Indian History Mixed Quiz: Set 141

He wrote the Badshah Nama, the official history of the reign of Shah Jahan. Abdul Hamid Lahori was a pupil of Abul Fazl and was chosen by Shah Jahan to write the history of his reign in the same style as the Akbarnama.

Otto von Bismarck was appointed Minister-President of Prussia in 1862 by Wilhelm I to break a deadlock with the liberal parliament over army spending, and he told that parliament that the great questions of the day would be settled not by speeches and majority votes but by blood and iron.

A silsila stood for all three ideas: the master-disciple link, the chain back to the Prophet and the flow of blessings to followers.

The Nagpur session, presided over by C. Vijayaraghavachariar, confirmed the Non-Cooperation programme begun at the Calcutta special session of September 1920 and rewrote the organisation from top to bottom: a Working Committee of fifteen members was created, the provincial committees were reorganised on linguistic lines, the membership fee was lowered…

With the leaders in jail, people in several regions set up their own governments. The Quit India resolution was passed at the Bombay session of the Congress on 8 August 1942, with Gandhi's call of Do or Die.

The first Indian National Army was raised in 1942 by Captain Mohan Singh from Indian prisoners of war captured at the fall of Singapore, with the support of the Japanese army.

The Philosophy of the Bomb was drafted by Bhagwati Charan Vohra of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association, and Yashpal worked on it with him.

Babur defeated and killed Ibrahim Lodi, the last Sultan of the Lodi dynasty, on the field of Panipat in 1526, using the tulughma flanking division and field guns served by Ustad Ali Quli and Mustafa Rumi, and founded the Mughal Empire.

These records preserve petitions that women sent to the panchayat seeking redress. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries village panchayats settled disputes and punished misconduct.

The transfer of the capital from Calcutta to Delhi was announced by King George V at the Delhi Durbar of December 1911, during Hardinge's term, and the same Durbar annulled the partition of Bengal.

Saadat Khan, titled Burhan-ul-Mulk, was appointed governor of Awadh by the Mughal emperor Muhammad Shah in 1722 and founded the line of the Nawabs of Awadh.

The Act separated the commercial and the political functions of the East India Company, leaving trade to the Court of Directors and placing civil, military and revenue administration under a newly created Board of Control answerable to Parliament.

Kamakshi Natarajan founded the weekly Indian Social Reformer at Madras in 1890 and edited it for decades, moving it to Bombay soon after.

The Sedition Committee of 1918, appointed under the English judge Sir Sidney Rowlatt, examined revolutionary conspiracies in India and recommended special powers for the executive, which Parliament granted in the Anarchical and Revolutionary Crimes Act of 1919, popularly the Rowlatt Act, allowing detention without trial; Gandhi's Rowlatt Satyagraha followed.

General K. M. Cariappa took over as the first Indian Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army on 15 January 1949. He succeeded General Sir Francis Butcher, the last British chief, and the day he took charge is celebrated every year as Army Day on 15 January.

The Chach Nama, a Persian translation of an older Arabic account, narrates the rule of the Chach family of Sindh, the attack on the Arab ships at Debal and the campaign of Muhammad bin Qasim, and remains the main source for 712 CE.

Richard Arkwright's water frame, patented in 1769, was a spinning machine driven by water power that spun strong cotton thread.

The word barbarian comes from the Greek barbaros, a name for anyone who was not Greek, and the Romans later applied it to the peoples beyond their frontiers, such as the Germanic tribes, the Gauls and the Huns.

In 1585 Akbar moved his capital from Fatehpur Sikri to Lahore, not to Delhi, so this statement is not correct.

The Congress did support the Khilafat movement, so this statement does not describe it. After the First World War, Indian Muslims feared that the Allies would strip the Ottoman Sultan, the Khalifa, of his power and of control over the holy places of Islam.