INDIAN HISTORY The first metal to be extensively used by the people in India was ______. — Copper ______was the first to discover the traces of the Harappan Civilisation. — Daya Ram Sahani The utensils of the Indus Valley people were mainly made of ______. — clay The most common animal figure found at all the Harappan sites is ______. — unihorn bull The term Aryan, Indo-Aryan or Indo-European denotes a ______concept. — Linguistic According to the most widely accepted view, the Aryans originally came from ______. — Central Asia ______Veda was compiled first. — Rigveda ______Veda deals with magic spells and witchcraft. — Atharvaveda The Vedic religion along with its Later (Vedic) developments is actually known as ______. — Brahmanism The Vedic Aryans first settled in the region of ______. — Saptasindhu _____ Ved contains the famous Gayatrimantra. — Rigveda The famous Gayatrimantra is addressed to ______. — Savita Two highest gods in the Vedic religion were _____ and ______. — Indra, Varuna Division of the Vedic society into four classes is clearly mentioned in the ______of Rigveda. — Purusa - sukta The normal form of government during the Vedic period was ______. — monarchy Two popular Assemblies of the Vedic period were ______and ______. — Sabha, Samiti After the growth of the Vedic religion the most important development in the history of the so-called Hinduism was the development of ______. — Bhagavatism Bhagavatism refers to worship of ______. — Vasudeva Krishna Vaishnavism , a later development of Bhagavatism, advocates the wor- ship of ______. — Vishnu and his incarnations The founder of Jainism was ______. — Parsvanatha Vardhamana Mahavira the 24th Tirthankar of Jainism was born at ______and died at ______— Kundagrama, Pava Of the five vows ( Panch Anuvratas) of Jainism four existed before Mahavira. The one which he added was ______. — celibacy Jainism was divided into two sects-Swetambaras (White-clad) and Digambaras (Sky-clad or naked) - During the reign of the ______. — Mauryas The name Buddha means ______. — enlightened 2 Buddhism was divided into Mahayana and Hinayana during the reign of ______. — Kanishka The great exponent of Mahayana Buddhism was ______. — Nagarjuna Jatakas are the stories of ______. — Buddha’s previous lives Outside India, Buddhism was first accepted in ______. — Sri Lanka When Alexander invaded India, Magadha was being ruled by the ______. — Nandas The decline of the Nandas at the hands of Kautilya and Chandragupta Maurya has been vividly portrayed in the Sanskrit play written by Kalidasa is ______. — Malavikagnimitram The Mauryan sculptors had attained the highest perfection in the carving of ______. — animal figures ______usurped power from the Mauryas after killing the last Mauryan ruler Brihadratha — Pushyamitra Sunga The most famous Indo-Greek ruler of India, famous for his sense of justice and dialogues with a Buddhist monk Nagasena (as described in the Buddhist work Milindpanho) was ______. — Menander The first great empire to the south of the Vindhayas was of the ______. — Satavahanas Gautama Buddha was brought up by ______. — Mahaprajapati The phrase the ‘Light of Asia’ is applied to ______. — The Buddha The Eight-fold path was enunciated by ______. — The Buddha KThe Buddhist Doctrines were written in ______language. — Pali The first Buddhist Council was held at ______. — Rajagriha Ashoka was much influenced by a Buddhist monk called ______. — Upagupta Megasthenes visited India during the period of ______. — Chandragupta Maurya Megasthenes was the Ambassador of ______. — Selukos Nikator “The Indica” was written by ______. — Megasthenes KUNDANMauryan Dynasty was founded by ______. — Chandragupta Maurya The Rig Veda consists of ______hyms. — 1028 ______Veda is rendered musically. — Sama Veda ______was the hero of a famous drama Malvikagnimitra written by Kalidasa. — Agnimitra The duties of Dharmamahamatras are explained in the Minor Rock Edict No .______. — V The Vishnu Purana gives an account of ______dynasty. — Mauryan A well-organised State machinery was introduced for the first time by ______. — the Mauryas The last Mauryan king was ______. — Brihadratha Bimbisara was succeeded by ______. — Ajatasatru The Upanishads are separated from the Brahmanas by treatises called ______. — Aranyakas ‘Atman is everything and everything is Atman’ is the ...... doctrine — Pantheistic The salient feature of the Rig Vedic religion was worship of ______. — Nature When Alexander invaded India, Texila was ruled by ______. — Ambhi There are similarities between the seals found at Mohenjo-Daro and ...... — Sumeria Megasthenese was a Greek Ambassador sent to the court of the king ...... — Chandragupta Maurya Mudra Rakshasa was written by ______. — Visakadatta Dharmamahamatras were ______during the Mauryans. — Officials Kanva dynasty was established by ______. — Vasudeva Kharavela of Kalinga was a follower of the religion ______. — Jainism The capital of the king Kharavela of Kalinga was ______. — Kalinganagara Buddha delivered his first sermon at ______. — Sarnath The Buddha attained Nirvana at ______. — Kusinagara The proceedings of the Third Buddhist Council led to the issue of ______Edict. — Sarnath The most important Pahlava ruler was ______. K — Gondophernes St Thomas died a martyr at ______. — Madras The Capital of Kanishka Empire was ______. — Peshawar The fourth Buddhist Council was held at _____. — Kundalavana Alexander was the son of Philip II of ______. — Macedonia Porus was defeated by Alexander at the battle of ______. — Hydaspes Alexander the Great died at ______. — Babylon KUNDANThe monolithic image of Jain Saint ‘Gomatiswara’ is at ______. — Saravanabelgola ______was the mother of Vardhamana Mahavira. — Trisala The Monk whom Chandragupta Maurya accompanied to South India was ______. — Bhadrabahu Megasthenes was succeeded by ______as ambassador. — Deimachos The Saka Era was founded by ______. — Kanishka The famous Indo-Greek King who embraced Buddhism was...... — Menender Kanishka was the follower of ______. — Mahayanism The Sunga ruler Bhaga erected a monolithic ‘Garuda’ at ______. — Besnagar Vardhamana Mahavira died at ______. — Pavapuri The city of Pataliputra was founded at the junction of the Ganges and the ______. — Sone The Nanda dynasty was established by ______. — Mahapadma Alexander was trained by ______. — Aristotle Vardhamana Mahavira was born at ______. — Kundagrama Bimbisara was succeeded by ______. — Ajatasatru Alexander sent back home a portion of his army under an admiral called ...... — Nearchos ______was another name of Pataliputra — Kusumapura The founder of the Achaemenian Empire was ______. — Cyrus The most powerful ruler of the Cheras was ______. — Senguttuvan A temple for ‘Patini devi’ was constructed by ______. — Senguttuvan During the 4th century AD the Western Satraps were conquered by the ______rulers. — Sassanian Sudarsana lake was reconstructed by ______. — Rudradaman I The first ruler of the Satavahanas was ______. — Simuka Satavahana rule was extended to the Coromandal Coast by ______. — Pulumayi II Chashtana was the Satraps of ______. — Malwa Srikakulam was the capital of ______. — Andhras The ancient Chola kingdom existed in the delta of the river ______. — Cauvery The first Persian ruler who occupied part of Indian territory was ______. — Cyrus The fourth and the last Buddhist Council held at Kashmir was convened Kby ______. — Kanishka The first image of the Buddha was carved out during the reign of ______. — Kanishka I ______was the personal physician of Kanishka and also the author of a famous treatise on the Indian system of medicine. — Charaka The worship of images (of Buddha) in India began during the period ______. — Kushana The last great ruling dynasty of Magadha was ______. — Gupta KUNDANKanishka is associated with an era which is known as ______. — Saka era The greatest conqueror among the Gupta rulers was ______. — Samudragupta The famous Mehrauli Iron Pillar Inscription describes the conquest of ______. — Chandragupta II The Gupta king who is known in the Indian legends as Vikramaditya was ______. — Chandragupta II The Chinese traveller Fa-hien visited India and left a detailed account of the reign of ______. — Chandragupta II The foremost astronomer and mathematician of the Gupta period was ______. — Aryabhatta The Chinese traveller Huen Tsang, called the Prince of Pilgrims visited India during the reign of ______. — Harsha Harshacharita the biography of Harsha, was written by ______. — Banabhatta Harsha was the last great royal patron of the religion ______. — Buddhism Two great Buddhist universities of Nalanda and Vikramshila were patronised by the ______rulers. — Palas The Chahamana (or Chauhan) king who founded the city of Ajmer and made it his capital was ______. — Ajayaraj Kalhana’s Rajatarangini is a work on the history of ______. — Kashmir Of the four main Chalukya dynasties of early medieval India Pulkesin II, who defeated Harsha, belonged to Chalukya dynasty of ______. — Badami or Vatapi The capital of the Pallavas was ______. — Kanchi or Conjeevaram The foundation of the Dravidian style of architecture in South India was laid by ______. — Pallavas The Pallava king responsible for carving the Rathas of Mahabalipuram was ______. — Narsimhavarman