Indian History Mixed Quiz: Set 82

The movement began with the Dandi March of March 1930 against the salt law, and after the first Round Table Conference the Viceroy Lord Irwin negotiated a pact with Mahatma Gandhi on 5 March 1931: political prisoners were to be released, the making of salt for domestic use on the…

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.

The Palaeolithic or Old Stone Age is the first and by far the longest phase of prehistory, the time of hunting and food gathering, of hand axes, cleavers, flakes and burins, and of people who had neither agriculture nor pottery.

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.

It was signed in 1765 by Robert Clive with the Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II and Nawab Shuja-ud-Daula of Awadh after the Company's victory at Buxar in 1764.

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

Taxes were a source of revenue for running the state, not a means of claiming exalted status. Ancient Indian kings used several devices to raise their standing.

The Dutt-Bradley thesis was a communist document which held that the Indian National Congress could play a great and foremost part in building an anti-imperialist people's front.

All three come from the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics. Katapayadi is a way of writing numbers with letters, each consonant standing for a digit, so long astronomical tables could be memorised as verses.

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

It dealt with university education, not with the public services. The University Education Commission was set up in 1948 under Dr S. Radhakrishnan, who later became the second President of India.

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

Formed in April 1918 by B. P. Wadia among the textile workers of Madras, it is regarded as India's first trade union in the modern, organised sense.

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 Dharmashastras assigned the Vaishyas both the study of the Vedas and trade, along with agriculture and cattle-rearing. The Dharmasutras and Dharmashastras, such as the Manusmriti, laid down ideal occupations for the four varnas.

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

During it the provincial elections of 1937 were held under the Government of India Act of 1935, India was taken into the Second World War without consulting the legislatures and the Congress ministries resigned in 1939, the Muslim League passed the Lahore Resolution of 1940, the August Offer was made…

The rock shelters of Bhimbetka in the Raisen district of Madhya Pradesh were occupied from the Lower Palaeolithic onwards, and their lower layers have yielded hand axes and cleavers along with the earliest of their paintings.

That war began after the Treaty of Surat of 1775, by which the Bombay government supported Raghunath Rao's claim to the Peshwa's seat, and it ended with the Treaty of Salbai in 1782 between Warren Hastings and Mahadji Scindia.

He took charge in March 1947, announced the plan of 3 June 1947 under which the country was divided, and after the Indian Independence Act of 1947 came into force he continued as the first Governor-General of the Dominion of India until June 1948.