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World History: India
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1. The majority group of Muslims who believed that Muhammed's successor should be chosen by his followers and the general public.
Mughal Empire
Babur
Sunni
'Land of the Pure'/Khalistan
2. The movement starting in the seventh century to simplify Hinduism into devotion to one personal god.
British Commonwealth
Bhaktism
Bhakti
Honour Killings
3. Islamic Law - imposed by fundamentalists to support a rigid and uncompromising set of traditions - laws - and beliefs.
Sharia
Rajiv Gandhi
Mauryas/Ashoka
Mahabharata
4. The cube shaped building enshrining a sacred Black Stone around which Hajjis circle as the final destination of their pilgrimage.
Robert Clive
Warren Hastings
Kaaba
Jihad
5. The 'Foundations' of Islam important to a Muslim's faith: Faith - Prayer Almsgiving (charity) - Fasting - and Pilgrimage (to Mecca).
Kaaba
Five Pillars
alit/Untouchable
Reginald Dyer/Amritsar
6. Successors of Muhammed who are political and spiritual leaders in Islamic communities.
Fundamentalism
Hindus
Caliph
Shah Jahan
7. The separate country requested by Sikhs in the Punjab - because partition would lead to their political division.
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8. The act that made India a federation of 11 British states and several hundred Indian ones. A specific number of government positions were reserved for both Hindus and Muslims at any time.
Honour Killings
Government of India Act of 1935
Mughal Empire
Caste System
9. A man who calls out the five Muslim prayers from minarets.
Rowlatt Bills
Muezzini
Indian Counsels Act of 1909/Morley-Minto Reforms
Robert Clive
10. The native soldiers who comprised most of India's army who were responsible for much of the 1857 unrest.
Cabinet Mission Goals (LIST)
Sepoys
Rama/Vishnu
Allah
11. The daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru who became prime minister in 1965. After the Green Revolution and nationalization of industry and business - she declared a state of emergency to imprison political opponents. She was killed by her own bodyguards.
Indira Gandhi
Cabinet Mission Goals (LIST)
Vedism
Shah Jahan
12. A BEIC trading center on the Ganges where angry sepoys rebelled against the British - killing all the men - and capturing women and children. When a British army came to rescue them - the women and children were also killed.
Shah Jahan
Shi'a
Hindus
Cawnpore
13. 'Self-reliance'/'Self-rule'
Sati
Indian Counsels Act of 1909/Morley-Minto Reforms
Ramayana
Swadeshi/Swaraj
14. The political organization of Muslims in India formed in 1906 to protect their rights.
Shruti
Five Pillars
Jihad
Muslim League
15. A man sent by the British government in 1942 to gather support for the British war effort who proposed independence and a constitutional convention in return for help. (the plan fell apart)
Sulahkul
Lucknow Pact
Stafford Cripps
Karmayoga
16. Akbar's grandson under whom the Mughal Empire reached the peak of its success. He rebuilt Delhi with walls and waterways and built the Taj Mahal.
Mohammed Ali Jinnah
Shah Jahan
Rishis
Satyagraha
17. Muhammed's first wife. Their only two sons died - and Muhammed's future marriages yielded no children (ergo no successors.)
Shruti
Shah Jahan
Khadija
Muslim League
18. 1. To establish a free and united India - hopefully within the Commonwealth. 2. To create an interim government to assist the Viceroy until independence.
Government of India Act of 1935
Jizya
Cabinet Mission Goals (LIST)
Cabinet Mission of March 1946
19. The holy of book of Islam equivalent to the Bible or Torah. It was written after the prophet Muhammed's death to preserve his teachings.
Mahabharata
Four Vedas
Calcutta
Koran
20. A tax paid to avoid military service - this was imposed on all non-Muslims in Sind (NW India) by Muhammed ibn Qasim - though they had freedom to practice Buddhism or Hinduism.
Jizya
Safavid Dynasty
Aranyakas
Satyagraha
21. The son-in-law (married to Fatimah) of Muhammed that Shi'a Muslims favored to be his successor.
Rowlatt Bills
Ali
Karma
Cabinet Mission Goals (LIST)
22. A prophet in a long line of Islamic prophets who holds a somewhat divine status. He was an Arab merchant who declared himself the Prophet of Allah and urged his people to join him in recognition of this God in the sixth century BCE.
Allah
Mohammed
Ramadan
Robert Clive
23. Early religious laws of duty in Hinduism that supported the Caste System by saying to not perform mandated duties would upset the universe.
Dharma
Mecca
Smriti
August 15 - 1947
24. The daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru who became prime minister in 1965. After the Green Revolution and nationalization of industry and business - she declared a state of emergency to imprison political opponents. She was killed by her own bodyguards.
