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No. of Questions: 120 Time: 2 hours Codes: I II III IV (a) A B C D Instructions: (b) C A B D (c) A C D B (A) All questions carry equal marks (d) C A D B (B) Do not waste your time on any particular question 4. Where do we find the three phases, viz. , (C) Mark your answer clearly and if you want to change Mesolithic and Cultures in sequence? your answer, erase your previous answer completely. (a) Kashmir Valley (b) Godavari Valley (c) Belan Valley (d) Valley 1. Pot-making, a technique of great significance 5. Excellent cave paintings of Mesolithic Age are found in human history, appeared first in a few areas at: during: (a) Bhimbetka (b) Atranjikhera (a) Early Stone Age (b) Middle Stone Age (c) Mahisadal (d) Barudih (c) Upper Stone Age (d) Late Stone Age 6. In the upper Ganga valley iron is first found associated 2. Which one of the following pairs of Palaeolithic sites with and areas is not correct? (a) Black-and-Red Ware (a) Didwana—Western (b) Ochre Coloured Ware (b) Sanganakallu—Karnataka (c) Painted Grey Ware (c) Uttarabaini—Jammu (d) Northern Black Polished Ware (d) —Pakistani Punjab 7. Teri sites, associated with dunes of reddened sand, 3. Match List I with List II and select the answer from are found in: the codes given below the lists: (a) Assam (b) Madhya Pradesh List I List II (c) Tamil Nadu (d) Andhra Pradesh Cultures Type Sites 8. Which one of the following is not a megalithic burial? (I) Banas Culture (A) Ghaligai (a) Dolmenoid (b) Intrado (II) Gandhara Culture (B) Inamgaon (c) Menhir (d) Cairn (III) Malwa Culture (C) Gilund 9. Which Chalcolithic site of has shown (IV) Savalda Culture (D) Navdatoli evidence of an irrigation canal and an embankment? MTP.2 | Indian History

(a) Daimabad (b) Inamgaon 17. Which of the thinkers is said to have characterized the (c) (d) Sonegaon Self as “neti, neti” in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad? 10. The Ochre Coloured Pottery is closely connected with: (a) Uddalaka (b) Svetaketu (a) Aryans (b) Early Harappans (c) Yajnavalkya (d) Janaka (c) Late Harappans (d) Mature Harappans 18. Which one of the following assemblies was also called 11. At only one of the Indus sites have archaeologists narishta, meaning a resolution of many that cannot discovered a middle town, as distinct from the citadel be broken? and the lower town. Identify the site from among the (a) Gana (b) Vidatha following: (c) Sabha (d) Samiti (a) Surkotada (b) Daimabad 19. Which one of the following deals with the doctrine (c) (d) of the transmigration of soul in a systematic manner 12. Given below are two statements one labelled as Assertion for the first time? (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). (a) Aitareya Upanishad Assertion (A): A distinctive feature of the house (b) Hrihadaranyaka Upanishad construction of the Harappans was that the roadward (c) Chandogya Upanishad side of a block presented a plain blank facade. (d) Kena Upanishad Reason (R): The entrances to the houses were from 20. What is the descending order of the following punch- the narrow lanes which were set at right-angles to the marked coins? main streets. (i) Masha (b) Satamana In the context of the above two statements, which one (iii) Kakani (d) Pada of the following is correct? (v) Karshapana (a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct expla- Choose the answer from the codes given below: nation of A. (a) ii, i, iv, v, iii (b) iii iv, i, ii, v (b) Both A and R are true but R is not the correct (c) iv, ii, i, iii, v (d) ii, v, I, iii, iv explanation of A. 21. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly (c) A is true but R is false. matched? (d) A is false but R is true. (a) Chedi—Asmaka (b) Kuru—Panchala 13. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer (c) Kasi—Kosala (d) Matsya—Surasena using the codes given below the lists: 22. The Buddhist social division ukkattha (excellent) did List I List II not-include one of the following. Pick it out. (Harappan Sites) (Burial Customs) (a) Bahamanna (b) Khattiya (i) (A) Brick chamber (c) Vessa (d) Gahapati (ii) Lothal (B) Coffin burial 23. Consider the following: (iii) (C) Pot burial The six great cities mentioned in the early Buddhist (iv) Surkotada (D) Double burial texts include: Codes: (i) Pataliputra (ii) Champa (a) i-B, ii-D, iii-C, iv-A (b) i-D, ii-B, iii-A, iv-C (iii) Vaisali (iv) Rajagriha (c) i-B, ii-D, iii-A, iv-C (d) i-A, ii-C, iii-B, iv-D (v) (vi) Kausambi 14. From which of the following regions do we get the (vii) Sravasti (viii) Indraprastha report of 21 sites, some of which are very large in (ix) Kusinagara size, concentrated in an area of approximately 50 ¥ Choose the answer from the codes given 25 km.? below: (a) Kirtar piedmont (b) Kohistan (a) i, ii, iv, vi, vii, ix (b) ii, iii, v, vi, vii, viii (c) Bhatinda (d) Kutch (c) i, iii, iv, vi, vii, ix (d) ii, iv, v, vi, vii, ix 15. Which one of the following pairs is not correct? 24. The Buddhist doctrine of patichcha-samuppada or (a) —Ochre Coloured Ware Culture dependent origination is contained in which of the (b) Rangpur—Lustrous Red Ware Culture four Noble Truths? (c) Kudwala—Cemetry H Ware Culture (a) First (b) Second (d) Ghaligai—Gandhara Grave Culture (c) Third (d) Fourth 16. Panchavimsha Brahmana is also known as 25. Which Minor Rock Edict of Asoka informs us about (a) Tandyamaha (b) Jaiminiya Samba, a kumara being in charge of Manemadesa? (c) Satapatha (d) Kausitaki Model Test Papers | MTP.3

(a) Panguraria (b) Ahraura 34. Jaina philosophy is knows as: (c) Rupnath (d) Maski (a) Pudgala (b) Samkhya 26. The fourteen Major Rock Edicts of Asoka located at (c) Samachari (d) Syadvada Shabazgarhi and Manshera are in: 34. What is the chronological order of the following (a) Kharoshti Script (b) Aramaic Script foreigners? (c) Greek Script (d) Brahmi Script (i) Arrian 27. What is the name Megasthenes gives to the town of- (ii) Hippalus ficials of Mauryan administration? (iii) Pliny, the Elder (a) Agranomoi (b) Agrasenoi (iv) Strabo (c) Astynomoi (d) Astysenoi (v) Anonymous author of the Periplus 28. Consider the following statement: Choose the answer from the codes given below: “Sovereignty can be carried on only with assistance. (a) ii, iv, iii, i and v (b) iii, v, iv, i, and ii A single wheel does not move, hence the king should (c) iv, ii, v, iii and i (d) v, i, iii, ii and iv employ the ministers and hear their advice.” 36. Vadagalai and Tengalai were the: This has been attributed to: (a) sacred texts of the Alvars and Nayanars (a) Asoka (b) Kautilya (b) legendary sages of Vaikhanasa cult (c) Megasthenes (d) Manu (c) founders of the Kapalika and Kalamukha sects 29. Consider the following statements. One labelled as (d) northern and southern branches of Sri Vaishnavas Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R): 37. The Sunyasampadane was the main scriptural text of: Assertion (A): Niyoga was definitely practised by the (a) Kanphatas (b) Kapalikas Sudras, through not by the Dvija Varnas, in the early (c) Lingayats (d) Aghoris centuries of the Christian era. 38. Which one of the following terms does not stand for Reason (R): According to Manu, Niyoga cannot take a guild? place in marriages which are performed according to (a) Nigama (b) Jetha the . (c) Puga (d) Sartha In the context of the above two statements which one 39. The largest number of copper coins were issued by of the following is correct? the: (a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct expla- (a) Kushanas (b) Satavahanas nation of A. (c) Guptas (d) Sakas (b) Both A and R are true but R is not correct expla- 40. The well-known trade route Uttarapatha, in the time nation of A. of Kushanas, was running between the following two (c) A is true but R is false. urban settlements: (d) A is false but R is true. (a) Ujjain to Mathura 30. Which one of the following mixed castes was a result (b) Purushapura to Mathura of tribal associations? (c) Mathura to Taxila (a) Nishadas (b) Abhiras (d) Purushapura to Taxila (c) Gonds (d) Mallavas 41. Match the following: 31. Which one of the following pairs is wrongly matched? List I List II (a) Murugan—Hillmen (I) Akaradhaksha (A) Mines (b) Varuna—Merchants (II) Sutradhyaksha (B) Weaving (c) Krishna—Shepherdesses (III) Khanyadhyaksha (C) Digging (d) Korravai—Hunters (IV) Sitadhyaksha (D) Agriculture 32. The four castes of Tudiyan, Panan, Paraiyan and Codes: Kadamban are mentioned in the: (a) I-A, II-B, III-C, IV-D (a) Tolkappiyam (b) Pattinappalai (b) I-B, II-A, III-C, IV-D (c) Purananuru (d) Silappadigaram (c) I-B, II-A, III-D, IV-C 33. Shariputraprakarana, the oldest extant drama in (d) I-A, II-B, III-D, IV-C Sanskrit, was written by: 42. Land grants, using the term abhyantarasiddhi, armed (a) Asvaghosa (b) Dignaga the donees with: (c) Vasumitra (d) Asanga (a) fiscal powers MTP.4 | Indian History

(b) police and judicial powers (a) Alberuni (b) Amir Khusrau (c) powers to extract forced labour (c) Ibn Battutah (d) Minhaj Siraj (d) powers to levy extra taxes 52. How may jitals made up a tanka? 43. The earliest epigraphic reference to visti or forced (a) 44 (b) 40 labour is found in the: (c) 48 (d) 46 (a) Nanaghat inscription of Naganika 53. What was araghatta? (b) Hathigumpha inscription of Kharavela (a) a machine to break forts (c) Junagarh inscription of Asoka (b) a big tank (d) Junagarh inscription of Rudradaman I (c) a device to lift water 44. The legendary names of Lilavati and Khana are con- (d) a type of cloth nected with: 54. What was the name of the Jaina saint with (a) Mathematics and Astronomy whom Muhammad bin Tughluq held discussions? (b) Music and Dance (a) Hemachandra (b) Bhadrabahu (c) Medicine and Metallurgy (c) Harisena (d) Jinaprabha Suri (d) Language and Literature 55. Which Vijayanagar ruler sent an embassy to ? 45. The title Utharapathaswamin was assumed by: (a) Harihara I (a) Dharmapala (b) Mihira Bhoja (b) Sri Krishna Deva Raya (c) Mahindrapala (d) Prithviraj (c) Bukka I 46. The famous Uttaramerur Inscription belongs to the (d) Saluva Narasimha reign of: 56. Which among these foreign travellers, who visited (a) Parantaka I (b) Parantaka II during the medieval period, is not correctly (c) Rajaraja I (d) Rajendra I matched? 47. Match List I with List II and select the answer using (a) Ibn Battutah—1333-34 ad the codes given below the lists: (b) Nicolo Conti—1420 ad List I List II (c) Abdul Razzak—1443 ad (I) Sulaiman (A) Indra III, Rashtrakuta (d) Domingo Paes—1535 ad (II) Al-Masudi (B) Dharmapala, Pala 57. Who among the following was greatly influenced by (III) (C) Bhoja, Pratihara Islam? (D) Rudramadevi, Kakatiya (a) Namdev (b) Chaitanya Codes: (c) Ramananda (d) Ramanuja (a) I-B, II-C, III-D (b) I-D, II-A, III-B 58. Who translated Tuzuk-i-Baburi into Persian? (c) I-C, II-A, III-D (d) I-C, II-D, III-B (a) Abul Fazl 48. Which Chola emperor, as evident form an inscription, (b) Amir Khusrau intervened in the dynastic struggle of South East Asia (c) Abdur Rahim Khan-i-Khanan in 1068–69 ad? (d) Daulat Khan (a) Rajadhiraja (b) Virarajendra 59. Which Persian ruler helped Humayun with 14,000 (c) Kulottunga I (d) Kulottunga II troops? 49. Samarangana Sutradhara, written by Pawar ruler (a) Chengiz Khan (b) Timur Bhoja, deals with: (c) Nadir Shah (d) Shah Tahmasp (a) art and architecture 60. Who was the head of the first Jesuit mission that had (b) music and dance discussions with ? (c) mathematics and astronomy (a) Rudolf Aquaviva (d) war and peace (b) Antony Monserrate 50. Which one of the following pairs is wrongly matched? (c) Sir Thomas Roe (a) Rajasekhara—Karpuramanjari (d) Bernier (b) Dhoyi—Pavanaduta 61. Akbar is reputed to have been a good player of the: (c) Jinasena Suri—Prithviraj Raso (a) Veena (b) Sitar (d) Sri Harsha—Naisadha Charita (c) Pakhawaj (d) Nakkarah 51. “Raziya was endowed with all qualities befitting a 62. Why was the treaty between Hussain Ali and king, but she was not born of the right sex…” Who the Marathas considered a landmark in was the author of these lines? Maratha history? Model Test Papers | MTP.5

(a) Marathas were recognised as copartners in 72. Consider List I and List II: Channa the revenue of the imperial provinces List I List II and a partner in political power. (i) Dalhousie System of State Railways (b) Marathas were recognised as an independent (ii) Mayo Public Works Department entity and given the right to collect revenue in (iii) Lytton First Famine Commission certain Mughal provinces. (iv) Ripon First Census of India (c) Marathas were recognised as a powerful fighting Which of the above are correctly matched? Choose unit. the answer from the codes given below: (d) For the first time Marathas started paying revenue (a) i and ii (b) iii and iv to Mughals. (c) i, ii and iv (d) ii, iii and iv 63. The practice of Mughal nobles playing the role of 73. The system of zerat in British India was related to: king-makers began during the reign of: (a) revenue administration (a) Farukh Siyar (b) Muhammad Shah (b) indigo cultivation (c) Jahandar Shah (d) Bahadur Shah I (c) irrigation system 64. The battle of Wandiwash between the English and the (d) craft production French was fought in the year: 74. Which one of the following is not correctly (a) 1755 (b) 1759 paired? (c) 1760 (d) 1762 (a) 1858 Act—Creation of an ‘official legislature’ 65. Who among the following native rulers (b) 1861 Act—Introduction of the Portfolio attempted to set up a state trading company on Eu- System ropean lines? (c) 1909 Act—Creation of separate elec- (a) Tipu Sultan (b) Mir Qasim torates (c) Siraj-ud-daula (d) Hyder Ali (d) 1919 Act—Bicameralism at the centre 66. Which one of the following was not a signatory to the 75. Which act required the secretary of state for India to Tripartite Treaty signed in 1838? draw his salary from the British Exchequer? (a) Ranjit Singh (b) Lord Auckland (a) India Councils Act of 1892 (c) Zaman Shah (d) Shah Shuja (b) India Councils Act of 1990 67. The rulers of which one of the following autonomous (c) Government of India Act of 1919 states were known as the Nawab Wazirs? (d) Government of India Act 1935 (a) Bengal (b) Hyderabad 76. The growing land alienation from peasents was due (c) Awadh (d) Carnatic to the: 68. Who was the author of the Siyar-ul-Mutakherim, a (i) new legal system contemporary historical account of the conquest of (ii) new revenue policy Bengal by the British? (iii) growth of agricultural labour (a) Ahmad Hussain Khan (iv) commercialisation of agriculture. (b) Arif Muhammad (a) i and ii are true (c) Nazir Hussain (b) ii and iii are true (d) Ghulam Hussain (c) i, ii and iii are true 69. Who elaborated the Drain Theory, founded by Dad- (d) i, ii and iv are true abhai Nauroji? 77. Who among the following may be regarded as the (a) M. G. Ranade forerunner of Rani Laxmibai of Jhansi? (b) Balagangadhar Tilak (a) Rani Channamma of Kithur (c) Gopal Krishna Gokhale (b) Rani Durgavati of Garh Katanga (d) Ferozshah Mehta (c) Rani Gaidinliu of Jessore 70. Which region of India was known for the cul- (d) Rani Chandravati of Satavandi tivation of the poppy plant during the British 78. Who among the following Englishmen was not killed period? at Lucknow? (a) South India (b) (a) Sir Henry Lawrence (c) Bihar (d) Assam (b) Brigadier General Neill 71. Aitchison Commission of 1886 was concerned with: (c) General Nicholson (a) educational reform (b) financial reform (d) Major General Havelock (c) civil services reform (d) judicial reform MTP.6 | Indian History

79. Arrange the following popular revolts in the correct 87. Mahratta, the English weekly, was edited by: chronological order: (a) M. G. Ranade (b) V. D. Savarkar (i) Ramosi Revolt (ii) Paik Revolt (c) B. G. Tilak (d) Phule (iii) Satavandi Revolt (iv) Kithur Revolt 88. Which session of the Congress adopted a constitution Choose the answer from the codes given for itself? below: (a) Lahore Session (1900) (a) iv, ii, iii and i (b) i, iv, iii and ii (b) Bombay Session (1904) (c) iii, ii, i and iv (d) ii, i, iv and iii (c) Madras Session (1908) 80. Which British commander was defeated by the San- (d) Allahabad Session (1910) thals in 1855? 89. When did Subhas Chandra Bose resign from the Con- (a) Major Burrough (b) Captain Neufville gress Party’s presidentship as well as membership? (c) Lt. Bastian (d) Colonel White (a) 1936 (b) 1937 81. Who was the leader of the Forest Satyagraha by the (c) 1938 (d) 1939 Chenchus of Palanadu in 1921–22? 90. The doctrine of ‘Passive Resistance’ was propounded (a) Ambula Reddy (b) Papanna Dora by: (c) Hanumanthu (d) Adisheshu (a) M. K. Gandhi (b) Aurobindo Ghosh 82. Gopal Hari Deshmukh, the famous social reformer (c) B. G. Tilak (d) Bipinchandra Pal from Maharashtra, was also known as: 91. Which of the following are correctly matched? (a) Lokamanya (b) Atmabandhu (a) —Nil Darpan (c) Lokahitavadi (d) Lokapriya (b) Dadabhai Naoroji—Indian Unrest 83. What is the correct chronology of the following events (c) Dinabandhu Mitra—Gora in the life of Ram Mohan Roy? (d) Romesh Chandra Dutt—Economic History of (i) publication of the Precepts of Jesus, the guide to India peace and happiness 92. Which was the first revolutionary terrorist organisation (ii) his visit to England as an ambassador of Akbar in India? II (a) Abhinava Bharat (b) Anushilan Samiti (iii) publication of Tuhfat-ul-Muwahiddin (c) Mitra Mela (d) Ghadar Party (iv) establishment of the Atmiya Sabha 93. Which one of the following was not a technique of Choose the answer from the codes given Gandhian Satyagraha? below: (a) scorched-earth policy (a) iii, iv, i and ii (b) ii, iii, iv and i (b) strikes and hartals (c) iv, ii, i and iii (d) i, iv, ii and iii (c) voluntary migration 84. E. V. Ramaswami Naicker was the founder of: (d) fasting unto death (a) Swadeshabhimani (b) Kudi Arasu 94. Arrange these events related to the freedom struggle (c) Swadeshimitram (d) Somaprakasa in their correct chronological order: 85. Consider List I and List II: (i) Formation of the Interim Government by the List I List II Congress (i) Jyotiba Phule Satyashodak Samaj (ii) Cabinet Mission (ii) C. R. Reddy Mysore Praja Mitra Man- (iii) Direct Action Day by the League dali (iv) League’s participation in the Interim Government (iii) M. K. Gandhi All India Anti-untoucha- Select the answer Trom the codes given below: bility League (a) i, iii, iv and ii (b) ii, iii, i and iv (iv) Raman Pillai Malayali Memorial (c) iii, ii, i and iv (d) iv, ii, i and iii Which of the above are correctly matched? Directions: The following items consist of two Select the answer from the codes given below: statements one labelled Assertion (A) and the other (a) i and ii (b) ii and iii labelled the Reason (R). You have to examine these (c) i, iii and iv (d) All of them two statements carefully and mark on your answer 86. What is the minimum strength of members required sheet accordingly. for a trade union to get itself registered under the Trade Codes: Union Act of 1926? (a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct expla- (a) Ten (b) Fifteen nation of A. (c) Twenty (d) Twenty Five Model Test Papers | MTP.7

(b) Both A and R are true but R is NOT a correct 103. Assertion (A): Mahalwari system was a modified explanation of A. version of the zamindari settlement. (c) A is true but R is false. Reason (R): It was introduced in the Gangetic valley, (d) A is false but R is true. North-Western Provinces, the Punjab and parts of 95. Assertion (A): Buddha challenged the importance central India. of birth as the principal determinant of one’s social 104. Assertion (A): Under the later Mughals the practice status. of ijara came into existence for the first time. Reason (R): He proclaimed that one did not become Reason (R): The ijaradars caused great damage to ag- a brahmana by the mere fact of one’s birth. riculture in general and to agriculturists in particular. 96. Assertion (A): Iron played an important role in state 105. Assertion (A): In the dual system of government in formation and urbanization of the Ganga valley in the Bengal, the British had all the power, but no respon- 6th century BC. sibility. Reason (R): The contemporary Deccan and the far Reason (R): In this system of government the Bengal South did experience iron technology too. Nawab had neither power nor responsibility. 97. Assertion (A): Absence of large scale sacrificial ritu- 106. Assertion (A): The growth of modern industries in als made brahmana varna redundant in gana-sangha India was slow and painful and they failed to com- areas. pensate even for the displacement of indigenous Reason (R): Gahapatis dominated the socioeconomic handicrafts in terms of production and employment. structure of the gana-sanghas. Reason (R): An important social consequence of even 98. Assertion (A): During the Satavahana period, Am- this limited development was the birth and growth of aravati and Nagarjunakonda emerged as important two new social classes, namely the industrial capital- Buddhist centres. ists and the industrial workers. Reason (R): The queens of almost all Satavahana 107. Assertion (A): The Arya Samaj used the suddi move- rulers extended patronage to Buddhism. ment for effecting socio-religious and political unity 99. Assertion (A): Economic deterioration and decline of India. was indent in the Gupta empire from the time of Reason (R): Suddi movement meant the reconver- Skandagupta. sion of those who had once been willingly or Reason (R): The coins of Skandagupta and his suc- forcibly converted into other religions, but were now cessors are highly debased and not very artistic. willing to come back into the fold of . 100. Assertion (A): The buildings of the Tughluqs have 108. Assertion (A): The Child Marriage Restraint Act of minimum decoration. 1929 was also known as the Sarda Act. Reason (R): The grey stone that was mostly used in Reason (R): It was moved in the Central Legislature the Tughluq buildings was cheaper than the red stone, by Rai Sahib Haribilas Sarda. but was very difficult to carve on. 109. Assertion (A): An important feature of trade 101. Assertion (A): Increasing European trade resulted in unionism in India between 1918-24 was its depression in India. inability to make much headway in well- Reason (R): The beginning of European commerce established manufacturing industries like mining, was accompanied by an increase in the inflow of bul- textile, jute, etc. lion to India. Reason (R): During the same period, trade 102. Assertion (A): In the Mughal period, jagirs unionism was very weak and feeble among the were normally not granted on the basis of ‘white-collared’ employees as well in these heredit. industries. Reason (R): Under the Mughals, there were no 110. Assertion (A): The Government of India Act of 1935 mansabdars, with hereditary jagirs, known as watan introduced provincial autonomy for the first time in jagirs. India. MTP.8 | Indian History

Reason (R): The act itself made a clear-cut division of powers between the centre and the prov- inces. 111. Which one of the following documents was the first to contain a catalogue of fundamental rights? (a) Nehru Report of 1928 (b) Simon Commission Report of 1929 (c) Karachi Resolution of 1931 (d) Gandhi-Irwin Pact of 1931 112. ‘Mixed Economy’ was envisaged for the first time in the: (a) Preamble of the 1950 Constitution (b) First Five Year Plan (c) Second Five Year Plan (d) Bombay Plan 113. Who served as India’s first ambassador to the Soviet Union? (a) V. P. Krishna Menon (b) Vijayalakshmi Pandit The site plans numbered as A and B respectively are (c) K. M. Pannikkar those of: (d) Prof. Mahalanobis (a) Harappa and Mohenjodaro 114. When was the Bandung Conference of Afro-Asian (b) Harappa and Dholavira leaders held? (c) Kalibangan and Banwali (a) 1951 (b) 1953 (d) kalibangan and Mohenjodaro (c) 1955 (d) 1957 117. Study the map given below: 115. The panchashila (five principles) of peaceful co- existence, embodied in the 1954 treaty with China, included: (i) mutual respect for each other’s sovereignty and territorial integrity (ii) non-aggression (iii) non-interference in the affairs of others (iv) non-alignment with either of the super powers (v) equality and mutual benefit (vi) peaceful coexistence Select the answer from the codes given below: (a) i, ii, iii, iv and vi (b) i, ii, iv, v and vi (c) i, ii, iii, v and vi (d) i, iii, iv, v and vi 116. Study the following site plans: The places marked as I, II, III and IV represent: (a) Gumla, Eran, Kesarpalli and Pallavoy of the Chalcolithic Age Model Test Papers | MTP.9

(b) Taxila, Ujjain, Sisupalgarh and Adicanallur of (c) Shah Mirs, Ilyas Shah is, Ahoms and the Early Iron Age Sharqis (c) Takshasila, Ujjayani, Tosali and Suvarnagiri of (d) Sharqis, Shah Mirs, Ahoms and Ilyas Shahis the Mauryas Note: Study the map given below and answer ques- (d) Gandhara, Avanti, Kalinga and Vidarbha of the tions 119 and 120. Age of Buddha 118. The areas marked as i, ii, iii and iv in the map given below were the regions ruled respectively by:

119. The place marked as A identifies the battle of: (a) Plassey (b) Buxar (c) Wadgaon (d) Taligaon (a) Shah Mirs, Sharqis, Ahoms and Ilyas 120. The area marked as B represents: Shahis (a) Battle of Wandiwash (b) Ilyas Shahis, Sharqis, Ahoms and Shah (b) Revolt of Khonds Mirs (c) Revolt of Kattabomman (d) Rampa Rebellion

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MODEL TEST PAPER-2

No. of Questions: 120 Time: 2 hours (a) Lunates (b) Rhomboids (c) Trapezes (d) Triangles Instructions: 6. Match the following: List I List II (A) All questions carry equal marks Cultures Pottery (B) Do not waste your time on any particular question (I) Malwa (A) Black-on-Red (C) Mark your answer clearly and if you want to change (II) Eastern Neolithic (B) Brownish-red your answer, erase your previous answer completely. (III) Burzahom (C) Grey (IV) Jorwe (D) Red 1. Which of the following terms does not indicate a tool (V) Southern Neolithic (E) Burnished-grey tradition? Codes: A B C D E (a) Mousterian (b) Acheulian (a) III II IV I V (c) Groutian (d) Oldowan (b) IV V II III I 2. Which of the following is not a principal tool of the (c) II III IV I V Early Stone Age? (d) I II III IV V (a) Scrapper (b) Handaxe 7. At which site of the Malwa culture was (c) Cleaver (d) Chopper evidence of a rampart along with a ditch 3. Which one of the following pairs is not properly found? matched? (a) Navdatoli (b) Eran (a) Burzahom Culture—Jhelum Valley (c) Nagda (d) Kayatha (b) Ganeshwar Culture—N. E. Rajasthan 8. An Elaborate gold ear-ornaments come from: (c) —Maharashtra (a) Nagarjunakonda (b) Maski (d) Ahar Culture—Madhya Pradesh (c) Paiyampalli (d) Tekkalakota 4. Which Chalcolithic site of eastern India has revealed 9. The Harappan bricks were mainly: the most impressive evidence of crops? (a) cut with the help of a saw-like instrument (a) Senuar (b) Chirand (b) made in an open mould (c) Taradih (d) Pandu Rajar Dhibi (c) hand-made 5. Which of the following do not belong to the same (d) cut with the help of a chisel category? Model Test Papers | MTP.11

10. Which one of the following Indus cities lacks a gra- 17. Consider List I and List II: nary? List I List II (a) Lothal (b) Kalibangan (i) Rig praise (c) Harappa (d) Mohenjodaro (ii) Saman melody 11. Which one of the following metals made an early ap- (iii) Yaju magical formula pearance in India, before any other place in the world? (iv) Atharvan ritualistic formula (a) Copper (b) Gold Which of the above are incorrectly matched? (c) Tin (d) Silver Select the answer from the codes given below: 12. The practice of placing domestic dogs in (a) All of them (b) i, ii and iii graves along with their masters, which was (c) iii and iv (d) i and iv foreign to the Indian tradition, has been found to be 18. According to Ptolemy; anonymous author of the Peri- in use at: plus and Sangam texts, particularly Maduriakkanji, a (a) (b) Burzahom pearl-fishery was located at: (c) Lothal (d) Kalibangan (a) Muziris (b) Arikamedu 13. Given below are two statements—one labelled as (c) Korkai (d) Kaveripattinam Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). 19. Consider List I and List II: Assertion (A): During the Rig Vedic period the doc- List I List II trine of divine kingship was unknown. (i) Kadaisiyar Ruling class Reason (R): Rig Veda describes king (ii) Kalabhras Evil rulers Purukutsa of Purus as ardhadeva or semi- (iii) Pulaiyans Rope-makers divine. (iv) Vallalas Agricultural labourers In the context of the above two statements, which one (v) Arasar Agriculturists of the following is correct? Which of the above are not correctly matched? (a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct expla- Choose the answer from the codes given nation of A. below: (b) Both A and R are true but R is not the correct (a) i, ii and iii (b) ii and iii explanation of A. (c) i, iv and v (d) iv and v (c) A is true but R is false. 20. Which one of the following events in Buddha’s life (d) A is false but R is true. did not take place on a full moon day? 14. Which one of the following Vedic goddesses personi- (a) Birth (b) Death fied decay, destruction and death? (c) Enlightenment (d) Renunciation (a) Aditi (b) Nirrti 21. Bhadrabahu, the contemporary of Chandragupta (c) Savitri (d) Aranyani Maurya was the—thera of the Jaina Church. 15. Consider the following lists: (a) Third (b) Fourth List I List II (c) Fifth (d) Sixth (i) Bhishaka medicine man 22. Which is the chronological order of the five Buddhas (ii) Rathakara chariot marker of Mahayanism? (iii) Kulala potter (i) (ii) Kanakamuni (iv) Ishukrit maker of bows (iii) Maitreya (iv) Krakuchand (v) Dhamvakrit maker of arrows (v) Kasyapa Which of the above are not correctly matched? Choose the answer from the codes given below: Select the answer from the codes given (a) iv, ii, v, i and iii (b) v, iv, ii, iii and i below: (c) ii, iii, iv, v and i (d) iii, iv, v, i and ii (a) i, ii and iii (b) ii, iii and iv 23. Which unorthodox teacher of the 6th century BC (c) iv and v (d) i, ii and v opined that transmigration proceeded according to 16. Sulva Sutras, attached to the Srauta Sutras, were the a rigid pattern controlled by an all powerful cosmic oldest books on: principle, called niyati or Fate? (a) Astronomy (b) Chemistry (a) Sanjaya Belathipura (c) Geometry (d) Medicine (b) Ajita Kesakambalin (c) Gosala Makkali (d) Purana Kassapa MTP.12 | Indian History

24. Match List I with List II and select the answer using (c) Minor Pillar Edict I the codes given below the lists: (d) Major Pillar Edict II List I List II 33. Which son of Asoka was the only one to be mentioned (I) Rupa (A) Perceptions by name in the edicts? (II) Vedana (B) Consciousness (a) Mahendra (b) Tivara (III) Sanna (C) Form and matter (c) Kunala (d) Jalauka (IV) Samkhara (D) Sensations 34. Which one of the following pairs is incorrectly (V) Vinnana (E) Psychic dispositions matched? Codes: (a) Suvarnabhumi—Malay Peninsula (a) I-B, II-A, III-E, IV-C, V-D (b) Suvarnadvipa—Indian Archipelago (b) I-C, II-D, III-A, IV-E, V-B (c) Kambuja—Vietnam (c) I-D, II-E, III-B, IV-A, V-C (d) Champa—Annam (d) I-C, II-D, III-E, IV-B, V-A 35. Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched? 25. Which one of the following doctrines does not belong (a) Arrian—Indica to Jainism? (b) Strabo—Periplus of the Erythrean Sea (a) Sunyavada (b) Anekantavada (c) Pliny—Indicopleausteus (c) Nayavada (d) Syadvada (d) Anonymous Greek—Geography 26. The followers of Gorakhnath of East Bengal are also 36. Whose coins were restruck by Gautamiputra Satakarni known as: in commemoration of his victory? (a) Aghoris (b) Kanphatas (a) Rudradaman I (b) Ushavadata (c) Suddhasaivas (d) Agamantins (c) Nahapana (d) Moga 27. What was the most important tenet of the Pancharatra 37. Agnimitra, the second Sunga ruler, was the hero of a cult? book written by: (a) Avatara or incarnatory theory (a) Kalidasa (b) Patanjali (b) Vyuha or emanatory theory (c) Asvaghosa (d) Bana (c) Karma or right action theory 38. Who among the following was the first to (d) Bhakti or devotion theory discontinue the practice of issuing bilingual coins? 28. Who were jangamas? (a) Kanishka (b) Rudradaman I (a) followers of Kashmiri Saivism (c) Menander (d) Nahapana (b) priests of Virasaivism 39. Whose coins bear the figure of the typically Indian (c) female members of Kapalika sect deity, Abhisekha-Lakshmi? (d) dancing girls attached to Siva temples (a) Kanishka (b) Nahapana 29. Which one of the following is correctly (c) Azilises (d) Vima Kadphises matched? 40. Consider the following statement by Manu: (a) Prasenjit—Magadha “The acceptance of an untilled field by a Brahmin is (b) Pradyota—Kosala less blamable than that of a tilled one”. (c) Kalasoka—Avanti It points to the fact that: (d) Udayana—Vatsa (a) Brahmins should not accept either tilled or un- 30. Which one of the following literary works refers to a tilled land famine in Magadha lasting for 12 years? (b) land grants to Brahmins were disapproved by (a) Vamsathapakasini (b) Parisistaparvan law-makers (c) Divyavadana (d) Kalpasutra (c) land grants to the Brahmins comprised only 31. The akshapataladhyaksha of the Mauryan state was untilled lands the: (d) land grants to the Brahmins also served the pur- (a) Superintendent of Mines pose of exten doing cultivation. (b) Controller of Royal Household 41. The children born to a Brahmin father and a Sudra (c) Accountant General mother are categorised as: (d) Chief of the Royal Body Guards (a) Vratyas (b) Nisadas 32. Which one of the following Asokan Edicts is known (c) Abhiras (d) Pulindas as the Queen’s Edicts? 42. Which of the following was not included in the (a) Major Pillar Edict V chaturvargas of life by the classical Indian literature? (b) Minor Pillar Edict III Model Test Papers | MTP.13

(a) Artha (b) Dharma (a) weaver’s treadles (b) spinning wheel (c) Kirti (d) Moksha (c) cotton-carder’s bow (d) water frame 43. Which of the following pairs is wrong? 53. Which one of the following pairs is wrong? (a) Simantonnayana—parting the hair (a) Nizam Shahis—Ahmadnagar (b) —tonsure (b) Adil Shahis—Bijapur (c) Samvartana—graduation (c) Barid Shahis—Berar (d) —natal rites (d) Qutub Shahis—Golconda 44. Minakshi, the ‘fish-eyed’ goddess of the Pandyas of 54. What is the chronological order of the following Madurai, is identified with: foreign travellers? (a) Laxmi (b) Parvati (i) Marco Polo (ii) Nikitin (c) Saraswati (d) Savitri (iii) Ibn Battutah (iv) Nicolo di Conti 45. Which one of the following is incorrectly paired? (v) Abdur Razaak (vi) Barbosa (a) Rajaraja I—Rajakesari Select the answer from the codes given below: (b) Rajendra I—Pandita Chola (a) i, ii, iii, iv, v and vi (b) i, iii, iv, v, ii and vi (c) Kulottunga I—Sangam Tavirtta (c) iii, iv, vi, i, ii and v (d) iv, vi, ii, i, iii and v (d) Rajadhiraja—Ahalanka 55. Which one of the following Bhakti Saints first joined 46. Who founded kulinism, i.e. the system of no- the Sufis, but later left them? bi-lity among the Brahmins and Kayasthas of (a) Namdev (b) Tukaram Bengal? (c) Kabir (d) Nanak (a) Dharmapala (b) Gopala 56. According to a legend whom did Sikandar Lodi, the (c) Ballale Sena (d) Vijaya Sena Sultan of , try to kill by various means? 47. The Rajavamsavalis were: (a) Nanak (b) Mira (a) royal grants to temples (c) Kabir (d) Chaitanya (b) royal decrees to guilds of artisans 57. Which one of the following places was known as the (c) royal palaces and buildings Shiraz-i-Hind? (d) chronicles of dynasties (a) Malwa (b) Khandesh 48. Which of these rulers collected a tax, called turush- (c) Sonargaon (d) Jaunpur kadanda, to defray expenses of war against Muslim 58. Which Sufi saint adopted yogic breathing exercises invasions? and was called Sidh or perfect? (a) Chandradeva, the Gahadvala ruler (a) Nizamuddin Auliya (b) Farid (b) Nagabhatta I, the Pratihara ruler (c) Salim Chisti (d) Muhammad Jilani (c) Prithviraja III, the Chauhan ruler 59. Who was the Turkish gunner who helped Bahadur (d) Karnadeva, the Solanki ruler Shah of Gujarat to storm the Chittor fort? 49. Who was the founder of the old city of Delhi, called (a) Amir Khan (b) Hindal ‘Dhillika’? (c) Rumi Khan (d) Khusrau Khan (a) Paramardi Chandella 60. Which Sikh guru helped the rebel prince Khusrau with (b) Anangpal Tomar money and prayers against his father Jahangir? (c) Jayachandra Gahadvala (a) Hargovind (b) Arjun Dev (d) Ajayaraja Chauhan (c) Tez Bahadur (d) Govind Singh 50. Who destroyed the Jagannath temple at Puri? 61. Who chose to live voluntarily with Shah Jahan and (a) Muhammad Tughluq later was accorded great honour by Aurangzeb? (b) Firuz Tughluq (a) Jahanara (b) Zebunnisa (c) Ghiyasuddin Tughluq (c) Zeenat Mahal (d) Roshanara (d) Alauddin Khalji 62. During the reign of which Great Mughal was tobacco 51. The most serious sectarian conflict between introduced in India? the Sunnis and the Shias occurred during the reign of: (a) Jahangir (b) Akbar (a) Raziya (b) Balban (c) Shah Jahan (d) Aurangzeb (c) Alauddin Khalji (d) Firuz Tughluq 63. Mir Jumla, who was appointed the Governor of Bengal 52. Which of the following modern tools in the cotton by Aurangzeb, originally belonged to: textile industry was not introduced in India by the (a) Ahmadnagar (b) Bijapur Turks? (c) Gujarat (d) Golconda MTP.14 | Indian History

64. Who imposed taxes like jaribana (surveyor’s fee), (a) Muhammad Shah (b) Jahandar Shah mahasilana (tax collector’s fee) and insurance tax on (c) Farukh Siyar (d) Ahmad Shah cultivators? 73. Who were the ijaradars? (a) Sher Shah (b) Akbar (a) holders of revenue-free lands (c) Shah Jahan (d) Aurangzeb (b) revenue farmers 65. The only type of jagir which could not be transferred (c) recipients of royal benevolences was the: (d) collectors of revenue arrears (a) Khidmat jagir (b) Watan jagir 74. The founder of one of the autonomous states commit- (c) Milkiyat jagir (d) Tan jagir ted suicide in 1739 for some unknown reason. Pick 66. Muraqqas of the Mughal period were: him out from among the following: (a) albums of the miniature paintings (a) Murshid Quli Khan (b) revenue officials at the Paragana level (b) Saadutullah Khan (c) hired soldiers of the Mughal nobles (c) Sadat Khan Burhan-ul-Mulk (d) musical compositions by the Sufis (d) Nizam-ul-Mulk 67. Which was the only settlement of the Portuguese on 75. Treaty of Alinagar was signed between: the south east coast of India? (a) Nizam Ali and the French (a) San Thome (b) Armagaon (b) Siraj-ud-daula and the English (c) Karaikal (d) Pulicat (c) Nizam-ul-Mulk and Peshwa Baji Rao I 68. Who were the ‘Interlopers’? (d) Mir Jafar and the Dutch (a) dismissed employees of the EICO 76. Where did Tipu Sultan build his two naval dockyards? (b) middlemen engaged by the EICO to ne- (a) Goa (b) Mahe go-tiate with the merchants and traders in (c) Cochin (d) Calicut India 77. What is the chronological order of the following (c) ‘free merchants’ who traded independent- events in the reign of Ranjit Singh? ly in Asia in spite of the monopoly of the (i) Metcalfe’s Mission EICO (ii) Acquisition of the Kohinoor (d) It was a factious term used in company barracks (iii) Assumption of the title of Maharaja to describe the Englishmen who kept Indian (iv) Meeting with Bentinck mistresses Choose the answer from the codes given below: 69. The fleet built by Sivaji was stationed at: (a) ii, iv, i and iii (b) iii, i, ii and iv (a) Salselte (b) Surat (c) iv, i, iii and ii (d) i, iii, ii and iv (c) Bassein (d) Kolaba 78. Whose signature did Robert Clive forge in order to 70. What was saranjam in the Maratha kingdom? please Omichand, one of the conspirators for the (a) a tax levied on traders and merchants overthrowal of Siraj-ud-daula? (b) tributes paid by Maratha chiefs to the (a) Admiral Watson (b) Mir Jafar king (c) Manik Chand (d) Drake (c) a system of measuring and assessing land revenue 79. Which one of the following is known as the ‘Magna (d) a unit of land revenue which was assigned to an Carta of English Education in India’? official in lieu of his salary (a) Charter Act of 1813 71. Arrange the following events in the correct chrono- (b) Indian Education Commission’s Report of 1882 logical order: (c) Indian Universities Act of 1904 (i) Capture of Delhi by the British (d) Educational Dispatch of 1854 (ii) Nadir Shah’s invasion of India 80. When was local self-government established in British (iii) Sikh revolt under Banda Bahadur India? (iv) Ahmad Shah Abdali’s first invasion of India (a) 1853 (b) 1861 Select the answer from the codes given (c) 1875 (d) 1882 below: 81. Who among the following Britishers were associated (a) iii, ii, iv and i (b) ii, iv, i and iii with the introduction of the Mahalwari system? (c) iv, i, ii and iii (d) iii, ii, i and iv (a) R.M. Bird 72. Who was the first Mughal emperor to receive help (b) Sir John Lawrence from the famous Sayyid brothers, popularly known (c) William Carey as ‘King - makers’ in Indian history? (d) Sir Alexander Cunningham Model Test Papers | MTP.15

82. Who among the following was the first to attempt (a) Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar decentralisation in financial administration? (b) Maharshi Karve (a) Ellenborough (b) Lytton (c) K. Natarajan (c) Ripon (d) Mayo (d) Pandita Ramabai 83. Indenture regulations which bound the artisans of 93. Who founded the Indian Reform Association in 1870? eastern India to sell their products exclusively to the (a) Ram Mohan Roy English company from the late 18th century were (b) known as: (c) Keshab Chandra Sen (a) Dadni (b) Damdupat (d) Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar (c) Khatbandi (d) Kamiya 94. Swamy Dayanand: 84. Which of the following groups did not get separate (i) considered the Vedas to be fallible electorates by the Act of 1935? (ii) opposed idolatry, ritual and priesthood (a) Anglo-Indians (b) Indian Christians (iii) considered the Puranas to be full of falsehood (c) Europeans (d) Depressed Classes (iv) considered the two epics, the Ramayan and the 85. Which of the following results of the Zamindari Mahabharata as nothing more than good literary system was not an advantage to the British? pieces (a) creation of political allies (v) defended caste system based on birth (b) minimisation of revenue administrative expendi- Select the answer from the codes given below: ture (a) i, ii and iii (b) ii, iii and iv (c) permanent fixation of revenue demand (c) iii, iv and v (d) ii, iv and v (d) provision of financial security 95. Which of the following is correctly matched? 86. The single-handed revolt of Mangal Pandey of the (a) Atmiya Sabha—Radhakanta Dev 19th Native Infantry took place at: (b) Dharma Sabha—Debendranath Tagore (a) Berhampur (b) Balasore (c) Tattvabodhini Sabha—Ram Mohan Roy (c) Basamavadi (d) Barrackpur (d) Prarthana Samaj—Atmaram Pandurang 87. Which of the following pairs are correctly matched? 96. Which day is celebrated as the All India Kisan Day? (a) Banaras—Sir Colin Campbell (a) April 1 (b) September 1 (b) Jhansi—Sir Hugh Rose (c) November 1 (d) December 1 (c) Kanpur—Brigadier General Neill 97. Match List I with List II and select the answer from (d) Lucknow—Major General Havelock the codes given below the lists: 88. Who was the author of the book ‘Eighteen Fifty List I List II Seven’? (I) Digdarsana (A) First paper in (a) S. N. Sen (b) R C. Mazumdar Gujarati (c) Syed Ahmed Khan (d) R C. Bhandarkar (II) Bengal Gazette (B) First Bengali 89. Which one of the following are correctly paired? monthly (a) Faraizi Movement—Shariatullah (III) Mirat-ul-Akbar (C) First Persian (b) Wahabi Movement—Duddu Mian journal (c) Kuka Movement—Karam Shah (IV) Bombay Samachar (D) First Indian paper (d) Pagal Panthi Movement—Jawahar Mal Codes: 90. Which tribal revolt was mainly caused due to tribal (a) I-D, II-B, III-A, IV-C (b) I-B, II-D, III-A, IV-C resentment of activities by Christian missionaries? (c) I-D, II-B, III-C, IV-A (d) I-B, II-D, III-C, IV-A (a) Khond Revolt (b) Chenchu Revolt 98. Which session of the Congress had 1889 delegates? (c) Munda Revolt (d) Bhil Revolt (a) Third Session at Madras 91. Who among the following was the youngest President (b) Fourth Session at Allahabad of the Indian National Congress? (c) Fifth Session at Bombay (a) Abul Kalam Azad (d) Sixth Session at Calcutta (b) Muhammad Ali Jinnah 99. Match List I with List II and choose the answer from (c) Jawaharlal Nehru the codes given below the lists: (d) Subhas Chandra Bose List I List II 92. Legalisation of widow remarriage in India was first (I) Hindu Mahasabha (A) 1906 secured by: (II) Indian Liberal Federation (B) 1915 MTP.16 | Indian History

(III) Muslim League (C) 1916 Reason (R): The pictographic script of the Indus (IV) Home Rule Leagues (D) 1918 people has no resemblance to either the hieroglyph- Codes: ics of the Egyptians or the cuneiform writing of the (a) I-B, II-D, III-A, IV-C (b) I-B, II-A, III-D, IV-C Sumerians. (c) I-C, II-B, III-D, IV-A (d) I-D, II-A, III-C, IV-B 107. Assertion (A): Iron technology played a crucial role 100. Which is the correct chronological order of the fol- in the expansion of the Aryans into the middle and lowing events? lower Gangetic valley. (i) Simla Conference Reason (R): The middle and lower Gangetic valley (ii) Formation of the Azad Hind Fauz had thick vegetation which could be cleared only by (iii) Gandhi-Jinnah Talks implements made of strong metal. (iv) Naval Mutiny 108. Assertion (A): Under Asoka Mauryan monarchy (v) INA Trials became a military despotism. Choose the answer from the codes given below the Reason (R): Major rock edict VI shows Asoka lists: remarking—’All men are my children’. (a) i, iii, ii, iv and v (b) ii, iii, i, v and iv 109. Assertion (A): Hinayanists believed in individ- (c) ii, i, iv, iii and v (d) i, iii, ii, v and iv ual salvation through self-discipline and meditation. 101. Who designed the National Flag of India, adopted by Reason (R): Mahayanists believed in the sal- the Constituent Assembly on July 21,1947? vation of all with the help and grace of the (a) Badr-ud-din Tyabji Buddha. (b) Rabindranath Tagore 110. Assertion (A): Jainism did not become very popular (c) among agriculturists. (d) Abul Kalam Azad Reason (R): Jainism laid excessive emphasis on 102. When were the first Asian Games held in New Delhi? ahimsa and austerity. (a) 1950 (b) 1951 111. Assertion (A): The flourishing trade during the (c) 1952 (d) 1953 post-Maurya period affected even contempo- 103. Who among the following was not one of the founders rary economic laws. of the Non-Aligned Movement at Brioni in Yugoslavia Reason (R): The smriti laws of the period in 1956? encouraged trade associations and partner- (a) Nehru (b) Tito ships. (c) Suharto (d) Nasser 112. Assertion (A): The Gupta period is rightly 104. Which area was the target of Chinese aggression in called the Golden Age of Sanskrit grammar and 1964? literature. (a) Takla Makan (b) Bhutan Reason (R): The Sakas and Kushanas and (c) Sikkim (d) Aksai Chin even the Mahayana Buddhists patronised 105. Who was the chief planner of the first two five-year Sanskrit much before the imperial Guptas. plans of India? 113. Assertion (A): Harsha issued a very large number of (a) B. R. Mehta (b) V. N. Gadgil gold and silver coins. (c) Mahalanobis (d) S. N. Sen Reason (R): The feudal practice of rewarding Directions: The following items consist of two state- and paying officials with grants of revenue ments one labelled Assertion (A) and the other la- bearing lands on a large scale had begun belled the Reason (R). Examine these two statements under Harsha. carefully and mark on your answer sheet accordingly. 114. Assertion (A): The Chalukyas of Badami ex- Codes: ercised paternalistic control over the village (a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct expla- administration. nation of A. Reason (R): In village affairs, the Chalukyan royal (b) Both A and R are true but R is NOT a correct officials acted only as observers. explanation of A. 115. Assertion (A): The dravida style of architecture was (c) A is true but R is false. perfected by the imperial Cholas. (d) A is false but R is true. Reason (R): In later Chola temples the 106. Assertion (A): In comparison to the Egyptians and gopurams or gateways eclipsed the vimanas or towers. Sumerians, Indus people made greater use of their 116. Assertion (A): Firuz Tughluq collected a large number script and language. of slaves for economic as well as political purposes. Model Test Papers | MTP.17

Reason (R): He employed the slaves in karkhanas areas, it was quite easy for the moneylenders to usurp and also trained some of them as a special corps of the lands of the cultivators due to ease in transfering soldiers who would be loyal to him. land. 117. Assertion (A): Akbar dispensed with the 119. Assertion (A): The tribes in different parts of practice of maintaining revenue records in India resented the penetration of their areas by outsid- local languages in addition to Persian. ers from the plains. Reason (R): By Akbar’s time, most literate Reason (R): They also resented the tightening control Indians became. familiar with the Persian of the British over forest zones. language. 120. Assertion (A): Lord William Bentinck was the first to 118. Assertion (A): The proportion of agricultural be called the Governor General of India. labourers to agricultural population was the Reason (R): During Bentinck’s time, the highest in the mahalwari areas and lowest in the additional charge of the ·governorship of ryotwari area. Bengal was taken away from the Governor Reason (R): In the ryotwari areas, unlike in mahalwari General.

