BASIC GENERAL KNOWEDGE

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GENERAL KNOWLEDGE FOR YOUR SSC,UPSC AND GOVERNMENT JOBS PREPARATION(INDIAN HISTORY PART-2)

  • WHO WAS THE FOUNDER OF BUDDHISM?                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
  • ANS-GAUTAMA BHUDDHA,FOUNDER OF BUDDHISM,WAS BORN IN 563 BC ON THE VAISAKHA PURNIMA DAY AT LUMBINIVANA (RUMMINDEHI DISTRICT,NEPAL) IN THE SAKYA KSHATRIYA CLAN .                                                            
  • WHO IS GAUTAMA FATHER AND MOTHER ?                                                                              
  • ANS-GAUTAMA FATHER NAME WAS SUDDHODHANA,REPUBLICAN KING OF KAPILVASTU AND MOTHER MAHAMAYA WAS A PRINCESS OF KOLLIA REPUBLIC.                                                                                                                                            
  • BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF PRITHVIRAJ CHAUHAN(1178-1192):-                                              
  • ANS-HE RULED OVER DELHI AND AGRA AND FOUGHT TWO IMPORTANT BATTLES,FIRST BATTLE OF TARAIN WAS FOUGHT IN 1191 BETWEEN THE FORCES OF PRITHVIRAJ CHAUHAN AND MOHAMMAD GHORI IN WHICH THE LATTER WAS DEFEATED.SECOND BATTLE OF TARAIN WAS FOUGHT IN 1192 WHEN MOHAMMAD GHORI AGAIN INVADED INDIA IN WHICH PRITHVIRAJ CHAUHAN WAS DEFEATED AND CAPTURED AND LATER ON SLAIN.THE KINGDOM OF DELHI FELL TO MOHAMMAD GHORI.THE BATTLE OF TARAIN HAD GREAT SIGNIFICANCE IN THE POLITICAL SCENE AS IT LED TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF MUSLIM RULE OVER NORTH INDIA AND SUBSEQUENTLY IN THE SOUTH FOR SEVERAL CENTURIES.                                               
  • DEFINE BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF SIKANDAR LODHI:1489-1517                                            
  • ANS-SIKANDAR LODHI WAS THE SON OF BAHLOL LODHI WHO CONQUERED BIHAR AND WESTERN BENGAL                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
  • HE SHIFTED HIS CAPITAL FROM DELHI TO AGRA,A CITY FOUNDED BY HIM                                                                                                                                                                       
  • SIKANDAR WAS A FINATICAL MUSLIM AND BROKE THE SACRED IMAGES OF THE JWALAMUKHI TEMPLE AT NAGAR KOT AND ORDERED THE TEMPLES OF MATHURA TO BE DESTROYED                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
  • HE TOOK A KEEN INTEREST IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF AGRICULTURE.HE INTRODUCED THE GAZ-I-SIKANDERI OF 32 DIGITS FOR MEASURING CULTIVATED FIELDS.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
  • HE WAS A POET AND COMPOSED POEMS IN PERSIAN WITH THE PEN NAME GULRUKHI                                                                                                                                             
  • DEFINE BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF IBRAHIM LODHI:-1517-26                                                         
  • ANS- HE WAS THE LAST KING OF THE LODHI DYNASTY AND THE LAST SULTAN OF DELHI.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
  • HE WAS THE SON OF SIKANDAR LODHI                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
  • THE AFGHAN NOBILITY WAS BRAVE AND FREEDOM-LOVING PEOPLE BUT IT WAS BECAUSE OF ITS FISSIPAROUS AND INDIVIDUALISTIC TENDENCIES THAT THE AFGHAN MONARCHY WAS WEAKENED.MOREOVER,IBRAHIM LODHI ASSERTED THE ABSOLUTE POWER OF THE SULTAN.AS A RESULT,SOME OF THE NOBLES TURNED AGAINST HIM.                                                                                                                                                                                                                
  • AT LAST DAULAT KHAN LODHI,THE GOVERNOR OF PUNJAB INVITED BABUR TO OVERTHROW IBRAHIM LODHI.BABUR ACCEPTED THE OFFER AND INFLICTED A CRUSHING DEFEAT ON IBRAHIM LODHI IN THE FIRST BATTLE OF PANIPAT IN 1526.IBRAHIM LODHI WAS KILLED IN THE BATTLE NORMAL AND WITH HIM ENDED THE DELHI SULTANATE.


  • SOME IMPORTANT PLACES
  • AHICHHATRA:-ORIGINALLY AHIKSHETRA IN BARAEILLY DISTRICT OF UTTAR PRADESH WAS ONCE THE CAPITAL OF PANCHALAS
  • AMRAVATI:-IT IS THE LEGENDARY CAPITAL OF SVARGA.ALSO A HISTORICAL SITE NEAR MODERN VIJAYWADA,BELIEVED TO HAVE FLOURISHED UNDER THE SATAVAHANA DYNASTY
  • AYODHYA:- A FEW MILES FROM MODERN FAIZABAD NEAR LUCKNOW,WAS CAPITAL OF THE KOSALA AND THE SOLAR KINGS OF ANCIENT INDIA.RAMA WAS THE MOST PROMINENT AMONG THEM.
  • BODH GAYA:-IT IS SITUATED 6MILES SOUTH OF GAYA IN BIHAR STATE ON THE WESTERN BANK OF THE FALGU RIVER AND CONNECTED BY TWO METALLED ROADS.IT IS FAMOUS AS THE PLACE WHERE BUDDHA GOT ENLIGHTENMENT.THERE ARE MODERN MONASTERIES,REST HOUSES AND MUSEUM.











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