Indian History Mixed Quiz: Set 84

In 1837 Prinsep, an officer of the East India Company's mint and secretary of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, deciphered the Brahmi script in which most of Ashoka's edicts are written.

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.

Abdur Razzak wrote that roses were sold everywhere in Vijayanagara and that the people could not live without them. Abdur Razzak Samarqandi was an ambassador sent by the Timurid ruler Shah Rukh of Persia.

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.

The French doctor François Bernier served as physician to Dara Shikoh, Shah Jahan's eldest son. Bernier reached India in 1658, in the middle of the war of succession among Shah Jahan's sons.

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.

Guru Arjan blessed the rebel prince Khusrau and also organised the community's finances through the masands. The first Sikh Gurus, from Guru Nanak onwards, were spiritual teachers who kept away from politics, and Akbar was friendly towards them.

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 Vijayanagara ruler, keen on a steady supply of Arabian and Persian horses through the Portuguese, allowed them to build a fort at Bhatkal on the Kanara coast.

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.

Acharya Narendra Dev was a founder and leading thinker of the Congress Socialist Party, the socialist group inside the Congress.

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 All India Congress Committee passed it at its Bombay session on 8 August 1942. The meeting was held at Gowalia Tank Maidan, now called August Kranti Maidan, in Bombay.

The Women's Indian Association was started at Madras in 1917 by Annie Besant, Margaret Cousins and Dorothy Jinarajadasa, and it took up the franchise, education and the removal of social disabilities; its journal was Stri Dharma.

The 1919 reforms gave no such right to all women, while the 1935 Act did reserve seats for women in the legislatures.

This first act of the British Parliament to control the East India Company provided for a Supreme Court of Judicature at Calcutta.

Arranged by the year each era begins, the order is Vikrama, Shaka, Kalachuri, Gupta and Harsha. The Vikrama era (Vikram Samvat) begins in 57 BCE and is still used in much of north and west India.

The real difference between the two schools is when a son's right to ancestral property arises, not caste or the sex of the owner.

Vadakkiruttal, literally "sitting facing the north", was the Sangam practice in which a defeated or dishonoured king sat facing north and fasted until death.

The Banjaras were travelling traders and carriers who moved goods across the country on long caravans of pack oxen. Their caravans, called tanda, could have thousands of bullocks carrying grain, salt and other goods from the countryside to towns and markets.