Navjivan Mock

ONE-LINER HISTORY NOTE FOR COMPETITIVE EXAMS   Famous Personalities in Medieval India 1.        Al Masudi - An Arabian traveller who came to India in 10th century AD.   2.       Al Beruni - He came to India with Muhammed Ghazni, his book, Tahrik-ul-Hindh.   3.       Abbas Khan Shervani : He was a historian of Shershahs time. He wrote Tarikh-1-Shershahi.   4.       Abul Fazal : He was a a great scholar poet Historian in the court of Akbar. He wrote Akbarnamah and Ain-i- Akbari.   5.       Bhaktiyar Khilji : Commander of Muhammed Ghori who conquered Bengal and crushed the Sena dynasty.   6.       Bhar Mal : He was the Rajput ruler of Amber. His daughter Jodabai was married to Akbar. Akbars commanders Bhangavandas and Mansingh were his son and grandson respectively.   7.   ...

  ONE-LINER HISTORY NOTE FOR COMPETITIVE EXAMS   The Bhakti Movement 1.        Love and devotion to one personal God is the basic concept of Bhakti.   2.       The Alvars or Vaishanava saints and Nayanars or Saivite, saints became the promoters of Bhakti movement in South India.   3.       Ramanuja , a Vaishana saint of 12th century AD, was born at Sriperumbathur and founded philosophy of Vishistadvaita or qualified monism. Renjith Singh   4.       The leader of Bhakti movement or Hindu revivalism was Sankaracharya . His philosophy was Advaita or pure monism. He wrote Commentary on Brahmasutra and Upanishad. He founded four matts- Sringeri, Dwaraka, Puri and Badrinath .   5.       Vallabhacharya promoted the philosophy of Pushtimarga . He was the founder of Sudhadvaita .   6.       Th...

  ONE-LINER HISTORY NOTE FOR COMPETITIVE EXAMS   Sikhism 1.        ‘Sikh’ is a sanskrit word which means ‘desciple’   2.       Sikh religion was founded by GuruNanak .   3.       Guru Nanak was born was born at Talwandi in Lahore, belonged to the Khatri Caste (Mercantile Community)   4.       Nanak called his creed as Gurumat or Guru’s wisdom. Shivaji GuruNanak   5.       GuruNanak was born in 1469 and died in 1538.   6.       He was the first Guru of the Sikhs.   7.       Nanak preached only in Punjabi.   8.       Nanak nominated Guru Angad as his successor.   9.       Guru Angad introduced Gurumukhi Script . He also compiled Guru Nanak’s biography Janam Sakis .   10.   ...

  ONE-LINER HISTORY NOTE FOR COMPETITIVE EXAMS   The Marathas 1.        The first great leader of the Marathas was Chatrapathi Shivaji .   2.       The Marathas became prominent in the later half of the 17th century.   3.       Shivaji belonged to the Bhonsle clan of the Marathas.   4.       Shaji Bhonsle and Jiga Bai were the Parents of Shivaji.   5.       He was born in 1627 February 19 at the fort of Shivner near Junnar.   6.       His father was a military commander under the Nizam Shahi rulers of Ahmedanagar and later of Bijapur.   7.       Shivaji’s tutor was Dadaji Kondadev .   8.       Shivaji received the help of Malavi tribe to capture the territories of Bijapur Sulthan.   9.     ...