Indian culture questions with answers
176 multiple-choice questions. Open any question for its answer and explanation.
- Which Sufi order (Silsila) laid great stress on practicing mystic music ?
- Which Governor General is remembered for the annulment of the partition of Bengal?
- Which Delhi Sultan levied the irrigation tax on the farmers for the first time ?
- The writer of Rajatarangini is
- Who first applied the name India to the region watered by the Sindhu ?
- The Puranas define the term Bharatavarsha as the country marked by seven main chains of mountains viz.
- The Paleolithic Age in India is divided into three phases based on tools technology namely
- As the evidence from Koldhiwa in the Belan Velly shows rice seems to have been domesticated in India by about
- Among the four Vedas, which one is a collection of spells and charms?
- The Brahmanas, the Arayakas and the Upanishads are attached to one or the other of
- Murshid Quli Khan became the diwan of Bengal in
- The two popular assemblies which seem to have formed an essential feature of the government during the Age of Rig Veda are
- During the Age of Rig Veda, the grains are collectively called
- The Second Anglo- Maysore War took place between
- The first Gupta ruler to assume the title of Maharajadhiraja was
- Akbar the great Mughal Emperor proclaimed a new religion Din-e-Ilahi in
- The two Jain Trithankars who find mention in Rig Veda are
- Who attained Kaivalya (i.e., the supreme knowledge and final deliverance from the bonds of pleasure and pain) at the age of 42 ?
- The fundamental principles of Buddha's teachings are represented by the four Nobel Truths viz.
- The four important dynasties that stand out prominently in the sixth century B.C. are
- Who founded the Haryanka dynasty in Magadha ?
- The most important republican state during the period of Buddha were
- Who wrote the play Mudrarakshasa ?
- Asoka's inscriptions have been found at Maski, Yerragudi and Chitaldurga, These are in
- The oldest among the spoken literary languages of South India is