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Chapter Questions 46 MCQs
I. The growth of Magadha culminated in the emergence of the Mauryan Empire.
II. Chandragupta Maurya founded the Mauryan Empire.
III. Kautilya was the successor of Chandragupta Maurya.
IV. Asoka was the son of Chandragupta Maurya.
Which of the above statements are correct?
Match Column I with Column II and choose the correct option:
He was a great poet and musician of the medieval period. He gave a unique form to Chishti sama. He introduced qawwali.
I. Lohanis in Punjab
II. Ahoms in Assam
III. Koch in Bengal
IV. Kols in Singhbhum
Two statements as Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are given below. Read them carefully and choose the correct option:
Assertion (A): Zamindars in the Permanent Settlement failed to pay the revenue demand and unpaid balances accumulated.
Reason (R): According to the Sunset Law, if payment did not come in by sunset of the specified date, the zamindari was liable to be auctioned.
I. Summary Settlement in Awadh
II. Subsidiary Alliance in Awadh
III. Reforming policies of William Bentinck
IV. Azamgarh Proclamation
Limitation Law
Sunset Law
Santhal Rebellion
Bombay-Deccan Riots
Assertion (A): To broaden the Non-Cooperation Movement, Gandhiji had joined hands with the Khilafat Movement.
Reason (R): Gandhiji hoped that coupling Non-Cooperation and Khilafat could collectively bring an end to the Colonial rule.
She was the daughter of Chandragupta Maurya.
She was married to a Vakataka ruler.
She had independent access to resources.
She gave land grants to people.
He got the title of Devanampiya.
He distributed a portion of Buddha's relics for stupas.
He was the first ruler who inscribed messages on rocks and pillars.
(For Visually Impaired Candidates): Which of the following clans did Buddha belong to?
Amravati stupa
Agra (Territory under the Mughals)
OR 34.2 On the same outline map, two centres related to the Indian National Movement are marked as A and B. Identify them and write their correct names on the lines drawn near them.
Read the given source carefully and answer the questions that follow:
Buddhism in practice
This is an excerpt from the it{Sutta Pitaka}, and contains the advice given by the Buddha to a wealthy householder named Sigala:
In five ways should a master look after his servants and employees ... by assigning them work according to their strength, by supplying them with food and wages, by tending them in sickness; by sharing delicacies with them and by granting leave at times...
In five ways should the clansmen look after the needs of it{samanas} (those who have renounced the world) and it{Brahmanas}: by affection in act and speech and mind, by keeping open house to them and supplying their worldly needs.
There are similar instructions to Sigala about how to behave with his parents, teacher and wife.
(33.1) How did Buddha highlight the significance of compassion in social hierarchy?
“There cannot be any divided loyalty”
Govind Ballabh Pant emphasised to become loyal citizens. For the success of democracy one must train himself in the art of self-discipline. In democracies one should care less for himself and more for others. All loyalties must exclusively be centred round the State. If in a democracy, you create rival loyalties, or you create a system in which any individual or group, instead of suppressing his extravagance, cares nought for larger or other interests, then democracy is doomed.
(32.1) How has Pant described the key to the success of democracy?
A strange nation?
The travelogue of Abdur Razzaq written in the 1440s is an interesting mixture of emotions and perceptions. On the one hand, he did not appreciate what he saw in the port of Calicut (present-day Kozhikode) in Kerala, which was populated by “a people the likes of whom I had never imagined,” describing them as “a strange nation.” Later in his visit to India, he arrived in Mangalore and crossed the Western Ghats. Here he saw a temple that filled him with admiration: Within three leagues (about nine miles) of Mangalore, I saw an idol-house the likes of which is not to be found in all the world. It was a square, approximately ten yards a side, five yards in height, all covered with cast bronze, with four porticos. In the entrance portico was a statue in the likeness of a human being, full stature, made of gold. It had two red rubies for eyes, so cunningly made that you would say it could see. What craft and artisanship!
(31.1) Why did Abdur Razzaq call India a ‘strange nation’?
Read the given source carefully and answer the questions that follow:
Here is an excerpt from the Sutta Pitaka, describing a conversation between King Ajatasattu, the ruler of Magadha, and the Buddha: “Though the wise should hope, by this virtue ... by this penance I will gain karma ... and the fool should by the same means hope to gradually rid himself of his karma, neither of them can do it. Pleasure and pain, measured out as it were, cannot be altered in the course of samsara (transmigration). It can neither be lessened or increased ... just as a ball of string will, when thrown unwound to its full length, so fool and wise alike will take their course and make an end of sorrow.”
And this is what a philosopher named Ajita Kesakambalin taught:
“There is no such thing, O king, as alms or sacrifice, or offerings ... there is no such thing as this world or the next ...” A human being is made up of the four elements. When he dies, the earthy in him returns to the earth, the fluid to water, the heat to fire, the windy to air, and his senses pass into space ... The talk of gifts is a doctrine of fools, an empty lie ... fools and wise alike are cut off and perish. They do not survive after death.”
Analyse the views of Makkhali Gosala on karma.
Read the given source carefully and answer the questions that follow:
We say that it is our firm and solemn resolve to have an independent sovereign republic. India is bound to be sovereign, it is bound to be independent and it is bound to be a republic … Now, some friends have raised the question: “Why have you not put in the word ‘democratic’ here?” Well, I told them that it is conceivable, of course, that a republic may not be democratic but the whole of our past is witness to this fact that we stand for democratic institutions. Obviously we are aiming at democracy and nothing less than a democracy. What form of democracy, what shape it might take is another matter. The democracies of the present day, many of them in Europe and elsewhere, have played a great part in the world’s progress. Yet it may be doubtful if those democracies may not have to change their shape somewhat before long if they have to remain completely democratic. We are not going just to copy, I hope, a certain democratic procedure or an institution of a so-called democratic country. We may improve upon it. In any event whatever system of government we may establish here must fit in with the temper of our people and be acceptable to them. We stand for democracy. It will be for this House to determine what shape to give to that democracy, the fullest democracy, I hope. The House will notice that in this Resolution, although we have not used the word "democratic" because we thought it is obvious that the word "republic" contains that word and we did not want to use unnecessary words and redundant words, but we have done something much more than using the word. We have given the content of democracy in this Resolution and not only the content of democracy but the content, if I may say so, of economic democracy in this Resolution.
Mention the ‘firm and solemn resolve’ expressed in the passage.
Read the given source carefully and answer the questions that follow:
The writings of European travellers helped produce an image of India for Europeans through the printing and circulation of their books. Later, after 1750, when Indians like Shaikh Itisamuddin and Mirza Abu Talib visited Europe and confronted this image that Europeans had of their society, they tried to influence it by producing their own version of democracy and describing India as a great nation.
In what way did Shaikh Itisamuddin and Mirza Abu Talib challenge the version of Europeans towards India?
K. Santhanam was in favour of giving greater powers to the provinces in the Constituent Assembly.
Examine the statement.