Question Discussion & Solution

The correct answer is Premier Zhou Enlai.

Key Points

•  The Panchsheel, or Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, was first formally signed on April 28, 1954, between India and the Tibet region of China.
• The agreement was signed between then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and China's first Premier (Prime Minister) Chou En-Lai.
• The Panchsheel agreement was about mutual relations and trade between India and Tibet the territory of China.
• In April 1954, India, considering Tibet as part of China, entered into an agreement with China on the principle of 'Panchsheel'.
• The main points of the Panchsheel agreement were;
  • Peaceful co-existence
  • Mutual respect for each other’s territorial integrity and sovereignty
  • Mutual non-interference
  • Mutual non-aggression
  • Equality and mutual benefit
• The Panchsheel Pact had removed the tension between India and China up to a great extent.
• After these treaties, trade, and confidence-building between India and China had gained a lot of strength. 

• Indus Valley Civilization is the sole example of the Proto-Historical Phase in the Indian subcontinent.
• We consider this phase as proto-historical because modern historians have discovered scripts of that period but they have not deciphered it.

  S No	Phase	Script	Deciphered or not
  1	Pre Historical	No Script	Not Deciphered
  2	Proto Historical	Scripts exist	Not Deciphered
  3	Historical	Scripts exist	Deciphered

The people of the Harappan civilization were Urban.

• It is also known as an urban civilization because it was built like a city.
• The people also built a drainage system for cleanliness, the houses of the city were built with bricks.
• In the city of Mohenjodaro, archaeologists found bath tank which was earlier known as a great bath.
• It was built for bathing and they were also built small rooms to change clothes.

The correct answer is A - 4, B - 3, C - 2, D - 1.

Key Points

• Rajasthan Seva Sangh was founded in 1919.
  • Arjun Lal Sethi, Kesari Singh Barhat and Vijay Singh Pathik was the founder of the Rajasthan Seva Sangh.
  • The main objective of Rajasthan Seva Sangh was to awaken political consciousness in the public and remove their difficulties.
• Desh Hiteshi Sabha was founded in 1877.
  • It was formed under the chairmanship of Maharaja Sajjan Singh in Udaipur.
• The All India States People's Conference (AISPC), also know as Praja Mandal or Lok Parishad was a group of political movements in the princely states of the British Raj.
  • The first session of the All India States Peoples' Conference was held in Bombay in December 1927.
• The Chamber of Princes also known as Narendra Mandal was a forum in which the rulers of the princely states of India could voice their needs and aspirations to the colonial government of British India.
  • It was established by a royal proclamation of King-Emperor George V in 1920.

• Al-Biruni from Uzbekistan, traveled to India in the 11th century.
• He wrote an encyclopedic work on India named 'Taḥqīq mā li-l-hind min maqūlah maqbūlah fī al-ʿaql aw mardhūlah', which translates to 'The book confirming what pertains to India, whether rational or despicable'.