SSC CGL Previous Year Questions: History - 8 - SSC CGL MCQ

After approximately 200 years of French rule, Alsace and the German-speaking part of Lorraine were ceded to Germany in 1871 under the Treaty of Frankfurt. In 1919, both regions were returned to France

James Princep was an English scholar and antiquary. From 1832 to 1838 he was assay-master in the India Government Mint, Kolkata. He is most noted as a philologist for fully deciphering and translating the rock edicts of Ashoka from the Brahmi script.

Tilak propounded the theory of the Arctic home of the Aryans, meaning that the Aryans originated in the Arctic region, and later, on the journey south, divided into two branches. One branch went to Europe, while the other branch came to India.

Alara Kalama was a hermit saint and a teacher of yogic meditation who lived near Rajagriha. According to the Pali Canon scriptures, he was one of the teachers of Gautama Buddha.

As Samh i ta is the collection of th e man tr as, so sometimes Samhitas are referred to as Mantras. Most of these mantras or hymns are concerned with nature and deities.

Ah im sa or n on - violen ce is t h e weapon used by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi to free India from the British Rule. Ahimsa is a Sanskrit term found in Devanagiri script meaning to do no harm. He believed that the best way to resist tyranny is through civil disobedience, which is founded upon Ahimsa.

The Aligarh Movement was the push to establish a modern system of education for the Muslim population of British India, during the later decades of the 19th century. Sir Syed Ahmed Khan was the leading light of the wider Aligarh Movement. His greatest achievement was the establishment of the Mohammedan Anglo Oriental College (Also known as Aligarh Muslim University) at Aligarh in 1875.

'Prince of pilgrims' Hieun Tsang, the well-known Chinese traveller was a Buddhist scholar who visited India in the 7th century A.D., (630-644 A.D). He came to India to visit all the places connected with the life of the Buddha, to further his knowledge of Buddhist philosophy and to collect Buddhist manuscripts.

After attaining enlightenment at Bodh Gaya the Buddha went to Sarnath; and preached his first discourse in the deer park to set in motion the 'Wheel of the Dharma'.

The Mahabharata was translated into Persian during Akbar's time. His great-grandson Dara Shikoh translated the Upanishads and the Bhagavad-gita into Persian.

The significant result of such cultural mixing was that most people became bilingual or skilled in two languages or even more.

Sushruta was ancient Indian surgeon known for his pioneering operations and techniques and for his influential treatise Sushruta-samhita, the main source of knowledge about surgery in ancient India.

Lord Canning was the Governor General of India from 1856 - 1862 and the first Viceroy in India from 1 November 1858. Lord Mountbatten was the First Governor General of Independent India.

1191 - First Battle of Tarain in which Prithviraj Chauhan defeated Mohd. Ghori.1192 - Second Battle of Tarain in which Mohd.Ghori defeated Prithviraj Chauhan.

Nana Phadnavis, also known as Balaji Janardan Bhanu, was an influential minister and statesman of the Maratha Empire during the Peshwa administration in Pune, India.

The first major attempt in curriculum reconstruction in India was made in 1937 when Gandhiji propounded the idea of Basic Education.

Simon Commission (1927) > Dandi March (1930) > Gandhi Irwin Pact (1931) > Poona Pact (1932)

Emperor Akbar named Prayag as Allahabad - City of God- also called Allahabad in 1575 AD.  The city of Allahabad is situated at the confluence of three rivers - Ganga, Yamuna and the invisible Saraswati. Every 12th year when the waters are felt to be especially purifying, Allahabad holds a much greater festival called Kumbh Mela. Built by Emperor Akbar in 1583 AD, the Allahbad fort stands on the banks of the river Yamuna near the confluence site i.e SANGAM.

Sankaradeva was an erudite scholar, a prolific writer, a versatile saint-poet of unlimited merit, a lyricist of universal acceptance, a musician of high calibre, a pioneer in the field of Assamese prose, drama and dramatic performances, a painter and above all the greatest religious teacher-preacher-leader of the medieval Vaisnava movement in Assam which is rightly known as the Sankaradeva Movement.

The Mansabdari System was introduced by Mughal emperor Akbar as new administrative machinery and revenue system. The Mansabdari system was nobles or mansabdars under which a mansabdar or noble was granted the rights to hold a jagir which meant revenue assignments (not the land itself) for services rendered by them, but the authority bestowed upon them was not unbridled but with the direct control of these nobles in the hands of the king.

The inscriptions could be classified as Major Rock Edicts; Minor Rock Edicts; Pillar Edicts inscribed on tall stone pillars; and miscellaneous edicts. D. James Princep was an English scholar, orientalist and antiquary. He was successfully deciphered Ashoka's edicts inscription in 1837.

Sri Krishnadevar aya wrote the Amuktamalyada in Telugu, in which he beautifully describes the pangs of separation suffered by Andal (one of the twelve bhakti era alwars) for her lover Lord Vishnu.

In the Battle of Wandiwash (1760), the war was fought between the French, under the Comte de Lally and the British, under Sir Eyre Coote. In it, the French forces were badly defeated by British forces and lost all their possessions in India. After the war, the Treaty of Paris was signed. As per the treaty, Pondicherry, Karaikal and Mahe were restored to the French under the protection of the English.

• Charaka : Charaka was on e of the pr in c i pal contributors to Ayurveda, a system of medicine and lifestyle developed in Ancient India. He is known for authoring the medical treatise, the Charaka Samhita.
• The Charaka Sahita is a Sanskrit text on Ayurveda (Indian traditional medicine).
• Susruta: Sushruta was an ancient Indian physician known as the main author of the treatise The Compendium of Susruta. The Mahabharata, an ancient Indian epic text, represents him as a son of Vishvamitra, which coincides with the present recension of Sushruta Samhita.
• Vagbhata: Vagbhata is one of the most influential classical writers of Ayurveda. Several works are associated with his name as author, principally the Ashtanga sangraha and the Ashtangahridaya samhita.

Megasthenes was an ambassador of Seleucus I Nicator of Greek to Chandragupta Maurya in Pataliputra, India, between 302 and 298 BCE.

Shivaji used cannons and ammun ition from the Portuguese to attack the English. Chhatrapati Shivaji was the famous Maratha king who had the utmost courage to stand against the vast ocean of Mughal rule, single-handedly.

Dyanand Saraswati completed his Vedic studies under Swami Virjanand in 1864. Thereafter, he travelled across India till 1874 AD for Vedic propagation and learning and gave slogan, Back to the Vedas.

Simon Commission was sent to India in 1928 to study potential constitutional reform. It was a group of seven British Members of Parliament under the chairmanship of Sir John Simon. The Simon Commission was opposed essentially because it did not have any Indian representation in the assemblage.

British member of Parliament (House of commons) Benziman Disraeli admitted the revolt of 1857 as a National Revolt. V.D Savarkar describe this revolt as the Indian's first struggle for Independence.