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Decline of Autonomous States (Punjab) 1. Who among the following were the sons and grandson 4. Ranjit Singh belonged to the Sikh misl of of Bahadur Shall II and played a prominent role in the (a) Kanhaiya (b) Sukerchakia Rebellion of 1857, and were captured and shot? (c) Ahluwalia (d) Bhangi (a) Bakht Khan, Ahsanullah Khan and Mahbub Ali (b) Mirza Moghul, Mirza Khawaja Sultan and Mirza East India Company and Bengal Nawabs Abu Bakr 5. The abuses of the dastaks in Bengal by the (c) Prince Azam, Azim-ush-Shan and Muazzam officials of the East India Company led to an estrange- (d) Asad Khan, Kam Bakhash and Jahandar Shah ment of its relationship with (a) Alivardi (b) Siraj-ud-daula East India Company and Bengal (c) Mir Jafar (d) Mir Qasim Nawabs 6. Clive introduced dual government in Bengal because 2. Which one of the following cities was renamed Ali- (a) he was afraid of hostile reaction from the people nagar after its capture by Siraj-ud-daula in 1756? of Bengal (a) Murshidabad (b) Falta (b) the authorities of the East India Company in (c) Calcutta (d) Kasimbazar England did not allow him to establish the direct rule of the Company in Bengal Autonomous State (Myspre) (c) the Mughal emperor was opposed to the establishment of de jure authority of the East 3. Hyder Ali consolidated his position after being ap- India Company in Bengal pointed the faujdar of (d) he wanted to avoid the responsibility (a) Arcot (b) Budikota arising out of the establishment of de jure (c) Dindigul (d) Devanhalli authority of the East India Company in Bengal Model Test Papers | MTP.19

Freedom Struggle Act of 1904 (c) Indian Councils 3. Lord Lytton 7. Which one of the following is correctly matched? Act of 1909 (a) Sorabjee Bengali: Business magnate (d) Rowlatt Act of 1919 4. Lord Minto (b) Sir George Birdwood: Sheriff of Bombay Codes: (c) Dinshaw Wacha: Founder of the Swaraj party (a) A B C D (d) C R Das: Educationist 1 4 3 2 (b) A B C D East India Company 2 3 1 4 (c) A B C D 8. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer 3 2 1 4 by using the codes given below the lists: (d) A B C D List I List II 3 2 4 1 (Period) (Revenue Settlement) (A) 1833 1. Ryotwar Revolt of 1857 (B) 1793 2. Mahalwari 12. Given below are two statements, one labelled (C) 1792 3. Zamindari as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as (D) 1769 4. Quinquennial Reason (R): 5. Decennial Assertion (A): Despite initial victory the Sepoy Mu- Codes: tiny could not succeed in overthrowing the Raj. (a) A B C D Reason (R): The rising middle class sided with 1 2 3 4 (b) A B C D the Raj. 2 3 1 4 In the context of the above two statements which one (c) A B C D of the following is correct? 2 3 5 4 (a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct expla- (d) A B C D nation of A 3 2 1 5 (b) Both A and R are true but R is not a correct explanation of A British Economic Impact (c) A is true but R is false (d) A is false but R is true 9. The Whitley Commission was concerned with 13. Match List I with List II and select the cor- (a) labour rect answer by using the codes given below the (b) education lists: (c) public health List I List II (d) reorganisation of civil service (A) Lakshmi Bai 1. Deported to Rangoon 10. The British government introduced the Portfolio (B) Tantia Tope 2. Fled to Nepal System for the first time in (C) Nana Saheb 3. Captured and execute (a) 1853 (b) 1858 (c) 1861 (d) 1892 (D) Bahadur Shah 4. Killed in a battle Codes: (a) A B C D Freedom Struggle 1 2 3 4 (b) A B C D 11. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer 2 3 4 1 by using the codes given below the lists: (c) A B C D List I List II 4 3 2 1 (a) Vernacular Press 1. Lord Chelmsford (d) A B C D Act of 1878 4 2 3 1 (b) Indian Universities 2. Lord Curzon MTP.20 | Indian History

Freedom Struggle (b) A B C D 2 3 4 1 14. The Indian Association played an important role in (c) A B C D arousing national consciousness through the forma- 3 4 1 2 tion of the (d) A B C D (a) Indian National Congress 4 1 2 3 (b) Bengal British Indian Society 20. What is the correct sequence of the following? (c) Indian National Conference 1. Prohibition of Sati (d) British India Association 2. Education Resolution 3. First University Act Peasant and Trade Union Movements Choose the correct answer from the codes given below: 15. The Moplah Rebellion (1921) took place in (a) 1; 2 and 3 (b) 1, 3 and 2 (a) Telengana (b) Malabar (c) 2, 1 and 3 (d) 3, 2 and 1 (c) Marathwada (d) Vidarbha 21. The Act discouraging child marriage was passed in 16. Who among the following was the first leader to 1891 largely at the instance of organise labour movement in India? (a) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar and Bhartendu Har- (a) B P Wadia (b) Lala Lajpat Rai ishchandra (c) N M Lokhandy (d) N G Ranga (b) Mahadev Govind Ranade and Jotiba Phule 17. Baba Ram Chandra organised peasants in (c) Keshab Chandra Sen and Behramji Malabari (a) Oudh (b) Bihar (d) Keshab Chandra Sen and Mahadev Govind (c) Bengal (d) Andhra Ranade

Freedom Struggle Freedom Struggle 18. The first national news agency of India was 22. Given below are two statements, one labelled (a) the Indian Review as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as (b) the Free Press of India Reason (R): (c) the Hindustan Review Assertion (A): In the Swadeshi and Boycott (d) the Associated Press of India movement of 1905–1908 in Bengal, not only students and women but peasants also actively participated. Social and Cultural Awakening Reason (R): This movement was a powerful expression of resentment against the Partition of 19. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer Bengal. from the codes given below the lists: In the context of the above two statements which one List I List II of the following is correct? (Name of the reform (Name of it’s (a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct expla- movement protagonist) nation of A (A) Satya Shodhak 1. Jotirao Govindrao (b) Both A and R are true but R is not a correct Phule explanation of A (B) Self Respect 2. E V Ramaswami (c) A is true but R is false Naickar (d) A is false but R is true (C) Sarva Shodhak 3. Shahu Maharaj 23. Which one of the following events helped Samaj Gandhi who had returned from South Africa in 1915, (D) Namdhari 4. Ram Singh more directly to emerge as the undisputed leader of Codes: the Indian National Congress? (a) A B C D (a) Edwin Montague’s announcement on 1 2 3 4 August 20, 1917 in the House of Commons Model Test Papers | MTP.21

that the policy of the British government (C) Rabindranath 3. ‘A true Nationalist would be the gradual development of self Tagore desires to build on governing institutions with a view to the old foundations. progressive realisation of responsible We don’t want to government in India. anglicise our insti-  tutions and dena- tional- (b) Annie Besant became almost overnight ise them in the name a pro-Raj supporter after Montague’s of Social and Political promise of responsible government in Reforms.’ India. (D) Mahatma 4. ‘ I a m n o t a (c) B G Tilak departed for England in Gandhi visionary; I claim to September 1918 to Fight a libel suit against be a practical Valentine Chirol. idealist.’ (d) The passed the Rowlatt Act on March Codes: 18, 1919 to suppress the revolutionary move- (a) A B C D ments against it. 4 3 1 2 24. Which one of the following was essentially a mouth- (b) A B C D piece of the Liberals? 1 2 3 4 (a) New India (c) A B C D (b) Leader 3 2 1 4 (c) Young India (d) A B C D (d) Free Press Journal 3 4 2 1 25. Who among the following were associates of Bal 27. In the committee which prepared the Nehru Gangadhar Tilak? Report (1928) the Liberal Federation was 1. Krishna Chiplunkar represented by 2. Gopal Ganesh Agarkar 3. Madhavrao Namjoshi (a) M R Jayakar 4. Rao Bahadur Madhavarao Wasudeva Barve (b) Tej Bahadur Sapru Select the correct answer from the codes given below: (c) V S Srinivasa Sastri (a) 1, 2 and 4 (b) 1, 3 and 4 (d) M S Aney (c) 2, 3 and 4 (d) 1, 2 and 3 28. The immediate cause which led to the launching of 26. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer the Non-Cooperation movement was the by using the codes given below the lists: (a) Khilafat Wrong List I List II (b) Rowlatt Act (A) Bal Gangadhar 1. ‘The British rule is (c) Jallianwalla Bagh massacre Tilak a roller formidable (d) dissatisfaction with the Government in its weight and power having its India Act, 1919 uses, but it does 29. What proposal was made in the ‘August Offer’ of not help the soil to 1940? become fertile.’ (a) Complete independence for India gradually (B) Sri Aurobindo 2. ‘Nationalism is a (b) Dominion status Ghosh divinely appointed (c) Provincial autonomy Shakti of the inter- (d) Representative government at the centre nal and must do its 30. A concrete outcome of the Wavell Plan was the God given work (a) holding of a referendum in the North-West Fron- before it returns to the bosom of the tier Province Universal Energy (b) absorption of the State of Hyderabad with the from which it Indian Union came.’ (c) summoning of the Simla Conference (d) the constitution of the Constituent Assembly MTP.22 | Indian History

Indus Civilisation Which one of the following cultures flourished in the area shaded in the map? 31. Which one of the following was the most (a) Banas Culture (b) Painted Grey Ware westerly outpost of the Hai-appan Culture? (c) Malwa Culture (d) Jorwe Culture (a) Lothal (b) Sutkagen Dor 36. Which one of the following cities was most extensive (c) Rangpur (d) Manda in area? 32. The most common type of Harappan seals is (a) Mohenjodaro (b) Harappa (a) square (b) round (c) Dholavira (d) Kalibangan (c) cylindrical (d) oval 33. Consider the map given below showing some sites of Vedic Culture the early Indus period. 37. Which one of the following is not true regarding the Rig Vedic God Indra? (a) He was fond of feasting and drinking Soma juice (b) He was the destroyer of Puras (c) The largest number of hymns are addressed to him (d) He was the upholder of the cosmic order 38. Match List I and List II and select the correct answer by using the codes given below the lists: List I List II (Ancient names of rivers) (Modern names) (A) Sarasvati 1. Ravi (B) Parushni 2. Beas (C) Shutudri 3. Sutlej (D) Vipas 4. Jhelum 5. Ghaggar-Hakra Codes: (a) A B C D The places marked 1, 2, 3 and 4 are respectively 3 2 4 1 (a) Mehrgarh, , Surkotda and (b) A B C D Kalibangan (b) Mehrgarh, Kalibangan, Kot Diji and Surkotda 5 1 3 2 (c) Rana Ghundai, Banavali, Surkotda and (c) A B C D Kot Diji 3 1 2 4 (d) Rahman Dheri, Banavali, Kulli and Tharro (d) A B C D 34. A terracotta replica of a plough has been found at 5 4 3 1 (a) Banavali (b) Kalibangan 39. During the period of the Sutras, the brahmanas were (c) (d) Rangpur allowed to marry 35. Consider the map given below: (a) only brahmana girls (b) brahmana and kshatriya girls (c) brahmana, kshatriya and vaisya girls (d) brahmana, kshatriya, vaisya and sudra girls 40. ‘A bard am I, my father is a leech, and my mother grinds corn.’ This passage occurs in the (a) Rigveda (b) Yajurveda (c) Dhammapada (d) Mrichchhakatikam Model Test Papers | MTP.23

41. Sudas, the victor of the Battle of Ten Kings 48. Which one of the following was a Buddhist belonged to the tribe of the sect which held that constituents of phenomena (a) Anus (b) Druhyus were not wholly momentary, but existed forever (c) Bharatas (d) Sivis in a latent form? 42. The Vedangas consist of the (a) Sautrantika (b) Sthaviravadin (a) Kalpa, Siksha, Nirukta, Vyakarana, Chandas, (c) Sarvastivadin (d) Sammitiya Jyotisha 49. Which one of the following worshipped Chakresvari (b) Kalpa, Siksha, Brahmana, Vyakarana, Chandas, among other deities? Jyotisha (a) Bhagavatas (b) Saivas (c) Kalpa, Siksha, Nirukta, Aranyaka, (c) Jainas (d) Buddhists Chandas, Jyotisha 50. Which of the following are true of Jainism? (d) Kalpa, Upanishad, Nirukta; Vyakarana, Chandas, 1. It has affinity with the Vedanta system of phi- Jyotisha losophy 2. It has affinity with the Sankhya system of phi- Sangam Age losophy 3. It completely rejected the concept of the 43. The early Tamil poet who makes a reference to the soul Nandas and Mauryas in his work is 4. According to it the world consists of two eternal (a) Sattanar (b) Ilango Adigal categories, viz. conscious (Jiva) and unconscious (c) Kapilar (d) Mamulanar (ajiva) 44. The term Nadukal mentioned in the Sangam Choose the correct answer from the codes literature given below: (a) is a reference to a Velir chief (a) 1 and 3 (b) 2 and 3 (b) means memorial stone (c) 3 and 4 (d) 2 and 4 (c) was a tax on nadus 51. Which of the following were important characteristics (d) was an item of export in Indo-Roman trade of early Bhagavatism? 1. Devotion 2. Action Religious Movements (Buddhism, Jain- 3. Knowledge 4. Social rigidity 5. Self-sacrifice (Tyaga) ism, Bhagavatism and Brahmanism) Select the correct answer from the codes given below: 45. What is the correct chronological order (a) 1 and 3 (b) 1, 2, 3 and 5 in which Buddhist Councils were held at the (c) 1, 2, 4 and 5 (d) 2, 3 and 5 following four places? 52. The historical/site wherein an early inscription refer- 1. Vaisali 2. Rajagriha ring to the five heroes of the Vrishnis is found is 3. Kundalavana 4. Pataliputra (a) Ghoshundi (b) Besnagar Choose the correct answer from the codes (c) Dwaraka (d) Mathura given below: 53. Ambika is mentioned as the sister of Rudra in (a) 1, 2, 3, 4 (b) 4, 3, 2, 1 (a) Vajasaneyi Samhita (c) 2, 1, 3, 4 (d) 2, 1, 4, 3 (b) Satapatha Brahmana 46. Mahakachchayana, traditionally the founder of the (c) Taithriya Aranyaka Theravada sect, hailed from (d) Siva Purana (a) Simhala (b) Avanti 54. Salaka-purusha is a concept associated with (c) Gandhara (d) Magadha the 47. According to the Mahasanghikas, a being is composed (a) Pasupatas (b) Jainas of (c) Bauddhas (d) Bhagavatas (a) five dharmas (b) seven dharmas (c) nine dharmas (d) eighteen dharmas MTP.24 | Indian History

Mauraya Empire 64. Which of the following were parts of the Chera king- dom? 55. During the reign of Bindusara there was unrest at 1. Korkkai 2. Musiri (a) Ujjayini (b) Pushkalavati 3. Puhar 4. Saliyur (c) Takshasila (d) Rajagriha 5. Tondi 56. Chandragupta figures prominently in a work of Choose the correct answer from the codes given (a) Bhasa (b) Visakhadatta below: (c) Asvaghosa (d) Bhavabhuti (a) 1, 2 and 4 (b) 2 and 5 57. The Kharosthi script was derived from (c) 2, 3 and 4 (d) 3, 4 and 5 (a) Pictographs (b) Cuniform script 65. Pratishthana, an important trading centre was on the (c) Aramaic (d) Brahmi river 58. Which of the following were in the vijita of (a) Cauvery (b) Krishna Asoka? (c) Godavari (d) Narmada 1. Yona 2. Satiyaputa 3. Gandhara 4. Bhoja Agrarian Structure in the Post-Gupta Choose the correct answer from the codes given Period below: (a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 1, 2 and 4 66. The term Chora rajju used in some sources means (c) 1, 3 and 4 (d) 2, 3 and 4 (a) a unit of land measurement 59. During the Mauryan period Lakshanadhyaksha was (b) a class of police officials (a) an officer possessing knowledge of characteristics (c) a kind of tax of animals (d) rope of thieves (b) a professional astrologer 67. During the period of the Cholas and their (c) an official in charge of road marks successors in south India the association of peasants (d) an official in charge of mint was known as (a) Alunganam (b) Nanadesi Trade and Commerce in the Pre-Gupta (c) Cittirameli (d) Ainnurruvar 68. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly and Gupta Periods matched? 60. The term Chitrapata used in some historical sources (a) Kshauma : Textile denotes (b) Pada : Coin denomination (a) painted pots (c) Adhaka : Architectural fragment (b) textiles from Kamarupa (d) Drona : Measure of rainfall (c) canvas for Sastri 69. Which of the following terms were used to refer to (d) wall paintings rural land holders in eastern India during the Gupta 61. Official stamping of weights and measures and their period? 1. Agraharin 2. Kutumbin periodical inspection are prescribed by 3. Mahattara 4. Bhogika (a) Manu (b) Narada Choose the correct answer from the codes (c) Brihaspati (d) Parasara given below: 62. That ginger and cinnamon were produced in large (a) 1 and 2 (b) 3 and 4 quantities in the Pandya country is mentioned by (c) 1 and 4 (d) 2 and 3 (a) Megasthenes (b) Ptolemy (c) Ibn Said (d) Marco Polo 63. Which one of the following denoted a series of coins? Changes in the Social Structure (a) Gajasataka (b) Gadhiya 70. Which of the following were antya-jatis (c) Hiranyadama (d) Katisama according to some Brahmanical texts? Model Test Papers | MTP.25

1. Venas 2. Medas 79. The celebrated author Kshemendra lived in 3. Lokayatikas 4. Nastikas (a) Bengal (b) Kashmir Choose the correct answer from the codes (c) Maharashtra (d) Gujarat given below: 80. Kosalai-nadu, conquered by Rajendra Chola, was (a) 1, 2, 3 and 4 (b) 1, 2 and 3 located on the banks of the (c) 1, 2 and 4 (d) 3 and 4 (a) Godavari (b) Sarayu 71. The Valangai (right hand) and Idangai (left (c) Mahanadi (d) Tapti hand) division of south Indian society is first noticed 81. In early medieval south Indian polity the word Udan- in the kuttam meant (a) Sangam period (b) Pallava period (a) a group of small villages in the Chola (c) Chola period (d) Nayaka period kingdom 72. ‘No one is allowed to marry outside his own caste, (b) a body of officers under the Cholas or to exchange one profession or trade for another or (c) a tax levied in the Hoysala kingdom to follow more than one business.’ This observation (d) the navy maintained by the Cholas was made by 82. Which of the following were centres of Chahamana (a) Megasthenes (b) Fa-Hien rule? (c) Hiuen Tsang (d) Al-Biruni 1. Lata 2. Sakambari 73. The expression anyavrata (following other 3. Naddula 4. Dhavagarta practices) is used in the Rigveda with Choose the correct answer from the codes given reference to the below: (a) Dasas (b) Dasyus (a) 1, 3 and 4 (b) 1, 2 and 3 (c) Mlecchas (d) Yadus (c) 1, 2 and 4 (d) 2, 3 and 4 74. ‘Service was his portion in life.’ This was 83. Dhvanyaloka is applicable to (a) an epic poem (a) Buddhist bhikshu (b) Vaisya varna (b) a work on poetics (c) Sudra varna (d) Chandala (c) a play (d) a work on Buddhist epistemology Political and Social Conditions (880– 84. The Pala king Devapala claims to have defeated a 1200) and the Cholas Dravida king who is usually identified with (a) Dantidurga (b) Amoghavarsha 75. Which one of the following pairs does not match? (c) Dhruva (d) Krishna II (a) Rajasekhara : Kavyamimamsa 85. Mahakshapatalika was an official in charge of (b) Uddyotana : Kuvalayamalakaha (a) chariots (b) navy (c) Ballalasena : Dayabhaga (c) accounts (d) infantry (d) Lakshmidhara : Krityakalpataru 86. The Chandella dynasty was founded by 76. Malatimadhava of Bhavabhuti is an important source (a) Vakpati (b) Nannuka for the study of the (c) Jayasakti (d) Harsha (a) Digambara Jainas (b) Kapalikas 87. Who was the ruler who was elected to the throne ac- (c) Buddhist Tantriks (d) Bhagavatas cording to the Rajatarangini? 77. The Gujara king and others are said to have worked (a) Gopala (b) Yasaskara as doorkeepers in the Hiranyagarbha sacrifice per- (c) Nandivarman (d) Karikalan formed by (a) Dharmapala (b) Devapala Trade and Commerce in the Pre- (c) Dantidurga (d) Amoghavarsha 78. Didda, the queen of Kashmir ruled in the Gupta and Gupta Periods (a) seventh century (b) eighth century 88. According to Brihaspati, the grades of artisans were (c) ninth century (d) tenth century (a) two (b) four (c) six (d) eight MTP.26 | Indian History

Religious Movements (Buddhism) Choose the correct answer from the codes given below: 89. Which one of the following statements regarding the (a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 2, 3 and 4 stupa is incorrect? (c) 2, 3 and 5 (d) 3, 4 and 5 (a) It has an umbrella at the top 95. Given below are two statements, one labelled (b) It has a sanctum sanctorum as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as (c) It has a circumambulatory path (pradakshinapa- Reason (R): tha) Asserlion (A): After the Kushans, the Turks brought (d) It has a fence surrounding it the technique of constructing the true arch on a mas- sive scale. Reason (R): The Turks introduced into India the technique of preparing lime-motar. 90. Which one of the following iqtas was held by Sultan In the context of the above two statements which one Iltutmish as its muqta’i immediately before his acces- of the following is correct? sion? (a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct expla- (a) Kalpi (b) Lakhnauti nation of A (c) Kalinjar (d) Budaun (b) Both A and R are true but R is not a correct 91. Amir Khusrau’s Khazain-ul Futuh gives an account explanation of A of the military campaigns of (c) A is true but R is false (a) Malik Kafur in south India (d) A is false but R is true (b) Sultan Balban in the Mewat region (c) Muhammad Tughlaq in Gujarat (d) Feroz Tughluq in Orissa Provincial Dynasties 92. The title Sultan-us Sharq was assumed by the rulers 96. Which one of the following writers has written a con- of temporary account of the Vijayanagar Empire? (a) Assam (b) Bengal (a) Shams Siraj Afif (b) Linschoten (c) Jaunpur (d) Orissa (c) Domingo Paes (d) Pietro Delia Valle 93. Which one of the following sultans introduced a rural 97. Krishnadeva Raya was the ruler of the Vijayanagar lax canea haqq-i sharb? Empire between (a) Iltutmish (a) ad 1485 and 1502 (b) ad 1509 and 1530 (b) Alauddin Khalji (c) ad 1533 and 1545 (d) ad 1550 and 1565 (c) Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq 98. Who among the following Bahmani rulers (d) Feroz Tughluq established a matrimonial alliance with one of the rajas of Vijayanagar? Indo-Islamic Culture and Religious (a) Alauddin Bahman Shah Movements (b) Feroze Shah Bahmani (c) Mahmud Shah I 94. Which of the following are correctly matched? (d) Ahmad Shah A B 99. The Bahmani Kingdom and Vijayanagar (Saints) (Mystic order) Empire clashed frequently over the territory of 1. Shaikh Nasiruddin —Suhrawardi (a) Madurai (b) Warangal Chirag Delhi (c) Malabar (d) the Raichur doab 2. Shaikh Bahauddin —Chisti Zakaria 100. The Principla governors of the Vijayanagar 3. Shaikh Sharfuddin —Firdausi Empire were known as Yahya Maneri (a) rautas (b) nayakas 4. Shaikh Nuruddin —Rishi (c) poligars (d) naiyars 5. Shaikh Baqi Billah —Naqshbandi Model Test Papers | MTP.27

Mughal Empire Indo-Islamic Culture 101. In the succession issue of which one of the following 108. Sher Shah Sun’s Mausoleum at Sahsaram is Rajput states Emperor Jahangir intervened and gave (a) surrounded by a tank tika to the person of his choice? (b) entirely made of marble (a) Amber (b) Marwar (c) distinguished by four domes (c) Bikaner (d) Jaisalmer (d) decorated with pietra dura 102. The Mughals lost out Qandahar to the Safavids forever in European Commerce (a) ad 1606 (b) ad 1617 (c) ad 1622 (d) ad 1632 109. Which one of the following articles of tech- 103. Which of the following two kingdoms in the Deccan nology was not brought by Europeans to India were conquered by Aurangzeb? during 16th and 17th centuries? (a) Bidar and Bijapur (a) Horse-drawn carriages (b) Bijapur and Golconda (b) Seed-drill (c) Golconda and Ahmadnagar (c) Iron anchors (d) Ahmadnagar and Bijapur (d) Looking-glasses 104. Sher Shah Sur took only one-fourth of the produce as land tax in Mughal Empire (a) Sahsaram (b) Agra (c) Multan (d) Lahore 110. Abul Fazl refers in his writings to the 105. Abul Fazl gives names of a few Mughal artists in the (a) methods of distillation (b) working of telescope Ai’n-i Akbari who worked at the Mughal atelier. The (c) principle of gravitation number of painters mentioned by him is (d) technique of metal casting (a) 17 (b) 22 (c) 28 (d) 34 106. Which of the following Biblical and Christian themes European Commerce were attempted by the Mughal painters under the 111. Which one of the following European trading groups impact of European schools? first established its factory at Surat? 1. God the Father (a) the Portuguese (b) the Dutch 2. Adam and Eve (c) the English (d) the French 3. Expulsion from Paradise 112. Which one of the following was well known for the 4. Trial of Jesus at Pilate’s Court production of indigo during the seventeenth century? 5. Crucifixion (a) Balasore (b) Kalpi Choose the answer from the codes given below: (c) Lahore (d) Sarkhej (a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 1, 2 and 4 113. ‘ cannot live without Cambay, nor Cambay (c) 1 and 5 (d) 4 and 5 without Malacca, if they are to be very rich and very 107. Which of the following are correctly matched? Mughal emperors Tombs at prosperous.’ This comment was made in the context 1. Babur : Kabul of Asian trade by 2. Akbar : (a) Tome Pires (b) Linschoten 3. Jahangir : Lahore (c) Varthema (d) Barbosa 4. Bahadur Shah Zafar : Delhi 114. The Portuguese conquered Goa and lost Hormuz Choose the correct answer from the codes respectively in given below: (a) ad 1505 and 1598 (a) 1 and 2 (b) 2 and 3 (b) ad 1510 and 1605 (c) 3 and 4 (d) 1 and 3 (c) ad 1510 and 1622 (d) ad 1515 and 1618 MTP.28 | Indian History

Indo-Islamic Culture Prince Dara Shikoh? (a) Fuwaid-ul Fawad 115. Which one of the following is an example (b) Chuhar Gulshan of Hindu architecture showing Islamic (c) Chahar Chaman influence? (d) Majma’-ul Bahrain (a) Lotus Mahal, Vijayanagar 118. Which of the following are correctly matched? (b) Thousand pillared mandapa, Madurai 1. Akbar : Shahabuddin Khan Atka (c) The King’s Audience Hall, Vijayanagar 2. Jahangir : Juihar Singh Bundela (d) Pillared Corridor, Ramesvaram 3. Shah Jahan : Jagat Gosain 4. Aurangzeb : Qazi Abdul Wahab Marathas Choose the answer from the codes given below: (a) 1 and 4 (b) 1 and 3 116. The third battle of Panipat took place during the reign (c) 2 and 3 (d) 2 and 4 of 119. The silver coin rupaya was first issued by (a) Muhammad Shah (b) Alamgir II (a) Sikandar Lodhi (b) Humayun (c) Shah Alam II (d) Jahandar Shah (c) Sher Shah Suri (d) Akbar 120. After Feroz Tughluq of the Delhi Sultanate the Mughal Empire Mughal ruler who paid attention to the supply of water from canals was 117. Which one of the following was written by (a) Humayun (b) Akbar (c) Jahangir (d) Shah Jahan

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Religious Movements (a) Aranyakas (b) Jataka literature (c) Upanishads (d) Vedas 1. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer by using the codes given below the lists. List I List II (A) Chaitanya 1. Kerala 4. Most of the Asokan inscriptions are in Prakrit lan- (B) Shankara 2. Bengal guage because it was (C) Jnanadeva 3. Tamil Nadu (a) the language of the State (D) Thyagaraja 4. Maharashtra (b) understood by a majority of the people 5. Orissa (c) used by the Tathagata Buddha Codes: (d) the only language known at that time A B C D 5. Which one of the following is not known from Asokan (a) 4 1 2 3 inscriptions? A B C D (a) He appointed followers of Buddhist religion to (b) 2 3 1 4 high government posts A B C D (b) He warned the monks and nuns that (c) 3 2 4 1 they would be punished if they created a A B C D schism in Buddhism (d) 2 1 4 3 (c) He categorically expressed his faith in the Bud- 2. Who among the following is said to be the founder dha, Dharma and Sangha of the Pasupata Cult? (d) He made pilgrimages to holy Buddhist places (a) Basava 6. In which of the following is the name ‘Asoka’ found? (b) Lakulisa 1. Nittur edict of Asoka (c) Kusika 2. The Allahabad Pillar Inscription of Samudragupta (d) Gorakhnatha 3. Junagarh Inscription of Rudradaman 3. The doctrine of transmigration does not find mention 4. Hathigumpha Inscription of Kharavela in the MTP.30 | Indian History

Select the correct answer from the codes given below: (a) 1 and 2 (b) 1 and 3 (a) 1 and 2 (b) 1 and 3 (c) 2 and 3 (d) 2 and 4 (c) 2 and 4 (d) 3 and 4 13. The earliest images of the Buddha were made almost 7. The inscriptions of Asoka are found in simultaneously at (a) Kharoshthi and Brahmi (a) Gandhara and Ajanta (b) Kharoshthi, Brahmi and Greek (b) Mathura and Amaravati (c) Kharoshthi, Brahmi and Aramaic (c) Mathura and Gandhra (d) Kharoshthi, Brahmi, Greek and Aramaic (d) Ajanta and Amaravati 8. Megasthenes states: ‘There was no slavery in 14. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly India. ‘This statement must have been made matched? because (a) Pliny — Natural History (a) there was absence of slavery in India (b) Ptolemy — Geography (c) Strabo — Periplus of (b) slavery was not prevalent in India in the Erythrean Sea extreme form as he had seen in Greece (d) Cosmos — Christian (c) he moved only with the king and elites in the Topography capital 15. With which of the following regions did India (d) he wrote this on hearsay have the closest contact during the Gupta 9. The most important source of information for the mu- period? nicipal administrative system of the city of Pataliputra (a) South-East Asia (b) Central Asia in the Mauryan empire is (c) (b) Western Asia (a) Indika (b) Mudrarakshasa 16. Which one of the following most suitably (c) Asokan inscriptions (d) Arthasastra defines the term sreni? 10. Which one of the following refers to the (a) An organization of people of one caste Mauryas as Kshatriyas? following the same vocation (a) The Mudrarakshasa (b) The Greek writers (b) An organisation of people of one caste (c) The Arthasastra (d) The Divyavadana following different vocations 11. Which one of the following is the most reliable and (c) An organisation of people of one or more castes accurate evidence for fixing the date of Asoka? following one vocation (a) Ceylonese chronicles mentioning his (d) An organisation of people of different castes contemporaneity with Devanampiya Tissa following different vocations (b) Asoka’s inscriptions referring to foreign kings Sangam Age (c) The Puranic literature referring to the genealogy and chronology of the Mauryan 17. There was brisk commercial contact between rulers Rome and Tamil Nadu during the Sangan (d) Pali canonical literature referring to the period. Many articles were exported form Tamil Nadu holding of Buddhist Councils to Rome. Which one among the following items was not included in the export? (a) Spices (b) Beryl Trade and Commerce in the Pre-Gupta (c) Ivory (d) Wine and Gupta Periods 12. Which of the following kings have left inscriptions Trade and Commerce mentioning the Sudarsana lake? 18. Which of the following made a new contribution 1. Asoka 2. Rudradaman to India’s maritime trade in the early centuries 3. Samudragupta 4. Skandagupta of the Christian era? Choose the correct answer from the codes given (a) Manufacture of better type of vessels below: (b) Knowledge of the depth of sea at various points Model Test Papers | MTP.31

(c) Better training in navigation (c) A is true but R is false (d) Knowledge of monsoon winds (d) A is false but R is true 19. Which of the following was not characteristic of the period that followed the Gupta rule? Changes in the Social Structure of (a) Decrease in trade Ancient period (b) Increase in the use of coins (c) Increase in the use of local weights and measures 24. The unusually excessive proliferation of castes in the (d) Multiplication of feudatories early medieval period was mostly due to (a) increasing varnasamkara Agrarian Structure in the Post-Gupta (b) increasingly greater absorption of tribes as castes (c) occupational groups turning into castes Period (d) religious sects being converted into castes 20. The rise of the Brahmin aristocracy in the post-Gupta 25. The hierarchy of the four varnas described in many period was facilitated by of the early Buddhist texts is (a) donation of land to priestly class (a) vessa, sudda, khattiya, bahamanna (b) growth of ritualistic practices (b) sudda, vessa, bahamanna, khattiya (c) advent of foreigners (c) khattiya, bahamanna, vessa, sudda (d) decline of Buddhism (d) vessa, bahamanna, khattiya, sudda 21. A new sort of social structure called the jajmani system became prevalent in India during the (a) later Vedic age (b) the Maurya empire Political and Social conditions (808– (c) the Gupta age (d) the post-Gupta period 1200) and the Cholas 22. Which one of the following is not related to the feudal 26. Which one of the following Chola rulers is formation in the Gupta and post-Gupta times? reported to have destroyed Anuradhapura, (a) Emergence of landed intermediaries once the capital of Ceylon? (b) Growth of a class of subject peasantry (a) Rajaraja I (b) Rajendra I (c) Localised village economy developed with (c) Rajadhiraja I (d) Kulottunga I little scope for functioning of the market system (d) Emergence of strong centralised political author- Changes in the Social Structures ity 27. Al-Beruni states that the antyajas, who were not reck- oned amongst any of the four varnas, were composed Sangam Age of eight groups or guilds of craftsmen or professionals. Which one of the following did not belong to any of 23. Given below are two statements, one labelled the eight guilds? as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as (a) Shoemaker (b) Weaver Reason (R): (c) Fisherman (d) Blacksmith Assertion (A): Many Roman gold and silver coins, belonging to First and second centuries ad, have been discovered in South India. Political and Social Conditions Reason (R): Some parts of South India were under 28. Given below are two statements, one labelled Roman occupation during this period. as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as In the context of the above two statements, which one Reason (R): of the following is correct? Assertion (A): The Cholas were the inheritors and (a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct expla- continuers of the Pallava traditions in temple construc- nation of A tion. (b) Both A and R are true but R is not a correct Reason (R): They built numerous monolithic temples explanation of A throughout their kingdom following the Pallava styles. MTP.32 | Indian History

In the context of the above two statements, which one (c) 4 2 5 3 of the following is correct? A B C D (a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct expla- (d) 4 5 2 3 nation of A (b) Both A and R are true but R is not a correct Maurya Empire explanation of A (c) A is true but R is false 31. ‘Among other nations it is usual, in the contests (d) A is false but R is true of war to ravage the soil; among the Indians, the tillers of soil, even when battle is raging in their Changes in the Social Structure neighbourhood, are undisturbed by any sense of danger and remain unmolested.’ This statement is 29. Given below are two statements, one labelled attributed to as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as (a) Hiuen Tsang (b) Herodotus Reason (R): (c) Megasthenes (d) Fa-hien Assertion (A): According to the Mitaksara school, a father could divide his property Political and Social Conditions among his sons during his lifetime. Reason (R): The Mitaksara recognised a 32. After the disappearance of the Chalukyas at son’s right of ownership by birth in ancestral the end of the twelfth century and the Cholas at property. the beginning of the thirteenth, the four king- In the context of the above statements, which one of doms that dominated the political history of the following is correct? southern India were the (a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct expla- (a) Pandya, Hoysala, Kakatiya and Yadava nation of A (b) Rashtrakuta, Kadamba, Eastern Ganga (b) Both A and R are true but R is not a correct and Bana explanation of A (c) Western Ganga, Pandya, Vishnukundin (c) A is true but R is false and Hoysala (d) A is false but R is true. (d) Chera, Mahameghavahana, Salankayana and Vijayanagara Indus Civilisation 33. The Chalukyan capital was shifted from Manya-kheta to Kalyani by 30. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer (a) Somesvara I Ahavamalla by using the codes given below the lists. (b) Vikramaditya VI List I List II (c) Perma Jagadekamalla II (Archaeological sites) ( Characteristic (d) Tailappa III features) 34. Match List I with List II and select the cor- (A) Brahmagiri 1. Mesoliths rect answer by using the codes given below the (B) Kupgal 2. Pit dwellings lists: (C) Burzahom 3. Urn burials List I List II (D) Adichchanallur 4. Megaliths (A) Merchants 1. Jithhaka 5. Ash mounds (B) Craftsmen 2. Setthis Codes: (C) Federation of guilds 3. Satthavaha A B C D (D) Caravan Chief 4. Bhandagarika (a) 5 2 1 4 Codes: A B C D A B C D (b) 1 5 2 4 (a) 2 1 4 3 A B C D A B C D (b) 2 1 3 4 Model Test Papers | MTP.33

A B C D ucts (c) 1 2 3 4 (d) purchasing food grains for the army A B C D 42. Which one of the following Vijayanagar rulers was (d) 1 2 4 3 the author of Amuktamalyada? (a) Bukka I (b) Harihara II (c) Krishna Deva Raya (d) Deva Raya II Delhi Sultanate 43. Which one of the folluwing kingdoms was not 35. The noble serving Sultan Naseeruddin in the alliance that crushed the Vijayanagar Mahmud who lost the top post due to the empire in the Battle of Talikota (1565)? machinations of Balbanb was (a) Berar (b) Ahmadnagar (a) Amir Yaqut (c) Bijapur (d) Golconda (b) Imaduddin Raihan 44. The main trading port of the Vijayanagar (c) Tughril Beg empire on the western coast was (d) Zafar Khan (a) Bhatkal (b) Calicut 36. The troops directly under the royal service in (c) Cannanore (d) Goa the Delhi Sultanate were known as (a) lashkar (b) hashm qalb Indo-Islamic culture and Religious (c) sipahi (d) muqta’i Movements 37. The system of itlaq, a sort of draft enabling a royal soldier to collect his salary from the state revenue 45. To which one of the following sufi silsilahs did Shaikh officials, was introduced by Bahauddin Zakaria belong? (a) Iltutmish (b) Balban (a) Qadriya (b) Naqshbandi (c) Alauddin Khalji (d) Firoz Shah Tughluq (c) Suhrawardi (d) Chisti 38. Qismat-i khote in the Delhi Sultanate was 46. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer (a) a cash payment made by the state to the village by using the codes given below the lists: headman List I List II (b) a village assigned to a khot (A) Siyasatnama 1. Nizam-ul mult Tusi (c) a small cess collected by the village head man (B) Khazain-ul-Futuh 2. Hamid Qalandar from the peasants (C) Khair-ul Majalis 3. Amir Khusrau (d) the revenue assessed on the land (D) Tarikh-i Mubarak 4. Yahya Sirhindi cultivated by the khots and muqaddams Shahi 39. ‘Every pearl in the royal crown is but the crystallised Codes: drop of blood fallen from the tearful eyes of the poor A B C D peasant.’ (a) 1 3 2 4 The above remark about the poverty of the Indian A B C D peasants during the Delhi Sultanate was made by (b) 2 3 1 4 (a) Barani (b) Ibn Battutah A B C D (c) Minhajuddin Siraj (d) Amir Khusrau (c) 1 4 3 2 40. The sashgani coin was introduced during the reign of A B C D (a) Allauddin Khalji (b) Balban (d) 4 1 2 3 (c) Firoz Shah Tughluq (d) Sikandar Lodhi Mughal Empire Provincial Dynasties 47. The total number of Mughal subas in 1605 was 41. The Vijayanagar rulers are remembered for (a) 12 (b) 15 promoting agriculture by (c) 17 (d) 19 (a) building dams, tanks and wells 48. Which one of the following Mughal officers was not (b) reducing tax on cultivated land associated with religious affairs? (c) providing market facilities for agricultural prod- (a) Sadr (b) Mufti MTP.34 | Indian History

(c) Muhtasib (d) Mustaufi In the context of the above two statements, which one 49. Who among the following defined a sovereign of the following is/correct? or sovereignty as farr-i izdi in contrast to the (a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct expla- concept of zil al-Allah? nation of A (a) Badauni (b) Shaikh Ahmad Sirhindi (b) Both A and R are true and R is not a correct (c) Abul Fazl (d) Shaikh Abdul Haq Muhaddis explanation of A 50. In the terminology of the Mughal revenue administra- (c) A is true but R is false tion, the term zamin paymudah denoted (d) A is false but R is true (a) barren land (b) land left unmeasured for ghalla bakhshi (c) land cultivated every two years European Commerce (d) measure land 55. Which one of the following correctly defines the term 51. Which of the following regions was/were well cartaz? known during the seventeenth century for (a) A Mughal royal farman issued in French simultaneous production of saltpetre, indigo (b) Permission paper from the Mughal and opium? governors of Surat to allow European ships to (a) Burhanpur and Sindh (b) Gujarat anchor at Cambay (c) Bengal and Orissa (d) Bihar (c) A document permitting non-European 52. Match List with List II and select the correct traders for maritime activities in the Asian waters. answer by using the codes given below the (d) Letters exchanged between European lists: trading companies List I List II 56. Under the supervision of which one of the (Event) (Date) following European trading companies the town of (A) Battle of Haldighati 1. 1611 (B) Marriage of Jahangir 2. 1576 Qasimbazar produced the largest amount of silk yarn with Nurjahan during the seventeenth century? (C) The capture of 3. 1680 (a) Danes (b) English Qandahar by Safavids (c) Dutch (d) French (D) Death of Sivaji 4. 1622 Codes: Marathas A B C D (a) 2 1 4 3 57. Which one of the following ruling lines A B C D of the Marathas defeated Baji Rao II, the last (b) 1 3 2 4 Peshwa? A B C D (a) Scindhia (b) Holkar (c) 2 1 3 4 (c) Bhonsle (d) Gaikwar A B C D 58. Match List I with List II and select the cor- (d) 4 1 3 2 rect answer by using the codes given below the 53. The rulers of which of the following was/were called lists: tarafdar by the Mughal monarchs? List I List II (a) Bijapur and Golconda (b) Golconda (A) Sumant 1. Religious affairs (c) Gujarat (d) Ahmadnagar (B) Amatya 2. State correspond- 54. Given below are two statements, one labelled ence as Assertion (A) and the other labeiled as (C) Sachiva 3. Revenue depart- Reason (R): ment Assertion (A): Mahabat Khan rebelled and (D) Panditrao 4. Foreign affairs made Jahangir and Nurjahan prisoners. Codes: Reason (R): Mahabat Khan wanted to instal Prince A B C D Khurram on the Mughal throne. (a) 4 3 2 1 A B C D Model Test Papers | MTP.35

(b) 4 2 3 1 3. ‘Wootz’ — Textile A B C D 4. Filatures — Metallurgy (c) 2 4 1 3 Codes: A B C D (a) 1 and 2 (b) 1 and 3 (d) 3 1 2 4 (c) 2 and 4 (d) 3 and 4

Mughal Empire Decline of Mughal Empire 59. Who among the following was sent to Persia by 65. “This site was granted to the French East India Com- Jahangir to draw portraits of Shah Abbas for Mughal pany in 1674 by Shaista Khan, a governor under the album? Mughal emperor Aurangzeb. During the Seven Years’ (a) Mansur (b) Bichitr War (1756–63) this town was captured (1757) by the (c) Bishandas (d) Basawan John Company but later (1763) restored to the French. 60. In which part of a large Mughal monument Recaptured by the English in 1778, after the outbreak would one usually find a Spandrel? of the American War of Independence (1776–84) it (a) Dome (b) Gateway was restored to the French by the Treaty of (c) Minaret (d) Rampart Paris (1785). Wrested again by the British in 1793, 61. The mausoleum of Rabia-ul Dauran was built on the outbreak of the revolutionary wars in Europe, at it was finally restored to the French in 1815 and re- (a) Lahore (b) Delhi mained part of their overseas empire until its transfer (c) Aurangabad (d) Gulbarga to the Indian republic in 1951.” The reference here 62. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer is to by using the codes given below the lists: (a) Pondicherry (b) Karaikkal List I List II (c) Chandernagore (d) Mahe (Books) (Authors) (A) Iyar Danish 1. Abdul Hamid Lahori East India Company (B) Humayun Nama 2. Khwafi Khan 66. The Treaty of Allahabad was concluded by (C) Badshahnama 3. Gulbadan (a) Robert Clive, Mir Jafar and Raja Balwant Singh Begum (b) Robert Clive, Najm-ud-Daula and Shuja- (D) Muntakhab-ul-Lubab 4. Abul Fazl ud-Daula Codes: (c) Robert Clive, Siraj-ud-Daula and Mir Kasim A B C D (d) Shah Alam, Mir Jafar and Shuja-ud-Daula. (a) 1 2 4 3 A B C D (b) 4 3 1 2 Autonomous States (Mysore) A B C D 67. The First native state to introduce military (c) 4 1 3 2 training on the European model was A B C D (a) Golconda (b) Mysore (d) 1 4 3 2 (c) Oudh (d) Kashmir 63. Who among the following took interest for the First 68. Mangalore, Parambakkam and Porto Novo time in the European movable metal type printing? were places where major battles took place (a) Mir Fathullah Shirazi during the (b) Jahangir (a) First Anglo-Mysore War (c) Muqarrab Khan (b) Second Anglo-Mysore War (d) Bhimji Parekh (c) Third Anglo-Mysore War 64. Which of the following pairs are correctly matched? (d) Fourth Anglo-Mysore War 1. Rabbeting — Shipbuilding 2. Flintlock — Gun-making MTP.36 | Indian History

East India Company (b) exports of more cotton and silk goods to Europe (c) development of indigo and export of opium to 69. The East India Company began to use the China term ‘investment in India’ for (d) development of Jute and promotion of its export (a) their bullion imports to purchase Indian goods to Europe (b) the loot from Buxar for purchasing Indian goods 73. The high courts at Calcutta, Bombay and (c) the profits made from duty free inland trade and Madras to replace the ‘sadar courts’ of Diwani and the surplus from diwani revenue Nizamat were established in the year (d) the borrowed money from Indian moneylenders (a) 1793 (b) 1831 for purchases in India (c) 1833 (d) 1865 70. Madras was restored to the English by the French by 74. Which of the following statements about the (a) the Treaty of Aix-La-Chapelle (1749) Indian Councils Act of 1892 are correct? (b) the Treaty of Pondicherry (1754) 1. It raised the number of additional mem- (c) the Treaty of Salbai (1782) bers to a maximum of 16 for the Supreme (d) the Treaty of Mangalore (1784) Council, 20 for the legislative councils of Bom- bay, Madras and Bengal and 15 for the North- British Colonialism and its Economic Western Provinces and Oudh. 2. It conceded the Congress demand of the principle Impact on India of direct election to the legislative councils 71. Match List I with List II and select the cor- 3. It conceded to the members of the legislative rect answer by using the codes given below the councils the right of discussing the Budget lists: 4. It allowed the members of the legislative councils List I List II the right of asking questions on matters of public (Acts passed for the (Year in which interest. relief of agriculturists) passed) Choose the answer from the codes given (A) Punjab Land 1. 1879 below: Alienation Act (a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 1, 3 and 4 (c) 2, 3 and 4 (d) 1, 2 and 4 (B) Deccan Agricultural 2. 1904 Relief Act (C) North West Provinces 3. 1916 Social and Cultural Awakening Land Alienation Act 75. The report of the Arundel Committee (1906) (D) Central Provinces 4. 1900 dealt with Land Alienation Act (a) proposed changes in the Age of Consent Codes: to Marriage Bill A B C D (b) political reforms (a) 1 4 2 3 (c) higher education A B C D (d) the need to reunite Bengal which had been par- (b) 1 4 3 2 titioned in the previous year A B C D (c) 4 1 3 2 Revolt of 1857 and other Movements A B C D (d) 4 1 2 3 76. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer 72. The remittance problems from India was by using the codes given below the lists: initially tackled by the East India Company List I List II government through the (A) VD Savarkar 1. The Sepoy (a) development of more exports of grains Mutiny and the from India Revolt of 1857 Model Test Papers | MTP.37

(B) Ashok Mehta 2. The Indian War of labour Independence Select the correct answer from the codes given below: (C) SN Sen 3. 1857—The Great (a) 2 and 3 (b) 1 and 4 Rebellion (c) 2 and 4 (d) 1 and 3 (D) RC Majumdar 4. Eighteen Fifty 81. Given below are two statements, one labelled Seven as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Codes: Reason (R): A B C D Assertion (A): There was an upsurge of peasants in (a) 4 3 2 1 Telangana in the erstwhile state of Hyderabad in 1942. A B C D Reason (R): It was an extension of the Quit (b) 1 2 3 4 India Movement of 1942. A B C D In the context of the above two statements, which one (c) 1 3 4 2 of the following is correct? A B C D (a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct expla- (d) 1 4 3 2 nation of A 77. The tribal rebellion against the British known (b) Both A and R are true but R is not a correct as Ulgulan was organised by explanation of A (a) Korra Mallaya (b) Ranade (c) A is true but R is false (c) Birsa Munda (d) Konda Dora (d) A is false but R is true 78. Consider the following four popular movements that 82. Who among the following were associated with the took place against the British rule. Trade Union Movement in India? 1. Bhils Revolt 1. B P Wadia 2. N M Joshi 2. Rebellion of Dhananjaya Bhanja 3. Dhundiraj Thengdi 4. K Kamaraj 5. Vithalbhai Patel 3. Gujjar Revolt Choose the correct answer from the codes 4. Kolhapur Revolt given below: The correct chronological order of these (a) 1 and 2 only (b) 1, 2 and 3 movements is (c) 1, 3 and 4 (d) 3, 4 and 5 (a) 1, 3, 4, 2 (b) 3, 1, 4, 2 (c) 3, 1, 2, 4 (d) 1, 3, 2, 4 Freedom Struggle Freedom Struggle 83. What is the correct chronological sequence of the following? 79. The Congress Nationalist Party was formed 1. The founding of the Ghadr Party to act as a powerful pressure group within the 2. The Chauri-Chaura incident Congress by 3. The execution of Khudiram Bose (a) Motilal Nehru and Tej Bahadur Sapru 4. Moplah Rebellion in Malabar (b) Mrs Annie Besant and C P Ramaswami Iyer Choose the correct answer from the codes (c) Madan Mohan Malaviya and M S Aney given below: (d) Surendranath Banerjea and C R Das (a) 1, 3, 2, 4 (b) 2, 1, 4, 3 (c) 3, 4, 1, 2 (d) 3, 1, 4, 2 Peasant and Trade Union Movement 84. The Congress president who conducted negotiations with Cripps in 1942 and Wavell at the Simla Confer- 80. Which of the following reasons intensified the labour ence was movement in India in the first quarter of the 20th (a) Abul Kalam Azad (b) Jawaharlal Nehru century? (c) J B Kripalani (d) C Rajagopalachari 1. Influence of British labour movement 85. Which one of the following is correctly matched? 2. Russian Revolution of 1917 (a) Nibandhamala — Vishnusastri 3. Rise in cost of living Chippulankar 4. Legislative measures of the British against Indian MTP.38 | Indian History

