Indian History And Culture Gk 6
General Knowledge : Indian History And Culture Gk 6
| Which Gupta ruler is also known as 'Kavi Raja'? | Samudragupta. |
| Which Gupta ruler performed the Ashwamedha yajna? | Samudra Gupta. |
| Which Gupta ruler successfully defended his empire against the invading Huns? | Skanda Gupta. |
| Which Indian ruler was a member of the Jacobin Club? | Tlpu Sultan. |
| Which is a very important source of information for the social, political and economic life of the people living in the Tamil Naidu area in the early Christian era? | Sangam literature. |
| Which is the crime that is most often mentioned in the Rjgveda? | Cattle-lifting. |
| Which kingdom came into existence during the reign of Muhammad bin Tughlaq? | Bahmani kingdom. |
| Which kingdom did Shahaji Bhonsale, Shivaji's father serve initially? | The Nizam Shahis of Ahmednagar. When Shah Jahan captured Ahmednagar, Shahaji sought service with the Sultan of Bijapur. |
| Which language did the Turks introduce into India? | Persian. |
| Which medieval ruler is reputed to be an author of almost 20 books on subjects as diverse as medicine, architecture and astronomy? | Raja Bhoja of the Paramara dynasty. The Paramara dynasty ruled over the Malwa region. |
| Which Mughal Emperor adopted the Zoroastrian practice of Navroz? | Akbar. |
| Which Mughal Emperor became a pensioner of the Marathas in 1771? | ShahAlam. |
| Which Mughal port city did Shivaji attack in 1664? | Surat. |
| Which Mughal Prince had the Gita translated into Persian? | Dara Shukoh (also spelt Shikoh). |
| Which part of India did the Arabs first conquer? | Sindh. Mohammed Ibn-Kasim, the nephew and son-in-law of the governor of Iraq, defeated Dahir Sen in 712 A.D. |
| Which party did Subhas Bose found? | Forward Bloc. |
| Which Persian historian accompanied Alauddin Khalji on his expedition to Chittor? | Amir Khusrau. |
| Which place did Vasco da Gama reach when he found a new route to India? | Calicut. Now known as Kozhikode |
| Which religious sect did Harsha patronise in his later years? | The Buddhist. |
| Which ruler helped Humayun recover Kandahar and Kabul? | The Ruler of Persia. |
| Which ruler introduced the concept of token currency in India? | Muhammad Bin Tughlaq. |
| Which Saint inspired the Marathas with ideals of social reform and national regeneration? | Saint Samarth Ramdas. |
| Which Sikh guru completed the compilation of the Adi Granth? | Guru Arjan Dev. |
| Which was die Maratha family that established itself in Baroda? | The Gaekwads established themselves at Baroda, the Bhonsales at Nagpur, Holkars at Indore and the Sindhias at Gwalior. |
| Which was the animal that was most engraved on Indus Valley Civilization seals? | The Humpless Bull. |
| Which was the capital of the kingdom of Magadha before Pataliputra? | Girivraja. Also called Rajagriha or Rajgir. |
| Which was the first state of India to be formed on the basis of language? | Andhra Pradesh. |
| Which was the language, apart from Persian, used for administrative purpose in the Bahmani kingdom? | Marathi |
| Which was the seat of power of the Pallava dynasty? | Kanchipuram. The Pallavas founded the first great empire in south India. Under the Pallavas, Kanchi became a great centre of Brahminical and Buddhist learning. |
| Which were the four divisions of the army in ancient India? | Infantry, cavalry, elephants and chariots. |
| Which were the provinces added by Aurangzeb to the Mughal Empire? | Bijapur and Golconda. |
| Which work describes the romantic story of the marriage of Sanyogita the daughter of the Gahadavala king Jaichandra with Prithviraj Chauhan? | Prithviraja Raso. |
| Who became the Peshwa after the Battle of Panipat? | Madhav Rao. After the death of Balaji Baji Rao. |
| Who built a new city at Delhi called Dinpanah? | Humayun. |
| Who built the rock-cut temples at Ellora? | The Rashtrakuta king, Krishna I. |
| Who coined the slogan "Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan"? | Lal Bahadur Shastri. The slogan became immensely popular and was soon on the lips of almost every Indian. |