The Chola king, who after successfully raiding Bengal took the title of Gangaikonda and also founded a new capital (Gangaikonda Cholapuram) was ______. — Rajendra I The masterpiece of Chola sculpture is the famous Nataraja or the Danc- ing Shiva image at ______. — Chidambaram A contemporary rival dynasty of the Cholas in South India was ______. — Pandyas of Madurai The Indian king who provided the most spirited and successful resis- Ktance against Mahmud of Ghazni was ______. — Chandela king Vidyadhar The Indian ruler who, unable to bear the humiliation of his defeat at the hands of Mahmud of Ghazni burnt himself to death was ______. — Shahi king Jayapala The famous ruler of ancient India who is said to have been converted to Jainism, towards the end of his life, is ______. — Chandragupta The Harappan economy was primarily ______in nature. KUNDAN— Urban ______was the first Muslim invader to enter India. — Mohammed-bin-Qasim The best specimens of Mauryan art are represented by their ______. — Pillars According to Strabo, the Tamil kingdom to first send emissaries to meet Augustin in Athens in 20 BC, was ______. — Pandya The word ‘Veda’ has been derived from the root word ‘Vid’ which means ______. — Knowledge The Kushan rule was brought to an end by ______. — The Hindu Shahi Dynasty Ashoka has been particularly influenced by the Buddhist monk ______. — Upagupta During Kanishka’s reign, the centre of political activity shifted from Magadha to ______. — Purushapura (Peshawar) Name the Sultan who resorted to the extreme step of abolishing as many as 24 taxes. — Firoze Tughlaq Who had got the Konark Sun Temple constructed? — Narasimha Deva II In which language did Krishna Deva Raya, who was also a scholar of repute, write the Amukta-Malyada? — Sanskrit Sultan Mahmud’s mission of plundering several temples for their wealth included the famous ______temple as well. — Somnath Whom did Muhammad Ghori kill in the Second Battle of Tarain? — Prithviraj Who wrote Mrichchhakatika (Clay Cart)? — Sudraka After the partition of India, the largest number of Harappan towns and settlements have been found in the state of ______. — Gujarat The Indus Valley Civilization can be said to belong to the ______age. — Bronze Who among the following used to hold a religious assembly at Prayag every five year? — Harshvardhana Gautam Buddha as a prince was known as ______. — Siddhartha Architectural developments in India manifested themselves in their full glory during the period of the ______. — Guptas The deep, transforming effect that the Kalinga War had on Ashoka has been described in ______edicts. — Rock The proud title of ‘Vikramaditya’ had been assumed by ______. — Chandragupta II ______was the first metal to be discovered and used as tools by hu- mans? — Copper KThe Upanishads are a series of books devoted to ______. — Philosophy Which of the following temples has acquired the name of the Black Pagoda? — Sun Temple Name the later Gupta ruler who had performed the Ashwamedha Yajna (Horse Sacrifice) and assumed the imperial title of Maharajadhiraj? — Adityasen With what subject does the Mitakshara deal? — Law By whom had the Stupa at Sanchi in Madhya Pradesh been built? KUNDAN— Ashoka The author of Ashtadhyayai is ______. — Panini In the Rigvedic period, after the king the next most important function- ary of the state was the ______. — Purohita The concluding portions of the Brahmanas are called the ______. — Satpathas What does the Yajur Veda contain? — Hymns and rituals The Mahajanapada that acquired prominence to become an empire was that of ______. — Magadha What is the present name of Dwara Samudra, the ancient capital of the Hoysalas? — Halebid The Ajanta cave paintings mostly belong to the period of the ______. — Guptas Who was the founder of the Sankhya School of philosophy? — Kapila The archaeologist to initially discover the Mohenjodaro site of the Indus Valley Civilization was ______. — Rakhal Das Banerji The Harappan site that had a dock is ______. — Lothal The Vedic deity Indra was the god of ______. — Rain and Thunder The institution of varna appeared in the ______period. — Rigvedic The only Veda to have been rendered musically is ______. — The Sama Veda What is the first discourse that the Buddha had delivered at the Deer Park in Sarnath called? — Dharmachakrapravartan The famous Indo-Greek king to embrace Buddhism was ______. — Menander To whom is the introduction of Buddhism into China traditionally attrib- uted? — Kashyapa Matanga Name the ruler whose reign was a witness to both Vardhaman Mahavira and the Buddha preaching their respective doctrines? — Bimbisara Where was Mahavira born? — Vaishali The original teachings of Mahavira are contained in the ______. — Purvas Which ruler held a religious assembly at Prayag every five years? — Harshavardhana According to tradition, a mighty king in India in the fourth century BC Khad been raised to power by a Taxila brahmin, named ______. — Chanakya Who had established the four Mathas or Monastic seats in the four corrners of India? — Shankaracharya The term used to denote a group of families in the vedic society was ______. — Jana The Svetambaras and Digambaras refer to two sects of ______. — Jainism KUNDANAccording to the Mimansa School of Philosophy, liberation is possible through ______. — Karma The great Hindu law giver was ______. — Manu During whose reign did Buddhism become the state religion? — Samudragupta The fourth Buddhist council had compiled an encyclopedia of Buddhist hilosophy, called ______. — Mahavibhasha Sutra Who had converted Kanishka to Buddhism? — Asvaghosha Buddhism was first propogated outside India in ______. — Ceylon The language adopted for preaching in Mahayana Buddhism was ______. — Sanskrit Who is said to have both been born and shed his body on the Vaishakha Purnima day? — The Buddha The Indus Valley Civilization was discovered in the year ______. — 1922 During the Gupta period, the village affairs were managed by the village headman with the assistance of the ______. — Vishyapati The Sunga dynasty had made ______the official religion of their kingdom. — Brahmanism Most of the Hindu colonies in South East Asia had been found during the reign of the ______. — Cholas The Saka era started from the year ______. — 78AD Which Gupta ruler had led a campaign to the south, besides being an accomplished veena player? — Samudragupta Who has been called the ‘Napoleon of India’? — Samudragupta The achievements of Samudragupta have been chronicled in the ______inscription. — Allahabad pillar inscription The sage who is considered to have Aryanized southern India was ______. — Agastya The Chola ruler who had subdued the Ganges and obtained the title ‘Gangai Konda Cholan’ was ______. — Rajendra Chola I The dynasty that excelled itself as a naval power was that of the ______. — Cholas Which Chola ruler had conquered the northern part of Sri Lanka and made it a province of his empire? — Rajaraja Chola The ancient medical treatise, Charaka Samhita is attributed to Charaka, who was a contemporary of ______. — Kanishka Who is credited with having built the famous Ellora Caves? — The Rashtrakutas KThe Pallava kings were the makers of the rock-cut temples at ______. — Mahabalipuram The fresco paintings of Ajanta caves illustrate the art of the ______. — Guptas Which is the oldest Indian linguistic text? — Ashtadhyayi ______is the oldest seat of learning. — Taxila The Shrimad Bhagvata Gita contains ______chapters and _____ Sanskrit slokas or couplets. — 18;700 KUNDANThe Ramayana narrates events believed to have taken place in the ______Yuga or age. — Treta Which sage or scholar had recast the original single Veda into four distinct Vedas? — Vyasa To whom did the term ‘Macedonia’s madaman’ refer? — Alexander The bronze coins of Natraja or Dancing Shiva during the Chola period invariably depicted the deity with ______arms. — Six The two colossal images of the Buddha at Bamiyan are an instance of the ______art. — Gupta The earliest surviving extant, i.e still standing, temples date from the ______period. — Gupta During the period of Hiuen Tsang’s visit, the city most famous for the production of cotton cloth was _____. — Mathura Foreigners were absorbed in a large number in the Indian society during the ______period. — Mauryan The greatest Buddhist commentator of the Buddhist canonical literature has been ______. — Ashvaghosha Who is referred to as the ‘Sadhu’ from the west? — St Thomas The famous vedic saying “war begins in the minds of men ....” is con- tained in the ______. — Atharva Veda The philosophical essence, “The world is but God manifest and God is my own soul” may be traced to the ______. — Upanishads The most commonly used coin during the Mauryan period was ______. — Karashopana The Arab conquest of Sind in 712 AD had taken place under the leader- ship of ______. — Mohammed-bin-Qasim The reverential title of ‘The Liberator’ had been earned by ______. — Ashoka The king Piyadaasi referred to in some ancient Indian inscriptions has been identified with ______. — Ashoka Who was the Greek ambassador in the court of Chandragupta Maurya? — Megasthenes The ritualistic precepts pertaining to the hymns of the Vedas are known as the ______. — Brahmanas The Digambaras and Shvetambaras differ primarily