UGC NTA NET/JRF EXAM, Dec 2020/June 2021 (HISTORY) (Shift-I)

According to social law of ancient India, a woman was always considered a minor. Divorce was prohibited, although it sometimes took place. According to Arthashastra, a wife who had been deserted by her husband could seek a divorce.

Bahlol Lodi in his farman used to address the amirs as Masnad-i ali.
• He worked on Afghan theory of kingship regarded himself as only 'first among equals', sat and ate with his important nobles on the same carpet and called his nobility Masnad-i-Ali.
Mushtaqi wrote, "He never sat on the throne and forbade his nobles to remain standing before him.

Lala Lajpat Rai was the first president of the All India trade Union Congress founded on 31 August 1920.
• Deewan Chaman Lal was first general secretary of All India trade union congress.

"The Sultan ordered the Maliks, Amirs, officers of the court and persons of responsibility and status not to go to each other's houses or to collect parties at banquets; there were to be no intermarriage among them unless the Sultan had been informed and his permission obtained'. Sultan was Alauddin Khalji.
• Alauddin Khalji was greatest ruler of Khilji dynasty and was first muslim ruler to extend his empire right up to the extreme South of India.

Poems classified as upadesha rupaka (didactic metaphors) in Marathi bhakti poetry were known as Bharud.

In reign of Firuz Shah Tughlaq the bullion currency seems to have nearly entirely replaced silver coinage.
• Muhammad bin Tughlaq introduced a token currency system and minted vast quantities of new copper and brass coins (tankas) that could be exchanged for fixed amounts of gold and silver.

According to the ancient grammarians Acharya and Upadhyaya indicate female teachers.