RL MISELENEOUS HIST 1 Flashcards by Pappu Roy

●The Gandhara art flourished under—

the Kushanas

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“●Who is known as the ““Father of the IndianRenaissance””?—”

Raja Ram Mohan Roy

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●Who wrote the song ‘Sare Jahan Se AcchaHindoostan Hamara’?—

Mohammad Iqbal

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●Kathakali classical dance originated in—

Kerala

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●The Jaina literature is known as—

Angas

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“●”“Autobiography of an unknown Indian”” was writtenby—”

Nirad C. Chaudhuri

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●What is the name of the famous folk drama of Bhils?—

Gavari

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●Raja Ravi Verma of Kerala was a distinguished—

painter

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“●Who is known as the ““Lady with the Lamp”” ?—”

Florence Nightingale

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●The World Heritage Sites in Madhya Pradesh are—

Khajuraho Temples, Sanchi Stupa and RockShelters of Bhimbetka

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●In India, the day 5th September is celebrated asTeacher’s Day to honour the birthday of—

Dr. S.Radhakrishnan

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●Sarnath is in the State of -—

Uttar Pradesh

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●’Let no man ask a man’s sect or caste’ - Whosedictum was this?—

Kabir

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●The large Shiva Temple at Thanjavur was built by -—

Rajaraja Chola

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●Who built Char Minar ?—

Quli Qutb Shah

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●The birth place of Guru Nanak was—

Talwandi

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●Santhali language is chiefly spoken by more than sixmillion people in India. Apart from the states ofBihar and Jharkhand, it is also spoken in the stateof:—

Assam, Orrisa, West Bengal and Tripura

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●Who is the writer of ‘Buddhacharita’ ?—

Ashwaghosha

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●To which king belonged the Lion Capital at Sarnath?—

Ashoka

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●The greatest development in the Kushana period wasin the field of—

Art

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●In which dance form is the theme/story always drawnfrom the Mahabharata or Ramayana?—

Kuchipudi

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●What is the popular form of musical theatre ofMaharashtra?—

Lavani

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●A single note played on Sitar and Veena differs in:—

Quality

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●In which regional dialect of Hindi did Kabir write?—

Bhojpuri

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●Who is well-known in Indian classical vocal music?—

M.S. Subbalakshmi

●Two Mahakumbh Fairs at the same place areorganized after an interval of:—

12 years

●Who is a famous violin player?—

Professor T.N.Krishnan

●Le Corbusier, the architect of Chandigarh, was anative of:—

France

●In which field did Jaimini Rai earn fame?—

Painting

●Where is the Pushkar fair organized?—

Ajmer

●Which museum of India is known as the repository ofworld art collection?—

Salarjung Museum

"●Who is believed to have popularized ""Thumri"" formof Indian music?—"

Amir Khusro

●Where is the Swaminarayan Temple, Akshardham,located?—

Gandhinagar, Gujarat

●Where is the Salarjung Museum located?—

Hyderabad

●Which musical instrument is devoid of strings?—

Trumpet

●Which musician was deaf?—

Beethoven L.V.

●Who is considered to be the 'Father of Sitar'? —

Amir Khusro

●At which place did miniature painting of Indianheritage develop?—

Kisangarh

●Which was the first color film to be directed in India?—

Mughal-e-Azam

●In which region is the 'Garba' dance famous?—

Gujarat

●Since when did Akashvani (A.I.R) start to work withits original name of 'Indian BroadcastingCompany'?—

1927

●What has been the field of activity of Pandit BhimsenJoshi?—

Classical Music (singing)

●Where did the dance form of 'Mohiniattam' develop?—

Kerala

●Which dance is related to war?—

Chhao dance ofMayurbhanj

●In which state is Madhubani folk painting famous?—

Bihar

●Which type of musical instrument is Santoor?—

String instrument

●What is the term for a collection of pictures which areused as input in documents?—