with regard to their ______. — Dress The largest urban centre in ancient India had been ______. — Kannauj Ashoka’s conquest of Kalinga has been described in the minor rock edict Knumbered ______. — XIII The new element of Gopurm had been encouraged in temples of south- ern India by the ______. — Pandyas The temples known as the Seven Pagodas had been built by the ______. — Pallavas In whcih script were the Ashokan inscription were written in North West Frontier Province? — Kharoshti The lowest unit of Chola administration was the _____. KUNDAN— Kurram Who had got constructed the gigantic Shiva Temple at Thanjavur? — Rajaraja Chola What is the name of the preaching mudra or gesture, in which the Buddha is depicted delivering his first sermon, in the Gandhara Sculptures? — Dhyana In whose coins was the wheel found? — Menander In whose reign did the visit of Saint Thomas take place? — Gondophernes In the Rigveda the term Dasas and Dasyus refers to ______. — non-Aryans The most important craftsman in the Vedic period was the ______. — carpenter The famous Vedic river which had long ago become extinct and now supposed to be flowing underground in Rajasthan is ______. — Saraswati The word Jina from which the Jain(ism) has originated stands for ______. — conqueror (of senses) The Sanskrit drama which describes Chandragupta Maurya’s triumph over the Nanda is ______. — Mudrarakshasa The rulers of a dynasty of the Deccan who were supposed to be Brahmanas and staunch supporters of Brahmanism were ______. — Satavahanas The successors of the Satavahanas in the Deccan were the ______. — Vakatakas The painting in the Ajanta Caves shows an Indian king receiving an embassy from the king of Persia. The king receiving the embassy has been identified with ______. — Dhruva IV The last Nanda ruler of Magadha who was overthrown by Chandragupta Maurya with the help of Chanakya was ______. — Dhanananda The Pallava king who adopted the epithet of Vichitrachitta or curious minded was ______. — Mahendravarman I The ruler of Gujarat, who formed an allianace with Egypt and Turkey against the Portuguese in India, was ______. — Mahmud (Shah I) Begarha Rana Kumbha built the famous ‘Tower of Victory’ or ‘Kirtistambha’ at Chittoor in commemoration of his victory against ______. — Malwa In medieval India the state derived the highest income from? — Land Revenue The Sultan of the Sultanate of Delhi, who transferred his capital from KDelhi to Agra, was ______. — Sikandar Lodi The oldest specimens of poetry in the Punjabi language are devotional compositions attributed to ______. — Baba Farid Sufism, the liberal and mystic movement of Islam, reached India in the ______century? — 11th The Sufi Saint, contemporary of Prithviraj Chauhan, was ______. — Khwaja Muinuddin Chisti Different Sufi schools or orders in India were known as ______. KUNDAN— Silsilahs The earliest Sufi order to arrive in India was ______. — Chisti Sankardeva was a great bhakti saint of ______. — Assam The Pandharpur Movement is associated with the Bhakti Movement of ______. — Maharashtra The most important saint of the Bhakti Movement in Maharashtra who was born at Satara and is said to have died in Punjab, was ______. — Namadeva Harihara and Bukka, the founders of the empire of Vijayanagar, named their dynasty as ______. — Sangama The founder of the Bahamani Kingdom was ______. — Alauddin Hasan Bahaman Shah The first capital of the Bahamani Kingdom was ______. — Gulbarga The Vijayanagar and the Bahamani Kingdoms fought relentlessly through- out the period of their existence for the possession of ______. — Raichur Doab The city of Vijayanagar (Now known as Hampi) was situated on the northern bank of the river ______. — Tungabhadra The greatest ruler in the history of Vijayanagar was ______. — Krishnadeva Raya The Vijayanagar king who wrote a work ‘Amuktamalayada’ on the lines of Kautilya’s Arthashastra, was ______. — Krishnadeva Raya Babur’s autobiography, called Tuzuk-i-Baburi or Baburnaman, which is reckoned among “the most enthralling and romantic works in the literature of all times“ is written in ______. — Turki Humayun lost the Mughal Empire to Sher Shah Suri finally in the battle of ______. — Kannauj The longest road built by Sher Shah, known as Sarak-l-Azam (currently known as GT Road or Sher Shah Suri Road) ran from the Indus in the North-West to ______. — Sonargaon Sher Shah’s mausoleum is at Sahasaram in Bihar but he died at ______. — Kalanjar Hemu, whom Akbar defeated in the Second Battle of Panipat (1556), was the minister of ______. — Muhammad Shah Abdali After the devastation of the city of Vijayanagar in 1565, the capital of the empire was shifted to ______. — Penukonda The Portuguese under the leadership of Vasco da Gama in 1498 first landed at _____. — Calicut The Portuguese gained a stronghold in India after defeating the Zamorin Kof Calicut. The word Zamorin stands for ______. — Sealord The Portuguese naval monopoly in the Indian waters was shattered by the ______. — Dutch When Chittor was captured by Akbar (1558), the Rana of Mewar was ______. — Rana Udai Singh In the Battle of Haldighati the Mughal troops were commanded by ______. — Raja Man Singh of Amber After the fall of Chittor, the city which became the capital of Mewar KUNDANwas ______. — Udaipur Akbar’s son and successor Salim, on becoming the emperor, assumed the name of ______. — Nuruddin Muhammad Jahangir The Mughal queen, whose name was inscribed on the coins and on all royal farmans as well as attached to the imperial signature was ______. — Nur Jahan The first martyrdom in Sikh history in the reign of Jahangir was of ______. — Guru Arjan An ambassador of the British King James I, who secured favourable privileges for the East India Company from Emperor Jahangir, was ______. — Thomas Roe Mughal painting reached its zenith during the reign of ______. — Jahangir The son of Shah Jahan , who studied the New Testament, the writings of the Muslim Sufis, the Vedanta philosophy, Upanishads, etc, and sought to find a meeting point between Hinduism and Islam, was _____. — Dara Shikoh Todarmal is associated with the revenue system known as ______. — Zabti or Zabt The original name of Tansen, the greatest musician of the court of Akbar, was _____. — Ramatanu Pande Of the so-called ‘Nine Gems of the Court of Akbar’ the one who was a reputed poet of Hindi, was ______. — Abdur Rahim Khan-i-Khana The greatest historian of the reign of Akbar, who wrote Akbar-nama and Ain-i-Akbari, was ______. — Abul Fazl Akbar granted the present site of Amritsar to the Sikh Guru ______. — Amar Das The most important poet at the court of Mahmud of Ghazni, who wrote Shahnama and is regarded as the ‘Immortal Homer of the East’ was ______. — Firdausi During the course of his numerous invasions, Muhammad Ghori (Before his conquest in the Second Battle of Tarain) was defeated by ______. — Chalukya king Bhima II of Gujarat and Prithviraja Chauhan III of Ajmer Muhammad Ghori laid the foundation of the Turkish Empire in India by defeating ______. — Prithviraj Chauhan in 2nd Battle of Tarain and Jayachanda in the Battle of Chandawar It is said that Muhammad-bin-Bakhtiyar Khalji, one of the commanders of Muhammad Ghori, conquered Nadia (one of the capitals of Bengal) with only 18 horsemen. The king of Bengal who then fled barefoot from his palace was ______. — Lakshamanasena KThe Buddhist universities of Nalanda and Vikramshila in Bihar were destroyed during the invasions of ______. — Bakhtiyar Khalji The real founder of the Sultanate of Delhi and its first dynasty was ______. — Iltutmish The first medieval ruler to propound the divine theory of Kingship was ______. — Balban The first Sultan of Delhi to cross the Narmada and move to the south was ______. — Alauddin Khalji The only known ruler in the history of India to have fixed the prices of KUNDANdifferent commodities, rigidly enforced quality control and ensured easy availability of essential commodities was ______. — Alauddin Khalji The Sultan who completed the conquest of the South and broke the political barriers between the North and the South was ______. — Muhammad bin Tughluq The famous Moorish traveller Ibn Batuta, who visited India recorded his experiences in a book entitled Safarnama or Rehla, was appointed Qazi of Delhi by Sultan ______. — Mohammad-bin Tughluq The Sultan of Delhi who transferred two monolithic Mauryan pillars to Delhi to beautify his capital, was ______. — Firuz Tughluq Timur invaded India and ordered a general massacre of the people of Delhi during the reign of ______. — Nasir-ud-din Mahmud A ruling dynasty established in India at the instance of Timur was ______. — Saiyad The Akbar of Kashmir who reconstructed and rehabilitated all the temples and asked Jonaraja to continue further Kalhana’s Rajatarangini was ______. — Zain-ul-Abidin The most decisive battle between the forces of Dara and Aurangzeb (in the war of Succession) was fought at ______. — Samugarh Assuming the title of Alamgir, Aurangzeb crowned himself as Emperor on July 21, 1658 at ______. — Delhi The famous Mughal General who conquered Assam, Chittagong, etc in the north-east was ______. — Mir Jumla Aurangzeb, in his attempt to annex Marwar to the Mughal empire,was involved in a 30-year war. During these long years the