Question Discussion & Solution

The Correct Answer is Option 2 i.e Rectangular grid.

• Harappan culture planned its towns with their chessboard system, streets, drainage pipes, and chess pits.
• Rectangular houses with brick-line bathrooms and wells together with their stairways are found in all Harappan sites.
• Harappans have well connected central drainage system.
• Harappa is known as the city of granaries.

The correct answer is 1936 AD.

• The All India Farmers Union is also known as Akhil Bhartiya Kisan Sabha was formed in April 1936 in the Lucknow session of the Indian National Congress. 

Key Points

• It is an organization that worked for the peasants and the rights of the farmers and against the feudal movement in India. 
• Sahajanand Saraswati was the first president of All India Kisan Sabha and was the founder of Bihar Provincial Kisan Sabha and was also an important pillar of the Bihar Kisan Sabha Movement.
• NG Ranga was secretary of All India Kisan Sabha
• Under Rajendra Prasad, a committee was set up to study the conditions of farmers.
• The main aim of Akhil Bhartiya Kisan Sabha was to abolish the zamindari system, institutionalize credit, and reduce land revenue.

The correct answer is Rakhigarhi.

Key Points

• Rakhigarhi is a Harappan site located in the Hisar district of the state of Haryana.
• It is the site of pre-Indus Vally civilization settlement and also mature Indus Valley Civilisation.
• It was excavated by Amarendra Nath between 1997 to 2000.
• It is located in the Ghaggar-Hakra River plain.
• It consists of a set of seven mounds.
• Global Heritage Fund declared Rakhigarhi one of the ten most endangered heritage sites of Asia in May 2012.

Additional Information

The correct answer is Tripuri.

Key Points

• In the 1939 Tripuri Session, Subhash Chandra Bose Won the elections for the Indian National Congress (INC) president at Tripuri Session by defeating Pattabhi Sitaramayya.
• Gandhi Ji and other members supported Pattabhi Sitaramayya, and Subhash Chandra Bose couldn't work efficiently, therefore, he resigned from the post of Congress president.
• Later, He formed the Forward Bloc in Calcutta in 1939

​Important Points

• The First session of the Indian National Congress was held at Bombay in 1885, and the president was WC Bonnerji.
• 72 delegates from all over India attended the first session.
• The Second session of the Indian National Congress was held at Calcutta in 1886 under the presidentship of Dadabhai Naoroji.
• The Third session of the Indian National Congress was held at Madras in 1887 under the chairmanship of Syed Badruddin Tyabji, the first Muslim President.
• The fourth session of the Indian National Congress was held at Allahabad in 1888 under the presidentship of George Yule, the first English President.

Additional Information

• They were repositories of relics of Buddha and other monks.
• The Buddhist stupa serves as a marker for a sacred space, a symbolic representation of the Buddha’s burial mound.