General Knowledge - History Tips

General Knowledge - History Tips

            1.   Gandhara School of art is associated with Kanishka.

2.       Samudragupta has been called  “ Hindu Napoleon”.

3.       In England the Labour party was in power when India achieved Independence.

4.       Maurya is India’s oldest dynasty.

5.       Tulsidas lived during the reign of Babar.

6.       The Idol worship in India dates back to the pre – Aryan period.

7.       The famous Persian poet Amir Khusru lived at the court of Ala-ud-din khilji.

8.       Non-Cooperation movement resolution was passed in Calcutta session of Indian National Congress.

9.       The Indian National Congress declared complete Independence as its goal in 1929.

10.    A.O. Hume founded Indian National Congress in 1885. W.C. Banerjee was its first president and Mrs. Annie Besant was its first woman president. Mrs. Sarojini Naidu was its first Indian woman president.

11.    Clement Attlee was the British Prime Minister during whose period India achieved Independence.

12.    The famous Saint Sheikh Salim Chisti lived at Ajmer.

13.    Among the early Aryans the principal means of earning a living was farming.

14.    ‘Rudra’  was the God of war of the Rigvedic Aryans.

15.    The famous Chinese pilgrim Fahien visited India in 5^th century during the reign of Chandragupta Vikramaditya.

16.    The battle of Plassey was fought between the English and the Nawab of Bengal in the year 23^rd June 1757. Clive laid the foundation of the British Empire by winning it.

17.    Megasthenes was a the court of Chandragupta Maurya.

18.    The first battle of Panipat was fought between the Babar and Ibrahim Lodhi in the year 1526. It laid the foundation of the Mughal Rule in India.

19.    Banaras Hindu University was founded by Madan Mohan Malaviya.

20.    Mohenjo Daro is located in Sindh.

21.    Harsha Vardhana wrote Ratna Vali.

22.    The first Governor-General of free India was Lord Mountbatten.

23.    The Portuguese were the first Europeans to trade with India.

24.    Mughal painting flourished during the reign of Shahjahan.

25.    The first railway line in India was opened in the year 13^th April 1853. It started from Bombay and ended at Thana under the Governor-Generalship of Lord Dalhousie.

26.    Sati was abolished by Lord William Bentinck helps the Indian Raja Ram Mohan Rai.

27.    The second battle of Panipat was fought in the year 1556. Barium Khan (Akbar’s General),defeated Hemu (The Hindu General).

28.    Chandragupta Maurya is usually regarded as the first “Historical Emperor of India”.

29.    English was made the medium of higher education in India during the time of lord William Bentinck in the year 1835.

30.    Quit India Movement 1942 Led by Gandhiji asking the British to leave India.

31.    Swaraj Party 1922 led by Gandhiji decision to call off the civil disobedient movement , led

to the formation of the Swaraj Party Initiated by Motilal Nehru.

32.    India was partitioned by the Mountbatten plan of 3^rd June 1947. 

33.     Dandi March 1930 led by Gandhiji launched the movement to break the salt law.

34.    Khilafat Movement 1920 led by Mohamed. Ali and Shaukat Ali led the restoration of Khilafat alienating Muslims from the British.     

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