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1. The main Characteristic of the Indus Valley Civilization was a. Pucca houses b. Drainage system c. Town Planning d. Well laid out roads 2. The main occupation of the people of the Indus Valley civilization was a. Cattle rearing b. Trade c. Hunting d. Agriculture 3. Which one of the following archaeologists initially discovered the Mohenjodaro site of the Indus Valley Civilization? a. Rakhal Das Banerji b. Sir Martimer Wheeler c. Sir John Marshall d. Daya Ram Sahni 4. Which one of the following was not an Indus Valley Civilization site? a. Sukatagendor b. Patliputra c. Lothal d. Rangpur 5. Which one of the following elements of Hinduism were practised in the Indus Valley Civilization? a. Worshipping cows b. Cult of Shiva c. Idol worship d. Wearing of sacred threads 6. Which of the following metals was not known to Indus Valley people? a. Bronze b. None of these c. Iron d. Copper 7. Nomad man started settling in a. Palaeolithic Age
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b. None of these c. Mesolithic Age d. Neolithic Age 8. The Great Bath of the Indus Valley Civilization was discovered in a. Mohenjodaro b. Ropar c. Harappa d. Lothal 9. Which of the following is not a characteristic of the religion practised by Harappan people? a. Faith in magic, charms and sacrifices b. Belief in life after death c. Nature worship d. Worship of Mother Goddess 10. Which of the following Indus Valley sites is now in Pakistan? a. Alamgirpur b. Harappa c. Kalibangan d. Lothal 11. The Harappan site showing evidence of two cultural phases, Harappan and pre-Harappan, is a. Kalibangan b. Banwali c. Mohenjodaro d. Chanhu-daro 12. The earliest evidence of silver in India is found in the a. Chalcolithic cultures of Western India b. Silver punch - marked coins c. Vedic texts d. Harappan Culture 13. The period when men used both stones and copper tools is known as the a. Chalcolithic Age b. Neolithic Age c. Metal Age d. Monolithic Age
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14. The Indus Valley Civilization is known as Aryan Civilization because of the evidence of a. Copper b. Pottery c. Script d. Art 15. Man passed from the food gathering stage to food producing stage in the a. Neolithic Age b. Chalcolithic Age c. Palaeolithic Age d. Mesolithic Age 16. The greatest invention of man in palaeolithic was a. Potter's wheel b. Spinning of cloth c. Metal implements d. Fire 17. The script of Indus Valley Civilization was a. Undeciphered b. Dravidian c. Persian d. Sanskrit 18. The Indus Valley people knew the use of a. Gold, tin, bronze but not copper b. Gold, silver, copper, bronze but not iron c. Copper, iron, gold but not bronze d. Silver, lead, iron but not gold 19. Knowledge about the existence of which of the following animals is doubtful in the Indus Valley Civilization? a. Horses b. Cat c. Dog d. Bull 20. The Indus Valley Civilization belongs to the a. Palaeolithic Age b. Mesolithic Age c. Chalcolithic Age
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d. Neolithic Age 21. Palaeolithic remains have been dicovered in a. Calcutta b. Punjab c. Bellary d. Lucknow 22. The script of the Harappan people consisted of a. A family of quasi - pictographic writings b. A family of geometrical shapes c. A combination of both picture and geometrical shapes d. None of these 23. Which of the following Harappan sites had a dock? a. Harappa b. Alamgirpur c. Mohenjodaro d. Lothal 24. Which of the following statements regarding Indus Vallley Civilization is incorrect? a. There was a great communal bath in Mohenjodaro. b. Excavations at Lothal proved that the civilization was confined to Harappa and Mohenjodaro only. c. The supreme god was the Pipal God. d. People had great artistic sense. 25. At which of the following places have excavations in recent years brought to light new evidence of Neolithic sites in India? a. Diamabad in Ahmednagar b. Sringaverapur in U.P. c. Hulas in Saharanpur d. Hamren in Assam 26. Which of the following presents the most significant feature of Indus Valley Civilization? a. First true arches b. Burnt brick buildings c. Art and architecture d. Buildings of worship 27. The figure of the god that was depicted in the seal of Indus Valley people is
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a. Pashupati b. Varuna c. Agni d. Indra 28. The remains of a wooden drain of Indus Valley Civilization have been found at a. Lothal b. Kalibangan c. Harappa d. Mohenjodaro 29. Of the following Harappan sites those not in India are a. Lothal and Kalibangan b. Lothal and Ropar c. Mohenjodaro and Harappa d. Bhanwali and Ropar 30. Rice cultivation is associated with Harappan site of a. Harappa b. Ropar c. Lothal d. Kalibangan 31. Which of the following sites is associated with Harappan culture? a. Lothal b. Chinsura c. Chandernagore d. Vaishali 32. Which of the following is incorrect concerning Mohenjodaro? a. There was no drainage system. b. Bathrooms were important features of most houses. c. It was a well planned city. d. Buildings were of varying sizes. 33. At which Harappan site have traces of a horse been found? a. Sukatagendor b. Surkotda c. Kalibangan d. Lothal 34. The Indus Valley people had trade relations with
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a. Greece b. Ceylon c. Mesopotamia d. Egypt 35. Indus Valley Civilization was spread over a. Punjab, Sind, Bihar, Rajasthan, Gujarat b. Sind, Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir, U.P., Rajasthan, Gujarat c. Punjab, Sind, Baluchistan d. Along Indus river 36. The Indus Valley houses were built of a. Stone b. Bricks c. Bamboos d. Wood 37. The God with three heads and horns, surrounded by animals, represented on a seal from Mohenjodaro is said to be a. Vishnu b. Pashupati c. Varuna d. Indra 38. The Indus Valley Civilization flourished during a. 2500-1750 B.C. b. 1500-500 B.C. c. 3000-1500 B.C. d. 5000-3500 B.C. 39. Which of the following animals were domesticated by the Harappans? a. Buffalo, sheep, dog, pig b. Camel, oxen, buffalo, pig c. Goat, oxen, pig, buffalo d. Oxen, elephant, horse, pig 40. The Indus Valley people worshipped a. Varuna b. Mitra c. Mother Goddess d. Indra
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41. The tools and weapons of Harappan Civilization were mostly made of a. Copper and bronze b. Stone and copper c. Stone d. Copper and iron 42. The main channels of our knowledge about the Indus Valley Civilization are a. Palm and barch leaf manuscripts b. Archaeological excavations c. Inscriptions d. Coins 43. There are similarities between the seals found at Mohenjodaro and a. Egypt b. Afghanistan c. China d. Sumeria 44. The famous figure of a dancing girl found in the excavations of Harappa was made up of a. Steatite b. Red limestone c. Bronze d. Terracotta 45. The Great Granary of the Indus Valley Civilization has been discovered at a. Mohenjodaro b. Lothal c. Kalibangan d. Harappa 46. Which of the following statements regarding the Indus Valley Civilization is not true? a. The excavations at Harappa are attributed to R.B. Daya Ram Sahni. b. The open courtyard was the basic feature of house planing. c. The Assembly Hall was discovered at Mohenjodaro
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d. The Indus Valley people were not acqainted with the art of spinning and weaving. 47. The Stone Age people had the first domestic a. Dogs b. Horses c. Sheep d. Asses 48. Near the banks of which of the following rivers, the recent excavations have brought to light that Indus Valley Civilization percolated to farsouth? a. Mahanadi b. Cauvery c. Krishna d. Godavari 49. Archaelogical excavations have revealed remains of stadium in a. Tanjore b. Sopara c. Broach d. Lothal 50. The first dicourcse of Buddha at Deer Park in Sarnath is called a. Mahabhiniskraman b. Mahamastabhisheka c. Mahaparinirvana d. Dharmachakrapravartan 51. Who, according to Jains, was the founder of Jainism? a. Parsavanatha b. Arishtanemi c. Rishabha d. Mahavira 52. Which one of the following is a doctrine said to have been added by Mahavira to the four other doctrines propounded by previous teachers? a. Observe brahmacharya b. Do not acquire property c. Do not commit violence d. Do not speak a lie 53. In India, Jainism spread during the reign of
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a. Harshavardhana b. Chandragupta Vikramaditya c. Samudragupta d. Chandragupta Maurya 54. Who delivered his first sermon at Sarnath? a. None of these b. Buddha c. Mahavira d. Shankaracharya 55. Right belief, Right knowledge and Right action are the three jewels of a. Buddhists b. Kabir Panthis c. Jains d. Shaivites 56. Buddhism and Jainism both gave stress on a. Worship of God b. None of these c. Self-mortification d. Non-violence 57. In which of the following languages were the original Buddhist religious texts written? a. Sanskrit b. Magadhi c. Pali d. Brahmi 58. Lord Buddha was born in a. Bodh Gaya b. Pataliputra c. Lumbini d. Vaishali 59. A well-known patron of the Mahayana form of Buddhism was a. Kanishka b. Ashoka c. Ajatashatru d. Bimbisara
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60. Which of the following statements about Buddha and Mahavira is not correct? a. Both advocated a simple, puritan and austere life. b. They were Kshatriyas by birth. c. Both had the same attitude towards the concept of Varnas. d. They were born in the same century. 61. The representation of Buddha as a human figure appeared for the first time in the sculptures found at a. Mathura b. Bodh Gaya c. Sanchi d. Bharhut 62. With which religion is Kaivalya associated? a. Buddhism b. Sikhism c. Hinduism d. Jainism 63. The famous ruler of ancient India who, towards the end of his life, is said to have converted to Jainism was a. Samudragupta b. Ashoka c. Bindusara d. Chandragupta Maurya 64. The distinct line of demarcation between Digambaras and Shvetambaras is about a. Existence of god b. Wearing of dress c. Doctrine d. Sacred texts 65. Gautama Buddha was brought up by a. Sangamitra b. Mahaprajapati c. Mayadevi d. Kundavi 66. The first Buddhist Council was held in the reign of a. Bimbisara b. Kanishka
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c. Ashoka d. Ajatashatru 67. Who was the greatest Buddhist commentator of the Bhuddhist canonical literature? a. Vasumitra b. Nagarjuna c. Ashvaghosha d. Buddhaghosha 68. The extreme form of Ahimsa or non-violence is practiced in a. Buddhism b. None of these c. Hinduism d. Jainism 69. The phrase The Light of Asia is applied to a. Buddha b. Mahavira c. Alexander d. Chandragupta Maurya 70. The Great Buddhist Council in 483 B.C. was held at a. Kashmir b. Rajagriha c. Ujjain d. Pataliputra 71. Which of the following Buddhist texts lays down the regulations for management of Sangha and rule of conduct for the monks? a. Adhibhamma-pitaka b. None of these c. Vinaya-Pitaka d. Sutta-Pitaka 72. Which of the following was not common to Jainsim and Buddhism? a. Both regarded rigid penance and austerity essential for salvation. b. Both were antagonistic to the practice of animal sacrifices. c. Both were started by members of Kshatriya caste. d. Both denied the authority of the Vedas.
