Indian History Mixed Quiz: Set 74

These four dynasties ruled the Vijayanagara empire one after another. Harihara I and Bukka I of the Sangama dynasty founded Vijayanagara in 1336 on the banks of the Tungabhadra.

The order is the Cornwallis Code (1793), the Vernacular Press Act (1878), the first Indian Factory Act (1881) and the Morley-Minto Reforms (1909).

He later ran Bahishkrit Bharat from 1927, Samata and Janata, which became Prabuddha Bharat.

. The Trade Disputes Act, 1929 set up machinery of courts of inquiry and boards of conciliation and banned certain strikes.

The Battle of Wandiwash, or Vandavasi in Tamil Nadu, was the decisive engagement of the Third Carnatic War, in which Sir Eyre Coote defeated Count de Lally in 1760.

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.

The correct answer is B, Subhas Chandra Bose, who called Gandhi the Father of the Nation in a radio broadcast in 1944, asking for his blessings for the fight the Indian National Army was carrying on from the east.

Uranus cannot normally be picked out by the naked eye and was discovered only in 1781, so ancient Indian astronomers never wrote about it.

The States Department was created in July 1947 with Patel as the minister in charge and V. P. Menon as its secretary, and the pair persuaded the rulers to sign the Instrument of Accession, which is why Patel is remembered as the Iron Man of India and his birthday is…

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

A. V. Thakkar, known as Thakkar Bapa, founded the Bhil Seva Mandal in 1922 to work for the Bhil tribals of the Panchmahal district of Gujarat.

Muhammad bin Tughlaq issued token coins of bronze and copper in 1329-30 that were to pass at the value of the silver tanka.

The invasion exposed how weak the empire had become after Aurangzeb.

Arikamedu, on the Ariyankuppam river near Puducherry on the Coromandel coast, began as a small fishing settlement and grew into a busy port that traded with the Romans and the Greco Roman world in the first centuries of the common era.

The correct answer is B, Valentine Chirol, a British journalist of The Times who used the phrase for Tilak in his book on Indian unrest, holding his writings responsible for turning the people against the government; Tilak sued him for defamation and lost, and the title stuck as a mark…

Vikramaditya VI ruled the Western Chalukya kingdom of Kalyani, and his court poet Bilhana wrote the Vikramankadevacharita on his life.

He fasted for a separate Telugu-speaking state and died on 15 December 1952 on the fifty-eighth day of the fast; the protests that followed forced the government to announce Andhra State, which was created on 1 October 1953 as the first state formed on a linguistic basis, with Kurnool as…

Walangkar, a pioneer of the Dalit movement in Maharashtra, brought out the Vital-Vidhvansak from 1888. Gopal Baba Walangkar belonged to the Mahar community and had served in the army before turning to social reform.

The correct answer is A, Chittaranjan Das, the Bengal leader who gave up a large legal practice for the non-cooperation movement, defended the Alipore bomb case accused, and founded the Swaraj Party with Motilal Nehru in 1923 to contest the legislatures from within.

The States Reorganisation Commission was appointed in December 1953 under Justice Fazl Ali, with the historian and diplomat K. M. Panikkar and the educationist H. N. Kunzru as its two members, and its report of 1955 accepted language as a basis for reorganisation while rejecting the formula of one language…