most valiant struggle from the side of Marwar was fought by ______. — Durgadas The Sikh Guru executed by Aurangzeb after cruel torture was ______. — Tegh Bahadur The Mughal General,who decisively defeated Shivaji and forced him to conclude the Treaty of Purandar, was ______. — Mirza Raja Jai Singh The Maratha dominion of Shivaji was known as ______. — Swaraj The Administrative Council of Shivaji was known as ______. — Ashta Pradhan Tarabai, who conducted the affairs of the Maratha government from 1700 to 1707 AD, was the widow of the Maratha King ______. K — Raja Ram The later Mughal King, popularly known as Shah-i-Bekhabar (the Heed- less King), was ______. — Bahadur Shah Two Sayid brothers Sayid Abdullah Khan and Sayid Hussan Ali Khan (who rose to become the king makers during the later Mughal period) met their downfall during the reign of ______. — Muhammad Shah The famous Sikh leader Banda Bahadur was captured and executed during the reign of the Mughal emperor ______. — Jahandar Shah Which Mugal emperor was a great musician, a great patron of Hindustani KUNDANMusic and was popularly known as Rangila? — Muhammad Shah During the second decade of the 18th century numerous independent dynasties were founded in different parts of India. The dynasty founded by Chin Qulich Khan (popularly known as Nizam-ul-mulk) in the Deccan was known as ______. — Asafjahi The independent kingdom of Awadh was founded by ______. — Saadat Khan The founder of the independent state of Bengal was ______. — Murshid Quli Khan The Jat king of Bharatpur who is known as the ‘Plato of the Jat tribe’ and the ‘Jat Ulysses’ was ______. — Suraj Mal The Peshwa’s Secretariat at Pune (Poona), the pivot of the Maratha government was known as ______. — Huzur Daftar During the Anglo-French struggle in the Carnatic, the French were fi- nally defeated by the English in the battle of ______. — Wandiwash The English founded Calcutta after obtaining the Zamindari of three villages, viz Sutanuti, Kalikata and Govindpur, from the Mughal Viceroy of Bengal in 1698. The nucleus of the British settlement in Calcutta was ______. — Fort William Plassey is located near ______. — Murshidabad in West Bengal Who laid the foundation of the famous Asiatic Society of Bengal in 1784? — William Jones The Permanent Settlement introduced by Cornwallis in Bengal is known as ______. — Zamindari System Haidar Ali, who rose to become the de facto ruler of Mysore by 1761 was in the service of ______. — the Wodeyar rulers of Mysore ______was the first Indian ruler to apply the western methods to his administration. — Tipu Sultan The capital of Tipu Sultan, where he died while fighting the fourth Anglo-Mysore war in 1799, was ______. — Seringapatam ______was the first to have the office of both Governor-General and Commander-in-chief Conferred upon him. — Cornwallis The master stroke of Lord Wellesley to establish British paramountcy in India was ______. — Subsidiary Alliance The capital of the Sikh kingdom of Ranjit Singh was ______. — Lahore By which Act did the British Government take supreme control over the affairs of the East India Company and its administration in India? — Government of India Act, 1858 Which of the following Governor-General in India outllawed Sati and Kfemale infanticide and defined the aims of education in India? — William Bentinck The first three universities in India at Calcutta, Bombay and Madras were established in _____. — 1857 The first railway line built in 1853 connected ______. — Bombay with Thane When was the modern Postal System introduced in India? — 1854 KUNDANWho was the Governor-General, when the Revolt of 1857 broke out in India? — Lord Canning The Local Self-Government institutions in India were established in 1882 by ______. — Ripon The first Viceroy of British India was ______. — Lord Canning When Mahmud Ghazni invaded Somnath, the ruler of Gujarat was ______. — Bhima I Malik Muhammad Jayasi has written an epic, Padmavat, relating to king Ratan Singh and his queen Padmini of ______. — Mewar Alauddin Khalji’s commander who led the campaign to South India was _____. — Malik Kafur The medieval Indian Sultan who has been called the ‘Prince of Moneyers’ is ______. — Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq The only Sultan of Delhi to conquer Chittor, the capital of Mewar was ______. — Alauddin Khalji The first known ruler to introduce canal irrigation in India was ______. — Firuz Tughluq Two major crops introduced in India during the Mughal period were ______. — Tobacco and Maize The medieval Indian Muslim poet, historian and musician who called himself ‘a parrot of India’ was ______. — Amir Khusrau The Mughal empire reached its maximum territorial extent during the reign of ______. — Aurangzeb The second founder of the Maratha Kingdom was ______. — Peshwa Balaji Vishwanath The Nawab of Awadh who permanently transferred his capital from Fyzabad to Lucknow was ______. — Asaf-ud-Daula The Brahmin minister of Shambhaji (Son and Successor of Shivaji) upon whom he invested the title of ‘Pinnacle of Poets’ was ______. — Kavi Kalash The Voluminous compositions attributed to Guru Govind Singh (the last Sikh Guru) are collectively known as ______. — Baichitra Natak Sundar Vilas is the work of a famous Bhakti Saint ______. — Dadu The only Hindu noble at the court of Akbar to accept the Din-i-llahi was ______. — Birbal The last great royal patrons of Buddhism in India were the ______. — Palas KThe Pallava ruler who built the famous Kailash temple at Kanchi and the Shore temple at Mahabalipuram was ______. — Narsimhavarman II The great religious thinker and philosopher Shankaracharya was born in Kerala at ______. — Keladi The original name of Balban was ______. — Baha-ud-Din Ghazni was a small principality in ______. — Afghanistan Who was the author of Kitab-ul-Hind? — Al-Beruni In 1206 AD Muhammad of Ghor was killed at ______. KUNDAN— Damayak Who is known as the “Slave of a slave”? — Iltutmish Who was the first Sultan of Delhi to issue regular currency and to declare Delhi as the capital of his empire? — Iltutmish Who among the following came to India at the instance of Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni? — Al-Beruni Timur’s invasion has taken place during the reign of ______. — Nasiruddin Mahmud Tughluk Which Sultan of Delhi died while playing the chaugon (Polo)? — Qutb-ud-din Aibak Who was the author of Amuktamalyada? — Krishnadeva Raya Which monarch called himself as the second Alexander? — Ala-ud-din Khalji The most learned medieval Muslim ruler who was well versed in various branches of learning including astronomy, mathematics and medicine was ______. — Muhammad-bin-Tughluq The largest administrative division in the Vijayanagar empire was ______. — Mandalam The first Sultan to adopt the principle of measurement of cultivable land for determining the land revenue was ______. — Ala-ud-din Khalji Who was the founder of Bahmani kingdom in the Deccan? — Hasan Gangu The rulers of the Lodi dynasty were ______. — Pure Afghan The largest standing army of the Delhi Sultanate directly paid by the State was created by ______. — Ala-ud-din Khalji The Mongols appeared for the first time on the banks of the Indus during the rule of ______. — Iltutmish Who founded the city of Ahmedabad? — Ahmad Shah Vijayanagar was founded on the southern bank of the river ______. — Tungabhadra Who was the founder of Aravidu dynasty of the Vijayanagar Empire? — Tirumala What was the capital of Bahmani Kingdom? — Gulbarga Minhaj-us-Siraj was a ______. — historian The city of Ajmer was founded by ______. — Ajayaraja Who was the patron deity of Vijayanagar? — Virupaksha What was the bone of contention between Vijayanagar and the Bahmani Kingdoms? — Raichur Doab Who were the Yaminis? — Ghaznavids KWho were called the New Muslims? — Mongol converts to Islam Who was the founder of Srivaishnava sect? — Ramanuja What was the religion of Malik Kafur before he entered the service of Ala-ud-din? — Hinduism To which race did Mahmud of Ghazni belong? — Afghan Under the Mughals the Governor was popularly known as ______. — Subahdar KUNDANIn the Mughal period the registers of the agricultural lands were main- tained by ______. — Qanungo Under the Mughals the jizya was collected from ______. — Hindus Under the Mughal rule the judicial service was formed by ______. — Kazis Under the Mughals, in urban area the judicial powers were exercised by ______. — Kotwal Under the Mughals the Commander-in-Chief of the Army was ______. — Emperor In India artillery was first used in the battle of ______. — Panipat in 1526 In India artillery was first used by ______. — Babur In Mansabdari system the Commnader in-Chief of the Army was ______. — Emperor The main outlet for foreign trade during Akbar’s reign was the port of ______. — Surat The Upanishads were translated into Persian by ______. — Prince Dara Shikoh Humayun Nama was wirtten by ______. — Princess Gulbadan Begum Prince Dara-Shikoh was the son of ______. — Shah Jahan Jama Masjid at Delhi was built by ______. — Shah Jahan ______built by Shah Jahan is one of the unrivalled beauties of the world. — Taj Mahal ______was the first Mughal Emperor to acquire Koh-i- nur diamond. — Humayun The Peacock throne was built by ______. — Shah Jahan Koh-i-noor