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Questions : Given below are two statements and select the correct answer from the codes given below–
  • Assertion (A): The traders usually moved in caravans.
  • Reason (R): Dangers and uncertainties involved in long-distance travel compelled them to go together.

(a) If both A and R are correct but R is not the correct explanation of A.

(b) If A is correct but R is wrong.

(c) If A is wrong but R is correct.

(d) If both A and R are correct, R being the correct explanation of A.

The correct answers to the above question in:

Answer: (d)

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Question : 1

Kumara Gupta I was succeded by

a) Skanda gupta

b) Chandra gupta II

c) Samundra gupta

d) Budha gupta

Answer: (a)

Question : 2

Which of the following supposed causes of decline and disintegration of the Mauryan Empire is the least likely?

a) Absence of national consciousness and representatitive institutions

b) Succession of weak kings after Ashoka and the partition of the empire after Ashoka

c) Brahmanical revolt against the pro-Buddhist policy of Ashoka

d) Military inactivity on account of Ashoka’s pacifist policies

Answer: (a)

Question : 3

Who of the following has mentioned on the absence of slavery in Maurya period?

a) Vishakhadatta

b) Megasthenes

c) Kautilya

d) Justin

Answer: (b)

Question : 4

In which of the following edicts did Ashoka order that “whosoever monk or nun breaks up the Sangha, after being clothed in white garments, shall take up abode in a place other than a monastery”?

a) The Queen’s Edict

b) Sarnath Edict

c) Sanchi Edict

d) Kausambi Edict

Answer: (a)

Question : 5

The last Mauryan emperor was

a) Samprati

b) Kunal

c) Jalok

d) Brihadratha

Answer: (d)

Brihadratha Maurya was the last ruler of the Mauryan dynasty. He ruled from 187–180 BC. He was killed by his senapati (commander-in-chief), Pushyamitra Sunga.

Question : 6

Which one of the following scripts of ancient India was written from right to left?

a) Pali

b) Kharoshti

c) Brahmi

d) Prakrit

Answer: (b)

The Kharosthi script is an ancient script used by the ancient Gandhara culture of South Asia primarily in modern-day Afghanistan and Pakistan. Kharosthi is mostly written right to left (type A), but some inscriptions (type B) already show the left to right direction that was to become universal for the later South Asian scripts.

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