History Quiz Finals 2012 Seek under Porus

Seek Under Porus

Finals of the KQA History Quiz, 4th
Edition

Written Round
• 7 questions, all connected to monuments
• Relative scoring.
– If 7 teams get a question wrong, +15 for the team
that gets it.
– If 5 or 6 teams get it wrong, then +10.
– If 4 or fewer teams get it wrong, then +5.
– For two-part questions, it‟s +7.5, +5, +2.5 for each
part .

1
• A memorial in Jersey
City, New Jersey, USA.
• Which 1940 event from
another part of the
world is commemorated
in this memorial by
Andrzej Pityski?

2.
• The replica commemorates a structure immortalized by an 1836
incident. The heroic incident quickly became a rallying cry for
revolution. Which event, made famous by many movies and books
about the same ?

3.
Memorial honoring members of a particular group. What group ?

4.
• The “Monument to the discoveries”
in Lisbon celebrates the
Portuguese “Age of
Discovery” during the 15th and
16th centuries. The monument
includes sculptures of 33
individuals who played a key
role in the age of discovery.
There are two ramps of 16
statues each, and a central
figure at the point where the
two ramps meet. Name this
central figure who heads others
like Vasco Da Gama, Cabral
and Magellan. (see next slide..)

5.
• In which Egyptian town would you see this monument ?

6.
• The Manzanar site, where the monument shown is located, is
probably the most famous of the ten such locations in the United
States. What purpose did these sites serve ?

7
• The picture shows the storming of a famous palace. What monument
commemorates the foreign guards who died defending the members of
the palace ?

• Battle of the Alamo.
• The Alamo Mission in Texas was overrun by Mexican forces.
The siege and the battle inspired many Texans to join the
revolution against Mexico.

• Internment camps for Japanese Americans
during WWII.

• The Lion of Lucerne

• The memorial pays tribute to
the fallen Swiss guards who
died defending the Tuileries
Palace, from the storming
during the French
Revolution.

Round II Clockwise

16 + 4 questi0ns
+10 /-5 on pounce

1
Some time after March 4th 1966, Nichols Roy, an
MLA of ASSAM went to a then district in the
state. He went there to see the aftermath of an
event denied by the PMO. He wanted to send
these things <pic> to Delhi and ask the Prime
Minister, 'How do you cook this ration? If these
are supplies, please tell us how you cook these
things'?“ What event are we talking about?

• These were the shells dropped by the IAF in
Aizwal 1966 to take back the city from Mizo
National Front

2
During the 7th and 8th centuries the Islamic armies were
threatening to conquer Europe. During this time
Umayyads fought a series of wars with a state which was
the first feudal state in Eastern Europe. They acted as
buffer state between Christians and Muslims and helped
to block the westward spread of Islam. Later, they
converted en masse to Judaism. To this day Caspian Sea is
known after them in many Middle Eastern languages. In
1976, Arthur Koestler controversially claimed in his book
"The Thirteenth Tribe" that Ashkenazi Jews are not
descended from the Israelites of antiquity but from this
people. Who?

3
• In 1509 a Portuguese fleet attacked and defeated
the combined naval forces of the Muslim ruler of
Gujarat, the Zamorin of Calicut with support of
Ottomans and the Mameluke Sultan of Egypt,
the Republic of Venice and the Republic of
Ragusa.Commenting on the battle after winning
it, Portuguese viceroy Francisco de Almeida said:
"As long as you may be powerful at sea, you will
hold India as yours; and if you do not possess this
power, little will avail you a fortress on the shore".
How do we know this decisive engagement?

4

Their Ottoman Sunni rivals called them red heads. These
Shi'as warriors believed in the divinity of their leaders and
would go into battle without armor as an expression of
faith in divine protection. They played a big role in the
foundation of the Safavid dynasty of Iran and
accompanied Humayun from Iran to reconquer his
empire from the Suri Dynasty. Thereafter these tribes can
be found in sub-continent and one of their descendents
went on to become a dictator. Name this community and
the dictator. <pic>

• Qizilbash and Agha Mohammad Yahya
Khan Qizilbash of Pakistan.

