Indian History Mixed Quiz: Set 89

The Alvars were devotees of Vishnu, not of the goddess Shakti, so this pair is wrong. The Bhakti movement began in Tamil Nadu between the sixth and ninth centuries with two groups of poet-saints.

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.

Following the Communal Award of 1932, this Act reserved seats for women in the legislatures and divided them among the communities.

Also called the Delhi Pact, it was signed by Mahatma Gandhi and Viceroy Lord Irwin.

Under the Permanent Settlement of 1793, a zamindar who missed the fixed date of payment lost his estate, while the Ryotwari system gave the peasant no relief in bad years.

All seven members of the Indian Statutory Commission were British members of Parliament, among them Clement Attlee, and Indians of every party read this as a declaration that they were unfit to decide their own constitution; hence the boycott and the slogan 'Simon, go back'.

Swami Sahajanand Saraswati was elected president of the All India Kisan Sabha when it was founded at Lucknow in April 1936.

In early nineteenth-century Calcutta, lotteries paid for town improvement, and the fear of disease pushed the British towards planning. After Lord Wellesley's Minute of 1803 on the need for town planning in Calcutta, many committees were set up to improve the city.

These three INA officers were tried together by the British at the Red Fort in Delhi in 1945. After the Second World War, the British put Shah Nawaz Khan, Prem Kumar Sehgal and Gurbaksh Singh Dhillon on trial for "waging war against the King".

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.

Kanaklata Barua was shot dead by the police on 20 September 1942 while leading a procession to hoist the tricolour at the Gohpur police station in Assam.

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.

E. V. Ramasamy, known as Periyar, started the Self-Respect Movement in Tamil Nadu in 1925. Periyar left the Congress in 1925, unhappy with its attitude to caste, and began the movement to give non-Brahmins and the depressed castes a sense of dignity.

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.

In the Battle of Colachel in 1741, the forces of Marthanda Varma of Travancore defeated the Dutch East India Company.

Razia was the only woman to sit on the throne of Delhi, so she was both the first and the last woman ruler of the Sultanate.

CCE is not the name of any pottery tradition; the other three are standard pottery types of early India. Archaeologists date and group early Indian sites by the pottery found in their layers.

The Act directed that a sum of not less than one lakh rupees be set apart every year for the revival and improvement of literature, the encouragement of the learned natives of India and the introduction and promotion of a knowledge of the sciences.

John Henry Whitley, a former Speaker of the House of Commons, chaired the Royal Commission on Labour in India, which reported in 1931 on wages, hours, housing and the health of industrial workers; its findings lay behind the Factories Act, 1934, the Payment of Wages Act, 1936 and later labour…

Ashoka edicts almost never use his personal name; they speak of Devanampiya Piyadassi, the beloved of the gods and of pleasing appearance.