Indian History Mixed Quiz: Set 143

The Harappans were a Bronze Age people and did not know iron at all. The Harappan or Indus Valley Civilisation flourished from about 2600 to 1900 BCE.

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.

The Mahavamsa, the great Pali chronicle of Sri Lanka, gives a detailed account of Ashoka, his conversion to Buddhism and his missions abroad.

The Instrument of Accession was kept deliberately narrow so that a ruler could sign it without feeling that he had surrendered his state, and all other powers stayed with him for the time being.

Bhaskaravarman was the king of Kamarupa, ancient Assam, and a close ally of Harsha. Harshacharita was written by Banabhatta, the court poet of Harshavardhana of Kannauj in the seventh century.

Pushyamitra Shunga, the commander of the Mauryan army, killed the last Mauryan ruler Brihadratha in about 185 BCE and founded the Shunga dynasty, which ruled from Pataliputra and Vidisha and under which the Sanchi and Bharhut stupas were enlarged.

This massive stone platform in the royal enclosure at Hampi was where the Vijayanagara kings performed the rituals of the Mahanavami festival.

The correct answer is A, Kurinji, the hilly and forested tract whose people lived by hunting and gathering.

The idea of farr-i izadi, a light emanating from God, was first developed by the twelfth-century Iranian Sufi thinker Shihabuddin Suhrawardi.

In the First Battle of Tarain in 1191 Prithviraja III of Ajmer defeated Muhammad Ghori, who was wounded and carried from the field.

Simla came under British control during the Anglo-Gurkha War of 1814-16 and grew as a military post on the hill frontier.

Rajendra I, who ruled from 1014 to 1044, sent a fleet across the Bay of Bengal against the Sailendra kingdom of Srivijaya, in the Malay peninsula and Sumatra, and defeated its ruler Sangrama Vijayottunga Varman.

The Arya Samaj drew its strength mainly from Punjab and western Uttar Pradesh and from the trading castes, and its social base was wider, not narrower, than that of the Brahmo Samaj.

After the Treaty of Bassein of December 1802, Scindia and the Bhonsle of Nagpur took the field against the Company.

In September 1921, while touring the south during the Non-Cooperation Movement, Gandhi gave up his shirt and cap at Madurai and took to a simple loincloth.

The Indigo Revolt, called the Neel Bidroha, began in 1859 in the Nadia district of Bengal, where the ryots refused to sow indigo on the terms the planters forced on them.

Voting in 1937 was limited by property and education, and the Congress won an absolute majority in five provinces, while statements 2 and 4 are false.

The League accepted the Cabinet Mission Plan on 6 June 1946, even though the plan had rejected the demand for a separate sovereign Pakistan.

Lakshmidhara, a minister of the Gahadavala king Govindachandra of Kanauj, compiled the Kritya-kalpataru, the first great nibandha or digest of Dharmashastra, epic and Puranic texts.

Silappadikaram was written by Ilango Adigal, a prince who became a Jaina monk, and Jaina ideas run through its story.