5
The original was destroyed by King Pusyamitra in
the 2nd century BC and the replacement was
destroyed by King Shasanka at the beginning of
the 7th century AD. The one seen at the site was
nurtured by the British archaeologist Alexander
Cunningham after the previous one had died of
old age a few years before. What?

• The Mahabodhi Tree at Bodh Gaya

6
• Kuldip Singh Brar is a retired Indian Army
officer, who commanded the highly
controversial Operation Blue Star. He compared
this operation to an earlier military action
conducted under similar circumstances when
hundreds of pilgrims were taken hostage. The
ensuing battles for control of the site resulted in
the death of hundreds of people. What was he
referring to?

• Grand Mosque Seizure on November 20 1979

7
It literally means "a knot" and this stems from the
practice of binding inscribed palm leaves using a
length of thread held by knots. This script was
widely used to write Sanskrit in the Tamil-speaking
parts of South Asia until the 19th century. Scholars
believe that it was the script used when the Vedas
were first put into writing around the 5th century
CE. Malayalam script is a direct descendent of this
script and scripts such as
Mon, Lao, Javanese, Khmer and Thai are either
direct or indirect derivations. What?

8

Around the time when Akbar was formulating his syncretic, regi-
centric creed Din Ilahi he read the khutbah at Jama Masjid, on 26th
June 1579, a Friday which also happened to the birth anniversary of
Prophet Muhammad. Even though there was nothing unusual about an
Emperor reading the khutbah, the hardliner cleric community saw this
as an encroachment into their hallowed territory and the ambiguous
phrase used by the Emperor to end his speech created havoc among
them. Which common enough Arabic invocation did Akbar use?

• Allahu Akbar! The phrase means God is Great.
Since akbar is Arabic for great, the cleric saw
this as Akbar‟s self proclamation as the God

9
This name appears in various medieval mystery
plays, in which this character is sometimes
portrayed as a generic "pagan" god worshipped by
villains such as Herod and the Pharaoh of the
Exodus. This character originates from the fact
that medieval Europeans believed that this person
was the God rather than the prophet. The name
was used by Robert Burns and G.K. Chesterton
in their works but more famously/notoriously by
somebody else. What name? Be specific

Mahound, the term which hounds Salman
Rushdie.

10
Muhammad Hamidullah is a sort of Dr.
Ambedkar for Pakistan as he helped them draft
their constitution. He is also remembered for his
French translation of Quran. Even though he
lived in Paris for a long time he never took the
French citizenship. French classified him as a
refugee and he remained the last citizen of his
erstwhile state which was annexed when he and
he colleagues had gone to the UN. Where was
he from?

11
He called it "the interpretation of a friendly mleccha”
and was slightly embarrassed about it's florid title. He
used to blame Edgar Allan Poe's poem "To Helen" for
inspiring it. The relevant part of the poem went like this:
“On desperate seas long wont to roam,
Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face,
Thy Naiad airs have brought me home
To the glory that was Greece,
And the grandeur that was Rome.”

What are we talking about?

• The Wonder that was India by A L Basham

12
It was founded in 1905 by a group led by W. E. B.
Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter. It was named
for the "mighty current" of change the group wanted
to effect and the place where the first meeting took
place in July 1905. It was mainly opposed to policies
of accommodation and conciliation promoted by
another famous Af-Am leader which Du Bois called
the Atlanta compromise. What was the name of
group <pic> and who was the leader whose
compromising position they were against?

The Niagra Movement and the other black
leader was Booker T Washington

13
Erroneously attributed to Lenin, it is a pejorative
term used to describe people perceived as
propagandists for a cause whose goals they do not
understand, who are used cynically by the leaders of
the cause. The term was originally used to describe
Soviet sympathizers in Western countries. A 2010
BBC radio documentary lists among _____ ______
of Joseph Stalin several prominent writers and
artists including H. G. Wells, Doris Lessing, George
Bernard Shaw, Paul Robeson. What term?

14
Duke Yansheng was a title of nobility in China.
Their fiefdom had its own court of law and the
power of capital punishment. After the republican
revolution, when the dukes lost their
privileges, Duke Yansheng was the only title of
Chinese nobility which was retained. In 1935 the
title was changed but it still exists as an office of the
Republic of China and until 2008 was ranked and
compensated as a cabinet minister. Who is Duke
Yansheng really?