(b) Sudharak — Sisikar Kumar A B C D Ghosh (c) 3 1 2 4 (c) Raft Gaftar — Agarkar A B C D (d) Sambad Prabhakar — Bal Gangadhar (d) 1 3 2 4 Tilak 91. The Communal Award (1932) announced by Ram- 86. Who among the following were the Indian say Macdonald spoke of special constituencies with Liberals who attended the first session of the Round separate communal electorates to be constituted for Table Conference? women in all provinces except 1. Tej Bahadur Sapru 2. V S Srinivasa (a) NWFP (b) Bengal Sastri (c) Punjab (d) Bombay 3. M R Jayakar 4. C Y Chintamani Presidency Choose the correct answer from the codes 92. Which of the following were reasons for the given below: Congressmen all over the country offering (a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 1, 2 and 4 individual satyagraha in 1942? (c) 2, 3 and 4 (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4 1. The Congress demand for a national 87. Which one of the following adumbrated principles government had been rejected. and constitutional provisions which were later incor- 2. The freedom of speech against the war porated in the Montague-Chelmsford Reforms? effort was denied (a) Nehru Report (b) Wavell Plan 3. The British rulers were not prepared to (c) Lucknow Pact (d) Poona Pact admit that India was a belligerent not of her 88. The leaders of the Home Rule Movement own free will borrowed the term ‘Home Rule’ from a similar 4. Gandhi offered satyagraha himself to cause movement in greater embarrassment to the government (a) Ireland (b) Scotland Choose the correct answer from the codes given (c) United States (d) Canada below: of America (a) 1 and 2 (b) 2, 3 and 4 89. The Simon Commission of 1928 was (c) 1, 2 and 4 (d) 1, 2 and 3 boycotted by the Congress because it 93. Which one of the following statements regarding the (a) did not include a representative of the Constituent Assembly is not correct? Congress (a) The constitution of the constituent assem- (b) included a member of the Muslim League bly was an integral part of the Cabinet (c) definitely negated the claim of the Indian people Mission Plan to determine their own constitution (b) The ‘Objective Resolution’ adopted by the Con- (d) was appointed one year before it was due stituent Assembly was later incorporated into the 90. Match List I with List II and select the cor- preamble of the constitution both in its spirit and rect answer by using the codes given below the as far as possible, the language lists: (c) The members of the Constituent Assembly were List I List II directly elected by the people (A) Young India 1. Surya Sen (d) The rulers of Indian States who acceded (B) Hindustan 2. Chandra Shekh to the Union as provided in the constitu- Prajatantric Sangh Azad tion accepted the premise that sovereignty (C) Hindustan Socialist 3. Vinayak Damodar resided in their people—not in themselves Republic Association Savarkar 94. In 1946 there was a mutiny of Indian Naval (D) Indian Republican 4. Sachindra Sanyal Ratings in Codes: (a) Calcutta (b) Madras A B C D (c) Visakhapatnam (d) Bombay (a) 1 2 3 4 95. Given below are two statements, one labelled A B C D as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as (b) 1 3 4 2 Reason (R): Model Test Papers | MTP.39

Assertion (A): In 1946, the Council of the (c) 3 4 1 2 Muslim league accepted the Cabinet Mission Plan A B C D Reason (R): The Muslim league joined the (d) 1 2 4 3 Interim government formed in 1946 100. Match List I with List II and select the cor- In the context of the above two statements, which one rect answer by using the codes given below the of the following is correct? lists: (a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct expla- List I List II nation of A (Name of the site) (Associated culture) (b) Both A and R are true but R is not a correct (a) Rangplir 1. Palaeolithic explanation of A (c) A is true but R is false (b) Soan 2. Neolithic (d) A is false but R is true (c) Adichchanallur 3. Chaleolithic (d) Burzahom 4. Mesolithic 5. Megalithic Indus Civilisation Codes: 96. Which of the following metal (s) waslwere not used A B C D by the Harappans? (a) 1 4 5 2 (a) Copper (b) Gold and Copper A B C D (c) Iron and Tin (d) Silver and Bronze (b) 3 1 5 2 97. Which one of the following is the most A B C D important feature of Harappan cities? (c) 3 1 5 4 (a) large size (b) Huge buildings A B C D (c) Planned layout (d) Wide roads (d) 2 3 4 5 98. Which one of the following statements is not con- 101. Which one of the following statements about firmed by the evidence of archaeology? the Indus culture is the least possible? (a) People of the Bahrain island acted as (a) The Indus culture originated from the Kalibangan middlemen in the trade between Indus I culture and Sumerian people in the third millenium BC (b) The Indus culture originated from the peasant (b) Lothal played an important role in the sea borne cultures of Sind and Baluchistan trade between the Indus culture and Western Asia (c) The Indus culture is an expansion of Sothi culture (c) The Harappans were supplanted by the (d) The Indus culture sprang directly as an urban Aryans culture without passing through the stage of vil- (d) The Harappans knew the lost-wax lage culture anywhere technique of manufacturing metal images 99. Match List I and List II and select the correct Vedic Culture answer by using the codes given below the 102. There was no regular tax from land in the early Vedic lists: period, because List I List II (a) the people were not settled permanently in one (A) Harappa 1. Cemetery R 37 locality (B) Lothal 2. Dockyard (b) the expenditure of the government was low (C) Kalibangan 3. Figure of dancing (c) the king was not considered as the girl proprietor of the land (D) Mohanjodaro 4. Ploughed field (d) the people were not accustomed to paying land Codes: tax A B C D 103. The four vamas are mentioned for the first time in the (a) 1 2 3 4 (a) Prithvi Sukta (b) Purusa Sukta A B C D (c) Taittiriya Samhita (d) Vajasaneyi (b) 2 1 4 3 Samhita A B C D MTP.40 | Indian History

104. The chief form of property in the Rig Veda was 3. The efficacy of sacrifices (a) gold (b) cattle wealth 4. The theory of rebirth (c) house (d) land Select the correct answer from the codes given below: 105. The Aryan gods invoked in an inscription from Bog- (a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 2, 3 and 4 haz Kui are (c) 1, 2 and 4 (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4 (a) Indra, Vishnu, Varuna and Nasatyas 110. Match List I with List II and select the cor- (b) Rudra, Mitra, Indra and Nasatyas rect answer by using the codes given below the (c) Indra. Mitra, Varuna and Nasatyas lists: (d) Mitra, Vishnu, Varuna and Indra List I List II 106. Match List I with List II and select the cor- (Event) (Place) rect answer by using the codes given below the (A) First Buddhist 1. Vaisali lists: Council List I List II (B) Second Buddhist 2. Rajagriha (A) Asvalayana 1. Samhita Council (B) Apastamba 2. Grihyasutra (C) Third Buddhist 3. Pataliputra (C) Maitrayana 3. Nirukta Council (D) Yaska 4. Dharamasutra (D) Fourth Buddhist 4. Kashmir Codes: Council A B C D Codes: (a) 1 4 2 3 A B C D A B C D (a) 2 3 1 4 (b) 3 1 2 4 A B C D A B C D (b) 3 1 4 2 (c) 2 3 1 4 A B C D A B C D (c) 1 4 3 2 (d) 2 4 1 3 A B C D 107. Which of the following were Vedic assemblies? (d) 2 1 3 4 1. Sabha 2. Vidatha 111. In Buddhist terminology, the word Dharmachakrap- 3. Samiti 4. Parishad ravartana indicates the Choose the correct answer from the codes (a) belief in the cycle of life and death given below: (b) attainment of nirvana by Buddha (a) 1 and 2 (b) 3 and 4 (c) first sermon by Buddha (c) 1, 2 and 3 (d) 1, 3 and 4 (d) the personal religion of the chakravarti 112. Which one of the following, according to the Buddha, Sangam Age would lead to nirvana? (a) To be constantly in the state of a 108. During the Sangam age the Mahabharata in Tamil stithaprajna was composed by (b) Pursuit of the ashtangika marga (a) Perundevanar (b) Villiputhur Alvar (c) Observance of asceticism and penance (c) Kamban (d) Kuttan (d) Adoration of stupa 113. ‘Decay is inherent in all component beings. Religious Movements (Buddhism, Work out your own salvation with diligence.’ These words are attributed to Jainism, Bhagavatism and Brah- (a) Krishna (b) Mahavira minism) (c) the Buddha (d) Sankaracharya 114. Which one of the following was introduced by Ma- 109. Which of the following did the Buddha not havira? believe in? (a) Ahimsa (b) Aparigraha 1. The authority of the Vedas (c) Brahmacharya (d) Satya 2. Superiority of the Brahmin Model Test Papers | MTP.41

115. Match List I with List II and select the cor- 118. Which one of the following is mentioned in the rect answer by using the codes given below the Besnagar Pillar inscription as Bhagavata? lists: (a) Dion (b) Heliodoros List I List II (c) Antialkidas (d) Kasiputra (Name of the jinas) (Their cognizance) Bhagabhadra (A) Parsvanatha 1. Bull 119. Match List I with List II and select the cor- (B) Adinatha 2. Lion rect answer by using the codes given below the (C) Mahavira 3. Snake lists: (D) Santinatha 4. Goat List I List II 5. Deer (A) Concept of 1. Bhagavatism Codes: Ardhanarisvara A B C D (B) Worship of Five 2. Smartas (a) 3 2 4 1 deities A B C D (C) The theory of 3. Jainism (b) 3 1 2 5 ‘May be’ A B C D (D) Hero worship 4. Saivism (c) 2 4 1 3 Codes: A B C D A B C D (d) 5 2 4 1 (a) 2 1 3 4 116. Which one of the following statements is not correct? A B C D (a) There are Jaina temples at Khajuraho (b) 4 2 1 3 (b) There are Jaina caves at Udayagiri in A B C D Orissa (c) 4 2 3 1 (c) There was a Jaina stupa at Mathura A B C D (d) There are Jaina monsteries at Vaisali (d) 3 4 2 1 117. The two Indian deities described by Megasthenes as 120. Which one of the following is the most Dionysus and Heracles are identified respectively with important feature of Bhagavatism? (a) Surya and (b) Siva and Krishna (a) Stress on devotion to a personal God (b) Stress on penance Kartikeya (c) Stress on rituals (c) Indra and Yama (d) Agni and Varuna (d) Stress on knowledge

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1. (d) 2. (b) 3. (d) 4. (a) 5. (a) 6. (b) 7. (d) 8. (b) 9. (a) 10. (d) 11. (b) 12. (d) 13. (c) 14. (c) 15. (a) 16. (a) 17. (d) 18. (d) 19. (b) 20. (a) 21. (d) 22. (d) 23. (c) 24. (b) 25. (c) 26. (a) 27. (d) 28. (c) 29. (b) 30. (d) 31. (c) 32. (a) 33. (a) 34. (9) 35. (b) 36. (b) 37. (c) 38. (c) 39. (d) 40. (c) 41. (a) 42. (c) 43. (a) 44. (c) 45. (c) 46. (a) 47. (b) 48. (d) 49. (c) 50. (b) 51. (d) 52. (a) 53. (a) 54. (c) 55. (c) 56. (c) 57. (b) 58. (a) 59. (c) 60. (b) 61. (c) 62. (b) 63. (d) 64. (a) 65. (c) 66. (b) 67. (b) 68. (b) 69. (c) 70. (a) 71. (d) 72. (c) 73. (d) 74. (b) 75. (a) 76. (c) 77. (c) 78. (d) 79. (c) 80. (a) 81. (a) 82. (b) 83. (d) 84. (a) 85. (a) 86. (b) 87. (c) 88. (a) 89. (c) 90. (d) 91. (a) 92. (d) 93. (c) 94. (d) 95. (d) 96. (c) 97. (c) 98. (c) 99. (d) 100. (b) 101. (d) 102. (a) 103. (b) 104. (b) 105. (c) 106. (d) 107. (c) 108. (a) 109. (a) 110. (d) 111. (c) 112. (b) 113. (c) 114. (c) 115. (b) 116. (c) 117. (b) 118. (b) 119. (c) 120. (a) MTP.42 | Indian History

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Indus Civllisation Vodic Culture 1. At which one of the following sets of Harappan sites, 6. ‘Brahma’ emerged as the Supreme entity during the have structures with fire altars been discovered? times of the (a) Chanhudaro and Amri (a) Rig Veda (b) Brahmanas (b) and Kalibangan (c) Aranyakas (d) Upanishads (c) Harappa and Mohenjodaro 7. The material culture of the Later Vedic people in the (d) Alamgirpur and Daimabad Ganga-Yamuna valley maybe gleaned from 2. A bronze chariot of Harappan times yoked to a pair (a) Ochre-coloured pottery (b) Painted grey ware of bullocks and driven by a nude human figure has (c) Black and red ware been discovered at (d) Northern black polished ware (a) sanghol (b) Rojdi (c) Kunal (d) Daimabad 3. A highly advanced water management system of Sangam Age Harappan times has been unearthed at 8. Match List I (Sutra literature) with List II (a) Dholavira (b) Lothal (Subject they dealt with) and select the (c) Kalibangan (d) Alamgirpur correct answer by using the codes given below the 4. Which one of the following is more probable regarding lists: the Harappan script? List I List II (a) It is distinctly proto-Dravidian (A) Kalpa 1. Etymology (b) It is distinctly Sanskritic (B) Siksha 2. Phonetics (c) It is not alphabetical but mainly pictographic (C) Nirukta 3. Ritual (d) The language used by these scripts has definite (D) Chhanda 4. Metre Sumerian connections Codes: 5. An anthropomorphic figure of copper has been re- A B C D ported from the Harappan levels at (a) 3 2 1 4 (a) Lothal (b) Kalibangan A B C D (c) Harappa (d) Rojdi (b) 3 2 4 1 Model Test Papers | MTP.43

A B C D 1. Srenika Bimbisara (c) 2 3 4 1 2. Chandragupta Maurya A B C D 3. Kharavela (d) 2 3 1 4 Choose the answer using the codes given 9. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer below: by using the codes given below the lists: (a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 1 and 2 List I List II (c) 2 and 3 (d) 1 and 3 (A) Tirukkural 1. Llango Adigal (B) Silappadikaram 2. Sathanar (C) Manimekalai 3. Tolkappiyar Bhagavatism and Brahmanism (D) Tolkappiyam 4. Tiruvalluvar 15. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer Codes: by using the codes given below the lists: A B C D List I List II (a) 4 1 2 3 (A) Balarama 1. Battle axe A B C D (B) Rama Dasarathi 2. Dwarf (b) 1 4 3 2 (C) Kalki 3. Bow and arrow A B C D (D) Vamana 4. Horse and sword (c) 4 1 3 2 Codes: A B C D A B C D (d) 1 4 2 3 (a) 1 2 4 3 10. The earliest available work of the Sangam Tamils is A B C D (a) Pattinappalai (b) 2 3 1 4 (b) Tirumurugarruppadai A B C D (c) Maduraikanchi (c) 1 3 4 2 (d) Tolkappiyam A B C D (d) 3 1 4 2 Buddhism 16. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer by using the codes given below the lists: 11. Which one of the following factors was most respon- List I List II sible for the origin of Buddhism? (A) Visvanatha 1. Puri (a) Change of tibal state into territorial state (B) Vasudeva 2. Madurai (b) Impact of the increasing use of iron (C) Minakshi 3. Kasi (c) Growth of the guild system (D) Eknamsa or Bhadra 4. Mathura (d) Challenge of the kshatriyas to the dominance of Codes: the brahmanas A B C D 12. Which one of the following Buddhist sects insists on (a) 2 1 3 4 the necessity of the monastic life, worship of the relics A B C D of Lord Buddha, attainment of salvation by oneself (b) 3 1 2 4 alone and in the belief that Lord Buddha will no more A B C D be born? (c) 3 4 2 1 (a) Hinayana (b) Mahayana A B C D (c) Vajrayana (d) Lamaism (d) 2 3 4 1

Jainism Maurya Empire 13. The Jain temples known for the finest marble carvings 17. Which one of the following tanned the basis the mate- in India are situated at rial culture in the Maurya period? (a) Gwalior (b) Kiradu 1. Intensive use of iron (c) Modhera (d) Dilwara 2. Abundance of punch-marked coins 14. Which of the following kings of ancient India were 3. Plenty of NBPW patrons of Jainism? 4. Use of burnt-bricks 5. Use of ring-wells MTP.44 | Indian History

Select the answer by using the codes given below: (d) There were growing evidences of agrarian expan- (a) 1, 2, 3 and 5 (b) 1, 3 and 4 sion (c) 2, 4 and 5 (d) 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 23. Which of the following are marked by the agrarian 18. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly structure in the post-Gupta period? matched? 1. Large-scale grants of land in different parts of (a) Fourteen Major — Various Principles India Rock Edics of Dhamma 2. Undermining of communal rights over land (b) Seven Pillar — Appendix to Rock 3. Subjection of peasants Rock Edicts Edicts Select the answer by using the codes given below: (c) Bhabru inscription — New Administra- (a) 1 and 2 (b) 2 and 3 tion by Asoka (c) 1 and 3 (d) 1, 2 and 3 (d) Barabar Cave — Asoka’s Tolerance 24. Which of the following statements explain the aspects Inscription of Feudalism in Ancient India? 1. The king granted lands to his officers in lieu of salaries Trade and Commerce 2. The work of cultivation was carried out by sudra 19. During the Gupta period the term Bhagakara meant peasants (a) land tax (b) sales tax 3. Some of the powerful feudatories had their own (c) tax on waste lands (d) tax on mines sub-feudatories 20. Which one of the following can be inferred from the Choose the answer from the codes given below: paucity of coins in the later Gupta period? (a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 1 and 2 (a) Decline of trade (c) 2 and 3 (d) 1 and 3 (b) Decline of money economy (c) Non-availability of gold 800–1200 AD and Cholas (d) Self-sufficient village economy 21. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer 25. In the early medieval period, the system of land grants by using the codes given below the lists: did not exist in List I List II (a) Orissa (b) Uttar Pradesh (A) Setthi 1. Gold coin (c) Punjab (d) Rajasthan (B) Sreni 2. Bronze and cop- per coin (C) Nikkha 3. Chief of a guild Changes in the Social Structure (D) Kamsa 4. Guild 26. The place at which the first Sati pillar dated 510 AD Codes: was found is A B C D (a) Eran (b) Chotegaon (a) 3 4 2 1 (c) Lothal (d) Dangvada A B C D 27. Which one of the following ancient Smritikaras gave (b) 4 3 1 2 the widow a position next to that of the son in the A B C D matter of inheritance? (c) 3 4 1 2 (a) Yajnavalkya (b) Manu A B C D (c) Brhaspati (d) Katyayana (d) 4 3 2 1 Vedic Culture Agrarian Structure 28. To which category can works such as Jyotisha Ve- 22. Which one of the following statements is not true of danga and Surya-Prajnapti be assigned? the post-Gupta agrarian structure? (a) Cosmology (b) Astrology (a) It was marked by the emergence of landed inter- (c) Astronomy (d) Horoscopy mediaries (b) It saw the growth of subject peasantry (c) It was rooted in the absolute royal ownership of land Model Test Papers | MTP.45

800–1200 AD and Cholas A B C D (b) 4 5 3 1 29. Which one of the following places is known for its A B C D monumental temple architecture? (c) 4 1 5 2 (a) Arikkamedu A B C D (b) Amaravati (d) 3 4 5 2 (c) Gangaikondacholapuram (d) Uttirainerur Agrarian Structure Buddhism 33. Who among the following had referred to the lost glory and splendour of Pataliputra? 30. Which one of the following Chaityas is circular? (a) Cosmas (b) Fa-hien (a) Bhaja (b) Bidsa (c) Huien Tsang (d) Megasthenes (c) Junnar (d) Karle Maurya Empire 800–1200 AD and Cholas 34. Whol was the Provincial Governor of the area marked 31. Match List I with List II and select the ‘X’ at the time of Chandragupta Maurya? correct answer by using the codes given below the lists: List I List II (A) Ajanta 1. Temples built by the Chandela rulers (B) Ellora 2. Cave paintings (C) Khajuraho 3. Kailasha temple (D) Elephanta 4. Brahmanical A B C D (a) 2 3 1 4 A B C D (b) 2 4 1 3 A B C D (c) 1 3 4 2 A B C D (a) Menander (b) Pushyagupta (d) 3 2 1 4 (c) Tushaspha (d) Rudradaman 32. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer by using the codes given below the lists: Trade and Commerce List I List II 35. The earliest inscription in Sanskrit is found at (A) Rudramal Temple 1. Khajuraho (a) Sanchi (b) Girnar (B) Kandarey 2. Bhuvaneswar (c) Lumibini (d) Mahadeva Temple (C) Udayesvara Temple 3. Kanchipuram (D) Lingaraja Temple 4. Siddhapur 800–1200 AD and Cholas 5. Udaipur 36. Before the Ghorian conquest Muslim rulers were Codes: found in A B C D (a) Oudh (b) Katehar (a) 3 1 4 2 (c) Sind (d) Delhi MTP.46 | Indian History

37. Evidence regarding Chola paintings has been found 1. He claimed his descent from the mythical here at Afrasiyab (a) Uraiyur (b) Puhar 2. He copied the court etiquettes of the Iranian Court (c) Thanjavur (d) Kanchipuram 3. He instituted rigid formalities in the harem. 38. What is the correct chronological order in which the 4. He reorganised the boundaries of provinces of following Chola kings ruled? the kingdom 1. Rajaraja III 2. Rajeodra III Select the correct answer by using the codes given 3. Rajadhirnja II 4. Vikranta Chola below: Choose the correct answer by using the codes given (a) 2 and 3 (b) 1 and 2 below: (c) 3 and 4 (d) 2 and 4 (a) 4, 3, 2, 1 (b) 3, 4, 1, 2 43. In the Delhi Sultanate, the highest rural authority for (c) 3, 4, 2, 1 (d) 4, 3, 1, 2 land revenue was (a) Chaudhari (b) Rawat (c) Rana (d) Malik Provincial Dynasties 44. The fixation of land revenue on the basis of measure- 39. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer ment of land and estimation of yield per biswa was by using the codes given below the lists: done first under List I List II (a) Ala-ud-din Khilji (Deccan State) (Founder) (b) Muhammad Tughlaq (A) Bidar 1. Yusuf Adil Shah (c) Rroz Shah Tughlaq (B) Ahmadoagar 2. Qutub Shah (d) Sikandar Lodi (C) Bijapur 3. Amir Ali Barid 45. Amir Khusrau composed his Nuhsiphir in praise of (D) Gokunda 4. Malik Ahmad (a) Ala-ud-din Khilji Codes: (b) India A B C D (c) Khwaja Moin-ud-din Chishti (a) 1 2 3 4 (d) Prophet of Islam A B C D (b) 4 3 2 1 A B C D Provincial Dynasties (c) 3 2 1 4 46. The Vijayanagara Emperor who made the greatest A B C D contribution to Telugu and Sanskrit literature was (d) 3 4 1 2 (a) Devaraya I (b) Devaraya II (c) Krishnadevaraya (d) Ramaraya Delhi Sultanate 47. The Vijayanagara ruler who tried to strengthen his military position by recruiting in his army 10,000 40. Which one of the following Sultans brought the Muslim mounted bowmen, was Ashokan pillar to Delhi? (a) Bukka I (b) Devaraya II (a) Ghias-ud-din Tughlaq (c) Virupaksha Raya (d) Vir Narsimha (b) Fimz Tughlaq 48. The chronological order in which the following for- (c) Ala-ud-din Khilji eign travellers, viz. (d) Muhammad Tughlaq 1. Nicolo Conti 2. Abdur Razzaq 41. The Delhi Sultan who established a ministry of agri- 3. Ibn Batuta 4. Barbosa cultural development was Visited India is: (a) Balban (a) 1, 3, 4, 2 (b) 3, 1, 2, 4 (b) Muhammad Tughlaq (c) 3, 1, 4, 2 (d) 1, 3, 2, 4 (c) Ala-ud-din Khilji (d) Firoz Tughlaq 42. Which of the following measures were taken by Bal- Indo-Islamic Culture ban for re-establishing the prestige and power of the 49. The following Sufi Silsilas (orders) Crown? 1. Naqshbandi 2. Chishti 3. Qadiri, and 4. Suhrawardi Model Test Papers | MTP.47

appeared in India at different times. Their chronologi- (c) 1570______Fall of Ranthambor cal order is: (d) 1576______Battle of Haldighati (a) 4, 2, 3, 1 (b) 2, 4, 1, 3 57. The first English Captain to disembark at Sure and (c) 2, 4,3, 1 (d) 4, 2, 1, 3 who also visited the Court of Emperor Jahangir at 50. Which one of the following medieval Bhak- Agra was ti saints was patronised by Raja Lakshman (a) Thomas Stephens (b) Hawkins Sen of Bengal as one of the ‘Five Gems’ of his Court? (c) Ralph Fitch (d) John Mildenhall (a) Vallabhacharya (b) Jaidev 58. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer (c) Chaitanya (d) Narsi Mehta by using, the codes given below the list: List I List II Mughal Empire (Period) (Event) (A) 1645 ad 1. Aurangzeb was appointed 51. According to Moreland, the jama signified Viceroy of Deccan (a) total revenue assessment (B) 1637 ad 2. Gujarat famine (b) total land revenue assessment (C) 1630 ad 3. Transfer of capital (c) land revenue realised Shahjahanabad (d) net income of the ruling class (D) 1666 ad 4. Death of Shahjahan 52. In the Mughal Empire, the land revenue was stated 5. Capture of Kangra fort mainly in Codes: (a) Copper dams (b) Silver rupees A B C D (c) Goldmuhrs (d) Maunds (a) 3 1 5 4 53. Consider the passage given below: A B C D “No one should interfere with the people’s religious (b) 3 1 2 4 beliefs, for no one deliberately chooses an incorrect A B C D religion.” (c) 4 3 1 2 This view was expressed in A B C D (a) advice to Bughra Khan (d) 1 3 2 5 (b) advice to Humayun 59. Which one of the following statements is not correct? (c) letter to Shah Abbas (a) The vakil was a prestigious office in ran and (d) message to Khusrau dignity 54. Which of the following accounted for (b) Akbar separated the revenue and Financial pow- agrarian crisis during the late seventeenth ers from the office of vakil century? (c) Office of vakil assumed importance during the 1. Inbuilt weaknesses in jagir system later part of Aurangzeb’s reign 2. Monetary fluctuations (d) Jahangir ruled without a vakil for a long 3. Natural calamities time 4. Administrative failure 60. Which one of the following pair is not correctly Choose the correct answer by using the codes given matched? below: (a) Arif Qandahari Tarikh-i-Akbari (a) 1 and 2 (b) 3 and 4 (b) Nizamuddin Ahmad Tabaqat-i-Akbari (c) 1, 2 and 3 (d) 2, 3 and 4 (c) Abdul Qadir Badaoni Muntakhab-ut- 55. Which one of the following sets of officers w, Tawarikh not found in the Provincial Administration of the (d) Mutamad Khan Khulast-ut- Mughals? Tawarikh (a) Subehdars, Faujdars, Karoris (b) Faujdars, Diwan, Bakhshi 61. Khwaja Mansur, the court painter of Jahangir was a (c) Muhtasib, Wazir, Amil celebrated painter of (d) Wazir, Bakhshi, Mir Saman (a) portraits of birds and animals 56. Which one of the following pairs is not matched? (b) portraits of Mughal nobles (a) 1560______Fall of Bairam Khan (c) landscapes (b) 1564______Conquest of Gondwana (d) frescoes MTP.48 | Indian History

62. Khwaja Abdus Samad was the court painter of European Commerce (a) Babur (b) Akbar (c) Jahangir (d) Shahjahan 69. As a part of dowry on the marriage of Princess Cath- 63. The Fatawai Alamgiri compiled at the order of Au- erine of Braganza with Charles I, Bombay was given rangzeb in 1663 by six persons headed by Shaikh to the British by the (a) French (b) Danes Nizam, was a (c) Spaniards (d) Dutch (a) book of administrative rules 70. During the 17th Century, the trade between India and (b) set of military regulations was dominated by the (c) set of religious regulations (a) Portuguese (b) Dutch (d) collection of sayings of Aurangzeb (c) English (d) French 64. Shaikh Ahmad Sirhindi was imprisoned by 71. In the given map, the largest port of the Mughal Em- (a) Humayun (b) Akbar pire in the 17th Century was the one shown at (c) Jahangir (d) Shahjahan 55. The statement that “both Agra and Fatehpur Sikri are bigger than London” was made by (a) Bernier (b) Ralph Fitch (c) Hawkins (d) Manucci

Marathas 66. The author of the Das Bodh written during the Maratha period was (a) Dadaji Konddeva (b) Ramdas (c) Tukaram (d) Eknath 67. Who among the following sons of Aurangzeb sought the help of Marathas against his father? (a) Akbar (b) Muazzam (c) Azam (d) Karnbakhsha 68. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer (a) A (b) B by using the codes given below the lists: (c) C (d) D List I List II (Officials in Shivaji’s (Designation) administration) Decline of Mughals: Autonomous (A) Amatya 1. Ecclesiastical Head States (B) Dandadhyiksha 2. Home Secretary (C) Sachiv 3. Foreign Secretary 72. The effects of revenue reforms introduced by Murshid (D) Sumant 4. Finance Minister Quli Khan in Bengal raised the annual revenue to Codes: nearly A B C D (a) eighty lakh rupees (a) 1 4 3 2 (b) one and half crore rupees A B C D (c) one crore rupees (b) 4 1 2 3 (d) two crore rupees A B C D 73. Which of the following territories were restored to (c) 4 1 3 2 the Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II by the English? A B C D (a) 24 Paraganas (b) Kara and Allahabad (d) 1 4 2 3 (c) Bihar and Orissa (d) Avadh and Orissa

Marathas 74. Which one of the following statements correctly defines the term Hindu Pad-Padshahi? Model Test Papers | MTP.49

(a) Maratha Swarajya 81. Which one of the following statements correctly (b) Maratha Empire describes the Dual Government arrangement made (c) Maratha Imperialism by the East India Company in Bengal? (d) Hindu Swarajya (a) Executive and judicial authority were separated (b) Revenue collection was entrusted to the deputy nawab, while military affairs were retained by Decline of Mughals: Autonomous the Company States (c) Revenue administration and the administration 75. In the succession conflict after Ranjit Singh’s demise, of criminal justice were separated and were with power was usurped by the British and the Nawab respectively (a) Dhian Singh (b) Nao Nihal Singh (d) The new arrangement was made to encourage (c) Sher Singh (d) Kharag Singh agriculture 76. Consider the following statements about Tipu Sultan: 1. He made no treaty with the British British Economic Impact 2. He had no quarrel with the Marathas 3. He sought French alliance 82. The economic policy of the British in India was to 4. He fell fighting against the British Of these state- (a) industrialise India ments (b) bring India to the level of Western countries (a) 1, 2 and 3 are correct (c) promote the material prosperity of the Indians (b) 2, 3 and 4 are correct (d) convert India into an agrarian satellite of metro- (c) 3 and 4 are correct politan capitalism (d) 1 and 4 are correct 83. Which one of the following Acts abolished the trading 77. Raushan Akhtar ascended the throne with the title rights of the East India Company? (a) Jahandar Shah (b) Shah Jahan II (a) Regulating Act of 1773 (c) Mohammad Shah (d) Alamgir II (b) Charter Act of 1813 (c) Charter Act of 1833 (d) Charter Act of 1853 EICO and Bengal Nawabs 84. Under the Permanent Settlement, the zamindar’s share 78. What was the main cause of conflict between Mir in the collected land revenue was Qasim and the East India Company? (a) 1/4 (b) 1/3 (a) Mir Qasim’s alliance with the Mughal Emperor (c) 1/11 (d) 1/6 and the Nawab of Oudh 85. Foreign capitalists were attracted by Indian industry (b) Abuse of Dastaks by the English for a variety of reasons. Which one of the following (c) Mir Qasim’s conspiracy with the French reasons was not one of them? (d) Mir Jafar’s conspiracy with the East India Com- (a) Labour was extremely cheap pany (b) Raw materials were readily and cheaply available 79. Siraj-ud-daula lost his Masnad because of (c) Indian capitalist class was well developed but (a) his weak army unable to compete (b) his religious policy (d) For many Indian products there was a ready (c) widespread economic distress demand the world over (d) intrigues and treachery at home 80. What is the correct chronological order of the follow- Freedom Struggle ing British officials in India? 1. Sir John Shore 86. Who among the following was not a member of the 2. Marquis Cornwallis Congress Socialist Party, although he encouraged and 3. Earl of Minto blessed its formation? 4. Marquess of Wellesley (a) Achyuta Patwardhan Select the answer using the codes given be/o”,” (b) Jawaharlal Nehru (a) 2, 1, 4, 3 (b) 1, 2, 3, 4 (c) Jayaprakash Narayan (c) 1, 2, 4, 3 (d) 2, 1, 3, 4 (d) Acharya Narendra Dev MTP.50 | Indian History

1857 Revolt and Other Popular Move- Freedom Struggle ments 91. The cultural background of Revolutionary Terrorism 87. Rani Gaidiliu, a rebel leader against the British, was in Bengal had been strengthened by the writings of from (a) Michael Madhusudhan Dutt (a) Tripura (b) Assam (b) Sakharam Ganesh Deuskar (c) Nagaland (d) Manipur (c) Bankim Chandra Ghattopadhyay 88. The author who described the Revolt of 1857 as the (d) Rabindranath Tagore ‘First War of Independence’ was (a) Ashok Mehta (b) R C Majumdar Trade Union Movement (c) S N Sen (d) V D Savarkar 92. The Bombay Mill Hands’ Association of 1890 was the first of a kind of trade union in India. It was founded Social and Cultural Awakening by 89. The Widow Remarriages Act was passed during the (a) Sadipada Banerjee (b) N M Lokhande Governor-Generalship of (c) M N Roy (d) S M Joshi (a) Bentin (b) Dalhousie (c) Canning (d) Lawrence Lower Caste Movements 90. Match List I with List II and select the cor- rect answer by using the codes given below the 93. The lower castes tried to assert themselves by borrow- lists: ing and imitating customs and manners of the upper castes. This was termed as Sanskritisation by List I List II (a) M K Gandhi (b) Bernard Cohn (A) Raja Rammohan 1. Observed that (c) B R Ambedkar (d) M N Srinivas Roy Brahmoism should become a sort of universal religion Freedom Struggle (B) Keshab Chandra 2. Identified Hinduism 94. In the elections of 1937, the Muslim League’s electoral with the religion as performance in-the Muslim majority provinces such founded in the as Sindh, Punjab and North West Frontier had been Vedas (a) extremely good (b) very good (C) Dayanand 3. Emphasised that (c) good (d) very poor Saraswati there are many 95. Subhas Chandra Bose fought the Congress Presiden- roads to God tial elections in 1939 on the ground that (D) Ramakrishna 4. Proclaimed that (a) he did not like the nomination of Silaramayya Paramahansa the purest form of (b) he pleaded for elections instead of nominations Hindu religion was (c) he was opposed to Gandhiji to be found in (d) he favoured an aggressive policy which was op- Upanishads posed by the Congress leaders Codes: 96. During the later half of the nineteenth century, the A B C D Indian intelligentsia started protesting against the (a) 1 4 2 3 policies of the colonial rule by various means. Which A B C D one of the following was not a part of that protest? (b) 1 4 3 2 (a) Writing books and articles on the Subject (b) Publishing newspapers for articulating their A B C D views (c) 4 1 3 2 (c) Forming societies, associations and organisations A B C D to voice their grievances (d) 4 1 2 3 (d) Resorting to armed resistance Model Test Papers | MTP.51

EICO Social and Cultural Awakening 97. Lord Macaulay was associated with 101. Modemisation of Muslims in India was initiated by. (a) Reforms in the army (a) Sir Syed Ahmad Khan (b) Abolition of sati (b) Abdul Latif (c) Codification of laws (c) Badruddin Tayabji (d) Permanent Settlement (d) Syed Amir Ali 102. Which one of the following pairs is not correct matched? Freedom Struggle (a) Deoband School — Saiyyad Ahamd 98. The President of the Indian National Congress at the (b) Majlis-i-Ahrar — Maulana Azad time of Indian independence was (c) Khaksar — Inayat Ullah (a) Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad Mashriqui (b) Jawaharlal Nehru (d) Khudai Khidmatgar — Abdul Ghaffar (c) Dr Rajendra Prasad Khan (d) J B Kripalani 99. Rabindranath Tagore gave up his knighthood because Freedom Struggle of 103. “There was little sympathy in spite of loud professions (a) Jallianwalla Bagh tragedy of loyalty. Moderate and Extremist alike learnt with (b) brutal suppression of Civil Disobedience Move- satisfaction of German victories. There was no love ment for Germany of course, only the desire to see our rulers (c) execution of Bhagat Singh humbled.” Who among the following wrote this? (d) Chauri Chaura incident (a) C R Das (b) Jawaharlal Nehru 100. Match List I with list II and select the correct (c) Gandhi (d) Rabindranath Tagore answer by using the codes given below the 104. Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched? lists: (a) Gokhale — British Indian List I List II Association (A) A O Hume 1. “Hindus and Mus- (b) Narayan Malhar — All India Trade lims were two eyes of Joshi Union Congress India” (c) Annie Besant — Servants of India (B) Sir Syed 2. Enacted Seditious Society (d) Dadabhai Naoroji — Home-Rule Ahmad Khan Meeting Act League (C) Minto 3. Lt Governor of East Ben- Directions: The following 16 (sixteen) items consist gal and Assam of two statements, one labelled the ‘Assertion A’ and (D) Fuller 4. Secretary of Indian the other labelled the ‘Reason R’. You are to examine National Congress these two statements carefully and decide if the As- Codes: sertion A and the Reason R are individually true and A B C D if so, whether the Reason is a correct explanation of (a) 4 1 3 2 the Assertion. Select your answers to these items using A B C D the codes given below and mark your answer sheet (b) 1 3 2 4 accordingly. A B C D (a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct expla- (c) 4 2 1 3 nation of A A B C D (b) Both A and R are true but R is not a correct (d) 4 1 2 3 explanation of A (c) A is true but R is false (d) A is false but R is true MTP.52 | Indian History

Buddhism Agrarian Structure 105. Assertion (A): Hinayana and Mahayana 110. Assertion (A): The post-Gupta agrarian structure is Buddhism were divided into four marked by growing feudal set-up. speculative Schools, Vaibhashika, Reason (R): It saw the emergence of Sautrantika, Madhymika and Yo- landed intermediaries and sub- gachara. jected peasantry on a large scale. Reason (R): References to these four schools 111. Assertion (A): Some Pallave grants prohibited are to be found in the Brahmanical the entry of royal officers in the works on philosophy. granted village. Reason (R): The granted villages were Vedic Culture directly administered by the king. 106. Assertion (A): The Indo-Aryans came to India Changes in Social Structure from somewhere in Central Asia, possibly from the region south of 112. Assertion (A): A n u l o m a marriages were the Urals and east of the Caspian in vogue during the Gupta Sea. period. Reason (R): They had been defeated by their Reason (R): The Gupta monarchs wanted to ab- Indo-European neighbours. sorb the foreigners into the Hindu fold. Bhagavatism Trade and Commerce 107. Assertion (A): The Bhagavata religion spread to western India and northern Dec- 113. Assertion (A): Pushyamitra had signalled his can. success by performing the As- Reason (R): The Yadava-Satvata-Vrishni people vamedha. of Mathura migrated to different Reason (R): Vasumitra had inflicted a defeat on regions. the Yavanas. 114. Assertion (A): The Chola ruler Rajendra’s atrocities during his conquest of Maurya Empire have been highlighted 108. Assertion (A): Patanjali attests that during the in the Mahavamsa. Mauryan times, new cults and Reason (R): The author had a strong sympathy superstitions were introduced for for Buddhism. the sake of money. Reason (R): The treasury needed to be adequate- Indo-Islamic cuture ly filled to meet any unforeseen economic crisis in the kingdom. 115. Assertion (A): The Bhakti saint Vallabha-charya professed Suddhavaita philosophy. Reason (R): He completely identified the Trade and Commerce individual soul with Brahman and 109. Assertion (A): The Kushanas carried on sea trade did not subscribe to the distinction through the Persian Gulf and the between the two. Red Sea. Reason (R): They maintained a well-organised Mughal Empire navy. 116. Assertion (A): The agrarian crisis began in the later part of the seven-teenth century. Model Test Papers | MTP.53

Reason (R): The oppressed peasantry joined the Marathas local rebel leaders and zamindars. 117. Assertion (A): The Buland Darwaza at Fatehpur 119. Assertion (A): Jaisingh succeeded in persuading Sikri was built by Akbar in 1602. Shivaji to come to Aurangzeb’s Reason (R): He wanted to commemorate his court and enter imperial services. conquest of Gujarat. Reason (R): The attempt at reconcilia- 118. Assertion (A): Sulhkul, namely, peace with tion failed because Shivaji was all became the state policy of dissatisfied with the terms Akbar. offered. Reason (R): He removed religious disabilities 120. Assertion (A): Soon after the resignation of of the Hindus by abolishing the the Congress ministries in the pilgrim taxes, jiziyah and opening provinces in 1939, the Muslim state services to them. League observed a ‘Deliverance Day’. Reason (R): Ambedkar supported and jointed it.

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Mughal Empire A B C D (c) 3 1 4 2 1. The longest canal of its time which is still used and is A B C D most beneficial to North India was built by (d) 1 3 4 2 (a) Sher Shah Suri (b) Babur 4. ‘Amongst his great nobels he (the king) was (c) Firuz Shah (d) Shahjahan so predominant that none dared lift his head 2. Manucci says that the re-imposition of Juziya was too high. But with the humbler classes he was strongly opposed by a group of nobles headed by benevolent and debonair, willingly giving (a) Jaswant Singh (b) Jahanara them audience and hearing their petitions. (c) Rana Raj Singh (d) Shayista Khan He was pleased to accept their presents, tak- 3. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer ing them into his hands and holding them to using the codes given below the lists: his breast.’ Consider the quotation given above List I List II and indicate who it is attributed to and who was the (Events) (Years) king referred to in it (A) Conquest of Malwa 1. 1956 (a) Monserrate; Akbar (B) Formation of Subas 2. 1574–5 (b) Tavernier; Jahangir (C) Annexation of Kashmir 3. 1580 (c) Fitch; Shahjahan (D) Establishment of the 4. 1586 (d) Hawkins; Aurangzeb Department of News 5. Who among the following rulers was very proficient Reporting in dancing and music? Codes: (a) Adil Shah Sur (b) Babur A B C D (c) Akbar (d) Jahangir 6. In the Mughal Empire, the salaries of the nobles were (a) 3 1 2 4 fixed A B C D (a) arbitrarily in each case by the Emperor (b) 1 3 2 4 (b) according to their mansab number (c) on the basis of the size of their contingent (d) on the basis of their race and competence Model Test Papers | MTP.55

7. Which of the following were the main features of the List I List II imperial Mughal land revenue system? (Monuments) (Features) 1. It varied according to the crop grown (a) Taj Mahal 1. Extensive use of 2. It varied from region to region trabeate forms 3. It varied according to farming bids received (b) Fatehpur Sikri 2. Largest dome 4. It varied according to individual contracts with palace complex built in premodern village headmen India Select the answer using the codes given below: (c) Gole Gumbad 3. Surrounded by (a) 2, 3 and 4 (b) 1 and 4 water (c) 1 and 2 (d) 1 and 3 (d) Sher Shah’s Tomb 4. Bulbous dome 8. Abul Fazl justifies the realisation of revenues by Akbar Codes: as it was the A B C D (a) remuneration of sovereignty (a) 1 4 3 2 (b) divine right of the king A B C D (c) cost of maintaining the army for the protection (b) 4 1 3 2 of borders A B C D (d) hereditary proprietary right of the king (c) 1 4 3 2 9. The Satnamis who rebelled in the time of Aurangzeb A B C D and occupied the town of Namaul, were followers of (d) 4 1 2 3 (a) Kabir (b) Dadu (c) Guru Nanak (d) Ravidas European Commerce Delhi Sultanate 13. The founding Charter of the English East India Com- pany was granted by 10. ‘So complete was the ruin that not a cat or dog was (a) Henry VIII (b) Elizabeth I left among the buildings of the city, in its palace or (c) James I (d) Charles I its suburbs. 14. The first Danish settlement of trade at Tranquebar was The above statement about the transfer of capital by established in the year Sultan Muhammad bin Tughlaq was made by (a) 1620 (b) 1630 (a) Amir Khusrau (b) Isami (c) 1660 (d) 1616 (c) Ibn Batuta (d) Ziauddin Barani Marathas Mughal Empire 15. Marathi chronicles were known as 11. Consider the following statements: (a) Khyat (b) Bakhar In the 1560’s Akbar began to patronise the formation (c) Burunji (d) Bahi of the Mughal school of painting with the illustration 16. During the second Maratha invasion of Bengal, at the of Dastan-i-Amir Hamza because request of the Mughal Emperor Muhammad Shah, 1. Akbar inherited Humayun’s taste for painting who among the following came to support the Bengal 2. Akbar was especially interested in book illustra- Nawab against Raghuji Bhonsle’s forces? tion (a) Peshwa Balaji Baji Rao 3. Akbar was persuaded to take interest in painting (b) Nizamul Mulk by Abul Fazl (c) Holkar Of these statements (d) Jai Singh Sawai (a) 1, 2 and 3 are correct (b) 2 and 3 are correct (c) 1 and 2 are correct Delhi Sultanate (d) 1 and 3 are correct 17. Match the places market A, B, C and D on the given 12. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer map with the descriptions given: using the codes given below the Lists: 1. Capital of the Sharqi kingdom 2. Important centre of production of indigo MTP.56 | Indian History

3. Site of first true dome Marathas 4. Capital of Adil Shahis 5. The place to which Muhammad Tughluq trans- 24. Who was the woman leader of the Marathas who ferred his capital carried on struggle against the Mughal Empire from Select the answer using the codes given below: 1700 AD onwards following the death of Raja Ram? Codes: (a) Ahalyabai (b) Muktabai A B C D (c) Tarabai (d) Rukminibai (a) 4 1 3 2 25. The Maratha who helped the Sayyad brothers in A B C D overthrowing Fanikh Siyar in 1719 was (b) 2 3 4 5 (a) Shivaji II (b) Sahuji A B C D (c) Balaji Vishwanath (d)Baji Rao I (c) 2 1 3 5 A B C D (d) 4 3 1 2 EICO and Bengal Nawabs 26. What is the correct chronological sequence of the Decline of Mughals: Autonomous following rulers of Bengal? States 1. Suja-ud-din 2. Murshid Quli Khan 3. Sarfaraz Khan 4. Alivardi Khan 18. The founder of the autonomous kingdom of Avadh Select the correct answer using the codes given below: was (a) 2, 1, 3, 4 (a) Ahmed Shah Abdali (b) 1, 2, 4, 3 (b) Safdar-Jung (c) 2, 1, 4, 3 (c) Saadat Khan Burhan-ul-Mulk (d) 1, 2, 3, 4 (d) Zulfiqar Khan 19. A modern arsenal was established in 1765 with French assistance at British Economic Import (a) Bidnur (b) Sera (c) Sunda (d) Dingigul 27. Consider the following British officers: 20. Who planted the Tree of Liberty’ at Srirangapatnam? 1. James Grant 2. John Shore (a) Hyder Ali (b) Chikka Krishna Raj 3. Warren Hastings 4. Macnaughten (c) Tipu Sultan (d) Devraj Those well-known in connection with the revenue 21. Who among the following rulers of the Travancore settlement include kingdom extended his dominion, organised a standing (a) 1 and 2 (b) 1, 2 and 3 army and a rational administration and encouraged (c) 3 and 4 (d) 2 and 3 foreign trade in the middle of 18th century? (a) Rama Varma (b) Zamorin of Calicut EICO and Bengal Nawabs (c) Martanda Verma (d) Nanjaraj 22. The Jat State of Bharatpur was set up by 28. Consider the following statements: (a) Churaman (b) Surajmal The Diwani rights assured the East India Company (c) Boi Singh (d) Sawai Raja Jai Singh the power of 23. Which of the following are associated with Ranjit 1. levy tariffs Singh? 2. collect land revenue 1. Sukerchakia misl and the capture of Lahore 3. administer civil justice 2. Battle of Ambala and the defeat of Lord Lake Of these statements 3. Signing subsidiary alliance with East India Com- (a) 1 alone is correct pany (b) 2 and 3 are correct 4. Employing Faqir Azizuddin and Dinanath (c) 1, 2 and 3 are correct Select the answer using the codes given (d) 1 and 3 are correct below: 29. The Supreme Court at Calcutta was estab-lished by (a) 1 and 2 (b) 2 and 3 (a) North’s Regulating Act of 1773 (c) 1 and 4 (d) 3 and 4 (b) Pitt’s India Act of 1784 (c) Charter Act of 1793 Model Test Papers | MTP.57

(d) Charter Act of 1813 (d) Gadkari uprising 4. 1824 Codes: British Economic Impact (a) A B C D 4 3 1 2 30. Dayal Singh Majithia was associated with (B) A B C D 1. Newspaper 2. Education 3 4 1 2 3. Banking 4. British Army (C) A B C D Select the correct answer using the codes given below: 3 4 2 1 (a) 1, 2 and 4 (b) 1, 2 and 3 (d) A B C D (c) 2, 3 and 4 (d) 1, 3 and 4 4 3 2 1 34. Which one of the following rebellions is associated EICO and Bengal Nawabs with Sido and Kanho? (a) The Santhal Rebellion, 1855 31. Identify the British territories as on 1765, in the given (b) The Kol Uprising, 1820-37 map: (c) The Munda Rebellion, 1899–1900 (a) 1 and 3 (b) 2 and 4 (d) Orissa Zamindars’ Rebellion, 1804–1817 (c) 2 and 3 (d) 1 and 2 35. Match List I (Personalities connected with the uprising of 1857) with List II (Places) and se- lect the correct answer using the codes given below the lists: List I List II (a) Kanwar Singh 1. Delhi (b) Maulavi Ahmadullah 2. Bihar (c) Mangal Panday 3. Faizabad (d) Zeenat Mahal 4. Barrackpore Codes: (a) A B C D 3 2 1 4 (b) A B C D 2 3 1 4 (c) A B C D 2 3 4 1 (d) A B C D 3 2 4 1

Decline of Mughals: Autonomous States Revolt of 1857 and Other Movements 36. Nizam-ul-mulk established the independent State of (a) Hasanpur (b) Hyderabad 32. Dewan Velu Thampi of Travancore organized the (c) Kandahar (d) Burhanpur Revolt in (a) 1800 (b) 1805 Revolt of 1857 (b) 1809 (d) 1811 33. Match List I with List II and select the 37. General Windham was defeated by the rebel forces correct answer using the codes given below the Lists: in 1857 near List I List II (a) Gwalior (b) Agra (a) Bhil uprising 1. 1841 (c) Bhopal (d) Kanpur (b) Kittur uprising 2. 1844 (c) Satara uprising 3. 1818–31 MTP.58 | Indian History

Social and Cultural Awakening (c) A B C D 3 4 1 2 38. The Asiatic Society of Bengal was founded by (d) A B C D (a) Ram Mohan Roy (b) Sir William Jones 4 3 2 1 (c) W W Hunter (d) William Bentinck 39. Satyashodak Samaj was founded by, (a) Joliba Phule Trade Union and Peasant Movements (b) Sri Narayan Gum 44. In which one of the following conspiracy cases in (c) Gopal Babu Walong India was an Englishman named Mr Philip Spratt (d) Bhaskarrao Jadav tried? 40. The Young Bengal Movement in the 19th century was (a) Lahore Conspiracy case inspired by (b) Kanpur Conspiracy case (a) Rasik Kumar Mallick (c) Meerut Conspiracy case (b) Ramlannu lahiri (c) Henry Vivian Derozio (d) Chittagong Conspiracy case (d) Peary Chand Mitra 45. Ahmedabad Textile Labour Association (ATlA) was 41. The Rajrntlndri Social Reform Association to encour- founded by age widow re-marriage was founded in 1871 by (a) Mridula Sarabhai (b) N M Joshi (a) Virasalingam (b) K T TeJang (c) V V Girl (d) M K Gandhi (c) Behramji (d) Gopalachariar 46. Match list I with list II and select the correct answer 42. Match list I with List 11 and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists: using the codes given below the lists: List I List II List I List II (A) Punnapara Vayalar 1. UP (A) Oayanand Saraswali 1. Gurukul movement (B) Lala Munshi Ram 2. Dev Samaj (B) Tebhaga movement 2. Kerala (C) Pandit Shiv Narayan 3. Anglo–Vedic (C) Telengana movement 3. Bengal Agnihotri Colleges (D) Eka movement. 4. Andhra (D) Lala Hansmj 4. Satyarth Codes: Prakash (a) A B C D Codes: 4 2 3 1 (a) A B C D (b) A B C D 1 4 2 3 3 2 4 1 (b) A B C D (c) A B C D 4 1 3 2 2 3 4 1 (c) A B C D (d) A B C D 4 1 2 3 2 3 1 4 (d) A B C D 47. Match the individuals given in List I with the move- 1 4 3 2 ments given in List II and select the correct answer 43. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists: using the codes given below the lists: List I List II List I List II (A) Malati Choudhury 1. Surma Valley (A) Digdarshan 1. Robert Knight no-rent struggle (B) Mirat-ul-Akhbar 2. H a r i s c h a n d r a (B) Karuna Sindhu Roy 2. Utkal Provincial Mukherjee Kisan Sabha (C) Statesman 3. J C Marshman (C) Bhagwan Singh 3. Patiala Muzara (D) Hindu Patriot 4. Ram Mohan Roy Longowalia Movement Codes: (D) Yadunandan Sharma 4. Bihar Kisan (a) A B C D Sabha 3 4 2 1 Codes: (b) A B C D (a) A B C D 4 3 1 2 1 2 3 4 Model Test Papers | MTP.59