diamond was presented to Aurangzeb by ______. — Mir Jumla Tansen was originally in the service of ______. — Raja of Rewa Under the Mughals, the Police duties in urban areas were entrusted to the officers known as ______. — Kotwal During the Mughal rule, the police duties in the districts were entrusted to the officials known as ______. — Faujdar The Adi Granth was compiled by ______. — Guru Arjan Dev Guru Arjan Dev transferred the headquarters to ______. K — Amritsar The Sikh Guru who fought in the Mughal ranks during the reign of Aurangazeb was ______. — Tegh Bahadur Guru Govind Singh was the son of ______. — Tegh Bahadur Shivaji started his public career at the age of ______— 19 Aurangzeb sent Mukarrab Khan against _____. — Sambaji Under the Mughal rule the Chief Minister was known as ______. — Vakil KUNDANWith the help of Baghnuk (Tiger-claws) Shivaji killed ______. — Afzalkhan During the Mughal period the main source of Imperial revenue was ______. — Agriculture Indo-Persian style of architecture attained its supreme beauty in the reign of ______. — Shah Jahan The Pearl Mosque was built by ______. — Shah Jahan There were ...... jewelled steps leading to the Emperor’s seat, in the Peacock Throne. — Three The huge wealth of the Mughals fell into the hands of ...... after the capture of Delhi in 1739. — Nadir Shah Under Shivaji’s rule ..... of the produce were to be given by the peasant to the state. — Two fifths Guru Nanak was born at ______. — Talwandi The Apostolate of the Sikhs consisted of .....leaders. — Ten Babar was originally the ruler of ______. — Kabul When Babar invaded India in 1525, Humayun was the Governor of ______. — Badakhshan Rana Sanga was the ruler of ______. — Mewar The battle between Babar and Rana Sanga was fought at ______. — Khanwa In 1542 Akbar was born at ______. — Amarkot Humayun died in the year ______. — 1556 The original name of Sher Shah was ______. — Farid Sher Shah defeated Humayun at ______. — Chausa Sher Shah was succeeded by ______. — Islam Shah Under Sher Shah the largest administrative unit was administered by a Chief namely _____. — Shikadar The second Battle of Panipat was fought between Hemu and ______. — Akbar Hemu was captured and brought before Akbar by ______. — Shah Qulihan Mehran Akbar’s teacher was ______. — Abdul Latif Jizya was abolished by the Mughal ruler ______. — Akbar Todar Mal hailed from ______. — Oudh Vasco-da-Gama arrived at ...... in 1498. — Calicut The Mughal Emperor who caused the murder of Guru Arjan was ______. — Jahangir Original name of Mumtaj Mahal was ______. — Arjumand Banu KMumtaj Mahal was the daughter of ______. — Abul Hasan Prince Khurram was given the title of ______. — Shah Jahan The peacock throne was constructed by the Mughal Emperor ______. — Shah Jahan Shah Jahan was kept in prison by Aurangzeb at ______. — Agra The title of Mahakavi Rai was given by Shah Jahan to ______. — Jagannath KUNDANThe Sikh Guru who was executed by Aurangzeb was ______. — Guru Teg Bahadur Aurangzeb died in the year ______. — 1707 The scholar who had accompanied Mohammed of Ghazni to India was ______. — Ibn Batuta In which town is the mausoleum of Sher Shah located? — Sasaram Which art did Jehangir patronize in particular? — Painting The Shahnama had been written by ______. — Firdausi Who had preached “Rama and Rahim are two different names of the same God”? — Sant Kabir During the period 1000-1026 AD, how many plundering raids did Mohammed of Ghazni carry out in India? — 17 In which year did Mohammed of Ghazni perform the infamous plunder of the Somnath temple? — 1026 The Purana Qila (at Delhi) was constructed in the reign of ______. — Sher Shah The mausoleum of Jehangir had been built by ______at ______. — Noorjehan; Lahore Which Mughal ruler’s reign has been described as the golden age of medieval art and architecture? — Shah Jahan’s Who is the author of the famous literary work Tahqiq-i- Hind? — Alberuni The Char Minar had been constructed by ______. — Quli Qutb Shah Name the religious personality who exercised a great influence over Shivaji. — Guru Ram Das Whom did the Lingayats worship? — Shiva Name the famous Sufi saint whose mausoleum was erected at Fatehpur Sikri. — Sheikh Salim Chisti Permission to the British to establish their trading centre at Surat had been given by the Mughal emperor ______. — Jehangir Market control had been first introduced in medieval India by ______. — Alauddin Khilji Token currency had been introduced for the first time in India by ______. — Mohammed bin Tughluq The Mansabdari system introduced by Akbar was borrowed from the system prevalent in ______. — Mongolia The East India Company was founded in India during the reign of ______. K — Akbar Vasco da Gama came to India in ______and landed at ______. — 1498; Calicut What was the capital of Shivaji’s Kingdom? — Raigarh The island of Bombay had been given to the British Prince Charles II as dowry by the ______. — Portuguese The Dutch first established their hold in India in the year 1605 at ______. — Masulipatanam KUNDANWhich Indian ruler had requested Napoleon for help in driving the British away from India? — Tipu Sultan Amir Khusrau’s name is associated with the invention of the ______. — Sitar Fatehpur Sikri had been founded by ______. — Akbar The Khajuraho shrines built by the Chandella rulers are dedicated to ______. — Shiva and Parvati The Kirti Stambha or Tower of Victory at Chittor was built by ______. — Rana Kumbha Which Mughal emperor had banned music and dancing? — Aurangzeb The ruler of medieval India credited with the construction of the Grand Trunk Road is ______. — Sher Shah Suri The Mughal architecture reflects a blending of the Indian and ______styles. — Persian The temple of Angkor Vat is in ______. — Cambodia Which Sultan had added the Alai Darwaza to the Qutub Minar? — Alauddin Khilji The Kailashnath Temple at Ellora was excavated at the behest of ______. — Krishna I Who had founded the city of Agra? — Sikandar Lodi Chengiz Khan had invaded India when the throne was occupied by ______. — Iltutmish Who had forcibly taken away India’s famous Peacock Throne and Koh-i- noor diamond? — Nadir Shah Who is the only women historian to have written a historical account of Mughal Period? — Gulbadan Begam Who is the author of the famous book Gita Govinda? — Jaydev The authoritative treatise on Hindu law, Mitakshara, was written by ______. — Vigneswara During whose reign did Malik Mohammed Jaisi complete the notable work in Hindi, Padmavat? — Sher Shah The first woman ruler of India was ______. — Razia Sultan The first Mughal Garden in India had been laid out by ______. — Babur The first Muslim ruler to conquer southern India was ______. — Alauddin Khilji Bibi Ka Maqbara was erected by ______at Aurangabad and is a replica of the Taj Mahal — Aurangzeb KThe Sultan who had truly mixed religion with politics by calling himself Naib-i-Khudai or ‘the deputy of God’ was ______. — Balban Who among the following had shifted the capital of the Mughal empire from Agra to Delhi? — Shahjehan In the Mughal administration, military recruitments had been looked after by the ______. — Bakhshi Goa had been first colonized by the ______. — Portuguese The architectural raw material generally used in Akbar’s period was KUNDAN______. — Redstone Where had Qutab-ud-din Aibak got constructed the Adhai-din- ka Jhonpra (Hut of Two-and-a-half- Days)? — Ajmer The first Sultan of Delhi who had introduced the Practice of Sijda was ______. — Balban The Mughal emperor who had died owing to a sudden fall from the staircase was ______. — Humayun Who is the saint to have written the famous Bijak? — Sant Kabir Which literary figure of the Gupta period is referred to as the Indian Shakespeare? — Kalidasa During whose reign had the Mongols intruded into India for the first time? — Iltutmish In which year was the Battle of Plassey fought? — 1757 The designation ‘Amil’, during Akbar’s reign denoted a ______. — Revenue official Akbar had got constructed the Buland Darwaza to commemorate his victory of ______. — Gujarat Who said that the exploitative nature of British rule was ‘bleeding India White.’? — Dadabhai Naoroji “India for the Indians” was the political message of ______. — Dayanand Aligarh Muslim University was founded by ______. — Syed Ahmed Khan The Dyarchy which was introduced on 1921 in provinces was in force till the year ______. — 1937 Satyagraha Sabha was formed by Gandhi at ______. — Bombay Gandhi called for an all India Hartal to protest against Rowlatt Act on 6th April ...... — 1919 At Jallianwala Bagh meeting, ..... ordered the troops to open fire. — Dyer The enquiry Committee on Jallianwala Bagh incident was headed by — Hunter Khilafat Movement was organised by ______. — Ali Brothers Khilafat Movement was organised to protest against the injustice done to ______. — Turkey The Special Congress Session held in 1920 at Calcutta was presided over by ______. — Lala Lajpat Rai The first Swarajist Conference was held at ______. — Allahabad KWhen the Simon Commission visited India the Viceroy was ______. — Lord Irwin The number of members in the Simon Commission was ______. — 7 Purna Swaraj was declared as the goal of the Congress in the Congress session held at Lahore under the Presidentship of ______. — Jawaharala Nehru Dandi March started on ...... 