Insights Static Quiz -401, 2019–History

Solution: c)

The basic unit of political organization was kula or family. Several families joined together on the basis of their kinship to form a village or grama. The leader of grama was known as gramani. A group of villages constituted a larger unit called visu. It was headed by vishayapati.

Solution: b)

There were several tribal kingdoms during the Rig Vedic period such as Bharatas, Matsyas, Yadus and Purus.

Solution: b)

The Rig Vedic society was patriarchal. Monogamy was generally practiced while polygamy was prevalent among the royal and noble families.

Women were given equal opportunities as men for their spiritual and intellectual development. There were women poets like Apala, Viswavara, Ghosa and Lopamudra during the Rig Vedic period.

Women could even attend the popular assemblies. There was no child marriage and the practice of sati was absent.

The eating of cow’s meat was prohibited since it was a sacred animal.

Solution: d)

Within India, social reformers from Punjab and Bengal exchanged ideas with reformers from Madras and Maharashtra. Keshav Chandra Sen of Bengal visited Madras in 1864. Pandita Ramabai travelled to different corners of the country. Some of them went to other countries. Modern social organisations like the Brahmo Samaj in Bengal and Arya Samaj in Punjab were set up. The All-India Muslim Ladies Conference (Anjuman-E-Khawatn-E-Islam) was founded in 1914. Indian reformers debated not just in public meetings but through public media like newspapers and journals. Translations of writings of social reformers from one Indian language to another took place.

Solution: b)

• Lee Commission – Civil services
• Aitchison commission – Public services
• Sargent plan – Education.
• Macdonnel commission – Famine