(b) A B C D (c) 78 and 80 respectively 2 1 3 4 (d) 78 and 69 respectively (c) A B C D 53. Match list I with List II and select the correct answer 2 1 4 3 using the codes given below the lists: (d) A B C D List I List II 1 2 4 3 (A) Sardul Singh 1. Muslim League Kaveeshar (B) Yusuf Meherally 2. Forward Block Freedom Struggle (C) T. Prakasam 3. Indian National 48. What is the correct chronological order of the follow- Congress ing movements of Gandhi? (D) Chowdhary 4. Congress 1. Rowlatt Act agitation Khaliquzaman Socialist Party 2. Kheda movement Codes: 3. Champaran movement (a) A B C D 4. Ahmedabad Mills strike 2 4 1 3 Select the correct answer using the codes given below: (b) A B C D Codes: 4 2 1 3 (a) 3, 2, 4, 1 (c) A B C D (b) 3, 2, 1, 4 2 4 3 1 (c) 2, 3, 1, 4 (d) A B C D (d) 2, 3, 4, 1 4 2 3 1 49. Har Dayal, Baba Harnam Singh Tundilat, Baba Sohan 54. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer Singh ‘Bhakna’ and Gurdit Singh were associated with using the codes given below the lists: (a) India Indepence League List I List II (b) Nowjawan Bharat Sabha (Works) (Authors) (c) Ghadar movement (A) Cha Mana Athagu- 1. Birinchi Kumar (d) Akali movement ntha (Oriya, 1921) Barua 50. What is the correct chronological sequence of the (B) Jiwanara Batat 2. Fakir Mohan following events? (Assamese, 1945) Senapati 1. Guru-ka-Bagh agitation (C) Marali Mannige 3. Visram Bedekar 2. Vaikom Satyagraha (Kannada, 1942) 3. Kakori case (D) Ranangan 4. Sivaram Karanth 4. Nehru Report (Marathi, 1939) Select the correct answer using the codes Codes: given below: (a) A B C D Codes: 1 2 3 4 (a) 1, 2, 3, 4 (b) A B C D (b) 1, 2, 4, 3 2 1 3 4 (c) 2, 1, 3, 4 (c) A B C D (d) 2, 1, 4, 3 2 1 4 3 51. ‘We have now an open conspiracy to free the country (d) A B C D from foreign rule and you, Comrades, and all our 1 2 4 3 countrymen and countrywomen are invited to join it.’ 55. Match List I (Personalities) with List II (Special in- Who among the following made this declaration? terests) and select the correct answer using the codes (a) M N Roy given below the lists: (b) Jayaprakash Narayan List I List II (c) Subhash Bose (A) Shambhu Mitra 1. Painting (d) Jawaharlal Nehru (B) Ram Kinkar 2. Theatre 52. How many seats were given to the ‘depressed classes’ (C) Ravi Varma 3. Films under the Communal Award and Poona Pact? (D) Pramathesh Barua 4. (a) 74 and 79 respectively (b) 71 and 147 respectively MTP.60 | Indian History

Codes: Reason (R): He wished to weld the Marathas (a) A B C D into a nation. 2 4 1 3 (b) A B C D 4 2 1 3 Mughal Empire (c) A B C D 58. Assertion (A): Akbar claimed divinity for himself. 2 4 3 1 Reason (R): He thought that in a country of (d) A B C D many beliefs such as India, the 4 2 3 1 sovereign should not be associated 56. Match List I (Events) with List II (Years) and select with anyone particular religion. the correct answer using the codes given below the lists: (A) Founding of Federation 1. 1938 Provincial Dynasties of Indian Chambers 59. Assertion (A): The invasions of Krishna-devaraya of Commerce and into the territories of Prataparudra Industry (FICCI) were inconclusive. (B) Lee-Modi Pact 2. 1927 Reason (R): Krishnadevaraya invaded the (C) Bombay Plan 3. 1944 territories of the Gajepathi not (D) National Planning 4. 1934 for the latter’s extinction but Committee only for the recovery of lost Codes: territories. (a) A B C D 4 2 3 1 (b) A B C D British Economic Impact 2 4 3 1 60. Assertion (A): Cottage industries and handi-crafts (c) A B C D of India flourished due to the de- 2 4 1 3 velopment of railways. (d) A B C D Reason (R): Railways helped movement of 4 2 1 3 commodities and goods. Directions The following 10 (ten) items consist of two statements, one labelled as ‘Assertion /!\ and the other labelled as ‘Reason R’ You are to examine these Maurya Empire two statements carefully and decide if the Assertion 61. Assertion (A): The Arthashastra of Kautilya pro- ‘A’ and the Reason ‘R’ are individually true and if so, vided for the office of the superin- whether the Reason is a correct explanation of the tendent of trade. Assertion. Select your answers to these items using Reason (R): The State engaged in extensive the codes given below and mark your Answer Sheet trade. accordingly. Codes: (a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct expla- Trade and Commerce nation of A 62. Assertion (A): The Kushanas issued a large number (b) Both A and R are true but R is NOT a correct of gold coins. explanation of A Reason (R): The period was marked by flourish- (c) A is true but R is false ing trade. (d) A is false but R is true 63. Assertion (A): Urban centres in the Gangetic plains declined during the Gupta period. Provincial Dynasties Reason (R): Trade languished. 57. Assertion (A): Malik Ambar was the first to employ successfully and on a large scale the Maratha light-horse as guer- rillas. Model Test Papers | MTP.61

Agrarian Structure 71. Which one of the following sites contains the evidence of ? 64. Assertion (A): Society became increasing- (a) Chanhudaro (b) Harappa ly agrarian during the Post- (c) Mohenjodaro (d) Kalibangan Gupta period. Reason (R): Small peasants could not claim any rights to land. Vedic Culture 65. Assertion (A): The post-Gupta period witnessed 72. Which one of the following statements regarding the expansion of the Kayastha Purushasukta is INCORRECT? caste in North India. (a) It occurs in the seventh mandala of the Rigveda. Reason (R): The number of land grants substan- (b) It mentions the Brahmana as emanating from the tially increased. mouth of the Primeval Being. 66. Assertion (A): The Shudras were largely peasants (c) It shows the rise of hierarchy. during post-Gupta times. (d) It accords religious sanction to the then emerging Reason (R): The Vaishyas gave up agriculture social structure. completely. 73. The Vaishya is characterized as a tributary to another (anyasya baJikrita) and to be eaten or lived upon by Indus Civilization another (anyasyadya) in the (a) Vajasaneyi Samhita 67. Which one of the following Harappan sites is NOT (b) Aitareya Brahmana located in Gujarat? (c) Atharvaveda (a) Surkotada (b) Rangpur (d) Shatapatha Brahmana (c) Sutkagendor (d) Desalpur 74. Which one of the following is NOT true of women in 68. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer the Rigveda? using the codes given below the lists: (a) The attended the proceedings of the Sabha List I List II (b) They performed the sacrifice (A) Mohenjodaro 1. Twin-burials (c) They took an active part in battles (B) Lothal 2. Corbelled drain (d) They were married before puberty (C) Banawali 3. Furrows (D) Kalibangan 4. Terracotta replica of a plough Indus Civilization Codes: 75. Along with the ‘Late Harappan’ artefacts. painted grey (a) A B C D ware has been found at 1 2 3 4 (a) Ropar (b) Bhagwanpura (b) A B C D (c) Banawali (d) Daulatpur 2 1 4 3 (c) A B C D 1 2 4 3 Changes in Social Structure (d) A B C D 76. Caste is NOT characterized by 2 1 3 4 (a) endogamy (b) division of labour 69. Who among the following has worked on the decipher- (c) equity (d) heredity ment of the Indus Script? 77. The concept of Vamasamkara occurs first in the (a) H.D. Sankalia (b) B B Lal (a) Brahmanas (b) Upanishads (c) I Mahadevan (d) Vincent Arthur Smith (c) Dharmasutras (d) Smritis 70. The copper hoards are associated with the 78. The niravasita (excluded) and aniravasita (not ex- (a) lustrous red ware cluded) shudras have been reffered to by (b) ochre-coloured ware (a) Yaska in the Nirukta (c) black and red ware (b) Panini in the Ashtadhyayi (d) painted grey ware (c) Kautilya in the Arthashastra (d) None of the above MTP.62 | Indian History

79. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer 83 The first translator of Mahabharata into Tamil was using the codes given below the lists: (a) Perundevanar (b) Kamban List I List II (c) Sundaramurthi (d) Bharavi (A) Kautilya 1. The householder should not quarrel with a slave (B) Manu 2. There are fifteen kinds of Bhagavatism and Brahmanism slaves 84. Who among the following was the earliest known (C) Yajnavalkya 3. No Arya can be a slave Greek follower of Bhagavatism? (D) Narada 4. Nobody can be enslaved (a) Demetrius (b) Antialkides without his consent (c) Heliodorus (d) Menander Codes: (a) A B C D 1 3 4 2 Sangam Age (b) A B C D 85. Which one of the foll9wing pairs is NOT correctly 1 3 2 4 matched? (c) A B C D (a) Udiyanjeral : Chera king 3 1 4 2 (b) Nedunjeliyan : Pandya king (d) A B C D (c) Senganan : Chola king 3 1 2 4 (d) Pari : Pallava king

Vedic Culture Jainism 80. Which one of the following combinations is true of 86. The Jain text which contains the biographies of the the Rigvedic culture? Tirthankaras is known as (a) Nature worship, varna system, image worship (a) Bhagavati Sutra (b) Adi Purana (b) Rural, pastoral, monarchical (c) Kalpasutra (d) Uvasagadasao (c) Barter system, sati system, sacredness of cow (d) Matriarchy, monogamy, defensive weapons Buddhism Sangarn Age 87. Consider the following statements: In the second Buddhist Council held at Vaishali, Bud- 81. Which of the following characterized the Tamil society dhism was divided into of Sangam Age? 1. Sthaviravadins 2. Mahasanghikas 1. Complex caste system 3. Vajrayana 4. Kalachakrayana. 2. Prohibition of intermarriage between the kings Of these statements and the velalas (a) 1, 2, 3 and 4 are correct 3. Vegetarianism among the Brahmanas (b) 1, 3 and 4 are correct 4. Gradual Aryanisation (c) 2, 3 and 4 are correct Select the answer using the codes given below: (d) 1 and 2 are correct (a) 1 alone (b) 1 and 2 (c) 2 and 3 (d) 4 alone 82. What is the correct chronological order in which the Bhagavatism and Brahmanism following appeared in Tamil land? 88. The earliest epigraphical evidence regarding Bhaga- 1. Damili Inscriptions vatism in India comes from 2. Sangam Age (a) Ghosundi Stone inscription of king Sarvatata 3. Rock-cut Temples (b) Besanagar inscription of Heliodorus Select the answer using the codes given below: (c) Nanaghat Cave inscription of the Satavahana (a) 1, 2, 3 (b) 2, 1, 3 queen Naganika (c) 3, 1, 2 (d) 3, 2, 1 (d) Mehrauli Pillar inscription of Chandra Model Test Papers | MTP.63

89. That Bhagavatism first grew up around the Yamuna (B) Samsthah 2. Wandering spies in Mathura district is evident from the account of (C) Sancharah 3. Secret emissaries (a) Justin (b) Arian (D) Rupajivah 4. Stationary spies (c) Megasthenes (d) Strabo Codes: (a) A B C D 4 3 2 1 Trade and Commerce (b) A B C D 90. Which one of the following is NOT true of the punch 3 4 1 2 marked coins? (c) A B C D (a) They are the earliest extant coins in India 3 4 2 1 (b) They bear stamps of more than one punch (d) A B C D (c) Symbols of different types are represented on 4 3 1 2 them 94. Match List I with List II and select the (d) They always bear inscriptions of the issuers correct answer using the codes given below the lists: 91. Which one of the following objects of Roman manufac- List I List II ture ha~ been most abundantly found in India? (Names of the territories) (Their capitals) (a) Pot-sherds (b) Bronze icons (A) Uttarapatha 1. Tosali (c) Lamps (d) Coins (B) Avantirattha 2. Pataliputra (C) Prasti 3. Takshashila (D) Kalinga 4. Ujjayini Maurya Empire Codes: 92. Four sites have been labelled as A, B, C and D in the (a) A B C D given map 4 3 1 2 (b) A B C D 3 4 2 1 (c) A B C D 4 3 2 1 (d) A B C D 3 4 1 2 95. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists: List I List II (Kings who presented gifts (Gifts) to their contemporaries) (A) Sandrocottus 1. 80 talents of stamped silver (B) Seleucus 2. A large portion of Ariana (C) Ambhi 3. Sweet wine and dried figs (D) Antiochus (I, Soter) 4. 500 elephants Inscription detailing Samudragupta’s conquests in the Codes: South has been found on an Ashokan Pillar at the site (a) A B C D labeled 2 4 1 3 (a) A (b) B (b) A B C D (c) C (d) D 2 4 3 1 93. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer (c) A B C D using the codes given below the lists: 4 2 1 3 List I List II (d) A B C D (Type of spies) (Nature of their work) 4 2 3 1 (A) Gudhapurushah 1. Courtesans MTP.64 | Indian History

96. The medium of exchange prevalent during the Mau- 103. A very important source for the political structure and ryan period was social conditions of Gujarat from the 9th to the 13th (a) Kapaddaka-purana (b) Churni centuries is the text known as (c) Pana (d) Dinara (a) Rajatarangini (b) Panchatantra (c) Lekhapaddhati (d) Sukraniti 104. The Chola inscriptions are found in the following Trade and Commerce languages: 97. What is the correct chronological sequence of the 1. Sanskrit 2. Telugu following? 3. Tamil 4. Kannada 1. Geography of Ptolemy Their correct sequence in terms of the extent of which 2. Ctesias’ account of India they were used (most frequent first, least frequent last) 3. Christian Topography of Cosmas Indico-pllustes is 4. Pliny’s Natural History (a) 1, 3, 4, 2 (b) 3, 1, 4, 2 Select the correct answer using the codes given below: (c) 1, 3, 2, 4 (d) 3, 1, 2, 4 (a) 4, 2, 3, 1 (b) 2,4, 1, 3 105. Match the temples in List I built by the Chola mon- (c) 2, 4, 3, 1 (d) 4, 2, 1, 3 archs with the places in List “ and select the correct 98. In his account, Fa-hien does NOT refer to answer using the codes given below the lists: (a) peace and order in the Middle kingdom List I List II (b) severity of criminal justice (A) The Koranganatha 1. Tiruvalisvaram (c) Chandalas as social outcastes Temple (d) vegetarianism of the common people (B) The Rajarajeswara 2. Dharasuram Temple (C) The Airavatesvara 3. Srinivasanallur 800–1200 ad and Cholas Temple 99. Which one of the’ following is NOT true of the Ra- (D) The Temple 4. Tanjore jputs? Codes: (a) Their rise was an important social phenomenon (a) A B C D of the early medieval period 3 4 1 2 (b) They comprised the ruling and warrior chiefs (b) A B C D (c) They were a landed aristocracy 3 4 2 1 (d) The Medas were denied entry to their ranks (c) A B C D 4 3 2 1 (d) A B C D Agrarian Structure 4 3 1 2 100. Which one of the following rulers granted land to high 106. The capital-seat Gangaikondacholapur,am was officials for their maintenance? founded by (a) Bimbisara (b) Chandragupta (a) Rajendra I (b) Rajaraja the Great Maurya (c) Kulottunga I (d) Parantaka (c) (d) Harshavardhana Provincial Dynasties 800–1200 AD and Cholas 107. Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched? 101. Who among the following had written a treatise on (a) Krishnadevaraya : Manucharita fanciful technological devices? (b) Bukka I : Vaidikamanggapr (a) Bhoja (b) Govindaraja avartaka (c) Chandravarman (d) Mahipala (c) Allasanipeddanna : Amuktamalyada 102. Which one of the following communities of peasants (d) Gangadevi : Amarasataka revolted against the Pala rulers of Bengal? 108. Abdur Razzaq who left a detailed account of the Vijay- (a) Jats (b) Gurjaras anagara Empire in Persian, came to the Vijayanagara (c) Kaivartas (d) Doms court as the envoy of Mirza Shah Rukh during the reign of Model Test Papers | MTP.65

(a) Harihara II (b) Bukka II (a) Iltutmish (b) Alauddin Khalji (c) Deva Raya II (d) Krishnadeva Raya (c) Mubarak Khalji (d) Muhammad Tughluq 109. What was the nature of the Nagaram settlements in South India? Indo-Islamic Culture (a) Villages inhabited by peasant castes (b) Villages settled and dominated by combinations 116. Match list I with list II and select the correct answer of traders and merchants using the codes given below the lists: (c) Villages granted to the Brahmanas List I List II (d) Villages having the local administrative units (Author) (Works) (A) Minhaj Siraj 1. Tarikh-e-Firuz Delhi Sultanate Shahi (B) Amir Khusrau 2. Tajul Maasir 110. The territorial revenue assignment in the Delhi Sultan- (C) Hasan Nizami 3. Khazainul Futuh ate was known as (D) Shams-i-Siraj Afif 4. Tabaqat-i-Nasiri (a) tuyul (b) milk Codes: (c) iqta (d) jagir (a) A B C D 111. Sultan Alauddin Khalji claimed land revenue on 3 4 2 1 (a) one-fourth of the produce (b) A B C D (b) two-thirds of the produce 3 4 1 2 (c) one-half of the produce (c) A B C D (d) two-fifths of the produce 4 3 1 2 112. Which one of the following was the reason for the (d) A B C D great rebellion in Doab against Muhammad Tughluq? 4 3 2 1 (a) Transfer of capital from Delhi 117. The tomb of Ghiyasuddin Tughluq is marked by (b) Issue of token currency (a) a bulbous dome (b) sloping walls (c) Increase in rural taxation (c) the absence of marble (d) high towers (d) Enslavement of rural population 118. Who among the following were prominent members 113. Yahiya Sirhindi, the author of Tarikh-i-Mubarakshahi of the Nirguna cult of Bhakti Marg? lived during the period of 1. Kabir 2. Nanak (a) lodis (b) Sayidds 3. Raidas 4. Mira (c) Tughluqs (d) Khaljis Select the correct answer using the codes given below: 114. Match list I with list II and select the correct answer (a) 2 and 3 (b) 1, 2, and 3 using the codes given below the lists: (c) 1, 3, and 4 (d) 1, 2, 3, and 4 List I List II (A) Silver tanka 1. Alauddin Khalji Provincial Dynasties (B) Diwan-i-Kohi 2. Feroze Tughluq (C) Dar-ul-Shafa 3. Iltutmish 119. Which of the following places were captured by (D) Shahan-i-Mandi 4. Muhammad Tughluq Krishnadevaraya from Prataparudra? Codes: 1. Raichur 2. Udayagiri (a) A B C D 3. Penukonda 4. Kondapalli 4 3 2 1 Choose the answer using the codes given below: (b) A B C D (a) 1, 2 and 4 (b) 2 and 3 3 4 1 2 (c) 1 and 3 (d) 2 and 4 (c) A B C D 3 4 2 1 Indo-Islamic Culture (d) A B C D 4 3 1 2 120. Which one of the following Sufi saints saw the rule of seven Sultans but visited the Court of none? 115 ‘When he attained kingship, he was quite independent (a) Qutbuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki of the rules and orders of the shariat.’ Ziauddin Barani (b) Baba Farid-ud-din Chishti made the above statement regarding (c) Shaikh Nizamuddin Chishti (d) Nasiruddin ‘Chiragh’ Delhi MTP.66 | Indian History

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Mughal Empire (c) four-square gardens (d) buildings with sloping walls 1. Babur established Mughal rule in India through this victory in 1526, over (a) Rana Sanga (b) Sikandar Lodi Indo-Islamic Culture (c) Daulat Khan Lodi (d) Ibrahim Lodi 6. The earliest surviving building in India containing a 2. Consider the following statements: true dome is the Hemu, who was defeated at the Second Battle of (a) Gol Gumbad Panipat by Akbar’s army, was a (b) Arhai Din ka Jhopra 1. minister and general of Adil Shah. (c) Tomb of Sultan Garhi 2. trader or Baniya by birth. (d) Alai Darwaza 3. governor of Agra. 4. general of Sikandar Shah. Which of the above statement(s) is/are correct? Mughal Empire (a) 1 and 2 (b) 1, 2 and 3 7. The largest Mughal period bridge in India was built (c) 2 and 4 (d) 1 alone in Akbar’s time at 3. In the Mughal empire, the unit of land revenue as- (a) Delhi (Barapula) sessment was (b) Jaunpur (a) individual peasant (b) village (c) Jajau (c) pargana (d) zamindar (d) Nurpur 4. The painter of the Mughal school particularly cel- ebrated for his paintings of birds, animals and flowers Indo-Islamic Culture was (a) Bichitr (b) Miskin 8. The Turks brought with them musical instruments (c) Abdus Samad (d) Mansur (a) Rabab and Sarangi 5. Babur introduced in India, (b) Sitar and Flute (a) the art of Persian painting (c) Veena and Tabla (b) royal court poetry (d) Tanpura and Mridanga MTP.68 | Indian History

Mughal Empire Select the answer using the following codes: Codes: 9. Consider the following professions: (a) A B C D 1. Spinning 4 3 1 2 2. Weaving (b) A B C D 3. Weeding and transplanting 3 1 4 2 4. Rubble making and carrying bricks and plaster, (c) A B C D materials 4 2 3 1 Which of the above professions were largely carried (d) A B C D on by women workers in Mughal India, as is evident 2 3 1 4 from the Mughal miniatures and glossaries? (a) 1, 3 and 4 (b) 1 and 2 Marathas (c) 1, 2 and 3 (d) 3 and 4 10. The contemporary source that provides statistical data 12. The cavalry of Shivaji was known as immensely valuable to the study of economy of the (a) Risala (b) Sir-i-Naubat Mughal Empire is the (c) Bergir (d) Paga (a) Tabaqat-i-Akbari (b) Ain-i-Akbari Mughal Empire (c) Tuhfah-i-Akbarshahi (d) Badshahnama 13. Bahadur Shah I did NOT 11. Match the places marked as A, B, C and D on the (a) abolish Jazia given map with the descriptions given below: (b) release Shahu (c) restart playing Holi at the court (d) support the practice of sati 14. Zakat under the Mughals signified (a) a tax on trade amounting to 21% of value (b) war booty (c) land tax on Muslims amounting to 10% of pro- duce (d) tax imposed on non-Muslims 15. The complaint that lakhs had been collected under Jaziya but hardly anything reached the imperial treasury was made by which one of the following historians of Aurangzeb’s reign? (a) Muhammad Kazim (b) Isardas Nagar (c) Khafi Khan (d) Bhim Sen

800—1200 ad and Cholas 16. In the Battle of Takkolam (a) the Cholas defeated the Rashtrakutas 1. Buddhist University functioning until the 13th (b) the Rashtrakutas defeated the Cholas century. (c) the combined forces of Cholas and Rashtrakutas 2. Site of famous temple built in the form of a chariot. defeated the Chalukyas 3. Site of important diamond mines. (d) the Chalukyas defeated the Rashtrakutas 4. Site of battle of Samugarh where Dara Skikoh 17. Consider the following statements about temples built was defeated by Aurangzeb. by Cholas: Model Test Papers | MTP.69

1. The earliest Chola temple dating from 10th Cen- 3. Famous centre of production of chintz (printed tury is the one at Dadapuram in South Arcot. cloth) 2. The huge Chola temples of Tanjore and Gan- 4. Famous site of early medieval sculpture gaikonda-Cholapuram are marked by their lofty Select the answer using the codes given below: towers. Codes: 3. The later Chola temples have mighty gopurams (a) A B C D or gateways. 2 1 4 3 Which of the above statements are correct? (b) A B C D (a) None (b) 1 and 2 3 1 2 4 (c) 2 and 3 (d) 1, 2 and 3 (c) A B C D 18. Ramanuja was obliged to leave Srirangam owing to 1 3 2 4 the hostility of (d) A B C D (a) Rajaraja 3 4 1 2 (b) Rajendra Choladeva I (c) Adhirajendra (d) Kulottunga I Freedom Struggle 21. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer Delhi Sultanate using the codes given below the lists: List I List II 19. Firuz Tughluq may be said to have brought about the (A) Gaganendranath 1. Hindustani decline of the Delhi Sultanate because he Tagore classical music (a) conducted a very large number of military cam- (B) 2. Classical dance paigns (C) Rukmini Devi 3. Film (b) spent too much money on canals Arundale (c) allowed nobility to become hereditary (D) Allauddin Khan 4. Painting (d) provoked peasant rebellions by his oppression Codes: (a) A B C D Marathas 3 4 2 1 (b) A B C D 20. Match the places marked as A, B, C and 0 on the given 4 3 1 2 map with the descriptions given below: (c) A B C D 4 3 2 1 (d) A B C D 3 4 1 2 22. Consider the following pairs of authors and their works: 1. Munshi Prem Chand : Soz-e-Vatan 2. Sri Sri : Desa Caritralu 3. Rabindranath Tagore : Kalindi 4. C V Ramana Pillai : Marthanda Varma Which of the above pairs are correctly matched? (a) 1, 2, 3 and 4 (b) 1, 2 and 4 (c) 2 and 3 (d) 1, 3 and 4 23. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists: List I List II (Buildings) (Architects) (A) Victoria Memorial 1. Herbert Baker 1. Capital of the Peshwas Hall, Calcutta 2. Place where Kabir lived (B) Central Secretariat, 2. W Emerson New Delhi MTP.70 | Indian History

(C) Gateway of India, 3. R F Chisholm 1857 Revolt and Other Movements (D) Madras University 4. George Clarke 27. “Indian War of Independence, 1857” was written by Senate House, (a) S N Sen (b) R C Majumdar Chennai (c) V D Savarkar (d) S B Choudhuri Codes: (a) A B C D Freedom Struggle 2 1 3 4 (b) A B C D 28. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer 1 2 3 4 using the codes given below the lists: (c) A B C D List I List II 2 1 4 3 (A) Fazi-I-Hussain 1. Bombay (d) A B C D (B) Shahid Suhrawardy 2. U.P. 1 2 4 3 (C) Ibrahim Rahimtullah 3. Punjab 24. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer (D) Abdul Bari 4. Bengal using the codes given below the lists: Codes: List I List II (a) A B C B (A) Condition of India 1. Edward Thompson 4 2 3 1 (B) Mother India 2. EM Forster (b) A B C D (C) Farewell to India 3. India League 3 1 2 4 (D) Passage to India 4. Katherine Mayo (c) A B C D Codes: 3 4 1 2 (a) A B C D (d) A B C D 2 1 4 3 4 3 2 1 (b) A B C D 29. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer 3 4 1 2 using the codes given below the lists: (c) A B C D List I List II 3 1 2 4 (A) P S Sivaswami 1. Mahatma Gandhi’s (d) A B C D Iyer associate 4 2 1 3 (B) Munnuswami 2. National Liberal 25. Consider the following events: Naidu Federation 1. Cabinet Mission Plan (C) Madeleine Slade 3. Justice Party 2. Bombay Plan (D) Narasimha 4. Industry 3. Wavell Plan Chintamani 4. Mountbatten Plan Codes: The correct chronological order of these (a) A B C D events is 1 2 3 4 (a) 2, 1, 3, 4 (b) 2, 1,4, 3 (b) A B C D (c) 1, 2, 3, 4 (d) 1, 2, 4, 3 3 2 1 4 26. Consider the following events: (c) A B C D 1. Cripps Mission 2 3 1 4 2. Quit India Movement (d) A B C D 3. Individual Satyagraha 4 3 2 1 4. August Offer 30. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer The correct chronological order of these using the codes given below the lists: events is List I List II (a) 4, 3, 2, 1 (b) 4, 3, 1, 2 (A) Prati Sarhar and 1. Quit India (c) 3, 4, 1, 2 (d) 3, 4, 2, 1 Nyayadan Mandai Movement (B) Mohan Singh and 2. RIN revolt Niranjan Singh Gill Model Test Papers | MTP.71

(C) B C Dutt 3. Indian National (C) Karachi session of the Indian 3. 1927 Army National Congress adopting (D) Jatiya Sarkar and 4. Quit India Fundamental Rights Vidyut Vahini Movement in (D) Brussels conference against 4. 1929 Satara Colonialism and Imperialism Codes: Codes: (a) A B C D (a) A B C D 1 3 2 4 1 2 3 4 (b) A B C D (b) A B C D 4 3 2 1 4 1 2 3 (c) A B C D (c) A B C D 4 2 3 1 4 3 2 1 (d) A B C D (d) A B C D 1 2 3 4 3 2 4 1 3l. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer 34. Match the personalities in List 1 with the cases in List using the codes given below the lists: II and select the correct answer using the codes given List I List II below the lists: (A) Bardoli Satyagraha 1. Swami List I List II Sraddhananda (A) Prafulla Chaki 1. Lahore Conspiracy Saraswati Case (B) Indian Kisan School 2. Sardar (B) Sukhdev 2. Kakori Case Vallbhbhai (C) Ashfaqullah Khan 3. Chittagong armoury Patel raid case (C) Bengal Praja Party 3. Fazlul-Huq (D) Ganesh Ghosh 4. Bomb assault in (D) Bakasht struggle 4. N G Ranga Muzaffarpur, 1908 Codes: Codes: (a) A B C D (a) A B C D 2 3 4 1 1 4 3 2 (b) A B C D (b) A B C D 2 4 3 1 4 1 3 2 (c) A B C D (c) A B C D 3 1 2 4 4 1 2 3 (d) A B C D (d) A B C D 4 3 2 1 1 4 2 3 32. Consider the following events: 1. Round Table Conference II 2. Formation of Congress Socialist Party Trade Union and Peasant Movements 3. Dandi March 35. Consider the following events: 4. Ordinance Rule of Willingdon 1. Girni Kamgar Union The correct chronological sequence of these events is 2. Surma Valley peasant movement (a) 1, 3, 2, 4 (b) 3, 1, 2, 4 3. Tuticorin strikes (c) 3, 1, 4, 2 (d) 1, 3, 4, 2 4. Guruvayur temple entry jatha 33. Match List I (events) with List II (Years) and select 5. Jaito Morcha the correct answer using the codes given below the The correct chronological order of these events is lists: (a) 3, 5, 4, 2, 1 (b) 5, 3, 1, 4, 2 List I List II (c) 3, 5, 1, 4, 2 (d) 5, 3, 2, 4, 1 (A) Lahore session of the Indian 1. 1928 36. Who among the following was the president of All National Congress adopting India Trade Union Congress in 1929? purna swaraj (a) M N Roy (B) Formation of Naujawan 2. 1931 (b) SA Dange Bharat Sabha (c) Jayaprakash Narayan (d) Jawaharlal Nehru MTP.72 | Indian History

37. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer Codes: using the codes given below the lists: (a) A B C D List I List II 2 1 4 3 (A) Vanchi Iyer 1. Vaikom Satyagraha (b) A B C D (B) T K Madhavan 2. Tinnevelli Conspiracy 1 2 3 4 case (c) A B C D (C) Srinivas Pillay 3. The Hindu Progres- 2 1 3 4 sive Improvement (d) A B C D Society 1 2 3 4 (D) E V Ramasami 4. Self-Respect Naicker movement 40. Match List I with List II and select the Codes: correct answer using the codes given below the lists: (a) A B C D List I List II 2 4 3 1 (Individuals) (Movements) (b) A B C D (A) Baba Ramsingh 1. Satya Mahima 3 2 4 1 Dharma (c) A B C D (B) Mirza Ghulam 2. Rahnuma 2 1 3 4 Ahmed Mazdayasnan (d) A B C D Sabha 1 2 4 3 (C) Mukund Das 3. The Namdhari Movement Social and Cultural Awakening (D) Naoroji Furdunji 4. The Ahmadiyah Movement 38. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer Codes: using the codes given below the lists: (a) A B C D List I List II (A) Tattvabodhini 1. Debendranath 3 4 1 2 Sabha Tagore (b) A B C D (B) Darul-Ulum 2. Ganesh Vasudev 4 3 1 2 Deoband Joshi (c) A B C D (C) Delhi-Urdu 3. Rashid Ahmed 4 3 2 1 Renaissance Gangohi (d) A B C D (D) Sarvajanik Sabha 4. Zaka Ullah 2 4 3 1 Codes: (a) A B C D 2 4 3 1 1857 Revolt and Other Movements (b) A B C D 41. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer 1 3 4 2 using the codes given below the lists: (c) A B C D List I List II 2 1 4 3 (A) Chinnava 1. Gadkari Revolt, (d) A B C D 1844 1 2 3 4 (B) Haji Shariatulla 2. Faraizi Movement, 39. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer 1838 using the codes given below the lists: (C) Alluri Sitaram Raju 3. Rampa Uprising List I List II 1922 (A) Bhagat Jawahar 1. Wahabi Movement (D) Krishna Daji Pandit 4. Kittur Uprising Mal 1824 (B) Vilayat Ali 2. Kuka Movement Codes: (C) Sayyid Fadi 3. Mopla Revolt (a) A B C D (D) Khoodi Mallah 4. Pabna riots 4 2 3 1 Model Test Papers | MTP.73

(b) A B C D Disputes Act 2 3 4 1 (D) Bombay Industrial 4. 1938 (c) A B C D Relations Act 1 4 3 2 Codes: (d) A B C D (a) A B C D 3 2 4 1 2 1 4 3 42. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer (b) A B C D using the codes given below the lists: 1 2 3 4 List I List II (c) A B C D (A) James Outram 1. Delhi 1 2 4 3 (B) John Nicholson 2. Lucknow (d) A B C D (C) Colin Campbell 3. Jhansi 2 1 3 4 (D) Hugh Rose 4. Kanpur Codes: British Economic Impact (a) A B C D 45. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer 1 2 3 4 using the codes given below the lists: (b) A B C D List I List II 2 1 4 3 (A) Tata Iron and Steel Company 1. 1915 (c) A B C D (B) Bengal Iron and Steel 2. 1907 2 1 3 4 Company (d) A B C D (C) Tata Hydroelectric Power 3. 1889 1 2 4 3 Supply Company 43. Match List I with List II and select the cor- (D) Katni Cement Company 4. 1910 rect answer using the codes given below the Codes: lists: (a) A B C D List I List II 2 3 4 1 (a) Nana Sahib 1. Delhi (b) A B C D (B) Nawab Hamid Ali Khan 2. Kanpur 3 2 1 4 (C) Maulavi Ahmadullah 3. Awadh (c) A B C D (D) Mani Ram Devan 4. Assam 2 3 1 4 Codes: (d) A B C D (a) A B C D 3 2 4 1 1 2 4 3 46. Consider the following Famine Commissions in India: (b) A B C D 1. MacDowell Commission 1 2 3 4 2. Lyall Commission (c) A B C D 3. Campbell Commission 2 1 3 4 4. Strachey Commission (d) A B C D The correct chronological order of the appointment 2 1 4 3 of these Famine Commissions is (a) 3, 4, 1, 2 (b) 3, 4, 2, 1 (c) 4, 3, 1, 2 (d) 4, 3, 2, 1 Trade Union and Peasant Movements 47. The Bombay Survey System, introduced in the Bom- 44. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer bay Presidency and British Gujarat, was framed by using the codes given below the lists: (a) James Grant List I List II (b) Sydenham Clarke (Acts) (Year) (c) Sir John Shore (A) Bombay Trade Disputes (d) G. Wingate and Goldsmid Conciliation Act 1. 1936 48. Consider the following statements: (B) The Payment of Wages Act 2. 1934 1. Between 1757 and 1857, north India witnessed (C) Bombay Industrial 3. 1946 important economic developments as a con- sequence of its linking with the metropolitan MTP.74 | Indian History

economy via Calcutta and the Ganges river the whole civil and military administration of system signified by the growth of towns. the Company’s territories were vested in the 2. There was a decline in the employment oppor- Governor-General of India in Council having tunities among artisans in the luxury trade with four members. the disappearance of the Indian courts with a marginal impact on the economy as a whole. 3. In the Punjab, Kashmir and Rajasthan, changes Decline of Mughals: Autonomous were slower and less dramatic than those in the States Ganges valley as distinguished by inconspicuous 54. Who among the following rulers of the 18th century development in urbanization. introduced new systems of calendar, coinage and Which of the above statements are correct? weights and measures, organized disciplined standing (a) 1 and 3 (b) 2 and 3 army, removed illegal cesses, built up modern arsenal (c) 1 and 2 (d) 1, 2 and 3 and promoted sericulture and trade? (a) Ranjit Singh (b) Mir Quasim El Co and Bengal Nawabs (c) Saadat Khan (d) Tipu Sultan 55. Consider the following personalities: 49. Consider the following events: 1. Suraj Mal 2. Charhat Singh 1. Comwallis Code 3. Budh Singh 4. Badan Singh 2. North’s Regulating Act Those connected with the kingdom of Bharatpur 3. Pitt’s India Act included The correct chronological sequence of these events is (a) 1 and 2 (b) 2 and 3 (a) 3, 2, 1 (b) 2, 3, 1 (c) 3 and 4 (d) 1 and 4 (c) 1, 2, 3 (d) 2, 1, 3 56. In the given map, certain areas have been labeled as 1, 50. Ghasiti Begam, Shaukat Jang, Rajballabh and Yar 2, 3 and 4. As on 1805, the British territory included Latif Khan were sore enemies of areas labeled as (a) Nawab Alivardi Khan (b) Nanda Kumar (c) Siraj-ud-daulah (d) Shuja-ud-daulah 51. Which one or me following sets of powers constituted the anti-British front in 1780? (a) Nizam, Mysore, Berar and Marwar (b) Nizam, Berar, the Rohilas and the Marathas (c) The Marathas, Mysore, Berar and Nizam (d) Mysore, the Marathas, the Rohilas and Berar 52. The British East India Company became zamindar in Bengal after renting the villages of (a) Govindpur, Sutanati and Kolikata (b) Chandranagar, Sutanati and Kolikata (c) Chandranagar, Sutanati and Govindpur (d) Kolikata, Govindpur and Plassey 53. Which one of the following did NOT figure in the Charter Act of 1833? (a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 2, 3 and 4 (a) The East India Company lost its monopoly of (c) 1, 3 and 4 (d) 1, 2, and 4 China trade. 57. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer (b) The territorial possessions of the Company were using the codes given below the lists: left in its control for a further period of twenty List I List II years in trust for His Majesty’s etc. (A) Hyderabad 1. Nizam-ul-Mulk (c) The number of Directors of the Company was (B) Bengal 2. Alivardi Khan reduced from 24 to 18 of which 6 were to be the (C) Avadh 3. Saadat Khan nominees of the Crown. (D) Travancore 4. Martanda Varman (d) The superintendence, direction and control of Model Test Papers | MTP.75

Codes: mixed castes. (a) A B C D 65. Assertion (A): Nizamuddin Auliya approved the 2 1 3 4 conduct of a Sufi in releasing his (b) A B C D woman slave and allowing her to 2 1 4 3 return to her Hindu parent. (c) A B C D Reason (R): This was strictly in accordance with 1 2 4 3 the Muslim law. (d) A B C D 66. Assertion (A): Alauddin Khalji imposed price control 1 2 3 4 in Delhi. Directions: The following 13 (Thirteen) items consists Reason (R): He wanted to pay lower wages to of two statements, one labelled the ‘Assertion A’ and artisans building his palaces in the other labelled the ‘Reason R’. You are to examine Delhi. these two statements carefully and decide if the As- 67 Assertion (A): The first split in the All India Trade Un- sertion A and the Reason R are individually true and ion Congress took place in 1929. if so, whether the Reason is a correct explanation of Reason (R): The Great Economic Depression the Assertion. Select your answers to these items using resulted in differences of opinion the codes given below and mark your answer sheet among the AITUC leaders. accordingly 68 Assertion (A): Akbar’s official historian Abu: Fazl Codes: neither gives the prices of slaves (a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct expla- nor does he mention slave markets. nation of A Reason (R): Akbar prohhibited slave trade in his (b) Both A and R are true but R is not a correct empire. explanation of A 69. Assertion (A): The direct result of Shah Alam’s (c) A is true but R is false farman (1765) was the establish- (d) A is false but R is true ment of the Dual Government in 58. Assertion (A): In south india, agriculture was the Bengal. principal occupation of the Mega- Reason (R): The famine of 1770 was the result of lithic people. misrule by the East India Company Reason (R): They introduced tank irrigation. through Shitab Rai and Raza Khan. 59. Assertion (A): Rigveda was never a popular text. 70. Assertion (A): The Treaty of Amritsar was signed Reason (R): It was a ritual text. between Ranjit Singh and East In- 60. Assertion (A): The Buddhist nuns were under the dia Company on 25th April, 1809. supervision of the monks. Reason (R): Ranjit Singh wanted to expand his Reason (R): There was a special code for the empire with the help of the Com- nuns called the Bhikkunipatimok- pany. kha. 61. Assertion (A): The Jainas follow the practice of wor- shipping images of Tirthankaras. Indus Civilization Reason (R): They denied the existence of a 71. Match the sites A Burzahom, B Chirand, C Nagar- Supreme being. junakonda and D Paiyampalli with their locations 62. Assertion (A): Bhagavatism became popular in the marked as 1, 2, 3 and 4 on the given map and select Gupta period. the correct answer using the following codes: Reason (R): Gupta rulers were great devotees Codes: of Krishna. (a) A B C D 63. Assertion (A): Varieties of coins bearing legends in 2 1 4 3 Greek and Brahmi have been dis- (b) A B C D covered from North-Western India. 1 2 3 4 Reason (R): India carried out extensive trade (c) A B C D with the Greek world. 3 2 1 4 64. Assertion (A): Varnasanskara was greatly favoured by (d) A B C D the authors of Dharmsastras. 1 3 2 4 Reason (R): It helped in the proliferation of MTP.76 | Indian History

Sangam Age 77. List I contains names of scholars and List II the chronology, each has suggested for Tamil Sangam literature. Match the two lists and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists: List I List II (A) S Vaiyapuri Pillai 1. 300 bc to 300 ad (B) K A Nilakanta 2. 500 bc to 500 ad Sastri (C) V R Ramachandra 3. 300 ad to 500 ad Dikshitar (D) N Subrahmanian 4. 1st ad to 300 ad Codes: (a) A B C D 3 4 2 1 (b) A B C D 1 3 2 4 72. The granary discovered at Harappa was located (c) A B C D (a) within the citadel 4 3 1 2 (b) in the ‘Lower town’ (d) A B C D (c) near the river Ravi 3 1 2 4 (d) beside the western gate of the city 78. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer 73. A scene reminiscent of the well-known folk tale “The using the codes given below the lists: Clever Fox” from the Panchatantra is depicted on a List I List II pot from an Indus site. The pot was discovered from (A) Kurinchi 1. Cattle rearing and (a) Harappa (b) Lothal food producing (c) Chanhudaro (d) Kalibangan (B) Mullai 2. Fishing and salt 74. Archaeological evidence from Nagar, Katpalon, manufacturing Dhadheri and Bhagwanpura indicate that the late (C) Marudam 3. Hunting and food Harappans and the Painted Grey Ware using people gathering (a) never lived together (d) Neydal 4. Food producing (b) came into contact, but never lived together and hoarding (c) came into contact, but lived in different settle- Codes: ments in the same area (a) A B C D (d) came into contact and lived in the same settle- 3 1 2 4 ments (b) A B C D 3 1 4 2 Vedic Culture (c) A B C D 2 3 1 4 75. Two versions known as the white and the black are (d) A B C D available in the 1 4 2 3 (a) Rigveda and Yajurveda 79. In Tamil poetry, the agam group of poems (b) Yajurveda alone (a) dealt with love (c) Samaveda and Atharvaveda (b) was in praise of kings (d) Atharvaveda alone (c) was in praise of nature 76. The Vedic term Rta stands for the (d) was in praise of Lord Siva (a) moral order (b) seasons (c) priest (d) debt Model Test Papers | MTP.77

Religious Movements (D) Tirthankars 4. “Worthy” or “Conqueror” Codes: 80. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer (a) A B C D using the codes given below the lists: 3 2 1 4 List I List II (b) A B C D (A) Shramanas 1. Known for kindness 4 3 2 1 and mercy (c) A B C D (B) Upasakas 2. “Space-clad” 3 4 1 2 (C) Digambaras 3. Ascetics of unorthodox (d) A B C D sects 2 1 3 4 (D) Bodhisattvas 4. Lay worshippers Codes: (a) A B C D Maurya Empire 4 3 1 2 84. Which one of the following statements is not found (b) A B C D in Megasthenes’ Indica? 3 4 1 2 (a) “India produces fruit and grain twice a year” (c) A B C D (b) “Indians neither invade other men, nor do the 3 4 2 1 other men invade the Indians” (d) A B C D (c) “The Indian tribes number in all 118” 4 3 2 1 (d) “The skins of gold-mining ants are like those of 81. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer leopards” using the codes given below the lists: 85. The tree-in-railing symbol appears in List I List II (A) Sanchi Stupa 1. Kanishka (a) the seals of Harappan culture (B) Pagoda at Purushapura 2. Kharavela (b) the pottery from Buddhist centres (C) Hathigumpha inscription 3. Asoka (c) the punch-marked coins of the Mauryan age (D) Shinkot inscription 4. Menander (d) The copper plates of the Gupta dynasty 5. Antialkidas 86. Consider the following scripts: Codes: 1. Brahmi 2. Kharoshthi (a) A B C D 3. Greek 4. Aramaic 3 2 4 1 Scripts used in Asokan inscriptions include (b) A B C D (a) 3 and 4 (b) 1 and 2 3 1 2 4 (c) 1, 2 and 3 (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4 (c) A B C D 87. The Mauryan king who wanted a Sophist from Greece 4 1 5 2 in his court was (d) A B C D (a) Chandragupta (b) Bindusara 5 3 2 4 (c) Asoka (d) Kunala 82. Excepting two Jaina Tirthankaras, all the others men- 88. Which one of the following sculptures DOES NOT tioned in tradition are mythical. belong to the Mauryan period? The two exceptions include (a) Sarnath lion capital (a) Santinatha and Vardhamana (b) Dhauli elephant (b) Parsvanatha and Vardhamana (c) Standing Buddha from Mathura (c) Santinatha and Adinatha (d) Rampurva bull (d) Parsvanatha and Adinatha 83 Match List I with List II and select the Religious Movements correct answer using the codes given below the lists: List I List II 89. Consider the following vaisnative concepts: (A) Ajivikas 1. “Free from Bonds” 1. Chaturvyuha (B) Arhants 2. “Ford makers” 2. Panchavrishnivira (C) Nirgranthas 3. “A community of 3. Dashavatra religious men” MTP.78 | Indian History

The correct chronological sequence of these concepts tion of commercial goods in the post-Mauryan period? is (a) Considerable technological advancement was (a) 1, 3, 2 (b) 1, 2, 3 reached in the production of commercial goods (c) 3, 1, 2 (d) 2, 1, 3 (b) Production and distribution of commercial goods 90. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer was organised effectively through guilds using the codes given below the lists: (c) The producers worked under rigid state control List I List II (d) The guilds used hired labour for production (a) Acharanga sutra 1. Vedic 95. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer (b) Anguttara nikaya 2. Bhagavata using the codes given below the lists: (c) Pancharatra samhita 3. Jaina List I List II (d) Vajasaneyi samhita 4. Buddhist (Ports) (Location) Codes: (A) Barygaza 1. Malabar coast (a) A B C D (B) Muziris 2. Present day Mumbai coast 4 3 1 2 (C) Sopara 3. The eastern coast of India (b) A B C D (D) Suvarnab- 4. At the mouth of the 3 4 2 1 humi Narmada river (c) A B C D Codes: 3 4 1 2 (a) A B C D (d) A B C D 4 2 1 3 4 3 2 1 (b) A B C D 91. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer 1 3 4 2 using the codes given below the lists: (c) A B C D List I List II 3 1 4 2 (A) Rock-cut Rathas 1. Ellora (d) A B C D (B) Kailasa Temple 2. Mahabalipuram 4 1 2 3 (C) Brihadisvara Temple 3. Nachnakuthara (D) Parvati Tempie 4. Tanjavur Codes: Maurya Empire (a) A B C D 96. Consider the following rulers: 1 2 4 3 1. Bimbisara (b) A B C D 2. Chandragupta Maurya 1 4 2 3 3. Asoka (c) A B C D 4. Rudradaman 2 4 3 1 Who among them are associated with the Sudarsana (d) A B C D Lake? 2 1 4 3 (a) 1 and 3 (b) 2 and 4 (c) 1, 2, 3 and 4 (d) 2, 3 and 4 Trade and Commerce 92. Evidence of Roman trade with South India is available Agrarian Structure from the excavations at 97. Consider the following inscriptions of Harsha: (a) Arikamedu and Kanyakumari 1. Nalanda 2. Gaya (b) Alagangulam, Arikamedu and Kodungallur 3. Banskheda 4. Damodar (c) Arikamedu and Alagangulam The inscriptions which record Harsha’s landgrants to (d) Kanyakumari and Kodungallur religious institutions would include 93. “The Peri plus of Erythraean Sea” bearing on India’s (a) 1, 2, and 4 (b) 2 and 3 trade in the early centuries of the Christian era was (c) 1 and 3 (d) 2 and 4 written by 98. Match List I (the types of land mentioned in early (a) Ptolemy (b) An unknown author medieval land-grants) with List II (the type of land) (c) Pliny (d) Strabo and select the correct answer using the codes given 94. Which one of the following statements is not true in below the lists: respect of some features associated with the produc- Model Test Papers | MTP.79

List I List II Religious Movements (a) Kshetra 1. House site (b) Khila 2. Forest land 104. Match the sites marked as 1, 2, 3 and 4 on the given (c) Audakabhumi 3. Barren land map with the following monuments: (d) Jangalabhumi 4. Cultivable land (A) Buddhist stupa 5. Marshy land (B) Cave temples Codes: (C) Jaina temple (a) A B C D (D) Vaikunthanathaperumal temple 4 1 3 5 (b) A B C D 2 3 1 4 (c) A B C D 4 3 5 2 (d) A B C D 1 3 5 2 99. The early copper plate grants of the Pallavas are in (a) Sanskrit (b) Prakrit (c) Tamil (d) Telugu

Changes in Social Structure 100. Which one of the following statements about untouch- ability is not correct? (a) It was widely practised in the Indus Valley civi- Select the correct answer using the codes given below: lization Codes: (b) The Rigveda does not show any acquaintance (a) A B C D with it 4 3 2 1 (c) It is clearly referred to in the Buddhist Jatakas (b) A B C D (d) It came to be applied to several castes only in the 4 3 1 2 post-Gupta period (c) A B C D 101. The Mitaksani Commentary on the Yajnavalkya Sm- 3 4 1 2 riti, an important source of Hindu law, was written by (d) A B C D (a) Apararka (b) Kulluka 3 4 2 1 (c) Vijnanesvara (d) Visvarupa 102. The following Chinese travellers visited India: 800-1200 ad and Cholas 1. I’tsing 2. Fa-hien 3. Wang-Hieun Tse 4. Huen Tsang 105. List I contains the names of eleemosynary grants from The correct chronological order of their visit is early medieval South India and List II contains the (a) 2, 4, 1, 3 (b) 4, 2, 3, 1 recipient of each. Match the two lists and select the (c) 4, 2, 1, 3 (d) 2, 4, 3, 1 correct answer using the codes given below the lists: 103. Which one of the following inscriptions refers to the List I List II invasion of the Hunas during the reign of Skanda- (A) Devadana 1. Centre of learning (B) Brahmadeya 2. Sangha gupta? (C) Pallichanda 3. Priest (a) Mathura (b) Bhitari (D) Salabhogam 4. Temple (c) Junagarh (d) Sanchi 5. Brahmana MTP.80 | Indian History