• A direct descendant of Confucious

15
This word which means side, section, tent or
direction translated as "camp" or "palace, tent".
It is also used for an historical sociopolitical and
military structure found on the Eurasian Steppe.
An English derogatory term meaning a large
group is derived from this term. What term?
<pic>

16
The whole argument started when the father in a
rage went and beat his pregnant daughter-in-law
for wearing immodest clothing. Upon hearing
this, his son engaged in a heated argument with
his father which culminated in the father
mortally striking his son in the head with his
pointed staff and killing him. A pivotal moment
in the history of a country. Who was the father?

ROUND III Theme

16 + 4 questi0ns
+10 /-5 on pounce

• 8 questions
• Questions 1,2 +30/-15
• Questions 3,4 +20/-10
• Questions 5,6 +15/-7.5
• Questions 7,8 +10/-5

(1) +30/-15
Cōdex Rēgius is an Icelandic manuscript in
which the Poetic Edda is preserved. In 2009
Harper Collins published a work composed in
1920's and 1930's. It was composed in a form of
alliterative verse inspired by the traditional
poetry of the Poetic Edda. The book was
published posthumously and was edited by
author's son. Who was the Author?

The author was J.R.R. Tolkien and the book was
The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún.

Link to theme  Cōdex Rēgius

(2) +30/-15
This 1,700-year-old, 24-metres tall thing,
weighing 160 tonnes, is named after an ancient
kingdom (100-940 CE) which was a major player
in the commerce between the Roman Empire
and Ancient India. In the 7th century the
Muslims facing persecution traveled to this
country, a journey famous in Islamic history as
the First Hijra. What object?

• Attempts for theme? (+30/-15)

(3) +25/-10
While marching in front of Il Duce and Hitler in
the 4th anniversary celebrations of the Italian
empire, an Ethiopian soldier Zerai Deres saw a
symbol of ancient Ethiopian monarchy being
exhibited as war booty in Rome. On an
adrenaline rush he slaughtered some Italians and
became a martyr. What inspired Zerai Deres?
<pic>

(4) +25/-10
His wealth was legendary and is credited with
issuing the first true gold coins for general
circulation. He is known as Qarun in Middle
East and is mentioned in the Quran. And in
Persian mythology the Karun treasure is said
to be in perpetual motion under the ground.
The phrase “harta karun” in the Malay language
synonymous with the term buried treasure. How
do we know him?

• Attempts for theme? (+25/-10)

(5) +20/-7.5
King Edward's Chair or The Coronation
Chair, is the throne on which the British
monarch sits for the coronation. It was
commissioned in 1296 by King Edward to
accommodate a spoil of war which he captured
from Scotland. The artifact was a symbol of
Scottish monarchs and has been traditionally
used for their coronation. What? <see pic>

(6) +20/-7.5
Szczerbiec is the only preserved piece of
Polish Crown Jewels. It was used in the
coronation of the kings of Poland from 1320 to
1764. The name means "the Notched Sword" or
"the Jagged Sword". It got it‟s name when King
Boleslaus the Brave chipped it by hitting it
against a historic gateway in the ancient city
fortress during his capture of the city in 1018. Id
the landmark

• Attempts for theme? (+20/-7.5)

7
• The pic (next slide) shows an object being
protected by guards at the Agra Fort. The object
was brought to the Fort by the British Army
with great fanfare in the 1840s. A vigorous
debate had happened in the House of
Commons before this decision was taken.
Later, controversy erupted when this was found
to be fake. What object?

• The Gates of Somnath Temple.

8.
• The object in question is said to have been lost
in a war with the Nairs of Travancore during the
Battle of the Nedumkotta. The Nair army under
the leadership of Raja Kesavadas again defeated
the army near Aluva. The Maharaja, Dharma
Raja, gifted the object to the Nawab of
Arcot, from where it went to London. It
returned to India two centuries later. What?

