Indian History Mixed Quiz: Set 69

The Pradeshika, the Rajuka and the Yukta were officers of district-level administration in the Mauryan empire. Ashoka's Third Major Rock Edict orders the Yuktas, the Rajukas and the Pradeshikas to go on tours of inspection every five years to teach dhamma along with their regular work.

The Pallava king who ruled in the early 7th century took these titles, and they appear in the inscriptions of the cave temples he cut.

Only statement 1 is correct: the Amil was the revenue-collecting officer of the Delhi Sultanate. The Amil collected land revenue at the local level and sent it up to the provincial and central treasuries.

The araghatta was a water-lifting wheel that carried a chain or ring of pots down into a well and brought them up full.

The amara-nayaka system was the main political innovation of the Vijayanagara Empire, under which military commanders were given territories to govern.

Gandhi started Indian Opinion at Durban in 1903 to put the case of Indians settled in South Africa before the public.

Neither statement is correct; both mismatch saints of very different centuries. Nimbarka was a Vaishnava philosopher of about the twelfth or thirteenth century who taught Dvaitadvaita (dualistic non-dualism) and devotion to Radha and Krishna.

A doctor practising in Singapore, she was given command of the women's regiment that Subhas Chandra Bose announced in July 1943 and named after Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi.

He was called Danka Shah, the drum-beating maulvi, because he moved from place to place with drums announcing his preaching against British rule.

The earliest and by far the longest phase of human prehistory is the Palaeolithic, or Old Stone Age, when people lived by hunting and gathering and used rough, unpolished tools made mostly of quartzite.

This law let the government imprison people suspected of political activity without trial for up to two years. Officially the Anarchical and Revolutionary Crimes Act, it was passed in March 1919 on the advice of the Sedition Committee headed by Justice S.A.T.

The Charter Act of 1833 ended the East India Company's last trading privilege, its monopoly over trade with China and in tea, and turned the Company into a purely administrative body holding India in trust for the British Crown.

The All Parties Conference of 1928 set up a committee under Motilal Nehru, and its draft constitution is known as the Nehru Report.

Mahmud of Ghazni, who ruled the Ghaznavid kingdom from 998 to 1030, is recorded as having led seventeen raids into India between about 1000 and 1027.

Udiyanjeral was a Chera king, not a Chola, so pair 2 is the only wrong one. Sangam poems name three crowned dynasties of Tamilakam: the Cheras on the western (Kerala) coast, the Cholas in the Kaveri delta and the Pandyas around Madurai.

Razia Sultan was the daughter of Iltutmish, and Iltutmish belonged to the Slave dynasty, also called the Mamluk dynasty or the Ilbari Turks.

The Limitation Law of 1859 was meant to stop debts from piling up over many years. In the Deccan, ryots borrowed from moneylenders (sahukars) and signed bonds.

Gokhale moved the Elementary Education Bill in the Imperial Legislative Council in 1911 to make primary education free and compulsory.

He founded the Satyashodhak Samaj, or Truth Seekers Society, at Pune in 1873, the same year in which his book Gulamgiri appeared.

Porus ruled the Paurava kingdom between the Jhelum and the Chenab and fought Alexander on the Hydaspes, the Greek name for the Jhelum.