1930. — 12th March Dandi March started from ..... in 1930. — Sabarmati Ashram KUNDANWhen Gandhi-Irwin Pact was signed, the Secretary of State for India was ______. — Wedgwood Benn Gandhi-Irwin Pact was signed on 5th March ...... — 1931 The famous resolution on Non-Cooperation under the inspiration of Ma- hatma Gandhi was adopted in a special session of Congress held at Calcutta in ______. — September 1920 The Swaraj Party was organised by ______. — C.R. Das and Motilal Nehru In what session did Congress declared complete Independence (Poorna Swaraj) as its goal? — Lahore session held in 1929 When was the first Independence day unofficially celebrated before In- dependence? — On 26th January 1930 Who was the Birtish Prime Minsiter who convened the First Round Table Conference in London? — Ramsay McDonald Who opened the First Round Table Conference? — King George V ‘My strongest bulwark is gone’ lamented Gandhiji on the death of ______. — Bal Gangadhar Tilak When was the First Round Table Conference held? — 1930 In 1930 Mahatma Gandhi started the Civil Disobedience Movement from ______. — Sabarmati ______founded the ‘All India Harijan Samaj’ in 1932 — Mahatma Gandhi To which personality Gandhiji gave the title “Deen Bandhu”. — C.F. Andrews Who gave the slogan ‘Inquilab Zindabad’? — Bhagat Singh With whom is the slogan “Do or Die” associated? — Mahatma Gandhi The Bardoli Satyagraha was led by ______. — Vallabhbhai Patel The sole representative of the Congress in the Second Round Table Conference was ______. — Mahatma Gandhi The Permanent settlement introduced by Cornwallis is in Bengal is known as ______. — Zamindari System The capital of Tipu Sultan, where he died while fighting the Fourth Anglo-Mysore war in 1799, was ______. — Seringapatam The Nawab of Awadh who permanently transferred his capital from Faizabad to Lucknow was ______. — Asaf-ud-daula The Revolt of 1857 in Awadh and Lucknow was led by ______. — Begum Hazrat Mahal Queen Victoria’s famous proclamation, transferring authority from the, KEast India Company to the Crown, was made from ______. — Allahabad Govind Dhondu Pant, popularly known as Nanasaheb, and one of the principal leaders of the Revolt of 1857, was the adopted heir and succes sor of ______. — Peshwa Baji Rao II One of the best known tribal rebellions in Bihar, known as Ulgulan (meaning Great Tumult), was launched by the Mundas under the leader ship of ______. — Birsa Munda The earliest nationalist to commit political dacoities (a feature of the KUNDANlater revolutionary movements) was ______. — Vasudev Balwant Phadke The main exponent of the theory of Drain of Wealth was ______. — Dadabhai Naoroji A 19th century social reformer who is regarded as the bridge between the past and the future is ______. — Raja Ram Mohan Roy This social reformer most ardently worked for the removal of untouch- ability and uplift the depressed classes before Gandhiji came on the scene ______. — Jyotiba Phule The social reformer of Maharashtra, who became famous by his pen name lokhitwadi was ______. — Gopal Hari Deshmukh Who played Socrates to the first generation of the English educated young men of Bengal? — Henry Vivian Derozio The immediate forerunner of the Indian National Congress was ______. — Indian National Conference At the Calcutta session of the INC held in 1906 the flag of Swaraj for India was unfurled by ______. — Dadabhai Naoroji The first weekly paper published by the INC (in 1889) was ______. — India Who said: “The Congress is tottering to its fall and one of my greatest ambitions while in India is to assist it to a peaceful demise”. — Lord Curzon The programme of Swadeshi and Boycott against the partition of Bengal was visualised by ______. — Aurobindo Ghose The INC for the first time passed the resolutions on Swaraj, Boycott and National Education at its annual session held at ______. — Calcutta (1906) The immediate cause of split in the INC at its Surat Session was ______. — election of the President of the INC The All India Muslim League was founded in December 1906 at ______. — Dacca India Home Rule Society, founded in London in February 1905, was one of the earliest revolutionary societies set up outside India. This society was founded by ______. — Shyamji Krishana Verma Who is regarded as ‘the Mother of the Indian Revolution’? — Madam Bhikaji Cama Madam Bhikaji Cama unfolded the National Flag of India in 1907 at ______. — International Socialist Congress Stuttgart The Ghadar Party was founded (November 1913) at San Francisco USA Kby ______. — Lala Har Dayal The first truly revolutionary organisation in Bengal was ______. — Abhinava Bharata The main brain behind hurling a bomb at Lord Hardinge, while he was making his state entry into Delhi was ______. — Ras Behari Bose The idea of starting a Home Rule League in 1915 was first propounded by ______. — B.G. Tilak KUNDANMrs Annie Besant became the first woman President of the INC in ______. — 1917 The Congressmen who wanted to contest the elections under the Act of 1919 and enter the legislature, formed a party (1923) called ______. — Swarajya Party The Hindustan Republican Association, subsequently styled as the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association of Army (HSRA) was founded in 1924 by ______. — Sachindra Sanyal To avenge the brutal lathi charge on Lala Lajpat Rai (October 30, 1928), which was believed to have caused his death subsequently, who mur- dered Saunders, the Asstt. Superintendent of Police, Lahore? — Chandra Shekhar Azad The revolutionary who was an accused in Lahore Conspiracy Case and who died in Jail After 64 days fast was ______. — Jatin Das Who threw two bombs on the floor of the Central Assembly in New Delhi on April 8, 1929? — Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt At midnight on December 31, 1929 who unfurled the tricolour flag on Indian independence on the banks of the Ravi at Lahore? — Jawaharlal Nehru The Golden Jubilee of the Indian National Congress (1885- 1935) fell in 1935, which was observed during the session held at ______. — Faizpur The most important feature of the Government of India Act of 1935 was ______. — Bicameral Legislature As a result of the elections held in early 1937 under the Act of 1935 the Congress formed ministries in _____ provinces — 7 At the historic Tripuri Session of the Congress (March 1939) Subhas Bose defeated Mahatma Gandhi’s official candidate for the Presidentship of the Congress. Who was Gandhiji’s nominee? — Pattabhi Sitaramayya On account of his differences with Gandhiji, Subhas Bose resigned the presidentship of the Congress (April 1939) and organised a new party called ______. — Forward Block The day (December 22, 1939) the Congress Ministries resigned in the Provinces the, Muslim League observed ______. — Deliverance Day The memebrs of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan’s Red Shirt Movement were known as ______. — Khuda-i-Khidamatgar (Servants of God) The first definite and forceful expression of the concept of a separate homeland for the Muslims came from (or the father of the idea of Pakistan was) ______. — Sir Mohammad Iqbal The Muslim League demanded creation of Pakistan (Pakistan Resolu- Ktion) in its session held on March 24, 1940 at ______. — Lahore Azad Hind Fauz or the Indian National Army (INA) was founded by ______. — Capt. Mohan Singh Subhas Bose established the Provisional Government of Free India at ______. — Singapore Kasturba Gandhi died in detention (in 1944) at ______. — Aga Khan Palace The Working Committee of the Congress passed the Quit India KUNDANresolution on ______. — July 14, 1942 The famous ‘Ratings Mutiny’ (Revolt of a section of Indian soldiers serv- ing in the Royal Indian Navy) in Bombay in February 1946 was calmed down largely by the effrots of ______. — Vallabhbhai Patel The Muslim League withdrew its acceptance of the Cabinet Mission Plan and decided to resort to Direct Action Day on ______. — August 16, 1946 On the Direct Action Day unprecedented bloodshed took place (as a result of Hindu-Muslim riots) in ______. — Calcutta The interim Government which took office on September 2, 1946 was headed by ______. — Jawaharlal Nehru After the elections to the Constituent Assembly were held in July 1946, the Constituent Assembly met for the first time in New Delhi on ______. — December 9, 1946 British Prime Minister Attlee made the historic announcement of the end of British rule in India (and transfer of power to responsible Indian hands by a date not later than June1948) on — February 20, 1947 India was partitioned as a consequence of the formula contained in ______. — June 3 plan or Mountbatten Plan The Servants of India Society was founded in 1905 by ______. — Gopal Krishna Gokhale Mahatma Gandhi compared Pherozeshah Mehta with the Himalayas, Tilak with the Ocean and Gokhale with ______. — the Ganges Who did Mahatma Gandhi recognise as his political Guru? — Gopal Krishna Gokhale The first Congress and nationalist leader to face repeated imprisonment was ______. — B.G. Tilak Where did Mahatma Gandhi first apply his technique of Satyagraha? — South Africa Who is the author of Vande Mataram? — Bankim Chandra Chatterjee Who composed the song “Sare Jahan Se Achha Hindostan Hamara”? — Mohammed