Question Discussion & Solution

The correct answer is Mahavamsa

• History of Buddhist Snaga which is a part of Mahavamsa contains text about Ashoka.
• Mahavamsa is written in the form of poem, which is divided into 4 parts. 

Ashoka:

• Ashoka is referred as Buddhsakya in Maski Inscription and Dharmakosa in his Sarnath Inscription.
• He was known as Devampiya i.e. beloved oof Goda, and as Piyadassi i.e. of pleasing appearance.
• Ashoka believed in the policy of Dhamma.
• Ashoka's visit to Lumbini and exemption of Lumbini from tax was mentioned in Rumminidei Pillar Inscription.
• The Kandhar Inscription speaks about the success of his policy with the hunters and fishermen.
• Nigalisagar Pillar Inscription: It mentions that Ashoka increased the height of the stupa of Buddha Konakamana to its double size.

The correct answer is cotton and wool.

Key Points

• The Indus Valley people wore clothes made of cotton and wool.
• John Marshall was the first scholar to use the term ‘Indus Valley Civilisation.
• Dayaram Sahni first discovered Harappa Civilisation in 1921.
• R.D. Banerjee discovered Mohenjodaro or Mound of the Dead in 1922.

The correct answer is Vikramaditya Singh.

Key Points

•  Vikramaditya Singh-
  • He was the son of Rana Sanga.
  • Gujrat's sultan Bahadurshah attacked Mewar on March 1533 AD.
  • Chittorgarh fort second Saka happened in his reign.
    • In the leadership of Rawat Bagh Singh and Rana Sajja Singh men did Kesariya.
    • In the leadership of Rani Karmawati women did Jauher.

Additional Information

• Uday Singh-
  • He was the son of Rana Sanga.
  • He was coronated at the age of 15 in the Kumbhalgarh court in 1537 AD.
  • Shershah Suri attacked Mewar in his reign.
  • He was the Mewar's first ruler who accepted the docility of Afghan.
  • Chittorgarh fort third Saka happened in his reign 
    • In the leadership of Jaimal and Fatta Rathore men did Kesariya.
    • In the leadership of Phool Kanwar women did Jauhar.
• Rana Pratap-
  • He was the son of Uday Singh.
    He was known as Kika.
    He fought the Haldi Ghati war with Man Singh in 1576 AD.
    He established Chawand as an emergency capital.
    He used the Guerilla war system in fights.
• Ratan Singh-
  • He was the last ruler of the Rawal Branch.
  • Chittorgarh first Saka happened in his region
    • In the leadership of Ratan Singh men did Kesariya.
    • In the leadership of Rani Padmini women did Jauhar.

The correct answer is an attempt to murder the district judge of Muzaffarpur.

• The Alipore Bombay Case Trial refers to an attempt to murder the district judge of Muzaffarpur.
• Aurobindo Ghosh was defended by Chittaranjas Das in the Alipore bomb case.
• The Alipore Bomb case conspiracy took place in the year 1908.
• It is also known as the Manicktolla bomb conspiracy or Muraripukar conspiracy.
• Douglas Kingsford the unpopular British Chief Magistrate was the target of the bomb thrown at Muzaffarpur (Northern Bihar).
• The Revolutionaries who threw the bomb were Prafulla Chaki and Khudiram Bose.
• The carriage at which the bomb was thrown does not contain Kingsford but contains two English ladies who died in the attack.
• Prafulla Chaki committed suicide and Khudiram Bose was arrested and sentenced to death when he was only 18 years old.
• The other people tried in the case were Aurobindo Ghosh, his brother Barin Ghosh, Satyendranath Bose, Kanailal Dutt, and more than thirty others.
• They all were members of the Anushilan Samiti in Calcutta now Kolkata.

Key Points

• The civil Disobedience Movement was started by Mahatma Gandhi.
• The observance of Independence Day in 1930 was followed by the launching of the Civil Disobedience Movement under the leadership of Gandhi.
• It began with the famous Dandi March of Gandhi. On 12 March 1930, Gandhi left the Sabarmati Ashram at Ahmadabad on foot with 78 other members of the Ashram for Dandi, a village on the western sea-coast of India, at a distance of about 385 km from Ahmadabad.
• They reached Dandi on 6 April 1930. There, Gandhi broke the salt law.
• It was illegal for anyone to make salt as it was a government monopoly.
• Gandhi defied the government by picking up a handful of salt which had been formed by the evaporation of sea.
• The defiance of the salt law was followed by the spread of Civil Disobedience Movement all over the country.
• Making of salt spread throughout the country in the first phase of the civil disobedience movement, it became a symbol of the people’s defiance of the government.

Additional Information​

• It shattered people’s faith in the British Government and laid the social root for the freedom struggle, and popularised the new method of propaganda like the prabhat pheris, pamphlets etc.
• It ended the exploitative salt policy of British was followed by the defiance of forest law in Maharashtra, Karnataka and Central province and the refusal  to pay the rural ‘Chaukidari tax’ in Eastern India.