Indian History And Culture Gk 7
General Knowledge : Indian History And Culture Gk 7
| Who started the Swatantra Party? | C. Rajagopalachari. |
| Who succeeded Balaji Vishwanath as the Peshwa? | BajiRaoI. |
| Who succeeded Bimbisara to the throne of Magadha? | Ajatashatru. |
| Who succeeded Chandra Gupta I? | Samudragupta. |
| Who succeeded Chandra Gupta II? | His son Kumara Gupta, who ruled from AD 415 to 455. |
| Who succeeded Mir Jaffar to the throne of Bengal? | Mir Kasim, his son-in-law. |
| Who succeeded Peshwa Baji Rao? | Peshwa Baji Rao was succeeded by Balaji Baji Rao. |
| Who succeeded Qutbuddin Aibak to the throne of Delhi? | Iltutmish (son-in-law of Qutbuddin Aibak). |
| Who succeeded Rana Udai Singh to the throne of Mewar? | Rana Pratap (in 1572). |
| Who systematised the rules of Sanskrit grammar (4 Century BC) in the work Ashtadhyayi? | Panini. |
| Who threw a bomb in the Central Legislative Assembly? | Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt (on April 9, 1929).Their aim in throwing a bomb in the Central Legislative Assembly was, as their leaflet pointed out, "to make the deaf hear". Not to hurt anyone. |
| Who took care of Shah Jahan when he was kept imprisoned by Aurangzeb? | Jahanara, Shah Jahan's daughter. |
| Who was born in Talwandi in 1469? | GuruNanak. |
| Who was born to Siddhartha and Trishala in the year 540 B.C.? | Vardhamana Mahavira |
| Who was Buddha's personal physician? | Jivaka. Jivaka was the personal physician of Bimbisara. During his visit to Buddha, Bimbisara offered the services of Jivaka, who became Buddha's personal physician. |
| Who was commissioned by Akbar to write the history of his reign? | AbulFazI. |
| Who was Gopal Ganesh Agarkar? | He was a social reformer of Maharashtra. He was the founder editor of Kesari, but later concentrated on a new newspaper he started called Sudharak. |
| Who was Gorakhshanath, popularly known as Gorakhnath? | Gorakhnath popularized the practice of Hathayoga throi AD. throughout India. He lived in the 10lh - 11th century |
| Who was hired by a group of Porbandar Muslims (who were working in Natal, South Africa) as their lawyer in!893? | M.K. Gandhi. |
| Who was Kanaklata Barua? | Kanaklata Barua played an important role in the freedom struggle. She was shot dead while holding the congress flag during the Quit India movement. |
| Who was known as the "Frontier Gandhi"? | Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan. |
| Who was Megasthenes? | Megasthenes was the Greek ambassador to the Mauryan Court. |
| Who was Nizammudin Auliya? | A famous Sufi saint. His Dargah is in Delhi. |
| Who was raised to the throne of Bengal after the Battle of Plassey? | Mir Jafar. |
| Who was reputed to be the author of the following books: Priyadarshika, Ratnavali and Nagananda? | Harsha. |
| Who was responsible (as President of the "Committee of Public Instruction") for the introduction of English education in India? | Thomas Babington Macaulay. |
| Who was responsible for establishing the order of nuns in Buddhism? | Ananda, the personal attendant of Buddha, was largely responsible for the admission of Gautami (the widowed stepmother of Buddha) into the Sangha. This was the beginning of the order of nuns. |
| Who was responsible for the partition of Bengal in 1905? | Lord Curzon. |
| Who was the 18th century Hindu ruler who performed two Asvamedha sacrifices? | Sawai Jai Singh of Amber. |
| Who was the admiral who recreated the Maratha navy almost single handed? | Kanhoji Angrey (also spelt Angria). |
| Who was the Arab traveller whose work on India is referred to as a mirror of 11"1 century India? | Alberuni. |
| Who was the author of the play 'Mrichchhakatikam'? | Shudraka. |
| Who was the Buddhist monk who converted Menander into Buddhism? | Nagasena or Nagarjuna. |
| Who was the chief deity of the Sangam Period? | Murugan (Karttikeya) |
| Who was the chief minister of Peshwa Baji Rao II? | Nana Fadnavis. He was responsible for preserving the Maratha confederacy. He also resisted British interference in Maratha affairs. |