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73. Ambapali whose name occurs in the early Buddhist literature was a. None of these b. The author of the work Buddhacharita c. A num from Vaishali d. A courtesan of Pataliputra 74. Jainism had the patronage of a. Pushyamitra Sunga b. Samudragupta c. Kanishka d. Kharavela 75. Apabhramsa is a work of the a. Jains b. Ajivikas c. Budddhists d. Brahmins 76. Who gave women an important place in their cult? a. Kalmukhas b. Ajivikas c. Jains d. Buddhists 77. Ashoka was much influenced by a Buddhist monk called a. Ambhi b. Upagupta c. Vasubandhu d. Asvaghosha 78. Jainism was divided into two sects known as a. Ajivika and Nyaya Vaisesika b. Svetambara and Digambara c. Kapalika and Kalamukha d. Mahayana and Hinayana 79. Which one of the following is the most fundamental difference between Mahayana Buddhism and Hinayana Buddhism? a. Casteless Society b. Worship of Stupa c. Worship of gods and goddesses d. Emphasis on ahima
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80. Buddha was born in the year a. 576 B.C. b. 534 B.C. c. 567 B.C. d. 581 B.C. 81. Which of the following beliefs doesnt belong to Mahavira's Triratna? a. Right conduct b. Right recollection c. Right Faith d. Right knowledge 82. Which of the following religions got spread in different parts of Asia? a. None of these b. Buddhism c. Jainism d. Hinduism 83. Atman is everything and everything is Atman is the ______doctrine. a. Buddhist b. Zoroastrain c. Jain d. Pantheistic 84. Which of the following is known as the Jain Temple City? a. Girnar b. Allahabad c. Rajagriha d. Varanasi 85. The Fourth Buddhist Council was held at a. Rajagriha b. Kundalavana c. Vaishali d. Patliputra 86. Which of the following features is not associated with Buddhism and Jainism? a. Emphasis on rituals and sacrifices b. Rejection of the authority of Vedas
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c. Rejection of the caste system d. Atheism 87. The introduction of Buddhism into China is traditionally attributed to a. Nagarjuna b. None of these c. Samprati d. Kashyapa Mantanga 88. Tripitakas are the sacred books of a. Shaivism b. Buddhism c. Jainism d. Hinduism 89. The last of the 24 Jain Trithankaras was a. Parsva Nath b. Arishtanemi c. Rishabha d. Mahavira 90. The First Buddhist Council met at a. Rajagriha b. Kanauj c. Kashmir d. Pataliputra 91. Both Vardhaman Mahavira and Gautama Buddha preached their doctrines during the reign of a. Ajatashatru b. Harshavardhana c. Udayi d. Bimbisara 92. The Fouth Buddhist Council was held by a. Ashoka b. Harashvardhana c. Chandragupta d. Kanishka 93. Nirvana is associated with a. Jainism b. Sikhism
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c. Buddhism d. Hinduism 94. Who amongst the following was not sent to Sri Lanka for the propagation of Buddhism? a. Bhadrasara b. Sona c. Rashtriya d. Uttriya 95. The famous Indo Greek king who embraced Buddhism was a. Menander b. Alexander c. Strato I d. Democritus 96. Buddhism became a world wide religion with the efforts of a. Kanishka b. Harsha c. Ashoka d. Bindusara 97. Buddha attained Nirvana at? a. Sarnath b. Kushinagar c. Bodh Gaya d. Sanchi 98. Which of the following rulers did not embrace Buddhism? a. Kanishka b. Samudragupta c. Ashoka d. Harsha 99. Which of the following is not a feature of Hinduism? a. Belief in God b. Emphasis on ritualism c. Doctrine of ahimsa d. Reverence for Veda 100. Mahavira was born at a. Sravasti b. Rajagriha c. Vaisali
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d. Pataliputra 101. Buddha's preachings were mainly in regard to a. Idol worship b. Practice of rituals c. Belief in one God d. Purity of thought and conduct 102. Who among the following rulers held a religious assembly at Prayag every five years? a. Ashoka b. Chandragupta Vikramaditya c. Kanishka d. Harshavardhana 103. During the time of Harshavardhana, a great Buddhist assembly was held at a. Nalanda b. Purushapura c. Pataliputra d. Prayag 104. The crux of early Buddhism was a. Rigorous penance b. Idol worship c. Belief in fatalism d. Renunciation of desire 105. The spread of Jainism in Karnataka is attributed to a. Ashoka b. Narasimavarma Pallava c. Kanishka d. Chandragupta Maurya 106. The gifts bestowed upon the Ajivikas by Ashoka are recorded in the inscription at a. Sanchi b. Sarnath c. Barbara d. Bhabru 107. Buddha has been described as an ocean of wisdom and compassion in a. The Light of Asia
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b. Amarakosa c. Jataka tales d. Buddhacharita 108. Mark the correct sequence of places with regard to Buddha. a. Kapilavastu, Bodh Gaya, Sarnath, Kushinagar b. Kapilavastu, Sarnath,Bodh Gaya, Kushinagar c. Sarnath, Kushinagar, Bodh Gaya, Kapilavastu d. Bodh Gaya, Kapilavastu, Sarnath, Kushinagar 109. Which one of the following places was famous as a seat of Mahayana learning? a. Taxila b. Sarnath c. Varanasi d. Nalanda 110. Who was the first king to have the image of Lord Buddha inscribed on his coins? a. Kanishka b. Harshavardhana c. Ashoka d. Dharmpala 111. Idol worship in India can be traced to the period of a. Kushans b. Pre-Aryan c. Vedas d. Mauryans 112. Which of the following statements regarding Buddha and Mahavira is wrong? a. Both were born in the same century. b. Both believed in simple and neat living. c. Both were Kshatriyas. d. Both had same views about varnas. 113. During the period of Sangas there was a revival of a. Zoroastrainism b. Brahminism c. Buddhism d. Jainism 114. Which of the following is said to be the oldest Jain scripture ?
