INDIAN HISTORY 100 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS

S.No. Question Answer 1 What was the script used in the earliest Tamil inscriptions? Brahmi 4 At which place did Mahatma start his first in ? Champaran 6 Who was the British PM at the time of Revolt of 1857? Lord Palmerston 7 Who is considered to be the father of Ayurveda? Charaka 8 Which Veda throws light on the beliefs and practices of the non-Aryans? Atharvaveda 9 Who was called Zinda Pir (living saint) in Mughal India? Aurangzeb 10 What was Sher Shah's real name? Farid 11 Who earned the title of a ‘Liberator’? Ashoka 12 Who, was the Nanda ruler at the time of Alexander’s invasion? Dhana Nanda 13 Which Chola ruler converted the Bay of Bengal into a ‘Chela lake’? Rajendra I 14 During which reign was Kalidasa lived? Chandragupta II 15 The Gayatri Mantra contained in the Rigveda is dedicated to which deity? Savitri 17 Which ruler was known as Amitraghata, the ‘destroyer of foes’? Bindusara 18 Under which sultan, Chalisa land increased considerably? Alauddin Khilji 19 Which Mughal emperor’s tomb is outside India? Jahangir 20 Who was the first foreigner to invade India? Darius I 21 Who was the first governor of Portuguese in India? De Almeida 22 During which movement was ‘Mahatma’ added before Gandhiji’s name? Champaran 23 Who is the Father of local self government in India? Lord Ripon 24 Who introduced Mansabdari system? Akbar 25 By whom was the Indian Independence League set up? Rasbihari Bose 26 On which river did Pulakesin II defeat Harshavardhana? Narmada 27 By whom was the city of Agra founded in 1504? Sikandar Lodhi 2928 Who Firstdeciphered Anglo- MarathaAdhikansh was Inscriptions ended by whichfor the treaty? first time? JamesSalbai Prinsep 30 By whom was the practice of Sati was declared illegal? Lord William Bentick 31 Which was the God of animal during the later Vedic period ? Rudra 32 From where sufi movement was started? Persia 33 By whom was the famous ‘Kirti Stambha’ at Chittor built? Rana Kumbha 34 Analects is sacred text of which religion? Confucius Religion 35 Which Rajput dynasties did not surrender to Akbar? Sisodiya 36 Which ruler at first assumed the title of ‘Hazrat-i-Ala’ and afterwards Sher Shah Suri ‘Sultan’? 37 Who is related to and Bhoodan movement? Acharya Vinoda Bhave 38 Which Sikh Guru called himself the ‘Sachcha Badshah’? Guru Hargobind 39 Which was capital of Raja Ranjit Singh of Punjab? Lahore 40 High Courts in Calcutta, Mumbai and Madras were established in which year? 1861 41 With whom did Alberuni come to India? Mahmud of Ghazni 42 Who destroyed the group of Forty Nobles? Balban 43 Who was the daughter of Emperor Aurangzeb? Zebunnisa 44 Who was the first speaker of independent India? G.V. Mavlankar 45 Where was first Madarasa set up by the British in India? Calcutta 46 In India, where did the Dutch establish their earliest factory? Masulipatnam 47 Who was the writer of ‘the Indian War of Independence’? V.D. Savarkar 49 In which battle did Nadir shah defeated Muhammad Shah? Karnal

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50 Muhammad-bin- By whom was the first muslim invasion of India lead? Qasim 51 What is the subject matter of the Upanishads ? Religion 52 Who betrayed Siraj-ud-Daulah in the battle of Plassey in 1757? Mir Jafar 53 Who invited Babar to invade India? Alam Khan 54 Who attended the Second Round Table Conference as the representative of the Congress? 55 Who was the member of ‘Din-i-Ilahi’? King Birbal 56 With whom was the last opportunity to avoid the partition of India lost? Cabinet Mission 57 Who is known as the ‘Indian Bismark’? Vallabh bhai Patel 58 Memories of Babur (Tuzk-e-Baburi) was written in which language? Turkish 59 Who organised Ashwamedha Yajna in Gupta Period? Samudragupta 60 Which group were related to ‘Tana Bhagat’ movement? Orann 61 Who was thrice elected President of the Indian National Congress? Dadabhai Naoroji 62 A Fortgotten Empire’, written by the renowned historian Robert Sewell, is Vijayanagar Empire about which empire? 63 Chaudhary Rahmat Who proposed the name 'Pakistan'? Ali 64 Who was the oldest British monarch to sit on the throne? Elizabeth II 65 By whom was the first estimate of national income in India made? Dadabhai Naoroji 66 Where did ‘Parallel government’ form during ? Baliya During whose Viceroyalty, Queen Victoria was crowned with ‘Kaiser-i-Hind’ 67 Lord Lytton in Delhi Durbar? 68 Late Raja Ravi Verma, was an eminent figure in which field? Painting 69 Who stated that there was no slavery in India? Megasthenes 70 Who was the regent of Akbar? Bairam Khan 71 By whom was the agitation against the partition of Bengal led? Surendranath Banerjee 72 Who was the Mughal Emperor to have lifted the Jaziya on Hindus? Akbar 73 Who is known as ‘the father of India’s unrest’? Bal Gangadhar Tilak 74 Against whom did Gandhiji started Satyagraha movement in 1919 in protest? Enactment of Rowlatt Act 75 Who was the first President of the Indian Trade Union Congress in 1920? Lala Lajpat Rai 76 ‘Man-The Maker of His Own Destiny’ book was written by which person? Swami Vivekanand 77 Who was the Governor General when the first Anglo- Burmese was started? Lord Amherst 78 Who was the first Indian Hindi scholar of the Mughal period? Abdur Rahim 79 Quit India Movement started after the failure of which proposal? Cripps' proposal 80 Who wrote the song ‘Saare Jahan Se Acha’? Muhammad Iqbal When the East India Company came into existence, By whom was England 81 Tudors was ruled? 82 In which session was 'PURNA ' adopted as it's goal by INC? Lahore Session 83 Who first started the civil services in India? Lord Cornwallis 84 Which ruler had granted Diwani to the East India company? Shah Alam II 85 Who named ‘Prayag Nagar’ as ‘Allahabad”? Akbar 86 Who passed the Indian university Act? Lord Curzon 87 By whom was Saka era founded? Kanishka 88 Which Peshwas was popularly known as Nana-Saheb? Balaji Baji Rao 89 Who was the President of the Indian National Congress, while the J.B. Kripalani Mountbatten Plan was accepted?

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90 Who first voiced the idea of a separate Muslim state in India? Mohammad Iqbal 91 Who founded ‘Bharat Sevak Samaj’ (Servants of Indian Society)? Gopal Krishna Gokhale 92 Who had the Revenue system during Akbar’s reign? Todarmal 93 Attack on ‘chittgaon arsenal’ was done in whose leadership? Surya Sen 94 Who is associated with Tashkent Agreement? Lal Bahadur Shastri 95 Who advocated the policy of abolishing princely states in free India? J.L. Nehru 96 Who was responsible for the integration of Indian Princely States? Sardar Patel 97 In which year was the Muslim league founded? 1906 In which year did the Congress loose its monopoly of power in the States for 98 1967 the first time after the elections? 99 “Where there is no law, there is no freedom” who said this? John Locke 100 Who was the famous Indo-Greek king who embraced Buddhism? Menander

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