• Attempts for theme? (+10/5)

Theme: Repatriated Cultural
Artifacts

Connections
• Codex Regius - under the possession of Denmark from 1662 it was
returned to Iceland in 1985
• Obelisk of Axum - looted away to Italy by the Mussolini‟s forces
and returned to Ethiopia in 2004
• The Lion of Judah was repatriated to Ethiopia in the 1960‟s
• The Karun Treasure - repatriated to Turkey from the Met
Museum, NY
• The Stone of Scone - returned to Scotland by the British Govt. in
1996
• The Soviet Union returned Szczerbiec to Poland in 1928. During
World War II, the Szczerbiec was evacuated to Canada and did not
return to Kraków until 1959.
• The Gates of Somnath were supposedly repatriated by the British
• The Sword of Tipu was repatriated when Vijay Mallya bought it at
an auction in 2004.

Round IV Anti Clockwise

16 + 4 questi0ns
+10 /-5 on pounce

1. Venue of what famous event ?

• Oath of the Tennis Court, taken at “jeu de paume” in
Versailles. The painting in the background is:

2
• The painting features a lady, considered to be among the most important
paleontologists of her time. Her family owned a small shop in the coastal
town of Lyme Regis in Dorset, where they sold "curios" or fossils collected
from the region. At the age of 12, one of her fossil hunts resulted in the
discovery of the first complete ichthyosaur fossil. At a time when people
believed in the Biblical origin of the world, a pre-historic fossil generated
considerable interest. Later she found the first complete Plesiosaurus
skeleton, and in 1828 the first British example of the flying reptiles known as
pterosaurs. This working class woman soon became a consultant for
continental paleontologists and geologists.
• Interestingly, she is also believed to have inspired a famous rhyme by Terry
Sullivan in 1908.
• Name her and the lines she inspired. <pic>

• Mary Anning.
• “She sells seashells by the seashore..”

3
• The items shown in the picture (Pic 1) were bequeathed to the
Magdalene College, Cambridge. The writing was in shorthand (a
sample is given in Pic 2) and could not be understood. Nearly
150 years after they were written, the task of translating them
was taken up Rev. John Smith, who was unaware that the author
had left a key in his library. He went on to produce a readable
version of the work. What unusual and illuminating work are we
talking about ?

4
• In several European languages, these structures are known after
the Roman Emperor Vespacian. These structures were used to
sell a material useful in tanning. Launderers also needed the
material as a source of ammonia to clean and whiten woollen
togas. Vespacian, in a bid to improve tax revenue, instituted a tax
on the buyers of this product. Sections of society were outraged
at this, but Vespacian is said to have brushed them aside with the
statement "Pecunia non olet". What structures?

• Public toilets are called
vespasiennes in France and
vespasiani in Italy. The
Emperor defended his
“urine tax” with the
statement “Money doesn’t
smell.”

5
• On 13 July 1870 King Wilhelm I of Prussia, on his morning stroll, was waylaid by
Count Vincent Benedetti, the French ambassador to Prussia. Benedetti presented
the French demand that the King should guarantee that he would never again
permit the candidacy of a Prussian prince to the Spanish throne. The King
politely refused to commit and the two departed on good terms.
• When a report of this meeting reached Bismarck, he released it to the media with
some modifications. He sharpened the language of the report to give the French
the impression that King Wilhelm I had insulted Count Benedetti; likewise, the
Germans interpreted it as the Count insulting the King.

• By what name is this report, that precipitated the Franco-Prussian war of 1870,
known as ?

• Ems Dispatch/ Ems Telegram.

6
The “This is the place” memorial pays tribute to an epic
migration that happened in the 19th century. The leader
of the migrants is said to have exclaimed “This is the
place!” when the group entered this valley. What group?
(visual on next slide)

• Mormons, migrating to the Salt Lake Valley in Utah, after
encountering stiff opposition in their original settlement in the
mid-west.
• “This is the place” monument pays tribute to Brigham Young
who led the Mormons into Utah.

7.
• The picture represents a concept used by a movement in the 1930s in
their campaign. The movement achieved its objective in the mid-
1950s. What was the name given to this image ? OR What was the
movement about ?

• The symbol was called “Kerala Mathavu” or “Mother
Kerala”. It was used by the Aikya Kerala Movement
campaigning for the integration of Travancore, Cochin
and Malabar regions into one state along linguistic lines.