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a. Twelve Upangas b. Fourteen Uparvas c. Fourteen Purvas d. Twelve Angas 115. In his teaching, the Buddha attacked a. Vedic rituals b. The concept of God c. The varna system d. Ascetism 116. Buddhist historian Taranath belonged to a. Tibet b. Japan c. China d. Mongolia 117. Relics of Buddha are preserved in a a. Vihara b. Monastery c. Chaitya d. Stupa 118. Buddhism became the state religion during the reign of a. Ashoka b. Kumaragupta-I c. Chandragupta Maurya d. Samudragupta 119. The proceeding of the Fourth Buddhist Councilled to the issue of ? Edict. a. Kalinga b. Bhabra c. Sarnath d. Sanchi 120. Buddha died during the reign of a. Udayi b. None of these c. Bimbisara d. Ajatashatru 121. Which of the following is not true of the Digambaras? a. They led a life of extreme ausrerity
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b. They wore white clothes c. They were orthodox followers of Mahavira. d. They kept long fasts. 122. The original teachings of Mahavira are contained in which of the following texts? a. Purvas b. Jatakas c. Angas d. Tripitakas 123. Who among the following is referred to as Sandhu From The West? a. None of these b. St. Thomas c. St. Bartholomew d. Thomas of Canaan 124. Which of the following was not include in the Eight Fold Path prescribed by Buddha? a. Right knowledge b. Right mediatation c. Right Belief d. Right Speech 125. The meaning of Buddha is a. Soul after death b. The ultimate Path for moksha c. The Enlightened one d. Anything beyond God 126. The Fourth Buddhist Council compiled an encyclopaedia of Buddhist philosophy called a. None of these b. Mahavibhasha Sutra c. Sutralankara d. Madhyamika Sutra 127. Which of the following is the correct chronological order of Buddhist Councils? a. Vaishali, Kashmir, Rajagriha, Pataliputra b. Pataliputra, Vaishali, Kashmir, Rajagriha c. Kashmir, Vaishali, Pataliputra, Rajagriha
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d. Rajagriha, Vaishali, Pataliputra, Kashmir 128. Who among the following is said to have been born and to have passed away on the Vaishakha Purnima day? a. Chaitanya b. Buddha c. Mahavira d. Shankaracharya 129. Ashoka convened the Third Buddhist Council at a. Kushinagar b. Pataliputra c. Kapilavastu d. Rajagriha 130. Which period is referred to as the period of Hindu revival or renaissance? a. Gupta period b. Period of Harsha c. Mauryan period d. Kushan period 131. In which of the following fields of activity did Buddhism make the maximum contribution? a. Architecture b. Rituals c. Art and literature d. Music 132. In Buddhist teaching, nirvana meant a. Extinction of craving of the desire for existence in all its forms b. None of these c. Freedom from cycle of birth and death d. Observance of brahmacharya 133. The introduction of Buddhism into China is traditionally attributed to a. Nagarjuna b. None of these c. Samprati d. Kashyapa Matanga 134. In which of the following countries was Buddhism first propagated outside India?
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a. Sri Lanka b. China c. Combodia d. Thailand 135. In which of the following edicts/inscriptions does Ashoka express his faith in the Buddhist creed? a. Schism Edict b. Kandahar Inscription c. Rummindei Inscription d. Bhabru Edict 136. Who converted Kanishka to Buddhism? a. Nagarjuna b. Parsva c. Asvaghosa d. Vasumitra 137. The first Council of Jainism to compile the canon was held at a. Rajagriha b. Pataliputra c. Valabhi d. Mithila 138. The Jains did not repudiate a. Infallibility of the Vedas b. Animal sacrifice c. Practice of penance d. Concept of supreme power as the creator and sustainer of universe 139. Who among the following accepted Jainism? a. Bindusara b. Pulakesin c. Ajatashatru d. Chandragupta Maurya 140. Buddhism split up into the Hinayana and Mahayana sects at the Buddhist Council held during the reign of a. Kanishka b. Chandragupta Maurya c. Ashoka d. Harsha
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141. The cardinal point of Buddhism was a. Doctrine of ahimsa b. Eight fold Path c. Theory of Karma d. Attainment of nirvana 142. Which of the following was a saint of the Bhakti movement in Bengal? a. Tulsidas b. Vivekananda c. Chaitanya d. Kabir 143. Shankaracharya, during Vikramaditya's period, was a very famous personality. Which of the following statements is not true of Shankaracharya? a. He countered the spread of Buddhism and Jainism b. He established four religious centres in different parts of India. c. He defined Vedanta. d. He propounded Vishistadvaitya? 144. Who among the following was not an exponent of Bhakti movement? a. Nanak b. Shankaracharya c. Ramanada d. Kabir 145. Sri Perumbudur, a temple town in south, is the birthplace of a. Adi Shankaracharya b. Madhavacharya c. Vidyaranya d. Ramanuja 146. The pioneer in preaching Nirguna Bhakti in medieval India was a. Vallabhacharya b. Sri Chaitanya c. Ramananda d. Namadeva
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147. Who amongst the following Acharyas is regarded as having combated the absolute monoism of Sankara in the 12th century? a. Udyotaka b. None of these c. Ramanuja d. Hemachandra 148. Who amongst the following was an exponent of Virashaiva? a. None of these b. Basavaraja c. Shankaracharya d. Ramanuja 149. Which of the following does not belong to Nirgun cult? a. Kabir b. Ravidas c. Nanak d. Meera 150. The saint from Gujarat, who preached non-sectarianism in medieval times was a. Ramanand b. Dadu c. Raghunandan d. Tukaram 151. The Bhakti literature by the Nayanmars and Alvars a. Opposed the practice of image worship. b. Advocate the austerities preached by the Buddhist and Jains c. Preached personal devotion of God as a means of salvation. d. Stressed the rigidities of traditional rituals. 152. The philosophy of Vishishtadvaita was preached by a. Ramanuja b. Shankaracharya c. Kapila d. Madhwa 153. Who amongst the following was a blind poet who worshipped Krishna and spread Krishna Bhakti cult? a. Kabir b. Raskhan
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c. Bihari d. Surdas 154. The earliest seeds of the Bhakti movement in India are found in a. Jain philosophy b. Sufi philosophy c. The Vedas d. Buddhist philosophy 155. Who established 4 math in the four corners of India? a. Ramanujacharya b. Madhvacharya c. Shankaracharya d. Bhaskacharya 156. Banis were the hymns and poems composed by a. Guru Nanak b. Dadu c. Kabir d. Raskhan 157. Sufi sect developed in the religion a. Hinduism b. Jainism c. Sikhism d. Islam 158. Ramanuja preached a. Dvaita b. Gnana marga c. Ahimsa d. Bhakti 159. Who among the following was the founder of Vaishnava school? a. Shankaracharya b. Ramanuja c. Kabir d. Ramakrishna Paramhansa 160. What was the term used by the Sufis for the successor nominated by the teacher of a particular order or silsilah? a. Wali
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b. Murid c. Khanqah d. Pir 161. In which region of India was the Suharawadi order of Sufism popular? a. Around Ajmer b. Punjab and Sind c. Delhi and Bihar d. Delhi and Doab region 162. In which region of India was the Firdausi order of Sufism popular? a. Bihar and eastern U.P. b. Deccan c. Sind d. In and around Delhi 163. The most famous and the earliest biographer of Chaitanya, who wrote Chaitanya Charitamrita, was a. Madhavacharya b. Krishnadas Kaviraj c. Sunderdas d. Kritivasa 164. The sage who is said to have Aryanised South India was a. Vasishtha b. Yagyavalkya c. Vishwamitra d. Agastya 165. Kabir was the disciple of a. Ramananda b. Vallabhacharya c. Chaitanya d. Shankaracharya 166. The System of philosophy with which the name of Kapila is prominently associated is a. Samkhya b. Purva Mimamsa c. Uttara Mimamsa d. Nyaya
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167. To which Sufi did the famous saint of Bihar, Makhdum Sharfuddin Maneri belong? a. Kubrawi b. Suhrawardi c. Firdausi d. Chisti 168. Live well, as long as you live. Live well even by borrowing, for once cremated, there is no return This rejection of after-life is an aphorism of the a. Sunyavada of Nagarjuna b. Charvakas c. Ajivikas d. Kapalika Sect 169. In the systems of philosophy created by Indians, we find elements of materialistic philosophy in which of the following systems? a. Yoga b. Vaisesika c. Samkhya d. Karm Mimamsa 170. Sudhavaita is the philosophy of a. Ramanuja b. Chaitanya c. Vallabha d. Kabir 171. Of the following, who visited the court of Krishnadeva Raya? a. Ramananda b. Ramanuja c. Kabir d. Vallabha 172. Let no man ask a man's sect or caste whose dictum was this? a. Ramanuja b. Chaitanya c. Ramananda d. Kabir 173. During his pilgrimage, Chaitanya received enlightenment at a. Rameswaram
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b. Allahabad c. Gaya d. Kanchipuram 174. Devotion to Lord Krishna was preached by a. Madhva b. Ramananda c. Vallabha d. Kabir 175. The Bhakti Movement was first organised by a. Ramanuja b. Nanak c. Kabir d. Ramananda 176. The author of Sri Bhashya is a. Vallabha b. Ramanuja c. Kabir d. Sankara 177. In him within whose heart is truth doth God Himself abide, said a. Kabir b. Vallabha c. Chaitanya d. Madhya 178. Swami Vivekananda was well known in the religious Conference held at a. London b. Berlin c. Chicago d. Paris 179. Who were the most popular Sufis? a. Hallaj b. None of these c. Ghazali d. Rabin 180. The birthplace of Swami Vivekananda is in which of the following cities?
