Test: SSC CGL Previous Year Questions: History (2023-20) - 6 - SSC CGL MCQ

Humayun Shah (1458 – 1461) Ala-ud-Din Bahman Shah founded Bahmani Kingdom in 1347. Gulbarga Fort in Karnataka was built by him. Mohammed Shah I was the 2nd ruler of the Bahmani Sultanate. Tajuddin Feroz Shah (Bahmani KIngdom) is famous for conquering Raichur Daob from Vijayanagar Kingdoms.

Pyramidal. Gopuram (entrance gateway in the center of the front wall). Antarala (vestibular tunnel), garbhagriha (the innermost sanctuary of a Hindu and Jain temple). Famous Dravidian Temples - Rajarajeswara or Brihadeshwara temple (Rajaraja Chola at Thanjavur), Gangaikondacholapuram temple (Rajendra I), Annamalaiyar Temple (Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu), Meenakshi Temple (Tamil Nadu), Airavatesvara Temple (Tamil Nadu) etc.

Golconda fort (Hyderabad; Built by the Qutb shahi dynasty). Chitradurga fort (Karnataka; built by the Chalukyas and Hoysalas, later the Nayakas of Chitradurga of the Vijayanagar Empire. Daulatabad fort (Maharashtra; built by Yadava dynasty), and Aguada Fort (Goa; built by Portuguese).

Nagara style. Basically, there are 3 kinds of temple architecture: Nagara Style, Dravida Style, and Vesara Style. Examples of Nagara-style temples in India are- Khajuraho temples in MP, Kandariya Mahadev Temple in Madhya Pradesh, Sun temple at Konark, Sun temple at Modhera, Gujarat, and Ossian temple in Gujarat, etc.

Alwar. Famous Baori in India - Chand Baori (Rajasthan), Agrasen Ki Baoli (New Delhi), Rani ki Vav (Gujarat), Pushkarani (Karnataka), Baoli Ghaus Ali Shah (Haryana), Mata Bhavani ni Vav (Gujarat), Rajon ki Baoli (New Delhi), Surya Kund (Gujarat).

December 1782. Tipu Sultan (Tiger of Mysore) succeeded his father Hyder Ali as the Ruler of Mysore. The Mysore Palace was the residence of the Wodeyar Dynasty.

Dharmapala assumed the title of Uttarapatha Swamin, Parama Bhattaraka, Paramesvara, and Maharajadhiraja. He was the successor of Gopala (founder of the Pala empire). He was a pious Buddhist. He founded Vikramshila University in Bhagalpur, Bihar.

Dome (large hemispherical roof), arch, and Muqarnas vault. Styles of Indo-Islamic Architecture: The Imperial Style (Delhi sultanate); The Provincial styles (Mandu, Gujarat, Bengal, and Jaunpur); The Mughal Style (Delhi, Agra, and Lahore); The Deccani style (Bijapur and Golconda).

Hyder Ali. In 1769, he defeated the British forces several times and reached the Madras walls. In the second Anglo-Mysore War, he died in 1782 and was succeeded by his son Tipu.

Raja Mansingh Tomar. He was the ruler of Gwalior. He was a patron of the Dhrupad genre from Hindustani Classical Music. He built Gwalior fort (Gujari Mahal and Man Mandir Palace). The founder of the Tomar dynasty in India was Anangapala I.

14th-century '. Hafez was an Iranian poet. His collection of poems ‘Diwan’ is in Persian language. Most of the parts of ‘Diwan’ are Ghazals.

Recitation of sacred songs. Susm (tasawwuf) is a mystic sect of Islam that emphasizes introspection and spiritual closeness with God. They believe in inner purity rather than external conduct and rituals.

Kittur Chennamma was one of the rst Indian rulers to lead an armed rebellion against the British East India Company in 1824 against the implementation of the Doctrine of Lapse.

Ahsanabad. Bahamani Sultanate (Sunni Muslim empire that ruled the Deccan) - Founded in 1347 by ʿAlaʾ al-Din Bahman Shah. Between 1490 and 1518 dissolved into the ve successor powers of Bijapur, Ahmadnagar, Golconda, Berar, and Bidar.