8
Genizah is the store-room or depository in a
Jewish synagogue used specifically for worn-out
Hebrew-language books and papers on religious
topics. The Cairo Geniza, which was discovered
in 1864, had an accumulation of almost 280,000
Jewish manuscript fragments, which were
written from about 870 AD to the 19th century
which is currently studied by scholars. Why do
Jews store documents in a Genizah? <pic>

According to Jewish tradition, it is forbidden to
throw away writings containing the name of
God as they should be given a proper cemetery
burial

9
"...........Nobody would be more happy than ourselves if by any chance our
countrymen at home should succeed in liberating themselves through their own
efforts or by any chance, the British Government accepts your `Quit India'
resolution and gives effect to it. We are, however proceeding on the assumption
that neither of the above is possible and that a struggle is inevitable.

___________ in this holy war for India's liberation, we ask for your blessings
and good wishes".

This was a message intended for Mahatma Gandhi, who was
imprisoned in the Aga Khan Palace, Pune. What words have been
blanked out?

• “Father of our Nation”.
• The message, sent by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose through
Azad Hind Radio in Rangoon, is considered to be the first usage
of the title to address Mahatma Gandhi.

• 10. Every year, Fabergé used to
present the Tsar with an Imperial
Easter egg. The one shown in
picture was presented in 1900 to
commemorate one of the best
achievements of the Tsar. Etched
on a belt of silver encircling the egg
is a map with some points marked
in precious stones (see better image
next slide).
• What did the map represent ?

• The map of the Trans-Siberian Railway with it‟s
major stations represented using precious
stones.

11
• Very little is known about this man, apart from the fact that he was
a skilled cannon maker. He originally approached an empire and
offered his services, but they were unable to provide him with
enough funds. So, he went over to another empire that was
plotting to conquer the first one. When asked if he could cast a
cannon to project a stone ball large enough to smash the walls at
_______, he replied “I can cast a cannon of bronze with the capacity of
the stone you want. I have examined the walls of the city in great detail. I can
shatter to dust not only these walls with the stones from my gun, but the very
walls of Babylon itself„”.
• He proved true to his word and his weapons were key ingredients
of the conquest. He himself was killed when one of his weapons
exploded. Name him and the city that he helped to capture.

• Orban.
• He made the cannons for Sultan Mehmed II to
use during the siege of Constantinople.

• 12. The two “dragons” seen below are part of the national
emblem for a particular ethnic group. They used to stand on either
side of the path leading to the ancestral coronation hall of the
Kings of the region. In 1891, the British captured the Kingdom
and destroyed the two statues. Name them, as well as the ethnic
group.

• “Kangla Sha” or “Kangla dragons” who stood guard in front of
the Kangla Fort. They were destroyed in the Anglo-Manipur war of
1891, but were recently rebuilt.
• The ethnic group are the “Meitei” people. (“Manipuri” is not
accepted).

13
• In 1961, a French movie titled
“Who are you Mr. ____ ?”
became popular in the Soviet
Union. Nikita Khruschev
happened to see the film and
asked his intelligence agencies to
confirm if the story was true.
When they reported that it was
accurate, Khruschev decided to
confer the Hero of the Soviet
Union award to the man, who
had died in 1944. Who?

• Richard Sorge, a Soviet spy in Tokyo who provided crucial
intelligence to the Soviets. He was discovered in 1943 and the
Japanese offered to trade him to the Soviets in exchange for one
of their own agents. But the Soviets denied any knowledge of
him, leading to his execution.

14. Identify this ruler seen here examining his rare coin collection. He
owned one of the largest and best known collections in history. In the
1950s, a “fire sale” of his collection was conducted and the event is now
part of numismatic folklore.

15.
• In 1945, “True Comics”, an
American publication featured
a cartoon called “Jungle
Queen”. The heroine was
based on a real life person
who had fought for the
British. This remarkable
person was the only woman to
command a guerilla force in
the British army during WWII.
Name this lady who was
awarded an MBE for her
services. Also, what force did
she command?

• Ursula Graham Bower.
• She commanded a force of
Naga tribes against the
Japanese invasion during
the Battle of Kohima.
• She had originally come to
India as an
anthropologist, studying
the North Eastern
tribes, but ended up
fighting a war with them!