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a. Balasore b. Kushinagar c. Calcutta d. Cuttack 181. Which of the following Bhakti saints used the medium of dance and songs (Kirtans) to make one feel the personal presence of God near him? a. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu b. Jnanadeva c. Shankaradeva d. Chandidasa 182. Who said, Ram and Rahim are the two different name of the Same God? a. Ramdas b. Ramanuja c. Chaitanya d. Kabir 183. Ajivika sect was founded by a. Upali b. Anand c. Makkhli Gosala d. Raghulabhadra 184. Who united all the sikhs and founded a kingdom in the Punjab? a. Guru Teg Bahadur b. Maharaja Ranjit Singh c. Guru Nanak d. Guru Gobind Singh 185. The Mansabdri system introduced by Akbar was borrowed from the system in a. Mongolia b. Afghanistan c. Turkey d. Persia 186. Who among the following was the first Mughal Emperor to allow Britishers to establish trade links with India? a. Akbar
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b. Aurangzeb c. Shahjahan d. Jehangir 187. Which of the following is wrongly matched with his contemporary Mughal King? a. Jujhar Singh-Shahjahan b. Jaswant Singh-Aurangzeb c. Prithvi Raj Chauhan-Akbar d. Rana Sanga-Babar 188. The capital of the Mughal Empire was shifted from Agra to Delhi by a. Jehangir b. Humayun c. Aurangzeb d. Shahjahan 189. The Peacock Throne was made for a. Aurangzeb b. Akbar c. Shahjahan d. Jehangir 190. In 1662 A.D., Mirjumla, the Mughal Viceroy of Bengal led a succesful expedition to a. Orissa b. Avadh c. Assam d. Tibet 191. During the Mughal period, the incharge of law and order in the villages was a. Qanungo b. Muqaddam c. Patwari d. Karkun 192. The dee-aspah sih-aspah system was introduced by a. Shahjahan b. Aurangzeb c. Akbar d. Jehangir
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193. Which of the following Rajput dynasties did not surrender to Akbar? a. Sisodiya b. Pratihara c. Parmar d. Rathore 194. The East India Company was founded in India during the region of a. Jehangir b. Aurangzeb c. Shahjahan d. Akbar 195. The capital of the kingdom of Maharaja Ranjit Singh was a. Amritsar b. Kapurthala c. Lahore d. Patiala 196. The Sikh Guru was fought Mughals was a. Guru Arjun Dev b. Guru Teg Bahadur c. Guru Gobind Singh d. Guru Nanak 197. The Mughal Empire in India was founded by a. Aurangzeb b. Zahir-ud-din Babar c. Akbar the Great d. Shahjahan 198. When Akbar was young, his guardian was a. Bairam Khan b. Abul Fazal c. Hemu d. Faizi 199. During the decline of Mughal Empire the Jats were organised into a political force by a. Badan Singh b. Rajaram c. Suraj Mal
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d. Churaman 200. The two great Mughal rulers who wrote their own memories are a. Babar and Humayun b. Jehangir and Shahjahan c. Humayun and Akbar d. Babar and Jahengir 201. Whi initiated Din-I-Ilahi? a. Akbar b. Jahangir c. Shahjahan d. Aurangzeb 202. During Sher Shah's reign, the document containing the information of the tax that the farmer had to pay was called a. Jaribana b. Patta c. Muhaslana d. Quabuliat 203. Revenue system during Akbar's riegn was in the hands of a. Todar Mal b. Birbal c. Bairam Khan d. Man Singh 204. Akbar assumed actual control over the administration of his empire in a. 1560 b. 1556 c. 1562 d. 1558 205. Babar laid the foundation of Mughal empirein 1562 by defeating a. Daulat Khan Lodi b. Ala-ud-din Khilji c. Rana Sanga d. Ibrahim Lodi 206. During the reign of which of the following emperors was the artillery most perfect and numerous?
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a. Shahjahan b. Jahangir c. Aurangzeb d. Akbar 207. Who consolited the Mughal empire and gave it a unique multi-religious culture? a. Aurangzeb b. Akbar c. Humayun d. Jehangir 208. The Sikh Guru was killed by the orders of Aurangzeb was a. Guru Ram Das b. Guru Gobind Singh c. Guru Arjun Dev d. Guru Teg Bahadur 209. Who among the following Mughals rulers introduced Rajput's patrons in the administration of his empire? a. Babar b. Aurangzeb c. Jehangir d. Akbar 210. Akbar founded the Din-I-Ilahi primarily to a. Establish a national religion which would be acceptable to the Muslims and the Hindus b. Form a religious club c. Put an end to differences between the Hindus and the Muslims d. Ensure racial and communal harmony 211. The Sikh Khalsa was founded by a. Guru Teg Bahadur b. Guru Hargobind c. Guru Nanak d. Guru Gobind Singh 212. During the Mughal Period, under the Zabti system, land revenue was assessed and was required to be paid a. In cash or kind b. By the zamindar on the behalf of the peasants
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c. Only in cash d. Only in kind 213. The British allowed Ranjit Singh to rule over the territories west of the Satluj because a. He proved to be a faithful ally b. They needed his help in conquering Afghanistan c. He was amenable to British pressure d. They were afraid of his French trend army 214. Who was the last Mughal Emperor to sit on the peacock throne? a. Muhammad Shah b. Shah Alam II c. Bahadur Shah Zafar d. Aurangzeb 215. Akbar's land revenue system was known as a. All of these b. Zabti System c. Bandobast system d. Todarmal's revenue system 216. Who among the following Mughal rulers was ignorant of the art of reading and writing? a. Humayun b. Jehangir c. Akbar d. Barber 217. Which of the following statements about Akbar is incorrect? a. None of these b. He maintained goods relations with Rajputs c. He was a benavolent ruler d. He founded a new religion Din-I-Ilahi 218. The birthplace of Guru Gobind Singh is a. Patna b. Fatehgarh Sahib c. Amritsar d. Anandpur Sahib 219. The Mughal ruler Bahadur Shah II was exiled by British and sent to
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a. Hyderabad b. Rangoon c. Mandalay d. Andaman and Nicobar 220. Din-I-Ilahi was accepted by a. Raja Mansingh b. Todarmal c. Birbal d. Tansen 221. The first Mughal Emperor to issue a firman in favour of the british to open a factory at Surat was a. Shahjahan b. Akbar c. Jehangir d. Aurangzeb 222. Barbar won the Battle of Panipat mainly because of a. Tulughma system b. Afghan's disunity c. His Military skill d. His cavalry 223. The Jaziya was abolished by a. Akbar b. Sher Shah c. Muhammad bin Tughlaq d. Barbar 224. The bitterest war of succession under the great Mughals was fought among the sons of a. Babur b. Aurangzeb c. Jehangir d. Shahjahan 225. Which of the following contemporary sources of the Mughal period is especially useful for obtaining the information on the agrarian condition? a. Ain-i-Akbari b. Tuzuk-i-Baburi c. Akbarnamah
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d. Tariksh-i-Firishta 226. He left behind him an enemy still unsubdued, a minor son and a mercenary army. This descriptiongiven by Kennedy fits a. Sher shah b. Jehangir c. Humayun d. Barbar 227. Which Mughal ruler had the Chain of Justice fastened up which could be shaken by his subjects to bring their grievances to his notice? a. Jehangir b. Shahjahan c. Humayun d. Akbar 228. Sher Shah is created for introducing for the first time the following measure except a. Currency system b. Kland revenue system based on scientific principles. c. Postal system d. Spy system 229. Which of the following statements about Ranjit Singh is incorrect? a. He organised an excellent fighting army b. He posed a great challenge and resistance to the British c. He was a succesful administrator d. He wanted to form a separate Sikh state 230. Sikh Guru Arjun Dev was killed during the reign of a. Humayun b. Shah Jahan c. Akbar d. Jehangir 231. The Mughal Emperor, who died due to a sudden fall from the staircase, was a. Humayun b. Aurangzeb c. Babar d. Jehangir
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232. Which Mughal ruler was the most secular in outlook? a. Babar b. Aurangzeb c. Humayun d. Akbar 233. Which Mughal emperor gave land for the construction of the Golden Temple at Amritsar? a. Aurangzeb b. Akbar c. Jehangir d. Shahjahan 234. Who among the following was regarded as Zinda Pir? a. Akbar b. Jehangir c. Aurangzeb d. Babar 235. Before the rise of Ranjit Singh, Punjab was under the control of a. Sikh Misls b. Maratha Commanders c. Raider Groups d. Tribal Chief 236. During Aurangzeb's reign, which of the following were not included in the Government? a. Marathas b. All of the above c. Rajputs d. Pathans 237. Din-e-Ilahi of Akbar was not a succes because a. All the Above b. Through it was a collection of good principles in different religions, it was not suitably projected to the masses c. After Akbar, it was not patronized d. The Muslim did not accept other religious practice 238. Chand Bibi who ceeded Berar to Akbar was the ruler of a. Ahmednagar b. Bijapur
