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Describe the familial relationship observed during the Mahabharat era.
Concept: Kinship and Marriage: Many Rules and Varied Practices
Describe the Social implications of access to Resources during the Mahabharat period.
Concept: Beyond Birth Resources and Status
How is Mahabharata a colossal epic to understand social behaviour of early historic period?
Concept: Handling Texts Historians and the Mahabharata
Analyse the role of Indian Sanskritist V.S. Suthankar and his team in the preparation of critical edition of Mahabharata.
Concept: The Critical Edition of the Mahabharata
Identify the picture from the given options.
Concept: The Critical Edition of the Mahabharata
“The Mahabharata is an invaluable source available to historians to study social practices and norms in early societies”, Justify the statement.
Concept: Handling Texts Historians and the Mahabharata
“Be lamps unto yourselves as all of you must work out your own liberation.” Identify the essence of the words of Buddha from the options given below.
Concept: The Teachings of the Buddha
Read the following source carefully and answer the questions that follow:
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Sanchi in the nineteenth century |
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The most wonderful ancient buildings in the state of Bhopal are at Sanchi Kanakhera, a small village under the brow of a hill some 20 miles northeast of Bhopal which we visited yesterday. We inspected the stone sculptures and statues of the Buddha and an ancient gateway. The ruins appear to be the object of great interest to European gentlemen. Major Alexander Cunningham stayed several weeks in this neighbourhood and examined these ruins most carefully. He took drawings of the place, deciphered the inscription, and bored shafts down these domes. The results of his investigations were described by him in an English work. |
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From SHAHJAHAN BEGUM, NAWAB OF BHOPAL (ruled 1868-1901), Taj-ul Iqbal Tarikh Bhopal (A History of Bhopal), translated by H.D. Barstow, 1876. |
- Why was Sanchi an interest to Alexander Cunningham?
- How was Sanchi related with Buddhism?
- How did Shahjahan Begum conserve Sanchi's stupa?
Concept: A Glimpse of Sanchi
Ashoka erected a pillar at ______ to mark that he had visited that place.
Concept: Stupas
Read the following source carefully and answer the questions that follow.
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The world beyond the palace Just as the Buddha’s teachings were compiled by his followers, the teachings of Mahavira were also recorded by his disciples. These were often in the form of stories, which could appeal to ordinary people. Here is one example, from a Prakrit text known as the Uttaradhyayana Sutta, describing how a queen named Kamalavati tried to persuade her husband to renounce the world: If the whole world and all its treasures were yours, you would not be satisfied, nor would all this be able to save you. When you die, O king and leave all things behind, dhamma alone, and nothing else, will save you. As a bird dislikes the cage, so do I dislike (the world). I shall live as a nun without offspring, without desire, without the love of gain, and without hatred …Those who have enjoyed pleasures and renounced them, move about like the wind, and go wherever they please, unchecked like birds in their flight … Leave your large kingdom … abandon what pleases the senses, be without attachment and property, then practise severe penance, being firm of energy…. |
- Identify the person who persuaded the king to renounce the world.
- “Oh king, dhamma alone and nothing else will save you”- What does the word “dhamma” signifies and whose teachings was followed by the disciple.
- Under which context the following statement “unchecked like birds in their flight…….” was told by the disciple of Mahavira?
Concept: Beyond Worldly Pleasures: the Message of Mahavira
Who wrote the book Kitab-ul-Hind?
Concept: Al-biruni and the Kitab-ul-hind
Kitab ul Hind : Al-Biruni, Rihla : ______ :
Concept: Al-biruni and the Kitab-ul-hind
- François Bernier was closely associated with Prince Dara Shukoh.
- Bernier travelled to several parts of the country, and wrote accounts.
- He dedicated his major writing to the king of France and Aurangzeb.
Concept: Francois Bernier - a Doctor with a Difference
Analyze the concept of the Asiatic mode of production as stated by Karl Marx.
Concept: Bernier and the “Degenerate” East
Identify the name of the person from the information given below.
- He was born at Tangier in one of the most respectable and educated family.
- He considered experience gained through travel as a source of knowledge than books.
- He had travelled extensively in middle east and few trading ports on the coast of East Africa.
- He wrote a book named Rihia.
Concept: Ibn Battuta’s Rihla
“India had unique system of communication during the 14th century” Examine the statement made by Ibn Battuta.
Concept: Ibn Battuta and the Excitement of the Unfamiliar
Assertion (A): Lingayats did not practice funerary rites such as cremation, prescribed in the Dharmashastras.
Reason (R): Lingayats believe that on death, the devotee will be united with Shiva and will not return to this world.
Concept: The Virashaiva Tradition in Karnataka
Find out the correct chronological order of ‘the Chishti Silsila’ from the following options:
- Shaikh Nizamuddin Auliya
- Shaikh Fariduddin Ganj-Shakar
- Shaikh Nasiruddin Chiragh-i Delhi
- Shaikh Muinuddin Sijzi
Concept: The Chishtis in the Subcontinent
Read the following source carefully and answer the questions that follow:
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This is part of a song attributed to Mirabai: In another verse, she sings: |
- Examine the reason for calling Meera Bai an ascetic figure.
- Analyze Meera Bai’s relation with Mewar.
- How was Mirabai unique among the poet-saints of the Bhakti movement?
Concept: New Devotional Paths Dialogue and Dissent in Northern India
'Kabir is known as one of the saints whose philosophy has greatly influenced the Bhakti Movement.' Justify the statement with suitable points.
Concept: New Devotional Paths Dialogue and Dissent in Northern India