16
• “Modern readers have often wished that more classical texts could
have survived the Dark Ages, but the _____ may be the rare
exception. If the last surviving manuscript had been eaten by rats in
a monk's library a thousand years ago, the world might have been
better off.” -- from a 2011 article in Slate magazine

• The classical work being described, is a short ethnographic work
written in 98 A.D. It was considered as lost during the Middle Ages.
Miraculously, in 1455, a copy was discovered in the Benedictine
monastery of Hersfeld Abbey. Name this book and its author.

• Germania by Tacitus.
• Tacitus had described the Germanic tribes as
tall, proud, virtuous and ferocious warriors. He also
stated that they were “not tainted by intermarriage with any
other nations” but rather existed “as a distinct unadulterated
people that resembles only itself.”
• Following it‟s rediscovery, it became something of a
Bible for German nationalism, with rather undesirable
consequences.

• Part Infinite Bounce/Pounce and part written
• All the “X”a numbered questions will be
written, 10 points each
• Bonus of 10 for getting all written questions
correct
• All “X” numbered question will be on Infinite
Bounce/Pounce
• +10/-5 on Pounce

1
It was founded on July 6, 1917 to honor the life and
work of a scholar who was long regarded as the
founder of Indology in India. In 2007, Rigveda
manuscripts preserved at the Institute, was included
in UNESCO‟S, Memory of the World Register. The
institute also undertook a project to create a Critical
Edition of Mahabharata in 1919 and completed it
in 1966. The Critical Edition was collated from
1,259 manuscripts and comes in 19 volumes. Which
Institute?

• The BORI or the Bhandarkar Oriental Research
Institute, Pune.

1a
• The institute was vandalized in 2003 by
Sambhaji Brigade which went on a rampage and
destroyed thousands of rare manuscripts and
other priceless articles at the Bhandarkar
Oriental Research Institute to protest alleged
"disparaging" remarks made against Chhatrapati
Shivaji by the a British historian in his book. The
book is not available in India ever since. Which
book/Author?

2
X wrote this novel as response to Turgenev's Fathers
and Sons. The novel's hero furnished a blueprint for
the asceticism and dedication unto death and was an
inspiration to many later Russian revolutionaries. The
novel is famous for the responses it created, Lenin
claimed to have read it five times and named his
famous pamphlet after it. It was this pamphlet which
argued for the need for a "Vanguard Party" and
eventually caused the split of RSDLP into Bolsheviks
and Mensheviks. Leo Tolstoy also wrote a non-fiction
work in more or less the same name on moral
responsibility.

• 2A: Who is X?
• 2B: What name derived from Luke 3:10-14 is
shared by X's novel, Lenin's pamphlet and
Tolstoy's non-fiction work?

• 2A: Nikolai Chernyshevsky
• 2B : What is to be done?

2a
• In response yet another Russian writer, Y wrote
a novel, a scathing criticism of the Utopian
Socialism as trumpeted in X's novel. Written in
the form of rambling memoirs of a
bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator generally
referred to by critics as the Underground
Man, this novel is considered by many as the
first existentialist novel.

• 3 This memorial to a tragic episode of the 1840s and 1850s
represents immigrants heading towards ships to escape the disaster
at home. What unfortunate event ? (Part 2 of this question on next
slide.)

• The Irish Potato Famine / Great Famine. The
memorial is in Dublin.

3a
• In the 1990s, several people from this country retraced a 500
mile trail from Oklahoma to the Mississippi. The trail had
nothing to do with their country‟s history, and had been
originally traversed by another group of unfortunate people in
the 1830s. Why was this retracing done ?

4
In the 1960s the building was subdivided and
partitioned into smaller cubicles that were let out on
rent as homes and offices. It is oldest surviving cast
iron building in India was designed by the same
designer who did the St Pancras Railway station.
The present sad state of affairs was publicized by
Italian architect Renzo Piano, and as a result of his
efforts, the building was listed in June 2005 on the
list of "100 World Endangered Monuments" by the
World Monuments Fund. This building is
counterpart of another building in a famous urban
legend. What building?

4a
• It is also known as "More Tramps Abroad" and
was primarily a travelogue but also contained tall
tales like how Cecil Rhodes made his fortune by
finding a newspaper in the belly of a shark, and
the story of how a man named Ed Jackson
made good in life out of a fake letter of
introduction to Cornelius Vanderbilt. Which
work?