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c. Golconda d. Bahmani 239. Which of the following pairs was incorrect? a. Bairam Khan – Akbar b. Amir Khusrau – Jahangir c. Jaswant Singh – Aurangzeb d. Ambar Malik – Humayun 240. Which Sikh Guru laid the foundation of the city of Amritsar? a. Guru Nanak b. Guru Gobind Singh c. Guru Arjun Dev d. Guru Ramdas 241. Which of the following statements about Din-I-Ilahi is not correct? a. It was a synthesis of all various religions known to Akbar b. None of these c. It was designed to cement the diverse communities in India d. It was patronised by other Mongol rulers 242. Mansabdari was introduced in India by a. Humayun b. Babar c. Shahjahan d. Akbar 243. In 1809, Maharaja Ranjit Singh signed a treaty with a. Shah Alam b. Ruler of Sindh c. King of Kashmir d. East India Company 244. Babar won the Battle of Panipat mainly because of a. Afghan's disunity b. His Military skill c. His cavalry d. Tulughma system 245. Which of the following causes was not responsible for the downfall of Mughal Empire? a. Religious policy of Aurangzeb b. Revolts in various provinces of the empire
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c. Mansabdari system d. Deccan policy of Aurangzeb 246. Who installed the Chain of Justice? a. Jehangir b. Akbar c. Babar d. Humayun 247. In the Mughal administration, military recruitment was being looked after by a. Bakhshi b. Wazir c. Kotwal d. Diwan 248. Where did Babar die? a. Delhi b. Agra c. Kabul d. Lahore 249. Babar entered India for the first time from the west through a. Punjab b. Rajasthan c. Kashmir d. Sind 250. The bone of contention between the Shah of Persia and the Mughals was the control of a. Kabul b. Kunduz c. Ghazni d. Kandhar 251. Maharaja Ranjit Singh signed a treaty of perpetual friendship with the British in the year 1809 at a. Ferozpur b. Ludhiana c. Faridkot d. Amritsar 252. Akbar has been called the First national King, mainly because of
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a. Was highly tolerant and secular in his outlook b. Provided an efficient government to the people c. Was a great administrator d. Established a new religion Din-i-Ilahi. 253. Sher Shah made revenue settlement with a. Zamindars b. Jagirdars c. Cultivators d. Mansabdars 254. Sher Shah's real name was a. Bahadur b. Farid c. Hemu d. Faizi 255. The designation Amil in Akbar's time meant a. Scared Law b. Sacred book c. Revenue officers d. Custom officers 256. The king generally considered to be the greatest ruler of Kashmir in the 15th century was a. Shah Mirza b. Zain-ul-Abidin c. Yusuf Shah d. Haider Shah 257. All of the following Rajput ruler acknowledged the Mughal sway in the second half of 16th century, except the ruler of a. Bikaner b. Jaisalmer c. Amber d. Mewar 258. The Misl of which Ranjit Singh was the leader, was a. Ramgarhia b. Sukerchakia c. Ahluwalia d. Phulkia 259. Aurangzeb attack Bijapur and Golconda because
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a. Aurangzeb was an orthodox Sunni and the ruler of Bijapur and Golconda were siha muslim b. Ruler of Bijapur and Golconda were weak and as such if offered easy takeover c. Bijapur and Golconda were supporting Marathas d. Of Aurangzeb's policy of expansion and to consolidate his supremacy 260. In the Mughal administration, military recruitment was being looked after by a. Kotwal b. Diwan c. Bakshi d. Wazir 261. Which of the following Rajput dynasties did not surrender to Akbar? a. Parmar b. Sisodiya c. Rathore d. Pratihara 262. Which of the following pairs is incorrect? a. Amir Khusrau – Jahangir b. Ambar Malik – Humayun c. Jaswant Singh – Aurangzeb d. Bairam Khan – Akbar 263. Who among the following Hindu courtiers of Akbar accepted Din-i-Ilahi? a. Todar Mal b. Raja Man Singh c. Birbal d. Bhagwan Das 264. The institution of Varna appeared in the a. Later Vedic period b. Period of the consolidation of the text of the Mahabharat. c. Period of the Manava Dharma Shastra d. Rig Vedic period 265. Which is the oldest Veda? a. Rig Veda
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b. Atharva Veda c. Sama Veda d. Yajur Veda 266. Which of the following Vedas is a collection of spellsand incantations? a. Sama Veda b. Yajur Veda c. Atharva Veda d. Rig Veda 267. Which among the following was the chief feature of Rig Vedic religion? a. Performance of sacrifices b. Predominance of female goddesses c. Belief in existence of life after death d. Worship of images 268. 800 B.C.-600 B.C. is designated as the a. Period of Mahabharat b. Period of Brahmanas c. Period of the Sutras d. Period of Ramayana 269. Which one of the following was the main characteristic of the later Vedic age? a. Caste system b. Food gathering practice c. Varna system d. Tribal polity 270. Which of the following is an Upanishad? a. Krishna Karnamruta b. Aitreya c. Vijasena d. Chandogya 271. The Vedic deity Indra was the goddess of a. Rain and thunder b. Fire c. Wind d. Eternity 272. Which one of the following contains the Gayatri Mantra?
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a. Yajur Veda b. Sama Veda c. Upanishad d. Rig Veda 273. Which among the following is the source of information about early Vedic period? a. Excavations b. Rig Veda c. Jataka stories d. Post- Vedic literature 274. What was the basis of class differentiation among Aryans? a. Economic condition b. None of these c. Trade d. Colour 275. Which of the following ideals is not contained in the Atharva Veda? a. Moksha b. Upasana c. Gnana d. Karma 276. Varna system of Aryans was based on a. Caste b. Sex c. Colour d. Occupation 277. The chief characteristic of the Rig Vedic religion was a. Performance of sacrifices b. Preponderance of female goddesses c. Worship of images d. Belief in the existence of heaven 278. The God not worshipped during the time of Rig Vedic Aryans was a. Marut b. Shiva c. Indra d. Agni
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279. The Rig Veda consists of? a. 2000 b. 1028 c. 512 d. 1024 280. The ninth mandala of the Rig Veda samhita is devoted wholly to a. Gods related to plants and drugs b. Soma and the god who is named after the drink c. Urvashi and the Heaven d. Indra and his elephant 281. Which of the following animals was known to ancient Vedic people? a. Lion b. Tiger c. Elephant d. Boar 282. In Rig Vedic society, which of the following was unknown? a. Child marriage b. Polyandry c. Polygamy d. Purdah system 283. The family of the Rig Vedic Aryans was a. Matrilineal b. Patrilineal c. Patriarchal d. Matrairchal 284. The Vishnu Purana gives an account of a. Life in Indus Valley b. Mauryan dynasty c. The Andhras d. The Vardhanas 285. The word Vid from which Veda has been derived means a. God b. Holy c. Doctrine d. Knowledge
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286. The ritualistic precepts attached to the hymns of the Vedas were known as the a. Upanishads b. Aranyakas c. Brahmanas d. Samhitas 287. The Aryans at first settled in a. Punjab b. Kashmir c. Sindh d. Gujarat 288. Which of the following craftmanship was not practised by the Aryans? a. Blacksmith b. Carpentery c. Pottery d. Jewellery 289. The Aryans came to India from a. South-east Asia b. None of these c. Central Asia d. Eastern Europe 290. Brahmanas are books that deal with a. Bhakti b. Meditation c. Ritualism d. Yoga 291. Which of the following Vedas throws light on the beliefs and practices of the non-Aryans? a. Samaveda b. Atharvaveda c. Yajurveda d. Rigveda 292. The Puranas contain a. Laws of Manu and the history on various dynasties b. Thoughts on the mystery of life and universe mythology. c. Hymns in favour of the Gods
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d. Mythology 293. The code of conduct of the Vedic society was laid out in which of the following texts? a. Vedas b. Upanishads c. Puranas d. Smritis 294. The chief impact of Vedic culture on Indian history was the a. Progress of philosophy b. Rise of other wordly outlook c. Consolidation of caste system d. Growth of Sanskrit 295. Ayurveda owes its origin to a. Sama Veda b. Atharva Veda c. Yajur Veda d. Rig Veda 296. Which subject is not dealt with in the Puranas? a. Arithmetic b. Genealogies of gods c. Primary creation d. Secondary creation 297. The Term nishka, which meant an ornament in the Vedic period, was used in later times to denote a/an a. Script b. Argriculture implements c. Coin d. Weapon 298. Which is the most important divinity of Rig Veda? a. Marut b. Shakti c. Agni d. Varun 299. What is the subject matter of the Upanishads? a. Philosophy b. Yoga c. Religion
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d. Law 300. Rigveda Samhita denotes one fourth of its hymns to a. Rudra b. Marut c. Indra d. Agni 301. Boghazkoi is important because a. It is known as significant trading centre between Central Asia and Tibet. b. None of these c. The original text of the Vedas was composed there. d. Insription found here mention the names of Vedic gods and goddesses. 302. Rigveda is divided into 10 books. Which among the following book(s) is/are the oldest? a. Second-seventh b. Third-ninth c. First d. Second-eighth 303. Which of the following Vedas is rendered musically? a. Sama Veda b. Atharva Veda c. Rig Veda d. Yajur Veda 304. The salient feature of Rigvedic religion was the worship of a. Pashupati b. Trimurti c. Mother Goddess d. Nature 305. Which God lost his importance as the first deity during the Rig Vedic period? a. Agni b. Rudra c. Indra d. Varuna 306. Which was the God of animal during the later Vedic period? a. Vishnu