Twelver
Cabinet Mission Goals (LIST)
Indira Gandhi
Sufism
25. A song - 'Hail to thee - Mother -' written by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee that would become the Congress Party's anthem.
Samskara
Bante Mataram
Jihad
alit/Untouchable
26. The law that newly allowed Indian council members to legislate. However - the viceroy could still strike down any proposition. The act also recognized the concept of separate electorates for Hindus and Muslims as valid.
Sulahkul
Mecca
August 15 - 1947
Indian Counsels Act of 1909/Morley-Minto Reforms
27. Disciples of the Guru Nanak - often peaceful farmers - who did not believe in the Caste System and emphasized ethics.
Sikhs
Rowlatt Bills
Ramayana
Sunni
28. The first British governor-general in India who increased British control over the region - yet did not want an English domination.
Stafford Cripps
Aranyakas
Allan Hume
Warren Hastings
29. The ancient sages who revealed the gods' revelations to humankind through the shruti.
Rishis
Government of India Act of 1919
Mughal Empire
Ramadan
30. Texts describing the routines following a fire ritual.
Brahmanas
Swadeshi/Swaraj
Karmayoga
Warren Hastings
31. A prophet in a long line of Islamic prophets who holds a somewhat divine status. He was an Arab merchant who declared himself the Prophet of Allah and urged his people to join him in recognition of this God in the sixth century BCE.
Puja
Mohammed
Safavid Dynasty
Smriti
32. (d.1530) The first Mughal ruler - an invader from Central Asia - who used technology to defeat the larger armies of India.
'Land of the Pure'/Khalistan
Mohammed
Babur
Aurangzeb
33. A city 200 miles north of Mecca and site of Muhammed's Hjira.
Atman
Medina
Islam
Shi'a
34. A Scotsman who helped form the Indian National Congress in 1885 with a number of professional Indians who were educated in English.
Hindus
Lord Wellesley
Allan Hume
Mohammed Ali Jinnah
35. The son of Babur who helped to create the Mughal Empire through conquest.
Hinduism
Sufism
Swadeshi/Swaraj
Humayun
36. The Hindu custom in which a widowed woman would be burned on the funeral pyre of her dead husband. It was outlawed by the British in 1829.
Dharma
Calcutta
Bhaktism
Sati
37. A Shi'a Muslim who believes that the 12th Imam is a messiah who will return at the end of time.
Twelver
Ashura
Puranas
Jihad
38. A song - 'Hail to thee - Mother -' written by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee that would become the Congress Party's anthem.
Bante Mataram
Puranas
Sharia
Harappa/Mohenjo-Daro
39. The religion of early Indo-European settlers in the Punjab. Also known as Brahmanism - it would come to evolve into modern Hinduism.
Vedism
Calcutta
Nepal
Stafford Cripps
40. The grandson of Babur Who is thought of as the Mughal Empire's greatest ruler. The British East India Company was founded at least partially in 1600 to capitalize on the empire's economic success.
Akbar
Rajiv Gandhi
Bahadur Shah II
Smriti
41. The soul of the individual - which continues to exist through reincarnation.
Sulahkul
Ali
Hjira
Atman
42. A man sent by the British government in 1942 to gather support for the British war effort who proposed independence and a constitutional convention in return for help. (the plan fell apart)
Kalidasa
Upanishads
Stafford Cripps
Caste System
43. The Muslim empire beginning in the 1500s that created essentially India as it is known today.
Mughal Empire
Hindus
Indira Gandhi
Government of India Act of 1919
44. A Scotsman who helped form the Indian National Congress in 1885 with a number of professional Indians who were educated in English.
Sepoys
Karmayoga
Allan Hume
Twelfth Imam
45. The first prime minister of India. He declared India democratic and secular - with a constitution modeled after Britain's. He governed with socialist policies and maintained neutrality in the Cold War.
Rowlatt Bills
Jawaharlal Nehru
Allah
Bante Mataram
46. An Arab word meaning 'Submission to the will of God' which names the religion founded by Muhammed.
Twelver
Puranas
Islam
Kalidasa
47. The ancient sages who revealed the gods' revelations to humankind through the shruti.
Khalsa
Rishis
Robert Clive
Government of India Act of 1919
48. A governor general appointed by Britain in March 1947 who tried to avoid civil war in India by setting August 15 as the day of independence. After the secret borders were unveiled - massive exoduses of people to their 'respective' nations occurred -
Babur
Fundamentalism
Lord Mountbatten
Sati
49. The Shi'a government established by Azeri conquerors in Iran.
Government of India Act of 1919
Ottoman Empire
Safavid Dynasty
Four Vedas
50. The attempt by Britain to mediate negotiations between major groups-the Muslim League - Congress Party - Unionists - and Sikhs-to form an independent India.
Cabinet Mission of March 1946
Twelver
Ramadan
Mahasabha