Test: South India & The Cholas (800-1200 A.D)- 3 - UPSC MCQ

Very little is known about Kshatriyas, Vaishyas and Shudras.

The concept of pullution is known.

Both men and women were sold as slaves and some of them to the temples.

The Brahmanas continued to represent an alien culture.

Kapalikas, Kalamukhas, and Pashupatas were known and some of them performed sacrifices involving blood and sexual orgies.

Various sects like the Tantric and Shakti cults came into existence in the second half of the Chola period.

The latter Chola period witnessed the emergence of the Lingayats as founded by Basavarya.

The emergence of sects had nothing to do with Brahmanism.

Mahayana Buddhism

Hinayana Buddhism

Saivism

The Digambara sect of the Jains

The assembly could sell land for religious purposes without refering to the central government.

The assembly did not collect taxes from the people.

The assembly could not acquire fresh land.

The assembly was not the proprietor of the village land.

Kurram

Nadu

Taniyar

Kottam

Garden committee

Annual committee

Tank committee

Gold committee

Provinces on the fringes of the kingdom were eroded by the neighbours.

Frequent campaigns exhausted Chola resources.

The agrarian crisis and bureaucratic oppression resulted in people’s rebellions.

The eventual breaking of Chalukya power by the Cholas recoiled on them and the Chalukya feudatories who set up their own kingdoms attacked the Cholas.

All of the above.

Shudras

Kshatriyas

Vaishyas

Chandalas

Chola dynasty

Khalji dynasty

Yadava dynasty

Slave dynasty

Camara

Kaveripat tinam (Puhar)

Cochi

Sopatma

Rajaraja

Rajendra I

Parantaka I

Vijayalaya

Roads

Irrigation system

Hospitals

Rest houses

The Nayanars and the Alvars figured for the first time in this period.

The age of Kamba is the golden age of Tamil literature.

All of the these

The collected writings of Nayanars and the Alvars in the name of Tirumuries came to be looked upon as the fifth Veda.

Kamban, the author of Ramayana, lived in the court of a Chola king. 

Vijayalaya

Karikala

Rajaraja

Parataka I

Mahabalipuram

Kaveripattinam

Shaliyur

All of the above

Superior quality of textiles

Precious stones

Spices

All of the above

 Only (A) is correct

Only (A) and (B) is correct

Only (C) is correct

All of the above

They were associations founded by trading merchants to safeguard their trade.

They bought goods at the place of manufacture and distributed them through an elaborate network.

Their political power in the affairs of the State was commensurate with their economic strength.

They had access to any region of the subcontinent on centres overseas.

They were the palace guards.

They were of a special category of officials.

They were the two groups of rival industrial classes.

They were royalists and republicans.

Devadasis were commonly found in most temples.

The vast majority of women had to work, either in their homes or in the fields.

Courtesans and upper-class women had a certain freedom of movement.

A number of restraints were put on their social activities.

The temple was the centre of formal education in Sanskrit.

Professional education was imparted by the merchant’s guild.

Education was available in the Jain and Buddhist Monasteries.

All of the above.

Mandapa

Vimana

Shikhara

Gopuram

India exported textiles, spices, drugs, ivory and ebony, both to China and the West.

Trade was not a state monopoly.

Probably both king and merchants invested money in it.

All of the above.

Knowledge of epics and Puranas was imparted through discourses in temples.

The age also witnessed the Sibakasindamani and theRamayana of Kamban, the two Tamil classics.

Inscriptions bears the testimony to the existence of institutions catering to medical science.

All of the above.

Chola life was closely integrated with religion—the hub of social and cultural life.

Temple architecture attained its climax.

The Cholas were against the devadasi system.

Some of the temples entered business, lent money and took part in business enterprises

Elections were held for all of them.

They enjoyed very little autonomy.

It was within the precincts of the temple that ticket of prospective candidates were drawn one by one and the results announced.

Large townships had their own autonomous administration known as Tar-Kurrams.

Periodical surveys of lands were carried out.Generally the tax was one-sixth of the produce.

Payments were to be made in gold coins called ‘kasu’ or in kind.

The other sources of revenue apart from the land, were taxes on animals, tanks, oil mills, etc.

There were no oppressive taxes.

Gathering of the adult in the Brahmin villages.

They consisted of committees to help revenue collection, law and order, justice etc.

They could get fallow lands cleared and own them.

All of the above.

Only I

II & III

I, & III

Only V

Rajaraja I

Rajendra I

Prantaka I

Aditya Chola