Codes: 110. The Muslim conqueror who continued to issue coins (a) A B C D with the figure of a Hindu Goddess was 4 5 2 1 (a) Qutubuddin Aibak (b) Babur (b) A B C D (c) Mohammad Ghori (d) Mahmud Ghaznavi 4 3 2 5 111. Alauddin Khalji levied land revenue on the basis of (c) A B C D (a) crop sharing 4 5 1 3 (b) arbitrary assessment (d) A B C D (c) measurement 3 4 5 1 (d) a fixed money tribute 106. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists: List I List II Provincial Dynasties (A) Paramars 1. Gujarat 112. Consider the following foreign travellers: (B) Chalukyas 2. Modern Uttar Pradesh 1. Nicolo-de-Conti (C) Senas 3. Bengal 2. Ferhao Nuniz (D) Gahadavalas 4. Malwa 3. Barbosa Codes: Among these travellers, those who gave a vivid de- (a) A B C D scription of Sati in the Vijayanagara Society included 4 2 1 3 (a) 2 and 3 (b) 1 and 2 (b) A B C D (c) 1 and 3 (d) 1, 2 and 3 1 4 3 2 (c) A B C D 3 1 2 4 Delhi Sultanate (d) A B C D 113. Consider the following pairs: 4 1 3 2 1. Forty Turkish slaves : Successors of 107. Consider the following statements: Alberuni’s Kitab- Iltutmish ul-Hind is 2. Khot : Village headman 1. a sympathetic study of Indian Civilization. 3. Amiran-i-sada : Muhammad 2. mainly a political . Tughlaq 3. critical of Mahmud Ghaznavi’s plundering raids Which of the above pairs are correctly mathched? of India. (a) 1 and 2 (b) 1, 2 and 3 4. mainly a study of India’s cultural, social and (c) 2 and 3 (d) 1 and 3 intellectual history. Which of the above statement(s) is/are correct? (a) 1, 3 and 4 (b) 1 and 4 Provincial Dynasties (c) 2 and 3 (d) 4 alone 114. The Poet Laureate of Krishnadevaraya of Vijayana- gara was Delhi Sultanate (a) Nandi Timmanna (b) Allasani Peddanna (c) Dhurjati (d) Bhattu Murti 108. The minister in charge of organisation of military 115. The ruler of which one of the following Deccan Sul- contingents in early Delhi Sultanate was known as tanates did not join the grand alliance against Rama (a) Sadrus Sudur (b) Rawat-i-arz Raja in the battle of Talikota in 1565? (c) Naib-i-mumlikat (d) Amir-i-Kohi (a) Bijapur (b) Berar 109. Who among the following historians does not give (c) Golkunda (d) Bidar information on Alauddin Khalji’s price control meas- 116. The revenue department of Vijayanagara Empire was ures? known as (a) Ziya Barani (b) Ibn Batuta (a) Malkhana (b) Athavana (c) Minhaj Siraj (d) Amir Khusrau (c) Sangarahni (d) Bhandar Model Test Papers | MTP.81

Indo-Islamic Culture Mughal Empire 117. Which one of the following statements about Adi 119. In the Mughal administration Bakshi was Granth Saheb is not correct? (a) Mint Master (a) It was compiled in the first decade of the 17th (b) Paymaster cum incharge of intelligence services century (c) Treasurer (b) It contains verses of Kabir (d) In charge of revenue ministry (c) It contains verses generally from saints of Sagun 120. Consider the following statements related to the Bhakti Mansabdari system of the Mughals: (d) It contains sayings of Baba Farid 1. Akbar introduced the Mansabdari system. 118. The present Vrindaban near Mathura, was identified 2. Mansabdars were ranked according to the num- as such by ber of zats and sawars they had. (a) Chaitanya 3. Mansabdars were military officers only. (b) Mira Bai Which of the above statements are correct? (c) Vallabhacharya (a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 1 and 2 (d) Jiv Goswami (c) 2 and 3 (d) 1 and 3

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1. (d) 2. (a) 3. (b) 4. (b) 5. (c) 6. (d) 7. (a) 8. (a) 9. (c) 10. (b) 11. (a) 12. (c) 13. (d) 14. (a) 15. (c) 16. (b) 17. (c) 18. (d) 19. (c) 20. (b) 21. (c) 22. (b) 23. (b) 24. (b) 25. (a) 26. (b) 27. (c) 28. (c) 29. (c) 30. (b) 31. (b) 32. (c) 33. (b) 34. (c) 35. (c) 36. (d) 37. (c) 38. (b) 39. (a) 40. (a) 41. (a) 42. (b) 43. (c) 44. (a) 45. (c) 46. (d) 47. (d) 48. (b) 49. (b) 50. (c) 51. (c) 52. (a) 53. (c) 54. (d) 55. (d) 56. (a) 57. (d) 58. (a) 59. (c) 60. (d) 61. (b) 62. (c) 63. (b) 64. (d) 65. (c) 66. (c) 67. (c) 68. (c) 69. (d) 70. (c) 71. (b) 72. (c) 73. (b) 74. (d) 75. (b) 76. (a) 77. (a) 78. (b) 79. (a) 80. (c) 81. (b) 82. (b) 83. (c) 84. (c) 85. (b) 86. (d) 87. (b) 88. (c) 89. (d) 90. (b) 91. (d) 92. (c) 93. (b) 94. (c) 95. (d) 96. (d) 97. (c) 98. (c) 99. (b) 100. (a) 101. (c) 102. (d) 103. (b) 104. (c) 105. (a) 106. (d) 107. (a) 108. (b) 109. (c) 110. (c) 111. (c) 112. (a) 113. (b) 114. (b) 115. (b) 116. (b) 117. (c) 118. (c) 119. (b) 120. (b) MTP.82 | Indian History

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Chapters 14 & 15 Chapter 16 1. The first English factory in India was estab- 5. The common feature between Shivaji and Baji Rao-I lished at that ensured their successes in battles was (a) Bombay (b) Hooghly (a) Hindu Padpadshahi (c) Surat (d) Calcutta (b) Support from Hindu Rajas I (c) Guerrilla Warfare (d) Organised and Trained Army Chapter 13 6. Match List I (Officials) with List II (Functions) and 2. Who among the following were the pioneers in open- select the correct answer using the codes given below ing oceanic trade with India? the Lists: (a) Dutch (b) English List I List II (c) Portuguese (d) French (A) Peshwa 1. General Administration (B) Amatya 2. In charge of Chapter 10 Income and 3. Who among the following had observed—‘The Expenditure Hindus believe that there is no country like theirs, no (C) Sachiva 3. King’s nation like theirs, no kings like theirs, no science like Correspondence theirs’? and Home Affairs (a) Amir Khusrau (b) Alberuni (D) Sumant 4. Foreign Affairs (c) Ziauddin Bami (d) Hasan Nizami Codes: (a) A B C D 2 1 3 4 Chapter 13 (b) A B C D 1 2 3 4 4. The city of Agra was founded by (c) A B C D (a) Sikandar Lodi (b) Khizra Khan 2 1 4 3 (c) Bahlol Lodi (d) Firoz Tughluq Model Test Papers | MTP.83

(d) A B C D 14. Who among the following rulers subscribed to the 1 2 4 3 view that sovereignty was a divine light communi- cated directly from God to the emperor? (a) Alauddin (b) Babar Chapter 13 (c) Sher Shah (d) Akbar 7. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly 15. Who among the following Jat leaders looted Akbar’s matched? tomb? (a) Marco Polo : Pandyan kingdom (a) Gokla (b) Churaman (b) Nikitin : Bahmani kingdom (c) Raja Ram (d) Ram Chehra (c) Nicolo Conti : Rashtrakuta kiIlgdom 16. Consider the following events: (d) Barbosa : Vijayanagara kingdom 1. Din-i-Ilahi 2. Ibadat Khana 3. Mahzar Chapters 11 & 12 The correct chronological sequence of these events is 8. The Delhi Sultan who imposed uniform rate of land (a) 2, 3, 1 (b) 3, 2, 1 tax on all, from the smallest cultivator to the rural (c) 1, 2, 3 (d) 2, 1, 3 intermediaries was (a) Balban Chapter 19 (b) Alauddin Khalji (c) Ghiyasuddin Tughluq 17. Consider the following pairs of authors and their (d) Muhammad bin Tughluq works: 9. Who among the following Sultans of Delhi favoured 1. Ananda Kanda : Virahini rotation of crops? 2. V. D. Savarkar : Uttarakriya (a) Balban 3. Rabindranath Tagore : Ganadevata (b) Alauddin Khalji 4. Muhammad Iqbal : Bal-e-Jibril (c) Muhammad bin Tughluq Which of the above pairs are correctly matched? (d) Firuz Shah Tughluq (a) 1, 2 and 4 (b) 2 and 4 (c) 2 and 3 (d) 1 and 3 18. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer Chapters 14 & 15 using the codes given below the Lists: 10. Which one of the following trading centres was not List I List II used as a sea-port by the Mughals? A. Subbarayulu Chetty 1. Veda Samaj (a) Lahiri Bunder (b) Thatta B. Swami Narayana Guru 2. Upasana (c) Cambay (d) Surat Sabha 11. The Ain-i-Dehsala was introduced as a method of C. Raghunathaya 3. Jati Mimamsa assessment of land revenue by D. Gajalu Lakshmanarasu 4. Cresent (a) Sher Shah (b) Akbar Chetty (c) Shahjahan (d) Aurangzeb Codes: 12. The Timariots, Governors and Revenue Contractors, (a) A B C D on their part reason in this manner: 2 3 1 4 ‘Why should the neglected state of this land create (b) A B C D uneasiness in our minds and why should we expend 1 3 2 4 our money and time to render it fruitful? We may be (c) A B C D deprived of it in a single moment, and our exertions 4 1 2 3 would benefit neither ourselves nor our children.’ (d) A B C D The above statement was made by 1 2 4 3 (a) Monserrate (b) Tavernier 19. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer (c) Manrique (d) Bernier using the codes given below the Lists: 13. Akbar divided the empire into Subas in his List I List II (a) 18th regnal year (b) 24th regnal year A. Sarala Devi 1. The High Caste (c) 32nd regnal year (d) 40th regnal year Hindu Woman MTP.84 | Indian History

B. Pandita Ramabai 2. Stree Darpan English C. Rameshwari 3. Kanya Hitkarini 23. Which one of the following combination of forces Nehru Sabha conspired to rob the Begums of Oudh of their wealth? D. Hukumo Devi 4. Jibaner Jhara Pata (a) Hastings and Chet Singh Codes: (b) Hastings and the Nawab Wazir (a) A B C D (c) Hastings, the Nawab Wazir and Chet 4 1 2 3 Singh (b) A B C D (d) Hastings, Chet Singh and Mir Jafar 2 1 3 4 24. Consider the following Generals: (c) A B C D 1. Ventura 4 3 2 1 2. Vansitartt (d) A B C D 3. Deva Singh 1 2 4 3 4. Suraj Singh 20. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer 5. Illahi Baksh using the codes given below the Lists: 6. Allard List I List II Who among these were the members of Ranjit Singh’s A. Sayyad Ahmed 1. Dar-ul-ulum Fauj-i-Khas? Bareilvi Deoband (a) 1, 2, 3 and 4 (b) 1, 3, 5 and 6 B. Muhammad 2. Barahim (c) 2, 3, 4 and 5 (d) 2, 4, 5 and 6 Qasim Nanautawi 25. Which one of the following factories of Bengal was C. Mirza Gulam 3. Tariquah-i- established by the Dutch? Ahmed Muhammadiyah (a) Bandel (b) Hooghly D. Zaka Ullah 4. Delhi Urdu (c) Chinsurah (d) Srirampur Renaissance 26. The main cause of the war between Mir Qasim and Codes: the East India Company was their dispute over (a) A B C D (a) the strength of armed forces 1 3 4 2 (b) the jurisdiction of courts (b) A B C D (c) the realisation of revenue 3 1 2 4 (d) factional in-fighting in the camp of East India (c) A B C D Company 1 3 2 4 27. The British Parliament passed the Regulating Act to (d) A B C D improve the administration of the East India Company 3 1 4 2 in the year 21. Consider the following persons: (a) 1773 (b) 1775 1. Sir Attar Singh (c) 1853 (d) 1855 2. Bhai Teja Singh 3. Sohan Singh Bhakna 4. Kartar Singh Jhabbar Chapter 18 Who among these were not the organisers of the 28. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly Singh-Sabha Movement? matched? (a) 1 and 4 (b) 3 and 4 (a) Ryatwari Settlement : Madras (c) 2 and 3 (d) 1 and 2 (b) Permanent Settlement : Bengal (c) Mahalwari Settlement : North-Western Chapter 17 Province (d) Talukdari Settlement : Bombay 22. The Confederates against Tipu Sultan in the Third 29. Consider the following statements: Mysore War included The drain of wealth from India to Eng- (a) the Nizam, the Nawab of Carnatic and the English land under the ‘Home Charges’ up till 1858 (b) the Marathas, the English and the Nawab of consisted of Carnatic 1. payment of dividend to the proprietors of East (c) the English, the Marathas and the Nizam India Company for pavment to its shareholders (d) the Raja of Travancore, the Marathas and the 2. interest on public debt Model Test Papers | MTP.85

3. guaranteed interest on capital borrowed for con- 3 2 1 4 struction of railways and irrigational works 34. The revolt of the Khasis against the British was led 4. expenses of India Office by Which of the above statements are correct? (a) Surendra Sai (b) Titu Mir (a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 2, 3 and 4 (c) Birsa Munda (d) Utirot Singh (c) 1, 3 and 4 (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4 30. The monopoly of the East India Company to trade with China was abolished by the Charter Act of Chapter 19 (a) 1793 (b) 1813 35. Which of the following pairs are correctly matched? (c) 1833 (d) 1853 1. Strachey Commission : Famine 2. Hartog Committee : Education Chapter 20 3. Frazer Commission : Police Reforms (a) 1 and 2 (b) 1, 2 and 3 31. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer (c) 2 and 3 (d) 1 and 3 using the codes given below the Lists: List I List II A. Rani Lakshmibai 1. Gwalior Chapter 21 B. Maulavi Ahmadullah 2. Kanpur 36. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer C. Nana Saheb 3. Faizabad using the codes given below the Lists: D. Kunwar Singh 4. Jagdishpur List I List II Codes: A. Newspapers (Incitement) 1. 1908 (a) A B C D to Offence) Act 3 4 2 1 B. Indian Press (Emergency 2. 1931 (b) A B C D Powers) Act 1 3 2 4 C. Indian Press Act 3. 1910 (c) A B C D D. Vernacular Press Act 4. 1878 2 3 4 1 Codes: (d) A B C D (a) A B C D 1 2 3 4 2 3 1 4 32. Which one of the following is not correctly matched? (b) A B C D (a) Bhil Uprising : 1818–31 2 4 3 1 (b) Satara Uprising : 1814 (c) A B C D (c) Kittur Uprising : 1824 1 2 3 4 (d) Gadkari Revolt : 1844 (d) A B C D 33. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer 1 2 4 3 using the codes given below the Lists: List I List II A. Mysore Peasants’ 1. 1846–47 Chapter 22 Revolt 37. Which one of the following pairs of persons was B. Vizagapattam Uprising 3. 1830–31 hanged on the charges of assassinating English of- C. Ganjam Uprising 3. 1830–34 ficers in England? D. Kurnool Uprising 4. 1835 (a) Rajguru and Sukhdev Codes: (b) Khudiram Bose and Surya Sen (a) A B C D (c) Madanlal Dhingra and Udham Singh 3 2 4 1 (d) Kartar Singh Sarabha and Ashfaqullah Khan (b) A B C D 38. Who among the following was the founder of the 2 3 1 4 Khudai Khidmatgar organization? (c) A B C D (a) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan 2 3 4 1 (b) Abdul Rab Nishtar (d) A B C D (c) Shaukatullah Ansari (d) Khan Abdul Quayum Khan MTP.86 | Indian History

39. Consider the following individuals: (c) A B C D 1. N. M. Joshi 1 3 4 2 2. Dewan Chamanlal (d) A B C D 3. Shiva Rao 3 1 4 2 4. V. V. Giri Which movement, amongst the following, were all of Chapter 22 the above associated with? (a) Communist movement 43 Consider the following events: (b) Kisan Sabha movement 1. August Offer (c) Trade Union movement 2. Poona Pact (d) State People’s movement 3. Third Round Table Conference 40. Consider the following events: 4. Communal Award 1. Founding of the Swaraj Party The correct chronological sequence of these events is 2. Jallianwala Bagh Massacre (a) 4, 3, 2, 1 (b) 4, 2, 3, 1 (c) 1, 2, 3, 4 (d) 3, 2, 1, 4 3. The Congress-League Pact 4. The Chauri-Chaura Episode The correct chronological sequence of their occur- Chapter 24 rence is 44. Match List I (Films) with List II (Directors) and select (a) 2, 3, 1, 4 (b) 3, 2, 1, 4 the correct answer using the codes given below the (c) 3, 2, 4, 1 (d) 2, 3, 4, 1 Lists: 41. Consider the following leaders: List I List II 1. Balwantrai Mehta A. Achhut Kanya 1. Debaki Bose 2. J. N. Sen Gupta B. Apna Ghar 2. 3. Sardool Singh Kaveeshar C. Dharti Ke Lal 3. Chetan Anand 4. Sudhakar Rao D. Neecha Nagar 4. K. A. Abbas Who among these were not the chief conveners of the Codes: All-India States’ Peoples’ Conference (AISPC)? (a) A B C D (a) 2 and 3 (b) 1, 2 and 4 2 1 4 3 (c) 1, 3 and 4 (d) 2, 3 and 4 (b) A B C D 1 2 4 3 Chapter 21 (c) A B C D 2 4 3 1 42. Match List I (Authors) with List II (Books) and select (d) A B C D the correct answer using the codes given below the 3 1 4 2 Lists: List I List II A. Dadabhai Naoroji 1. Satyarth Prakash Chapter 23 B. Dayanand 2. Anandamath 45. Match List I with List II and select the Saraswati correct answer using the codes given below the Lists: C. Bal Gangadhar 3. Poverty and Un- List I List II Tilak British Rule in A. Abdul Qaiyum Khan 1. Delhi India B. Hakim Ajmal Khan 2. Bengal D. Bankim Chandra 4. Gita Rahasya Chatterji C. Chaudhuri Khaliq 3. UP Codes: Uzzaman (a) A B C D D. Fazlul Huq 4. NWFP 3 4 1 2 Codes: (b) A B C D (a) A B C D 2 1 3 4 4 1 2 3 Model Test Papers | MTP.87

(b) A B C D Chapter 22 4 1 3 2 (c) A B C D 48. Consider the following institutions: 1 4 2 3 1. The Indian Currency (Fowler) Commission (d) A B C D 2. The Royal Commission (Chamberlain on Indian Finance and Currency 1 4 3 2 3. The Imperial Bank of India 46. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer 4. The Reserve Bank of India using the codes. given below the Lists: The correct chronological sequence of the establish- List I List II ment of these institutions is A. Subhas Chandra 1. India Wins (a) 2, 1, 3, 4 (b) 1, 2, 3, 4 Bose Freedom (c) 1, 2, 4, 3 (d) 2, 1, 4, 3 B. Abul Kalam Azad 2. Whither India 49. Match List I (Congress Sessions) with List II (Resolu- C. Rajendra Prasad 3. India Struggles tions) and select the correct answer using the codes for Freedom given below the Lists: D. Jawaharlal Nehru 4. India Divided List I List II Codes: A. Lahore, 1929 1. Radical Agrarian (a) A B C D Programme 1 4 3 2 B. Karachi, 1931 2. National Unity (b) A B C D C. Faizpur, 1936 3. Fundamental 3 2 4 1 Rights (c) A B C D D. Ramgarh, 1940 4. Purna Swaraj 3 1 4 2 Codes: (d) A B C D (a) A B C D 4 1 2 3 3 1 4 2 (b) A B C D 4 3 1 2 Chapter 21 (c) A B C D 47. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer 4 2 1 3 using the codes given below the Lists: (d) A B C D List I List II 1 3 2 4 A. The Indian Jute Mills 1. 1918 Association Chapter 17 B. The Victoria Jubilee 2. 1884 Technical Institute 50. Among the locations labelled as 1, 2, 3 and 4 in given C. The Tata Iron and 3. 1888 map, British territories as on 1805 included Steel Company D. The Indian Industrial 4. 1907 Commission Codes: (a) A B C D 2 3 1 4 (b) A B C D 3 2 4 1 (c) A B C D 2 3 4 1 (d) A B C D 3 2 1 4 MTP.88 | Indian History

Which of these pairs are correctly matched? (a) 1, 2 and 4 (b) 1, 3 and 4 (c) 1, 2 and 3 (d) 2, 3 and 4 53. Consider the following personalities: 1. J. B. Kripalani 2. Ajoy Ghosh 3. Sanmukham Chetty 4. John Mathai Who among these belong to the group of prominent opposition personalities in the initial years of Inde- pendence? (a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 1, 3 and 4 (c) 1 and 2 (d) 3 and 4 54. Consider the following events: 1. Police action in Hyderabad 2. Liberation of Goa 3. Demise of Shyama Prasad Mukherjee in Srinagar (a) 1 and 3 (b) 1 and 2 4. Kashmir’s accession to India (c) 2 and 3 (d) 1 and 4 The correct chronological sequence of these events is (a) 1, 4, 3, 2 (b) 1, 4, 2, 3 (c) 4, 1, 2, 3 (d) 4, 1, 3, 2 Chapter 24 51. Match List I (Hydel Power Project) with List II (Loca- Chapter 17 tions) and select the correct answer using the codes given below the Lists: 55. Consider the following features: List I List II 1. Economic prosperity A. Salal Hydel Power 1. Karnataka 2. The Diwani rights of Bengal with the British Project while the Nawab was responsible for Nizamat B. Balimela Project 2. Jammu & Kashmir function C. Sharavathy Project 3. Maharashtra 3. A prolonged period of famine D. Koyna Project 4. Orissa 4. A Sudden increase in the volume of trade in the Codes: region (a) A B C D Which of these characterised the ‘Dual System’ of 4 1 2 3 government in Bengal? (b) A B C D (a) 1, 2 and 4 (b) 1, 3 and 4 2 1 3 4 (c) 2, 3 and 4 (d) 1, 2 and 3 (c) A B C D Directions: The following 5 (five) items consist of 2 4 1 3 two statements, one labelled the ‘Assertion A’ and (d) A B C D the other labelled the ‘Reason R’. You are to exam- 3 4 1 2 ine these two statements carefully and decide if the 52. Consider the following pairs: 1. Council for : Shanti Swarup Assertion A and the Reason R are individually true and if so, Scientific and Bhatnagar whether the Reason is a correct explanation of the Assertion. Industrial Research Select your answers to these items using the codes given 2. Indian Statistical : P. C. Mahalanobis below and mark your Answer Sheet accordingly. Institute Codes: 3. Atomic Energy : H. N. Sethna (a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct expla- Commission nation of A 4. Space : M.G.K. Menon (b) Both A and R are true but R is not a correct Commission explanation of A Model Test Papers | MTP.89

(c) A is true but R is false Punjab. (d) A is false but R is true Chapter 1 Chapter 4 61. The earliest ‘man like creature’, which racial- 56. Assertion (A): Upanishadas were compiled towards ly differed from ‘Homo sapiens’, is generally the end of the Vedic period. known as Reason (R): The Upanishadic thought (a) Hominid (b) Pithecanthropus centres round the idea of soul (At- (c) Sinanthropus (d) Eoanthropus man), not sacrifice. 62. Among the four sites mentioned below, the earliest cultural phase comes from Chapter 6 (a) Banawali (b) Kot-Diji (c) Surkotada (d) Mehrgarh 57. Assertion (A): Chandragupta instigated revolt against Greek Satraps. Reason (R): Chandragupta had visited the camp Chapter 2 of Alexander. 63. Which one of the following is the largest burnt-brick structure built in the entire range of the Harrapa Cul- Chapter 8 ture? (a) The Great Bath (b) Granary 58. Assertion (A): In ancient India, the status of (c) Assembly Hall (d) Lothal Dockyard women, idealized in litera- 64. Consider the following statements regarding ture and art, underwent steady the identification with Siva, of a figure deterioration through the represented on Harappan seals: ages. 1. It is shown in the form of a Linga. Reason (R): Though monogamy was the ideal, polygamy was often the practice 2. It is shown seated in yogic posture. among the higher classes of soci- 3. It is surrounded by animals. ety. 4. It is shown with a female figure identifiable with Parvati. Which of the above are correct reasons for identifying Chapter 13 the figure with Siva? 59. Assertion (A): The reign of Krishnadeva (a) 1 and 4 (b) 2 and 3 Raya was the period of Vijayanagar’s (c) 2 and 4 (d) 3 and 4 greatest success when its army was always victorious. Chapter 3 Reason (R): Krishnadeva Raya’s army and navy were trained by 65. Consider the following representatives of Portuguese generals different cultures: appointed by him 1. Arretine ware 2. Northern Black polished ware 3. Painted grey ware Chapter 22 4. Ochre coloured pottery 60. Assertion (A): General Dyer fired at Jalli- Their correct chronological sequence is anwala Bagh crowd (a) 3, 4, 1, 2 (b) 4, 3, 1, 2 without any warning and till the (c) 3, 4, 2, 1 (d) 4, 3, 2, 1 ammunition was exhausted. Reason (R): This shooting was not only to Chapter 4 boost the morale of the army, but also to strike terror in 66. Which one of the following Brahmana texts belongs to the Rigveda? MTP.90 | Indian History

(a) Aitareya Brahmana (a) Haryanka dynasty (b) Saisunaga (b) Gopatha Brahmana dynasty (c) Satapatha Brahmana (c) Nanda dynasty (d) Maurya dynasty (d) Taittiriya Brahmana 67. In the Rigveda, the largest number of hymns are on Chapter 6 (a) Varuna (b) Agni (c) Visnu (d) Yama 75. A bilingual Asokan inscription, inscribed in Greek 68. Which one of the following has been described in the and Aramaic, is found at Vedic literature as a form of Prajapati? (a) Mansehra (b) Puskalavati (a) Kapila (b) Nrsimha (c) Sahbazgarhi (d) Kandahar (c) Vamana (d) Varaha 76. Consider the following sites: A. Hastinapur Chatper 5 B. Pishtapur C. Ropar 69. The largest numbers of discourses delivered by Bud- D. Sravanabelgola dha were at (a) Sravasti (b) Kausambi (c) Rajagriha (d) Sarnath 70. With respect to food-discipline of the Buddhist Sra- manas, the Buddhist monks were permitted to 1. beg 2. accept invitation for meals 3. accept offerings sent to the monastery 4. express their wish for any particular kind of food Which of the above statements are correct? (a) 1 and 2 (b) 3 and 4 (c) 1, 2 and 4 (d) 1, 2 and 3 71. Which one of the following characteristics of Bud- dhism, distinguishes it from Jainism? (a) Non-acceptance of the authority of the Vedas (b) Belief in the efficacy of action Match these sites with the location labelled as 1, 2, 3 (c) Rejection of both extreme pleasures and selfmor- and 4 in the given map, and select the correct answer tification using the codes given below: (d) Attitude of non-injury towards all beings Codes: 72. The doctrine of the ‘manyness of reality’ is a charac- (a) A B C D teristic feature of 3 2 4 1 (a) Buddhism (b) A B C D (b) Jainism 2 3 1 4 (c) Both Buddhism and Jainism (c) A B C D (d) Pasupata 3 2 1 4 (d) A B C D 73. At which one of the following places was the Jaina 2 3 4 1 canonical literature codified in the fifth century AD? 77. Sudama cave was dedicated to (a) Valabhi (b) Vaisali (a) Jaina monks (b) Buddhist monks (c) Rajagriha (d) Pataliputra (c) Ajivaka saints (d) Pasupata saints 74. The king who got a canal dug in Kalinga, 78. An intelligent appreciation of the relative belonged to the values of different trade-routes in India is contained in Model Test Papers | MTP.91

(a) Arthasastra of Kautilya (a) 3 and 4 (b) 2 and 3 (b) Ptolemy’s Geography (c) 1, 2 and 3 (d) 2, 3 and 4 (c) Indica of Megasthenes 86. Who among the following was the expounder of the (d) Pliny’s Natural History Pasupata system? (a) Kapilesvara (b) Kusika Chapter 7 (c) Lakulisa (d) Parasara 87. In the Bhagavata religion, besides Vasudeva, the most 79. Which one of the following poets of the important deity was Sangam age has referred to a Mauryan (a) Balarama (b) Pradyumna expedition against a Tamil chieftain? (c) Samba (d) Aniruddha (a) Paranar (b) Avvaiyar (c) Ilango Adigal (d) Mamulanar 80. According to tradition, the author of Chapter 8 Silap-padigaram is 88. During the Gupta age, India had maximum (a) Sattan (b) Kamban trade contact with (c) Ilango Adigal (d) Tiruttakkadevar (a) Roman empire (b) Central Asia 81. Consider the following ports: (c) South-East Asia (d) China 1. Sopara 89. The Gupta era is identical with 2. Barbaricum (a) Kalachuri era (b) Kali era 3. Poduka (c) Saptarri era (d) Valabhi era 4. Muziris 90. Consider the following kings: According to the Periplus, which of these ports were 1. Bhanugupta located on the western coast? 2. Budhagupta (a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 1, 2 and 4 3. Kacha (c) 1, 3 and 4 (d) 2, 3 and 4 4. Purugupta 82. Coins with legends and portraits were first The correct chronological sequence of their rules is issued in India by the (a) 4, 3, 1, 2 (b) 4, 3, 2, 1 (a) Sungas (b) Sakas (c) 3, 4, 2, 1 (d) 3, 4, 1, 2 (c) Indo-Greeks (d) Satavahanas 91. Match List I (Names of kings) with List II (Texts 83. Which one of the following regions, accounts for mentioning their names) and select the correct answer discovery of the largest number of Roman coins? using the codes given below the Lists: (a) Eastern India (b) North-Western List I List II India A. Grahavarman 1. Rajatarangini (c) South India (d) Western India B. Pusyamitra 2. Mudraraksasa 84. The monsoon winds, which facilitated In- C. Lalitaditya 3. Harsacharita dia’s trade with the Western world in the early Muktapida centuries of the Christian era, are believed to have D. Chandragupta 4. Malavikagnimitra been discovered by Maurya (a) Hippalus (b) Ptolemy Codes: (c) Pliny (d) Strabo (a) A B C D 85. Consider the following: 4 3 2 1 1. Slaves (b) A B C D 2. Textiles 3 4 1 2 3. Spices (c) A B C D 4. Metal objects 4 3 1 2 Which of these were the most important (d) A B C D articles of export from the Indian ports in the early centuries of the Christian era? 3 4 2 1 MTP.92 | Indian History

92. Match List I (Types of marriage) with List II Codes: (Their characteristic feature) and select the (a) A B C D correct answer using the codes given below 3 2 4 1 the Lists: (b) A B C D List I List II 3 2 1 4 A. Daiva 1. Bride’s father receives a (c) A B C D pair of cow and bull from 2 3 4 1 the bridegroom (d) A B C D B. Arsa 2. Bride is taken away by 2 3 1 4 force and married C. Asura 3. Father gives the daughter Chapter 6 with ornaments D. Rakasasa 4. Father gives daughter to a 96. Which one of the following sites can be in- priest dentified with Samapa, an administrative 5. Bridegroom pays the price centre under the Mauryas? (a) Brahmagir (b) Jaugada of the bride (c) Maski (d) Ujjain Codes: 97. Consider the following sites: (a) A B C D A. Captial of Panchala kingdom 1 4 3 5 B. Pallave town (b) A B C D C. Buddhist site 4 1 5 2 D. Harappan site (c) A B C D 3 4 5 2 (d) A B C D 4 1 2 5 93. Consider the following Smrti texts (a) Yajnavalkya Smrti (b) Manu Smrti (c) Brahaspati Smrti (d) Devala Smrti The correct chronological sequence of these texts is (a) 1, 2, 4, 3 (b) 2, 1, 3, 4 (c) 2, 3, 1, 4 (d) 4, 1, 3, 2 94. The Buddhist philosopher of Kashmi- ri origin, who took a leading part in propagat- ing Mahayana Buddhism in Central Asia and China was (a) Kumarajiva (b) Asanga (c) Vasubandhu (d) Atisa Match these sites with the locations labeled as 1, 2, 3 95. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer and 4 in the given map, and select the correct answer using the codes given below the Lists: using the codes given below: List I List II Codes: (a) A B C D A. Brhatsamhita 1. Magha 2 1 4 3 B. Ratnavali 2. Harsa (b) A B C D C. Kiratarjuniya 3. Varahamihira 2 1 3 4 D. Sisupalavadha 4. Bharavi Model Test Papers | MTP.93

(c) A B C D Chapter 13 1 2 4 3 (d) A B C D 104. Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched? 1 2 3 4 (a) Kabir : Surdas (b) Guru Nanak : Ramananda (c) Chaitanya : Haridas Chapter 13 (d) Ramanuja : Namdev 98. The Vijayanagara ruler, Krsnadev Raya’s work Amuk- tamalyada, was in Chapter 10 (a) Telugu (b) Sanskrit (c) Tamil (d) Kannada 105. Who among the following was an Alvar saint? 99. Which one of the following communities (a) Appar (b) Kulasekhara received special privileges during the Regency of (c) Sambandar (d) Venkatanatha Aliya Ramaraya? (a) Brahmanas (b) Barbers Chapters 11 & 12 (c) Weavers (d) Artisans 106. Who among the following Sufis advocated the theory Chapter 9 of ‘Wahdat-ul-Shahud’? (a) Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya 100. ‘Manigramam’ spoken of in medieval South (b) Sheikh Ahmad Sarhindi India, refers to (c) Sheikh Salim Chishti (a) place of rural labour (d) Maulana Abdul Hai (b) palace of rural lords (c) association of merchants Chapter 13 (d) local assembly of elders 101. The Chola kingdom was divided into the 107. The Adi Granth was compiled during the period of following parts for administrative purposes: (a) Guru Nanak Dev (b) Guru Amar Das 1. Kottam 2. Mandalam (c) Guru Arjun Dev (d) Guru Hargobind 3. Nadu 4. Ur 108. Squinch system in architecture for supporting the The sequence, in descending order of their sizes is dome was used for the first time in (a) 1, 2, 4, 3 (b) 2, 3, 1, 4 (a) Ilitutmish’s tomb (b) 1, 3, 2, 4 (d) 2, 4, 1, 3 (b) Alai Darwaza (c) Ghiyasuddin Tughluq’s tomb Chapters 11 & 12 (d) Humayun’s tomb 102. An area which was relatively neglected by the Hindus, but where Muslim writers showed their skill was Chapter 10 (a) Logic (b) Musicology 109. The Brihadeeshvara temple was built by (c) Astronomy (d) History (a) Rajaraja (b) Rajendra Chola 103. Consider the following points: (c) Vira Rajendra (d) Kulottunga 1. Sri Chaitanya 2. Lalla Dev 3. Nambi Andar Chapter 9 4. 110. Which one of the following kingdoms of South India 5. Ramanuja was well-known for its naval power? Who among these were Vaishnavite saints? (a) Chalukya (b) Hoysala (a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 2, 3 and 4 (c) Chola (d) Pandya (c) 1, 4 and 5 (d) 3, 4 and 5 MTP.94 | Indian History

Chapters 11 & 12 117. Bhimsen’s Nuskha-i-Dilkusha is a major source of information for the Mughal activities in 111. Kalilah wa Dimna is an Arabic version of the (a) Rajasthan (b) Deccan (a) Brahma Siddhanta (b) Mahabharata (c) Bengal (d) Assam (c) Panchatantra (d) Susruta Samhita 118. Match List I (Foreign travellers) with List II (Year of visit to India) and select the correct answer using the codes given below the Lists: Chapters 14 & 15 List I List II 112. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer A. Hawkins 1. 1615 using the codes given below the Lists: B. Thomas Roe 2. 1608 C. Manucci 3. 1585 List I List II D. Ralph Fitch 4. 1658 A. Aqa Riza 1. Shirin Qalam Codes: B. Ustad Mansur 2. Nadir-uz-Zaman (a) A B C D C. Abdus Samad 3. Nadir-ul-Asr 2 1 4 3 D. Mian Tansen 4. Akbar (b) A B C D Codes: 1 2 4 3 (a) A B C D (c) A B C D 2 3 1 4 2 1 3 4 (b) A B C D (d) A B C D 3 2 1 4 1 2 3 4 (c) A B C D 119. Which one of the following is not a work of 2 3 4 1 Guru Gobind Singh? (d) A B C D (a) Chandi di Var 3 2 4 1 (b) Vachitra Natak (c) Japji Sahib 113. The Mughal emperor, who asked his painters to make (d) Zafar Nama portraits of birds, was 120. Match List I (Authors) with List II (Literary work) (a) Humayun (b) Akbar and select the correct answer using the codes given (c) Jahangir (d) Shahjahan below the Lists: 114. The Razmnamah is the Persian translation of the List I List II (a) Bhagavata Purana (b) Mahabharata A. Abbas Khan 1. Futuhat-i-Alamgiri (c) Ramayana (d) Atharva Veda Sarwani B. Gulbadan Begam 2. Tarikh-i-Sher Chapter 10 Shahi C. Badauni (Mulla 3. Muntakhab-ut- 115. Who among the following was a mathematician of Abdul Qadir) Tawarikh the Rajput age? D. Ishwardas Nagar 4. Humayun Namah (a) Vagbhata (b) Vachaspati Codes: (c) Haradatta (d) Bhaskaracharya (a) A B C D 2 4 1 3 (b) A B C D Chapters 14 & 15 2 4 3 1 116. Who among the following rulers, was very (c) A B C D proficient in dancing and music? 4 2 3 1 (a) Babar (b) Akbar (d) A B C D (c) Adal Shah Sur (d) Jahangir 4 2 1 3 Model Test Papers | MTP.95

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MODEL TEST PAPER-9

Chapters 11 & 12 Chapter 9 1. The Mongol invader Qutlugh Khwaja invaded India 4. Consider the following statements about Rajendra I: during the reign of 1. He led a military expedition to the Ganga valley. (a) Balban 2. He defeated the Ceylon king Mahindra V. 3. He sent a large embassy of 72 merchants to China. (b) Jalaluddin Khalji Which of these are correct? (c) Alauddin Khalji (a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 1 and 2 (d) Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq (c) 2 and 3 (d) 1 and 3

Chapter 9 Chapters 11 & 12 2. Which one of the following is not a Chola 5. Who among the following officers was not a revenue term? part of Alauddin Khaljl’s market control (a) Kadamai (b) Adimai system? (c) Kudimai (d) Alkkasu (a) Diwan-i Riyasat (b) Shahna Chapters 11 & 12 (c) Barid (d) Diwan-i Mustakhraj 3. Consider the following quote: “No king so benevolent, sympathetic, reverent to the Chapter 10 learned and old ever rose by his own efforts, to the cradle of empire” Minhaj-us-Siraj said this about 6. Al Biruni in his Kitabul Hind had particularly appreci- (a) Iltutmish ated the Indians for a very high degree of proficiency (b) Qutbuddin Aibak in (c) Muhammad Tughlaq (a) exchanging and communicating their knowledge (d) Raziya Sultan (b) raising a powerful business class Model Test Papers | MTP.97

(c) construction of tanks and reservoirs at holy places (a) Aditya Chola II (b) Utlama Chola (d) miniature paintings (c) Rajaraja Chola (d) Rajendra Chola

Chapters 11 & 12 Chapters 11 & 12 7. Who among the following Sultans had 13. The Das Muqami Rekhta describing ten assumed the title of Zilillah (Shadow of God on the stations of Sufism was composed by Earth)? (a) Mansur Al Hallaj (b) Kabir (c) Guru Nanak (d) Mian Mir (a) Qutbuddin Aibak (b) Iltutmish (c) Balban Chapter 13 (d) Firuz Shah Tughlaq 14. Shri Guru Granth Sahib does not contain the hymns of Chapters 14 & 15 (a) Dhanna (b) Pipa (c) Raidas (d) Sain 8. Pandit Raj Jagannath was the poet laureate at the court 15. The Central Asian traveller Abdur Raz- of zaq Samarqandi, who visited the Vijayanagar (a) Humayun (b) Akbar empire, particularly bought and carried with him (c) Shahjahan (d) Aurangzeb Indian (a) medicines (b) ivory objects Chapters 11 & 12 (c) paintings (d) textiles 16. In the vijayanagar empire, the social and 9. Balban failed to extend his territorial religious matters were decided by possessions because of (a) Samayacaryas or Desaris (a) lack of financial resources (b) Kavalkaras or Arasukavalkaras (b) non-cooperation of nobles (c) Dharmopanchas or Dharmdesas (c) fear of Mongol invaders (d) Parsokanas or Dhruvrajas (d) revolt of his son 17. Under the Nayankara system of Vijayanagar, lands 10. The first Indo-Muslim classic on political theory and were assigned to art of governmental organization prepared under (a) mathas for the maintenance of temples Iltutmish was known as (b) persons against annual tributes and (a) Adabul Muluk military service (b) Ahkam-us Sultaniya (c) Brahmins for charitable trusts (c) Fatawa-i Jahandari (d) women without any source of income (d) Adab-us Salatin 18. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched? (a) Gulbadan Begum : Humayunnama Chapters 14 & 15 (b) Khwand Mir : Qanun-i Humayuni 11. Khwaja Mansur, is exclusively famous for his skills (c) Ziauddin Barani : Tarikh-i Firuzshahi in (d) Khwaja Kalan : Tazkirai Humayun (a) calligraphy wa Akbar (b) depiction of events 19. The Mahabharata and Rajatarangini were (c) portrait presentation translated, at the order of Zain-ul Abidin of (d) flora and fauna paintings Kashmir, in (a) Urdu (b) Persian (c) Pushtu (d) Arabic Chapter 9 12. The earliest Chola gold coin of which we have any knowledge, belongs to the reign of MTP.98 | Indian History

Chapters 14 & 15 (d) the completion of twenty five years of his rule 20. Which one of the following Persian works was au- thored by Sujan Rai Bhandari? Chapters 11 & 12 (a) Ibratnama 26. To meet the educational needs of the people, the (b) Khulasat-ut Tawarikh Madarasa-i Nasiri was built in the reign of (c) Shahjahannama (a) Qutbuddin Aibak (d) Muntakhab-ut Tawarikh (b) Iltutmish 21. Which one of the following combinations (c) Ruknuddin Firuz Shah indicates the correct chronological order of the me- (d) Jalaluddin Khalji dieval historical figures? (a) Gulbadan Begum, Chand Bibi, Jahan Ara, Raziya Chapter 11 Sultan (b) Jahan Ara, Chand Bibi, Raziya Sultan, Gulbadan 27. Which one of the following did not form part of the Begum triple alliance on the eve of the first Anglo-Mysore war? (c) Raziya Sultan, Gulbadan Begum, Chand Bibi, (a) The Raja of Travancore Jahan Ara (d) Chand Bibi, Raziya Sultan, Jahan Ara, Gulbadan (b) The Nizam Begum (c) The Marathas 22. The Sarai structures of the Mughal period were used (d) The English for (a) storing gun powder Chapter 21 (b) housing travelers 28. Who among the following founded a na- (c) keeping the imperial entourage tional paper, a national school and a national (d) housing the nobles gymnasium and made the word “national” popular in the latter half of the 19th century? Chapters 11 & 12 (a) Jyotindranath Tagore 23. The earliest proof of Indo-Arab intellectual (b) Rajnarayan Bose contact was the Arabic translation of Brahma Gupta’s (c) Nabagopal Mitra Brahma Siddhanta which came to be known as (d) (a) Ilmulhisab (b) Sindhind Chapter 22 (c) Kitabul Siddhanta (d) Brahma Siddhanta 29. In India, the Federal Court was constituted by an Act 24. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly of matched? (a) 1891 (b) 1909 (a) Mahmud Ghaznavi : Ayaz (c) 1919 (d) 1935 (b) Balban : Khanbaligh (c) Babur : Mirza Haidar Dughlat Chapter 20 (d) Dara Shikoh : Sarmad 30. Who among the following led the 1857 revolt in Bareilly? Chapters 14 & 15 (a) Khan Bahadur Khan 25. Buland Darwaza at Fatehpur Sikri was built by Akbar (b) Maulvi Ahmad Ullah in commemoration of (c) Bakht Khan (a) his victory at Gujarat (d) Azimullah Khan (b) the birth of his son Salim 31. Who among the following said, “Forget not that the (c) his marital alliance with Amber princess lower classes, the ignorant, the poor, the illiterate, Model Test Papers | MTP.99

the cobbler, the sweeper are thy flesh and blood, thy Calcutta? brothers”? (a) Nawab Abdul Latif (a) Jyotiba Phule (b) B.R. Ambedkar (b) Syed Amin Ali (c) Swami Vivekananda (d) Mahatma Gandhi (c) Shariatulla 32. Mahajani Sabhyata was written by (d) Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari (a) Rabindranath Tagore (b) Munshi Premchand Chapter 20 (c) Sahajanand 38. The Nair Service Society was founded by (d) Indulal Yagnik (a) Chandra Menon (b) T.M. Madhavan Chapter 22 (c) M. Padmanabha Pillai (d) K. Ramakrishna Pillai 33. Following the Quit India Movement of 1942 the National Government was not set up in (a) Tamluk (b) Satara Chapter 21 (c) Monghyr (d) Talcher 39. The Madras Mahajan Sabha came into existence in Chapter 24 (a) 1882 (b) 1883 34. Which one of the following is not correct (c) 1884 (d) 1885 regarding land-reforms in post-independence India? (a) Ceiling on land holdings Chapter 16 (b) Conferment of cultivator’s right over the 40. Which of the following is not one of the Sikh misls? land to the tiller (a) Ahluwalia (b) Dalewalia (c) Consolidation of land holdings (c) Kanheya (d) Aliwal (d) Prohibition of Benami transfer

Chapter 22 Chapter 22 41. Who among the following was not involved in the 35. Who among the following said, “For me every tini- drafting of the Bombay Plan? est activity is governed by what I consider to be my (a) Lala Shriram (b) G.D. Birla religion”? (c) Bhulabhai Desai (d) J.R.D. Tata (a) Swami Vivekanand (b) V.D. Savarkar (c) Mahatma Gandhi Chapter 19 (d) Subhash Chandra Bose 42. Match List-I (Literary works) with List-II (Individuals) and select ‘the correct answer Chapter 17 using the codes given below the Lists: List-I List-II 36. Which one of the following regions came un- der the direct administration of the English East (Literary works) (Individuals) India Company after the third Anglo-Mysore war? A. Din Mitra 1. C.V. Raman Pillai (a) Malabar (b) Kanara B. Martanda Varna 2. Mukum Rao Patil (c) Tanjore (d) Travancore C. New India 3. Vishnu Krishna Chiplunkar D. Nibandhanala 4. Bipin Chandra Chapter 19 Paul 37. Who among the following established the Mohammedan Literary Society in 1863 at MTP.100 | Indian History

Codes: (a) A B C D 3 4 1 2 (b) A B C D 2 1 4 3 (c) A B C D 3 1 4 2 (d) A B C D 2 4 1 3

Chapter 23 The megalithic type shown in above 43. The Prajamandal or the All-India States photograph is People’s Conference got fully fused with the (a) stone circle (b) menhir National Movement at the time of the (c) dolmen (d) stone alignment (a) resignation of the congress Ministers in 1939 Directions: The following fifteen items consist of (b) culmination of Quit India Movement two statements, one labelled the ‘Assertion A’ and (c) start of Civil Disobedience Movement the other labelled the ‘Reason R’. You are to ex- (d) transfer of Power amine these two statements carefully and decide if the 4.ssertion A and Reason R are individually true and if Chapter 17 so, whether the Reason is a correct explanation of the As- sertion. Select your answer to these items using the codes 44. Consider the following treaties: given below and mark your answer sheet accordingly 1. Treaty of Bassein Codes: 2. Treaty of Deogaon (a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct expla- 3. Treaty of Poona nation of A 4. Treaty of Gwalior (b) Both A and R are true but R is not a correct The correct chronological sequence of these treaties explanation of A is (c) A is true but R is false (a) 1, 2, 3, 4 (b) 2,4, 3, 1 (c) 4, 2, 1, 3 (d) 1, 3, 2, 4 (d) A is false but R is true

Chapter 3 Chapter 2 45. 46. Assertion (A): Harrappan civilisation had extensive trade contracts with other contemporary civilizations. Reason (R): civilizations were sustained by elaborate exchange networks.