Clip art

●In which dance form was Huru KelucharanMahapatra skilled?—

Odissi

●In which period did Gandhara art develop?—

Kushana period

●The first talkie film of India was:—

Alam Ara

●Yamini Krishnamurty is famous for:—

Bharatanatyam dance form

●Who is famous for Indian classical vocal music?—

Pandit Jasraj

●Which place is famous for 'Chikan' genre ofembroidery?—

Lucknow

●Who is famous in the field of painting?—

Raja RaviVarma

●What is the most ancient musical instrument ofIndia?—

Veena

●Who was not a great Carnatic musician?—

VishnuDigambar Paluskar

●Who was the pioneer of Bengal style of painting?—

Abindranath Tagore

●What sort of musical instrument is Nadaswaram?—

Wind instrument

●In which dance form did Birju Maharaj gain fame?—

Kathak

●Which state government confers the 'TansenSamman'?—

Madhya Pradesh

●In the field of art, Rajasthani and Pahadi styles arefamous for:—

Painting

●With which discipline is Mallika Sarabhaiassociated?—

Classical dance

●Who is considered to be the composer of 'Mia kiMalhar' melody?—

Tansen

●With which musical instrument is HariprasadChaurasia associated?—

Flute

●Who promoted the Persian festival of Nauroz?—

Balban

●The masterpiece, called 'Hansa Damyanti' has beenpainted by:—

Raja Ravi Varma

●How many strings are there in Sarod?—

●Who portrayed the character of Mahatma Gandhi inthe film 'Gandhi'?—

Ben Kingsley

●In which city is the National School of Dramalocated?—

New Delhi

●Which folk dance is related to Rajasthan?—

Suisani

●Which folk dance is related to Karnataka?—

Yakshagaan

●Which folk dance is related to Uttar Pradesh?—

Thora

●Which folk dance is related to Jammu and Kashmir?—

Rauf

●Nautanki is the folk dance of:—

Uttar Pradesh

●Guru Gopinath was the exponent of:—

Kathakali

●Kuchipudi is one of the dance-drama of which Indianstate?—

Andhra Pradesh

●Satyajit Ray was associated with the field of:—

Filmdirection

●Which is the popular festival of Assam?—

RongaliBihu

●'Tabal Chongali' is one of the folk dances of:—

Assam

●Which place connected to Sikh religious tradition isnot located in India?—

Nankana Saheb

●Who is a renowned Odissi dancer?—

Sonal ManSingh

●Which is that musical instrument in which UstadAmjad Ali Khan is skilled?—

Sarod

●Who is renowned in the field of sculpture?—

SarojVaidyanathan

●Who is a famous Tabla player?—

Allah Rakha

Who is famous in the field of sculpture?—

PradoshDas Gupta

●Who was famous as classical vocal musicist?—

B.Krishnamurty Shastrigal

●Padma Subrahmanyam is an exponent of:—

Bharatanatyam

●In which musical instrument is Pandit Shiv KumarSharma proficient?—

Santoor

●Which language is spoken by the people ofLakshadweep?—

Malayalam

●'Gidda' is the famous folk dance of:—

Punjab

●Which one is a classical dance form?—

Bharatanatyam

●In which field has Pradosh Dasgupta gained fame?—

Sculpture

●For which creative art form is Sanyukta Panigrahifamous?—

Odissi dance

●Which one is a classical dance form?—

Kathakali

●In which state is the religious festival of 'GaneshChaturthi' celebrated with fervor and gaiety?—

Maharashtra

●Which one is not a form of Carnatic music?—

Tappa

●Who is not associated with Sitar?—

Ustad AlauddinKhan

●In which field has Ustad Bismillah Khan gainedfame?—

Shehnai

●Which language was given the status of a classicallanguage by the central government?—

Tamil

●From which state of India did Kathakali classicaldance begin?—

Kerala

●Classical dance of Odissi is the product of:—

Odisha

●Who is a famous Table player?—

Zakir Husain

●In whose honour is the 'Rath Yatra' organized inPuri?—

God Jagannaath

●Which religious leader established 'four mathas' inIndia?—

Shankracharya

●Who was the first Christian missionary to India ?—

Thomas the Apostle

●Which term is used to describe the spread ofBuddhism from India through Southeast Asia ?—

