Indian History Mixed Quiz: Set 99

Parishishtaparvan and Trishashtilakshana Mahapurana are Jaina works, while Nettipakarana and Avadanashataka are Buddhist.

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…

The order is Kheda (1918), Bardoli (1928), the Gandhi–Irwin Pact (March 1931) and the Second Round Table Conference (September–December 1931).

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.

The proposals led to the Government of India Act, 1919, which changed how British India was governed. Edwin Montagu, the Secretary of State for India, announced in August 1917 that Britain aimed at the gradual development of self-governing institutions in India.

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.

Sandhyakara Nandi wrote the Sanskrit poem Ramacharita in Bengal in the 12th century, under the Pala kings.

The four bodies were founded in 1870, 1876, 1884 and 1885 respectively, which is the order of the question. The Poona Sarvajanik Sabha was set up in 1870, and Justice M.G.

John Kay, an English inventor, patented the flying shuttle in 1733, one of the first machines of the Industrial Revolution.

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

He was Viceroy from 1926 to 1931, which covers the Dandi March of 1930.

The fanam was a small gold (and later silver) coin used widely in South India in medieval times. The word comes from the Tamil 'panam', meaning money.

It created a Board of Control in Britain to supervise the civil, military and revenue affairs of the East India Company, while the Court of Directors kept its commercial work.

All three were busy harbours of the Sangam age, through which the Tamil kingdoms traded with Rome, West Asia and South-East Asia.

Indian tradition credits Shalihotra with the science of horses, and veterinary medicine for horses came to be called Shalihotra Shastra after him.

Motupalli, on the Andhra coast, was the chief seaport of the Kakatiya kingdom of Warangal. The Kakatiyas ruled the Telugu country from Warangal between the 12th and early 14th centuries.

Xuan Zang, also written Hiuen Tsang, travelled in India in the seventh century of the Christian era, during the reign of Harshavardhana of Kannauj, which is roughly fourteen hundred years before our own time.

Razia was the daughter of Iltutmish of the Slave or Mamluk dynasty, who nominated her over his sons, and she ruled Delhi from 1236 to 1240 with the title Jalalat-ud-din, the only woman to occupy that throne.

Gandhi's first major public appearance in India was his speech at the opening of the Banaras Hindu University in February 1916.

The Congress Socialist Party was formed in 1934 by Acharya Narendra Deva and Jayaprakash Narayan, and in 1936 Nehru asked the Congress to adopt socialism.