Exam 6: South Asia: Creating Dilemmas of Diversity

For Parsis,_____ is the essence of purity.

Shah Jahan,who ruled India in the 17th century,built:

Under the Delhi Sultanates,_____ culture became popular at court.

When the British Empire was at its greatest extent in the 19th century,Pakistan,Bangladesh and India were its most important states.

The first expression of the political notion of a state on the subcontinent occurred with the _____ Empire.

Around 320 AD,northern India became united under the:

Arab conquerors inaugurated _____ as India's capital in1229.

India was drawn increasingly into the international economy when the _____ was opened in 1869.

Sikhism,which emerged in the 15th century,had its core area in:

The Partition of India resulted in the:

An intermediary center of trade and transshipment is called:

Around 1500 BC,the _____ appeared out of Central Asia.

The British Raj lost the support of millions of Indians after the massacre of unarmed demonstrators at _____ in 1919.

New Delhi was designed with:

Vedic societies had four varnas.

Gandhi was assassinated by a Muslim fanatic.

Asoka,who ruled from 268-233 BC,adopted _____ as the state religion.

Since the Aryans were concerned with skin color,darker skinned people such as the Dravidians would only enter the caste system at the lower Sudra level.

As the Mughal Empire disintegrated,separate states arose.These were ruled by:

The _____ introduced the modern territorial state into India in the 16th century.