Cultural diffusion

●Name the Mughal Prince, who translated BhagavatGita into Persian ?—

Dara Shukoh

●The famous car (chariot) festival is held at—

Puri

"●""Sattriya Nritya"" recognised as a classical danceform of India by the Sangeet Natak Akademi onlyin 2000, originated from—"

Assam

●What is 'Milindapanho' ?—

A Buddhist text

●The National calendar based on the Saka era beganon—

AD 78

●Udayagiri rock-cut-caves are located in—

Orissa

●Sanjukta Panigrahi was famous for the dance—

Bharatnatyam

"●""Bhangra"" is a dance of—"

Punjab

●'Natya Shastra' was written by—

Bharat Muni

●Amuktamalyada is the work of—

Krishnadeva Raya

●The most popular festival in Tamil Nadu is—

Pongal

●Krishnadevaraya built the Krishnaswami temple inHampi, which is situated in the present state of:—

Karnataka

●The caves of Ajanta and Ellora belonged to :—

Buddhists

●Jataka is a Buddhist literature on—

Stories ofprevious births of Buddha

●When did the best productions of Gandharasculpture appear?—

Kushan period

●The seashore temple at Mahabalipuram was built by—

Narasimha Varman I

●The Crimean War came to an end by the—

Treaty ofParis

●During the Second World War, which country wasnot one of the three Axis Powers, which foughtagainst the Allied Powers ?—

China

●In which battle did Napoleonic France suffer finaldefeat?—

Battle of Trafalgar

●On which side did Japan fight in the First WorldWar?—

with United Kingdom against Germany

●According to Marx, the source of value is—

Labour

●Where was Christopher Columbus from ?—

Spain

●Who was the chairperson of the Chinese CommunistParty at the time of liberation of China?—

MaoZedong

●Cold War refers to—

tension between East and West

●Who is the oldest British monarch to sit on theThrone?—

Queen Elizabeth II

●Some lines of demarcation between two countries are—

MacMahon Line, Radcliffe Line and DurandLine

"●Who said : ""Where there is no law, there is nofreedom""?—"

John Locke

"●""The word impossible is found in the dictionary offools"" was the famous quote of :—"

Napoleon

●Peking is the sacred place of—

Confucianism

●Which country emerged as the biggest colonial powerat the end of the nineteenth century?—

Britain

●Marcopolo is known for—

travelling to China, Indiaand Asia

●The Declaration of American Independence wasbased on the theory of—

Natural Rights

"●Who said ""Man is a social animal""?—"

Aristotle

●On which dates did the US drop atom bombs onHiroshima and Nagasaki respectively ?—

Aug 6,1945 & Aug 9,1945

●Who drafted the Declaration of AmericanIndependence?—

Thomas Jefferson

●Between which European Powers was the CrimeanWar mainly fought?—

The Ottomans, British andFrench against the Russians

●The rapid colonization of Africa by the Europeanpowers after 1880 was motivated primarily by—

the desire for new markets, raw materials andstrategic advantage

●The Silk Routes were important in ancient timesbecause they—

facilitated the exchange of goodsand ideas between China and the Roman Empire

●When the Portuguese sailed around the Cape of GoodHope and entered the Indian Ocean in the latefifteenth century, they found—

a network of longdistance trade routes dominated by Muslimmerchants.

●The cradle of the Sumerian civilisation was the deltaof Euphrates and Tigris rivers. In what modernday nation is this located ?—

Iraq

●Japan's attack on which place brought the USA intoSecond World War ?—

Pearl Harbour

●When did China introduce civil serviceexaminations?—

6th century

●Who was the exponent of 'Natural Rights'?—

Locke

●Which civilization flourished in the Nile valley?—

Egyptian civilization

●Who discovered the art of paper making in the 2ndcentury B.C?—

Chinese

●Which civilization was the first to develop a drainagesystem?—

Indus Valley Civilization

●Where did Alexander the Great die in 323 B.C?—

Babylonia

●Which was the first civilization of the world that hada system for the selection of government officialson the basis of education and competitiveexaminations?—

China

●Which two countries were involved in the 100 YearsWar?—

England and France

●The French revolutionaries drew inspiration from theteachings of:—

Rousseau

●Who was the first Caliph?—

Abu Bakr

"●The great philosopher of 18th century who said,""Man is born free but is everywhere in chains,""was:—"

