History: Most Important History One Liner Question and Answer part-2
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History: Most Important History One Liner Question and Answer part-2
Who initiated the civil service in India - Lord Cornwallis
Government's transfer from 'Company' to 'Emperor' was announced by Lord Canning on 1 November 1858 - in Allahabad
Who went to the Imperial court in 1877 wearing handmade khadi clothes - V. Joshi
During the British rule, who was the founder of the 'Rayatwadi system' in the then Madras Presidency - Thomas Munro
Who was the first Governor General of Bengal - Warren Hastings
Which Governor General had abolished the practice of sati in India - Lord William Bentick
Who was the first Indian to qualify in the Indian Civil Service - Satyendra Nath Tagore
Who was the last Governor General of Bengal - Lord William Bentick
Which Governor-General was related to the abolition of cheating - Lord William Bentick
The last Governor General of the East India Company and the first Viceroy under the Crown was - Lord Canning
Which Governor General's name was associated with the State Hadoop Policy - Lord Dalhousie
Who was the last Viceroy of India - Lord Mountbatten
India became independent during the Viceroy's time – Mountbatten
Who was the first Indian Governor General of India - Rajagopalachari
Who can be considered as the most useful and important reform of Lord Curzon, especially in relation to people living in undivided Punjab province - Agricultural reforms
Who had passed the Indian University School Act - Lord Litton
Who was the pioneer of local autonomy in India - Ripon
From which station was the rail journey started in India for the first time in 1853 - Bombay (Mumbai)
Who was established under Pitts India Act - Board of Control
Who established the Supreme Court in Calcutta - Regulatory Act of 1773
Who started the system of communal constituencies in India - Minto Marley Reforms of 1909
The important feature of which act was provincial autonomy – 1935
The person who introduced the notion of bicameral in the 1919 Act was - Montague
1921 Narendra Mandal or Chamber of Princes was started by - Duke of Cannaught
The Government of India Act, 1935 was based on - Simon Commission
In which year Lala Lajpat Rai was deported and sent to Mandalay for organizing agrarian movement in Punjab - 1907
Gandhiji's movement for boycott of foreign goods was aimed at- encouraging cottage industries.
On which date India got the status of jurisdiction - August 15, 1947
Gandhiji was a true supporter of - cottage industries.
In whose failure Swaraj Party was formed later - Non-Cooperation Movement
Motilal Nehru and Chittaranjan Das were founding members of - the Swaraj Party
Whom was the Round Table Conference held in London to discuss - the future Constitution of India
Who was the first woman President of Congress- Annie Besant
When the Mountbatten Plan of Independence was accepted, who was the President of the Indian National Congress at that time - Archai J.B. Kripalani
Which party was founded by Subhash Chandra Bose after leaving the Indian National Congress - Forward Block
Who was the founder of Azad Hind Fauj - Subhash Chandra Bose
Subhash Chandra Bose hoisted the flag of the Indian National Army in a city on April 12, 1944, which state is currently in which state – Manipur
How many delegates attended the first session of the Indian National Congress – 72
Who was the founder of Indian National Congress - O. Hume
Khilafat Movement was started to protest against the humiliation of the- Turkish Khalifa
In 1916, Indian National Congress and Muslim League came close to each other - in Lucknow
Where and in what year was the split between the soft party and the hot party - in 1907 Surat session of the Congress
Lala Lajpat Rai was protesting against whom when he became a victim of police brutality - Simon Commission
Poona agreement was signed between Mahatma Gandhi and - R. Ambedkar
Home rule League was established during - World War I
Muslim League was founded in which year – 1906
The nationalist leaders of India boycotted the Simon Commission because - all the members of the commission were British.
