History-Important One Liners

 

1-The first medieval ruler to propound the divine theory of Kingship was Balban

2-The real founder of the Sultanate of Delhi and its first dynasty was Iltutmish

3- Muhammad Ghori laid the foundation of the Turkish Empire in India by defeating Prithviraj Chauhan in Second Battle of Tarain and Jayachandran in the Battle of Chandawar.

4-The most important poet at the court of Mahmud of Ghazni, who wrote Shahnama and is regarded as the ‘Immortal Homer of the East’ was Firdausi

5-Akbar granted the present site of Amritsar to the Sikh Guru Amar Das

6-The one who was a reputed poet of Hindi among ‘Nine Gems of the Court of Akbar’ was Abdur Rahim Khan-i-Khana

7-The original name of Tansen, the greatest musician of the court of Akbar, was Ramatanu Pande.

8-Todarmal is associated with the revenue system known as Zabti or Zabt

9-The first to discover the traces of the Harappan Civilisation was Daya Ram Sahni

10-The first metal to be extensively used by the people in India was Copper

11-The Harappan or Indus Valley Civilisation flourished during the Chalcolithic age.

12-Vedic God Indra was ‘a breaker of the forts’ and also a ‘war god’.

13-Two highest, gods in the Vedic religion were Indra and Varuna

14-The famous Gayatri mantra is addressed to Savita.

15-The Vedic Aryans first settled in the region of Saptasindhu