Indian History Mixed Quiz: Set 96

He was crowned at the Raigad fort in 1674 with the title Chhatrapati, the ceremony being performed by the scholar Gaga Bhatt, and he governed with a council of eight ministers, the Ashta Pradhan, whose head carried the title Peshwa.

Alexander Cunningham, the first Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India, identified the site of ancient Taxila near Rawalpindi in the 1860s. Cunningham used the accounts of Greek writers on Alexander's campaign and of the Chinese pilgrim Xuanzang to match the city named in Indian texts with the ruins…

Ghori returned to Ghazni after Tarain and Chandawar and left his trusted slave officer Qutbuddin Aibak in charge of the Indian territories; on the death of Ghori in 1206 Aibak made himself the ruler at Lahore and founded the dynasty that became the Delhi Sultanate.

The agreement was signed at Tashkent, then in Soviet Uzbekistan, on 10 January 1966 by Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri and President Ayub Khan of Pakistan, with the Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin acting as host and mediator.

After the war of December 1971 and the creation of Bangladesh, the two countries met at Shimla and agreed on 2 July 1972 to settle their differences bilaterally and by peaceful means, to respect the line of control in Jammu and Kashmir resulting from the ceasefire, and to work towards…

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.

Brahmagupta composed the Brahmasphutasiddhanta in 628 CE, in which he treated zero as a number and not merely as a placeholder and gave rules for adding, subtracting and multiplying positive and negative quantities, which he called fortunes and debts; he also wrote the Khandakhadyaka and argued that bodies fall because…

Defeated by the Holkars at Poona, the Peshwa took shelter with the Company and signed the Treaty of Bassein in December 1802, accepting Wellesley's subsidiary alliance and a British force at his capital.

Muizzuddin Muhammad bin Sam, called Muhammad Ghori, came from Ghur in central Afghanistan, and the Ghurids displaced the house of Ghazni before turning on northern India.

The Nizam Shahis ruled from Ahmadnagar, founded by Malik Ahmad in 1490, while Bijapur belonged to the Adil Shahis of Yusuf Adil Shah.

India carried out its first underground nuclear explosion at Pokhran in the Thar desert of Rajasthan on 18 May 1974, which happened to be Buddha Purnima, and the government described it as a peaceful nuclear explosion.

Manigramam and Nanadesi were powerful trade guilds of south India in the early medieval period. In the age of the Pallavas, Cholas and later Chalukyas, merchants organised themselves into guilds that ran long-distance and overseas trade.

Bhaskara II, also called Bhaskaracharya, wrote the Siddhanta Shiromani in 1150 CE in four parts, of which Lilavati deals with arithmetic, mensuration and problems of everyday calculation, Bijaganita with algebra, and Grahaganita and Goladhyaya with astronomy.

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.

The proclamation of 25 June 1975 was issued under Article 352 on the ground of internal disturbance, an expression so wide that it became the main criticism of the Emergency, which lasted until 21 March 1977.

Kwame Nkrumah led Ghana and was one of the five founders of the Non-Aligned Movement. He took Ghana to independence in 1957, the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to break free of colonial rule, and served first as its Prime Minister and then as its President.

The Sushruta Samhita is the classical manual of shalya chikitsa or surgery, describing surgical instruments, the removal of the cataract, the setting of fractures, the stitching of wounds and the rebuilding of a severed nose, for which Sushruta is remembered as the father of surgery and of plastic surgery.

It added the words socialist, secular and integrity to the Preamble, inserted the Fundamental Duties as Part IVA and Article 51A, added subjects such as education, forests and weights and measures to the Concurrent List, extended the normal life of the Lok Sabha and the assemblies to six years, and…

The Sulbasutras are appendices to the Shrauta Sutras and give the geometrical rules for laying out the brick altars of Vedic sacrifice, including the construction of squares and rectangles of a given area and the statement that the square on the diagonal equals the sum of the squares on the…

His government passed the 44th Amendment of 1978, which undid much of the 42nd Amendment, and appointed the Mandal Commission in 1979.