Who was the founder of 'Servants of India Society' - K. Gokhale
The High Court of Calcutta, Madras and Bombay came into existence during the tenure of which Viceroy - Lord Canning
Who was Bal Gangadhar Nilak called his political guru - Dadabhai Naoroji
When was the Gandhi-Ivrin agreement signed - March 5, 1931
Who was the chairman of the State Reorganization Commission which recommended re-demarcation of states on linguistic basis - Fazal Ali
Gandhiji was influenced by whose writings - Leo Tolstoy
Who coined the term Satyagraha – Gandhi
Who went to meet Gandhiji in South Africa- Gopal Krishna Gokhale
Where did Mahatma Gandhi go to run the Satyagraha movement among the workers of cotton textile factories in 1918 – Ahmedabad
From which movement did Mahatma Gandhi enter Indian politics - Champaran movement
The only AICC headed by Gandhiji. Where was the convention held - Belgaum
Where did the Salt Satyagraha end – Dandi
In 1939, Subhash Chandra Bose was elected President of the Congress Party by defeating- Pattabhi Sitaramayya
Why was the Cabinet Mission sent to India - to set up a constitutional system for transfer of power
What was the main reason for starting the Quit India Movement in 1942 - failure of Cripps Mission
Quit India movement was started in 1942 – August
Where was the parallel government formed during the Quit India Movement- Ballia
Gandhi adjourned after the Chaura-Chauri scandal - Non-cooperation movement
Where did the Indian National Congress pass its famous resolution of non-cooperation in its session held in 1920 - in Calcutta
What were the three main forms of Satyagraha - non-cooperation, civil disobedience and boycott
Gandhiji's visit to Dandi is an example of which - civil disobedience
In which snake salt satyagraha was started - in 1930
Gandhiji started a movement in violation of the Salt Law, which was called - Civil Disobedience Movement
In which session of the Indian National Congress Purna Swaraj was announced – Lahore
Who was the first president of independent India - V. Mavalankar
Who was the founder of the concept of Sarvodaya - Mahatma Gandhi
Where was Christopher Columbus – Jinoa
What is the meaning of non-interference policy - removal of certain restrictions
Who founded the Banaras Hindu University- Madan Mohan Malviya
"Where there is no law, there is no freedom". Where was it - John Locke
The methods of democratic socialism - explain and propagate
Who was the co-founder member of Russia's Populist movement 'Anarchism' - Mikhail Bacunin
Who built the Great Wall of China - Shih Huang Tee
Karl Marx's book Das Capitol was published in - 18
In which fight did the final defeat of Napoleon France - Battle of Trafalgar
By whose fall did the French Revolution begin – Bastille
Boston Tea Party incident is related to - American Independence War
Between whom was the Crimean War fought in 1854–1856 - with the United Kingdom against Germany
By which treaty the First World War ended - Treaty of Versailles
Who was the oldest British king / queen to sit on the throne - Queen Mary Tudor
Bhimbetka cave in which state - Madhya Pradesh
The streets of the cities of the Indus Valley Civilization were - Chady and Sidhi.
The ruins of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro are found on the banks of which river - Harappa on the banks of Ravi and Mohenjo-Daro on the banks of the Indus.
Which script of Indus Valley Civilization is - unknown
Which is the largest building in Mohenjo-Daro – Dhanyagara
Whose idol was an important composition of the people of the Indus Valley - the dancing girl
Which are the port cities of Indus Valley Civilization- Lothal
The strength of the Indus economy was - Trade
(Indus Valley Civilization) is in which country – Afghanistan
The meaning of the word Veda is – Knowledge
Varna system in early Vedic period is based on -
Who was the first European to call Aryo a caste - Maxmüller
Which tribal assembly was normally involved in the election of tribal chieftain - committee
In the Vedic era, what the king used to collect from his people, what was he called - Bali
Satyameva Jayate engraved on Indian emblem is taken - from Mundakopanishad.
Which marriage was not considered legal in ancient India - Gandharva marriage
Buddha was related to which dynasty – Shakya
Where did Buddha give his first sermon – Sarnath
Coins made of metal first appeared in the time of Buddha.
In which language were the early Buddhist literature – Pali
In Buddhism, what is the relation of 'Bull' with the- life of Buddha- Birth
Buddha Dhamma and Sangha together are called – Triratna
What is called a semi-circular structure with domed roofs built on the sacred remains of Buddhists - Stupa
In which year Buddha died - 483 BC
Among the eras of Indian history, during which Kshatriyas held a distinct identity - in the era of Buddha.
Who is the founder of Jainism in India - Mahavir Swami
Where did Vardhman Mahavir obtain Parinirvana - Pava
Who was the famous ruler of ancient India, who adopted Jainism in the last days of his life- Chandragupta
In the sixth century BCE, who had a huge stock in Magadha – iron
Name the kingdom that first used elephants in war – Magadha
Herodotus is considered the - father of history
Whose army competed with the Greek ruler Alexander on the banks of the river Jhelum – Poru
Where did Chandragupta Maurya spend his last days - Shravanabelagola
Who was the son of Bindusara – Ashoka
Which would be the most accurate description of Mauryan monarchy under Ashoka - enlightened arbitrary rule
Who was the person whose name was Devanam Priyadarshi - Maurya King Ashoka
In which year Kalinga war took place - 261 BC
In which rock edict, Ashoka mentions the casualties of Kalinga war and declares war renunciation - Shila Rajadesh XIII
What was the name of the ambassador of Greece in the Maurya court – Megasthenes
Ashoka adopted Buddhism by being influenced by which Buddhist monk - Upagupta
Which was the most famous center of education during Mauryan period- Taxila
Who wrote the Arthashastra – Kautilya
Who and when did Ashoka's inscriptions first clarify the meaning - 1837- James Prinsep
Soon after the Maurya dynasty, which dynasty came and ruled the kingdom of Magadha – Sunga
Charaka was the monarch of which - Kanishka
Which art is also known as Greco Buddhist art - Gandhara art
In which year Kanishka ascended the throne - 78 AD.
