501. What was the type of marriage in the Vedic period in which, in place of the dowry, there was a token bride price of a cow and a bull?
1. Asura
2. Arsa
3. Gandharva
4. Rakshsa
Option “2” is correct. It is a type of marriage in vedic times. It is a token bride price of a Cow and a Bull was given.
502. The oldest Veda is?
1. Atharva Veda
2. Rig Veda
3. Yajur Veda
4. Sama Veda
Option “2” is correct. The Rig Veda is the oldest of the Vedas. All the other Vedas are based upon it and consist to a large degree of various hymns from it. It consists of a thousand such hymns of different seers, each hymn averaging around ten verses. The Rig Veda is the oldest book in world.
503. Chauth and Sardeshmukhi were taxes taken during the reign of-
1. Marathas
2. Mughals
3. English
4. Portuguese
Option “1” is correct. Chauth and Sardeshmukhi were two types of taxes collected in South India, particularly Maratha Empire during medieval times. These two taxes became important sources of revenue for Maratha administration.
504. The first dynasty of the Vijayanagar Kingdom was-
1. Hoyasala
2. Sangama
3. Saluva
4. Tuluva
Option “2” is correct. The Vijayanagara Empire, was based in the Deccan Plateau region in South India. It was established in 1336 by Harihara I and his brother Bukka Raya I of Sangama Dynasty.
505. During India’s freedom struggle, which one of the following led to the first ‘All India Hartal’?
1. Protest against Rowlatt Act
2. Protest against Jallianwalla Bagh Massacre
3. Trial of Mahatma Gandhi
4. Arrival of Simon Commission
Option “1” is correct. First all India hartal on April 6, was a “hartal” organised where Indians would suspend all business and fast as a sign of their opposition and civil disobedience would be offered against specific law. This event is known as the Rowlatt Satyagraha.
506. The main reason for the boycott of Simon Commission in India was—
1. Appointment before time
2. All the members were Englishmen
3. Chairman was a member of the British Liberal Party
4. Gandhiji’s Non–Co–operation Movement
Option “2” is correct. It had 7 members which were lifted from the three political parties of the British Parliament under the chairmanship of Sir John Simon. None of the Indians was appointed in the commission. When no Indian was included in the commission, it was like depriving of their right to participate in the determination of the constitution of their own country.
507. From which of the following places was the Civil Disobedience Movement started by Gandhiji in 1930?
1. Sevagram
2. Dandi
3. Sabarmati
4. Wardha
Option “2” is correct. The Salt March, also known as the Dandi March and the Dandi Satyagraha, was an act of non violent civil disobedience in colonial India initiated by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi to produce salt from the seawater in the coastal village of Dandi.
Option “1” is correct. The Arthashastra is the title of a handbook for running an empire, written by Kautilya (also known as Chanakya, c. 350-275 BCE) an Indian statesman and philosopher, chief advisor and Prime Minister of the Indian Emperor Chandragupta, the first ruler of the Mauryan Empire.
