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Practice Test: Modern India - 4 - Question 1

The famous temple of Somnath was attacked by Mahmud of Ghazni in    

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1025 AD

Mahmud Ghazni attacked the Somnath temple in 1025 AD to loot the wealth amassed inside the temple.

Practice Test: Modern India - 4 - Question 2

Which of the following dynasty ruled in Magadha at the time of Alexander's invasion of India?

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Practice Test: Modern India - 4 - Question 3

What was the language employed by Surdas for his devotional songs?    

Practice Test: Modern India - 4 - Question 4

During Mauryan times royal-houses were mostly constructed of    

Practice Test: Modern India - 4 - Question 5

Which one of the following are considered to be the best specimen of Mauryan art?    

Practice Test: Modern India - 4 - Question 6

Who among the following historians, has described that Mahmud invaded India seventeen times?    

Practice Test: Modern India - 4 - Question 7

According to which tradition Ashoka is said to have visited Khotan in Central Asia in 236 B.C.?

Practice Test: Modern India - 4 - Question 8

Who is known as the Plato of the Jat tribe?    

Practice Test: Modern India - 4 - Question 9

The mausoleum of Humayun at Delhi was constructed by    

Practice Test: Modern India - 4 - Question 10

The Shalimar-garden at Srinagar was raised by    

Practice Test: Modern India - 4 - Question 11

During the invasions of Mahmud, the rulers of the far south India were    

Practice Test: Modern India - 4 - Question 12

Which of the following Mauryan rulers is believed to have conquered the Deccan?    

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After defeating Selucus Nicator, Chandragupta Maurya is said to have expanded his kingdom towards the South.
A “Moriya '' war in the south is referred to three times in the Tamil work Ahananuru and once in Phananuru. These literary works of the Sangham era mention how Moriya army chariots cut through rocks,but it is unclear if this refers to Chandragupta Maurya or the Moriyas in the Deccan region of 5th century CE.

Practice Test: Modern India - 4 - Question 13

Which one of the following religions was comparatively more popular in Chola country?    

Practice Test: Modern India - 4 - Question 14

The first kingdom of South India that was attacked by Malik Kafur was    

Practice Test: Modern India - 4 - Question 15

The Italian traveller Nicoli Conti has left a detailed and beautiful account of    

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Conti, Nicolo de a Venetian traveler who has left behind a reliable description about India (and Bengal). Born of a noble family in Venice, Nicolo de Conti had gone to Damascus as a trader in his youth in 1429. From there he travelled further east (date not mentioned), went overland to Persia and took a dhow (ship) to go to Malabar. From there, he came to the Vijayanagar kingdom. He then sailed, along with his wife and two children, to the Islands of Ceylon, Sumatra and Java.

Practice Test: Modern India - 4 - Question 16

Aryabhattiyam written by Aryabhata is primarily a treatise on    

Practice Test: Modern India - 4 - Question 17

The famous ancient Indian philosopher Shankara propagated the philosophy of    

Practice Test: Modern India - 4 - Question 18

Who wrote Panchatantra?    

Practice Test: Modern India - 4 - Question 19

Sir Thomas Roe was sent as the British Ambassador to the court of    

Practice Test: Modern India - 4 - Question 20

Which of the following foreign travellers visited India during the reign of Harsha?    

Practice Test: Modern India - 4 - Question 21

Who was the composer of Allahabad inscription of Samudra Gupta?    

Practice Test: Modern India - 4 - Question 22

The Ajanta caves are located in the territory of the    

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Ajanta caves were built during Gupta Period. The local feudalistic lord and king – Upendragupta oversaw the construction and built cave 17-20 and 29 under his patronage. In the mid-460s, all work on in Ajanta broke off in the “Recession” caused by the local king's fear of an attack by the aggressive neighbouring Asmakas.

Practice Test: Modern India - 4 - Question 23

The two important cities of the Indus Valley civilization (Harappa and Mohenjodaro) disappeared around

Practice Test: Modern India - 4 - Question 24

In Vedic age Sabha and Samiti were associated with    

Practice Test: Modern India - 4 - Question 25

One of the finest example of flourishing Pallava art and architecture is of    

Practice Test: Modern India - 4 - Question 26

Ala-ud-din Khalji wanted to maintain a large army to keep peace and order in the state and also to

Practice Test: Modern India - 4 - Question 27

Which is the most important divinity mentioned in the Rig Veda?    

Practice Test: Modern India - 4 - Question 28

The Saka era started from    

Practice Test: Modern India - 4 - Question 29

The commodity structure and direction of India‘s foreign trade was changed by

Practice Test: Modern India - 4 - Question 30

How did the international situation favour the British during the Revolt of 1857?

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