114 PU Ph D History
1 of 100 101 PU_2016_114_E Nil-Darpan (1860) was written by:-
Debendranath Tagore
W.C. Banerjee
Dinabandhu Mitra Bipan Chandra Pal
2 of 100 157 PU_2016_114_E The year in which the Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place was:-
1919
1929 1939
1909
3 of 100 173 PU_2016_114_E Name the following person who wrote the Biography of Raja Rammohun Roy? Sarojini Naidu
Aruna Asaf Ali
Mary Carpenter
Annie Beasant
4 of 100 108 PU_2016_114_E The result of the Industrial Revolution was a creation of a new section of society distinctly known:-
Land Lords
Clergymen
Engineers
Capitalists
5 of 100 217 PU_2016_114_E 'All history is contemporary history' was stated by whom?
Voltaire
Karl Marx
Lord Actor Beneditto Croce
6 of 100 196 PU_2016_114_E The first Roman ruler who adopted Christianity was:-
Augustus Caesar
Julius Caesar
Constantine
Pompeii
7 of 100 105 PU_2016_114_E Which of the following can be considered as the birth place of South Indian architecture and sculpture?
Mahabalipuram
Kanchi
Kaveripattinam
Madurai
8 of 100 172 PU_2016_114_E Romantic idealism correlated the events of the past to a natural explanation of progress and continuity, which was profusely expressed in the writings of the following philosophers?
Karl Marx, Max Weber and Rousseau
Herder, Kant and Hegel Adam Smith, Voltaire & Montesquieu
Vico, Descartes and Jean Bodin
9 of 100 125 PU_2016_114_E Which of the following is the world heritage rock art site in India? Pachmarhi
Lekhania
Chopani-Mando
Bhimbetka
10 of 100 188 PU_2016_114_E The birth place of Nepolean Bonaparte is:-
Sicily
Corsica Paris
Malta
11 of 100 164 PU_2016_114_E The Mahavir belonged to the clan:-
Lichhavis
Bulis
Bhaggas
Kalams
12 of 100 129 PU_2016_114_E What is the use of Thermoluminescence method?
Dating the fossil
Tree-Ring analysis
Carbon dating Dating the pottery
13 of 100 181 PU_2016_114_E Which of the following extremists settled at Pondicherry?
V. D. Savarkar B. G. Tilak
B. C. Pal
Aurbindo Ghosh
14 of 100 208 PU_2016_114_E Who among the following is the First Indian to pass Indian Civil Service Exam?
Satyendranath Tagore
Subhash Chandra Bose
Ajay Harit
Debendranath Tagore
15 of 100 133 PU_2016_114_E Who among the following organized the Radical Democratic Party in the year 1940?
Subhash Chandra Bose
Ajit Roy Rash Behari Bose
M.N. Roy
16 of 100 148 PU_2016_114_E Monalisa is the painting of:-
Leonardo Vinci
Boucassion
Raphael
Michel Angelo
17 of 100 104 PU_2016_114_E Where was the first French factory established?
Madras
Surat
Mahe Goa
18 of 100 153 PU_2016_114_E Humayun ascended the throne at Agra on:-
23rd September 1530 7th January 1530
29th December 1530
16th February 1530
19 of 100 205 PU_2016_114_E "Komagata Maru Incident" was a Japanesae Steamer commissioned by Gurdit Singh to transport Indian to which of the following places?
Japan
Canada
Hongkong
Singapore
20 of 100 169 PU_2016_114_E Which was the word used for the royal military troops of the Cholas?
Bhrtaka Kattupaddi
Kaikkolar
Kadgham
21 of 100 185 PU_2016_114_E When was Indian Constitution adopted by the Constituent Assembly?
26thJan., 1950
26th Nov., 1949
26th Jan.,1949 15th Aug., 1947
22 of 100 144 PU_2016_114_E Ibn Batuta was a traveller from:-
China
Europe Africa
Arab
23 of 100 145 PU_2016_114_E Who organized the Abhinav Bharat, a secret society of revolutionaries?
S.C. Bose
Lala Lajpat Rai
Jai Prakash Narain
V.D. Savarkar
24 of 100 200 PU_2016_114_E Which of the following British Governor general took the First census?
Robert Clive 1756
Warren Hasting 1776
William Bentinck, 1881
Lord Ripon in 1881
25 of 100 152 PU_2016_114_E The Marathas were defeated in the third battle of Panipat (1761) by:-
Babur Sher Khan
Ahmad Shah Abdali
Nadir shah
26 of 100 124 PU_2016_114_E Who among the following had introduced the permanent land revenue settlement (1793) in Bengal?
