UGC NET History Practice Question

The Chalukya-Chola line was established when which eastern Chalukya prince inherited the Chola throne?

Kulottunga I ✓

Vikrama Chola

Rajaraja II

Kulottunga III

Kulottunga I, born of an Eastern Chalukya father and a Chola princess mother, inherited the Chola throne, merging the two lines and founding what historians call the Chalukya-Chola dynasty, ruling a combined and expanded realm.

The Ganga dynasty of Orissa was divided into two historical branches known as:

Eastern Gangas and Western Gangas ✓

Northern Gangas and Southern Gangas

Kalinga Gangas and Utkala Gangas

Upper Gangas and Lower Gangas

The Ganga dynasty is conventionally divided into the Western Gangas (ruling in Karnataka, earlier) and the Eastern Gangas (ruling in Orissa/Kalinga, later, including the builders of the Konark Sun Temple) — two genealogically related but geographically and chronologically distinct branches.

Which Chauhan king composed the Sanskrit drama Harakeli Nataka, parts of which are carved on stone slabs at Adhai Din Ka Jhonpra?

Prithviraj III

Vigraharaja IV (Visaladeva) ✓

Someshvara

Ajayaraja

Vigraharaja IV (Visaladeva), a notable Chauhan ruler and patron of learning, composed the Harakeli Nataka, fragments of which were later inscribed on stone at the site now known as Adhai Din Ka Jhonpra in Ajmer.

In early medieval Karnataka, the Hero Stones erected to commemorate warriors who died in battle or protecting cattle were called:

Viragal ✓

Mahagal

Chhatri

Nisidhi

Viragals (hero stones) were erected across early medieval Karnataka to commemorate warriors who died heroically, often in battle or defending village cattle — an important non-textual source for local social and military history, distinct from Nisidhi memorial stones commemorating Jain ritual death (sallekhana).

The Bhauma-Kara dynasty ruled over which region between the 8th and 10th centuries and was noted for a succession of queen regnants?

Coastal Orissa ✓

Kamarupa

Tripura

Mithila

The Bhauma-Kara dynasty ruled coastal Orissa from roughly the 8th to 10th centuries and is historically notable for an unusual succession of several queens who ruled in their own right — a striking exception to the largely male-dominated royal succession pattern of the period.

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