Iqbal Who has the distinction of having authored the National anthems of two countries of the world? — Rabindranath Tagore Who contemptuously referred to Mahatma Gandhi as a half naked fakir? — Winston Churchill The British Governor General and Viceroy who served for the longest period in India was ______. — Lord Linlithgow In December 1885, when the Indian National Congress was founded, KAO Hume acted as its ______. — General Secretary The first Indian to be elected as a member of the British House of Commons was ______. — Dadabhai Naoroji The song Jan-Gana-Mana composed by Rabindranath Tagore was first published in January 1912 under the title of ______. — Bharat Vidhata The actual name of Dayanand Saraswati, the founder of the Arya Samaj was ______. — Mula Shankar KUNDANThe President of the Constituent Assembly was ______. — Dr Rajendra Prasad The slogan of ‘Bande Matram’ was first adopted during the ______Movements. — Swadeshi The first elected Indian President of the Legislative Assembly was ______. — V.J. Patel The youngest President of the Indian National Congress, who held that office at the age of 35, was ______. — Abul Kalam Azad The first Indian to contest an election to the British House of Commons was ______. — Womesh Chandra Bannerjee The momentous decision to transfer the capital from Calcutta to Delhi, to annul the partition of Bengal and to abolish Indian indentured labour were taken during the Viceroyalty of Lord ______. — Hardinge The Headquarters of the Ramakrishna Math and Mission established by Vivekananda in 1898 are at ______. — Belur Who is regarded as the father and founder of the Indian National Congress? — A.O. Hume Who was associated with the publication of a large number of weeklies and dailies such as Hindustan, Indian Union, Leader, Maryada, Kissan, Abhudaya etc? — Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Who declared that he would talk of religion only when he succeeded in removing poverty and misery from the country, for religion could not appease hunger? — Swami Vivekananda The most famous woman disciple of Vivekananda was ______. — Sister Nivedita ‘The Times of India’ which celebrated its 150th anniversary in 1988, was first published in 1838 as ______. — Bombay Times Chandrashekhar Azad was ______of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army. — Commander-in-Chief The English, who twice served as President of the Indian National Congress was ______. — Mrs Annie Besant When the Congress Ministries were formed in the provinces in June1937, the Viceroy of India was ______. — Lord Linlithgow ‘A day of deliverance and thanks giving’, was celebrated in 1939 by ______. — Muslim League August Offer 1940 was made by the Viceroy ______. — Linlithgow When the August Offer 1940 was offered to India the Prime Minister of England was ______. — Churchill The word Pakistan was coined by ______. — Rahmat Ali The Muslim League passed a resolution demanding the partition of India in the ..... session held in 1940. — Lahore KThe Cripps Offer was regarded as a ‘post dated cheque’ by ______. — Gandhi The Cripps Mission visited India in the year ______. — 1942 As per ‘August Offer 1940’ the Constitution of India would be drawn by ______. — Indians The Charter for the establishment of the East India Company was granted by ______. — Queen Elizabeth I The East India Company was established in the year ______. KUNDAN— 1600 AD The first Governor-General of Bengal was ______. — Warren Hastings The Regulating Act was passed in the year ______. — 1773 According to the Regulating Act, Directors were to be elected for a period of ______. — 4 years As per the Regulating Act, a Governor-General and four Councillors were appointed for ______. — Bengal The term of office fixed by Regulating Act for Governor General was ______. — 5 years As per the Regulating Act a Supreme Court was established in ______. — Bengal Shuja-ud-daula was the Nawab of ______. — Oudh Shuja-ud-daula wanted to acquire the territory of ______. — Rohillas Rohillas were of ...... origin. — Afghan The Rohillas helped the Afghan invaders in 1761 in the battle of ______. — Panipat The English established their first factory in Bengal in 1651 at..... — Hugli In the Battle of Buxar the English army was commanded by ______. — Major Munro The Battle of Buxar was fought between the combined armies (or the Nawab of Oudh, the Mughal Emperor and Mir Kasim) and the ______. — English ‘Confessions of a Thug’ was written by ______. — Meadows Taylor The Indian Civil Service Act was passed during the Viceroyalty of ______. — Canning The first Indian to enter the Indian Civil Service was ______. — Satyendra Nath Tagore The Mayo College was started at ______. — Ajmer The capital of British India was transferred from Calcutta to Delhi in the year ______. — 1911 The Non-Cooperation Movement under Gandhi was in full swing during the Viceroyalty of ______. — Reading A resolution declaring ‘Purna Swaraj’ was passed in the Congress Session held at ______. — Lahore The Indian National Congress was founded in the year ______. — 1885 KIn the Interim Government formed in 1946, the Minister for Education was ______. — Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Tilak called him the ‘Diamond of India’ the Jewel of Maharashtra and the Prince of Workers’. Who is referred in these words? — Gokhale Motilal presided over the Congress Session of 1919 held at ______. — Amritsar Swarajist Party was organised by ______. — Motilal Nehru KUNDANThe Rowlatt Act was passed in the year ______. — 1919 The National Liberal Federation was founded by ______. — S.N. Banerjee The Shivaji Festival was inaugurated in 1895 by ______. — Tilak The Sepoy Mutiny broke out on May 10, 1857 at ______. — Meerut The Viceroy who wanted to train Indians in the art of self-government was ______. — Ripon Lokamanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak hailed from ______. — Maharashtra Tilak was sentenced and transported to ______. — Malaya ‘Anthology of the Bomb’ was written by ______. — Bipin Chandra Pal The author of ‘A Nation in the Making‘ was ______. — S.N. Banerjee The office of the Secretary of State for India was created by the Act of ______. — 1858 The Governor-General was given power to issue ordinances by the act of ______. — 1861 Communal Representation was for the first time given in the interest of Muslims by ______. — The Indian Council Act of 1909 During the Second World War Churchill replaced ...... as Prime Minister of England. — Chamberlain Jinnah gave his opposition to Wavell’s Plan in the Conference held at ______. — Simla The Cabinet Mission which arrived Delhi in 1946 was headed by ______. — Lord Petrick Lawrence Who played an important role in bringing all the States in the Indepen- dent India into the country’s unity? — Sardar Patel ______was primarily responsible for making India a secular State. — Jawaharlal Nehru Tashkent Agreement was signed between India and ______. — Pakistan Tashkent Agreement was signed between India and Pakistan in the year ______. — 1966 Wavell Plan was announced in the year ______. — 1945 As per Wavell’s Plan the external affairs would be under the charge of ______. — An Indian Member of the Executive Council The Simla Conference which was convened as per Wavell’s Plan ended in failure because of the stiff opposition of ______. — Jinnah The first strategically placed factory that the Britishers had fortified was at ______. — Madras To whom is the statement “Cowardice and ahimsa do not go together any more than water and fire” attributed? — M.K. Gandhi KThe Indian National Congress had been formed with the knowledge and approval of Lord ______. — Dufferin Lord ______is regarded to have been the father of local self-government in India. — Ripon The famous Quit India Resolution was passed on ______. — August 8, 1942 Who had formulated and perfected the use of the subsidiary alliance system? — Lord Wellesley KUNDANIn which year was the Indian Home Rule Society founded? — 1905 Who had founded the Indian Home Rule Society? — Shyamji Krishna Verma The strategy of ‘divide and rule’ had been actually practised by ______. — Lord Minto With whom was the seven-year rule of ‘missions, omissions and commissions’ associated? — Lord Curzon Who was the moving spirit behind the oganization of the Ghadar Party? — Lala Hardayal What was the name of the Sabha started by Debendranath Tagore? — Tattvabodhini Sabha The doctrine of lapse had been put to much use by ______. — Lord Dalhousie Who had passed the Vernacular Press Act into law? — Lord Lytton Lord Lytton had lowered the age limit for Indians for the ICS from 21 years to ______. — 19 years Vivian Derozio had been associated with the _____ movement. — Young Bengal The first Indian national leader who began building, organizing and promoting the freedom struggle was ______. — Dadabhai Naoroji The United East India Company refers to the company in India formed by the ______. — Dutch When did the Cripps Mission, which had practically repeated the August Offer 1940 visit India? — 1942 A letter to the Mughal emperor Jehangir from King James I had been presented by ______. — Captain Hawkins The non-cooperation movement had been launched by Gandhi in the year ______. — 1920 Who was the first Indian civil