Jean Jacques Rousseau

●Which age is represented by Leonardo da Vinci?—

renaissance

●The beginning of French Revolution is associatedwith the fall of:—

Bastille

●The Industrial Revolution in England symbolized thezenith of transition:—

from Capitalism toSocialism

●Where did the convention of 'Shadow Cabinet'begin?—

Great Britain

●What was the consequence of the 1911 Revolution inChina?—

Establishment of Republic

"●Who said: ""I am the State""?—"

Louis XIV of France

●Which famous battle was fought between Napoleon Iand the Duke of Wellington?—

Battle of Waterloo

●Between whom was the Crimean War fought?—

Russia and Turkey

●Who discovered America?—

Columbus

●Where were ballots first used?—

Australia

●Which slogans were bequeathed to the world by theFrench Revolution?—

Liberty, Equality andFraternity

●When was the Magna Carta of Britain enforced?—

1215

"Who first called Britain as the ""country of traders""?—"

Napoleon

●During the age of Renaissance, the new style ofarchitecture first developed in:—

Italy

●Where did the Industrial Revolution begin?—

England

●Who was a Renaissance poet of Italy?—

Dante

●Herodotus is considered as:—

The Father of History

●Who was the main advocate of Fascism?—

Mussolini

●D-Day is that day when:—

The Allied forces landedin Normandy

●For adding the 50th state to the AmericanFederation, from which country did the UnitedStates of America buy Alaska?—

Russia

●At which place were the war criminals of SecondWorld War tried?—

Petersburg

●The American Civil War led to the abolition of:—

slavery

●During the Second World War, which general wasnamed 'Desert Fox'?—

Rommel

●In which country did the Fascist ideology develop?—

Italy

●During the Second World War, the Axis Powers wererepresented by:—

Germany, Italy and Japan

●V.I. Lenin is associated with:—

the RussianRevolution of 1917

●Mao-tse-Tung was the leader of socialist movementof:—

China

●What was the immediate reason behind the outbreakof First World War?—

Assassination of ArchdukeFerdinand

●The Opium Wars were fought between:—

Britainand China

●Which country attacked the American naval and airbase of Pearl Harbor?—

Japan

●Who was the American leader to launch a non-violentmovement for attaining full citizenship for theAmerican Negros?—

Martin Luther King

●One among the treaties of Paris, Versailles, Lorraineand the treaty of Brussels was an importantreason behind the outbreak of Second World Waras it had derogatory clauses. Which was thattreaty?—

Treaty of Versailles

●When was the Geneva Convention, on the treatmenton war victims, accepted?—

1909

"●Who authored the ""Communist Manifesto""?—"

KarlMarx

●4 July 1776 is an important day in world history.Why?—

The American Congress adopted the declaration of independence.

●When did the Second World War begin?—

3September 1939

●In which year did the French Revolution take place?—

1789

●During which period was the First World Warfought?—

1914-18

●Where was the concept of Public Interest Petitiondeveloped?—

U.S.A

●In which year did the United States of Americaachieve independence?—

1776

●Who were the three statesmen to start the non-aligned movement?—

Jawaharlal Nehru, GamalAbdul Nasser,Marshal Tito

●In which year did Soviet Union disintegrate into 15independent republics?—

1991

●The capital of Pakistan till 1959 was:—

Karachi

●Where is Waterloo situated?—

Belgium

●In which country is Karbala, the holy city of ShiaMuslims, located?—

Iraq

●In the Roman myths, Apollo is the deity ofprophecies:—

Oracle

●Where is Tashkent located?—

Uzbekistan

●The United Kingdom is the best example of an:—

Constitutional monarchy

●The Social Contract theory was advocated by:—

Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau

●The island of Corsica is associated with:—

NapoleonBonaparte

●The Japanese Parliament is known as:—

Diet

"●Who announced that democracy is a type ofgovernment which is ""by the people, to the peopleand for the people""?—"

