QUIZ – 2020: INSIGHTS STATIC , 18 June 2021 -History

Solution: a)

Avalokiteśvara also called Padmapani, is the bodhisattva who embodies the compassion of all Buddhas.

Solution: d)

• Purandara Dasa (1484–1564) was a Haridasa, great devotee of Lord Krishna and a saint.
• He was a disciple of the celebrated Madhwa philosopher-saint Vyasatirtha, and a contemporary of yet another great Haridasa, Kanakadasa.
• Purandaradasa was the pioneer who blended the rich musical streams, namely the Dravidian and Aryan music, into a single stream known as Carnatic music.
• The philosophy of Bhakti in Purandara Dasa’s compositions stems from the essential teachings of the realistic-pluralistic Madhwa Philosophy of Vaishnavism.

Solution: c)

• A battle was fought in Bhima Koregaon, a district in Pune with a strong historical Dalit connection, between the Peshwa forces and the British on January 1, 1818.
• The British army, which comprised mainly of Dalit soldiers, fought the upper caste-dominated Peshwa army. The British troops defeated the Peshwa army.

Outcomes of the battle:

• The victory was seen as a win against caste-based discrimination and oppression. Peshwas were notorious for their oppression and persecution of Mahar dalits. The victory in the battle over Peshwas gave dalits a moral victory a victory against caste-based discrimination and oppression and sense of identity.

Solution: b)

Even though Indian villages were largely self-sufficient and imported little from outside and the means of communication were backward, extensive trade within the country and between India and other countries of Asia and Europe was carried on under the Mughals.

• India imported pearls, raw silk, wool, dates, dried fruits, and rose water from the Persian Gulf;
• coffee, gold, drugs, and honey from Arabia;
• tea, sugar, porcelain, and silk from China;
• gold, musk and woolen cloth from Tibet;
• tin from Singapore;
• spices, perfumes, arrack, and sugar from the Indonesian islands;
• ivory, and drugs from Africa; and
• woolen cloth, metals such as copper, iron, and lead, and paper from Europe.

India’s most important article of export was its cotton textiles which were famous all over the world for their excellence and were in demand everywhere. India also exported raw silk and silk fabrics, hardware, indigo, saltpeter, opium, rice, wheat, sugar, pepper and other spices, precious stones, and drugs.

Solution: a)

Farrukhsiyar (1713-1719) After killing Jahandar Shah with the help of Sayyid brothers— Abdulla Khan and Hussain Ali (known as ‘King Makers’), Farrukhsiyar became the new emperor. He followed a policy of religious tolerance by abolishing Jaziya and pilgrimage tax.

In 1717, he gave farman to the British. In 1719, the Sayyid brothers, with the help of Peshwa Balaji Vishwanath, dethroned Farrukhsiyar. Later, he was blinded and killed. It was the first time in the Mughal history that an emperor was killed by his nobles.