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UPSC CDS Ancient Indian History — practice questions — page 18

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Most surviving early land grant inscriptions were engraved on:Read the answer and worked solution →Prabhavati Gupta, who granted the village of Danguna, was the daughter of:Read the answer and worked solution →Prabhavati Gupta was married into which ruling family of the Deccan?Read the answer and worked solution →Land granted to a Brahmana, usually free of land revenue, was called an:Read the answer and worked solution →Some historians read land grants as a sign of:Read the answer and worked solution →Pataliputra began as a village known as:Read the answer and worked solution →Which Chinese pilgrim found Pataliputra in ruins in the seventh century CE?Read the answer and worked solution →Which early city lay near the coast where sea routes began?Read the answer and worked solution →The glossy fine pottery of early cities, probably used by the rich, is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Guilds of craft producers and merchants in early towns were called:Read the answer and worked solution →The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea was composed by:Read the answer and worked solution →The Periplus lists pepper and malabathrum as exports of the Malabar coast. Malabathrum was possibly:Read the answer and worked solution →Successful merchants were called masattuvan in Tamil and, in Prakrit:Read the answer and worked solution →The earliest coins minted in the subcontinent, from about the sixth century BCE, were:Read the answer and worked solution →The first coins bearing names and images of rulers were issued by the:Read the answer and worked solution →The first gold coins in the subcontinent, about the first century CE, were issued by the:Read the answer and worked solution →Several thousand copper coins were issued by which tribal republic of Punjab and Haryana?Read the answer and worked solution →Finds of gold coins taper off from about the:Read the answer and worked solution →Evidence of a bead-making industry using precious stones was found at:Read the answer and worked solution →James Prinsep deciphered Asokan Brahmi in:Read the answer and worked solution →Kharosthi was read by comparing letters with Greek on the coins of which rulers?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the coin issuersRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the trade wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the coins and scriptsRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the town wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Trade or inscriptionRead the answer and worked solution →Sort coins, cities and textsRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Towns and trade bingoRead the answer and worked solution →Harappan seals were made of a stone called:Read the answer and worked solution →

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Most surviving early land grant inscriptions were engraved on:

  1. Clay tablets
  2. Copper plates
  3. Stone slabs
  4. Palm leaves
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Correct answer: B. Copper plates

1. They recorded the transaction for the recipient. 2. Most were on copper plates. 3. Most grants went to religious institutions or Brahmanas. _Source: syllabus Themes in Indian History I, Theme 2, Kings, Farmers and Towns, sections on land grants, towns, trade and coins._

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Prabhavati Gupta, who granted the village of Danguna, was the daughter of:

  1. Chandragupta II
  2. Samudragupta
  3. Kumaragupta
  4. Skandagupta
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Correct answer: A. Chandragupta II

1. She married into the Vakataka family of the Deccan. 2. Her father was Chandragupta II. 3. Her grant shows a queen could control land. _Source: syllabus Themes in Indian History I, Theme 2, Kings, Farmers and Towns, sections on land grants, towns, trade and coins._

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Prabhavati Gupta was married into which ruling family of the Deccan?

  1. Chalukyas
  2. Vakatakas
  3. Satavahanas
  4. Kadambas
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Correct answer: B. Vakatakas

1. Legal texts denied women independent access to land. 2. The Vakatakas were her husband's family. 3. Her inscription granted a village to a teacher. _Source: syllabus Themes in Indian History I, Theme 2, Kings, Farmers and Towns, sections on land grants, towns, trade and coins._

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