Lord Dalhousie
Lord Cornwallis
Lord Wellesley Lord Bentick
27 of 100 140 PU_2016_114_E The Indian National Army was founded by:-
Capt Mohan Singh
Subhash Chandra Bose Bhagat Singh
C.R. Dass
28 of 100 180 PU_2016_114_E The first compiled legal code was inscribed by Hammurabi on stone in:- Egypt
Indus Valley
Babylonia
China
29 of 100 189 PU_2016_114_E 'History is an unending dialogue between the present and the past' was one of the remarks of the following person?
E.H. Carr
Arthur Marwick
R.G. Collingwood
Toynbee
30 of 100 113 PU_2016_114_E Which one of the following reformer in India is called First Modern Man? Swami Vivekananda
Dayananda saraswati
Mahatma Gandhi Raja Ram Mohan Roy
31 of 100 204 PU_2016_114_E Identify the following places where Gandhi first resorted to Satyagraha in India.
Champaran in Bihar
Ahmedabad Kheda in Gujarat
Gorakhpur
32 of 100 201 PU_2016_114_E Which of the following Governor general set up the Calcutta Madrasah?
Warren Hasting William Bentinck
Lord Wellesley
Jonathan Duncan
33 of 100 109 PU_2016_114_E The 'Drain of Wealth' theory in India was propounded by:-
Lala Lajpat Rai
B.G. Tilak
Dadabhai Naoroji
Mahatma Gandhi
34 of 100 176 PU_2016_114_E India became a member of the United Nations in:-
1949
1947
1950
1945
35 of 100 160 PU_2016_114_E The Second Burmese War was fought in the year:- 1849
1852
1851 1850
36 of 100 121 PU_2016_114_E The Viceroy associated with the policy of the Partition of Bengal (1905) was:-
Lord Hastings
Lord Curzon Lord William Bentick
Lord Dufferin
37 of 100 161 PU_2016_114_E The author of 'Humayun Nama' was:-
Firdosi Humayun
Badayuni
Gul Badan Begam
38 of 100 212 PU_2016_114_E In which of the following place was Gandhi Phoenix farm located?
Champaran in Bihar
Durban in South Africa
Ahmedabad in Gujarat
Pretoria in South Africa
39 of 100 184 PU_2016_114_E Greek and Persian Wars was documented by:-
Herodotus
Tacitus
Machiavelli
Thucydides
40 of 100 216 PU_2016_114_E Who was the founding member of Annales School in France? Marc Bloch
Fernand Braudal
Marcel Mauss Emile Durkheim
41 of 100 168 PU_2016_114_E Founder of the Satvahana dynasty was:-
Simuka
Rudradaman I Shatkarni I
Shatkarni II
42 of 100 100 PU_2016_114_E Which one of the following Janapadas was famous for its cotton textiles?
Anga Kosala
Magadha
Kasi
43 of 100 141 PU_2016_114_E "Chalo Delhi" was a slogan used during India's struggle for Independence by:-
Indian National Army
Indian National Congress
Congress Socialist Party
Muslim League
44 of 100 132 PU_2016_114_E What was the Script used in the earliest Inscriptions found in some natural caves of South India?
Devanagari
Grantha
Brahmi
Kharoshti
45 of 100 117 PU_2016_114_E Who was the founder of the Brahma Samaj in India? W.C. Banerjee
Raja Rammohan Roy
Dayananda Saraswati Swami Vivekananda
46 of 100 137 PU_2016_114_E Gauthama Buddha's mother belonged to:-
Lichchavi clan
Koliya Clan Maya clan
Sakya clan
47 of 100 156 PU_2016_114_E Who among the following was associated with the Theosophical Society in India
B.G. Tilak Surendranath Banerjee
Annie Besant
M.G. Ranade
48 of 100 120 PU_2016_114_E Who developed Radio Carbon Dating?
C.J.Thomsen
D.L.Clarke
Willard Libby
M.C.Burkitt
49 of 100 197 PU_2016_114_E In which of the following year Farukh Siyyar granted the firman to the English East India Company?
1718
1717
1715
1713
50 of 100 136 PU_2016_114_E Mein Kampf was written by:- Ottovon Bismarck
Mussolini
General Franco Adolf Hitler
51 of 100 128 PU_2016_114_E Who wrote what Happened in History?
