Foreign accounts
Foreign accounts is a History concept from the MPSC syllabus, tested in 3 past MPSC questions (2014, 2015, 2020). Below are those real questions with their correct answers and explanations, plus the concepts worth being comfortable with first.
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इ.स. 75 मध्ये ________ यांनी भारतातील निर्यातीचा संदर्भ असलेला 'नॅचरल हिस्ट्री' हा ग्रंथ लिहिला. ________ wrote 'Natural History' in 75 A.D. in which there are references to exports from India.
Pliny the Elder wrote 'Natural History' (Naturalis Historia) around 75 A.D., which provides extensive details on Roman trade, including large-scale bullion drain to India for exports.
उतरेकडील पुष्कळशा हिंदू निवा्रसितांना या राज्याने आणि शहराने आकर्षित केले. समकालीन वर्णनावरून असे वाटते की हे शहर श्रीमंत आणि खूप सुंदर असावे. अब्दूर रज्जाक म्हणतो, 'पृथ्वीतलावर इतरत्र कुठेही असे शहर डोळ्यांनी बघितले नाही, किंवा संपूर्ण पृथ्वीवर असे शहर आहे असे कानांनी ऐकले नाही.' या वाक्यांतून कोणत्या राज्याचा आणि शहराचा उल्लेख केला आहे ? / This state and city attracted many of the Hindu refugees from the North. From the contemporary accounts it appears that the city was rich and very beautiful. 'The city is such that eye has not seen nor ear heard of any place resembling it upon the whole earth', says Abdur Razzak. Which city and state get referred in these sentences ?
The traveler Abdur Razzak highly praised the wealth, beauty, and grandeur of the Vijayanagar empire and its capital city.
खालील (A) आणि (B) विधाने वाचून पर्यायी उत्तरातून योग्य पर्याय निवडा. (A) भारतीय समाजव्यवस्था सात जातींमध्ये विभागल्याचा उल्लेख मेगॅस्थेनिस करतो. (B) मेगॅस्थेनिसचा जात व व्यवसाय यात गोंधळ उडालेला दिसतो. Read statements (A) and (B) and choose appropriate option from the answer options : (A) Megasthenes mentions seven castes into which the Indian society was divided. (B) Megasthenes confused castes with professions.
(a)भारतीय समाजव्यवस्था सात जातींमध्ये विभागल्याचा उल्लेख मेगॅस्थेनिस करतो.
(b)मेगॅस्थेनिसचा जात व व्यवसाय यात गोंधळ उडालेला दिसतो.
Megasthenes in his book 'Indica' mentioned that Indian society was divided into seven castes, but historians note that he actually mistook occupations and social classes for castes, making both statements true and (B) the correct explanation for (A).