CUET(UG) Practice Quiz

Question 1

Ashoka’s edicts were inscribed in Prakrit using Brahmi across most of the subcontinent, but in Greek and Aramaic in the north-west. What does this variation most directly indicate?

Accepted Answer

That the messages were meant to be read and understood by local populations

Question 2

Why do historians treat Megasthenes’ description of Indian society with particular caution?

Accepted Answer

His work survives only as quotations selected by later writers with purposes of their own

Question 3

The stupa at Sanchi survives substantially intact while the sculptures of Amaravati were dispersed to museums and private hands. What best accounts for the difference?

Accepted Answer

Local rulers funded the preservation of Sanchi, whereas Amaravati was stripped before any practice of conservation took hold

Question 4

Why did the zabt system of revenue assessment require an administrative apparatus that a crop-sharing arrangement did not?

Accepted Answer

Cash rates had to be fixed in advance, which required land to be measured and yields and prices to be recorded over years

Question 5

Why were many zamindari estates auctioned in the decades following the Permanent Settlement of 1793?

Accepted Answer

The revenue demand was fixed high and fell due on a set date whatever the harvest had been

CUET(UG) Group Discussion

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CUET(UG) — Group Discussion