E.H.Carr
Gordon Childe H.D.Sankalia
Stuart Piggott
52 of 100 149 PU_2016_114_E The earliest 'man-like creature,' which racially differed from Homo sapiens, is generally known as:-
Hominid Pithecanthropus
Sinanthropus
Eoanthropus
53 of 100 116 PU_2016_114_E What is the meaning of the word 'Upanishad'?
To sing with
To sit near
To recite
To sleep with
54 of 100 209 PU_2016_114_E January 9(nine) of the year is celebrated as Pravasi Bharatya Divas (PBD) day in India to commemorate:-
The Day Gandhi landed in South Africa to fight Apartheid
The day Gandhi was first arrested in South Africa
The day Gandhi launch satyagraha in South Africa
The day Gandhi returned from South Africa
55 of 100 193 PU_2016_114_E Kritivas translated a book in Bengali. Which is the book? Mababharat
Ramayan
Puran Geeta
56 of 100 192 PU_2016_114_E During Alauddin Khalzi 's time which of the following was sold as 5 Jeetal per Maund?
Moth
Wheat Rice
Millet
57 of 100 112 PU_2016_114_E The city of Vijayanagar is now known as:-
Chandragiri Kondavidu
Hampi
Halebidu
58 of 100 165 PU_2016_114_E Which one of the following social reformer was responsible for founding the Prarthana Samaj?
Atmaram Pandurang
Jyotioba Phule
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
Acharya Vinobha Bhave
59 of 100 177 PU_2016_114_E Which one of the following travellers is not associated with the description of the glories of Vijayanagar kingdom?
Ibn Battuta
Nuniz
Paes Abdul Razzaq
60 of 100 213 PU_2016_114_E The book Planned Economy for India is written by:-
M. Visvesvaraya
Manmohan Singh
KasturiAiyangar J M Keynes
61 of 100 228 PU_2016_114_M Who wrote the Social Contract?
Rousseau
Montesquieu Voltaire
Locke
62 of 100 242 PU_2016_114_M Which of the following is not a Vedic text? Vedanta
Samhita
Brahmana
Pitaka
63 of 100 224 PU_2016_114_M The author of the famous book What Congress and Gandhi have done to the Untouchables?
B.M. Malabari
B.R. Ambedkar
R.G. Bhandarker
Annie Besant
64 of 100 252 PU_2016_114_M Who spread Bhakti to Assam?
Shankardeva
Dadu Dayal
Chaitanya Raidas
65 of 100 220 PU_2016_114_M Who was the first governor of French Pondicherry?
Benoist Dumas
Le Noir
Provisterre Francois Martin
66 of 100 239 PU_2016_114_M Which amongst the following is not a source for knowing the history of the Mauryas?
Accounts of Greek Writers
Painted Grey Ware (P.G.W.) Culture Inscriptions of Ashoka
Arthashastra of Kautilya
67 of 100 243 PU_2016_114_M Slavery was absent in the Mauryan kingdom according to:- Asvaghosh
Marco polo
Chanakya
Megasthenes
68 of 100 234 PU_2016_114_M Which one of the following pair is correctly matched?
Chandragupta HathiGumpha Pillar
Skandagupta Bhitari Pillar
Samudragupta Paharpur Copper Plate
Buddhagupta Eran stone Pillar
69 of 100 231 PU_2016_114_M In which year the three universities of Calcutta, Madras and Bombay were started in India?
1867
1857
1864 1847
70 of 100 225 PU_2016_114_M Which act authorized the British government to imprison any Indian without trial and conviction in a court of law?
Rowlatt Act of 1917
Government of India Act of 1919 Charter Act of 1909
Government of India Act of 1858
71 of 100 247 PU_2016_114_M Pana in Mauryan Period was used for:-
measurement of land an official
currency
dam
72 of 100 251 PU_2016_114_M Who was popularly known as 'Nana Saheb'?
Balaji Baji Rao
SawaiMadhav Rao
BalajiVishwanath
Shivaji
73 of 100 227 PU_2016_114_M India wins freedom is the autobiography of:-
Subhas Chandra Bose
Mahatma Gandhi
Abul Kalam Azad
Jawaharlal Nehru
74 of 100 254 PU_2016_114_M What was the khutba?
A robe of honour
The recital of sermon after the congregational Friday prayer
The right to coin money None of the above
75 of 100 255 PU_2016_114_M Who was the founder of Qadri order?
