UGC NET History Practice Question

The Uttaramerur Inscriptions of Parantaka I (919 and 921 CE) provide detailed insights into:

Navigational techniques of the Chola fleet

The electoral process, qualification, and working of village committees (Variyams) ✓

Royal taxation policies on textile imports

Judicial trials involving trial by ordeal

The Uttaramerur inscriptions detail an elaborate system of qualifications, disqualifications, and a lottery-based (Kudavolai) election process for village committees (Variyams) — celebrated as unusually detailed evidence of local self-government in Chola villages.

Which Gurjara-Pratihara ruler adopted the title Adivaraha, as recorded on his silver coins?

Nagabhata I

Vatsaraja

Mihira Bhoja ✓

Mahendrapala I

Mihira Bhoja (Bhoja I), the most powerful Pratihara ruler, adopted the title Adivaraha ("primeval boar," a Vishnu avatar), recorded on his distinctive silver coinage, reflecting his Vaishnava devotion and imperial ambitions.

The temple of Sun at Konark was constructed in the 13th century by which king of the Eastern Ganga dynasty?

Anantavarman Chodaganga

Narasimhadeva I ✓

Bhanudeva I

Purushottama

The Konark Sun Temple, famous for its chariot-shaped design with stone wheels, was built under Narasimhadeva I of the Eastern Ganga dynasty in the 13th century, one of the crowning achievements of Kalinga (Orissan) temple architecture.

In Chola agrarian system, what was the term Vellalar used to designate?

Landless agricultural laborers

Land-owning dominant peasantry class ✓

Temple priests

Royal revenue collectors

The Vellalar were the dominant land-owning peasant/cultivator class in Tamil society under the Cholas, occupying a socially and economically influential position distinct from landless laborers, and often active in local village administration.

The famous scholar Rajasekhara, who wrote Kavyamimamsa and Karpuramanjari, was the court poet of which ruler?

Mihira Bhoja

Mahendrapala I ✓

Yashovarman

Harsha Chandela

Rajasekhara, author of the Sanskrit poetics treatise Kavyamimamsa and the Prakrit drama Karpuramanjari, served at the court of Pratihara ruler Mahendrapala I, reflecting the continued vitality of Sanskrit literary culture at regional courts.

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