History Quiz with Answers for Competitive Exams

In 1921, Dayaram Sahni excavated Harappa. Thus this civilization was named Harappan Civilization and Rakhaldas Banerjee was considered the discoverer of Mohenjodaro.

Sammed peak is situated in Hazaribagh, Jharkhand.

Freedom fighter, Mangal Pandey was the first martyr of the Revolt of 1857 and played a major role in it.

Houses in the cities of the Indus Valley Civilization were made of burnt bricks.

Nagarjuna (30 June 1911 – 5 November 1998) was an outstanding writer and poet of Hindi and Maithili. Nagarjuna, a connoisseur of many languages and a progressive minded litterateur, apart from Hindi, also wrote original works in Maithili, Sanskrit and Bengali and also did translation work from Sanskrit, Maithili and Bengali.

Lord Mahavira was the twenty-fourth (24th) Tirthankara of Jainism. Lord Mahavir was born about two and a half thousand years ago (540 BC), in Kundgram of Vaishali Republic in Ayodhya Ikshvakuvanshi Kshatriya family.

Deen-e-Ilahi was a unified religion by the Mughal Emperor Akbar in 1582 AD, which incorporated the basic elements of all religions, prominently Hinduism and Islam. Apart from these, the basic ideas of Parsi, Jain and Christian religions were also included.

In practice, Chauth was often a tribute paid by Hindu or Muslim rulers to appease the Marathas, so that they would refrain from causing disturbance in their province or from intruding into their district. The Marathas claimed that in return for this payment, they protected them from attacks by others.

The cornerstone of Jainism is non-violence. This is non-violence through thought, word and deed.

In 1608, a voyage led by Sir William Hawkins arrived and the ship commanded by him became the first ship to anchor at Surat. He was the first person to reach the court of Mughal emperor Jahangir to seek permission to set up a factory in Surat, Gujarat.