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Daily Questions Challenge for IAS PRE (CSAT) Exam (08 February 2016)

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1. Consider the following statements and mark the option which is correct.

(i) Sawar was a Mughal rank that determined the number of cavalary men.
(ii) Watan Jagirs was an area where there was objection made by the Zamindars.
(iii) Waqf was the grants for religious and educational institutions.

(a) i & iii
(b) ii
(c) all of the above
(d) none of the above

2. During whose tenure the practice Revenue farming of ‘Ijara’ was started.

(a) Bahadur Shah
(b) Farruk Siyar
(c) Jahandar Shah
(d) Mohd. Shah

3. Consider the following statements and mark the option which is correct.

(i) Narsi Mehta was exponder of Lingayat Sect and wrote Vachanas.
(ii) Madhvacharya expounded the theory of Dwaitvad (Dualism) & was a devotee of Vishnu.
(iii) Eknath was the saint of Maharashtra Dharma.

(a) none of the above
(b) i & ii only
(c) all of the above
(d) ii & iii

4. Consider the following statements and mark the option which is true.

(i) Mimbarkacharya identified Brahmana with Krishna. He was a Telugu Brahmin of Andhra Pradesh who spent most of his time in Vrindavan.
(ii) The first great theme of the poetry of Surdas constiutes Krishna’s Bal Lila.
(iii) Namdev Said, “Hindu is Blind, then Muslim squint who knows it, is wiser than both, he is the servant of that name”.

(a) all of the above
(b) i & iii
(c) none of the above
(d) ii & iii

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Direction: Each of the questions consists of two capitalised words which have a certain relationship to each other. Followed by four pairs ofwords. Choose the pair that is related to each other in the same way as the capitalised pair.