Indian History Questions

The only session of Indian National Congress which was presided by Mahatma Gandhi was held at Belgaum in 1924.

In 1963, the peacock was declared theNational Bird of India because of its rich religious and legendary involvement in Indian traditions.

Lord Ripon was the Viceroy of India from 1880 to 1884. He introduced Local Bodies (Local Self Governance) in 1882 and showed the taste of independence to Indians.

Postmodernism is the literary period, the beat generation aligned with. Postmodernism refers to mid to late 20th century.

The sonnet is a fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter, which employ one of several rhyme schemes and adhere to a tightly structured thematic organization. Francesco Petrarch first popularized the sonnet form and after that many others like Shakespeare, Edmund Spencer and many other started that.

A stupa is a mound-like or hemispherical structure containing relics that is used as a place of meditation.Buddhist sources claim that during the 3rd century BCE, the Mauryan Emperor Ashoka the Great ordered these eight stupas to be opened, further distributed the relics of the Buddha into 84,000 portions, and had stupas built over them all over the expanding Buddhist world.They were located on trade routes in order to propagate Buddhism.However, there were no evidence of them being located in rural areas.

The first talkie film in India was Ardeshir Irani released Alam Ara, on 14 March 1931.

Irani later produced the first south Indian talkie film Kalidas directed by H.M. Reddy released on 31 October 1931.