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
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