Khwaja Baqi Billah
Shihab- ud- din Suhrawardi Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani
Moin- ud- in Chisti
76 of 100 230 PU_2016_114_M 'The British government in India had appointed the Hunter Commission in 1882 to review the progress of :- Finance
Education
Political conditions
Law
77 of 100 221 PU_2016_114_M In which year slavery was declared illegal in India:-
1873
1843
1834
1865
78 of 100 235 PU_2016_114_M Megaliths of South India are associated with which of the following ages?
Mesolithic age
Iron age
Neolithic age
Chalcolithic age
79 of 100 246 PU_2016_114_M The great Trigonometrical Survey of India was started by:-
Alexander Cunningham
James Prinsep George Everest
William Lambton
80 of 100 238 PU_2016_114_M What was 'Arghatta'?
A Machine to break forts A type of painting
A special type of cloth
A device to lift water
81 of 100 265 PU_2016_114_D Alberuni in hisKitabul Hind had particularly appreciated the Indians for a very high degree of proficiency in:-
raising a powerful business class
exchanging and communicating their knowledge
construction of tanks and reservoirs at holy places
miniature paintings
82 of 100 277 PU_2016_114_D When was the Chamber of Princes inaugurated?
1921
1858
1821 1886
83 of 100 293 PU_2016_114_D Who is the author of The Emergence of Indian Nationalism?
John Gallaher
Anil Seal C A Bayly
Bipan Chandra
84 of 100 268 PU_2016_114_D The afaqis in the Bahmani Kingdom were:-
The Muslim immigrants from Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Arabia
South Indian Muslim converts
Shia nobles of the Bahmani court
Foreign merchants settled in the Bahmani Kingdom
85 of 100 288 PU_2016_114_D Which of the following pair is correctly matched? 1688-Glorious revolution
1902- Unification of Germany
1925- end of the Cold War
1750- French Revolution
86 of 100 264 PU_2016_114_D Whose assertion is that Shivaji's Swaraj was nothing but the replica of Watan?
Andre Wink
V.A. Smith
Jadunath Sarkar
A.R. Kulkarni
87 of 100 285 PU_2016_114_D Industrial Revolution is related to:-
Manual production
Agrarian economy
Factory production Domestic production
88 of 100 280 PU_2016_114_D A Gift to Monotheists was written by:-
B.G.Tilak
Ram Mohan Roy Annie Besant
Gopal Hari Deshmukh
89 of 100 289 PU_2016_114_D The Treaty of Versailles took place in:- 1922
1925
1919
1915
90 of 100 276 PU_2016_114_D Who was the founder of the Amrita Bazar Patrika? Prafulla Kumar Chaki
Sisir Kumar Ghose
Sri Aurobindo
Rash Behari Bose
91 of 100 273 PU_2016_114_D In 1580, Akbar instituted a new system of revenue administration called:-
Kaveri system
Dahsala system
Zabti system
Batai system
92 of 100 292 PU_2016_114_D In the year 1739, Marathas captured Salsette and Bassein from which one of the following powers?
Portuguese
French
English Dutch
93 of 100 296 PU_2016_114_D 'Greatest Happiness for the Greatest Number' is the idea of:-
Utilitarianism
Romanticism Subaltern school
Enlightenment
94 of 100 281 PU_2016_114_D The Scientific Society was founded by:- Arthur Cotton
Sayyid Ahmad Khan
Alexander Duff
H.Derozi
95 of 100 260 PU_2016_114_D Who was the author of Travels in the Mughal Empire? Francois Bernier
Abbe Carre
Niccolai Mannuci
Francisco Pelsaert
96 of 100 261 PU_2016_114_D Which of the following medieval Indian rulers founded the city of Agra?
Akbar
Sikandar Lodi
Firuz Shah Tughlaq
Sher Shah Suri
97 of 100 269 PU_2016_114_D The provinces of the Bahmani Kingdom were known as:-
Tarafs
Mahamandalas
Subah-i-laskars Subahs
98 of 100 272 PU_2016_114_D The new addition in the temple architecture introduced by the Vijayanagar rulers was:-
Vimana
Prakara Kalyanamandapa
Garbhagriha
99 of 100 297 PU_2016_114_D Who among the following is considered as the father of Humanism? Garibaldi
Napoleon Bonaparte
Bismarck
Thomas Petrarch
100 of 100 284 PU_2016_114_D The Making of the Madras Working Class is written by? Eric Hobsbawn
D Veeraraghvan
A R Venkatachalpathy
E P Thompson