| Who conceived of the idea of setting up the Indian National Congress? | Allan Octavian Hume. |
| Who constructed Angkor Vat? | Suryavarman II. |
| Who deciphered the Asokan inscriptions? | James Prinsep. |
| Who devised the system of "Subsidiary Alliances"? | Lord Wellesley. By using Subsidiary Alliances Lord Wellesley saw to it that the Indian princes remained helpless and would soon be unable to govern their territory without the help of the British army. |
| Who did General Hugh Rose refer to as "the only man among the rebels"? | Rani Lakshmibai. |
| Who did Iltutmish nominate as his successor | His daughter Razia. |
| Who did the Marathas decisively defeat in the Palkhed campaign of 1727-28? | The Nizam-ul-Mulk of Hyderabad. This campaign ensured that the Nizam's attempt at challenging Maralha supremacy failed. |
| Who did the soldiers, who rebelled in Meerut, declare as the Emperor of India? | The soldiers set out for Delhi from Meerut where they were joined by the local infantry. Here they proclaimed Bahadur Shah as the Emperor of India. |
| Who died fighting the police at Alfred Park in Lucknow? | Chandrashekhar Azad. He shot himself with the last bullet that he had been left with. |
| Who formulated the two nation theory? | M.A.Jinnah. |
| Who fought the battle of Buxar? | The English fought against a confederacy of Mir Kasim; Shah Alam, the Mughal Emperor and Nawab Shuja-ud-daulah. |
| Who fought the battle of Talikota? | The battle was fought between the Vijayanagara Empire and the combined forces of the Deccan Sultans. The Sultan of Berar however did not take part in this battle. |
| Who fought the second battle of Panipat? | Akbar and Himu. |
| Who fought the second battle of Tarain in 1192 A,D? | Prithviraj Chauhan and Muhammad Ghori. |
| Who fought the third Battle of Panipat? | Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas (on 14th Jan 1761). |
| Who founded Din-I-Ilahi? | Akbar. Birbal was the only Hindu to accept the new religion of Din-i-Ilahi or Tauhid-i-Ilahi. |
| Who founded the "Mirat-ul-Akbhar", the first Journal in Persian and the "Banga-Dutta" a weekly in four Languages? | Raja Ram Mohan Roy. |
| Who founded the Arya Samaj? | Swami Dayananda Saraswati in 1875. |
| Who founded the Bahmani Kingdom? | Alauddin Hasan also called Hasan Gangu |
| Who founded the Benaras Hindu University? | Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya in 1916. |
| Who founded the city of Hyderabad? | Mohammad Quli Qutub Shah. |
| Who founded the city of Jaipur? | Raja Sawai Jai Singh of Amber. |
| Who founded the Shatavahana dynasty? | The founder of the family was Simuka but it was Shatakarni I who raised it to eminence. |
| Who founded the Swarajya party? | Chitta Ranjan Das and Motilal Nehru. |
| Who founded the Tattvabodhini Sabha? Later he became a great leader of the Brahmo Samaj movement. | Debendranath Tagore, father of Rabindranath Tagore. |
| Who gave the first call for the freedom struggle in 1857? | Mangal Pandey. |
| Who gave the slogan "Do or Die"? | Mahtma Gandhi. While launching the Quit India movement. |
| Who handed over the leadership of the Independence Movement in East Asia to Subhas Chandra Bose? | Rash Behari Bose (on July 4, 1943). |
| Who helped Chandragupta Maurya defeat the Nanda rulers? | Kautilya also called Chanakya. |
| Who helped Humayun save himself after the Battle of Chausa? | A water carrier helped Humayun cross the Ganga and to safety. |
| Who initiated the celebration of the Ganapati Festival and the Shivaji Jayanti as social activities to awaken the people? | Lokamanya Tilak. |
| Who installed a chain of bells outside his palace gate? | Jahangir. |
| Who introduced chariots drawn by horses into India? | The Aryans |
| Who invented the decimal place value system? | Aryabhata invented the decimal place value system. Scholars hold that it cannot be said with certainty that the system was invented by Aryabhata. It seems it was known to astronomers who came before him. |
