History GK Quiz with Answers

The Delhi Sultanate policy of 'internal frontier' meant cutting down forests to consolidate the hinterlands. In the early thirteenth century, the control of the Delhi Sultans rarely went beyond heavily fortified towns occupied by garrisons.

Firoz Shah Tughlaq was a great builder. He made several cities like Fatehabad, Hissar, Jaunpur, and Firozabad.

The Battle of Buxar was fought on 23 October 1764 between the forces of the British East India Company led by Hector Munro and the combined army of Mughal rulers. The Battle of Buxar was a full-fledged war which established the British supremacy in India.

Jagdishpur - A Place where Veer Kunwar Singh Jayanti celebrates. Kunwar Singh (1777 – 26 April 1858) was a notable leader during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. He belonged to a royal Ujjainiya (Panwar) Rajput house of Jagdispur, currently a part of Bhojpur district, Bihar, India.

The leader of the Wahabi movement was Syed Ahmad Barelvi. The Wahhabi Movement in India was a vigorous movement for socio-religious reforms in Indo-Islamic society in the nineteenth century with strong political undercurrents.

Notes: Mohammad Ali Jinnah was the eldest son of a prosperous businessman of Karachi. Muhammad Ali Jinnah later shortened his name to ‘Jinnah’. Jinnah's father had recruited Jinnah as an apprentice in a merchant company in London. Shortly after reaching London, Muhammad Ali Jinnah left business and started studying law.

‘Muhammad bin Qasim’ was a young Arab commander. He was sent by Al-Hajjaj, the governor of Iraq, who was also the uncle and father-in-law of Muhammad bin Qasim, to punish Dahir, the ruler of Sindh. Neun was located near Charak, south of present-day Hyderabad in Pakistan. After Deval, Muhammad Qasim proceeded to conquer Neun. Dahir handed over the responsibility of protecting Naun to a priest and called his son Jai Singh to Brahmanabad. The number of Buddhists was high in Neun. He welcomed Muhammad bin Qasim. In this way, without fighting, Mir Qasim gained control over the Neun fort.

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel said the given statement in the context of formation of states after India's Independence.

Among the given statements, statements A and C are true about Ahoms during the medieval period. The Ahoms migrated to the Brahmaputra valley from present-day Myanmar in the thirteenth century. They created a new state by suppressing the older political system of the bayans (landlords)

Hence we can conclude that Muvendar is the Tamil word used to describe heads of three ruling families of Cholas, Cheras and Pandyas.