Which of the following scripts were deciphered by James Prinsep?

a. Pali b. Prakrit c. Kharosthi d. Brahmi

Which of the following statements is/are correct?

a. Rigveda was composed by people living along the Indus and its tributaries. b. Rigveda was composed during the 1,500 years that followed the end of the Harappan Civilisation. c. New modes of disposal of the dead emerged in Central and South India from the first millennium BCE.

Which of the following languages have used the word janapada, which means a tribal settlement?

a. Pali b. Prakrit c. Sanskrit d. Tamil

Which of the following statements is/are correct?

a. Buddhist and Jaina texts mention sixteen states known as mahajanapadas. b. All the mahajanapads were ruled by kings. c. Both Mahavira and Buddha were such kings.

In which of the following scripts were the earliest inscriptions found, which was also the language of the ordinary people?

Between the sixth and the fourth centuries BCE, Magadha became the most powerful mahajanapada. Where was Magadha located?

The growth of Magadha culminated in the emergence of an Empire in 321 BCE, which extended control as far as northwest Afghanistan and Baluchistan. Which of the following rulers was behind the emergence of this empire?

Which of the following major cities was/were on the riverine routes that made it/them a powerful city?

a. Patliputra b. Puhar c. Ujjayani

Which of the following statements is/are correct?

a. A seafarer, called as Masattuvan, composed an acoount of trade from the Malabar coast in the first century BCE. b. This account of Masattuvan was called Periplus of the Erythraean Sea. c. Periplus listed that a great quantity of coin; topaz, antimony, coral, crude glass, copper, tin, lead, etc. were imported to the Malabar coast.

Whih of the following statements is/are correct?

a. The Jatakas were written in Prakrit around the middle of the first millennium CE. b. The stories in Jatakas probably originated as popular oral tales that were later committed to writing. c. The stories in Jatakas demonstrate the feelings of the subjects about their rulers.

Asoka was the first ruler who inscribed his messages to his subjects and officials on stone surfaces across the country. Which of the following scripts was/were used for the inscriptions found in Afghanistan?

a. Brahmi b. Kharosthi c. Aramaic d. Greek

Which of the following rulers identified themselves as 'devputras' and their statues have been found in shrines in Mathura as well as Afghanistan?

Which of the following statements is/are incorrect?

a. Ashokan inscriptions, depicting his anguish over the war in Kalinga, have been found in the region that was conquered. b. Ashoka is not mentioned in some inscriptions, instead titles adopted by the ruler, Devanampiya and Piyadassi, are used. c. Ashokan inscriptions claim that pativedakas reported to him about the affairs of the people regularly at all times.

Early Tamil literature (the Sangam texts) also mentions the different categories of people living in the villages. Match the following columns of these categories with the people in the social strata.

Which of the following statements is/are correct?

a. Prabhavati Gupta was the daughter of the powerful Vakataka king of the Deccan. b. She was married into the powerful Gupta dynasty, to the son of Chandragupta II and Dhruvadevi. c. A copperplate inscription engraved by Chakradasa indicates that she had access to land which she then granted.