| Who is called the 'Mother of the Indian Revolution'? | Madam Bhikhaji Rustam K.R. Cama. |
| Who is regarded as the father of Carnatic music? | Purandaradasa. |
| Who is regarded as the first important King of the Gupta dynasty? | Chandragupta I. |
| Who is Subramania Bharati? | A Tamil poet and nationalist of the early 20th Century. |
| Who is supposed to have invited Babur to invade India? | Daulat Khan Lodi, uncle of Ibrahim Lodi. |
| Who is the author of the Greek work "Indika"? | Megasthenes. This book, however, is not available to us in its entirety and survives only in quotations by subsequent classical writers. |
| Who is the author of the Telugu work "Amuktamalyada"? | Sri Krishnadevaraya, the greatest of the Vijayanagara rulers. |
| Who is the father of the Indian Chemical Industry? | Prafulla Chandra Ray. |
| Who issued the first long inscription in chaste Sanskrit? | Rudradaman, the famous Shaka ruler. |
| Who led the rebellion of the Koyas (tribals of the West Godavari district in Andhra Pradesh) against the British? | Alluri Sitarama Raju. |
| Who led the revolt at Lucknow? | Begum Hazrat Mahal of Awadh. |
| Who led the revolt in Kanpur? | NanaSaheb. |
| Who led the Santhals who were armed with only bows and arrows? | BirsaMunda. |
| Who or what are the 'Uttariya' and 'Antariya'? | In ancient India, antariya (dhoti) a lower garment was worn by all common people. Uttariya was the garment that covered the upper part of the body. In addition to these the well-to-do people wore Prapata around the waist. Around the prapata, the rich wore Rasana, usually of gold. Ushneesha was used to cover the head and Stanapatta was worn to cover the breasts. |
| Who or what were the Huns? | They were a race of fierce, warlike people, whose original home was in the steppes of Central Asia. They spread terror and destruction both in the West (i.e. the Roman Empire) and India. |
| Who ordered the construction of the Charminar? | Sultan Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah. He was a patron of art and architecture and a poet in Dakhani Urdu, Persian and Telugu. He had the Charminar constructed in 1591-92 at the centre of the new city of Hyderabad. |
| Who organised the society of Khudai Khidmatgars (servants of god)? | Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan. |
| Who overthrew Brihadratha? | Pushyamitra, who was his Commander-in-chief. |
| Who passed a resolution declaring Sati illegal and punishable by the courts? | William Bentinck. |
| Who persuaded Shivaji to visit Aurangazeb at Agra? | Raja Jai Singh of Amber. |
| Who popularised the Young India Journal? | Mahatma Gandhi. |
| Who proclaimed Akbar the Emperor? | Bairam Khan in 1556. |
| Who recaptured Jhansi for die British? | Sir Hugh Rose. |
| Who repaired the Grand Trunk road that ran from the river Indus to Sonargaon in Bengal? | SherShah. |
| Who said the following and in what context ".... in the sky of India, serene as it is, a small cloud might arise, at first no bigger than a man's hand but which growing larger and larger, may at last threaten to burst and overwhelm us with ruin." | Lord Canning. He was referring to the situation in India just prior to he Revolt of 1857. |
| Who saved the life of Uday Singh of Mewar, when he was still a prince? | Panna. Panna, who was Uday Singh's nurse realised that his life was in danger; she placed her own son in Uday Singh's bed. The attackers assuming that Panna's son was the prince killed him thus saving Uday Singh. |
| Who sent Megasthenes as his ambassador to the Mauryan Court? | Seleucus Nikator. |
| Who signed the Treaty of Salbai? | The Marathas and the English in 1782. The treaty established beyond dispute, the dominance of the British as the controlling factor in Indian politics. |
| Who started the Home Rule movement? | Annie Besant. At the Congress session held in Kolkata in 1917, the demand for home rule was made eloquent by Ms. Annie Besant, the President of the session. |
| Who started the Shaka era? | Kanishka of the Kushana dynasty. |
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