General Knowledge
Ans : The Nizam Shahis of Ahmednagar. When Shah Jahan captured Ahmednagar, Shahaji sought service with the Sultan of Bijapur.
Ans : Warren Hastings.
Ans : Jalaluddin Firuz Khalji.
Ans : Indraprastha
Ans : The close disciples of Mahavira were called Ganadharas.
Ans : August 8, 1942, in Goculdas Tejpal Auditorium in Bombay.
Ans : Jainism.
Ans : Forward Bloc.
Ans : The master of the house.
Ans : Shreni.
Ans : He became the wakil of the kingdom with the title Khan-I-Khanan.
Ans : Dara Shukoh.
Ans : In 1905.
Ans : Mir Jafar.
Ans : They are all works of Kalidasa.
Ans : Abul Fazl. It is a work which deals with regulations issued by Akbar.
Ans : GuruNanak.
Ans : The Aryans
Ans : 552
Ans : Government of India Act of 1935.
Ans : 1707 AD
Ans : Jaimal and Patta. Akbar, to honour these two warriors ordered their stone statues, seated on elephants, be erected outside the gate of the Agra fort.
Ans : Chetak.
Ans : The Gaekwads established themselves at Baroda, the Bhonsales at Nagpur, Holkars at Indore and the Sindhias at Gwalior.
Ans : David Hare.
Ans : The Vernacular Press Act, 1878. This Act empowered a magistrate to stop a publisher from publishing anything that would create disaffection against the government.
Ans : The strategies adopted by Chanakya against the enemies of Chandragupta Maurya.
Ans : Salt.
Ans : 1861 AD
Ans : Rajendra Prasad.
Ans : MaheshDas.
Ans : William Bentinck.
Ans : 322 BC
Ans : Bahadur Shah.
Ans : It was the Grid System. In the format that they used all roads cut across each other almost at right angles. This led to the city being divided into blocks.
Ans : Tipu Sultan and the British.
Ans : Habba Khatun (also spelt Habba Khotun).
Ans : Rangoon.
Ans : In Pondicherry from 1910 till the end 1950.
Ans : Mohammad Quli Qutub Shah.
Ans : The Karshapana was a copper coin that was in use during the Mauryan times. Dharana was a Silver coin and the Kakani were smaller copper coins.
Ans : The limbs of the Vedas. It was necessary to learn the Vedanga to understand the Vedas. The Vedangas were : a) Shiksha (phonetics) b) Kalpa (rituals) c) Vyakarana d) Nirukta (etymology) e) Chhanda (metrics) f) Jyotisha (astronomy)
Ans : Bindusara
Ans : His daughter Razia.
Ans : The Champaran agitation was launched in the Champaran district of Bihar. It was against the English landlords who used to force the peasants, to cultivate indigo. When synthetic indigo was discovered they began to force the peasants to pay them compensation for not growing indigo any longer.
Ans : Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas (on 14th Jan 1761).
Ans : Rana Pratap.
Ans : Present day Kolkata.
Ans : The Jallianwala Baug massacre.
Ans : Shudraka.
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