| Who was the Chinese pilgrim who visited India during the time of Chandragupta II? | Fa-Hien. |
| Who was the Chinese pilgrim who visited India during the time of Harsha? | Hiuen Tsang. |
| Who was the Chola ruler who crossed the Ganga and defeated the rulers there? | Rajendra Chola. |
| Who was the Englishman who succeeded in getting a farman from the Mughals exempting the English from paying any inland toll? | Sir Thomas Roe. |
| Who was the first Afghan to be seated on the throne of Delhi? | Buhlul Khan Lodi (in April 1451). |
| Who was the first Governor General of Bengal? | Warren Hastings. |
| Who was the first Gupta king to assume the title 'Rajadhiraja"? | Chandragupta I. In addition to 'Rajadhiraja', Samudragupta assumed the titles 'Parambhattaraka' and 'Paramabhagavata'. |
| Who was the first Indian ruler defeated by Mahmud of Ghazni? | Jayapala of the Hindushahi dynasty. |
| Who was the first Indian to be elected to the leadership of the Communist International? | M.N.Roy. |
| Who was the first Indian woman President of the Indian National Congress? | Sarojini Naidu. |
| Who was the first person to hold that the earth was a sphere and rotated on its axis? | Aryabhata. He also declared that the eclipses were not the work of Rahu but were caused by the shadow of the earth falling on the moon. Varahamihira and Brahmagupta later astronomers did not agree with his view. Aryabhata also gave an accurate approximation ofn. |
| Who was the first Peshwa of the Maratha kingdom? | Balaji Vishwanath. |
| Who was the first President of the Indian National Congress? | Womesh Chandra Banerji. |
| Who was the first sultan of Delhi to pay his soldiers in cash? | Alauddin Khalji. |
| Who was the first Viceroy of India? (appointed after the revolt of 1857) | Lord Canning (1858-62). |
| Who was the founder of the Slave dynasty? | Qutbuddin Aibak. |
| Who was the freedom fighter who led the Ramoshis of Maharashtra? | Vasudev Balwant Phadke. |
| Who was the French Governor General who helped Muzzafar Jung become the Nizam of Hyderabad? | Dupleix. |
| Who was the Governor General of India when the Revolt of 1857 broke out? | Lord Canning |
| Who was the Governor General of India who added the maximum extent of Indian territories to the East India Company? | Lord Dalhousie |
| Who was the guru of Harihara and Bukka? | Vidyaranya. He was the one who readmitted them into the Hindu fold. |
| Who was the guru of Swami Vivekananda? | Ramakrishna Paramhansa. He was a saint who lived in Dakshineshwar in Bengal. |
| Who was the Jesuit missionary who held personal | Anthony Monserrate. |
| Who was the judge who found Raghunath Rao Peshwa, guilty of murder and said, "No penalty other than death is prescribed for such a crime"? | Ram Shastri Prabhune. |
| Who was the last Maurya King? | Brihadratha. |
| Who was the leader, whose death led Bhagat Singh, Azad and Rajguru to assassinate the British police officer Saunders? | Lala Lajpat Rai. |
| Who was the Maratha general who repeatedly fought against die British during die 1857 revolt and later kept harassing the British with guerrilla warfare till he was betrayed by Mansingh and hanged by the British? | TatiaTope. |
| Who was the Mughal Governor of Deccan who was instructed by Aurangazeb to invade Shivaji's territories? | Shaista Khan. |
| Who was the Mughal queen whose name was written on all the imperial Mughal farmans of her time and inscribed on coins? | Nur Jahan. |
| Who was the only Indian ruler who never alied himself with the British to fight against other Indian rulers? | Tipu Sultan. |
| Who was the only woman to ascend the throne of Delhi? | Razia Sultana. |
| Who was the Peshwa during the third battle of Panipat? | Peshwa Balaji Baji Rao. |
| Who was the Peshwa who signed the "Subsidiary Alliance"? | Peshwa Baji Rao II on December 31, 1802. This was after the combined armies of the Peshwa and the Sindhia were defeated by the Holkar. |
| Who was the poet who enriched Kashmiri literature with her exquisite lyrics on love and life? | Habba Khatun (also spelt Habba Khotun). |
| Who was the Portuguese Governor who captured Goa? | Alfonso de Albuquerque. |