Abraham Lincoln

●Marx was a native of:—

Germany

●Who expounded the theory of natural rights?—

Locke

●Which city is the world's oldest in terms of continualhabitation?—

Damascus

●Zend Avesta is the sacred book of:—

Persians

●The East India Company was granted an EnglishRoyal Charter, under the name Governor andCompany of Merchants of London Trading intothe East Indies, by __ on 31 December 1600.—

Elizabeth I

●The East India Company itself was finally dissolvedon 1 January __, as a result of the East IndiaStock Dividend Redemption Act.—

1874

●By the East India Company Act ___, the Parliamentof Great Britain imposed a series ofadministrative and economic reforms and bydoing so clearly established its sovereignty andultimate control over the Company.—

1773

●The title of Viceroy was abandoned when India andPakistan gained their independence in 1947, butthe office of Governor-General continued to existin both new dominions until they adoptedrepublican constitutions in 1950 and __respectively.—

1956

●Lieutenant-General Lord William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, known as Lord William Bentinck, was aBritish soldier and statesman. He served asGovernor-General of India from 1828 to ___.—

1835

●Akbar succeeded his father, Humayun, on 14February, ___, while in the midst of a war againstSikandar Shah Suri for the throne of Delhi.—

1556

●Shah Jahan commissioned the famous Taj Mahal inAgra which was built by the Persian architectUstad ___ as a tomb for Shah Jahan's wifeMumtaz Mahal, who died giving birth to their14th child.—

Ahmad Lahauri

●The Mughal dynasty was founded when Babur,hailing from ___, invaded parts of northern Indiaand defeated Ibrahim Shah Lodhi, the ruler ofDelhi, at the First Battle of Panipat in 1526.—

Fergana

●Akbar was born on October 15, 1542, at the RajputFortress of ___ in Sindh, where Humayun and hisrecently wedded wife, Hamida Banu Begum weretaking refuge.—

Umerkot

●Akbar was originally named Badruddin Akbar,because he was born on the night of a badr (fullmoon). After the capture of ___ by Humayun hisdate of birth and name were changed to throw offevil sorcerers.—

Kabul

●Several Turkic and Afghan dynasties ruled fromDelhi: the ___ dynasty (1206-90), the Khiljidynasty (1290-1320), the Tughlaq dynasty (1320-1413), the Sayyid dynasty (1414-51), and the Lodidynasty (1451-1526). In 1526 the Delhi Sultanatewas absorbed by the emerging Mughal Empire.—

Mamluk

●According to the conventional narrative, the Buddhawas born in Ancient India, in the city of Lumbini,around the year ___ BC, and raised inKapilavastu.—

563

"●The name Mughal is derived from the originalhomelands of the Timurids, the Central Asiansteppes once conquered by Genghis Khan andhence known as __, ""Land of Mongols"".—"

Moghulistan

●From 1540 Humayun became a ruler in exile,reaching the Court of the __ rule in 1554 while hisforce still controlled some fortresses and smallregions.—

Safavid

●Shah Jahan commissioned the famous Taj Mahal(1630-1653) in Agra which was built by thePersian architect __ as a tomb for Shah Jahan'swife Mumtaz Mahal, who died giving birth totheir 14th child.—

Ustad Ahmad Lahauri

●The Mughal dynasty was founded when Babur,hailing from Fergana (Modern __), invaded partsof northern India and defeated Ibrahim ShahLodhi, the ruler of Delhi, at the First Battle ofPanipat in 1526.—

Uzbekistan

●___ was a noted painter during the reigns of Akbar,Jahangir and Shah Jahan.—

Govardhan

●Fathullah Shirazi , a Persian-Indian polymath andmechanical engineer who worked for Akbar theGreat in the Mughal Empire, invented the ___, theearliest multi-shot gun.—

Autocannon

●The important buildings of Shah Jahan were theDiwan-i-Am and ___ in the fort of Delhi, the JamaMasjid, the Moti Masjid and the Taj.—

Diwan-i-Khas

●In ___, when Akbar was away from the capital on anexpedition, Salim broke into an open rebellion,and declared himself Emperor.—

