Indian History Quiz: Day: 93

ANSWER: B

Deoband Movement

• It was a revivalist movement. In 1866, Muhammad Qasim Wanotavi and Rashid Ahamad Gangohi founded a school in Deoband (Uttar Pradesh, Saharanpur District).
• Deoband movement focused on uplifting the Muslim community through religious education.

THE OSOPHICAL SOCIETY

• Though Annie Besant’s name is most associated with this society, it was actually founded by Madame Blavatsky and Colonel Olcott in New York (later shifted to Madras) in 1875.
• It promoted the study of ancient Hindu, Buddhist and Zoroastrian philosophies. It promoted the concept of universal brotherhood, as expounded in the Upanishads and Vedas. It laid stress on occultism.

• Mahavdev Govind Ranade was the founder of the Widow Remarriage Association (1861)and theDeccan Education Society.

–He established the Poona Sarvajanik Sabha as well.

–To Ranade, religious reform was inseparable from social reform.

–He also believed that if religious ideas were rigid there would be no success in social, economic and political spheres.

–Although Prarthana Samaj was powerfully influenced by the ideas of Brahmo Samaj, it did not insist upon a rigid exclusion of idol worship and a definite break from the caste system.

ANSWER: C

ANSWER: B

• Farrukhsiyar, (Persian pronunciation: farux’ sijar  also known as Shahid-i-Mazlum (20 August 1683 – 9 April 1719), was the tenth Mughal emperor  from 1713 to 1719, after he assassinated his Uncle and Emperor, Jahandar Shah.
• Reportedly a handsome man who was easily swayed by his advisers, he lacked the ability, knowledge and character to rule independently. Farrukhsiyar was the son of Azim-ush-Shan (the second son of emperor Bahadur Shah I) and Sahiba Nizwan.

ANSWER: A

• Safety Valve Theory —Lala Lajpat Rai
• Two Nation Theory —Mohammed Ali Jinnah
• Lightning conductor Theory—G.K. Gokhale

ANSWER: B

Amir Khusrau

Was a prolific classical poet associated with the royal courts of more than seven rulers of the Delhi Sultanate. He is also associated with the courts of Alauddin Khilji. He wrote the “Khaza’in ul-Futuh” recording Alauddin’s construction works, wars, administrative services.

Also wrote Tughlaqnama.

Muntakhab-ut-Tawarikh a general history of the Muslim world written by Abdul Qadir Badayuni a count historian of Emperor Akbar.

It covers the history of the Muslim rule in India from the Ghaznavids to the 40th year (1595-96) of the reign of Akbar.

ANSWER: D

• Pāṇini is known for his text Astadhyan, a sutra – style treatise on Sanskrit grammar which is the foundational text of the Vyākaraṇabranch of the Vedanga, the auxiliary scholarly disciplines of the Vedic literature.
• Pāṇini’s analysis of noun compounds still forms the basis of modern linguistic theories of compounding in Indian languages.
• Pāṇini’s comprehensive and scientific theory of grammar is conventionally taken to mark the start of Classical Sanskrit.
• His systematic treatise inspired and made Sanskrit the preeminent Indian language of learning and literature for two millennia

ANSWER: B

1.First Round table conference-1930

2.Quit India Movement-1942

3.August Offer-1940

4.Montague’s August Declaration-1917

ANSWER: B

• Between the eighth and ninth centuries, Jinasena was a Digamabara monk. He was the author of the Maha Purana and the Harivamsa Purana.
• He was a pupil of Virasena, another well-known Jain monk

ANSWER: D

1.Annulment of Partition of Bengal-1911

2.Formation of swaraj Party-1922-23

3.Formation of Forward Bloc-1939

4.Death of Gopal Krishna Gokhale-1915

ANSWER: D

The Indian League

• It was started in 1875 by Sisir Kumar Ghosh.
• Objective: stimulating the sense of nationalism amongst the people and of encouraging political education.

 The Poona Sarvajanik Sabha

• It was founded in 1867by Mahadeo Govind Ranade and others, with the object of serving as a bridge between the government and the people.

The Bombay Presidency Association

• It was started by Badruddin Tyabji, Pherozshah Mehta and K.T. Telang in 1885.