History Test-2 - Defence MCQ

Aurangzeb was called “Zinda Pir”or “Living Saint ” in Mughal India.

The two Sayyid brothers were Abdulla Khan and Hussain Ali Khan are called King Maker of Indian history.

Amuktamalyada is an epic poem in Telugu composed by Krishnadevaraya of the Vijayanagar Dynasty. Amuktamalyada translates to one who wears and gives away garlands.

Muhammad Shah was a great patron of the arts, including musical, cultural and administrative developments. His pen-name was Sada Rangila ("ever joyous") and he is often referred to as "Muhammad Shah Rangila".

Kailasa temple  is one of the largest rock-cut ancient Hindu temples located in Ellora, Maharashtra, India. A megalith carved out of one single rock, it is considered one of the most remarkable cave temples in India because of its size, architecture and sculptural treatment.

Seven Pagodas" has served as a nickname for the south Indian city of Mahabalipuram temple which is built by pallava king Narasimhavarman II.It is a shore temple on the bay of Bengal. 

Badruddin Taiyabji was the first Muslim President of Indian National Congress .He became the Ist Indian Barrister in Bombay and he was the founding member of Bombay presidency association and INC and also presided over the 3rd congress session in Madras in 1887.

The Communal Award was made by the British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald on 16 August 1932 granting separate electorates in India for the Forward Caste, Lower Caste, Muslims, Buddhists, Sikhs, IndianChristians, Anglo-Indians, Europeans and Untouchables.

The Congress Socialist Party was founded in 1934 as a socialist caucus within the Indian National Congress under Acharya Narendra Dev and Jai Prakash Narayan.

The Karachi session was held from March 26-31 in 1931. The session was presided by Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel. Before this session, there was anger among masses because the three great martyrs ( Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru )were hanged to death. This incident had made people come against the Congress.

Chanhu Daro is situated 130 kms south of Mohenjo-Daro in Sindh and there has been found a single mound. It was discovered by N G Majumdar in 1931. Chanhu Daro is the only harappan city which does not have a citadel.

Lothal is excavated by R. Rao in 1953 .It is Located in Gujarat and also called as mini-Harappa. The  first manmade port and a dockyard, bead maker factory, rice husk, fire alters, chess playing, seals of Persia ,evidence of Joint burial are the evidences from this place.

The Al-Hilal was a weekly Urdu language newspaper established by the Indian leader Maulana Abul Kalam Azad and used as a medium for criticism of the British Raj in India. The first issue came out on 13 July 1912.

Abu'l Fazl was assassinated while he was returning from the Deccan by Vir Singh Bundela between Sarai Vir and Antri  in a plot contrived by Akbar's eldest son Prince Salim.

Akbar introduced the Dahasala or Zabati system of land revenue collection in 1580-82 to alleviate the problems arising due to fixing prices every year and doing settlements of revenues of previous years.In this system, average produce of ten years was derived. One third of this average produce was fixed in Rupees per Bigha and fixed as share of the state (Mal). Rest two third share was left to the cultivators (Kharaj).

The Salt March, also known as the Dandi March and the Dandi Satyagraha, was an act of non violent civil disobedience in colonial India initiated by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi to produce salt from the seawater in the coastal village of Dandi, as was the practice of the local populace until British officials introduced taxation on salt production, deemed their sea-salt reclamation activities illegal, and then repeatedly used force to stop it.

Mahatma Gandhi was born in Porbandar.

First all India hartal on April 6, was  a "hartal" organised where Indians would suspend all business and fast as a sign of their opposition and civil disobedience would be offered against specific law. This event is known as the Rowlatt Satyagraha.

Champaran movement-1917

Chauri Chaura incident-1922

Khilafat movement -1919

First round table conference-1930

The Rig Veda is the oldest of the Vedas. All the other Vedas are based upon it and consist to a large degree of various hymns from it. It consists of a thousand such hymns of different seers, each hymn averaging around ten verses. The Rig Veda is the oldest book in world.