1600

●The period between the 3rd century and 6th centuryA.D. is known as the Golden Age of India becauseof the large achievements in the fields of science,technology, art, literature, logic, astronomy, andphilosophy during the ___ Empire.—

Gupta

●In ___ Buddhism there can be no divine salvation orforgiveness for one's Karma, since it is a purelyimpersonal process that is a part of the makeup ofthe universe.—

Theravada

●___ are the only source of idea knowledge of theBactrian; Indo-Greeks and Indo-Parthiandynasty.—

Coins

●The Puranic accounts of the Satavahanas areascertained from the ___ hoard of coins.—

Jogalthambi

●The writings of ___ helped in scattering theknowledge of India to Europe before the invasionby Alexander. He highlights the features of theIndo-Persian relations.—

Herodotus

●Accounts of Pliny in the first century AD, accounts ofPtolemy in the second century AD and theaccounts of ___ of Tibet are useful insights intothe religion and history of the India in that period.—

Taranath

●The Department of Archaeology was set up by ___under the Director Generalship of Dr Marshal.—

Lord Curzon

●Excavations at south Indian sites such asAdichanallur, Chandravalli, Brahmagirihighlights the ___ periods.—

prehistoric

●Isolated remains of ___ in Hathnora in the NarmadaValley in Central India indicate that India mighthave been inhabited since at least the MiddlePleistocene era, somewhere between 200,000 to500,000 years ago.—

Homo erectus

●The ___ period in the Indian subcontinent covered atime span of around 25,000 years, starting around30,000 years ago.—

Mesolithic

●The first confirmed permanent settlements appeared9,000 years ago in the Rock Shelters of ___ inmodern Madhya Pradesh, India.—

Bhimbetka

●The earliest archaeological site in the Subcontinent isthe Paleolithic hominid site in the ___ Rivervalley.—

Soan

●Village life began with the Neolithic site of ___ whilethe first urban civilization of the region beganwith the Indus Valley Civilization.—

Mehrgarh

"●The ruins of Harrappa were first described in 1842by ___ in his Narrative of Various Journeys inBalochistan, Afghanistan and the Punjab, wherelocals talked of an ancient city extending ""thirteencosses"".—"

Charles Masson

●'Tarikh - e - Hind' ('an enquiry into India') by ___, alearned mathematician and astronomer, is aremarkable document about India.—

Alberuni

●Early Neolithic culture in South Asia is representedby the Mehrgarh findings (7000 BC onwards) inpresent day ___, Pakistan.—

Balochistan

●The Harappan language is not directly attested andits affiliation is unknown, a plausible relationwould be to ___.—

Proto-Dravidian

●In 1872-75 ___ published the first Harappan seal(with an erroneous identification as Brahmiletters). It was half a century later, in 1912, thatmore Harappan seals were discovered by J. Fleet.—

Alexander Cunningham

●Outposts of the Indus Valley civilization wereexcavated as far west as Sut-kagen- Dor inBaluchistan, as far north as at ___ on theAmudarya or Oxus River in current Afghanistan.—

Shortugai

●The ___ is by far the most archaic of the Vedic textspreserved, and it retains many common Indo-Iranian elements, both in language and in content,that are not present in any other Vedic texts.—

Rig-Veda

●The language of the Mahabharata and Ramayanaepics, and the Classical Sanskrit described by ___is considered post-Vedic, and belongs to the timeafter 500 BC.—

Panini

●The most important historical source of thegeography of post-Vedic India is the 2nd centuryGreek historian ___ whose report is based on theMauryan time ambassador to Patna,Megasthenes.—

Arian

●The earliest reference to the Magadha people occursin the ___ where they are found listed along withthe Angas, Gandharis, and Mujavats as despisedpeoples.—

Atharva-Veda

●The last ruler of Shishunaga Dynasty, ___ wasassassinated by Mahapadma Nanda in 424 BC,the first of the so-called Nine Nandas(Mahapadma and his eight sons).—

Kalasoka

●Around 321 BC, the Nanda Dynasty ended andChandragupta became the first king of the greatMauryan Dynasty and Mauryan Empire with thehelp of ___.—