| Who was the President of the Congress in 1947 at the time of Independence? | Rajendra Prasad. |
| Who was the Qutub Minar dedicated to? | The Sufi saint Qutbuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki and not Qutbuddin Aibak as people mistakenly assume. |
| Who was the Royal Physician at Bimbisara's court? | Jivaka. |
| Who was the ruler of Malwa who was among the chief adversaries of Humayun? | Bahadur Shah. |
| Who was the ruler of Malwa, who was defeated by the Mughal forces? | Baz Bahadur. He was a master musician and an accomplished poet. There were also stories of his romance with the beautiful and talented Roopmati. |
| Who was the ruler of South India who prevented Harsha from extending his kingdom southwards? | The Chalukya King Pulakesin II. |
| Who was the ruler of the territory between the Jhelum and the Ravi when Alexander invaded India? | Paurava or Porus as the Greeks called him. |
| Who was the sole representative of the Congress at the second Round Table Conference? | Mahatma Gandhi. |
| Who was the Sultan of Malwa who died when he went on board a Portuguese ship for negotiations? | Bahadur Shah. |
| Who was the Turkish officer who conquered the area of north Bengal? | BakhtiyarKhalji. |
| Who was the twenty-fourth and the last Tirthankara of the Jains? | Vardhamana Mahavira |
| Who was the Viceroy at the time of Indepenence? | Lord Louis Mountbatten. |
| Who was the Viceroy who was assassinated by a convict when he visited the Andamans? | Lord Mayo. |
| Who were executed on March 23, 1931? | Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru in Lahore prison. |
| Who were Gandhikas? | Artisans who are mentioned as giving donations to the Buddhists. Originally Gandhika meant perfumes but was later used to describe shopkeepers. The name Gandhi is said to have been derived from it. |
| Who were Lichchhavis? What are they known for? | Lichchhavis ruled over a vast area from Magadha to Nepal. They were best known for the democracy they practised. It would not be correct to compare it with democracy as understood today. Some preferred to call it oligarchy. |
| Who were the "Alvars" in Tamil Nadu? | They were the devotees of Vishnu. |
| Who were the "Nayanars" in Tamil Nadu? | They were devotees of Shiva who flourished between the sixth and ninth centuries. |
| Who were the adversaries at the Battle of Khanua? | It was fought between Babur and Rana Sanga. |
| Who were the adversaries at the Battle of Plassey? | The British fought Siraj-ud-Daulah the Nawab of Bengal. |
| Who were the adversaries in the battle of Wandiwash? | The British and the French. The supremacy of the British was thoroughly established as the consequences of this battle. |
| Who were the Ajivikas? | They were one of the prominent religious sects during the time of Mahavira and Buddha. |
| Who were the first two kings of the Vijayanagara Empire? | Harihara (1336-1356), Bukka I (1356-1377). |
| Who were the only two leading men of Siraj-ud-Daulah's court who took active part in the Battle of Plassey? | Mir Madan and Mohan Lal. |
| Who were the opponents at the battle of Khanua? | Rana Sanga and Babur. |
| Who were the opponents in the battle fought at Chausa? | Humayun and Sher Shah. |
| Who were the opponents in the battle of Takkolam? | Cholas and Pandyas. The Pandyas were completely defeated. |
| Who were the opponents in the first battle of Panipat? | Babur and Ibrahim Lodi. |
| Who were the parents of Sankaracharya? | Sivaguru and Aryamba. |
| Who were the Siddhis? | They were people of Abyssinian descent who were put in charge of important forts like Raigarh, Dabhol and Ratnagiri by Aurangzeb. They were a maritime power and constant source of problems for the Marathas. |
| Who were the signatories to the treaty of Seringapatam (Srirangapatnam)? | Tipu Sultan and the British. |
| Who were the sons of Shah Jahan? | Dara Shikoh (also Shukoh), Shuja Murad and Aurangzeb. |
| Who were the two famous warriors of Chittor who held the Mughal forces at bay for almost six months? | Jaimal and Patta. Akbar, to honour these two warriors ordered their stone statues, seated on elephants, be erected outside the gate of the Agra fort. |