Who was the Kushan ruler of Buddhism – Kanishka
Who was a great ruler of Kalinga in ancient times- Kharavel
Kalinga ruler Kharavel gave protection - to Jainism
Gupta king who assumed the title of Vikramaditya - Chandragupta II
Silver coins of Gupta period are called- Rupyak
Who was called Lichhavi Dauitra – Samudragupta
Which Hindu king is famous on the name of Indian Napoleon – Samudragupta
From which year did the famous Gupta Samvat begin - 319 AD
Who built the Allahabad Pillar Inscription – Harishen
Who compiled the stories of Panchatantra - Vishnu Sharma
Varahamihira was an- ancient astronomer.
Who was the Chola king who took the Ganges from north to south - Rajendra Chola
Most of the Chola temples are dedicated to which deity - Shiva
Chola dynasty ruled mostly in which part of India – South
Which Chola ruler had conquered the northern part of Sri Lanka and made it a province of his empire - Raja raja
Which Chola ruler built the new capital Gangaikonda Cholapuram - Rajendra I.
Where was the capital of ancient Chola empire – Uraiyur
Who built the Kailashnath Temple at Ellora -
Ellora has caves and rock-cut temples - Hindu, Buddhist and Jain
Sapta Pagoda of Mahabalipuram is a witness to the art preserved by - Pallavas
The famous Kailash temple cut by solid rock at Ellora was constructed under the protection of - Rashtrakuta
During the reign of which Pallava ruler, a long struggle had begun between the Pallavas and the Chalukyas - Mahendra Varman.
Rath temples were built in Mahabalipuram during the reign of which Pallava ruler - Narasimana Varman I
Who was the famous ruler of Western Chalukya dynasty - Pulakeshin II
In whom is the Bhoomi Maam of the second Pandyan kingdom mentioned - Thalavipuram copper plates
Who was the author of Vikramankadevacharit – Bilhan
The author of Kandabari, a great romantic Nabak was - Banabhatta
Who built the famous Dilwara temple in Mount Abu, Rajasthan in the 13th century- Tejpal
Which religions / religions have temples in Khajuraho group of monuments in Madhya Pradesh - both Hindu and Jain
Mihir Bhoj belongs to which clan of Rajputs – Pratihara
Who had defeated Harshvardhan - Pulakeshin II
Where was the initial capital of Harshavardhana- Thaneshwar
Four 'Maths' were established at Sringeri, Badrinath, Dwarka and Puri - by Adi Shankara
Arabs were defeated in 738 AD – Pratiharas
Who built the Sun Temple of Konark - Narasimhadeva I
Where was the capital during the time of Tomar Rajputs - Delhi
Sultan Mahmud was the ruler of - Ghazni
In which war was Prithviraj Chauhan defeated by Muhammad Ghori - Tarain, in 1192 AD
Which famous ruler had completed Qutub Minar – Iltutmish
Who was the first Sultan of Delhi to issue regular currency and declare Delhi as the capital of his empire – Iltutmish
Who is credited with the destruction of Chihalgani, a group of powerful nobles – Balban
Who was the first Delhi Sultan to dissolve the power of Turkish feudals known as Chihalgani or Forty - Balban
Who was the first woman ruler of India - Razia Sultan
Khilji Sultan of Delhi was -
The largest permanent army of the Sultanate dynasty, which was directly paid by the state, was formed - Alauddin Khilji
Market Regulation System was introduced - by Alauddin Khilji
Whom India Parrot Goes- Amir Khusro
For what reason Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq was a failed man - because he was not a practical politician.