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b. Prajapati c. Rudra d. Indra 307. The Gayatri Mantra contained in the Rig Veda is dedicated to which deity? a. Surya b. Savitri c. Agni d. Marut 308. Renaissance started first in a. Russia b. England c. France d. Italy 309. Which of the following is not true of the European renaissance? a. It was a intellectual movement b. It Found expression in the revival of the study of ancient Greco-Roman classics. c. It aimed at organising anti-Church movements d. It developed intrest in science and fostered a spirit of adventure 310. The Last Super, a famous renaissance painting was a master piece of a. Leonardo da Vinci b. Raphael c. Michael Angelo d. Titian 311. With which of the following is the term Liberty, Equality and Fraternity associated? a. Industrial Revolution b. Russian Revolution c. French Revolution d. Olympic Games 312. The author of the American Declaration of Independence was a. Lafayette
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b. George Washington c. Jefferson d. Thomas Paine 313. The Industrial Revolution First took place in a. France b. Germany c. England d. America 314. Guernica, the world famous painting was painted by a. Van Gogh b. Michelangelo c. Picasso d. Leonardo-da-Vinci 315. The author of the New Deal was a. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt b. President Theodore Roosevelt c. President John Kennedy d. President Woodrow Wilson 316. The book Social Contract was written by a. Voltaire b. Diderot c. Rousseau d. Aristole 317. The Renaissance scientist who explained how planets moved around the sun was a. Gutenberg b. Kepler c. Rebelais d. Francis Bacorr 318. The discovery of sea-route from Europe to India was made by a. Columbus b. Vasco-da-Gama c. Marco Polo d. Magellan 319. Who raised the slogan No taxation without representation? a. Industrial workers of England
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b. Peasants and workers of France c. American Colonies d. People of Russia 320. What was the name of the atom bomb dropped by USA on Hiroshima in Japan during the Second World War? a. Little Boy b. None of these c. Little Fly d. Little Devil 321. The first successful socialist revolution in history was a. French Revolution b. None of these c. American Revolution d. Russian Revolution 322. Where was Napolean sent in exile after the battle of waterloo? a. St. Helen b. Elba c. Capri d. Corsica 323. Which of the following events occurred first? a. Russian Revolution b. Chinese Revolution c. French Revolution d. American War of Independence 324. The slogan No taxation without representation was first raised during the American Revolution in a. Boston Tea Party b. None of these c. Massachussets Assembly d. Philadelphia Congress 325. The European Renaissance of the fifteenth century is noted for great advances in a. Engineering b. Art and Architecture c. Medicine d. Mathematics
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326. German attack on Poland was the immediate cause of a. West Asian Crisis b. Cold War c. Second world War d. First World War 327. Which was the first city destroyed by the atom bomb in Second World War? a. Tokyo b. Nagasaki c. Hiroshima d. Baghdad 328. July 14 is celebrated every year as a national holiday in France. On this day in 1789 a. The member of the third estate declared themselves the National Assembly b. Napoleon become the Emperor c. Workers, peasants and other non propertied classes were given political rights d. The fall of Bastille took place 329. Who defined Democracy as the Government of the people, by the people and for the people? a. George Washington b. John Sturat mill c. Abraham Lincolon d. Winston Churchill 330. The Fall of Bastille is associated with the a. Russian Revolution of Nov, 1917 b. American War of Independence c. Grrek War of Independence d. French Revolution of 1789 331. Who is regarded as the founder of scientific socialism? a. Rousseau b. Karl Marx c. Lenin d. Engels 332. Das Capital and Communist Manifesto were written by a. Engels
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b. Trotsky c. Karl Marx d. Lenin 333. The War of Independence of America was fought against the a. Britain b. France c. Royal People of America d. Denmark 334. The first written republican constitution ever formed in history was that of the a. Indians b. Americans c. British d. French 335. In the year 1815, the Battle of Waterloo was fought between a. Britain and France b. Britain and Germany c. Japan and China d. Austria and Russia 336. The Fall of Bastille is associated with the a. French Revolution of 1789 b. American War of Independence c. Greek War of Independence d. Russian Revolution of Nov, 1789 337. The year 1992 is celebrated as the 500th anniversary of Columbus first Voyage to the New World. In 1942 Columbus reached a. Bahamas and Canada b. Central America and West Indies c. Bahamas, Cuba and West Indies d. South America and Cuba 338. The Soviet Socialist Revolution of October is celebrated every year on November 7 because a. Lenin's birthday falls on this day b. None of these c. The Provisional Government formed after the collapse of Czarist Government was over-thrown on this day in 1917
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d. Russia's victory over Germany coincides with this date 339. The famous painting Sun flower was done by a. Leonardo da Vinci b. Van Gogh c. Michael Angelo d. Pablo Picasso 340. Who among the following was a poet of the following events? a. Rossetti b. Dante c. Virgil d. Homer 341. Who was the author of the Republic, a famous classic? a. Plato b. Aristotol c. Herodotus d. Alexander 342. The Communist Manifesto was first published in a. German b. Russian c. French d. English 343. The Industrial Revolution in the last quarter of the eighteenth century in England first affected the a. Coal mining industry b. Iron and steel industry c. Shipping industry d. Cotton textiles industry 344. Russian revolutionary, who founded the Communist Party was a. Trotsky b. Lenin c. Stalin d. Karl Marx 345. The most important achievement of Abraham Lincolon was a. None of these b. The abolition of slavery
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c. The strengthening of democracy d. The establishment of the supremacy of the north over the south 346. Under which of the following treaties did the British recognise the independence of 13 American Colonies? a. Treaty of Versaillies b. None of these c. Maastricht Traety d. Treaty of Paris 347. Economic Crisis of 1930s originated in a. Brazil b. Russia c. U.S.A. d. France 348. When was the Magna Carta Signed by King John of England? a. 1212 b. 1217 c. 1215 d. 1066 349. 1917 is known for a. Battle of Trafalgar b. The Russian Revolution c. End of the World War I d. Battle of Jutland 350. Who among the following were known as physiocrates at the time of French Revolution? a. The Nobility b. Medical Professionals c. The Clergy d. Economist 351. The European Renaissanceof the fifteenth century is noted for great advances in a. Medcine b. Art and Architecture c. Engineering d. Mathematics
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352. Who among the following comanded the American force during American war of independence? a. Hamitton b. Theodre Roosevelt c. Thomas Jefferson d. George Washington 353. The ideas of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity were emphasised by a. Locke b. Rousseau c. Hobbs d. Montesque 354. Among the four political parties listed below, which one was the last to be formed? a. The Indian National Congress b. The Republican Party in the U.S.A c. The Conservative Party in Britain d. The Democratic Party in U.S.A 355. Who among the following comanded the American force during American war of independence? a. Thomas Jefferson b. George Washington c. Hamitton d. Theadore Roosevelt 356. Which year is associated with the outbreak of world war II? a. 1937 b. 1939 c. 1938 d. 1935 357. The Industrial Revolution in the last quarter of the eighteenth century in England first affected the a. Cotton textiles industry b. Iron and steel industry c. Shipping Industry d. Coal mining industry 358. Which style of painting was used by early renaissance artists? a. Graeco-Roman
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b. None of these c. Gothic d. Catholic Art 359. Which of the following events symbolised the fall of autocracy during the course of French Revolution? a. The fall of Bastille on 14th July, 1789 b. Execution of the King and Queen c. Mass execution by the guillotine in 1792 d. The meeting of the states General on 17th June, 1789 360. Which of the following was the main feature of European Renaissance? a. Domination of the Church and religion b. Learning by questioning, observation and experimentation c. Spraed of Christianity outside Europe d. It brought back the classic ideals in literature, painting and architecture 361. Who was the Head of the provincial government of Russia in 1917? a. Nicolas II b. Vladimir Iiych Lenin c. Leon Trotesky d. Kerensky 362. The Boston Tea Party took place in a. 1776 b. 1773 c. 1774 d. 1770 363. During the period of the Renaissances, new stules of architecture first developed in a. France b. Germany c. England d. Italy 364. Saint Simon, Charles Fourier and Robert Owen were a. Renaissances artists b. Activities in the American war of independence c. Portuguese Navigator