servant? — S.N. Banerjee The decisive battle of the third Carnatic War was waged between the French and the British at ______. — Wandiwash The Nehru Report of 1928 with proposals for constitutional reforms had been prepared by ______. — Motilal Nehru In which year was the All India Muslim League founded? — 1906 The Civil Disobedience Movement had been led in the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) by ______. K — Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan Name the Mughal emperor occupying the throne of Delhi when the revolt of 1857 took place ______. — Bahadur Shah Who had scrapped the partition of Bengal? — Lord Hardinge The founder-president of India Idependence League was ______. — Rash Behari Bose In which year was the partition of Bengal scrapped? — 1911 Who had founded the Deccan Educational Society? KUNDAN— Mahadeva Govind Ranade Champaran, the site of Gandhi’s first experiment in Satyagraha, is located in the state of ______. — Bihar The Prarthana Samaj had been established by ______. — Keshab Chandra Sen The Arya Samaj Movement had been started by ______. — Swami Dayanand Madame H.P. Blavatsky had laid the foundation of the Theosophical Society in the year ______. — 1875 The reformer from Maharashtra popularly known as ‘Lokhitavadi’ (For the well of others) was ______. — Gopal Hari Deshmukh Who was the first leader to preside over the INC? — W.C. Banerji Lord Cornwallis had introduced the ______land tenure system. — Zamindari ‘Al Hilal’ was a newspaper launched for propagating nationalism by ______. — Abul Kalam Azad The Asiatic Society had been established in Calcutta by ______. — Sir William Jones The Shuddhi Movement, involving the conversion of non-Hindus to Hinduism, was started by ______. — Swami Dayanand Saraswati Who was the first to raise the slogan ‘Inquilab zindabad’? — Bhagat Singh From which year did the Muslim League start demanding a separate nation for the Muslims ______. — 1940 Who had propounded the theory of economic drain of India during British imperialism? — Dadabhai Naoroji Upon whom was the title ‘Punjab Kesari’ conferred? — Lala Lajpat Rai Who had observed that “Political freedom is the lifebreath of a nation”? — Sri Aurobindo Ghose Who had strongly advocated the policy of abolishing princely states in free India? — J.L. Nehru Who among the following had authored the book, ‘At the Feet of Mahatma Gandhi’? — Rajendra Prasad The socialist group in the INC during the 1930s had been led by ______. — Subhash Chandra Bose The first Indian who was elected to the leadership of the Communist International was ______. — M.N. Roy The first Bengali Drama, written to highlight the brutality of the British indigo planters, was ______. — Neel Darpan The Constituent Assembly was formed on the recommendations of the K______. — Cabinet Mission Plan Rani Laxmi Bai died fighting the British in the Battle of ______. — Gwalior Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose had proclaimed the formation of the Provi- sional Government of Independent India (Azad Hind) in 1943 in ______. — Singapore Who among the following was impeached in the UK for his actions in India? — Lord Hastings KUNDANRam Prasad Bismil had been associated with the ______case. — Kokori bomb The inaugural issue of Bombay Darpan, a Marathi weekly, was pub- lished on November 12, 1832 started by a publisher-reformer named ______. — Bal Shastri Gandhi had been provoked into crusading for the lot of the Asians in South Africa by the British law called the ______Act. — Asiatic Registration The first session of Indian National Congress was held in ______. — Bombay What was the name of the English weekly edited by Mahatma Gandhi? — Young India The first national leader to decry the salt tax in the Indian legislature was ______. — G.K. Gokhale The Indian National Congress had adopted the famous Poorna Swaraj (Complete Indepencence ) resolution at its session held at ______. — Lahore In which year was the title of Governor General changed to that of the Viceroy? — 1858 The name of the periodical published by Gandhi during his stay in South Africa was ______. — Indian Opinion The revolutionary leader who had organized an attack on the armoury of Chittagong was ______. — Surya Sen The Government of India Act of 1935 had divided India into ______provinces. — 11 The system of civil services had been introduced into India by ______. — Lord Bentinck Whom had Gandhi named as Mira Behn? — Madeline Slade The process of the introduction of education in English had been initiated in India by Lord ______. — Macaulay The first interim government during the British rule in India was formed in ______. — September, 1946 The first vernacular paper, Samachar Darpan, was published during the tenure of ______. — Lord Hastings Gandhi had given out the stirring call of ‘Do or Die’ during the ______Movement. — Quit India In which year was Burma separated from India? — 1937 Who had observed that “Good government was never a good substitute for Kself government“? — Swami Dayananda Hindu-Muslim unity had been particularly reflected in the ______Movement — Khilafat The leader who quit politics, retired to Pondicherry and set up an ashram there, was ______. — Bhikaji Cama Gandhi gave the call to reject all foreign goods during the ______Movement. — Swadeshi Lord Mountbatten had replaced Lord ______as the viceroy of India in KUNDAN1947. — Wavell Who has been called the ‘Heroine’ of the 1942 Quit India Movement? — Aruna Asaf Ali In Bengal, the East India Company’s headquarters were located at ______. — Fort william Who was the first to use the term ‘Adivasi’ to refer to the tribal people? — Thakkar Bappa Who was the Congress President at the time when India become free? — J.B. Kripalani In the absence of Gandhi, the Quit India Movement had been led by ______. — Aruna Asaf Ali Who had founded the first women’s university in India? — Dhondo Keshav Karve Who had given out the political message of ‘India for the Indians’? — Dayananda Saraswati The Bhoodan Movement had been started by ______. — Vinoba Bhave During the Dandi March the song ‘Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram ...’ had been sung by the renowned musician ______. — Digambar Vishnu Paluskar Who had stated with regard to the formation and raison d’etre of the Indian National Congress, “A safety valve for the escape of great and growing forces generated by our own action was urgently needed”? — A.O. Hume The Communal Award, which was subsequently changed following Gandhi’s fast unto death in a jail at Poona, had been given by ______. — Ramsay Mcdonald Who had become the first Governor-General of India after independence? — Lord Mountbatten What had the Sir Charles Wood Despatch of 1854 primarily dealt with? — Educational reforms Who was the founder of the Servants of India Society? — Gopal Krishna Gokhale. ‘India Wins Freedom’ is the autobiography of ______. — Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Who wrote ‘Sare Jahan Se Acha, Hindustan Hamara’? — Mohammad Iqbal Who composed ‘Vande Mataram’? — Bankim Chandra Chatterjee. Was the Constituent Assembly of India a sovereign body, when it was first convened? — No KWho was the first person to address M.K. Gandhi as the Mahatma? — Rabindranath Tagore. Name the trio referred to as Lal, Bal and Pal, during the freedom move- ment. — Lala Lajpat Rai, Bal Gangadhar Tilak & Bipin Chandra Pal. Who was the Chairman of the Drafting Committee of the Constituent Assembly of India? — Dr. B.R. Ambedkar KUNDANWhat was the date on which the Constituent Assembly of India was converted into the Provisional Parliament of India? — January 26, 1950 In which year was January 26 observed as Swaraj Day for the first time? — 1930 The three hanged for participation in ‘Lahore conspiracy’ (1931) — Bhagat Singh, Sukh Dev, Shivram Rajguru Shivaji’s mother: — Jijabai The founder of ‘Servants of India Society’? — GK Gokhale Gandhiji’s last fast ended on ______— Jan 18, 1948 The Indian leader born in Cuttack on Jan 23, 1897 — Subhas Chandra Bose Where was ‘Jana Gana Mana’, India’s National Anthem, first sung (Dec 27, 1911) — Calcutta When was the title Viceroy introduced in India? — In 1858 Tipu Sultan’s father — Hyder Ali The Mughal emperor whose rule ended with the ‘Sepoy Mutniy’ — Bahadur Shah II Who established the Central Hindu College in Varanasi in 1898? — Mrs Annie Besant In 1868, the Islands that were handed over by Denmark to the British free of charge — Nicobar Gandhiji was born in 1869 at Porbandar. What about Kasturba? — In 1869, at Porbandar Rani Lakshmi of Jhansi’s original name — Manikarnika Bihar and Orissa were separated from ______in 1912. — Bengal The first woman Congress President? — Annie Besant Where did Gautama Buddha gave his first sermon? — At Sarnath Give the years of Nehru Report and Simon Commission Report: — 1928 and 1930 The first viceroy of India: — Lord Charles Canning In 1931, the capital of India shifted from ______to New Delhi. — Old Delhi Who is known as Deenabandhu? — CF Andrews The present name of Birla House, where Gandhiji was shot dead: — Gandhi Sadan Who was Raja Todarmal? — Emperor Akbar’s financial adviser. KGandhiji spent 2080 days in Indian prisons. Where was his last con finement? — Aga Khan Palace, Pune KUNDAN