5
It was a classification created by Army officials
of British India. It has been alleged that Pakistan
Military believed in this concept and they thus
thought that they would easily defeat India in a
war. It was popularly hyped that one Pakistani
soldier was equal to four to ten Indian soldiers.
What theory?

5a
The Nairs of Kerala were initially included in
this list but after a 1807-09 event they were
removed and thereafter was recruited in smaller
numbers. This event was insurrection led by
Prime Minister of a kingdom which was the first
native force to defeat a colonial power in Asia.
Who was he?

6

He was an expert in Pali language and Buddhist
philosophy, one of the very few during his
lifetime..But his greatest contribution was to the
revival and spread of the message of Buddhism in
Maharashtra. It was his primer Buddha, Dharma ani
Sangha (1910) and his play Bodhisattva, published
posthumously in 1949, prepared the ground for the
eventual popularization of Ambedkar‟s Navayana in
Maharashtra in the late 1950s. ID <pic>

• Dharmananda Damodar Kosambi

6a
His son Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi was a
renaissance man. He was a
mathematician, statistician, Marxist historian, and a
polymath. His 1956 book An Introduction to the Study
of Indian History is an epoch making work in the field.
This is an excerpt from the book. Fill up.
“Heavy, dark, sluggish, hardy, fertile, productive with
little care, far cleaner than it looks, docile enough to be
led by a child, but suspicious of innovations and perfectly
capable when roused, of charging a tiger or a
locomotive, the ________ would be a fitting national
symbol for India”.

7
The structure was build to provide famine relief.
It is said that both rich and poor worked on it.
But at different times. The poor worked during
the day and rich during the night. The result was
that there was no coordination between the two.
What the rich did during the day, the poor undid
it at night. Corridors ran over corridors. Some
ended where they had begun. Some got lost in
between. Which structure? It's name suggests
the lack of co-ordination was intentional.

7a
• This mausoleum, popularly known as Bhul-
bhulaiyan, due to a labyrinthine maze inside. It
was built by Akbar for his foster brother Adham
Khan, whom he killed by throwing him down
from the ramparts of the Agra fort, twice. The
same Adham Khan was responsible for the end
of a tragic love jihad story through his invasion
of the state of Malwa. Which love story?

8
The picture below is propaganda poster of sorts
which was commissioned in early 1600‟s. It
shows the diplomatic relationship between two
empires and their relative strengths. Identify
both the emperors.

• Shah Abbas of Safavid Persia and Jahangir of
Mughal India.

8a
• Babur, the founder of the Mughal
Empire, annexed it in the 16th century. Babur's
son, Humayun, lost it to the Shi'a Safavids of
Persia. The Mughals gained he city in 1595 and
resisted a Persian siege in 1605–1606.
Humayun's son, Akbar, regained control in 1638
but lost the city permanently to the Safavid
Persians during the 1649-53 Mughal–Safavid
War. Which city?

James W. Lane/`Shivaji: Hindu King in Islamic
India„

• Fyodor Dostoyevsky‟s Notes from the
Underground

• In 1847, at the height of the famine, the Irish nation received a
gift of $710 from the Choctaw Indians of USA. The
contribution was sent at a time when the Choctaw themselves
were struggling. About 16 years earlier, this tribe had been forced
by the US Govt., to relocate from their homeland to new
reservations. Their journey came to be known as the “Choctaw
Trail of Tears”. Moved by the plight of the Irish, the Choctaw
collected money and send it to a famine relief fund.. This gift
was remembered on its 150th anniversary by Irishmen who
retraced the trail of tears.

• Mark Twain‟s Following the Equator

6a

His son Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi was a
renaissance man. He was a
mathematician, statistician, Marxist historian, and a
polymath. His 1956 book An Introduction to the Study
of Indian History is an epoch making work in the field.
This is an excerpt from the book. Fill up.
• “Heavy, dark, sluggish, hardy, fertile, productive with little
care, far cleaner than it looks, docile enough to be led by a
child, but suspicious of innovations and perfectly capable
when roused, of charging a tiger or a locomotive, the
________ would be a fitting national symbol for India”.

• Comments can be mailed to:
praveen.vr@gmail.com
kmanjith@yahoo.com

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