Indian History Mixed Quiz: Set 136

Siddheshvara was not one of the poets at the court of Krishnadevaraya. Krishnadevaraya (ruled 1509-1529), the greatest ruler of the Tuluva dynasty of Vijayanagara, was himself a scholar who wrote the Telugu poem Amuktamalyada.

The Austro-Prussian War of 1866, often called the Seven Weeks War, was decided at Sadowa, also known as Koniggratz, where the Prussian army defeated Austria.

All four travellers are matched with their home countries correctly. Marco Polo was a Venetian merchant, from what is now Italy, who passed through south India in the late 13th century and described the Pandya kingdom.

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.

Sir Cyril Radcliffe, a British lawyer who had never been to India before, chaired the two Boundary Commissions, one for Punjab and one for Bengal, set up under the Indian Independence Act of 1947.

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 voluntary union of a maiden and her lover is the Gandharva marriage, which is the sixth of the eight forms listed in the Manusmriti.

The early Vedic people were mainly pastoral and grew little, and the one grain their hymns name repeatedly is barley, used both as food and in offerings.

Rajaraja I allowed and encouraged the Sailendra king of Srivijaya, Sri Mara Vijayottungavarman, to build a Buddhist vihara at Nagapattinam on the Chola coast.

He founded the Nanda dynasty and the Puranas describe him as a ruler of humble birth who destroyed all the Kshatriya houses, calling him Ekarat, the sole sovereign.

Under ijarah only the ijaradar's payment to the state was fixed; what he collected from the peasant was not, so the peasant faced rising and arbitrary demands.

The Sudarshana lake near Girnar in Saurashtra was an artificial reservoir first built in Mauryan times and repaired more than once.

By the Treaty of Deogaon (December 1803), Raghuji Bhonsle II of Nagpur ceded Cuttack, that is coastal Orissa including Balasore, to the East India Company.

The Amatya, also called the Majumdar, kept the accounts of the kingdom and checked the income and expenditure of every district, which makes him the finance member of the eight.

A dastak was a free pass that let the English East India Company move goods without paying internal customs duties.

The Anushilan Samiti, founded in 1902, was the largest revolutionary organisation of Bengal, and its Dhaka branch under Pulin Behari Das was the most tightly organised.

The Satyashodhak Samaj came first in 1873, the Bardoli Satyagraha followed in 1928 and the Chipko Movement began in 1973.

Sir William Jones, a judge of the Supreme Court at Calcutta, founded the Asiatic Society in January 1784 and served as its first president until his death in 1794.

The Tashkent Agreement was signed on 10 January 1966 by Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri of India and President Ayub Khan of Pakistan to end the war of 1965.

This Spanish conquistador overthrew the Aztec Empire and brought Mexico under Spain between 1519 and 1521. Cortés landed on the Mexican coast in 1519, allied with peoples hostile to the Aztecs such as the Tlaxcalans, and reached the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan, where the ruler Moctezuma II received him.