History 2

Meghdoot

Kalidasa

Battle of Plassey

1757

Adi Granth

Guru Arjan Dev

Gateway of India

George Wittet

Administration of India transferred to the hands of the British Monarch by the Proclamation of Queen

1858

First Viceroy of British India

Lord Canning

Partition of Bengal

1905

Vikramashila University was founded by

Dharmapala

Napoleon of India

Samudragupta

First Indian to unfurl the tricolour on foreign land

Bhikaiji Cama

Architects credited to have designed the city of New Delhi

Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker

Explorer who discovered a sea route to India in 1498

Vasco da Gama

Founder of the Satyashodhak Samaj in the 19th century

Jyotiba Phule

Moroccan traveller Ibn Battuta visited India in the 14th century during whose reign

Mohammad Bin-Tughlaq

First territory to be a part of India after independence

Puducherry

Birth place of Subhash Chandra Bose

Cuttack

Battle of Buxar fought in

1764

Emperor's army Maharana Pratap fought in the Battle of Haldighati

Akbar

Non-Cooperation Movement launched

1920

Vijay Stambha (Tower of Victory) in Chittorgarh built by

Rana Kumbha

Slogan "Swaraj is my birthright and I shall have it" raised by

Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Slogan 'Back to the Vedas (Vedo ki aur lauto)' raised by

Dayanand Saraswati

Todarmal was the revenue minister of which Mughal Emperor

Akbar

First Governor General of Bengal

Warren Hastings

Indian National Congress split between moderates and extremists

1907

Rowlatt Act 1919 was passed during the period of

Lord Chelmsford

Words 'Give me blood

I will give you freedom' are attributed to

Founder of the Lodhi dynasty

Bahlul Lodhi

Popularly known as Africa's Gandhi

Nelson Mandela

Also had the name 'Devanama Piyadassi'

Mauryan King Ashoka

Known as the 'Parrot of India'

Amir Khusrau

Tomar ruler credited as the founder of Delhi

Anangpal

Founder of Banaras Hindu University

Madan Mohan Malviya

Second Battle of Tarain was fought between

Mohammed Ghori and Prithviraj Chauhan

'Azad Hind Fauj' founded in

Singapore

Known as the Father of Indian Unrest

Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Founder of Ghadar Party

Sohan Singh Bhakna

East India Company established in

1600

Words 'Satyameva Jayate' in the State Emblem of India were taken from

Upanishad

Indus Valley site in Pakistan

Harappa

Capital of the Chola king

Tanjore

Oldest monument

Ajanta Caves

The Great Wall of China was built by

Shih Huangti

In Mohenjo-Daro

the largest building is

First Indian to qualify for the Indian Civil Services

Satyendra Nath Tagore

'Akbarnama' written by

Abul Fazal

First female emperor of India

Razia Sultana

First Governor General of India

Lord William Bentick

Subject matter of Ajanta Paintings pertains to

Buddhism

Gandhiji's famous Quit India Movement call to the British was given in

1942

Raja Ram Mohan Roy was the founder of

Brahmo Samaj

Popularly known as the Grand Old Man of India

Dadabhai Naoroji