History Jainism And Buddhism

Q. The greatest Buddhist commentator of the Buddhist canonical literature has been

A
Ashvaghosha
B
Nagarjuna
C
Vasumitra
D
Buddhaghosha

Correct Answer

Ashvaghosha

More Questions on History

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    A)Germans
    B)Portuguese
    C)The French
    D)The Dutch
    Answer: The French
  • Q. Gandhi-Irwin Pact was signed on
    A)March 20, 1931
    B)March 10, 1930
    C)March 20,1932
    D)March 5,1931
    Answer: March 5,1931
  • Q. John Locke profounded
    A)Theory of Divine Rights
    B)Social Contract Theory
    C)Patriarchal Theory
    D)Theory of Force
    Answer: Social Contract Theory
  • Q. Who called Government of India Act 1935 as thoroughly rotten, fundamentally bad and totally unacceptable?
    A)Mohammad Ali Jinnah
    B)Subhash Chandra Bose
    C)Mahatma Gandhi
    D)Balkrishana Chapekar
    Answer: Mohammad Ali Jinnah
  • Q. Which Mughal emperor is credited with having composed secular Hindi songs?
    A)Shah Jahan
    B)Jahangir
    C)Humayun
    D)Babur
    Answer: Jahangir
  • Q. In 1893 __________ landed in India, made a tour of the country in the company of H. S. Olcott, and by her splendid presentation of Indian philosophy and her undisguised personal preference for the Indian spiritual heritage, won the support of orthodox Brahmins to Theosophy
    A)Upendranath Basu
    B)Annie Besant
    C)I. N. Gurtu
    D)George Thompson
    Answer: Annie Besant
  • Q. Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose had proclaimed the formation of the Provisional Government of Independent India (Azad Hind) in
    A)Rangoon
    B)Vienna
    C)Tokyo
    D)Singapore
    Answer: Singapore
  • Q. What was the name of the assassinator of John F. Kennedy
    A)John Wilkes Booth
    B)Lee Harvey Oswald
    C)John Surratt
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    Answer: Lee Harvey Oswald
  • Q. Who had paned the Vernacular Press Act into law?
    A)Lord Hardinge
    B)Lord Mayo
    C)Lord Dalhousie
    D)Lord Lytton
    Answer: Lord Lytton
  • Q. What was Lala Lajpat Rai demonstrating against when he succumbed to police brutality?
    A)Minto-Morley Reforms
    B)Rowlatta Act
    C)Simon Commission
    D)Pitts India Act
    Answer: Simon Commission
  • Q. The deep transforming effect that the Kalinga War had on Ashoka has been described in
    A)Rock edicts
    B)Archaeological excavations
    C)Coins
    D)Pillar edicts
    Answer: Rock edicts
  • Q. The original name of Tansen, the greatest musician of the court of Akbar, was
    A)Ramatanu Pande
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  • Q. Which one of the following rulers laid the foundation of a new town where the modern city of Agra stands?
    A)Sikandar Lodi
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  • Q. Which of the following provision was not included in the Nehru Report?
    A)The Governor General must be only the constitutional head
    B)India must be given Dominion status
    C)There was to be no separate electorate
    D)Diarchy should be introduced both at the centre as well as provinces
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  • Q. Who was the first woman President of Congress?
    A)Mrs. Sarojini Naidu
    B)Mrs. Annie Besant
    C)Mrs. Nelline Sengupta
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    Answer: Mrs. Annie Besant
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    A)Friedrich Nietzsche
    B)Carl Jung
    C)Jacques Lacan
    D)Sigmund Freud
    Answer: Sigmund Freud
  • Q. The Battle of the Hydaspes was fought by Alexander the Great against
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    C)King Porus
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    Answer: King Porus
  • Q. In 1928 Gurudevan took part in the special meeting of the Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana Yogam at __________
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    B)Kollam
    C)Kottayam
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    Answer: Kottayam
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