Vishnugupta

●The Mandasor copper plates, the Sohgaura platefrom Gorakhpur district, the Aihole inscription ofMahendravarman, and the ___ inscriptions ofParantaka Chola I cast light on trade, taxes,currency.—

Uttiramerur

●Centered along the Indus and the Punjab region, theIndus Valley civilization extended into the ___River valley and the Ganges-Yamuna Doab,encompassing Pakistan, westernmost states ofIndia, Afghanistan, Baluchistan and Iran.—

Ghaggar-Hakra

●By 1931, much of Mohenjo-Daro had been excavated,but excavations continued, such as that led by Sir___, director of the Archaeological Survey of Indiain 1944.—

Mortimer Wheeler

●Magadha formed one of the sixteen Mahajanapadas.The core of the kingdom was the area of Biharsouth of the Ganges; its first capital was ___ atfirst and then Patliputra.—

Rajagriha

●The first Buddhist Council was held soon after theparinirvana of the Buddha, under the patronageof king Ajatasatru with the monk ___ presiding, atRajagriha.—

Mahakasyapa

●Mahavira's metaphysics consist of Anekantavada,Syâdvâda, and Karma; and his Panchavrats, fivecodes of conduct - Ahimsa, Satya, Asteya, ___, andAparigraha.—

Brahmacharya

●Mahavira organized his followers into a fourfoldorder; monk (Sadhu), nun (Sadhvi), layman(Shravak), and laywoman (Shravika). This orderis known as ___ Jain Sangh.—

Chaturvidh

●The Ashokan edicts precisely name each of the rulersof the Hellenic world at the time such as Amtiyoko(Antiochus), ___ (Ptolemy), Amtikini (Antigonos),Maka (Magas) and Alikasudaro (Alexander) asrecipients of Asoka's proselytism.—

Tulamaya

●The appellation Indus-Sarasvati is based on thepossible identification of the Ghaggar-HakraRiver with the Sarasvati River of the ____ sukta inthe Rig Veda.—

Nadistuti

●Archaeologically, the Rig Vedic period maycorrespond with the Gandhara Grave Culture, the____ culture of the Punjab and the OchreColoured Pottery culture (OCP) further east.—

Cemetery H

●Archaeologically, the rapid spread of Northern BlackPolished Ware (NBP) over all of northern Indiacorresponds to the ____ period.—

Post-Vedic

●The ancient kingdom of ___ is mentioned in theRamayana, Mahabharata, Puranas. It is alsoheavily mentioned in Buddhist and Jain texts.—

Magadha

●The theory of dependent origination in ___ says thatany phenomenon 'exists' only because of the'existence' of other phenomena in a complex webof cause and effect covering time past, present andfuture.—

Buddhism

●The Second Buddhist council took place in Vaishali,about one hundred years after the Buddha'sParinirvana, in order to settle a serious dispute on____.—

Vinaya

●Mahavira is the name most commonly used to referto the Indian sage ____ who established what aretoday considered to be the central tenets ofJainism.—

Vardhaman

●The mature phase of the Indus Valley Civilization isalso known as the Harappan Civilization as thefirst of its cities to be unearthed was the one atHarappa, excavated in the 1920s in what was atthe time the ___ province of British India.—

Punjab

●The invasion of ____, the King of Persia, of the Indusvalley in the early 6th century BC marks thebeginning of outside influence which remainedhallmark of India till the modern times.—

DariusI

●In 326 BC, the army of Alexander the Greatapproached the boundaries of the Magadhawhich, however, exhausted and frightened at theprospect of facing another giant Indian army atthe Ganges, mutinied at the Hyphasis (modern____).—

Beas

"●Who gave the theory that all beings suffer from allsituations due to unclear mind; all things areimpermanent and that the perception of aconstant ""self"" is an illusion?—"

Buddha

●Which socio-religious reformers of ancient Indiapreached that from eternity, every living being(soul) is in bondage to karmic atoms accumulatedby good or bad deeds?—

Mahavira

●In the post-Mauryan period, the Greco-Bactrianking, ____, capitalized on the break-up, andconquered southern Afghanistan and Pakistanaround 180 BC, forming the Indo-GreekKingdom.—

Demetrius

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