Correct Answer : Portuguese
Vasco da Gama was a Portuguese explorer and the first European to reach India by sea. He was born in 1460 in the town of Sines in Portugal.
Correct Answer : Surat
The first French factory in India was established at Surat in 1668 and later one at Machillipatnam.
Correct Answer : Wood’s Dispatch
Wood’s Despatch on Education in 1854 laid the foundation of Indian educational system and the establishments of Universities in Kolkata, Mumbai and Chennai. The despatch came to be considered as the Magna Carta of English education in India. The Scheme of education, as proposed by Wood`s Despatch, envisaged a co-ordinated system of education through out the country.
Correct Answer : Pitt’s India Act, AD 1784
Pitt's India Act 1784 or the East India Company Act 1784 was passed in the British Parliament to rectify the defects of the Regulating Act 1773. It resulted in dual control or joint government in India by Crown in Great Britain and the British East India Company, with crown having ultimate authority.
Correct Answer : August Kranti
Quit India Movement or 'Bharat Chodo Andolan', also known as August Kranti Movement, was a call given by Mahatma Gandhi at the Bombay session of All India Congress Committee on August 8, 1942, for an end to the British rule in India.
Correct Answer : Mesopotamians
Correct Answer : bronze
Dancing Girl is a prehistoric bronze sculpture made in lost-wax casting about c. 2300–1750 BCE in the Indus Valley Civilisation city of Mohenjo-daro (in modern-day Pakistan), which was one of the earliest cities.
Correct Answer : Dholavira
Correct Answer : Max Muller
The first European to designate 'Aryans' as a race is max muller.