Chapter 7 47. Assertion (A): Some Yavanas (Greeks) were con- verted to the Vaishnave cult during the reign of the Sungas. Reason (R): Bhagwat erected a Garuda Pillar at Besnagar. Model Test Papers | MTP.101

Chapter 6 Chapters 14 & 15 48. Assertion (A): The Mauryan kings did not 54. Assertion (A): The concepts of Tauhid- make grants of villages on i Ilahi and Sulh-i kul confirm religious grounds. Emperor Akbar’s pantheistic ap- Reason (R): Cultivators revolted against land proach and cosmopolitan outlook. grants. Reason (R): Through Mahzar, he tried to appropriate spiritual as well Chapter 4 as temporal power. 49. Assertion (A): Vishwamitra is de- scribed to have organized a Chapters 11 & 12 confederacy of ten kings against 55. Assertion (A): Muhammad Tughlaq con- Sudas. ferred honours and high Reason (R): Sudas preferred Vasishtha as a appointments upon several priest. foreigners, Hindus and Mongols. Chapter 7 Reason (R): He wanted to weaken the nobility. 50. Assertion (A): The Kushanas were of Central Asian origin. Reason (R): They were a derivative of the Yue- Chapters 14 & 15 chi tribe. 56. Assertion (A): Shivaji mostly followed the 51. Assertion (A): The Indo-Greek king Menander pattern of land revenue accepted Buddhism. system introduced by Malik Am- Reason (R): The Buddhist Philosopher Nagas- bar. ena persuaded him to do so. Reason (R): He preferred to do away with revenue collection through Chapter 10 hereditary officers of sub- districts. 52. Assertion (A): Construction of temples as tributes to dead kings was a special feature of the Chola Chapter 13 period. 57. Assertion (A): Warangal was a centre of carpet Reason (R): The famous Siva temple at Gangai- industry in medieval India. konda-Cholapuram was built by Reason (R): Persian weavers were Rajendra I as a tribute to his father. engaged in weaving carpets in Warangal. Chapter 13 53. Assertion (A) : According to Paes, devada- Chapter 22 sis held a highly respectable position in the Vijayanagar 58. Assertion (A): The Swaraj Party was society. founded at the Gaya ses- Reason (R): The devadasi system came sion of the Indian National into existence in South India under Congress. the Vijayanagar rulers. Reason (R): C.R. Das and Motilal Nehru advocated the entry of the MTP.102 | Indian History

legislative councils under the 1919 Chapter 19 Act while C. Rajagopalachari and his supporters opposed it. 64. The Arya Mahila Sabha was founded by 59. Assertion (A): In June, 1941 the Commu- (a) Raj Kumari Amrit Kaur nist Party of India declared its (b) Nellie Sengupta support to the war efforts of Great (c) Durgabai Deshmukh Britain. (d) Pandita Ramabai Reason (R): Great Britain supported Russia against the German Chapter 22 invasion. 65. In October 1943, Subhash Chandra Bose established the Arzee Hukumat-i Hind at Chapter 21 (a) Rangoon (b) Singapore 60. Assertion (A): The enactment of the Age of (c) Germany (d) Japan Consent Bill was opposed by Lokmanya Tilak. Chapter 18 Reason (R): Lokmanya Tilak believed that so- ciety instead of government should 66. The Strachey Commission was connected with take steps for eradicating social (a) the Vernacular Press mal-practices. (b) famine (c) education Chapter 19 (d) local Self-government 67. Consider the following statements: 61. Slavery was abolished in India by an Act of The gradual increase in rural indebtedness in India (a) 1829 (b) 1833 under the British rule was due to (c) 1843 (d) 1858 1. fragmentation of land holdings 2. decline of cottage industries Chapter 22 3. lack of development of irrigational facilities 4. introduction of cash crops 62. Sir Harcourt Butler Committee was appointed to Which of these are correct? (a) investigate the relations between the (a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 2 and 4 British Empire and the Indian states (c) 1, 3 and 4 (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4 (b) suggest suitable provisions for protection of 68. The first President of the All-India Trade Union Con- minorities gress was (c) ensure proportionate representation of Scheduled (a) S.A. Dange Castes and Scheduled Tribes (b) Lala Lajpat Rai (d) find ways for integration of princely states (c) Z.A. Ahmed (d) N.M. Joshi Chapter 20 69. Consider the following statements: Cornwallis’ Permanent Settlement of Bengal 63. Who among the following was the Minister and Chief 1. deprived the zamindars of ownership of Advisor of Nana Saheb Peshwa? their land (a) Wajid Ali Shah 2. put the ryots under the mercy of the zamindars (b) Azimullah Khan 3. secured a stable income for the company (c) Maulvi Ahmad Shah 4. made zamindars allies of the East India Company (d) Amirullah Khan Which of these are correct? (a) 1 and 4 (b) 2, 3 and 4 (c) 1, 2 and 3 (d) 1 and 2 Model Test Papers | MTP.103

Chapter 19 2. Gandhiji attended the Second Round Table Conference. 70. Who among the following established the Vidhwa 3. After the Second Round Table Vivaha Mandai? Conference, the Gandhi-Irwin Pact was signed. (a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak 4. Communal Award is associated with the Round (b) Gopal Krishna Gokhale Table conferences. (c) M.G. Ranade Which of these are correct? (d) V.D. Savarkar (a) 1,2 and 3 (b) 1, 3 and 4 (c) 1, 2 and 4 (d) 2, 3 and 4 Chapter 20 71. Chhatrapati Shahu Maharaj of Kolhapur Chapter 21 encouraged B.R. Ambedkar to start the 76. Who among the following was the founder member publication of of the Indian Association set up in 1876? (a) Bahishkrit Bharat (b) Harijan Bandhu (a) P. Ananda Charlu (c) Mook Nayak (d) Swarajya (b) Pherozeshah Mehta (c) Anand Mohan Bose Chapter 21 (d) G. Subramaniya Iyer 72. Rabindranath Tagore suggested that the date of partition of Bengal (October 16, 1905) be Chapter 19 observed as an occasion of 77. Who among the following published the first (a) Solidarity day Indian Newspaper in English language in (b) Rakhi-bandhan day India? (c) Black day (a) Gangadhar Bhattacharya (d) Brotherhood day (b) Rabindranath Tagore 73. Consider the following events: (c) Mritunjoy Vidyalankar 1. Formation of Home Rule League (d) Ram Mohan Roy 2. Tilak sentenced to six years’ of deportation on charges of sedition 3. Formation of Ghadar Party at San Chapter 21 Francisco 78. Consider the following personalities: 4. Gandhi’s Champaran Satyagraha 1. Annie Besant Their correct chronological sequence of these events 2. Bal Gangadhar Tilak is 3. Muhammed Ali Jinnah (a) 2, 1, 4, 3 (c) 3, 2, 1, 4 4. Mahatma Gandhi (b) 2, 3, 1, 4 (d) 2, 1, 3, 4 Which of them were associated with the Home Rule Movement? Chapter 22 (a) 1, 2 and 4 (c) 3 and 4 (b) 2, 3 and 4 (d) 1,2 and 3 74. Which one of the following Congress Sessions adopted a resolution on Fundamental Rights and Economic Policy? Chapter 17 (a) Belgaum,1934 (b) Calcutta, 1928 79. Full membership of the Governor-General’s (c) Lahore, 1929 (d) Karachi, 1930 Executive Council was extended to the Law Member 75. Consider the following statements: through the 1. The Indian National Congress boycotted (a) Councils Act of 1892 the First Round Table Conference. (b) Councils Act of 1861 MTP.104 | Indian History

(c) Charter Act of 1853 (b) A B C D (d) Charter Act of 1833 4 2 1 3 (c) A B C D Chapter 1 1 2 4 3 (d) A B C D 80. Consider the following archaeological sites: 4 3 1 2 1. Damdama 2. Kurnool caves 3. Tekkalakota 4. Naikund Chapter 3 Their correct sequence in order of their antiquity is 85. The “Ash Mounds” from Deccan represent (a) 2, 4, 3, 1 (b) 3, 1, 2, 4 (a) sites where personages were cremated (c) 2, 1, 3, 4 (d) 3, 4, 2, 1 (b) sites where vedic sacrifices were 81. The majority of Early Stone age tools, in India, were performed made of (c) remnants of the settlements of neolithic (a) quartize (b) steatite cattle keepers (d) kilns where pots were baked (c) agate (d) carnelian 82. Which one of the following tools is not related to the Palaeolithic culture? Chapter 2 (a) Hand axe (b) Chopper 86. Excavations at which one 9f the following sites give (c) Cleaver (d) Celt evidence of continuous hab1t”ation and cultural evo- lution from the Stone age to the Harappan culture? Chapter 3 (a) Kalibangan (b) Dholavira (c) Mehrgarh (d) Allahdino 83. Consider the following pairs: 87. Which one of the following Harappan sites is situated 1. Settlement site : Chirand north of Hindukush? 2. Grave site : Porkalam (a) Chanhu-daro (b) Manda 3. Settlement and Grave site : Piklihal (c) Shortugai (d) Sutkagen-dor Which of these pairs are correctly matched? (a) 1 and 2 (b) 1 and 3 (c) 2 and 3 (d) 1, 2 and 3 Chapter 4 88. Who among the following Vedic Gods were Chapter 1 part of the religious beliefs of the Mittani people? 84. Match List-I (Sites) with List-II (Cultrues) (a) Agni, Pushan, Surya, Yama and select the correct answer using the codes (b) Agni, Indra, Mitra, Varuna given below the lists: (c) Indra, Varuna, Mitra, Nasatyas List-I List-II (d) Mitra, Varuna, Pushan, Rudra (Sites) (Cultures) 89. Consider the following texts: A. Chopani Mando 1. Palaeolithic 1. Satapatha Brahmana B. Kulli 2. Chalcolithic 2. Brhadaranyaka Upanishad C. Attirampakkam 3. Pre-Harappan 3. Acharanga Sutra D. Inamgaon 4. Mesolithic 4. Vinaya Pitaka Codes: Which of these is/are not related to the vedic literature (a) A B C D (a) only 4 (b) 1 and 2 1 3 4 2 (c) and 3 (d) 3 and 4 Model Test Papers | MTP.105

Chapter 5 Codes: (a) A B C D 90. The expression “Second Urbanisation” 3 2 1 4 signifies the (b) A B C D (a) revival of Harappan cities 3 2 4 1 (b) rise of urban centres in the Ganga valley (c) A B C D (c) birth of towns in the Deccan in the 2 3 4 1 Narmada valley (d) A B C D (d) re-building of the town of Kollam in Kerala 2 3 1 4 91. The rules of Buddhist monastic life are laid 94. The passage, "Where reigns the Greek king down, primarily, in named Amtiyoga and beyong the realm of (a) Tripitaka Amtiyoga in the lands of the four kings (b) Vinaya Pitaka (c) Abhidhamma Pitaka Tulamaya, Autekina, Maka and Alikyashudala…", (d) Sutta Pitaka is taken from (a) Asokan Edcict (b) Dighanikaya Chapter 4 (c) Nearchus (Ancient India as Described by Megas- 92. Match List-I (Vedangas) with List-II (Their subjects) thenes) and select the correct answer using the codes given (d) Stabo’s Geography below the lists: 95. Which one of the following inscriptions of List-I List-II Asoka refers to the grant of concession in land revenue (Vedangas) (Their subjects) to a village? A. Shiksha 1. Etymology (a) Lumbini pillar edict B. Kalpa 2. Astrology (b) Sarnath pillar edict C. Nitukta 3. Metres (c) Girnar rock edict D. Chhandas 4. Phonetics (d) Sanchi pillar edict 5. Ritual Codes: Chapter 7 (a) A B C D 4 1 2 3 96. Match List-I (Terms) with List-II (Explanations) and (b) A B C D select the correct answer using the codes given below 3 5 1 4 the lists: (c) A B C D List-I List-II 4 5 1 3 (Terms) (Explanations) (d) A B C D A. Bhaga 1. A linear measure 3 1 2 4 B. Dramma 2. The King’s share C. Nivartana 3. A coin D. Vishti 4. Forced labour Chapter 6 5. A unit area of 93. Match List-I (Archaeological remains) with List-II land (Sites) and select the correct answer using the codes Codes: given below the lists: (a) A B C D 2 3 5 4 List-I List-II (b) A B C D (Archaeological remains) (Sites) 4 5 3 1 A. Rock elephant 1. Sanchi (c) A B C D B. Quadripartite lion 2. Sarnath 2 5 3 4 C. Sunga-Kanva bas reliefs 3. Dhauli (d) A B C D D. The majestic gateway 4. Bharhut 4 3 5 1 MTP.106 | Indian History

97. Match List-I (Characters) with List-II (Related (c) permanent subjection Objects) and select the correct answer using the codes (d) total displacement followed by annexation of given below the Lists: territory List-I List-II 103. The play Matta-vilasa-Prahasana was (Characters) (Related Objects) authored by A. Gautama Buddha 1. Flask and rosary (a) Harsha (b) Raja Rajendra B. Jina 2. Dharmachakra- (c) jaidev (d) Mahendravarman pravartana mudra 104. Match List-I Definition with List-II (Term) C. Vishnu 3. Katyotsarga pose and select the correct answer using the codes D. Bodhisatva Maitreya 4. Garudadhvaja given below the lists: Codes: List-I List-II (a) A B C D (Definition) (Term) 3 2 1 4 A. Sthala 1. Cultivated land (b) A B C D B. Kedara 2. Creeper 2 3 4 1 C. Krshta 3. High and dry (c) A B C D land 3 2 4 1 D. Tondai 4. Crop fields (d) A B C D Codes: 2 3 1 4 (a) A B C D 98. Gatha-Saptashati is a collection of Prakrit 3 4 1 2 poems dealing with (b) A B C D (a) love lores 2 1 4 3 (b) worship rituals (c) A B C D (c) astrology 3 1 4 2 (d) historical biographies of kings (d) A B C D 99. Which one of the following documents gives evidence 2 4 1 3 of a temple of Augustus at Muziris in South India? (a) Periplus of the Erythraean Sea (b) Nearchus Chapter 5 (c) Genealogical Tables 105. The rise of the Mahajanapadas has not been causally (d) Sangam literature linked to 100. In the context of South India, Cave Script (a) the threat of foreign conquest means (b) agrarian expansion (a) Undeciphered graffiti marks (c) growth of trade and urbanization (b) Tamil-Brahmi (d) extensive use of iron (c) Tamil Grantha (d) Pallava Grantha 101. The Story of the transformation of a dancing Chapter 6 girl into a Buddhist nun is narrated in 106. Consider the following: (a) Silappadikaram (b) Manimekhalai 1. Apav hana (c) Tolkappiyam (d) Maduraikkanji 2. Abhishyandavamana 3. Ahimsa Chapter 8 4. Upasaka status 102. As per, the Allahabad Pillar inscription, in In which of these the Arthas stra and Asokan edict which one of the following ways the kings of South correspond exactly? India were treated by Samudragupta? (a) 1 and 3 (b) only 1 (a) violent extermination (c) 2 and 4 (d) 3 and 4 (b) capture and release Model Test Papers | MTP.107

Chapter 7 Codes: (a) A B C D 107. The reign of the Greeks in North-western India did 1 2 3 4 not witness the (b) A B C D (a) long diatance trade 4 3 2 1 (b) proliferation of artisanal and craft (c) A B C D production 1 3 2 4 (c) extensive land grants (d) availability of gold coins in plenty (d) A B C D 108. In the regions ruled by which one of the 4 2 3 1 following dynasties, the state formation had been described as Secondary State? Chapter 8 (a) Satavahanas (b) Gangas 111. Consider the following elements: (c) Chalukyas (d) Rashtrakutas 1. Durvasa’s curse 109. Match List-I (Landscapes) with List-II 2. The signet ring (Features) and select the correct answer using the 3. The royal hunt codes given below the Lists: List-I List-II 4. M richa’s srama (Landscapes) (Features) Which of these elements were introduced hy Kalidasa A. Mullan 1. Fertile river valley in adapting the Sakuntal p khyana of Mahabharata B. Marutam 2. Pastures and jungles into his classic play? C. Kurinci 3. The littoral (a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 1, 2 and 4 D. Neytal 4. Hills and forests (c) 2, 3 and 4 (d) 1, 3 and 4 5. Parched land Codes: Chapter 5 (a) A B C D 3 4 1 2 112. Which one of the following Buddhist texts gives (b) A B C D information about 16 Mahajanapadas in the 5 1 4 2 6th century B.C.? (c) A B C D (a) Dipvansha (b) Anguttarnikaya 2 1 4 3 (c) Dighnikaya (d) Tripitaka (d) A B C D 5 4 1 3 Chapter 6 113. Consider the following Mauryan rulers: Chapter 10 1. Asoka 2. Dasaratha 110. Match List-I (Authors) with List-II (Their works) and 3. Brihadratha 4. Kunal select the correct answer using the codes given below Who among them bore the title of Dev nampiya? the Lists: (a) only 1 (b) 1 and 2 List-I List-II (c) 1, 2 and 3 (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4 (Authors) (Their works) A. Kulasekhara Alwar 1. Perumal Tirumoli Chapter 7 B. Cheraman Perumal 2. Adiyula Nayanar 114. Kumarila was an Acharya of C. Chekkilar 3. Periya Puranam (a) Mimamsa (b) Samkhya D. Ottakutan 4. Kalingattupparani (c) Vaiseshika (d) Vedanta MTP.108 | Indian History

Chapters 11 & 12 (c) R jyap la, Mahip la, Prithvir ja (d) Ch mundar ja, Mahip la, Mihirbhoja 115. The city of Siri was founded by (a) Kaiqub d (b) Jal luddin Khalji Chapter 11 & 12 (c) Al uddin Khalji 118. Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched? (d) Ghiy suddin Tuglaq (a) Chishti: Shaikh Hamiduddin Nagauri (b) Naqshbandi: Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani Chapter 14 & 15 (c) Suhrawardi: Qutbuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki 116. The text of the document called Mahzar, by (d) Qadiri: Khawaja Baqi Billah which Akbar assumed the role of supreme 119. The author of Tarikh-i-Yamini, also called arbiter in the matters of religion is found in Kitab-i- Yamini is (a) Niz muddin’s Tabaq t-i Akbari (a) Abdul Fazi Baihaqi (b) Arif Quandahari’s Taiikh-i Alfi (b) Hasan Nizami (c) Abul Fazl’s Akbam m (c) Abu Nasr Utbi (d) Bad uni’s Muntakhab-ut Tawarikh (d) AI kardizi 120. Consider the following sites: Chapter 10 1. Malwa 2. Chittor 3. Ranthambhor 4. Gujarat 117. When Mahmud Ghaznavi invaded India, the The correct sequence of the conquests of rulers of different states of India were these by Alauddin Khalji is (a) Jayap la. Fateh Daud, Mahip la (b) R j Bhoja, MOlar j , Shankarvarman (a) 2, 3, 4, 1 (b) 4, 1, 2, 3 (c) 2, 1, 4, 3 (d) 4, 3, 2, 1

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Chapter 10 only. 1. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer 2. the administration of the Khalsa and the clans using the codes given below the lists. must be a democratic one. List I List II 3. all the individual members had the same (Bhakti-Period Saints) (Propounded Theories) political, religious and social privileges. A. Shankaracharya 1. Pure non-dualism 4. anything smacking of inequality must be (Shuddhadwaita) discouraged. B. Ramanujacharya 2. Mixture of monism Which of these statements are correct? and dualism (a) 1 and 2 (b) 2 and 3 (Dwaitadwaita) (c) 3 and 4 (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4 C. Vallabhacharya 3. Unqualified mon- ism (Adwaitavada) D. Nimbarkacharya 4. Qualified monism Chapter 20 (Vishistadwaita) 3. Consider the following events: Codes: 1. Annexation of Udaipur A B C D 2. Annexation of Jhansi (a) 2 4 1 3 3. Annexation of Punjab (b) 3 1 4 2 4. Annexation of Oudh (c) 2 1 4 3 The correct chronological sequence of these events is (d) 3 4 1 2 (a) 3, 4, 2, 1 (b) 2, 1, 3, 4 Chapter 13 (c) 2, 4, 3, 1 (d) 3, 1, 2, 4 2. Consider the following statements: In the 18th Cen- Chapter 21 tury, the Khalsa was an organisation whose aim was 4. The Archaeological Survey of India was established that an organisation whose aim was that during the period of 1. the Commonwealth of the Sikhs be a reli- (a) Warren Hastings (b) Lord Wellesley gious, military and political organisation (c) Lord Curzon (d) William Bentinck MTP.110 | Indian History

Chapters 14 and 15 (d) He made a large reduction in the scale of 5. Peshwa Baji Rao obtained from the mughals the revenue fixed by Alauddin and brought it subedaris of down to one-sixth of the gross produce (a) Ahmadnagar and Nagaur Chapter 13 (b) Malwa and Bijapur (c) Gujarat and Malwa 10. In Bahamani Kingdom, Sadr-i-Jahan was head of the department of (d) Khandesh and Berar (a) Revenue (b) Foreign matters Chapter 13 (c) Ecclesiastical and Judicial matters 6. The commercial objective of the Portuguese in India (d) Military matters was to (a) capture territories on the western coast Chapters 11 and 12 (b) capture trade of textiles and spices 11. Which one of the following statements about Sultan (c) out Arabs and the Persains from India’s Alauddin Khalji is not correct? maritime trade (a) Alauddin did not think it necessary to invoke (d) capture trade of pepper and other superior the sanction of the Khalifa name for strength- spices ening his claims to sovereignty (b) Alauddin’s objective in styling himself as Chapters 14 and 15 deputy of the Khalifa was not to pay homage 7. During the reign of Jahangir, the title of Nadir-ul Asr to the Khalifa but only to keep the tradition was given to of theoretical Caliphate alive (a) Mir Sayyid Ali (b) Abdus Samad (c) Alauddin adopted the title of Yamin-ul (c) Abul Hasan (d) Ustad Mansur Khalifa Nasir-i Amir-ul Muminin to show himself as superior to the Khalifa Chapters 11 & 12 (d) Alauddin was the first Sultan of Delhi to 8. After a few years of the beginning of his rule, Alauddin bring the Church under the control of the Khalji pondered over the problem of public discontent State. and cause of revolt and discerned four reasons. Which one of the following reasons did not attract his atten- Chapters 14 and 15 tion? 12. There was an unprecedented increase in the number (a) The king was negligent and ignorant of the of mansadbars during the reign of conditions of the people (a) Akbar (b) Jahangir (b) Drinking parties of the amirs were the breed- (c) Shahjahan (d) Aurangzeb ing grounds for conspiracies 13. “In each stage death is ready to claim her; by the poppy (c) Excessive wealth gave both power and lei- at its dawn, by the flames in riper years.” sure for evil thought Which one of the following historians made the above (d) Bureaucratic oppression compelled the peo- observations about the Rajput woman? ple to revolt against the king (a) Crook (b) Utbi 9. Which one of the following agrarian measures was (c) Alberuni (d) Tod not adopted by Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq? (a) He discarded measurement in favour of shar- Chapter 9 ing 14. Which among the following was not the case of (b) The chiefs and headmen of villages were continuous war between Cholas and Chalukyas of given back their prerequisites Kalyana? (c) The basis of the demand by the government (a) The economic factors was to be hukm-I-hasil (in accordance with (b) Rivalry between the Chalukyas of Kalyana yield) with enough provision for crop failures and Chalukyas of Vengi (c) The geo-political factors Model Test Papers | MTP.111

(d) Rivarly to capture south India’s foreign trade (c) Krishak Praja Party with China and south-eastern Asia. (d) Unionist Party Chapter 13 Chapter 17 15. The Mahdi movement during the time of Islam Shah 21. What is the correct sequence of the following events? was led by (a) Third Maratha War (a) Shaikh Hasan (b) Third Battle of Panipat (b) Shaikh Alai (c) Third Mysore War (c) Makhdum-ul Mulk (d) Third Burmese War (d) Mir Sajyid Muhammad Select the correct answer using the codes given below: Codes: Chapter 20 (a) 1, 3, 2, 4 (b) 2, 3, 1, 4 16. Consider the following statements related to the Re- (c) 3, 4, 1, 2 (d) 4, 1, 3, 2 volt of 1857: 1. The rebels did not have definite political Chapters 11 and 12 perspective 22. Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched? 2. Zeenat Mahal negotiated with the British to (a) Malik Kafur : Rajendra secure her safety. (b) Singaya Nayaka : Prataparudra 3. Maulvi Ahmadullah provided leadership to (c) Ravivarman Kulasekara : Ulugh Khan the rebels. (d) Kampiladeva : Muhammad 4. The rebels failed because of betrayal of the Tughlaq 23. During the reign of which one of the following did central leadership. the Vijayanagar State come into existence? Which of these statements are correct? (a) Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq (a) 1 and 4 (b) 2 and 4 (b) Muhammad Tughlaq (c) 1, 2 and 3 (d) 1, 2 and 4 (c) Firuz Shah Tughlaq Chapter 23 (d) Khizr Khan 17. Who was elected as the permanent President of the Chapters 14 and 15 Muslim League in 1908? 24. The illustrations executed on cloth belong to which (a) Nawab Salimullah one of the following manuscripts? (b) Syed Ahmad Khan (a) Harivansha (b) Hamzanama (c) Aga Khan (c) Jami-ut-Tawarikh (d) Akbarnama (d) Syen Amir Ali 18. Who was the advocate at the famous NA triale? Chapter 18 (a) Bhulabhai Desai (b) Asaf Ali 25. The outbreak of five famines in India during the first (c) Rajendra Prasad (d) Rajagopalachari quarter of the nineteenth century was due to 1. decline of Indian industries. Chapter 22 2. immobility of agricultural labour. 19. The twin principles of Mahatma Gandhiji’s Ram Rajya 3. failure of monsoons. were 4. import of manufactured goods. (a) Truth and non-violence Which of these statements are correct? (b) Right means and right ends (a) 2 and 3 (b) 1 and 4 (c) Khadi and ahimsa (c) 1, 2 and 3 (d) 2, 3 and 4 (d) Satyagraha and non-violence 26. In nineteenth century, there was a phenomenal in- 20. Sikandar Hayat Khan represented the crease in the pressure of population on land because (a) Muslim League the (b) Khudai Khidmatgars (a) introduction of commercial crops attracted the peasantry to agriculture MTP.112 | Indian History

(b) ruin of handicrafts and village industries 1. Burials enriched by boulders of stone. drove the population to agriculture 2. Use of black and red ware. (c) fall of native governments has reduced the 3. Introduction of punch-marked coins. avenues of employment 4. Urban settlements. (d) urban population began to migrate to the rural Select the correct answer using the codes given below: areas for reasons of security Codes: (a) 1 only (b) 1 and 2 Chapter 17 (c) 2 and 3 (d) 4 only 27. The term ‘dastak’ implies 34. Which of the artefacts given below could be used as (a) free pass of duty-free trade source material for the prehistoric period in India? (b) a riot 1. Fossils 2. Hand axes (c) a port near Hooghly 3. Pottery 4. Remains of bones (d) market place Select the correct answer using the codes given below 28. The French challenge to British supremacy came to Codes: an end with the battle of (a) 1, 2 and 4 (b) 1, 2 and 3 (a) Wandiwash (b) Buxor (c) 1, 3 and 4 (d) 2, 3 and 4 (c) Srirangapatnam (d) Plassey 35. Prehistoric axes are found at (a) Attirampakkam (b) Adichanallur Chapter 19 (c) Arikamedu (d) Sanur 29. Which famous social reformer wrote the books Jnana Yoga, Karma Yoga and Raja Yoga? Chapter 2 (a) Swami Vivekananda 36. Which of the following ethnic elements is not found (b) Ranade in the skeletal remains of Harappan sites? (c) Raja Ram Mohun Roy (a) Alpine (b) Mediterranean (d) Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (c) Mongoloid (d) Negrito 37. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer Chapter 22 using the codes given below the lists. 30. At which place was the All-India Khilafat Conference List I List II held in 1919? (Indologists) (Organisation) (a) Lucknow (b) Delhi A. William Jones 1. Survey of India (c) Aligarh (d) Porbandar B. Mortimer Wheeler 2. Deccan College C. Colin Mackenzie 3. Asiatic Society Chapter 10 D. H.D. Sankalia 4. Archaeological 31. An exquisite example of the Nagra style of architec- Survey of India ture is provided by the (a) Kailashnath Temple, Kanchipuram Chapter 4 (b) Lignaraj Temple, Bhubaneshwar 38. Which one of the following is a Pratiloma marriage? (c) Brahadeswara Temple, Thanjavur (a) Brahman boy with a Kshatriya girl (d) Kandariya Mahadeva Temple, Khajuraho (b) Vaisya boy with a Sudra girl (c) Brahman boy with a Sudra girl Chapter 16 (d) Sudra boy with a Vaisya girl 32. Who led the Maratha forces in the 3rd Battle of Panipat 39. The archaeological culture associated with the later in 1761? Vedic texts is (a) Vishwanath Rao (b) Sadashiva Rao (a) Ochre-coloured pottery (c) Madhava Rao (d) Dattaji Scindia (b) Black and Red ware (c) Painted Grey ware Chapter 1 (d) Northern Black Polished ware 33. Which of the following is/are associated with the Megalithic culture of South India? Model Test Papers | MTP.113

Chapter 5 Select the correct answer using the codes given below: Codes: 40. A list of some ancient Indian states is given below: (a) 1 and 2 (b) 1 and 3 1. Kosala 2. Vajji (c) 2 and 3 (d) 3 and 4 3. Magadha 4. Sakya Which of these did not follow the monarchical system Chapter 6 of administration? 47. James Princep took clues to decipher Asoka’s inscrip- (a) 1 and 2 (b) 2 and 4 tions from bilingual records involving (c) 1 and 4 (d) 2 and 3 (a) Brahmi and Aramaic Chapter 7 (b) Brahmi and Cuneiform (c) Brahmi and Greek 41. Tolkappiyam is associated with the (d) Brahmi and Hieroglyphics (a) First Sangam period 48. What does the term, Upasampada signify in Bud- (b) Second Sangam period dhism? (a) Third Sangam period (a) Religious merit accrued from donations to (b) Post-third Sangam period the Buddhist order (b) Property attached to a Buddhist monastery Chapter 5 (c) Initial conversion to Buddhism 42. Consider the following statements: Rise of Magadha (d) Final stage of initiation of Buddhist monk to imperial power was mainly die to its 49. Which one of the following was not a feature of 1. position of strategic importance surrounded Mauryan royalty according to the Greek writers? by five hills. (a) The king was always surrounded by armed 2. position in a richly fertile zone and good men who were bodyguards communication channel. (b) Hunting was a favourite pastime of the kings 3. aggressive imperial policy of the rulers. (c) Animal flights were arranged for the king’s 4. association with the activities of Mahatma pleasure Buddha. (d) The kins’s food was tested by a number of Which of these are correct? people (a) 1 and 2 (b) 1, 2 and 4 50. Kautilya defines Arthasastra as a branch of knowledge (c) 1, 2 and 3 (d) 3 and 4 that teaches how to 43. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly (a) acquire (or form) a State and preserve it matched? (b) systematically collect revenue including land (a) Chaturvarnya : Four Asramas revenue (b) Sudra : Service to the three Varnas (c) earth wealth, and to learn the techniques for (c) Dharmasastra : Works on religion and doing so philosophy (d) learn the way to have a meaningful life (d) Mahamatra : Superior officials 44. The Buddhist Order broke into Sthaviravadins and Chapter 8 the Mahasonghikas at the 51. The crystallisation of the avatara concept and the (a) First General Council worship of the incarnations of Vishnu were features (b) Second General Council of Bhagavatism during the (a) Third General Council (a) early Vedic period (b) later Vedic period (b) Fourth General Council (c) Mauryan period (d) Gupta period 45. A monastic life is essential for salvation in accordance with Chapter 7 (a) Asoka’s dhamma (b) Jainism 52. Consider the following statements about caste system: (c) Bhagavat Gita (d) Kathopanishad 1. Basic characteristics of the caste-system 46. Which of the following are associated with Jainism? involve purity, heredity, marriage and food. 1. Anekantavada 2. Sunyavada 2. Dharma in the three pursuits—‘dharma, 3. Syadveda 4. Sarvastivada MTP.114 | Indian History

artha, kama’ means caste rules ordained by (a) 1, 2, 3, 4 (b) 2, 3, 4, 1 sastras. (c) 3, 2, 1, 4 (d) 4, 3, 2, 1 3. Anirabasita means the varnasamkaras. 4. Process of proliferation of castes described Chapter 8 in the Purushasukta. 58. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly Which of the these statements are correct? matched? (a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 2 and 3 (a) Buddhacharita : Ashvaghosa (c) 3 and 4 (d) 2 and 4 (b) Mrichchhakatika : Shudraka 53. Which of the following pairs is not correctly matched? (c) Mudrarakshasa : Vishakhadatta (a) Kapilar : Pari (d) Brihatsamhita : Aryabhatta (b) Pisiranthaiyar : Kopperuncholan 59. Which one of the following inscriptions throws light (c) Auvaiyar : Adikayaman on the Lakulise Pasupata Sect? (d) Tolkappiyam : Pattinappalai (a) Eran Inscription of Samudragupta 54. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer (b) Mathura Inscription of Chandragupta using the codes given below the lists. (c) Mandasor Inscription of Kumargupta List I List II (d) Bhitari Pillar Inscription of Skandagupta (Tinai) (Landscape) A. Kurinci 1. Pastures Chapter 7 B. Marutam 2. Littoral 60. Sravanabelgola is associated with C. Mullai 3. Hills (a) Buddhism (b) Jainism D. Neytal 4. Plains (c) Asoka Dhamma (d) Nagarjuna Codes: 61. The Kushana kings assumed titles like ‘Devaputra A B C D Kushana’. Kanishaka’s predecessors also were as- (a) 3 2 1 4 suming titles like Sarvaloka Isvara Mahisavara. (b) 1 4 3 2 This shows that Kushana kings (c) 3 4 1 2 (a) were devotees of Lord Shiva (d) 1 2 3 4 (b) assumed high-sounding titles implying power 55. The period of the Kushanas witnessed important and fame developments in religion, literature, art and foreign (c) assumed divine kingship trade and contacts. In the light of this statement, which (d) got the legends on their coins written in one of following pairs does not relate to the Kushana Sanskrit period? (a) Mahayana Buddhism : Gandhara Art Chapter 8 (b) Nagasena : Milindapanha 62. Which of the following famous temples of Dravidian (c) Caraka Samhita : Nagarjuna style was built by the Pallava ruler Narsimhavaraman (d) North-western : Kashyapa II? Silk routes Matanga (a) Mahabalipuram Group 56. In the Buddhist literature, Milindapanha appears in (b) Kailashnath Temple, Kanchi the Question-Answer form between Nagasena and (c) Shiva Temple, Tiruvadi (a) Kanishka (b) Menander (d) Ukleshvar Temple, Kanchi (c) Euthidemus (d) Antialcidas 63. The Prayag Prashasti of Samudragupta which men- 57. Arrange the following in the correct chronological tions Kamarupa as a frontier state, records that order: 1. Kamarupa was then a big state. 1. Junagarh Rock Inscription of Rudradaman 2. The King of Kamarupa has initiated the 2. The beginning of the Saka Samvat names of the Gupta Emperors. 3. Takht-i Bahi Inscription 3. The King of Kamarupa rendered personal 4. The beginning of the Vikram Samvat obeisance to the Emperor. Select the correct answer using the codes given below 4. The King of Kamarupa paid him all kinds of Codes: taxes. Model Test Papers | MTP.115

Which of these are correct? (a) Sadashiva Rao (b) Raghunatha Rao (a) 1 and 2 (b) 2 and 3 (c) Balaji Rao (d) Madhava Rao (c) 3 and 4 (d) 1 and 4 Chapter 13 Chapter 5 67. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer 64. Match List I and List II and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists. using the codes given below the lists. List I List II List I List II (Foreign Travellers) (Remarks) (Janapadas) (Capital) A. Abdur Razzaq 1. “The circumference A. Kuru 1. Kosambi of the city is sixty B. Kosala 2. Rajagriha miles. There are C. Vatsa 3. Ayodhya about 90,000 men D. Magadha 4. Indraprastha fir to bear arms.” 5. Patliputra B. Nicolo de Conti 2. “There is a wide Codes: gap in the standards A B C D (a) 1 3 5 2 of living between (b) 4 2 1 2 the Nobles and the (c) 1 2 5 3 common people”. (d) 4 3 1 2 C. Domingo Paes 3. “The city is such that 65. Match List I and List II and select the correct answer eye has not seen nor using the codes given below the lists: ever heard of any place resembling it upon the whole earth.” D. Athanasius Nikitin 4. “The king is of me- dium height and of fair complexion and good figure, rather fat than thin; he has on his face signs of small-pox.” Codes: List I A B C D (Place) (a) 3 1 4 2 A. Harappan site (b) 4 2 3 1 B. Capital of Avanti C. Pallava capital (c) 3 2 4 1 D. Buddhist site (d) 4 1 3 2 Codes: Chapter 9 A B C D (a) 2 4 3 1 68. Rajaraya I and Rajendra I commemorated their vic- (b) 1 3 4 2 tories by which one of the following methods? (c) 2 3 4 1 (a) Erecting temples (d) 1 4 3 2 (b) Erecting pillars (c) Ordering inscriptions to be written Chapter 16 (d) Issuing coins 66. Who encouraged the practice of ladies accompanying their husbands to the battlefield? MTP.116 | Indian History

Chapter 21 Chapters 11 and 12 69. Which of the following Indians was dismissed from 75. Which of the following new techniques in cotton the Indian Civil Service by the British? textile industry was/were introduced in India by the (a) Satyendranath Tagore Turks in the Medieval period? (b) Surendranath Banerjee 1. Spindle 2. Spinning wheel (c) R.C. Dutt 3. Water frame (d) Dadabhai Naoroji Select the correct answer using the codes given below: Codes: Chapter 24 (a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 2 and 3 70. Who proposed the Preamble before the Drafting Com- (c) 1 and 3 (d) 2 only mittee of the Constitution? (a) Jawahar Lal Nehru Chapter 22 (b) B.R. Ambedkar 76. Consider the following statements: Indian nationalists were bitterly disappointed in the closing stages of the (c) B.N. Rao First World War to the reason that (d) Mahatma Gandhi 1. only few Indian Princes participated in the Chapter 19 Imperial Conference and Peace Conference. 2. the closing of the World War brought to India 71. The Theosophical Society was founded in the USA by not peace but the sword. 3. Gandhi was prevented by the government (a) Dr. Annie Besant from preceding to Delhi in 1919. (b) A.O. Hume 4. the Rowlatt Act was passed in 1919. (c) Tilak and Gokhale Which of these statements are correct? (d) Madam Blavatsky and Oicott (a) 1 and 3 (b) 1 and 4 Chapter 23 (c) 2 and 4 (d) 2 and 3 72. The suggestion of transfer of two Central Govern- Chapter 17 ments, India and Pakistan, on the basis of grant of 77. Consider the following statements: The Yandaboo Dominion Status was given by Treaty of 1826 paved the way for (a) Jawahar Lal Nehru and Sardar Patel 1. guaranteed protection to the British mer- (b) Gandhiji and Jawahar Lal Nehru chants. (c) Lord Mountbatten and Jawahar Lal Nehru 2. an indemnity of a crore of Rupees to the (d) V.P. Menon and Sardar Patel British. Chapters 14 and 15 3. the pitched battles between the Burmese and 73. The following four important battles were fought in the English. India at one time or the other: 4. the territorial acquisition of Assam for tea. 1. Chausa 2. Dharmat Which of these statements are correct? 3. Haldighati 4. Khanwa (a) 1 and 2 (b) 2 and 3 The correct chronological order in which these battles (c) 3 and 4 (d) 2 and 4 were fought is 78. Consider the following statements: When the Prime (a) 1, 2, 3, 4 (b) 4, 3, 2, 1 Minister of England stated that the British element in (c) 4, 1, 3, 2 (d) 3, 2, 1, 4 the Indian Civil Service was ‘the steel frame’ of the 74. Which of the following was the first Mughal Emperor administration, eternally indispensable to India; its to lead a military expedition to Bengal? consequences were that (a) Babar (b) Humayum 1. it resulted in the boycott of the visit of the (c) Jahanghir (d) Shahjahan Prince of Wales. 2. it retarded Indianisation, in opposition to the declared policy of the Parliament of England. Model Test Papers | MTP.117

3. it resulted in repressive measures against the Reason (R): These colours were painted on Congress. the pottery separately. 4. the Lee Commission on the Public Services made liberal recommendations. Chapter 20 Which of these statements is/are correct? 83. Assertion (A): The sanyasis and the fakirs (a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 1, 2 and 4 revolted against the British in (c) 2 and 4 (d) 4 only Bengal. Reason (R): The sanyasis and the fakirs were Chapter 20 opposed to the British interfer- 78. Which of the following Nawabs was deposed by ence in Indian religious tradi- the English on the annexation of Awadh to British tions. Dominion in 1856? (a) Saadat Khan Burhan-ul Mulk Chapter 17 (b) Safdar Jang 84. Assertion (A): the British introduced in India (c) Wajid Ali Shah the modern concept of the rule (d) Birjis Qadar of law. 80. The Kuka movement to overthrow the British rule Reason (R): The British did not recognise was organised in the existing Personal Civil law (a) Uttar Pradesh (b) Bihar in India. (c) Punjab (d) Bombay Chapters 11 and 12 Directions: The following fourteen (14) items consist of two statements, one labelled as the ` 85. Assertion (A): Alauddin Khalji enhanced the Assertion (A)’ and the other as ‘Reason (R)’. You revenue demand to half of the are to examine these two statements carefully and total produce. select the answers to these items using the codes Reason (R): Larger supplies of grain were given below: needed to keep the market prices Codes: at low levies. (a) Both A and R are individually true and R is the correct explanation of A. Chapter 6 (b) Both A and R are individually true but R is 86. Assertion (A): Inscriptions of Asoka have been not the correct explanation of A. found scattered throughout his (c) A is true but R is false. empire. But no inscription of this (d) A is false but R is true. emperor has been discovered from the north-eastern part of Chapter 5 the country. 81. Assertion (A): The history of the Indo Greeks Reason (R): Because this part of the coun- can be reconstructed mainly on try did not form a part of his the evidence of their coins. empire. Reason (R): Major contributions of the Indo- Greeks towards Indian culture 87. Assertion (A): Desiring to make his dhamma were in the field of coinage. instructions percolate down to the common people, Asoka Chapter 3 used besides Prakrit, Greek and 82. Assertion (A): The inner side of the megalithic Aramaic in his edicts found in pottery in South India has black the north-western parts of his colour and on the outer side it empire. has red colour. MTP.118 | Indian History

Reason (R): Greek and Aramaic speaking Chapter 18 people formed a part of his 94. Assertion (A): Indian Industrial Commission population in the north-west. was appointed in 1916. Chapter 2 Reason (R): This came as a benefit out of the fact that the Tata Iron and Steel 88. Assertion (A): Indus Valley Civilisation is tech- Works rendered much service to nically more correctly known as the British in the War of 1914. Harappan Culture. Reason (R): Harappan is the type site of that Chapter 13 civilisation. 95. Which of the following groups of Nobles was associ- ated with the establishment of Bahmani Kingdom in Chapter 8 Deccan? 89. Assertion (A): Construction of free standing (a) Amiran-i-Sada (b) Turkan-i-Chahalgani temple became a feature of (c) Saiyyids of Baraha Indian architecture since the (d) Iranis Gupta period onwards. Reason (R): Development of image worship Chapters 11 and 12 marked this period. 96. The first Turkish conquerer to cross the Vindhyachala ranges was Chapter 22 (a) Iltutmish (b) Balban 90. Assertion (A): Mahatma Gandhi observed fast (c) Alauddin Khalji (d) Firuz Shah Tughlaq at Poona in 1932. Chapter 16 Reason (R): Mahatma Gandhi was opposed 97. Mahadji, the famous Maratha ruler of the later half to the provision of separate of the 18th century, belonged to the House of electorate rights for Harijans in (a) Holkar (b) Scindia the Communal Award. (c) Bhonsle (d) Gaekwad Chapter 18 Chapters 14 and 15 91. Assertion (A): R.C. Dutt authored the book 98. The troops raised by the emperor but nor paid directly ‘Poverty and Un-British Rule.’ by the state and placed under the charge of mansabdars Reason (R): He wanted to expose India’s were known as growing poverty. (a) Walashahi (b) Barawardi Chapter 22 (c) Jumaki (d) Dakhili 99. The its aspa, sih aspa rank in the mansabdari system 92. Assertion (A): Lala Lajpat Rai died of police was introduced by lathi-charge during the march (a) Akbar (b) Jahangir against Simon Commission. (c) Shahjahan (d) Aurangzeb Reason (R): Simon Commission did not consist of even a single Indian Chapter 21 as a member. 100. Which one of the following is not correct 93. Assertion (A): Mahatma Gandhi suspended the matched? Non-Cooperation Movement in (a) 1887 Indian National : Calcutta 1922. Reason (R): C.R. Dass and Motilal Nehru Congress Session resented the movement. (b) 1916 Indian National : Lucknow Congress Session Model Test Papers | MTP.119

(c) 1922 Indian National : Gaya (c) past production crop Congress Session (d) mutual agreement (Qubuliyat) (d) 1939 Indian National : Tripuri Congress Session Chapter 17 107. The following are connected with the First Chapter 17 Anglo-Maratha War 1779–82: 101. Match List I with List II and select the correct 1. Convention of Wadagaon answer using codes given below the lists. 2. Treaty of Purandar List I List II 3. Treaty of Surat (Events) (Viceroys) 4. Treaty of Salbai A. Local Self- 1. Lord Dufferin Their arrangement in the correct chronological Government order is B. Act of 1892 2. Lord Minto (a) 3, 2, 1, 4 (b) 2, 1, 3, 4 C. Foundation of the 3. Lord Ripon (c) 4, 2, 1, 3 (d) 1, 4, 3, 2 Indian National Congress Chapter 18 D. Simla Deputation 4. Lord Mayo 108. Consider the following statements: The impact 5. Lord Lansdowne of British imperialistic policies on Indian agri- Chapters 11 and 12 culture was 1. creation of a new market economy 102. The belligerent people of the frontier who cre- 2. polarisation between landowners and tillers ated problems both for Mahmud Ghaznavi and 3. increase in the number of landless labourers Muhammad Ghauri were 4. unemployment among village artisans (a) Hazaras (b) Khokhars Which of these statements are correct? (c) Yurtawals (d) Baluchis (a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 2, 3 and 4 Chapter 13 (c) 1 and 4 (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4 103. The Venetian traveller who travelled with his Chapter 17 wife and reached Vijayanagar around 1420 was 109. The Revolt of Banda Bahadur in Punjab took (a) Athanasius Niktin (b) Nicolo de Conti place due to the (c) Ibn Batuta (d) Ferishta (a) exploitation of the peasantry by the Mughal 104. The independent kingdom of Warangal came to authorities an end in the early fifteenth century as a result (b) religious persecution of the Sikhs by the of its annexation by Mughals (a) Alauddin Bahman Shah (c) ambitions of Banda Bahadur (b) Muhammad Shah I (d) high incidence of taxation (c) Ahmad Shah (d) Mujahid Shah Chapters 14 and 15 105. Harihara II invaded and extracted tribute from 110. Which one of the following statements with re- (a) Burma (b) Sri Lanka gard to trade and commerce during the Mughal (c) Bengal (d) Suvarnabhumi rule is not correct? Chapters 14 and 15 (a) Shroffs transacted in hundies (bills of ex- change) and earned lot of money 106. The revenue assessment known as batai, ghalla- (b) Mir Jumla and Shaista Khan monopolised bakshi or bhaoli was a method crop-sharing on trade in imported articles the basis of (c) Jagat Seth at Murshidabad carried out trade (a) gross production with several foreign countries and earned lot (b) rough estimate of crop of money MTP.120 | Indian History

(d) Virji Vora dominated the Surat market and Chapter 13 had his offices in Ahmedabad, Agra and 115. Match list I and II and select the correct answer other trade centres of India. using the codes given below lists. Chapter 16 List I List II (Works) (Authors) 111. The Treaty of Warn was concluded in 1731 AD A. Tapati 4. Gangadhara Kavi between who amongst the following? samvarnupa- (a) Shahu Chhatrapati of Satara and Nizam of khyanamu Hyderabad B. Yayati Charitamu 2. Ponnaganti (b) Sambhaji Chhatrapati of Kolhapur and Telaganaraya Shahu Chhatrapati of Satara C. Vaijayanti Vilasam 3. Sarangu Tammaiah (c) Shambhaji of Kolhapur and East India D. Shiva 4. Malla Reddy Company Dharmottaram (d) Baji Rao I and Nawab of Bhopal Codes: Chapter 23 A B C D (a) 1 2 3 4 112. The viceroy who put forward the proposal of (b) 3 4 1 2 August offer in 1940 was (c) 1 4 3 2 (a) Wavell (b) Linlithgow (d) 3 2 1 4 (c) Willington (d) Brabourne Chapter 17 Chapters 14 and 15 116. The quick response of the peasant agriculture to 113. Which Court was considered as the highest court market changes in Mughal India was, in particu- of appeal in India for trying criminal cases during lar, indicated by the the East India Company rule? (a) increase in food grains production (a) Circuit Court (b) extension in the cultivation of cotton (b) Provincial Court (c) rapid increase in the tobacco cultivation (c) Sadar Diwani Adalat during the 17th century (d) Sadar Nizamat Adalat (d) large scale cultivation of poppy Chapter 20 Chapter 17 114. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the codes given below lists. 117. Match List I with List II and select the correct List I List II answer using the codes given below lists. (Year) (Act) List I List II A. 1921 1. Bombay Small Holder (Wars) (Treaties) Relief Act A. Second Carnatic 1. Salbai B. 1926 2. U.P. Tenancy Act War C. 1938 3. Oudh Rent Act B. Second Anglo- 2. Bassein D. 1939 4. Agra Tenancy Act Mysore War A B C D C. Third Anglo- 3. Pondicherry (a) 2 4 1 3 Mysore War (b) 3 4 1 2 D. First Anglo- 4. Srirangapatnam (c) 2 1 4 3 Maratha War 5. Mangalore (d) 3 1 4 2 Codes: A B C D (a) 4 1 2 5 (b) 3 5 4 1 Model Test Papers | MTP.121

(c) 4 5 2 1 (c) campaign against revenue settlement (d) 3 1 4 5 (d) movement for a separate state 120. Match List I with List II and select the correct Chapter 22 answer using the codes given below lists. 118. Which of the following acts introduced the prin- List I List II ciple of the ‘constitutional autocracy’? (Event) (Place) (a) The Indian Council Act of 1909 A. Champaran 1. Kerala (b) Government of India Act of 1919 Satyagraha (c) The Act of 1935 B. Pamba Peasant 2. East Bengal (d) Indian Independence Act of 1947 Movement C. Moplah uprisings 3. Bihar Chapter 20 D. Deccan riots 4. Ahmadnagar 119. The monotheism and social reform preached by Codes: the Kherwar or Sapha Har Movement (1870) A B C D (a) 3 1 2 4 turned into a (b) 4 2 1 3 (a) violent movement against the zamindars (c) 3 2 1 4 (b) peasant movement demanding reduction in (d) 4 1 2 3 rent

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4. In which one of the following, does the term “second Chapter 4 urbanization” in ancient India refer to the urban pro- 1. In which of the following, has the fourfold division cesses? of the society been expressly mentioned? (a) Indus Valley (b) Gangetic Valley (a) Yajurveda (c) Narmada Valley (d) Kaveri Valley (b) Satapatha Brahmana 5. Which one of the following virtues was added by (c) Purusa-sukta of Rigveda Mahavira to the fourfold path preached by the 23rd (d) Aranyakas Tirthankara Parsvanath ? 2. ‘The Brahmana is dependent on the King and takes a (a) Satya (b) Ahimsa lower seat by his side, but he is superior to the King.’ (c) Brahmacharya (d) Asteya This is mentioned in which one of the following? 6. Which one of the following Buddhist centres did (a) Satapatha Brahmana not have direct connection with Buddha during his (b) Aitareya Brahmana lifetime? (c) Kataka Samhita (a) Sarnath (b) Uruvela (d) Taittariya Upanishad (c) Rajagriha (d) Sanchi Chapter 5 Chapter 6 3 Which one is the correct chronological order in which 7. A famine took place in Magadha 200 years after the given rulers ruled over Magadha? Mahavira’s death. During that period who among the (a) Brihadratha—Bimbisara—Sisunaga—Bind- following left Magadha for south India and is given usara the credit for carrying Jainism to the south? (a) Sudharmana (b) Indrabhuti (b) Sisunaga—Bindusara—Brihadratha—Bim- (c) Sthulabhadra (d) Bhadrabahu bisara 8. Which one of the following rulers was known as (c) Brihadratha—Bindusara—Sisunaga—Bim- Amitraghata, the ‘destroyer of foes’ ? bisara (a) Chandragupta Maurya (b) Bindusara (d) Sisunaga—Bimbisara—Brihadratha—Bind- (c) Kanishka (d) Samudragupta usara Model Test Papers | MTP.123

9. Which one of the following alternatives correctly Codes: gives the feature(s) normally noticed in Asokan pil- (a) A B C D lars? 4 1 5 3 (a) Lustrous polish (b) A B C D (b) Lustrous polish and monolith 2 3 4 1 (c) Square base and octagonal shape (c) A B C D (d) Lustrous polish and square base 4 3 5 1 10. In which of the following inscriptions, does Asoka (d) A B C D record open confession of his faith on the Buddhist 2 1 4 3 trinity? 15. The inscriptions from Nanaghat, Nasik and Sanchi (a) Brahmabriri Minor Rock Edict refer to which one of the following ruling families? (b) Bhabru Minor Rock Edict (a) Kanvas (b) Satavahanas (c) The XIII Rock Edict (c) Mitras (d) Chedis (d) Rummindei Edict 16. According to tradition the Sangams flourished at 11. Which of the following aspects has not been dealt different places. Which of the following places were with in the Arthasastra? associated with the three Sangams? (a) Eradication of famine (a) Madura and Kapatpuram (b) Method of cultivation (b) Madura, Kapatpuram and Kaveripattanam (c) Qualities of the ministers (c) Madura, Uraiyur and Cholamandalam (d) Spy system (d) Puhar and Madura 17. Which one of the following indicates the 120 correct Chapter 7 chronological order of era in India? 12. Which one of the following kings is associated with (a) Gupta—Harsha—Vikram—Shaka the earliest known epigraphic record in India contain- (b) Vikram—Shaka—Gupta—Harsha ing land-grant information? (c) Gupta—Shaka—Vikram—Harsha (a) Asoka (d) Vikram—Harsha—Gupta—Shaka (b) Karikela 18. Match List I (Inscription) with List II (Ruler) and (c) Gautamiputra Satkarni select the correct answer using the codes given below (d) Kharavela of Kalinga the lists: 13. Where are the Ayaka pillars installed? List I List II (a) Inside the Viharas (Inscription) (Puler) (b) Inside the Chaitya halls A. Saranath Buddhist 1. Heliodorus image inscription (c) On the Anda of the Stupas B. Mathura Pillar 2. Rudradaman (d) On the Medhi of the Stupas inscription 14. Match List I (Works) with List II (Contents) and select C. Besanagar Garuda 3. Kanishka the correct answer using the codes given below the Pillar inscription lists: D. Junagadh 4. Huvishka List I List II inscription (Works) (Contents) 5. Kharavela A. Maduraidkkanji 1. A work on Tamil Codes: grammar (a) A B C D B. Tolkappiyam 2. An account of the 3 2 1 4 Pandya country (b) A B C D C. Paripadal 3. A long poem on 1 4 5 2 Kaveripattanam (c) A B C D D. Pattinappalai 4. A Sangam anthology 3 4 1 2 5. Translation of the (d) A B C D Mahabharata into 1 2 5 4 Tamil 19. Kanishka was a great patron of art and literature. MTP.124 | Indian History