Kapilendra Deva was the founder of the Suryavamsi Gajapati dynasty that ruled parts of Orissa and Andhra Pradesh in the 15th century (1434–66 CE).

Pondicherry. Five French colonies are Pondicherry, Karaikal in Tamil Nadu and Yanaon in Andhra Pradesh on the Coromandel Coast, Mahe in Kerala on the Malabar Coast and Chandernagore in West Bengal.

Osman Ali. He was the last Nizam (ruler) of the Princely State of Hyderabad. He ruled the Kingdom of Hyderabad between 1911 and 1948.

Pratihara dynasty was an imperial power during the Late Classical period on the Indian subcontinent that ruled much of Northern India from the mid-8th to the 11th century. They ruled rst at Ujjain and later at Kannauj.

Peter Mundy (Britain) was a seventeenth-century British merchant trader, traveller and writer. He was the rst Briton to record, in his Itinerarium Mundi, tasting Chaa (tea) in China and travelled extensively in Asia, Russia and Europe.

Uttar Pradesh (Banda district). Kalinjar Fort - Built by the Chandelas. Main attraction of Kalinjar is the Neelkanth Temple built by Chandela ruler Paramaditya Dev.

2nd Earl Cornwallis. The resultant war lasted three years and was a resounding defeat for Mysore.

Baji Rao II (10 January 1775 – 28 January 1851) was the last Peshwa of the Maratha Empire. Leaders and Places of the revolt of 1857: Kunwar singh -Bihar, Rani Lakshmibai - Jhansi, Begum Hazrat Mahal (wife of the deposed Nawab of Awadh, Wajid Ali Shah) - Lucknow, Bahadur shah Zafar - Delhi, Tatya tope and Nana saheb - Kanpur, Khan Bahadur Khan Rohilla - Bareilly.

29 March 1857. Mangal Pandey was a Sepoy in the 34th Bengal Native Infantry regiment of the British East India Company.

Lord Macaulay - Considered to be the founder of the British education system in India. He was also the chairman of the first Law Commission of pre - independent India.

Lord Cornwallis. Provision of Permanent Settlement - The Zamindars' proprietorship would stay as long as he paid the xed revenue at the said date to the government. Other States where Permanent Settlement Implemented - Bihar, Odisha. Other Settlements Related to Agriculture - Ryotwari System (Sir Thomas Munro), Mahalwari System (Holt Mackenzie).

Lord Curzon (1899-1905): Passed the Ancient Monuments Preservation Act in 1904. Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) - Founded in 1861 by Alexander Cunningham; Headquarters: New Delhi. Lord Ellenborough (1842-1844) - Annexation Of Sindh (1843). Lord Auckland (1836 - 1842) - The first Anglo-Afghan war occurred during his reign. Lord Lytton (1876-1880) - The Great Indian Famine of 1876-1878.

Awadh. Lord Dalhousie said this in 1851. Awadh Kingdom was formally annexed to the British Empire in 1856. The doctrine declared that if an Indian ruler died without a male heir his kingdom would “lapse”, that is, become part of Company territory. One kingdom after another was annexed simply by applying this doctrine:- Satara (1848), Sambalpur (1850), Udaipur (1852), Nagpur (1853) and Jhansi (1854).

James Mill in 1817, a Scottish economist and political philosopher, published a massive three-volume work "The History of British India". In his book history was divided into three periods: Hindu, Muslim, and British.

Lord Cornwallis - Cornwallis Code (1793), Father of Civil Services in India, Third Anglo-Mysore War (1789 - 1792) - (Lord Cornwallis and Tipu sultan), Permanent Settlement (1793) in Bengal.

Bengal and Bihar. Provision of Permanent Settlement (Introduced in 1793 AD) - The owners of the land were known as landlords or Zamindars, Hereditary rights of succession of the lands under them were granted to them, The sum which the landlords had to pay was xed, The Zamindars could sell or transfer the land as they wished. Other Settlements Related to Agriculture - Ryotwari System (Sir Thomas Munro, 1820), Mahalwari System (Holt Mackenzie, 1822).