Indian History Mixed Quiz: Set 94

The 'Dancing Girl' of Mohenjo-daro is a small bronze statue, one of the best-known metal objects of the Harappan civilisation.

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.

Jainism holds that all of nature has life, and it teaches that a soul escapes karma only through strict self-discipline.

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 brothers Harihara I and Bukka Raya I founded the Vijayanagara kingdom in 1336. Harihara and Bukka were sons of Sangama, so their line is called the Sangama dynasty, the first of four dynasties to rule Vijayanagara (Sangama, Saluva, Tuluva and Aravidu).

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.

On 24 August 1925 Vithalbhai Patel became the first elected Indian (non-official) President, or Speaker, of the Central Legislative Assembly.

The main Kushana capital was Purushapura, the modern Peshawar, which Kanishka I developed as his seat of power. As the empire spread into the Ganga-Yamuna plain, Mathura on the Yamuna became its second capital and the southern headquarters of the family.

British rule pushed Indian farmers to grow crops for sale and export rather than for their own food. Heavy land revenue had to be paid in cash, so peasants turned to cash crops such as indigo, cotton, jute, opium, tea and sugarcane, which fed British industry and trade.

The Instrument of Accession was kept deliberately narrow so that a ruler could sign it without feeling that he had surrendered his state, and all other powers stayed with him for the time being.

Phadke raised an armed band in Maharashtra in 1879 to overthrow British rule. Vasudeo Balwant Phadke was a clerk in the Military Finance Department at Pune.

Delhi first became a capital under the Tomar Rajputs, who founded the town of Dhillika, or Dilli, and built Lal Kot near present day Mehrauli, the earliest of the seven cities of Delhi.

After the Poona Pact of September 1932, Gandhi made the upliftment of the Harijans a central part of his work.

Fifteen women were members of the Constituent Assembly, and Begum Aizaz Rasul was the only Muslim woman among them; Dakshayani Velayudhan was its only Dalit woman member.

Pairs 1 and 3 are correct; the leaders in pairs 2 and 4 have been swapped. Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee founded the Bharatiya Jana Sangh in 1951.

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…

All four were Russian Marxists, so they belong to one school of thought. Plekhanov is called the father of Russian Marxism; in 1883 he founded the Emancipation of Labour group in Geneva with Vera Zasulich, who had begun as a populist revolutionary.

On his accession in 1658 he took the title Alamgir, conqueror of the world, and because he lived austerely and copied the Quran he was also called Zinda Pir, the living saint.

One year after his defeat, Muhammad Ghori came back to Tarain, drew the Rajput cavalry out with a feigned retreat, surrounded it with mounted archers and destroyed it; Prithviraj Chauhan was captured and the road to Delhi lay open.

The slogan Jai Jawan Jai Kisan, the start of the Green Revolution and the war of 1965 belong to his short term.