Who started the symbol money of leather in India - Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq
Who was the Delhi Sultan to impose jizya on Brahmo- Ferozeshah Tughlaq
Where did the traveler Ibn Batuta come from – Morocco
Qutub Minar as we see it today was finally rebuilt - by Firoz Tughlaq
Sultans of which dynasty ruled for the longest time - Tughlaq dynasty
Which dynasty comes under the rule of Tughlaq dynasty in India- Syed dynasty
When did the reign of Delhi Sultanate end - 1526 AD
Which art progressed the most during the Sultanate period – Architecture
Shivaji's contemporary Maratha saint's name was- Sant Tukaram
The rulers of Vijayanagar encouraged - Tamil, Telugu, and Sanskrit.
In 1420 AD, the name of the traveler in Italy who came to the Vijayanagara Empire was - Niccolo de Conti
Which book was written by Krishna Dev Rai - Amukt Malyad
The medieval city of Vijayanagar is nowadays called - Hampi
When was the famous battle of Talikota in - 1565 AD
Who among the Bahman rulers built the famous Gol Gumbaz at Bijapur - Muhammad Adilshah
Bijapur is famous for what - Gol Gumbaz
Who built the Victory Pillar in Chittorgarh - Rana Kumbha
The famous Kohinoor diamond was extracted from the Kis Khan - Golconda
In which year was the first battle of Panipat fought – 1526
In which language did Babar write his memoirs titled Tujuk-e-Babri – Turkish
The Rajput king who was defeated by Babur in the Battle of Khanwa was - Rana Sanga
Who built 'Purana Quila' in Delhi - Sher Shah suri
In which fight Humayun had to flee India after the defeat - Kannau
Who built Humayun's tomb in Delhi - Haji Begu
Under whom did the meritorious revenue officer Todermal serve - Sher Shah
What was the age of Akbar at the time of the coronation in Kalanaur - thirteen years
Who did the Persian translation of Mahabharata- Badauni
Who wrote the story on Akbar's life - Abul Fazl
The original purpose of making Di-e-Elahi was- Vishwabandhuva
Who started the mansabdari system - Akbar
Who built Fatehpur Sikri – Akbar
Where did Akbar conduct his religious deliberations - Ibadat Khana
Who was his regent in the early days of Akbar- Bairam Khan
Which ruler had abolished Jiziya tax- Akbar
Who was the famous revenue minister of Akbar – Todarmal
What was the original name of the most famous musician Tansen in the court of Akbar- Ramtanu Pandey
Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitmanas under whose reign - Akbar
Nur Jahan was the wife of which Mughal ruler - Jahangir
Painting during which reign reached its highest level – Jahangir
Which Mughal emperor prohibited the use of tobacco – Jahangir
Which Mughal emperor moved the Mughal capital from Agra to Delhi - Shah Jahan
The world famous 'Takht-e-Taus' was kept in which Mughal building - in the mad man of the Red Fort of Delhi
who was imprisoned by Aurangzeb for the rest of his life- Shah Jahan
Which Mughal emperor is known as "Zinda Pir"- Aurangzeb
The court language of the Mughal rulers was- Persian
Where is Bibi Ka Maqbara located in India - in Aurangabad
In which century Delhi's Jama Masjid was built - 17th
A rupee coin was minted during the reign of Kiss- Sher Shah Suri
Where did Sher Shah die - in Kalinjar
Who was the Guru of Shivaji- Ramdas
Who was sent by Aurangzeb to defeat Chhatrapati Shivaji - Raja Jassingh
How many times did Shivaji loot Surat- twice
Shivaji was crowned in - 1674 AD.
From which European power did Shivaji obtain ammunition and ammunition - bought from the French, Portuguese and British.
Who was famous as Nana Saheb - Balaji Bajirao
Who was the ruler of Delhi at the time when Ahmad Shah Abdali defeated the Marathas in the third battle of Panipat in 1761 - Shah Alam II
Peshwa Prathava was completed by the British during the period of which Peshwa - Bajirao II
Which English ship was the first in India - Red Dragon
At which place in Bengal was the East India Company permitted to trade and build a factory in 1651 by the Mughals - Kasim Bazar
The discovery of the sea route to India is attributed to the -
Who discovered the route of 'Cape of Good Hope' to India - Vasco di Gama
The greatest Portuguese governor to lay the real foundation of Portuguese power in India was - Albuquerque
Bahadur Shah, the ruler of Gujarat was killed in the conflict with whom- Portuguese
During his rule, the British kept forcing farmers to grow which crop in Madras – rice
Akal Takht was built by - Guru Hargobind
Where was Guru Nanam Dev born – Talwandi
Which Sikh Guru had called himself 'True Emperor' - Guru Arjun Dev
The political capital of Ranjit Singh was Lahore. Which city is called its religious capital- Amritsar