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d. Early Socialist 365. When did the Second World War end? a. 1918 b. 1946 c. 1939 d. 1945 366. Who built the stupa at Sanchi in Madhya Pradesh? a. Kanishka b. Chandragupta c. Ashoka d. Harsha 367. The most famous court-poet (in Hindi Literature) of Akbar was a. Raskhan b. Tulsidas c. Surdas d. Abdur Rahim-Khan-i-Khanan 368. Who among the following Mughal rulers has been called as the Prince of Builders a. Jehangir b. Shahjahan c. Babar d. Akbar 369. The Khajurao shrines built by Chandella rulers are dedicated to a. Shiva and Parvati b. Vishnu and Brahma c. Vishnu and Shiva d. Indra and Varun 370. The contents of Allahabad Pillars inscription of Samudragupta were written by a. Vishakhadatta b. Harisena c. Kalidas d. Virasen 371. Sculptures of the Gandhara school reflect the influence of the
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a. Chinese b. Persians c. Italians d. Greeks 372. An example of Chola architecture can be sent at a. Tanjore b. Kanchipuram c. Ellora d. Mahabalipuram 373. During the Mughal period of Indian history, the name of Mansur became famous in the field of a. Painting b. Garden Lying c. Music d. Architecture 374. Sarnath's Lion Capital is attributed to a. Kanishka b. Chandragupta c. Harshavardhana d. Ashoka 375. The Darvidian style of architecture can be seen in a. Mahabodhi temple at Gaya b. Jagannath Temple at Puri c. Dharamaraja-ratha at Mamallapuram d. Sun Temple at Konark 376. Which of the following is correct chronological sequence? a. Qutub Minar, Taj Mahal, Fatehpur Sikri b. Taj Mahal, Fatehpur Sikri, Qutub Minar c. Fatehpur Sikri, Taj Mahal, Qutub Minar d. Qutub Minar, Fatehpur Sikri, Taj Mahal 377. The large Shiva Temple at Thanjavur was built by a. Chandellas b. Rashtrakutas c. Rajaraja Chola d. Rajendra Chola 378. Which of the following was built by Akbar? a. Fort of Daulatabad
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b. Fort of Ahmednagar c. Red Fort d. Agra Fort 379. The Kirti Stambha (Tower of Victory) at Chittor was built by a. Bappa Raval b. Rana Kumbha c. Rana Pratap d. Rana Sanga 380. The Red Fort of Delhi was built by a. Sher Shah b. Shahjahan c. Akbar d. Jehangir 381. Which of the following is not related to Gandhara School of Art? a. Elephanta b. Khajuraho c. Ellora d. Ajanta 382. The monuments at Khajuraho blong to the period of a. Gahadavalas b. Chandellas c. Vakatakas d. Rashtrakutas 383. In the Gandhar Sculptures, the preaching mudra associated with the Buddha's first sermon at Sarnath is a. Bhumisparsa b. Dharmachakra c. Dhyana d. Abhaya 384. The Mughal painting reached its zenith during the reign of a. Babur b. Shahjahan c. Jehangir d. Akbar 385. Which of the following is not correctly matched? a. Nalanda-Monastic establishment
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b. Tanjore-Cave Temple c. Konark-Sun Temple d. Amravati – Stupa 386. Gandhara School of Art was established in a. Eastern India b. Southern India c. North-Western India d. Western India 387. Temples at All the following places are well known for their erotic sculptures except a. Konark b. Madurai c. Khajuraho d. Halebid and Belur 388. Taxila was a famous site of a. Mauryan art b. Gupta art c. Gandhara art d. Early Vedic art 389. The structure of Qutub Minar was completed by a. Iltutmish b. Muhammad bin Tughlaq c. Aram Shah d. Qutbuddin Aibak 390. In the medieval period, Indian painting reached a high degree of perfection during the reign of a. Firoz Tughlaq b. Aurangzeb c. Sher shah d. Jehangir 391. Fourteen rock edicts of ashoka have been unearthed at a. Girnar b. None of these c. Sasaram d. Kandhar 392. Which Sufi saint's dargah is at Ajmer? a. Hazrat Nizamuddin
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b. Salim Chisti c. Muinuddin Chisti d. Baba Farid 393. Gandhara School of art developed during the time of a. Sungas b. Kushans c. Sakas d. Mauryas 394. Which of the following is not associated with growth of cave art? a. Karle b. Mahabalipuram c. Amarnath d. Bagh 395. The distinctive contribution of the Turkish rulers of India to architecture was the a. Use of motifs for decoration b. Use of arch and dome c. Use of red stone d. Building of towers 396. Which of the following statements is true of the Gandhara school of art? a. It was a form of Ashokan art b. It was Greek in technique and Indian in Theme c. It was an indigenous school of art d. It was an offshoot of Greek art 397. Buland Darwaza is situated in a. Delhi b. Meerut c. Lucknow d. Fatehpur Sikri 398. The images in the temple of ankorvat are those of a. Buddha b. Combodians Kings c. Tirthankaras d. Hindu Deities
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399. Which of the following is not a characteristic of the painting of Mughal period? a. Mythological themes were depicted b. Religious scenes were depicted c. Court and Cultural scenes were depicted d. Scenes of battels were shown 400. Nishat Garden was built by a. Shahjahan b. Jehangir c. Babar d. Sher shah 401. Who is considered as Trimurti (Trinity) of Carnatic music? a. Muthuswami Dikshitar b. Purandaradasa c. Thyagaraja d. Swati Thirunal 402. Which of the following is the oldest monuments? a. Qutub Minar b. Khajuraho c. Taj Mahal d. Ajanta 403. Which temple got the name of Black Pagoda? a. Sun Temple b. Bhuvneshwari Temple c. Lingharaja Temple d. Jagannath Temple 404. Who built Char Minar ? a. Ali Adil Shah b. Ibrahim Adil Shah II c. Quli Qutb Shah d. Ibrahim Qutb Shah 405. Vakatakas belong to the period of a. Guptas b. Harsha c. Mauryas d. Kushans
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406. Which of the following schools of paintings developed independently during the Mughal Period? a. The Rajputs School b. The Bijapur School c. The Golconda School d. The Kangra School 407. Development of architecture was as its peak during a. Pandhya period b. Gupta period c. Chola period d. Mughal period 408. Who built the famous Dilwara temple at Mount Abu in the 13th century? a. Rajyapala b. Mahipala c. Tejapala d. Mahendrapala 409. The originators of the Dravidian style of architecture and sculpture in south India were a. Pallavas b. Pandyas c. Cholas d. Hoysalas 410. To whom was place for Amritsar given by Mughal emperor Akbar? a. Guru harkrishan b. Guru Teg Bahadur c. Guru Ram Das d. Guru Amar Das 411. The Mathura school of art fluorished during the reign of a. Kadphises-I b. Vaishka c. Vasudeva d. Kanishka 412. Which of the following is an example of Mauryan art? a. The panel showing Mahakapi Jataka at Bharhut b. Bull capital, Rampurva
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c. Image of Nara-Narayana in the temple at Deogarh d. Terracotta figures found at Ter 413. Buland Darwaza, built by Akbar, is to commemorate the victory of a. Delhi b. Gujarat c. Orissa d. Bengal 414. The mausoleum of Sher Shah is at a. Delhi b. Lahore c. Agra d. Sasaram 415. The famous monastery at Vikramasila was founded by the a. Rashtrakutas b. Guptas c. Palas d. Senas 416. Most of the Ajanta paintings were done during the period of a. Kushans b. Guptas c. Harshavardhana d. Mauryas 417. The Iron Pillar are Mehrauli was built by a. Nandas b. Khiljis c. Gupta d. Mauryas 418. The Gandhara school of art developed during the time of a. The Mauryas b. The Sungas c. The Sakas d. The Kushans 419. The construction of the Golden Temple at Amritsar was done under the supervision of a. Guru Govind Singh b. Guru Ramdass
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c. Guru Nanak d. Guru Arjun 420. Who among the following Mughal rulers banned music and dancing? a. Aurangzeb b. Babar c. Humayun d. Jehangir 421. Who among the following was a great musician in the court of Akbar? a. Ramdas b. Abul Fazal c. Tansen d. Amir Khusro 422. Who among the following are credited to have built the famous Ellora caves? a. Satavahanas b. Cheras c. Rashtrakutas d. Cholas 423. Fatehpur Sikri was founded by a. Humayun b. Jehangir c. Akbar d. Babar 424. The caves and rock-cut temples at Ellora are a. Buddhist and Jain b. Hindu and Jain c. Hindu, Buddhist and Jain d. Buddhist 425. The cult of Krishna is mainly exhibited through the a. Mughal School of Art b. Bengal School of Art c. Ancient Art d. Rajasthani Group 426. The famous bronze image of Nataraja is a fine example of a. Chola art
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b. Mauryan art c. Gandhara art d. Gupta art 427. Fresco paintings of Ajanta caves is the art of a. Rastrakutas b. Guptas c. Mauryas d. Kushans 428. The statue of Gomateswara at Sravanabelagola was built by a. Chandragupta Maurya b. Amoghavarsha c. Kharavela d. Chamundaraya 429. Pallava Kings are remembered as the makers of rock-cut temples at a. Thanjavur Khajuraho b. Mahabalipuram c. Rameshwaram 430. In which of the following caves, 28 new caves have been discovered? a. Ajanta caves b. None of these c. Ellora caves d. Elephanta caves 431. Jama Masjid in Delhi was built by a. Shahjahan b. Humayun c. Jehangir d. Akbar 432. Who was the Hindu king shown playing on the Veena, on ancient coins? a. Shivaji b. Ashoka c. Samudragupta d. Vikramaditya
