General Knowledge Online Test History

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The Quit India Movement, or the August Movement, was a movement launched at the Bombay session of
the All-India Congress Committee by Mahatma Gandhi on 8 August 1942, during World War II,
demanding an end to British Rule of India.

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Agra Fort was built in the year 1573 under the reign of Akbar – one of the greatest Mughal Emperors.

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Pallava, a South Indian dynasty existed from 2775 CE to 897 CE, has established their captial at Kanchipuram,
which gradually become popular for its temples and as center of Vedic learning.
Kailahnatha temple in Kanchipuram is a major accomplisment of Pallavan king Narasimhavarman II.

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Qutab-ud-din Aibak started the construction of Qutub Minar in 1193.
Its construction was completed by his son-in-law Iltutmish.

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Chandra Shekharwas an Indian politician who served as the eighth Prime Minister of India who known as 'Young Turk'.

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The second battle of Panipat was fought between the forces of Samrat Hemchandra Vikramaditya(Hemu),
the Hindu king who was ruling North India from Delhi and the army of Akbar on 5th November, 1556.
The battle ended in a decisive victory for Akbar.

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Haryanka dynasty was the second ruling dynasty of Magadha, an ancient kingdom in India, which succeeded the mythological Barhadratha dynasty.
Bimbisara is considered as the main founder of the dynasty and was appointed as king by his father, Bhatiya, at the age of fifteen..

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The inscriptions and edicts of Ashoka refers to a collection of 33 inscriptions on the pillars of Ashoka and cave walls.
The inscriptions were written in Magadhi language using the Brahmi script.

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Warren Hastings laid the foundation of civil service and Charles Cornwallis reformed,
modernised, and rationalised it. Hence, Charles Cornwallis is known as 'the father of civil service in India'.

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Yajur Veda deals with the procedures for the performance of sacrifices.
The exact century of Yajurveda's composition is around 1200 to 1000 BCE.
The Yajurveda is broadly grouped into two – the "black" or "dark" (Krishna) Yajurveda and the "white" or "bright" (Shukla) Yajurveda.

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. Mohenjo-daro was built in the 26th century BCE.[10] It was one of the largest cities of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization,
. also known as the Harappan Civilization.The largest building at Mohenjodaro is Great Granary.
. This granary is divided into 27 rooms of different size and shape.
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The Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC) was a Bronze Age civilisation in the northwestern regions of South Asia,
lasting from 3300 BCE to 1300 BCE, and in its mature form from 2600 BCE to 1900 BCE.
Along with ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia it was one of three early civilisations of the region comprising North Africa,
West Asia and South Asia, and of the three, the most widespread, its sites spanning an area stretching from northeast Afghanistan,
through much of Pakistan, and into western and northwestern India.
Due to the spread of the civilization along both the river valleys, some scholars use the term Indus-Sarasvati Civilization.

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In 1024, during the reign of Bhima I, the prominent Turkic ruler Mahmud of Ghazni raided Gujarat, plundering the Somnath temple and breaking its jyotirlinga.

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Battle of Wandiwash proved decisive in the Anglo-French rivalry in India.

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Both Surkotada and Dholavira are located In Katch of Gujarat Notes:
Mohenjodero was located on banks of river Indus. Harappa on Ravi.
Chanhudaro is In Pakistan now. Lothal was on mouth of Gulf of Cambay.

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Macaulay Minute, 1835 made English as a medium of education compulsory in government aided schools and colleges.

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Lord Cornwallis introduced the Permanent Settlement, the system of revenue collection in India.

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The doctrine of subsidiary alliance was introduced by Lord Wellesley,
British Governor-General of India from 1798 to 1805.The Nizam of Hyderabad was the first to enter into such an alliance in 1798.
Tipu Sultan of Mysore refused to do so, but after the British victory in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War,
Mysore was forced to become a subsidiary state in 1799.
The Nawab of Awadh was the next to accept the Subsidiary Alliance, in 1801.

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Manu Smriti is an ancient legal text.
It was one of the first Sanskrit texts translated during the British rule of India in 1794,
by Sir William Jones and used to formulate the Hindu law by the colonial government.

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The Salt March, also known as the Salt Satyagraha, Dandi March and the Dandi Satyagraha,
was an act of nonviolent civil disobedience in colonial India led by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.
The 24-day march lasted from 12 March 1930 to 6 April 1930 .