GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

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INDIAN HISTORY

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Who brought 02 Ashokan Pillars from Topra(Ambala) and Meerut to Delhi?
A
Firoz Shah Tughlaq
B
Qutubuddin Aibak
C
Alauddin Khilji
D
Muhammad bin Tughlaq
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Detailed Solution. Firoz Shah Tughlaq brought Ashoka’s Topra pillar to Delhi. He called them gold pillars. Firoz Shah Tughlaq also brought Ashok’s Meerut pillar to Delhi.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Delhi-Meerut pillar (28.673853°N 77.211849°E), was shifted from Meerut, in Uttar Pradesh to Delhi by Feruz Shah and erected at a location in the northern ridge of Delhi, close to his hunting palace, between the Chauburji-Masjid and Hindu Rao Hospital.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Major Pillar Edicts of Ashoka were exclusively inscribed on the Pillars of Ashoka or fragments thereof, at Kausambi (now Allahabad pillar), Topra Kalan, Meerut, Lauriya-Araraj, Lauria Nandangarh, Rampurva (Champaran), and fragments of these in Aramaic (Kandahar, Edict No. 7 and Pul-i-Darunteh, Edict No.

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