RRB NTPC History quiz for Stage I : 20th June 2019

Exp.A staple food, or simply a staple, is a food that is eaten routinely and in such quantities that it constitutes a dominant portion of a standard diet for a given people, supplying a large fraction of energy needs and generally forming a significant proportion of the intake of other nutrients as well.Milk and its products were used by the Vedic Aryan as a staple food.”Aryan” is a term that was used as a self-designation by Indo-Iranian people.The word was used by the Indic people of the Vedic period in India as an ethnic label for themselves and to refer to the noble class as well as the geographic region known as Āryāvarta, where Indo-Aryan culture was based.

Exp.The Atharva Veda  is the “knowledge storehouse of atharvāṇas, the procedures for everyday life”. The text is the fourth Veda, but has been a late addition to the Vedic scriptures of Hinduism.The Atharvaveda is sometimes called the “Veda of magical formulas”.The Atharvaveda was likely compiled as a Veda contemporaneously with Samaveda and Yajurveda, or about 1200 BC – 1000 BC.Along with the Samhita layer of text, the Atharvaveda includes a Brahmana text, and a final layer of the text that covers philosophical speculations.

Exp.Manu-smriti is the popular name of the work, which is officially known as Manava-dharma-shastra. It is attributed to the legendary first man and lawgiver, Manu.

Exp.“Satyameva Jayate” is a mantra from the ancient Indian scripture Mundaka Upanishad.Following the independence of India, it was adopted as the national motto of India in 26 January 1950.The Mundaka Upanishad is an ancient Sanskrit Vedic text, embedded inside Atharva Veda.

Exp.Hunter Education Commission was a landmark commission appointed by Viceroy Lord Ripon with objectives to look into the complaints of the non-implementation of the Wood’s Despatch of 1854; the contemporary status of elementary education in the British territories; and suggest means by which this can be extended and improved. This commission, headed by Sir William Wilson Hunter, had submitted its report in 1882.

Exp.The alvars, also spelt as alwars or azhwars  were Tamil poet-saints of South India who espoused bhakti (devotion) to the Hindu Supreme god Vishnu or his avatar Krishna in their songs of longing, ecstasy and service.They are venerated especially in Vaishnavism, which regards Vishnu or Krishna as the Supreme Being.Andal is the only female saint-poet in the 12 Alvars.

Exp.The great Indian Struggle, 1920–1942 is a two-part book by the Indian nationalist leader Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose that covers the 1920–1942 history of the Indian independence movement to end British imperial rule over India.Banned in India by the British colonial government, The Indian Struggle was published in the country only in 1948 after India became independent.

Exp.All India Women’s Conference (AIWC), the oldest national women’s organization in India was born in January, 1927 in Poona.It was founded in 1927 by Margaret Cousins in order to improve educational efforts for women and children and has expanded its scope to also tackle other women’s rights issues.The first conference called the “All India Women’s Conference on Educational Reform” was held at Fergooson College, Poona from 5 to 8 January,1927 under the Presidentship of Maharani Chimnabai Saheb Gaekwar of Baroda. 

Exp.To remove the British colonial rule over India, Rash Bihari Bos, a veteran freedom fighter, founded Indian Independence League in 1942 at Tokyo, Japan.During the Japanese Occupation in Malaya, the Japanese encouraged Indians in Malaya to join the Indian Independence League. Established primarily to foster Indian Nationalism and to obtain Japanese support for the Indian Independence Movement, the League came to interact and command the first Indian National Army under Mohan Singh before it was dissolved. Later, after the arrival of Subhas Chandra Bose in South East Asia and the revival of the INA, the League came under his leadership, before giving way to Azad Hind.

Exp.Din-i Ilahi “the religion of God,” was a system of religious beliefs proposed by the Mughal emperor Akbar in 1582 CE. The idea was to combine Islam and Hinduism into one faith, but also to add aspects of Christianity, Zoroastrianism and Jainism — the latter an ancient Indian creed which emphasized non-violence and vegetarianism. The point, that is, was to combine all India’s religion into one and thereby to esnure national unity and peace.