Indian History Mixed Quiz: Set 93

The lion is not found among the animals carved on Harappan seals, although the tiger appears on several of them.

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.

Samyag-darshana, or right faith, is the first of the three gems that Jainism lays down as the path to liberation.

Lord Cornwallis fought the Third Anglo-Mysore War of 1790 to 1792 against Tipu Sultan and closed it with the Treaty of Srirangapatnam; he had no connection with the Third Anglo-Maratha War, which was fought in 1817 and 1818, long after his time, and which ended with the Treaty of Mandsaur…

The amara-nayakas were in fact expected to spend part of their revenue on temples and irrigation works. The amara-nayaka system was a key political innovation of the Vijayanagara Empire, and it drew on the iqta system of the Delhi Sultanate.

This is false: Indians entered the service through its open examination from the 1850s. The medical service of the East India Company began in Bengal in 1764, and the separate presidency services were later joined into a single Indian Medical Service in 1896.

The Prarthana Samaj was a monotheistic Hindu reform body of Maharashtra, but it was influenced by the Brahmo Samaj, not the other way round.

The Kushana gold coins were struck on the same weight standard as the Roman aureus of the time, not on a different one, because the dynasty traded briskly with the Roman world and found it convenient to match that standard.

Malaviya, with Krishna Kant Malaviya, defended the peasants accused in the Chauri Chaura case. On 5 February 1922, at Chauri Chaura in Gorakhpur district, a crowd of Non-Cooperation volunteers set fire to a police station after the police fired on them, and 22 policemen died.

All four rose much later, between the 10th and 12th centuries, mostly as feudatories who broke away from the declining Western (Kalyani) Chalukyas or the Pratiharas.

Of the three, only Rash Behari Bose worked actively with the Ghadar Party. The Ghadar Party was founded in 1913 at San Francisco by Indians in North America, with Lala Har Dayal and Sohan Singh Bhakna among its leaders.

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.

The councils could discuss the budget but could not vote on it or amend it. The Indian Councils Act, 1892 raised the number of additional members in the Imperial and Provincial Legislative Councils and introduced an indirect, nominated form of election through bodies such as municipalities, district boards and universities.

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics broke up in 1991: a failed coup against Mikhail Gorbachev in August that year destroyed the centre's authority, the republics declared independence one after another, and on 25 December 1991 Gorbachev resigned.

The Tolkappiyam, written by Tolkappiyar, is the oldest surviving work of Tamil grammar. The Tolkappiyam belongs to the early Sangam tradition.

The washermen had their own body, known as the rajaka guild. The famous Mandasor stone inscription of the time of Kumaragupta records a guild of silk weavers who migrated from Lata in Gujarat to Dasapura and built a temple of the Sun there, and it is the best known reference…

In Chola inscriptions, shalabhoga was land set aside for the upkeep of a school (shala). Chola inscriptions record many kinds of land, mostly gifts made by kings and wealthy people.

Sulh-i kul, Akbar's ideal of absolute peace, gave every faith freedom of expression and was put into practice through state policy.

Chin Qilich Khan, a powerful Mughal noble, took the title Nizam-ul-Mulk Asaf Jah and founded the independent state of Hyderabad.

Each of the three British land revenue systems is matched with the official most closely linked to it. The Permanent Settlement was introduced by Lord Cornwallis in Bengal, Bihar and Odisha in 1793.