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Which of the following were the most important taxes?

  1. Taxes of crops

  2. Taxes of traders

  3. Taxes of crafts persons

  4. Taxes of hunters


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Taxes on crops were the most important. This was because most people were farmers. Usually, the tax was fixed at 1/6th of what was produced. This was known as bhaga or a share.

During mahajanapadas, crafts persons paid taxes in the form of _______.

  1. Gold

  2. Silver

  3. Labour

  4. Grains


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The rulers of mahajanapadas were engaged in building forts, maintaining huge armies for the protection of their territory and the subjects. They needed more resources which could be obtained from taxes. Crafts persons paid taxes in the form of labour. For e.g. a coppersmith or weaver would work for the king for a day every month.

During mahajanapadas, usually, the tax was fixed at 1/6th of what was produced. This was known as _____.

  1. Bali

  2. Hissa

  3. Bhaga

  4. All of the above


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The rulers of mahajanapadas were engaged in building forts, maintaining huge armies for the protection of their territory and the subjects. They needed more resources which could be obtained from taxes. Taxes on crops were the most important. Usually, the tax was fixed at 1/6th of what was produced. This was known as bhaga or share.

What did the Devadana type of a land tenure signify?

  1. Villages donated to Brahmins

  2. Villages donated to the King

  3. Villages donated to the gods

  4. Villages not normally lived in


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Devdana means a gift(dana) to the gods(dev). Most of the Devdana lands were made tax free. The donated land mainly belonged to the temple which employed peasants to cultivate the lands and take the produced crops after making payment to the peasants.  

Which of the following forms of land tenure denoted an entire village being donated to Brahmins?

  1. Jagir

  2. Zamindari

  3. Brahmadeya

  4. Devadana


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Brahmanas often received land grants or brahmadeya. The brahmanas had exclusive rights on these lands. Each brahmadeya was looked after by an assembly or sabha of prominent Brahmana landholders.

Why did Rajas of the janapadas, start collecting regular taxes?

  1. For building huge forts

  2. For maintaining big armies

  3. Both A and B

  4. Neither A nor B


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The rulers of janapadas were engaged in building forts, maintaining huge armies for the protection of their territory and the subjects. They needed more resources which could be obtained from taxes. Crafts persons, farmers, hunter-gatherers, herders were liable to pay these taxes in one form or the other.

Who among the following dharmasastra writers was a minister of the Gahadvala King Govindachandra?

  1. Vijnanesvara

  2. Apararka

  3. Lakshmidhara

  4. Chandesvara


Correct Option: C

During the reign of the last Chalukya king Keertivarma the ................. took over the Chalukya kingdom.

  1. Pallavas

  2. Cholas

  3. Kadambas

  4. Rastrakutas


Correct Option: D

Prathihara dynasty came to end in _______.

  1. 1018 A.D

  2. 1001 A.D

  3. 1213 A.D

  4. 1214 A.D


Correct Option: A

Rshtrakutas belonged to Lattalura (morden Latur) of _________.

  1. Andhra Pradesh

  2. Maharashtra

  3. Karnataka

  4. Kerala


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Latur in Maharashtra was home to a branch of Rashtrakutas which ruled the Deccan from 753 to 973 AD.