Question bank

Filter questions by subject, topic and difficulty. Open any question to answer it and see the explanation.

Clear

283 questions found · practise this subject as a set Show 20 · 50 per page

#	Question	Subject and topic	Difficulty
61	Marrying outside one's own kin group or gotra is known as:	History Kinship and marriage	Easy
62	Draupadi's marriage to the five Pandavas is an example of:	History Kinship and marriage	Medium
63	Satavahana rulers were identified by names derived from their mothers. What does this most reasonably suggest?	History Kinship and marriage	Medium
64	A Satavahana queen retained her father's gotra name after marriage. Which Brahmanical rule does this go again…	History Kinship and marriage	Hard
65	According to the Dharmashastras, the ideal occupation of the Kshatriyas was to:	History Varna, jati and social mobility	Easy
66	Which Rigvedic hymn describes the varnas emerging from the body of the primeval man?	History Varna, jati and social mobility	Easy
67	The Shaka ruler Rudradaman was regarded as a mlechchha by Brahmanical texts, yet he repaired the Sudarshana l…	History Varna, jati and social mobility	Medium
68	A silk weavers' guild migrated from Lata to Mandasor and built a temple to the sun god. This example best ill…	History Varna, jati and social mobility	Medium
69	How did jati differ from varna as a basis of social classification?	History Varna, jati and social mobility	Hard
70	Gifts received by a woman at her marriage, which she could retain, were called:	History Property and gender	Easy
71	According to the Manusmriti, the paternal estate was to be divided:	History Property and gender	Easy
72	Who could inherit a woman's stridhana, according to the norms described in the texts?	History Property and gender	Medium
73	The land grant issued by Prabhavati Gupta is significant because it shows that:	History Property and gender	Medium
74	Why does the dice-game episode in which Draupadi is staked interest historians of gender?	History Property and gender	Hard
75	The original story of the Mahabharata was probably composed by charioteer-bards known as:	History The Mahabharata as a dynamic text	Easy
76	The Mahabharata is traditionally attributed to the sage:	History The Mahabharata as a dynamic text	Easy
77	Historians divide the content of the Mahabharata into which two broad categories?	History The Mahabharata as a dynamic text	Medium
78	What important change in the text took place between c. 200 BCE and 200 CE?	History The Mahabharata as a dynamic text	Medium
79	The Mahabharata grew from fewer than 10,000 verses to about 100,000 verses. What best explains this growth?	History The Mahabharata as a dynamic text	Hard
80	Which ruler of Bhopal funded the museum and guest house at Sanchi?	History Sanchi and the stupa	Easy