Which of the following personalities adorned his (c) Kumarasambhava (d) Raghuvansha Court? 25. Match List I (Authors) with List II (Books) and select (a) Aswaghosa, Parsva, Vasumita and Charaka the correct answer using the codes given below the (b) Aswaghosa, Nagarjuna, Nagasena and Va- lists: sumita List I List II (c) Aswaghosa, Parsva, Hemachandra and Na- (Authors) (Books) garjuna A. Sudraka 1. Duta Kavya (d) Aswaghosa, Vasumita, Asanga and He- B. Subandhu 2. Saundarananda machandra C. Mahendravarman-I 3. Mrichchhakatika 20. Which inscription refers to the worship of Vrishni- D. Asvaghosha 4. Charudatta Viras among Bhagavata votaries? 5. Mattavilasa (a) Nagavi inscription Prahasana (b) Besnagar inscription Codes: (c) Mora Well inscription (a) A B C D (d) Mathura inscription of Chandragupta-II 3 5 4 2 (b) A B C D Chapter 10 2 4 5 1 21. Match List I (Authors) with List II (Texts) and select (c) A B C D the correct answer using the codes given below the 3 4 5 2 lists: (d) A B C D List I List II 2 5 4 1 (Authors) (Texts) 26. Which one of the following sites has yielded archaeo- A. AI-Beruni 1. Shahnama logical evidence for the existence of a Roman colony? B. Minhas-us Siraj 2. Nuh Siphir (a) Arikamedu (b) Paloura C. Firdausi 3. Tahqiq-ul Hind (c) Dosarene (d) Tamralipti D. Amir Khusro 4. Tabqat-i Nasiri 27. The brick temple of Bhitargaon is a famous Gupta Codes: monument. It contains which one of the following (a) A B C D architectural features? 3 2 1 4 (a) Use of lime-mortar as cementing material (b) A B C D (b) Use of true arch 1 4 3 2 (c) Use of marble for decoration (c) A B C D (d) Use of red sandstone in the plinth 3 4 1 2 (d) A B C D Chapter 9 1 2 3 4 28. Match List 1 (Titles) with List II (Names) and select Chapter 8 the correct answer using the codes given below the lists: 22. Which one of the following Gupta rulers was related List I List II to the Licchavis on his mother’s side? (Titles) (Names) (a) Srigupta (b) Chandragupta-I A. Madurai Konda 1. Vipranarajana (c) Ghatotkachagupta (d) Samudragupta B. Tanjayur Konda 2. Parantaka-I 23. What was the head of the traders in the Gupta period C. Gangai Konda 3. Krishna-III called? D. Tondar-adip-podi 4. Rajendra-I (a) Shresthi (b) Kulika Codes: (c) Sarthavaha (d) Samaharta (a) A B C D 24. Which one of the following works of Kalidasa is 2 4 3 1 not based on a theme familiar in the Vedic/Puranic (b) A B C D literature? 1 3 4 2 (a) Abhijyana Sakuntala (b) Meghaduta Model Test Papers | MTP.125

(c) A B C D (a) Amir Khusrau (b) Abu Faizi 2 3 4 1 (c) Abul Fazl (d) Lahori (d) A B C D 1 4 3 2 Chapter 24 29. With which one of the following is the classic “Jivaka 36. In the Belgrade Summit at the non-aligned nations in Chintamani” associated? which India took a prominent part, some or all of the (a) Jainism (b) Buddhism following resolutions were passed: (c) Hinduism (d) Sikhism 1. Confidence in the doctrine of peaceful co- existence was affirmed. Chapters 14 and 15 2. All the nations should have complete in- 30. Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched? dependence in deciding about its form of (a) Gulbadan Begum : Akbar government. (b) Abdul Hamid Lahori : Jahangir 3. The policy of racial distinction followed by (c) Khafi Khan : Shahjahan the Government of South Africa was con- (d) Zeb-un-Nissa : Bahadur Shah-II demned. 31. Which one of the following statements about Dadaji 4. Integrity and sovereignty of all the nations Kondadev is true? should be respected. (a) He was a Jagirdar appointed by Shivaji Which one of the following alternatives is correct? (b) He was a spiritual guide and philosopher of (a) 1, 2 and 3 were passed Shivaji (b) 3 and 4 were passed (c) He was Administrator of Estates of Shivaji’s (c) 1, 2 and 4 were passed father (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4 were passed (d) He was ecclesiastical head of the Maratha State under Shivaji Chapter 16 32. Tobacco cultivation was introduced in the Deccan 37. Who commanded the Maratha Army in the Third by the Portuguese during the 16th century. Tobacco Battle of Panipat? smoking reached the Mughal Court because of which (a) Dattaji Sindhia one of the following? (b) Vishwas Rao (a) The Portuguese missionaries introduced it (c) Sadashiva Rao Bhau into the Mughal Court (d) Malhar Rao Holkar (b) The Mughal ambassador to Bijapur, Mirza Asad Beg introduced it to Akbar Chapter 13 (c) The soldiers of the Deccan spread this among 38. Which one of the following cities became famous the Mughal nobility for the art of metal-inlay work in the medieval South (d) The farmers who took to tobacco cultivation India? introduced this to the Mughal Court (a) Hampi (b) Bidar 33. Who invented the technique of extracting scent from (c) Bijapur (d) Tanjavur Rose? (a) Maham Anga (b) Nurjahan Chapters 14 and 15 (c) Mumtaz Mahal (d) Roshan Ara 39. In 1639, Shahjahan summoned representatives of the 34. Which popular Sufi Silsilah tried to counteract the mercantile community to give him a clear picture of liberal religious policy of Akbar? the misdeeds of the Governor of Surat. Who appeared (a) Qadri (b) Chishti before the Emperor to give evidence? (c) Suhrawardi (d) Naqshbandi (a) Virji Vora 35. “Heresy to the heretic, religion to the orthodox, but (b) Haji Muhammad Zahid Beg the dust of the rose petal belong to the heart of the (c) Suja perfume seller.”—Which medieval writer composed (d) Shantidas Zaveri this couplet? MTP.126 | Indian History

Chapter 13 Chapter 18 40. Who were Poligars? 43. Match List I (Revenue Policy) with List II (Areas of (a) Government officials Operation) and select the correct answer using the (b) Landlords codes given below the lists: (c) Ship-owning traders List I List II (d) High priests at temples (Revenue Policy) (Areas of Operation) A. Permanent 1. Bengal, Bihar and Chapter 17 Settlement Orissa 41. Match List I (Maratha Powers) with List II (Place of B. Ryotwari 2. Punjab and United Treaty with East India Company) and select the cor- Settlement Provinces rect answer using the codes given below the lists: C. Mahalwari 3. Bombay and Sind List I List II Settlement (Maratha Powers) (Place of Treaty with D. Zabti System 4. Gujarat East India Company) Codes: A. Peshwa 1. Bassein (a) A B C D B. Holkar 2. Rajghat 2 4 1 3 C. Bhonsle 3. Devgaon (b) A B C D D. Sindhia 4. Surji Arjungaon 1 3 2 4 Codes: (c) A B C D (a) A B C D 2 3 1 4 1 2 3 4 (d) A B C D (b) A B C D 1 4 2 3 3 4 1 2 (c) A B C D Chapter 22 1 4 3 2 44. Who organized the society called Abhinav Bharat? (d) A B C D (a) Ajit Singh 3 2 1 4 (b) Har Dayal 42. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer (c) Shyamji Krishna Varma using the codes given below the lists: (d) V.D. Savarkar List I List II A. Partition of Bengal 1. Lord Ripon Chapter 24 B. Dual Government 45. Where was Panchayati Raj first introduced? in Bengal 2. Robert Clive (a) Tamil Nadu (b) Gujarat C. Social reforms 3. Warren Hastings (c) Andhra Pradesh (d) Rajasthan D. Local self- government 4. Lord Curzon Chapter 20 5. Lord William 46. What was the main purpose of the Punjab Tenancy Act passed during the tenure of Lord Lawrence? Bentinck Codes: (a) To protect the occupancy rights of the peas- (a) A B C D ants 4 1 5 2 (b) To increase the revenue receipts of the Gov- (b) A B C D ernment 5 2 3 1 (c) To break the backbone of the landlords (c) A B C D (d) To win the loyalty of landlords 4 2 5 1 Chapter 19 (d) A B C D 47. Which of the following indicate the correct chrono- 5 1 3 2 logical order of the given Commissions/Despatch? Model Test Papers | MTP.127

(a) Raleigh Commission—Sadler Commis- The above opinion of Vallabh Bhai Patel refers to sion—Wood’s Despatch—Hunter Commis- (a) Swadeshi Movement sion (b) Non-Cooperation Movement (b) Wood’s Despatch—Hunter Commission— (c) Civil Disobedience Movement Raleigh Commission—Sadler Commission (d) Quit India Movement (c) Raleigh Commission— Hunter Commis- 53. Consider the following statements concerned with the sion—Wood’s Despatch—Sadler Commis- Indian National Army: sion 1. Indian National Army was formed outside (d) Wood’s Despatch—Sadler Commission— the Indian territory. Raleigh Commission—Hunter Commission 2. Indian National Army was formed by induct- 48. Who among the following opposed raising the mini- ing the Indian prisoners of war. mum age of marriage for girls from 10 to 12 years as 3. Women formed a part of the Indian National embodied in the Age of Consent Act, 1891? (a) Mahadev Govind Ranade Army. Which one of the following alternatives is correct? (b) Swami Vivekananda (c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak (a) 1 and 2 are correct (d) Gopal Krishna Gokhale (b) 2 and 3 are correct (c) 1 and 3 are correct Chapter 22 (d) 1, 2 and 3 are correct 49. Who was the leader of the Indian revolutionary activi- ties in America? Chapter 23 (a) Shyamji Krishna Varma 54. Which one of the following indicates the correct (b) Lala Hardayal chronological order of the given events? (c) V.D. Savarkar (a) August Offer—Cripps Mission—Simla (d) Sardarsinh Rana Conference—Cabinet Mission Plan 50. Which one of the following indicates the correct (b) Simla Conference—Cabinet Mission Plan— chronological order of the given Movement/Satya- August Offer—Cripps Mission graha? (c) August Offer—Cabinet Mission Plan— (a) Khilafat Movement—Rowlatt Satyagraha— Simla Conference—Cripps Mission Kheda Satyagraha—Champaran Satyagraha (d) Simla Conference—Cripps Mission—Au- (b) Champaran Satyagraha—Kheda Satyagra- gust Offer—Cabinet Mission Plan ha—Rowlatt Satyagraha—Khilafat Move- 55. The British Prime Minister Atlee announced in the ment House of Commons the “definite intention” of the (c) Khilafat Movement—Kheda Satyagraha— British Government to affect the transfer of power to responsible Indian hands by a date not later than Rowlatt Satyagraha—Champaran Satya- (a) August, 1947 (b) June, 1947 graha (c) January, 1948 (d) June, 1948 (d) Champaran Satyagraha—Rowlatt Satya- 56. Consider the following statements about the Wavell graha—Kheda Satyagraha—Khilafat Move- Plan of 1945: ment 1. The Executive Council could nominate mem- 51. Who amongs the following were considered consti- bers from amongst the nationalist leaders. tutionalists within the Indian National Congress? 2. The Executive Council could have equal (a) Jawaharlal Nehru and J.B. Kripalani number of Hindu and Muslim representa- (b) Sarojini Naidu and Annie Beasant tives. (c) Subhash Chandra Bose and Maulana Azad 3. The veto power of the Governor-General was (d) Satyamurthy and K.M. Munshi to be abolished. 52. “There has been no revolt like that which has hap- 4. The subject of foreign affairs was to be pened in the last three years. We are proud of the transferred from the Governor-General to response of the movement.” an Indian Member of the Council. MTP.128 | Indian History

Which one of the following alternatives is correct? Chapters 11 and 12 (a) 1, 2 and 4 are correct 61. Assertion (A): The market regulation introduced (b) 1, 2 and 3 are correct by Sultan Alauddin Khalji died (c) 2 and 3 are correct instantaneously with his death. (d) 1 and 4 are correct Reason (R): The market regulations were Chapter 22 implemented with the use of 57. Who among the following was not a member of brute force. Andhra Mahasabha that was organized in the early Chapters 14 and 15 twentieth century to demand a separate linguistic state for the Telugu-speaking people? 62. Assertion (A): Akbar abolished jaziya in 1564 (a) Konda Venkatappayya but reimposed it subsequently. (b) M. Krishna Rao Reason (R): As a young man he has quite (c) Pattabhi Sitaramayya liberal and tolerant but became (d) T. Prakasam a fanatic and reactionary as he 58. Who among the following was not associated with came of age the Kakori Conspiracy Case? 63. Assertion (A): The Mughal administrative (a) Roshanlal (b) Chandra Shekhar Azad structure faced the Jagirdari (c) Ashfaqullah (d) Surya Sen crisis during the closing years Directions: The following 10 (ten) items consist of of Aurangzeb’s reign. two statements; one labelled as the ‘Assertion (A)’ Reason (R): There were limited number of and the other as ‘(Reason (R)’. You are to examine Jagirs but unlimited number of these two statements carefully and select the answers Mansabdars who were aspiring to these items using the codes given below: for Jagirs Codes: (a) Both A and R are individually true and R is Chapter 8 the correct explanation of A 64. Assertion (A): The age of Guptas is described as (b) Both A and R are individually true but R is the golden age of Indian history. not a correct explanation of A Reason (R): The Guptas issued a large num- (c) A is true but R is false ber of gold coins. (d) A is false but R is true Chapter 5 Chapter 6 65. Assertion (A): The sabha and samiti, the two 59 Assertion (A): Megasthenes said that there was political bodies of the Rig Ve- no slavery in India at the time of dic Aryans began to lose their his visit. strength during the time of the Reason (R): Megasthenes could not distin- Mahajanapada guish slaves from their masters Reason (R): These tribal assemblies could who treated them kindly. not fit into the organizational Chapter 19 framework of the large territorial states. 60. Assertion (A): Social reform was considered a necessary precondition for Chapter 13 the introduction and spread of 66. Assertion (A): According to the foreign travel- English education in India. ler Paes, the Devdasis held a Reason (R): India witnessed a spate of social highly respectable position in reforms in the early decades of the Vijayanagar society. the nineteenth century. Model Test Papers | MTP.129

Reason (R): The Devdasi system of offering its author? dancing girls to the temples in (a) Shaikh Fariduddin Ganj-i Shahkar south India came into existence (b) Ata Malik Juwaini for the first time under the Vijay- (c) Yahya Maneri anagar rulers. (d) Ali Hujweri 73. The Chisti Sufis in India developed the institution of Chapter 23 “Vilayat” which stood for which one of the following? 67. Assertion (A): The partition of India resulted (a) Abode of the Sufis from the failure of the Hindu and (b) Spiritual territory free from the State control Muslim communities to agree on (c) Khanqah discipline how and to whom power was to (d) Final resting place of the Sufis be transferred. 74. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly Reason (R): The political leadership of the matched? independence movement of (a) Iqta : Revenue assignment for civil and India was divided on sectarian military service lines and strongly believed in (b) Mansab : Official status of the nobles in the the two-nation theory. Sultanate administration (c) Khalisa : Directly administered land by the Chapter 6 Mughal emperor 68. Assertion (A): Major Rock Edict No. XIII (d) Ijara : A contractual system of revenue mentioning Asoka’s conquest assignment of Kalinga, does not appear at 75. Which one of the following is not applicable to Alaud- Dhauli. din Khalji’s reign? Reason (R): Asoka did not want the people (a) Control over Muqaddams of Kalinga to be reminded of his (b) Measurement of land for revenue collection conquest. (c) An espionage system (d) Grant of Taqqavi loans for the development Chapter 9 of agriculture 69. Which one among the following was not a port of the 76. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly Chola Empire? matched? (a) Kaveripattanam (b) Mahabalipuram (a) Ahadi : Gentleman trooper (c) Shaliyur (d) Tamralipti (b) Qalb : King’s personal troops 70. Which one of the following Rajput Dynasties did not (c) Muqaddams : Revenue collectors claim their mythical origin from ‘Agnikula’? (d) Charai : House Tax (a) Parihara (b) Chouhana 77. Who among the following authors remarked that when (c) Chandel (d) Solanki Muhammed bin Tughlaq died, he was relieved of his people and the people were relieved of him’? Chapter 8 (a) Ziauddin Barani 71. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly (b) Shamsuddin Siraj Afif matched? (c) Abul Fazal (a) Malti-Madhav : Drama (d) Abdul Qadir Badayuni (b) Panchatantra : Fable 78. The formation of Chaudhuri caste in Northern India (c) Malavikagnimitram : Biography was an interesting aspect of social change during (d) Panchasiddhantika : Astronomy the fourteenth century. Which one of the following alternatives explains this change? Chapters 11 and 12 (a) Merging of the subjugated ruling aristocracy 72. India takes the credit for producing the first text book with rural landed gentry on Islamic mysticism the Kashful Mahjub. Who was (b) Upgradation of Khuts and Muqaddams be- cause of their association with the State MTP.130 | Indian History

(c) A process which is characterised as sanskriti- (c) Sixteenth Century zation (d) Seventeenth Century (d) Craft specialisations resulting from the growth of urban economy Chapter 13 79. Which one of the following literary works forms a 83. Which one of the following alternatives correctly part of the Sufi literature? indicates the factor(s) responsible for the vigour of (a) Tabaqat-i Nasiri (b) Khair-ul Majalis Vijayanagara economy during the fifteenth and early (c) Rehla (d) Futuh-us Salatin sixteenth centuries? (a) Agricultural expansion Chapters 14 and 15 (b) Agricultural expansion and export trade 80. Match List I (Artillery/Guns) with List II (Technical (c) Export trade, and wars and conquests of the Names) and select the correct answer using the codes Deccan States given below the lists: (d) Wars and conquests of the Deccan States, List I List II and the plunder of the Tamil country (Artillery/Guns) (Technical Name) 84. The salary to the police in the Vijayanagara State was A. Light artillery 1. Arraba paid from which one of the following? carried on the (a) Proceeds of brothels back of men (b) Taxes on goods B. Light artillery 2. Gajnal (c) Land revenue carried on the (d) Collection from the wine shops back of elephants 85. Which one of the following indicates the correct C. Light artillery 3. Narnal chronological order of the Maratha saints of the Bhakti carried on the movement? back of camels (a) Namdev—Tukaram—Eknath— Ramdas D. Guns on wheeled- 4. Shutrnal (b) Ramdas—Eknath—Tukaram—Namdev carriages (c) Namdev—Eknath—Tukaram—Ramdas Codes: (d) Ramdas—Tukaram—Ekuath—Namdev (a) A B C D 86. Who among the following Sikh Gurus started the 1 2 4 3 Gurumukhi script? (b) A B C D (a) Guru Arjan (b) Guru Ramdas 3 4 2 1 (c) Guru Tegh Bahadur (d) Guru Angad (c) A B C D 87. Who wrote Vasucharitra? 1 4 2 3 (a) Ramraja (b) Vitthalanatha (d) A B C D (c) Krishnadeva Raya (d) Tirumalamba 3 2 4 1 88. What is Sarvadarsanasangraha? 81. Which one of the following buildings uses four- (a) A treatise on Advaita centred arch (Tudor arch) as the main architectural (b) A critical account of sixteen philosophical element? system from materialism to monism (a) Alai Darwaza (c) A full exposition of the Mimamsa (b) Quwwatul Islam Mosque (d) A Buddhist philosophical system (c) Fatehpur Sikri structures (d) Chittor Fort Chapters 14 and 15 89. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly Chapters 11 and 12 matched? 82. In which century was the gearing mechanism intro- (Emperors) (Nobles) duced in India? (a) Babur : Tardi Beg (a) Tenth Century (b) Humayun : Bairam Khan (b) Fourteenth Century (c) Jahangir : Sawai Jai Singh (d) Aurangzeb : Jaswant Singh Model Test Papers | MTP.131

90. Which one of the following measures was undertaken (c) Bagor by Akbar in 1563? (d) Belan (a) Building of the Ibadat Khana 96. Which one is the correct chronological order of cul- (b) Forbidding the enslavement of the wives and tures? children of rebellious villagers (a) Magdalenian—Mousterian—Acheulean— (c) Remission of pilgrim tax Abbevillian (d) Issuing of Mahzar (b) Abbevillian—Acheulean—Mousterian— 91. What did the term Peshkash mean during the Mughal Magdalenian period? (c) Magdalenian—Acheulean—Mousterian— (a) Money paid by the Noble to his cavalry-men Abbevillian as an advance (d) Abbevillian—Mousterian—Acheulean— (b) Money paid by the money-changers to the Magdalenian carriers of post as an advance 97. Match List I [Archaeological Materials (Pottery)] (c) A stipulated sum of money paid as land- with List II (Historical Phase) and select the correct revenue to the Emperor by the chiefs answer using the codes given below the lists: (d) Money paid as bribe to Subedars to secure List I List II safe passage for a caravan of traders passing [Archaeological (Historical Phase) through their territories Materials (Pottery)] 92. Which one of the following indicates the correct A. PGW—Painted 1. Gupta age chronological order in which the four given important grey ware forts were captured by Emperor Akbar? B. Black and 2. Harappan age (a) Asirgarh—Ranthambhor—Kalinjar—Merta red ware (b) Merta—Kalinjar—Ranthambhor—Asirgarh C. NBPW—Northern 3. Early historic age (c) Asirgarh—Kalinjar—Ranthambhor—Merta black polished ware (d) Merta—Ranthambhor—Kalinjar—Asirgarh D. RPW—Red 4. Mauryan age Chapter 1 polished ware Codes: 93. Stratigraphy is a method used in archaeology to un- derstand which one of the following? (a) A B C D (a) Extent of the distribution of a culture 2 3 4 1 (b) Successive deposits of the material remains (b) A B C D (c) Physical features of the people inhabiting the 1 4 3 2 site (c) A B C D (d) The numerical wealth of the milch cattle 2 4 3 1 (d) A B C D Chapter 2 1 3 4 2 94. Which one of the following indicates the antecedent stages of the Mature Harappan phase? Chapter 2 (a) Cemetery H and Kechibeg 98. From which one of the following sites, was the (b) Cemetery H and Amri famous Bull-seal of Indus Valley found? (c) Cemetery H and Jhukar (a) Harappa (b) Chanhudaro (d) Amri and Kechibeg (c) Lothal (d) Mohenjo-Daro 99. Incontestable evidence is found to prove the Chapter 1 existence of maritime trade of Indus people with 95. Which one of the following sites has yielded the Western Asia. Which of the following was not earliest evidence for both wild and sown varieties of an item of export? paddy? (a) Peacock (b) Horse (a) Adamgarh (b) Ahar (c) Ivory (d) Pearl MTP.132 | Indian History

100. Match List I (Characteristics) with List II (Site Chapter 4 / System) and select the correct answer using the 103. Which Vedic Gods have been described in the codes given below the lists: Rigveda as residing in a thousand pillared house? List I List II (a) Indra and Agni (b) Yama and Yami (Characteristics) (Site / System) (c) Usha and Surya (d) Mitra and Varuna A. This river system 1. Burzhom 104. Who among the following women is known to has the maximum have composed the Vedic Mantras? concentration of (a) Gargi (b) Maitreyi Harappan settlements (c) Apala (d) Jabala B. This Harappan site 2. Ahar has recently yielded Chapter 7 an unusual cache of 105. In which of the following forms of marriages, silver ware and was the bridegroom supposed to give a cow and ornaments a bull to the guardian of the bride during ancient C. This Neolithic site 3. Kunal period? in Kashmir has (a) Asura (b) Paisacha yielded evidence (c) Prajapatya (d) Arsha of Early Harappan contacts Chapter 4 D. This site is described 4. Ghaggar-Hakra 106. Which one of the following is the word for as a pure copper age “fight” in the Rigveda? site in India (a) Gavishti (b) Samgava 5. Dholavira (c) Yava (d) Svasara Codes: (a) A B C D Chapter 19 2 3 1 4 107. Which one of the following was the Magna Carta (b) A B C D of western educational system in India? 4 1 5 2 (a) The Report of the Committee of Public (c) A B C D Instruction, 1823 2 1 5 4 (b) The Charter Act of 1833 (b) A B C D (c) Despatch of Sir Charles Wood, Secretary of 4 3 1 2 State, 1854 Chapter 4 (d) The Report of the Hunter Commission 108. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly 101. Which one of the following contains the famous matched? Gayatri ? (a) William Jones : Hindu College (a) Rigveda (b) Yajurveda (b) Jeremy Bentham : Utilitarian School (c) Atharvaveda (d) Samveda (c) Jonathan Duncan : Sanskrit College Chapter 7 (d) William Carey : Serampore College 109. Match List I (Newspapers) with List II (Editors) 102. According to the famous Puranas, which one and select the correct answer using the codes of the following places was chosen by the God given below the lists: Shiva for his Lakulisha incarnation? List I List II (a) Sri Shyla (b) Kashi (Newspapers) (Editors) (c) Ujjaini (d) Kayavarohana A. Samachar Darpan 1. Ram Mohan Roy B. Mirat-ul-Akhbar 2. B.G. Tilak Model Test Papers | MTP.133

C. Kesari 3. Mahatma Gandhi using the codes given below the lists: D. Young India 4. Marshman List I List II Codes: (Organizations) (Years in which (a) A B C D Founded) 2 1 4 3 A. Landholders 1. 1838 (b) A B C D Society 4 3 2 1 B. British Indian 2. 1851 (c) A B C D Association 2 3 4 I C. Madras Native 3. 1852 (d) A B C D Association 4 1 2 3 D. The Indian 4. 1876 110. Which Benthamites considered that India was a Association land of superstitions? Codes: (a) Bentinck, Metcalfe and Canning (a) A B C D (b) Dalhousie, Canning and Macaulay 1 2 3 4 (c) Bentinck, Macaulay and Dalhousie (b) A B C D (d) Bentinck, Macaulay and Metcalfe 3 4 1 2 111. Who suggested the removal of all discrimination (c) A B C D of caste and race, and adoption of Saiva form of 1 4 3 2 marriage prescribed in Mahanirvana Tantra? (d) A B C D (a) Raja Ram Mohan Roy 3 2 1 4 (b) Debendra Nath Tagore 114. To whom is the use of Ramayana legend in pro- (c) Keshab Chandra Sen moting the national movement, besides Gandhiji (d) Gopal Hari Deshmukh also attributed? Chapter 20 (a) Birsa Munda and Vasudeo Phadke 112. Match List I (1857 Revolt–British Generals) with (c) Baba Ramchandra and Rajana Anantayya List II (Place of Action) and select the correct (c) Korra Mallaya and Daulata Ramoshi answer using the codes given below the lists: (d) Lakshmanavasu Chetti and Jyotiba Phule List I List II 115. Who among the following said “My boy, no, you (1857 Revolt– (Place of are an Indian first and then a Muslim” ? British Generals) Action) (a) Jawaharlal Nehru A. John Nicholson 1. Lucknow (b) Mohammad Iqbal B. Colin Campbell 2. Jhansi (c) Mohammad Ali Jinnah C. Havelock 3. Delhi (d) Syed Ahmad Khan D. Hugh Rose 4. Kanpur 116. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly Codes: matched ? (a) A B C D (a) British India : Adams 3 4 1 2 Society (b) A B C D (b) Indian National : A.O. Hume 1 2 3 4 Union (c) A B C D (c) National Indian : Anand Mohan Bose 3 2 1 4 Association (d) A B C D (d) East India : Dadabhai Naoroji 1 4 3 2 Association Chapter 21 Chapter 20 113. Match List I (Organizations) with List II (Years 117. Who started the Madras Labour Union (1918)? in which Founded) and select the correct answer (a) Kanji Dwarkadas and Umar Sobhani MTP.134 | Indian History

(b) G. Ramanajulu Naidu and G.C. Chetti 2. Shooting of the District Magistrate Jackson. (c) T.V.K. Mudaliar and H.B. Mandavale 3. Satara conspiracy. (d) C.K. Annadurai and K.T. Ramachandran 4. Murder of Lt. Ayerst. 118. Which one of the following statements about the Which one of the following is the correct chrono- Industrial Disputes Act of 1938 is correct? logical order of the above events? (a) It was strongly supported by the Left and (a) 1-2-4-3 Congress Socialists (b) 4-2-1-3 (b) It was based on the philosophy of concilia- (c) 1-3-4-2 tion, arbitration and negotiation (d) 4-3-1-2 (c) The Act did not restrict the freedom to strike 120. Who among the following was not associated (d) The registration procedure of trade unions with the Revolt of 1857? was made easy (a) Ashfaqulla Khan (b) Kunwar Singh Chapter 22 (c) Maulvi Ahmadullah 119. Consider the following events: (d) Laxmibai of Jhansi 1. Attempt on the life of Judge Kingford.

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1. c 2. b 3. a 4. b 5. c 6. d 7. d 8. b 9. b 10. b 11. a 12. c 13. c 14. d 15. b 16. a 17. b 18. c 19. a 20. c 21. c 22. d 23. a 24. b 25. c 26. a 27. d 28. c 29. a 30. a 31. c 32. c 33. b 34. d 35. b 36. c 37. c 38. b 39. a 40. b 41. a 42. c 43. b 44. d 45. d 46. a 47. b 48. c 49. b 50. b 51. d 52. d 53. d 54. a 55. d 56. a 57. c 58. d 59. a 60. a 61. a 62. c 63. a 64. b 65. a 66. c 67. c 68. a 69. d 70. c 71. c 72. d 73. b 74. b 75. d 76. d 77. d 78. a 79. b 80. d 81. c 82. b 83. b 84. a 85. c 86. d 87. a 88. b 89. c 90. c 91. c 92. d 93. b 94. d 95. d 96. b 97. a 98. d 99. b 100. d 101. a 102. d 103. d 104. c 105. d 106. a 107. c 108. a 109. d 110. d 111. c 112. a 113. a 114. b 115. c 116. b 117. b 118. b 119. d 120. a Model Test Papers | MTP.135

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Chapter 2 Code: (a) A B C D 1. Which one of the following Harappan sites has yielded 4 2 1 3 evidence of a signboard inscription? (b) A B C D (a) Lothal (b) Mohenjodaro 4 1 2 3 (c) Dholavira (d) Rakhigarhi (c) A B C D Chapter 1 3 1 2 4 2. Where has the prehistoric cultivated field been dis- (d) A B C D covered in India? 3 2 1 4 (a) Lothal (b) Kalibangan 4. Which Indus Valley site has yielded evidence of use of a wooden coffin in burial? (c) Ropar (d) Dholavira (a) Harappa (b) Mohenjodaro Chapter 2 (c) Lothal (d) Kalibangan 3. Match List I (Ancient Finding) with List II (Place of Chapter 4 Finding) and select the correct answer using the code 5. Which one of the following texts contains the earliest given below the Lists: evidence on Indian mathematical writings? List-I List-II (Ancient Finding) (Place of Finding) (a) Aranyaka (b) Kalpasutra A. Bronze dancing 1. Harappa (c) Nirukta (d) Sulvasutra 6. Which one of the following statements is correct? girl (a) The grama of the Rig Vedic Aryans usually refers B. Persian gulf seal 2. Lothal to a group of kinsflok and not a village C. Grey stone male 3. Mohenjodaro (b) The Aryans of early Vedic times tamed elephants dancing figure and used them in war along with horses D. Rows of fire altars 4. Kalibangan MTP.136 | Indian History

(c) The Rig Veda mentions the svayamvara and mar- (c) Avagaman riage of widows (d) Pancha-sheela (d) The Rig Veda mentions Vindhya and Satpura mountains and Narmada river Chapter 13 7. Which one of the following statements is not correct? 13. Consider the following Bhakti Saints: (a) The Upanishads were compiled earlier than the 1. Dadu Dayal Puranas 2. Guru Nanak (b) The Upanishads believe in the transmigration of 3. Tulsidas soul Who among the above was/were preaching when the (c) The Upanishads contain instructive stories and Lodi dynasty fell and Babur took over? conversations (a) 1 and 3 (b) 2 only (d) There are no parables in the Upanishads (c) 2 and 3 (d) 1 and 2 8. Consider the following statements: Chapter 7 1. In Rig Vedic time, the purohita was the foremost among the functionaries of a king. 14. What was upavasatha in the Buddhist order? 2. In Rig Vedic time, the king was the absolute owner (a) It was the resting place of the Buddhist monks in of the land. caves or viharas during rainy period 3. The system of espionage was not known to the (b) It was an act of confession of Buddhist monks kings of the Rig Vedic time. when they assembled every fortnight on the even- Which of the statements given above is/are cor- ing of full and new moons rect? (c) It was an act of fasting for a specified period of (a) 1 only (b) 1 and 2 time by Buddhist monks as a punishment for the (c) 2 and 3 (d) 1, 2 and 3 offences committed by them in their conduct (d) It was the vow taken by the newly admitted monk Chapter 5 into the Buddhist order 9. Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched? 15. Agnimitra known from the Kalidasa’s drama Malavi- (a) Chanda Pradyota : King of Vatsa kagnimitra was a king of which one of the following dynasties? Mahasena (a) Maurya (b) Sunga (b) Darshaka : Successor to (c) Saka (d) Gupta Ajatashatru (c) Ajatashatru : Follower of Ajivikas Chapter 6 (d) Prasenjit : King of Vajji 16. Consider the following statements: Confederation 1. Sauraseni was the official language of the Mau- 10. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly ryan court. matched? (a) Sravasti : The capital of Kosala 2. Apabhramsa was used in the Middle Ages by Jaina (b) Rajgriha : The capital of Magadha writers in Gujarat for composing poetry. (c) Vaishali : The capital of Chedi 3. Telugu was the court language of Vijayanagar (d) Ujjain : The capital of Avanti under Krishna Devaraya. 11. Who was Alara Kalama? Which of the statements given above is/are correct? (a) A disciple of Buddha (a) 1 and 3 (b) 2 only (b) A prominent Buddhist monk (c) 2 and 3 (d) 1, 2 and 3 (c) A teacher of Buddha 17. Consider the following statements: (d) A ruler who renounced his throne for Buddhism 1. Brahmans were exempted from execution or death 12. What is the ideological approach of Jainism? penalty in all the ancient Indian scriptures, texts (a) Anekanta and law books. (b) Advaita 2. Dayabhaga, a treatise on inheritance was written by Jimutavahana of 12th century. Model Test Papers | MTP.137

3. The Arthashastra deals with crime and punish- 26. Who among the following was a renowned Pasupata ment and suggests many forms of execution. Acharya? Which of the statements given above is/are correct? (a) Shantinatha (b) Sreekarapandita (a) 1 and 2 (b) 2 and 3 (c) Udyotakara (d) Purnakashyapa (c) 3 only (d) 1, 2 and 3 27. Which one of the following epigraphs is significant for the history of Bhagavatism? Chapter 7 (a) Mathura Pillar Inscription 18. Gautamiputra Satakarni is known largely because of (b) Besanagar Pillar Inscription the inscriptions recorded by his mother. Which one (c) Rumindei Pillar Inscription of the following is the associated place? (d) Talagunda Pillar Inscription (a) Hathigumpha (b) Nanaghat (c) Nasik (d) Kanheri Chapter 8 19. Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched? 28. Which one of the following is the correct chronologi- (a) Rashtrakutas : Devagiri cal sequence? (b) Pallavas : Madurai (a) Ashtadhyayi—Buddhacharita— Kathasaritsa- (c) Yadavas : Manyakheta gara — Meghaduta (d) Satavahanas : Pratisthana (b) Ashtadhyayi—Buddhacharita—Meghaduta— 20. Which one of the following is the correct statement Kathasaritsagara about the Sangam society of ancient South India? (c) Buddhacharita—Ashtadhyayi—Meghaduta— (a) Slavery was not known to them Kathasaritsagara (b) The practice of Sati did not exist there (d) Buddhacharita—Ashtadhyayi—Kathasantsa- (c) The sacred marital thread Tali was unknown to gara—Meghaduta them 29. According to I-tsing, where did Sri Gupta construct (d) The women had no claim to the royal throne there a temple for the Chinese Buddhist pilgrims? 21. Which one among the following is the oldest stupa? (a) Purushapura (b) Mrigasikhavana (a) Stupa of Sanchi (b) Stupa of Bharhut (c) Taxila (d) Lumbinivana (c) Stupa of Piprawah (d) Stupa of Amaravati 30. Which one of the following statements is not correct? 22. Who was the hero of the literary work Silappadi- (a) The earliest Indian coins bore no inscriptions karam? (b) Satavahanas of Deccan made coins of lead (a) Karikala Chola (b) Senguttuvan Chera (c) Guptas issued rupaka, the silver coins (c) Nedunjeliyan (d) Segannan Chola (d) Gold coinage in India was started by Harshavard- 23. Kanishka convened the Fourth Buddhist Council hana which prepared an encyclopaedia of the Buddhist 31. Consider the following: philosophy. What was this known as? 1. Kalidasa (a) Mahavarya 2. Bharvi (b) Prajnaparamita Sutra 3. Bhasa (c) Ariyasacca Who among the above belonged to the Gupta age? (d) Mahavibhasha (a) 1 only (b) 1 and 2 24. Who among the following left an inscription which (c) 2 and 3 (d) 1, 2 and 3 records reconstruction of a great artificial lake in Kathiawar? Chapter 6 (a) Gautamiputra Satakarni 32. Which one of the following deals with the schemes of (b) Kanishka Chanakya to foil the designs of a minister of the last (c) Nahapana of the Nandas, and to place Chandragupta Maurya on (d) Rudradaman the throne? 25. Which Indo-Greek Ruler is referred to in the Besana- (a) Mricchakatika gar (Vidisha) Pillar Inscription? (b) Mudrarakshasa (a) Antialcidas (b) Minander (c) Pratijnayaugandharayana (c) Demetrius (d) Heliodorus (d) Vikramorvasiyam MTP.138 | Indian History

Chapter 9 38. Through which one of the following, the king ex- 33. Match List I (Ancient Town) with List II (Modern ercised his control over villages in the Vijayanagar State) and select the correct answer using the code Empire? given below the Lists: (a) Dannayaka (b) Sumanta List I List II (c) Nayaka (d) Mahanayakacharya (Ancient Town) (Modern State) A. Ajayamera 1. Assam Chapters 14 and 15 B. Bhrigukaccha 2. Gujarat 39. What was the function of the official called Karom under Akbar’s administration? C. Pragjyotisa 3. Orissa (a) Collection of revenue D. Sisupalgarh 4. Rajasthan (b) Maintaining royal treasury Code: (c) Maintaining the account of foreign trade (a) A B C D (d) Working as scribe for royal correspondence 1 2 4 3 40. Which one of the following buildings is not located (b) A B C D in Fatehpur Sikri? 4 3 1 2 (a) Buland Darwaza (c) A B C D (b) Anup Talao 1 3 4 2 (c) Qila-i-Kuhna Mosque (d) A B C D (d) Panch Mahal 4 2 1 3 41. With reference to the Mughal administration, which one of the following statements is not correct? Chapters 14 and 15 (a) The Mughal artillery was under the charge of 34. Who among the following introduced the dahsala Mir-i-Atish system of land revenue collection for the first time? (b) Supervision over the lands granted by the Emper- (a) Babar (b) Humayun ors or Princes to pious men, scholars and monks (c) Akbar (d) Shahjahan and under the charge of the Chief Sadr. (c) The imperial household was under the charge of Chapters 11 and 12 Mir Manzil 35. Who among the following founded the city of Jaun- (d) The censorship of public morals was under the pur? charge of Muhtasib (a) Ala-ud-din Khalji (b) Muhammad Tughlaq Chapter 13 (c) Firuz Tughlaq 42. Who among the following wrote the drama Uspari- (d) Khizr Khan Sayyid naya which describes the marriage of Usha with Aniruddha? Chapter 13 (a) Ganga Devi 36. Who among the following rulers of Gujarat was (b) Madhava Vidyaranya treacherously drowned by the Portuguese when he (c) Krishna Devaraya was on board his ship? (d) Allasani Peddana (a) Mahmud Begarha (b) Muhammad Shah Chapters 11 and 12 (c) Bahadur Shah 43. Match List I (Official of Delhi Sultanate) with List (d) Husain Shah II (Duties/Jobs), and select the correct answer using 37. Which one of the following is not connected with the the code given below the Lists. description of the Vijayanagar Kingdom? List I List II (a) Amuktamalyada (Officials of Delhi (Duties/Jobs) (b) Manucharitam Sultanate) (c) Prabodha Chandrodaya A. Barid-i Mumalik 1. Dealing with royal (d) Rehla correspondence Model Test Papers | MTP.139

B. Dabir-i Khas 2. Commanding Chapter 13 Sultan’s bodyguards 46. Consider the following statements: C. Sar-i Jandar 3. Heading the State 1. Sikandar Lodi changed his residence from Delhi news and informa- to Agra. tion agency 2. The personal retainers of the great Amirs were D. Wakil-i Dar 4. Controlling and appointed by Sikandar Lodi himself. supervising royal 3. Sikandar Lodi abolished duties on crop of corn. household Which of the statements given above is/are correct? Code: (a) 1 only (b) 1 and 2 (a) A B C D (c) 2 and 3 (d) 1, 2 and 3 2 4 3 1 47. Which one of the following statements is not correct? (b) A B C D (a) Chaitanya was a contemporary of Vallabhacharya 3 1 2 4 (b) Dabu Dayal started the practice of worship at the (c) A B C D shrines of departed saints 2 1 3 4 (c) Tukaram was a contemporary of Shivaji (d) A B C D (d) Vallabhacharya advocated penance, self-mortifi- 3 4 2 1 cation and renunciation of the world 44. What was the duty assigned to Mustakhraj under Ala- 48. Which one of the following groups represents the ud-din Khalji? correct composition of Vijayanagar territory of Pan- (a) To measure the land of peasants and to fix the dimandalam? revenue share of the State (a) Madurai, Chingleput, South Arcot, Tirunelveli (b) To collect the unrealised balance of land revenue (b) Chingleput, South Arcot, North Arcot, Tirunelveli from the peasants (c) Madurai, Ramanathapuram, Tirunelveli, Kanya- (e) To punish the revenue officials indulging in cor- kumari ruption (d) Ramanathapuram, Tirunelveli North Arcot, Kan- (d) To spy on the merchants and traders and to ensure yakumari that prices fixed by the State were followed. Chapters 14 and 15 Chapter 10 49. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly 45. Match List I (Literary Work) with List II (Scholar) matched? and select the correct answer using the code given (a) Ahmad Shah : Hazrat Gesu Daraz below the Lists. Bahamani List I List II (b) Mahmud Begarha : Faizi Sarhindi (Literary Work) (Scholar) (c) Akbar : Abdur Rahim Khan-i- A. Hammir Rasau 1. Allasani Peddana Khanan B. Pampa Ramayana 2. Jayadeva (d) Jahangir : Muhammad Salih C. Prasanna Raghava 3. Naga Chandra 50. Consider the following statements: D. Sarvochisa 4. Sarangadhara 1. During the Mughal period, Mysore was the Mancharitra premier center of silk production and supplied the Code: demands of both European and Indian merchants. (a) A B C D 2. There was no ship-building industry in India 1 2 3 4 during the Mughal period as Europeans supplied (b) A B C D ships to the Indians. 4 3 2 1 3. During the Mughal period, saltpetre was exported (c) A B C D from India by Dutch and English traders. 1 3 2 4 Which of the statements given above is/are correct? (d) A B C D (a) 1 and 2 (b) 2 only 4 2 3 1 (c) 1 and 3 (d) 3 only MTP.140 | Indian History

Chapter 9 (a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 3 and 4 51. Consider the following statements: (c) 2, 3 and 4 (d) 4 only 1. There are no remains of free-standing Hindu Chapter 13 temples erected before the Gupta period. 2. All the caves at Ellora are of Hindu gods and 55. Who among the following recognised the important role played by women in family and society in his goddesses. preachings? 3. The great temple of Shiva at Tanjore was built by (a) Guru Nanak (b) Sant Ravidas Rajaraja, the Great. (c) Sant Gyaneshwar (d) Sant Tukaram Which of the statements given above is/are correct? (a) 1 and 3 (b) 1, 2 and 3 Chapters 11 and 12 (c) 1 and 2 (d) 3 only 56. Match List I (Terms) with List II (Meanings) and select the correct answer using the code given below Chapter 10 the Lists: 52. In which one of the following temples did Ramanuja List I List II teach? (Terms) (Meanings) (a) Madurai (b) Mamallapuram A. Haqq-i Shurb 1. Loans to peasants (c) Somnathpur (d) Srirangam B. Qismat 2. Water tax Chapter 9 C. Taqavi 3. Agrarian cesses 53. Match List I (King) with List II (Dynasty) and select D. Uslub 4. Regulations the correct answer using the code given below the Code: Lists: (a) A B C D List I List II 4 3 1 2 (King) (Dynasty) (b) A B C D A. Bhoja of Malwa 1. Chandela 2 1 3 4 B. Jayachandra 2. Gahadavala (c) A B C D C. Mihira Bhoja 3. Paramara 4 1 3 2 D. Paramardideva 4. Pratihara (d) A B C D Code: 2 3 1 4 (a) A B C D Chapter 13 3 1 4 2 (b) A B C D 57. Match List I (Terms) with List II (Meanings) and select the correct answer using the code given below 4 2 3 1 the Lists: (c) A B C D List I List II 3 2 4 1 (Terms) (Meanings) (d) A B C D A. Ayagars 1. Village servants 4 1 3 2 B. Karnam 2. Policeman 54. Consider the following statements: C. Maniyam 3. Accountant 1. Naval expeditions of Rajaraja I occupied parts of D. Talaiyari 4. Headman Burma, Malaya and . Code: 2. Rajendra I conquered Ceylon. (a) A B C D 3. The Cholas held northern Ceylon until they were 4 2 1 3 expelled by Vijayabahu I. (b) A B C D 4. The Cholas fell in the 13th century when their ter- 1 3 4 2 ritory was shared by the Hoysalas and Pandyas. (c) A B C D Which of the statements given above is/are cor- 4 3 1 2 rect? (d) A B C D 1 2 4 3 Model Test Papers | MTP.141

58. The rulers of Deccan adopted istava measures in the (c) A B C D medieval period. What did it mean? 4 3 2 1 (a) Grant of loans with no interest (d) A B C D (b) Concessional assessment of land revenue 2 1 4 3 (c) Cesses imposed for enlarging the army (d) Actual revenue collection of land revenue Chapter 13 62. An early translation of Bhagavat into Bengali was Chapters 11 and 12 commissioned by Husain Shah. Who undertook the 59. What did Nunia and Malangi castes specialize in? translation work? (a) Medium-distance trade in food grains (a) Kavindra Parameswar (b) Leather tanning work (b) Maladhar Vasu (c) Iron smelting and charcoal production (c) Srikarana Nandi (d) Salt and saltpetre production (d) Vidyapati 60. With reference to the medieval period, match List-I 63. Which one of the following denotes a garment not (Places) with List II (Production) and select the correct prevalent during the medieval period? answer using the code given below the Lists: (a) Pravara List I List II (b) Qaba (Places) (Production) (c) Jama A. Alwar 1. Oils and perfumes (d) Sari B. Jaunpur 2. Sugar candy C. Kalpi 3. Glass Chapter 10 D. Lander 4. Woollen carpets 64. What is the Mitakshara of Vijnaneswar? Code: (a) A treatise on the system of medicine (a) A B C D (b) An exposition of the contemporary theatre 2 1 3 4 (c) A commentary on Hindu law (b) A B C D (d) A treatise on the South Indian music 3 4 2 1 65. Consider the following statements: 1. The earliest Persian work on Indian Music—Ghu- (c) A B C D nyat ul Munya was written in the Court of Akbar. 2 4 3 1 2. Sangitopanishad Sarodhara—a treatise on the (d) A B C D music and dance was written by a Jain scholar of 3 1 2 4 Gujarat 61. Match List I (Terms) with List II (Usage) and select Which of the statements given above is/are correct? the correct answer using the code given below the Lists: (a) 1 only (b) 2 only List I List II (c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2 (Terms) (Usage) Chapters 14 and 15 A. Dar al-shift 1. Open area for eques- 66 What did the concept of Wahadat-al Wujud as sup- trian exercises ported by Akbar signify? B. Furusiyya 2. A hospital (a) Purity of Islam C. Maydan 3. Imperial camp (b) War against infidels: D. Urdu-i Mualla 4. Open area for military (c) Eradication of caste system parade (d) Unity of being Code: (a) A B C D Chapters 11 and 12 4 1 2 3 67. Collection of which one of the following comprised (b) A B C D Man Kautuhal? 2 3 4 1 (a) The portraits of Rajput rulers (b) The musical melodies MTP.142 | Indian History

(c) The technical contrivances of the Hindus Select the correct answer using the code given below: (d) Astronomical charts of Indian cities Code: (a) 1 and 2 (b) 2 and 3 Chapters 14 and 15 (c) 3 only (d) 1, 2 and 3 68. Which one of the following is the correct chronologi- 72. Which one of the following is not correct regarding cal order of setting up of English factories in India? the chief clauses of the Regulating Act of 1773? (a) Madras—Sutanuti—Sural—Hugli (a) The civil and military government and the man- (b) Madras—Surat—Sutanuti—Hugli agement of all territorial acquisitions and revenues (c) Surat—Hugli—Madras—Sutanuti in Bengal, Bihar and Orissa were vested in the (d) Surat—Madras—Hugli—Sutanuti Governor-General at Fort William, assisted by four Councillors Chapter 17 (b) The Governor-General in Council at Fort Wil- 69. What was the main content of the Treaty of Deogaon liam was given the power of Superin-tending the concluded at the end of 1803? administration of the Presidencies of Madras and (a) Bhonsle Raja of Berar ceded to the English the Bombay Province of Cuttack, including Balasore, and the (c) The President of the Board Control exercised all whole of his territory west of the river Warda powers relating to supervising the Indian colony (b) Sindhia ceded to the English all his territories and the Court of Directors merely retained the between the Ganges and Jamuna, and his forts and right of making appointments territories to the north of the Rajput principalities, (d) A Supreme Court consisting of a Chief Justice and Jaipur, Jodhpur and Gohad three Judges was set up at Fort William to deal (c) Holkar gave up all claims to Tonk, Rampura, with all cases of crime Bundi, Kooch, Bundelkhand and places north of 73. Consider the following statements: the Chambal 1 By Pitt’s India Act, the member of the Governor- (d) Baji Rao II renounced the post of Peshwa and the General’s Council were reduced to three. headship of the Maratha confederacy 2. Pitt’s India Act abolished the monopoly of the Chapter 18 Company’s Indian trade. 3. By Pitt’s India Act, through a supplementary Act, 70 Consider the following statements with reference to the Governor-General was empowered to hold the British rule in India: 1. In 1780, the manufacture of salt was directly taken office of Commander-in-Chief in special cases. Which of the statements given above is/ are correct? up by the Government. (a) 1 and 2 (b) 3 only 2. In 1786, the Collector in each District of Bengal (c) 1 and 3 (d) 1, 2 and 3 was made responsible for settling the revenue and collecting it. Chapters 14 and 15 3. In 1790, the Decennial Settlement of land revenue 74. Consider the following statements: was declared permanent. Under Todar Mal’s bandobast in Akbar’s administra- Which of the statements given above is/are correct? tion (a) 1 only (b) 1 and 2 1. the state was to advance loans to the cultivators (c) 2 and 3 (d) 1, 2 and 3 which could be paid in easy annual instalments. Chapter 17 2. remissions of revenue were granted in bad season. 71. Which of the following pairs is/are correctly matched? 3. the revenue collectors were required to write of- 1. Battle of Bedara : Rear Admiral ficially annual reports about the work, character Bascawen and integrity of their subordinates. 2. Battle of Wandiwash : General Coote 4. the accounts were to be kept in Hindi. 3. Battle of Buxar : Major Hector Which of the statements given above are correct? Munro (a) 1 and 2 (b) 1, 2 and 3 (c) 3 and 4 (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4 Model Test Papers | MTP.143

