paes came to Vijayanagara around 1520, during the reign of Krishnadeva Raya, the greatest ruler of the Tuluva dynasty.

The right order is the First Battle of Panipat in 1526, Khanwa in 1527, Ghaghra in 1529 and Chausa in 1539.

The 1598 farman allowed the Jesuit fathers to build a church at Cambay. Cambay was a busy port on the Gulf of Khambhat where Portuguese traders and missionaries were active.

The Vernacular Press Act of 1878 required the publisher of an Indian language newspaper to execute a bond and allowed the government to seize the press if seditious matter was printed, while English newspapers were left untouched; it was therefore called the gagging Act.

Vishnushastri Pandit led the society formed in Maharashtra to encourage the remarriage of widows, the Vidhava Vivahottejak Mandal. In nineteenth-century Maharashtra, widow remarriage was one of the main causes of social reformers.

That war began after the Treaty of Surat of 1775, by which the Bombay government supported Raghunath Rao's claim to the Peshwa's seat, and it ended with the Treaty of Salbai in 1782 between Warren Hastings and Mahadji Scindia.

Devamatrika is land watered by rain and aprahata is fallow land, but pankila means muddy land, not highly fertile land.

Appointed in 1926 and chaired by Lord Linlithgow, it examined the condition of Indian agriculture and rural life and recommended a central body to coordinate agricultural research, which was established in 1929 as the Imperial Council of Agricultural Research, renamed the Indian Council of Agricultural Research after independence.

Margaret Cousins was a founder of the Women’s Indian Association, but pairs 2 and 3 have their associates swapped. The Women’s Indian Association was founded at Adyar, Madras, in 1917 by Annie Besant, Margaret Cousins, Dorothy Jinarajadasa and others; it campaigned for women’s franchise and education.

The agreement was signed at Tashkent, then in Soviet Uzbekistan, on 10 January 1966 by Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri and President Ayub Khan of Pakistan, with the Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin acting as host and mediator.

Both statements describe the 1905 Revolution in Russia correctly. On 22 January 1905 (9 January by the old Russian calendar), workers led by Father Gapon marched peacefully to the Winter Palace in St Petersburg with a petition to the Tsar.

Valabhi, in the Saurashtra region of Gujarat, was the capital of the Maitraka rulers and a famous centre of Hinayana Buddhist learning; the pilgrim I-tsing wrote that it stood beside Nalanda in reputation, and students went from there into royal service.

Statement 1 is wrong: the name "silk routes" comes from the West-bound cargoes of Chinese silk, not East-bound European silk.

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.

The Buranjis are the official and family histories kept by the Ahom state and its nobles, written first in the Tai Ahom language and script and later in Assamese, and they are the main written source for the political history of the Brahmaputra valley between the thirteenth and the nineteenth…

The Council of Trent, summoned by the Pope, sat in several sessions between 1545 and 1563, abolished the worst abuses such as the sale of indulgences, imposed discipline and training on the clergy and restated Catholic doctrine against the Protestants.

Churchill, by then out of office, spoke at Westminster College in Fulton on 5 March 1946 and said that an iron curtain had descended across the continent from Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic.

Mazzini, a member of the Carbonari who had been sent into exile, founded Young Italy at Marseilles in 1831 and a wider society, Young Europe, at Berne in 1834.