| Who won the battle of Talikota? | The Vijayanagara forces were comprehensively defeated and this eventually led to their downfall. |
| Who wrote Ain-i-Akbari? | Abul Fazl. It is a work which deals with regulations issued by Akbar. |
| Who wrote 'Hitopadesha'? | Narayana Bhatta. Hitopadesha is a collection of stories, most of which were drawn from the Panchatantram of Vishnu Sharma. |
| Who wrote Kadambari? | Banabhatta. |
| Who wrote Lilavati, a treatise on Algebra? | Bhaskaracharya. |
| Who wrote the Arthashastra? | Kautilya. |
| Who wrote the Buddha Charita? | Ashvaghosha. |
| Who wrote the novel, 'Anand Math'? | Bankim Chandra Chatterji |
| Who wrote the poem "Heer Ranjha" (also known simply as "Heer")? | Wans Shah. |
| Who wrote the Ramayana in Tamil? | Kamban. |
| Who wrote the Telugu version of the Mahabharata? | Nanniah. Though he began the work it was eventually completed by Tikkanna. |
| Who wrote Uttara-Rama-Charitam? | Bhavabhuti. |
| Whom did Ahmed Shah Abdali serve as a general before proclaiming himself king? | Nadir Shah. Ahmed Shah Abdali proclaimed himself king of Afghanistan after Nadir Shah's assassination. |
| Whom did Chandragupta Maurya defeat to establish his kingdom? | The Nanda dynasty of Magadha. |
| Whom did Harsha succeed? | His elder brother, Rajyavardhana. |
| Whom did King Prataparudra consider as his guru? | Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. |
| Whom did Shah Jahan choose, in his last will, as his heir apparent? | Dara Shukoh. |
| Whom did the ruler of Bijapur send to capture Shivaji? | Afzal Khan. |
| Why did all the Congress ministers resign in 1939? | The working committee of the Congress asked the British Government to state whether their war aims included the elimination of imperialism and the treatment of India as a free nation. The British did not give a satisfactory reply. Hence they all resigned. |
| Why did Ashoka exempt the village of Lumbini from 'Bali' (tribute paid to the king)? | Because this was the birthplace of Gautama Buddha. |
| Why did Mahatma Gandhi spin cloth daily? | To emphasise the dignity of labour and the value of self-reliance. Gandhi once said that from among the activities he was engaged in, khadi and uplift of the scheduled castes was the most important to him. |
| Why did Muhammad-bin-Tughluq shift his capital from Delhi? | He shifted his capital to Deogir (Deogiri) because it held a central position in the empire and therefore, would be safe from Mongol invasions. |
| Why did Subhas Bose resign from the Presidentship of the Congress in 1939? | He did so because of opposition from Gandhiji. |
| Why is the term "Slave dynasty" an inaccurate term? | Only three sultans (Qutbuddin Aibak, Iltutmish and Balban) were slaves, and later even they were released from slavery by their masters. They were slaves, but only in the early part of their lives. |
| Why was the Akali movement started? | To remove corrupt mahants from the Gurudwaras. |
| Why was the chain of bells installed? | This was the "Chain of Justice" installed to ensure that all citizens of the country had access to justice. |
| Why was the Cripps Mission sent to India? | The British Government wanted India's help in the Second World War. It sent the Cripps Commission to persuade Indian leaders to support its war effort. |
| Why was the Indus Valley Civilisation originally called the Harappan Civilisation? | It was so called because the first site of this civilization was discovered (in 1921) at the modern site of Harappa, in present day Pakistan. |
| Why were people gathered at the JallianwaJa Baug? | They had gathered there to protest against the arrest of their leaders Dr. Saifuddin Kitchlew and Dr. Satyapal. |
| Why were temples the main target of Mahmud of Ghazni? | They had immense wealth stockpiled. |
| With which modern township would you identify the ancient port of Suppara (also known as Surparaka)? | Nala Sopara an extended suburb of modern Mumbai. |
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