Chapter 19 Which of the above were the features of Wood’s 75. Consider the following statements: Despatch? 1. Raja Ram Mohan Roy opposed the Permanent (a) 1 and 2 (b) 2 and 3 Settlement in Bengal. (c) 1 and 3 (d) 1, 2 and 3 79. Who among the following was in the forefront of 2. Raja Ram Mohan Roy advocated the substitution making efforts leading to making the Age of Consent of Persian for English as the official language of Act, 1891? the courts of law. (a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak Which of the statements given above is/are correct? (b) Keshab Chandra Sen (a) I only (b) 2 only (c) B. M. Malabari (c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2 (d) Swami Vivekananda 76. Match List I (Commission/Act/Despatch) with List II 80. Consider the following statements: (Year) and select the correct answer using the code 1. The cancellation of regulations concerning Indian given below the Lists: Press by Sir Charles Metcalfe liberated it from List I List II official control during the period 1835–1857. (Commission/Act/ (Year) 2. Under the Newspaper Act of 1908, the District Despatch) Magistrate was empowered to confiscate the A. Wood’s Despatch l. 1919 printing press where a newspaper containing an B. Hunter Commission 2. 1904 incitement to violence was printed. C. Universities Act 3. 1882 3. The Indian Press Act of 1910 was suspended by D. Sadler Commission 4. 1854 the Government of India during the World War Code: I, so as to seek cooperation of Indian nationalists (a) A B C D for war efforts. 4 3 2 1 Which of the statements given above are correct? (b) A B C D (a) 1 and 2 (b) 2 and 3 2 1 4 3 (c) 1 and 3 (d) 1, 2 and 3 (c) A B C D 81. Match List I (Person) with List II (Work) and select 4 1 2 3 the correct answer using the code given below the (d) A B C D Lists: 2 3 4 1 List I List II 77. Who among the following was a founder of Widow (Person) (Work) Marriage Association in 1861? A. Madhusudan Dutt 1. Meghnadbadh (a) Devendranath Tagore Kavya (b) Mahadev Govinda Ranade B. Bankim Chandra 2. Deui Chaudhurani (c) Surendranath Banerjee C. Dinabandhu Mitra 3. Neeldarpan (d) Swami Dayanand Saraswati 4. Grammar of 78. Consider the following statements with reference to Wood’s Despatch: Code: 1. Institution of a regular system of scholarship to (a) A B C enable meritorious students to pursue the higher 4 2 1 courses of study. (b) A B C 2. Helping the educational institutions founded by 1 2 3 private efforts to obtain grants from government (c) A B C funds. 4 3 1 3. Provision of moral and religious education as an (d) A B C important component of curriculum. 1 3 2 MTP.144 | Indian History

Chapter 20 4. the English heavily bribed some important French 82. In the context of 1857 Revolt, the causes that led to officers. the Sepoy Mutiny were Which of the statements given above are correct? 1. the disparity in number of European and Indian (a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 2 and 3 troops in the British Indian Forces. (c) 1 and 4 (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4 2. the General Service Enlistment Act ordering all recruits to the Bengal Army to be ready for service Chapter 22 both within and outside India. 85. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly 3. the introduction of the Enfield rifle. matched? Which of the above are correct? (a) Siraj-ud-din Ahmed : Zamindar (a) 1 and 2 (b) 2 and 3 (b) Lal Chand : Self-abnegation in (c) 1 and 3 (d) 1, 2 and 3 politics (c) Tej Bahadur Sapru : Tribune Chapters 11 and 12 (d) Abul Kalam Azad : Al-Hilal 83. Match List I (Monument) with List II (Builder) and select the correct answer using the code given below Chapter 21 the Lists: 86. Which one of the following first suggested boycott of List I List II the British goods in Bengal? (Monument) (Builder) (a) Aurobindo Ghosh’s journal ‘Bande Mataram’ A Arhai-Din-Ka- 1. Ala-ud-din Khalji (b) Krishna Kumar Mitra’s weekly ‘Sanjivani’ Jhompra at Ajmer (c) Motilal Ghosh’s ‘Amrit Bazar Patrika’ B. Hauz-i-Khas at 2. Iltutmish (d) Satish Chandra Mukherji’s ‘Dawn’ Delhi 87. With reference to the Indian Councils Act of 1909, C. Fortress of 3. Muhammad consider the following statements: Adilabad Tughlaq 1. The Act formally introduced for the first time the D. Jami Masjid at 4. Qutb-ud-din Aibak principle of elections to the legislative councils. Badaun 2. The Government of India was given general power Code: of disallowing politically dangerous candidates. (a) A B C D 3. The income qualifications for the Muslim voters 4 2 3 1 were lower than those for the Hindus. (b) A B C D Which of the statements given above are correct? 3 1 4 2 (a) 1 and 2 (b) 2 and 3 (c) A B C D (c) 1 and 3 (d) 1, 2 and 3 4 1 3 2 88. Consider the following statements: (d) A B C D 1. In 1918, Tilak and Gandhi toured villages to raise 3 2 4 1 money and men for the British World War effort. Chapter 17 2. By the Lucknow Pact, the Muslim leaders ac- cepted under-representation in Muslim majority 84. Consider the following statements: Count de Lally, the French Commander failed against areas in return for over-representation in some the English in India because provinces. 1. the home authorities in France did not recognize Which of the statements given above is/are correct? the importance of securing political power in (a) 1 only (b) 2 only India. (c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2 2. the French were inferior to the English in nava Chapter 22 strength. 89. What was the reason for Gandhiji to organize a Satya- 3. there was discord between the French command- graha on behalf of the peasants of Kheda? ers of land and sea forces. Model Test Papers | MTP.145

(a) Non-suspension of land revenue collection in spite Chapter 18 of a drought 93. Who among the following introduced in scheme of (b) Enhancement of land revenue in spite of failure administration which centered around a class of offi- of crops cials called Commissioners, each of whom was placed (c) Confiscation of the land of those who did not pay in charge of a division comprising several districts? the land tax by the British administration (a) Lord Cornwallis (d) The proposal of the administration to introduce (b) Lord Warren Hastings ‘permanent settlement’ in Gujarat (c) Lord Wellesley 90. Which one of the following statements is not correct? (d) Lord William Bentinck (a) Gandhiji suggested to the Khilafat Committee that it should adopt a programme of Non-Violent Chapter 21 Non-Cooperation to protest against the Govern- 94. Which one of the following Muslim leaders joined ment’s unfavourable attitude the Home Rule League founded by Annie Besant? (b) In the Nagpur Session of the Congress in 1920, (a) Muhammad Iqbal Motilal Nehru moved the resolution of Non- (b) Muhammad Ali Jinnah Cooperation (c) Syed Ahmed Khan (c) The programmne of Non-Cooperation included (d) Abul Kalam Azad the surrender of honours and titles (d) After the Vijayawada Session of the Congress in Chapter 17 1921, charkhas were popularized on a wide scale 95. Consider the following statements: and Khadi became the uniform of the national 1. As per the Indian High Courts Act, High Courts movement were created in Calcutta, Bombay and Madras by 91. In February 1943, while in jail, why did Gandhiji the amalgamation of the Supreme Court and the declare 21 days’ fast? Sadar Diwani Adalat in 186l. (a) He wanted the people to stop violence in the Quit 2. A Code of Civil Procedure and a Code of Criminal India Movement. Procedure were promulgated in 1867. (b) He was forcing the Hindu and Muslim separatists Which of the statements given above is/are correct? to shun divisive policies and to strive for united (a) 1 only (b) 2 only India (e) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2 (c) This was his answer to the Government which had been constantly exhorting him to condemn Chapter 19 the violence of the people during the Quit India 96. In order to advance the cause of English education Movement in India, who among the following introduced the (d) This was a part of his non-violent strategy of regulation that all public services were to be filled by an open competitive examination held by the Council forcing the British Government to concede the of Education, preference being given to the knowledge Congress demand for complete independence of of English? India (a) Lord Wellesley 92. Which one of the following was not included in the (b) Lord William Bentinck terms of the Gandhi-Irwin Pact? (c) Lord Hardinge (a) Immediate release of all political prisoners not (d) Lord Dalhousie convicted for violence (b) Payment of suitable compensation to the released Chapter 21 prisoners 97. With reference to the Swadeshi Movement during the (c) Return of confiscated land not yet sold to third Indian freedom struggle, which one of the following parties statements is not correct? (d) Remission of all fines yet not collected (a) The theme song of the Swadeshi Movement in Bengal was Rabindranath’s ‘Amar Sonar Bangla’ MTP.146 | Indian History

(b) Syed Haider Raza led the Swadeshi Movement 2. The First Schedule as adopted by the Constituent in Delhi Assembly and incorporated in the Constitution (c) The Ganapati and Shivaji festivals became a of India mentioned three categories of States and medium for the Swadeshi Propaganda in Bengal Territories, i.e., Princely States, British Indian too Provinces, Andaman and Nicobar Islands. (d) The Surat split of the Congress in 1907 weakened Which of the statements given above is/are correct? the Swadeshi Movement (a) 1 only (b) 2 only 98. With reference to the Home Rule Movement during (c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2 the Indian freedom struggle, consider the following 102. Consider the following statements: statements: 1. Although the First Five-Year Plan gave priority 1. In his Home Rule Movement, Tilak linked up to Agriculture but there was hardly any increase the question of Swaraj with the demand for the in the agricultural production at the end of the formation of linguistic States and education in the Plan period. vernacular. 2. The iron and steel plants at Bhilai, Rourkela and 2. At Allahabad, Jawaharlal Nehru joined Annie Durgapur were set up during the First Five-Year Besant’s Home Rule League. Plan. Which of the statements given above is/are correct? Which of the statements given above is/are correct? (a) 1 only (b) 2 only (a) 1 only (b) 2 only (c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2 (c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2 Chapter 23 Chapter 22 99. Who of the following was not included in the first Interim National Government announced in August, 103. Which one of the following poets wrote poems hailing 1946? the Russian Revolution of 1917? (a) Dr. Rajendra Prasad (a) Subramanya Bharati (b) Dr. S. Radhakrishnan (b) Muhammad Iqbal (c) C. Rajagopalachari (c) Sarojini Naidu (d) Jagjivan Ram (d) Rabindranath Tagore

Chapter 24 Chapter 24 100. Consider the following statements: 104. Who among the following was India’s Defence Min- 1. Several of the Fundamental Rights incorporated ister when the Chinese invaded the northern part of India in 1962? in the Nehru Committee Report appeared in the (a) Morarji Desai Constitution of India substantially unchanged. (b) V. K. Krishna Menon 2. Several of the social and economic rights men- (c) T. T. Krishnamachari tioned in the 1931 Karachi Resolution found (d) Jagjivan Ram expression in the Directive Principles of State Policy in the Constitution of India. Chapter 22 Which of the statements given above is/are correct? 105. Consider the following statements: (a) 1 only 1. In Bombay, S. A. Dange published a pamphlet (b) 2 only ‘Gandhi and Lenin’ and started the first socialist (c) Both 1 and 2 weekly ‘The Socialist’. (d) Neither 1 nor 2 2. In Bengal, Muzaffar Ahmed brought out ‘Na- 101. Consider the following statements: vyug’ and later founded the ‘Langal’ with the 1. Though the Constitution of India states that India cooperation of the poet Nazrul Islam. is a Union of States, the terms ‘federal’ and ‘fed- 3. In Madras, M. Singaravelu founded the ‘Labour- eration’ are used in reference to India at several Kisan Gazette’, places in the Constitution of India. Model Test Papers | MTP.147

Which of the statements given above are correct? 2. The Senas of Bengal were anti-Buddhist. (a) 1 and 2 (b) 2 and 3 3. The Solankis who ruled Gujarat, patronized Jain- (c) 1 and 3 (d) 1, 2 and 3 ism. 106. Which Session of the Indian National Congress ap- Which of the statements given above is/are correct? proved the ‘Gandhi-Irwin Pact’? (a) 1 only (b) 2 and 3 (a) Karachi Session (c) 1 and 3 (d) 1, 2 and 3 (b) Lahore Session Directions: (c) Calcutta Session The following ten (10) items consist of two statements: one (d) Tripura Session labelled as the ‘Assertion (A)’ and the other as ‘Reason (R)’. Chapter 23 You are to examine these two statements carefully and select the answers to these items using the code given below: 107. Consider the following Code: 1. Asaf Ali (a) Both A and R are individually true and R is the correct 2. Bhulabhai Desai explanation of A 3. Jawaharlal Nehru (b) Both A and R are individually true but R is not the 4. Tej Bahadur Sapru correct explanation of A Who among the above took up the defence of the INA (c) A is true but R is false prisoners in the court at the Red Fort trials? (d) A is false but R is true (a) 1 and 2 (b) 2, 3 and .4 (c) 1, 3 and 4 (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4 Chapter 13 Chapters 14 and 15 111. Assertion (A): The Tamil literary works had a pros- perous period during the fifteenth 108. Which one of the following statements is correct? and sixteenth centuries. (a) When Portuguese landed at Calicut in 1498, Reason (R): Vijayanagar rulers had a special Narasa Nayaka chastised Zamorin and expelled preference for the Tamil language the Portuguese from there and literature. (b) Pedro Alvarez Cabral captured the port of Goa in 1510 Chapter 16 (c) When Portuguese captured the port of Goa from 112. Assertion (A): Azam Shah requested Shahu to take the Bijapur Sultanate, Vijayanagar rulers sided charge of Narmada region during his with Bijapur absence from Maharashtra. (d) When Mughal forces laid siege to Sambhaji’s Reason (R): It was felt that Shahu’s presence in Kalyan, Portuguese helped Mughals with provi- the region would weaken Tarabai sions and safeguard Mughal possessions 109. What was Ganj-i Sawai? during Azami’s absence. (a) A manuscript containing astronomical observa- tions of Sawai Jai Singh Chapters 14 and 15 (b) The chief market place in the town of Sawai 113. Assertion (A): In medieval India, screw making was Madhopur undertaken by soldering a piece of (c) A large cannon fitted ship belonging to Aurangzeb (d) The most important custom post near Surat man- wire on an iron nail. aged by the Mughal rulers Reason (R): The technology of lathe-work was not known to the Indian. Chapter 9 114. Assertion (A): Akbar removed Adham Khan from 110. Consider the following statements: his office and appointed Pir Muham- 1. It was from Pala Empire that Buddhism was mad in his place as Governor of introduced into Tibet. Malwa. MTP.148 | Indian History

Reason (R): Adham Khan did not send the spoils Reason (R): There were no fixed rules governing of the conquest to Akbar. the succession to the Crown in the Turkish system. Chapters 11 and 12 Chapter 21 115. Assertion (A): Haji Iliyas of Bengal was defeated by 118. Assertion (A): At the height of the Swadeshi Move- Firuz Shah Tughlaq but the Sultan ment, communal riots broke out in returned to Delhi without annexing Bengal. Bengal. Reason (R): Nawab Salimullah of Dacca led the Reason (R): There was a sudden invasion of Muslim peasantry of Bengal against Mongols on the North-West Fron- the Hindu Zamindars. tier. Chapter 17 Chapter 23 119. Assertion (A): Within half a century of the Battle of 116. Assertion (A): The Cabinet Mission rejected the Plassey, the phenomenal prosperity of Bengal suffered a serious setback. Muslim League’s demand for a Reason (R): The manufacture of cotton goods, separate State of Pakistan. the most important commodity of Reason (R): The Cabinet Mission felt that a export from India, increased in other separate State of Pakistan would parts of India while it declined in contain a large proportion of non- Bengal. Muslim population, and a sizeable l20. Assertion (A): The English Company was granted population of Muslims would be left Diwani Rights of Bengal, Bihar and in India. Orissa in 1765 but the actual collec- tion of revenue for the first few years Chapters 11 and 12 was left in the hands of Indians. 117. Assertion (A): On the death of Qutb-ud-din Aibak, Reason (R): The English lacked the knowledge Aram Shah proclaimed himself as of revenue matters in India. the Sultan of Delhi by suppressing the other contenders to the throne.

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Chapters 11 & 12 (c) He raised the grants of teachers and stipends for students 1. Consider the following events in respect of the Delhi (d) He forced Khuts, Muqaddams and Chaudharis to Sultanate: pay grazing tax and house tax 1. Appointment of Zafar Khan as the Governor of Gujarat Chapter 13 2. Timur’s sack of Delhi 4. Who among the following was a contemporary of 3. Rebellion of Haji Maula Namdev ? 4. Foundation of Ahmedabad (a) Madhav (b) Nimhark Which is the correct chronological order of the above (c) Sena (d) Ramdas events? 5. Which of the following statements about Shaikh Ba- (a) 1 – 3 – 2 – 4 hauddin Zakariya, the founder of Suharawardi Silsilah (b) 3 – 1 – 4 – 2 in India is not correct (c) 3 – 1 – 2 – 4 (a) He believed in self-mortification (d) 1 – 3 – 4 – 2 (b) He did not consider poverty as a necessary means 2. Under the Delhi Sultanate, what was the job of the for spiritual life official called Shuhna ? (c) He justified his riches by saying that money ena- (a) To check the expenditure of the State bled him to serve the poor better (b) To officiate as the paymaster of the army (d) He did not reject the concept of sama (c) To work as in charge of the Sultan’s household Chapters 14 & 15 (d) To supervise the police department 3. Which one of the following statements cannot be 6. What did the concept adl as propounded by medieval political thinkers signify? attributed to Firuz Tughlaq ? (a) Morality (a) He restored the rent free lands (lnam, Idrar) (b) Justice granted to theologians (c) Aristocracy (b) He abolished all taxes not sanctioned by Shara (d) Religious obligations Model Test Papers | MTP.151

7. Consider the following devices/practice: 14. The famous Kailasanatha temple at Ellora was cut 1. Multi-spindle wheels in the rock on the instructions of which Rashtrakuta 2. Match-lock guns King? 3. Watermills and windmills. (a) Krishna-I (b) Dhruva-I 4. Use of coal as a fuel (c) Krishna-II (d) Indra-III Which of the above were not known to the Mughals? (a) 1 and 2 (b) 2 and 3 only Chapter 8 (c) 2, 3 and 4 (d) 1 and 4 15. Who wrote the Mandsore inscription? (a) Banabhatta (b) Vatsabhatt Chapter 13 (c) Harisena (d) Virsena 8. Siva-tattva-Chintamani, a treatise on the tenets and 16. Match List I (Ancient State) with List II (Modern rites of the Lingayats was written during the reign of Region) and select the correct answer using the code which one of the following? given below the Lists: (a) Bukka-I (b) Deva Raya-II List I List II (c) Hari Hara-II (d) Deva Raya-I (Ancient State) (Modern Region) 9. During the reign of Iltutmish which one of the fol- A. Durgara 1. Assam lowing was a silver coin in use? B. Kamarupa 2. Jammu (a) Rupaiya (b) Jital C. Trigarta 3. Jalandhar (c) Mohur (c) Tanka 4. Orissa 10. Who among the following Sultans a land grant to the Code: Jain saint, Jambuji? (a) A B C (a) Muhammad bin Tughluq 1 2 3 (b) Firuz Shah Tughluq (b) A B C (c) Sikandar Lodi 2 1 3 (d) Ibrahim Lodi (c) A B C 11. Who was the poet saint of medieval India who rejected 1 2 4 the values of sat-darshan and advocated the path of (d) A B C nipakh? 2 1 4 (a) Kabir (b) Malukdas 17. Which inscription mentions both Kalidasa and (c) Dadu Dayal (d) Raidas Bharavi by name? (a) Prayag Prasasthi of Samudra Gupta Chapter 9 (b) Talagunda Pillar inscription of Kakusthavarma 12. Paumachariyam deals with which one of the follow- (c) Aihole Prasasthi of Pulakesi ing? (d) Girnar Prasasthi of Rudradaman (a) An exposition of the Indian flora and fauna Chapter 7 (b) A Jain version of Ramayana 18. Consider the following statements: (c) A love-lore enacted between a slave man and a 1. Senguttuvan, the son of Imayavaramban was the woman contemporary of Yajna Sri Satakarni. (d) A Buddhist exposition of the question of 2. The Silappadikaram gives a detailed account of nirvana 13. Which of the following groups of Nalanda the exploits of Senguttuvan. scholars spread Buddhism in Tibet? Which of the statements given above is/are correct? (a) Kumarajiva, Paramartha, Shubhakarasimha, (a) 1 only (b) 2 only Dharmadeva (c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2 (b) Santarakshita, Padmasambhava, Kamalashila, Chapters 11 & 12 Sthiramati 19. Which one of the following statements about (c) Vasubandhu, Dinnaga, Dharmapala, Chandrapala Iqta system in Delhi Sultanate is not correct? (d) Archadeva, Anga, Nagarjuna, Jinnamitra (a) Iqta was a territorial assignment MTP.152 | Indian History

(b) Nizam-ul-Mulk emphasized Muqtis’ right to col- (b) A B C D lect and appropriate taxes 4 3 1 2 (c) All Sultans from Iltutmish onwards did not enforce (c) A B C D the practice of transfer of Muqtis from one Iqta 1 3 4 2 to another (d) A B C D (d) Balban ordered that excess amounts must be sent 4 2 1 3 from Iqta to the Sultan’s treasury 25. Who among the following authors translated the famous work, “Kitab-al-Hind” into English? Chapter 9 (a) Walter Roper Lawrence 20. Who among the following Cholas was defeated by (b) E. C. Sachau Krishna-III of Rashtrakutas? (c) Al-Muqaddsi (a) Parantaka-I (b) Parantaka-II (d) S. A. Rahim (c) Rajaraja-I (d) Rajendra-I 26. Who among the following created the post of 21. In the early medieval India, which one of the Naib to appoint Turkish noble Aitigin? following places was referred to as Prabhasa Pattana? (a) Qutbuddin Aibak (a) Somanatha (b) Thanesar (b) Iltutmish (c) Ujjain (d) Varanasi (c) Razia (d) Bahram Chapter 10 27. Which one of the following departments was created 22. Consider the following statements: by Allauddin Khilji to improve the functioning of the 1. Ghaznavi coins issued in north-western India have State Revenues? bilingual legends written in Arabic and Sharda (a) Diwan-i Mustakharaj scripts. (b) Diwan-i Kohi 2. The litteratures and chroniclers Barani and Isami (c) Diwan-i Arz were contemporaries. (d) Diwan-i Insha 3. When Mahmud of Ghazni raided Somnatha, 28. What did the term dehliwal mean in the medieval Jayasimha Siddharaja was the Chalukya ruler of period in India? the region. (a) A Jain community doing business in Delhi Which of the statements given above is/are correct? (b) A vegetarian cuisine originating in Delhi (a) 1 only (b) 1 and 2 only (c) The coinage prevalent in Delhi at the time of (c) 2 and 3 only (d) 1, 2 and 3 Turkish conquest 23. Who was the author of the 11th Century text Sunya (d) Afghan warriors stationed as guards of the city of Purana? Delhi (a) Paramesvara (b) Ramai Pandit 29. During whose reign was the award of the title ‘Khan’ (c) Parangal Khan (d) Alaol introduced for the nobles of the Delhi Sultanate? (a) Alauddin Khilji Chapters 11 & 12 (b) Balban 24. Match List I (Author) with List II (Book) and (c) Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq select the correct answer using the code given (d) Iltutmish below the Lists: List I (Author) List II ( Book) Chapter 19 A. Badayuni 1. Chandayan 30. Who among the following was popularly known as B. Isami 2. Futuh-us Salatin Lokahitavadi? C. Mulla Da’ud 3. Mrigavati (a) Akshay Kumar Dutt D. Qutban 4. Muntakhab-ul (b) Gopal Hari Deshmukh Tawarikh (c) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar Code: (d) Mahadev Govind Ranade (a) A B C D 1 2 4 3 Model Test Papers | MTP.153

Chapter 21 Chapter 18 31. What was the immediate reason that resulted in the 35. At the beginning of the 20th century, who among murder of Rand, the Chairman of the Plague Com- the following published “The Economic History of mittee and Lt. Ayerst in 1898 ? India”? (a) Arrest of Bal Gangadhar Tilak for criticizing the (a) Dadabhai Naoroji government’s handling of the plague situation (b) Gopal Krishna Gokhale which made the workers of the Poona Sarvajanik (c) Mahadev Govind Ranade Sabha violent (d) Romesh Chandra Dutt (b) There was general resentment against the official plague measures Chapter 20 (c) Manhandling of the workers of the Poona Sarva- 36. Consider the following statements in respect of the Indigo janik Sabha by the Police in plague-stricken areas revolt: provoked the people 1. There was a complete unity among Hindu and (d) Some extremist leaders of Maharashtra showed Muslim peasants. over-enthusiasm to enhance the degree of conflict 2. Hem Chandra Kar was one of the prominent lead- between the British rulers and the Indian people ers of the rebellious ryots. 32. Consider the following statements: 3. The rebellious ryots maintained a great organisa- 1. The formal proclamation of the Swadeshi move- tion and discipline. ment was made in 1905 in a conference convened Which of the statements given above are correct? by Surendranath Banerjee at Barisal. (a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 1 and 2 only 2. On the day of partition of Bengal, the famous (c) 2 and 3 only (d) 1 and 3 only Boycott resolution was passed by the leaders of the Swadeshi movement in Bengal. Chapter 19 3. Chidambaram Pillai took the Swadeshi movement 37. In 1890, who among the following started to Madras Presidency. “Indian Social Reformer”? Which of the statements given above is/are correct? (a) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (a) 1 only (b) 1 and 3 (b) K. Viresalingam (c) 2 and 3 (d) 3 only (c) K. N. Natarajan 33. Which among the following was/were the reason(s) (d) M. G. Ranade for decline of the Swadeshi movement by mid 1908? 1. Severe repression by the Government. Chapter 20 2. Internal squabbles in the Congress. 38. After the 1857 revolt, who announced at a darbar at 3. Lack of an effective organisation and party struc- Allahabad the assumption of the Government of India ture. by the Sovereign of Great Britain? Select the correct answer using the code given below: (a) Lord Auckland (b) Lord Canning (a) 1 only (b) 1 and 2 only (c) Lord Dalhousie (d) Lord Harding (c) 2 and 3 only (d) 1, 2 and 3 39. Two famous leaders Sido and Kanhu of civil uprisings 34. Consider the following statements with reference to during India’s freedom struggle belonged to which the extremists and moderates within the Congress community? during the years 1905-07; (a) Kolis (b) Mundas 1. The extremists wanted to extend the Swadeshi and (c) Santhals (d) Bhils Boycott movement from Bengal to the rest of the 40. Consider the following statements: country. Keshab Chandra Sen encouraged 2. The moderates wanted to gradually extend, the 1. remarriage of widows boycott from foreign goods to every form of as- 2. inter-caste marriage sociation or cooperation with the government. 3. abolition of Purdah system Which of the statements given above is/are correct? 4. higher university education for women (a) 1 only (b) 2 only Which of the statements given above are correct? (c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither I nor 2 (a) 1 and 2 only MTP.154 | Indian History

(b) 2, 3 and 4 only 47. Which one of the following statements is not correct? (c) 1 and 4 only (a) The Palaeolithic man in India knew the use of fire (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4 (b) Palaeolithic graves have been found in Guntur 41. Who founded the Paramhansa Sabha in Poona in and Kurnool Districts in South India 1840? (c) Prehistoric paintings have been found in Kaimur (a) Bal Shastri Jambhekar ranges and Mirzapur District (b) Mahadev Govind Ranade (d) The Copper Age and the Early Iron Age can be (c) Ganesh Vasudeo Joshi distinguished in North India. However, the Iron (d) Dadoba Pandurang Tarkhedkar Age immediately succeeds the Stone Age in South 42. Who among the following played an important role India for passing the Native Marriage Act of 1872? (a) Devendranath Tagore Chapter 2 (b) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar 48. Which Harappan site has revealed an unusual plan of (c) Keshab Chandra Sen the city comprising three separately demarcated areas (d) Shyam Chandra Dass of settlements within a common fortification? 43. Which one of the following statements is correct? (a) Kalibangan (b) Lothal (a) It was Lord Lytton who first ordered that the names (c) Banavali (d) Dholavira of the editors and proprietors should be published 49. Match List I (Harappan Site) with List II (Location) and select the correct answer using the code given below in the newspapers. the Lists: (b) The Bengal Gazette was started as a weekly during List I List II the tenure of Lord Wellesley (Harappan Site) ( Location) (c) J. S. Buckingham started the Calcutta Journal A. Kalibangan 1. Bhuj-Kachchh during the tenure of Lord Hastings B. Surkotada 2. Sindh (d) Akhbar-e-Aam was started as a daily newspaper C. Kot-Diji 3. Rajasthan from Karachi D. Banawali 4. Haryana 44. Consider the following statements: Code: 1. The Theosophical Society allied itself to the Hindu (a) A B C D revival from the very beginning. 2 4 3 1 2. The Theosophical Society’s activities were con- (b) A B C D fined to Southern India only. 3. The Theosophical Society supported the belief in 3 1 2 4 occult mysticism. (c) A B C D Which of the statements given above are correct? 2 1 3 4 (a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) I and 2 only (d) A B C D (c) 2 and 3 only (d) 1 and 3 only 3 4 2 1

Chapter 17 Chapter 7 45. Which one of the following did not take place during 50. What is the main focus of Sushruta’s study? the administration of Lord Dalhousie? (a) Pathology (b) Surgery (a) The Second Anglo-Burmese war (c) Dietary Science (d) Nervous system (b) Setting up telegraph line from Calcutta to Agra (c) Railway opened from Bombay to Thane Chapter 2 (d) Foundation of the University of Delhi 51. Which one of the following statements is not correct about the Harappan civilization ? Chapter 1 (a) The inhabitants knew the use of geometrical 46. Where was the first Indian Palaeolithic artefact dis- designs covered? (b) The inhabitants knew the game of dice (a) Daimabad (b) Mirzapur (c) In Kalibangan, most of the construction was done (c) Pallavaram (d) Soan Valley by using mud bricks Model Test Papers | MTP.155

(d) In Lothal, the inhabitants never used burnt bricks Code: for construction (a) A B C D 52. Match List I (Harappan Settlement) with List II (Banks 3 1 2 4 of Rivers on which Located) and select the correct (b) A B C D answer using the code given below the Lists: 2 4 3 1 List I List II (c) A B C D (Harappan (Banks of Rivers on Settlement) which Located) 3 4 2 1 A. Alamgirpur 1. Indus (d) A B C D B. Kalibangan 2. Ghaggar 2 1 3 4 56. Which one of the following do Phitsutras deal with? C. Harappa 3. Hindon D. Mohenjodaro 4. Ravi (a) Metre (b) Accent Code: (c) Nouns (d) Ritual (a) A B C D Directions: The next 4 (Four) items consist of two statements; one la- 3 2 4 1 belled as the ‘Assertion (A)’ and the other as ‘Reason (b) A B C D (R)’. You are to examine these two statements care- 4 1 3 2 fully and select the answers to these items using the (c) A B C D codes given below: 3 1 4 2 Codes: (d) A B C D (a) Both A and R are individually true and R is the correct 4 2 3 1 explanation of A (b) Both A and R are individually true but R is not the Chapter 4 correct explanation of A 53. Which hymns of the Rigveda are considered to contain (c) A is true but R is false the rudiments of the Indian drama? (d) A is false but R is true (a) Vivaha-sukta Chapter 21 (b) Apri-sukta (c) Samvada-sukta 57. Assertion (A): In the early years of the Indian Na- (d) Purusha-sukta tional Congress, it was decided to 54. Which one of the following statements is not correct? rotate the Congress Session among (a) The word gotra first appears in the Atharvaveda different parts of the country. with the meaning of ‘a clan’ Reason (R): The very early leadership of the (b) Due to pravara, the matrimonial choice was much Congress wanted to take up the issue restricted of social reform of different parts of (c) The practice of Sraddha was started in North India the country. during the rule of Gupta dynasty Chapter 8 (d) Sraddha defines the family, as the Sapinda are the 58. Assertion (A): Prabhavati Gupta, the daughter of members of the family group who are entitled to Chandra Gupta II married Vakataka participate in it King Rudrasena II 55. Match List I (School of Thought) with List II (Person) and select the correct answer using the code Reason (R): Chandra Gupta wanted help from given below the Lists: Vakataka King against the Shakas. List I List II 59. Assertion (A): Abul Fazl who was a great scholar (School of Thought) (Person) and a stylist, as well as the leading A. Mimamsa 1. Aksapada Gautama historian of his times; set a style of B. Nyaya 2. Isvarakrsna prose writing which was emulated C. Sankhya 3. Jaimini for many years. D. Vaisesika 4. Uluka Kanada MTP.156 | Indian History

Reason (R): Abul Fazl did all this to help his Which of the statements given above is/are correct? brother Faizi to become the leading (a) 1 only (b) 2 and 3 only poet of his times. (c) 1 and 3 only (d) 1, 2 and 3

Chapter 10 Chapter 23 60. Assertion (A): The references to silk-weaving in 65. Consider the following statements: Kashmir are found in Kalhana’s 1. The first Session of the All-India Hindu Ma- Rajtarangini. hasabha was held under the Presidentship of the Reason (R): Sericulture in Kashmir was a well- Maharaja of Kasim Bazaar. developed practice since ancient 2. The Jabalpur Session of Hindu Mahasabha in times. 1928 adopted resolutions calling for conversion of non-Hindus into Hinduism. Chapter 23 Which of the statements given above is/are correct? 61. Under whom among the following was the first (a) 1 only (b) 2 only draft of the Constitution of India prepared in (c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2 October 1947 by the advisory Branch of the Office of the Constituent Assembly? Chapter 22 (a) Dr. B. R. Ambedkar 66. Consider the following statements: (b) Jawaharlal Nehru 1. A group or Indians headed by M. N. Roy met at (c) K. M. Munshi Tashkent in October 1920 and set up the Com- (d) B. N. Rau munist Party of India. 62. In February 1947, who among the following made 2. An All-India organization under the name of the the important announcement that it was His Majesty’s Communist Party of India was founded at Calcutta Government’s definite intention to take necessary in December 1925. steps to effect the transference of power to responsible Which of the statements given above is/are correct? Indian hands by June 1948 ? (a) 1 only (b) 2 only (a) Clement Attlee (c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2 (b) Lord Mountbatten 67. During the Indian freedom struggle in the early 20th (c) Winston Churchill century, which one of the following set up a “Swadesh (d) Lord Pethick Lawrence Sewak Home” in Vancouver? 63. With reference to the first Interim National Govern- (a) G. D. Kumar (b) Madanlal Dhingra ment consider the following statements: (c) V. D. Savarkar (d) Tarak Nath Das 1. Dr. Rajendra Prasad was designated as the Vice- 68. Who among the following Indian leaders attended the President of Viceroy’s Executive Council. first Session of the Round Table Conference in 1930? 2. Syed Ali Zaheer and Sir Shafat Ahmed Khan (a) Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi joined the Viceroy’s Executive Council later as (b) Madan Mohan Malviya the representatives of the Muslim League. (c) Motilal Nehru Which of the statements given above is/are correct? (d) Muhammad Ali (a) 1 only (b) 2 only 69. For organising which Satyagraha was Vallabhbhai (c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2 Patel conferred the title of Sardar ? (a) Kheda Satyagraha Chapter 22 (b) Salt Satyagraha 64. Consider the following statements: (c) Individual Satyagraha l. Tej Bahadur Sapru participated in drafting the (d) Bardoli Satyagraha Nehru Report. 70. Consider the following statements: 2. The Nehru Report accepted the principle of sepa- 1. The Bardoli Resolution of 1922 asked the peasants rate communal electorates. not to pay taxes, and the tenants not to pay rents. 3. The Nehru Report defined the Dominion status as 2. The Akali movement for wresting the control of the form of government desired by India. Gurudwaras from the corrupt Mahants was a part Model Test Papers | MTP.157

of the general movement of Non-cooperation. (a) Pandyas (b) Pallavas Which of the statements given above is/are correct? (c) Chalukyas (d) Cholas (a) 1 only (b) 2 only 77. Who introduced the figure of Buddha with the legend (c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2 “BODDO” on the gold and “SAKAMANO BODDO” 71. Who among the following lawyers gave up the prac- on the copper coins? tice of law when the Non-Cooperation Movement was (a) Demetrius (b) Huvishka-I launched? (c) Kanishka (d) Wima Kadphises 1. Asaf Ali 2. C. Rajagopalachari 3. Saifuddin Kitchlew 4. T. Prakasam Chapter 24 Select the correct answer using the code given below: 78. Consider the following statements in respect of the (a) 1 and 2 only (b) 1, 2 and 3 only Indo-China conflict of 1962: (c) 3 and 4 only (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4 1. In November 1962, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru solicited military aid from President Kennedy. Chapter 21 2. The United States of America sent ten C-130 trans- 72. In the Lucknow Session of the Congress in 1916, port planes and two squadrons of B-47 Bombers who among the following made a very significant to help against China. proposal that the Congress should appoint a working 3. When General Thapar submitted his resignation committee that would carry on day to day affairs of in November 1962, the newly appointed Defence the Congress? Minister proposed General J. N. Chaudhury as the (a) Annie Besant new Chief of Army. (c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak Which of the statements given above is/are correct? (c) Madan Mohan Malaviya (a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 2 and 3 only (d) Surendranath Banerjee (c) 1 only (d) 3 only 73. Consider the following statements with reference to the provisions of the Indian Councils Act of 1909 Chapter 7 regarding the Imperial Legislative Council: 79. Consider the following statements: 1. The Act increased the power of the members 1. The XII Rock Edict of Asoka mentions Satava- to ask questions. hanas. 2. Voting on separate budget items was allowed by 2. According to the Jaina tradition, Simuka built both the Act. Jaina and Buddhist temples. Which of the statements given above is/are correct? Which of the statements given above is/are correct? (a) 1 only (b) 2 only (a) 1 only (b) 2 only (c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2 (c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2 74. During the British Rule in India, who was the first In- 80. Who among the following were first to have issued dian to be appointed as Law Member of the Governor- Potin coins? General’s Council? (a) Mauryans (b) Magadhans (a) Raja Kishori Lal Goswami (c) Satavahanas (d) Chedis (b) Motilal Nehru (c) Satyendra Prasanna Sinha Chapter 6 (d) Tej Bahadur Sapru 81. Match List I (Officers of the Mauryan Administration) with List II (Duties As) and select the correct answer Chapter 7 using the code given below the List: 75. In whose court was Heliodoros an ambassador? List I List II (a) Pushyamitra Shunga (Officers of the (Duties As) (b) Kasiputra Bhagabhadra Mauryan (c) Chandragupta Maurya Administration) (d) Shaka Rudradaman A. Samaharta 1. Treasurer 76. During the Sangam Age, Uraiyur was the capital of B. Sannidhata 2. Collector General which one of the following? MTP.158 | Indian History

C. Karmantika 3. Chief Judge Chapter 5 D. Vyavaharika 4. Chief of Mines 85. Who was the President of the First Buddhist Council Code: held at Rajagriha? (a) A B C D (a) Parshvaka (b) Sangharaksha 4 1 2 3 (c) Vasumitra (d) Mahakassapa (b) A B C D 2 3 4 1 Chapter 6 (c) A B C D 86. Which one of the following Asokan inscriptions refer 4 3 2 1 to the ancient city of Isila? (d) A B C D (a) Maski rock edict (b) Pangoraria 2 1 4 3 (c) Udegolam (d) Brahmagiri

Chapter 7 Chapter 5 82. Who founded the Theravada Buddhism according to 87. Which one of the following statements is not correct? the Tibetan tradition? (a) Bhadrabahu wrote Kalpasutras during the time of (a) Nalaka King Udayan of Magadha (b) Mahakassapa (b) Mahavira attained Kaivalya-jnana on the bank of (c) Nagarjuna the river Rijupalika (d) Moggali Putta Tissa (c) Jainism became the state religion of Lichchhavis (d) Haribhadra was a Jain scholar who lived in the Chapter 6 9th century A.D. 83. Match List I (Rock Edicts of Asoka) with List II (Descriprion) and select the correct answer using the Chapter 7 code given below the Lists: 88. Which two among the following scholars participated List I List II in the Buddhist Council held during the time of Kan- (Rock Edicts of Asoka) (Descriprion) ishka? A. Rock Edict I 1. Condemnation of 1. Vasumitra 2. Asvaghosa animal sacrifices 3. Upali 4. Katyayana B. Rock Edict III 2. Principles of the Select the correct answer using the code given below: Law of Piety (a) 1 and 2 (b) 1 and 3 C. Rock Edict V 3. Appointment of (c) 2 and 3 (d) 2 and 4 Dharma-Mahamatras D. Rock Edict VII 4. Pilgrimages of Chapter 4 Asoka 89. Which Sutra clearly differentiates the status, occupa- Code: tions, obligations, duties and privileges of the four (a) A B C D principal castes? 1 3 2 4 (a) Srauta-sutra (b) A B C D (b) Grihya-sutra 4 2 3 1 (c) Dharma-sutra (c) A B C D (d) Sankhayana Srauta-sutra 1 2 3 4 Chapter 5 (d) A B C D 90. Match List I (Ancient Kingdom) with List II (Capital) 4 3 2 1 and select the correct answer using the code given 84. Who is the only known scribe from Asokan epigraphs? below the Lists: (a) Harisena (b) Ravikirti List I List II (c) Chapada (d) Kupana Chama (Ancient Kingdom) (Capital) A. Anga 1. Champa B. Vatsa 2. Kausambi Model Test Papers | MTP.159

C. Matsya 3. Viratanagar (a) Lahore (b) Shikohabad D. Surasena 4. Mathura (c) Surat (d) Sikandara (a) A B C D 1 2 3 4 Chapter 22 (b) A B C D 95. Consider the following statements: 3 4 1 2 When Mahatma Gandhi moved the non-cooperation (c) A B C D resolution, 1 4 3 2 1. a special session was held at Calcutta under the (d) A B C D Presidentship of C. R. Das. 3 2 1 4 2. it was passed unanimously in the special session. Which of the statements given above is/are cor- Chapter 4 rect? 91. The Nidanasutra in ten prapathakas belong to which (a) 1 only (b) 2 only one of the following? (c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2 (a) Rigveda (b) Samaveda Chapter 17 (c) Yajurveda (d) Atharvaveda 96. Consider the following statements: Chapters 14 & 15 1. The Nizami of Hyderabad granted Northern Sar- 92. Who among the following wrote satirical poetry dur- kars to the English as the Madras Government ing the reign of Aurangzeb? agreed to assist him against the French and the (a) Sauda (b) Jafar Zatalli Marathas. (c) Gani Kashmiri (d) Mulla Daud 2. The capture of Mahe, a French settlement by the 93. Match List I (Official with Reference to the English acted as one of the most important causes Medieval Period) with List II (Description) and for the outbreak of the second Anglo-Mysore War. select the correct answer using the code given 3. The immediate provocation for the Third Anglo- below the Lists: Mysore war lay in the attempt of Tipu Sultan to List I List II tighten his hold on the western coast. (Official with Reference (Description) Which of the statements given above are correct? to the Medieval Period) (a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 1 and 2 only A. Khuts 1. Officer in charge of (c) 2 and 3 only (d) 1 and 3 only the Royal Court 97. Who among the following concluded the Treaty of B. Amir-i-hajib 2. Officer maintaining Seringapatam with Tipu Sultan? regulations of (a) Hastings (b) Cornwallis municipality (c) Wellesley (d) Dalhousie C. Muhtasib 3. Clerk 98. During the Anglo-Maratha Wars, which one of the D. Nawisandas 4. Village official following was concluded last? Code: (a) Treaty of Gwalior with Sindhia (a) A B C D (b) Treaty of Mandasor with Holkar 4 1 2 3 (c) Treaty of Poona with Baji Rao-II (b) A B C D (d) Treaty of Surji-Arjangaon with Sindhia 3 2 1 4 99. Which one of the following statements is not correct? (c) A B C D (a) The Charter Act of 1793 enabled the Governor- 4 2 I 3 General to exercise the same authority in Madras (d) A B C D and Bombay Presidencies as he did in Bengal 3 1 2 4 (b) The Charter Act of 1813 laid down the undoubted 94. The first architectural achievement of Jahangir’s reign sovereignty of the Crown in and over the posses- in India was the construction of his father’s mauso- sions of the East India Company leum. Where was it built? MTP.160 | Indian History

(c) The Charter Act of 1833 took away from the to be ousted from the land. subordinate Presidencies all powers of making Which of the statements given above is/are correct? laws (a) 1 only (b) 2 and 3 only (d) The Charter Act of 1853 made the approval of (c) 1 and 3 only (d) 1, 2 and 3 the Crown unnecessary for the appointment of 104. Tara Shankar Bandyopadhyaya’s novel ‘Ganadevata’ provincial level councillors portrays the decline of which one of the following 100. Consider the following statements in respect of the systems? Regulating Act of 1773: (a) Zamindari system (b) Ryotwari system 1. The tenure of the council members depended on (c) Jajmani system (d) Mahalwari system the pleasure of the Governor-General. 2. The Governor-General-in-Council was empow- Chapter 13 ered with casting vote. 105. Which one of the following regions was ruled by Mirza 3. The Governor-General-in-Council was vested Haider Dughlat, the author of Tarikh-i Rashidi, as a with civil and military powers. Sultan in the medieval period? Which of the statements given above are correct? (a) Bengal (b) Jaunpur (a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 1 and 2 only (c) Kashmir (d) Bijapur (c) 2 and 3 only (d) 1 and 3 only 106. Consider the following features associated with tem- ples: Chapter 23 1. Gopuram 101. Consider the following statements: 2. Kalyanmandapa 1. The Cabinet Mission recommended a basic 3. Ornamental pillars and ceilings framework for the Constitution of India. 4. Placement of Corbel below the pillars Which of the above features are found in the Vijayna- 2. The Cabinet Mission laid down the procedure to gar temples? be followed by the Constitution-making body. (a) 1, 2 and 3 only (b) 3 and 4 only Which of the statements given above is/are correct? (c) 1, 2 and 4 only (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4 (a) 1 only (b) 2 only 107. In which language did Srivara compile an anthology (c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2 of extracts from three hundred and fifty works? Chapter 18 (a) Telugu (b) Marathi (c) Sanskrit (d) Kashmiri 102. Consider the following statements: 108. Who among the following brought the European me- 1. When Warren Hastings took over as the Gover- chanical clock to South India and when was it brought? nor-General, he shifted the treasury to Calcutta. (a) French in the 17th century 2. In 1780, the manufacture of salt was directly (b) Portuguese in the 16th century taken up by the Government. (c) Dutch in the 18th century 3. The Decennial Settlement of land revenue was (d) English in the 15th century declared permanent in 1790. 109. Match List I (Author) with List II (Work) and select the Which of the statements given above is/are correct? correct answer using the code given below the Lists: (a) 1 only (b) 1 and 2 only List I List II (c) 2 and 3 only (d) 1, 2 and 3 (Author) (Work) 103. Consider the following statements: A. Mahalingadeva 1. Channa Basava In the ryotwari (land revenue) system. Purana 1. the settlement was made with small farmers. B. Nachana 2. Ekottara Satsthala 2. the farmers enjoyed all rights in the land subject Somanatha to the payment of a fixed revenue which was C. Rama Raj 3. Uttara Hari- collected by the village headman on behalf of Bhushan vamsamu the State. D. Virupaksa Pandita 4. Vasu Charitamu 3. the settlement was made and renewed for speci- fied periods during which the ryot was not liable Model Test Papers | MTP.161

Code: Which of the statements given above is/are correct? (a) A B C D (a) 1 only (b) 2 only 2 3 4 1 (c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2 (b) A B C D 4 1 2 3 Chapters 14 & 15 (c) A B C D 114. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly 4 3 2 1 matched? (d) A B C D (a) Humayunnamah : Gulbadan Begum 2 1 4 3 (b) Tabqat-i Akbari : Nizamuddin Ahmad 110. Whose painting style was an immediate inspiration at (c) Padshahnamah : Abdul Hamid Lahori the time of Babur’s conquest of Delhi? (d) Futuhat-i Alamgiri : Mirza Muhammad (a) Mansur (b) Sayyid Ali Kazim (c) Bihzad (d) Miskin 115. In which language was the famous text Hamza Nama which was illustrated on an unprecedented large can- Chapters 14 & 15 vas under the orders of Akbar originally written? 111. Consider the following statements: (a) Arabic (b) Chaghtai Turkish 1. Itimad Khan, one of the nobles of Muhammad (c) Persian (d) Ottoman Turkish Shah-III of Gujarat invited Akbar to interfere in 116. Which Mughal emperor prohibited the use of tobacco? the affairs of Gujarat. (a) Babur (b) Jahangir 2. When Hakim Mirza died, the province of Kabul (c) Aurangzeb (d) Muhammad Shah was annexed to the Mughal Empire and Man Singh was appointed as its Governor. Chapter 13 Which of the statements given above is/are correct ? 117. Match List I (Coinage) with List II (Principal Area of (a) 1 only (b) 2 only Circulation) and select the correct answer using the (c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2 code given below the Lists: List I List II Chapter 16 (Coinage) (Principal Area 112. Which one of the following statements about Marathas of Circulation) is not correct? A. Pagoda 1. Gujarat (a) The development of Maratha movement initiated B. Mahmudi 2. Vijaynagar Shahji’s establishment of a de facto independent C. Muzaffari 3. North India kingdom in Orissa D. Sikandari 4. Malwa (b) Baji Rao’s accession to the post of Peshwa took Code: place in 1720 (a) A B C D (c) Marathas made a bid for domination of Rajasthan, 4 3 2 1 parts of Doab and Punjab in 1741 (b) A B C D (d) Maratha movement was a movement led by 2 1 4 3 Maratha Sardars (c) A B C D 4 1 2 3 Chapter 20 (d) A B C D 113. Consider the following statements: 2 3 4 1 1. Lord Dalhousie’s Government passed the General 118. Which one of the following kingdoms replaced the Service Enlistment Act which made the sepoys to Kingdom of Kamata which declined in the fifteenth serve anywhere as required by the Government. century? 2. The Post Office Act passed by the Government (a) Khasis (b) Garos of Lord Canning withdrew the sepoys’ privilege (c) Ahoms (d) Cooch Bihar of free postage. MTP.162 | Indian History

Chapters 14 & 15 bound to agricultural castes by ties of client- 119. Khwand Mir’s Humayunnamah refers to ahl-i murad patron relationship. as a category of people comprising which one of the 2. In Maharashtra and Gujarat, the jajmani system following groups? did not include only those kinds of work of the (a) The royal family and the nobility community artisans which were directly compli- (b) Men of learning and men of letters mentary to agricultural production. (c) Artisans, money-lenders and cultivators Which of the statements given above is/are correct? (d) Musicians, dancers and minstrels (a) 1 only 120. Consider the following statements in respect of the (b) 2 only jajmani system in India: (c) Both 1 and 2 1. Bulk of the rural manufacturing in Maharashtra (d) Neither 1 nor 2 in medieval period was provided by artisan castes

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