Indian History Mixed Quiz: Set 78

The Indian Legion came first (1942), then the Azad Hind Government (October 1943), then the INA trials (November 1945) and finally the Bombay naval strike (February 1946).

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

Jaipal Singh Munda campaigned for a separate state of Jharkhand for the tribal people of Chotanagpur, not for Chhattisgarh. Jaipal Singh, a Munda from Ranchi district, studied at Oxford and won an Oxford Blue in hockey.

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

Nehru died in office on 27 May 1964, Gulzarilal Nanda served as acting Prime Minister for the thirteen days that followed, and Lal Bahadur Shastri was sworn in on 9 June 1964; he led the country through the war of 1965, gave the slogan Jai Jawan Jai Kisan and died…

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.

His book The Social Contract, published in 1762, argued that legitimate political authority comes from the general will of the people and not from the divine right of a king, and it became the intellectual charter of the French Revolution.

All three statements match what inscriptions tell us about how the decimal place-value system spread. In the place-value system, the value of a digit depends on its position, so nine digits and a zero can write any number.

He was stabbed to death by Sher Ali Afridi, a convict, during a visit to the penal settlement at Port Blair in the Andaman Islands in February 1872, and remains the only Viceroy killed in office.

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 Butler Committee was set up to examine the ties between the British paramount power and the princely states. The Indian States Committee was appointed in 1927 under Sir Harcourt Butler, with its report coming in 1929.

Rudramadevi ruled the Kakatiya kingdom from Warangal, called Orugallu then, in what is now Telangana, in the second half of the thirteenth century.

Vichitrachitta, Chitrakarapuli and Chaityakari were titles (birudas) of the Pallava king Mahendravarman I, who ruled in the early seventh century.

The first summit of the Non-Aligned Movement was held in September 1961 at Belgrade, then the capital of Yugoslavia, and twenty-five countries took part in it.

Only statement 2 is right: Narayan Meghaji Lokhande is regarded as the father of the labour movement in India. Lokhande, an associate of Jyotirao Phule, organised the textile mill workers of Bombay and in 1890 founded the Bombay Mill Hands Association, often called India's first labour organisation.

Dr. Vishnu Shridhar Wakankar, an archaeologist from Ujjain, spotted the rocks of Bhimbetka in 1957–58 while travelling by train near Bhopal, and then explored the shelters in detail.

The Moidams are the mound-burials of the Ahom royal family and nobles at Charaideo in Assam. The Tai-Ahoms, who ruled the Brahmaputra valley for about six centuries from the 13th century, buried their kings, queens and nobles in vaulted chambers covered by large earthen mounds.

Narayan Malhar Joshi was the main organiser behind the founding of the All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) in Bombay in October 1920.

Panchsheel says nothing about nuclear weapons; its five principles concern sovereignty, non-aggression, non-interference, equality and peaceful coexistence.

He was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence adopted by the Continental Congress on 4 July 1776, and he later became the third President of the United States.