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433. An example of the Nagara style of architecture is provided by the a. Brihadeeswara Temple, Thanjavur b. Kandariya Mahadeva Temple, Khajuraho c. Kailasnatha Temple, Kanchipuram d. Lingaraja Temple, Bhubaneshwar 434. Which of the following pairs is not correctly matched? a. Satkarni : Kharavela b. Mandasor : Yasodharman c. Junagarh : Pushyamitra d. Allahabad Pillar : Samudragupta 435. The celebrated Rummindei pillar of Ashoka marked the site where Gautama Buddha a. Died at the age of eighty b. Preached his first sermon c. Was born in 566 B.C. d. Attained into supreme knowledge and insight 436. The Ellora caves in Maharashtra were built by a. Palas b. Rashtrakutas c. Cholas d. Pallavas 437. The best specimen of the Mauryan art is represented in a. Stupas b. Chaityas c. Pillars d. Cave architecture 438. Which among the following dynasties were not patrons of temple architecture? a. Chandellas of Bundelkhand b. Paramars of Malwa c. Yadavas of Devagiri d. Chalukyas of Gujarat 439. Which of the following Mughal emperors is credited with the composition of Hindi songs? a. Babar b. Akbar
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c. Humayun d. Jahangir 440. Which of the undermentioned facts about Taj is not correct? a. It is situated outside the Agra Fort. b. The names of artisans who built it are engraved on it. c. It is a magnificent mausoleum. d. It was built by Shah Jahan. 441. Which of the following Mughal emperor's tomb is outside India? a. Akbar b. Aurangzeb c. Shah Jahan d. Jehangir 442. Which of the following forts was not built by Akbar? a. Lahore Fort b. Agra Fort c. Allahabad Fort d. Gwalior Fort 443. The earliest known Pahari paintings are from a. Guler b. Chamba c. Kangra d. Basholi 444. The coins of which of the following reveal their love for music? a. Mauryas b. Cholas c. Chalukyas d. Guptas 445. The Buddhist sculpture and art is found at a. Mahabalipuram b. Vijayanagar c. Kanchi d. Amravati 446. Mughal architecture reveals a blending of a. Indian and Persian styles b. Timurid and Indian styles
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c. Turkish and Persian styles d. Turkish and Afghan styles 447. The most famous musician at the court of Akbar was Tansen. His original name was a. Makaranda Pande b. Lal Kalwant c. Ramatanu Pande d. Baz Bahadur 448. The existing specimens of Ashoka's monuments may be grouped under three heads. Which is not one of the categories? a. Stupas b. Viharas c. Monolithic sandstone pillars d. Caves with highly polished walls 449. Which art did Jahangir mainly patronise? a. Architecture b. Music c. Paintings d. Sculpture 450. What was the raw material that was generally used in Akbar's time? a. Marble b. None of these c. Red Stone d. Brick 451. Which of the following is an architectural achievement of the Chandellas? a. Sun Temple, Konark b. Rock-cut caves at Mahabalipuram c. Sun Temple, Modhera d. Temples at Khajuraho 452. Who built the Tower of Victory (Vijay Stambha) in the Chittor fort? a. Rana Ratan Singh b. Rana Khumba c. Rana Sanga d. Rana Hamir Deva
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453. Which of the following is similar to the Taj Mahal in construction? a. Akbar's tomb b. Bibi-ka-maqbara c. Jahangir's tomb d. Humayun's tomb 454. Purana Qila was constructed during the reign of a. Jahangir b. Sher Shah c. Humayun d. Akbar 455. The temple of Angkorvat is in a. Laos b. Vietnam c. Myanmar d. Gambodia 456. Graeco-Roman influence in Indian art is found at a. Gandhara b. Bharhut c. Bodh Gaya d. Sanchi 457. The Hathigumpha inscription is found in a. Kakatiya (Andhra Pradesh) b. Halebid (Karnataka) c. Udayagiri (Cuttack) d. Nasik (Maharashtra) 458. The tomb of Babar is at a. Lahore b. Sikandra c. Sasaram d. Kabul 459. The most famous interpolation made by the Brahmins was the addition of Bhagvad Gita to a. Mahabharat b. Puranas c. Vedas d. Upanishads
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460. Taxila was a famous site of a. Mauryan Art b. Gupta Art c. Gandhara Art d. Early Vedic Art 461. The Vimana style in temple architecture came into vogue during the reign of a. Rashtrakutas b. Cholas c. Mauryas d. Guptas 462. In Mughal paintings, one notices the adoption of the principle of foreshortening whereby near and distant people and things could be placed in perspective. This was due to the influence of a. British b. Spanish c. Dutch d. Portuguese 463. The two colossal images of the Buddha at Bamiyan are works of a. The Gandhara Art b. The early Mathura school of Art c. The Gupta Art d. The Maurya Art 464. Qutub Minar was built by a. Razia Sultan b. Shahjahan c. Qutb-ud-din Aibak d. Iltutmish 465. Bronze coins of Nataraja cast during the Chola period invariably show the deity with a. Two hands b. Eight hands c. Four hands d. Six hands 466. Ajanta paintings are the finest specimens of
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a. Rock engravings b. Rajasthani miniature paintings c. Persian art d. Indian cave paintings 467. The paintings in the Ajanta and Ellora Caves are indicative of development of art under the a. Pallavas b. Chalukyas c. Pandyas d. Rashtrakutas 468. The buildings constructed by which Mughal ruler represent the climax in the evolution of Mughal arhitecture? a. Aurangzeb b. Shahjahan c. Akbar d. Jehangir 469. Who among the following Gupta rulers was a poet and a musician and was adorned with the title of Kaviraja or King of poets? a. Samudragupta b. None of these c. Chandragupta I d. Skandagupta 470. The new element of Gopuram was encouraged in temples of South India by a. Cholas b. Chalukyas c. Pallavas d. Pandyas 471. Which of the following was built by Rashtrakutas? a. Surya temple of Konark b. Channakeshava temple of Betur c. Siva temple of Ellora d. Kailasha temple of Mahabalipuram 472. Of all the great powers that made the history of South India, none had a more marked effect on the architecture of this region than the earliest of all. This observation refers to
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a. Chalukyas b. Cholas c. Pallavas d. Rashtrakutas 473. The earliest extant (still standing) temples date from a. The Maurya period b. The Sunga period c. The Gupta period d. The Vedic period 474. Which of the following is not connected with Kushans? a. Ajanta paintings b. Fourth Buddhist Council c. Gandhara Art d. Mathura Art 475. Ajanta paintings depict scenes from the a. Mahabharat b. Upanishads c. Jatakas d. Ramayana 476. The stupa at Sanchi and the railings surrounding it, belong to the period of a. Kushans b. Mauryas c. Guptas d. Cholas 477. The temple built during the medieval period by which of the following dynasties are known as Seven Pagodas? a. Pallavas b. Hoysalas c. Chalukyas d. Choias 478. The first Mughal building to have been built entirely of marble is a. Itmat-ud-Daula's tomb b. Taj Mahal c. Akbar's mausoleum d. Humayun's tomb
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479. The finest and most eleborate temple of Chola architecture is the a. Subrahmanya temple at Thanjaur b. Temple at Gangaikonda Cholapuram c. Kailashanatha temple at Kanchipuram d. Brihadisvara temple at Thanjaur 480. Biwi Ka Maqbara is the tomb of a. Aurangzeb's wife b. Mumtaz Mahal c. Nurjahan d. Humayun's sister 481. Akbar built the Panch Mahal, noted for its various types of pillars, at a. Delhi b. Lahore c. Agra d. Fatehpur Sikri 482. Who built the mausoleum of Jahangir and where? a. Shahjahan at Delhi b. Nur Jahan at Fatehpur Sikri c. Nur Jahan at Lahore d. Shahjahan at Agra 483. The city of Agra was founded by a. Ibrahim Lodi b. Firuz Tughlaq c. Sikandar Lodi d. Rana Sanga 484. An overwhelming majority of the images at Ajanta are those of a. Vishnu b. Durga c. Buddha d. Siva 485. The largest grant of villages to temples and brahmana was given by the ruling dynasty known as a. Rashtrakutas b. Pratiharas
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c. The Guptas d. The Palas 486. Which of the following Indian kings excelled in art and music? a. Chandragupta Maurya b. Kanishka c. Harshavardhana d. Samudragupta 487. Which Sultans added the Alai Darwaza to the Qutub Minar? a. Muhammad bin Tughlaq b. Iltutmish c. Firoz Tughlaq d. Alauddin Khilji 488. The use of Kharoshti in ancient Indian architecture is the result of India's contact with a. Central Asia b. Greece c. China d. Iran 489. The rock-cut caves at Elephanta belong to the period of a. Vakatakas b. Chalukyas c. Rashtrakutas d. Satavahanas 490. Who built the stupa at Sanchi in Madhya Pradesh? a. Ashoka b. Chandragupta c. Harsha d. Kanishka 491. The most famous court-poet (in Hindi Literature) of akbar was a. Raskhan b. Tulsidas c. Surdas d. Abdur Rahim-Khan-i-Khanan 492. Who among the following Mughal rulers has been called as the Prince of Builders
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a. Babar b. Jehangir c. Akbar d. Shahjahan 493. The Khajurao shrines built by Chandella rulers are dedicated to a. Shiva and Parvati b. Vishnu and Brahma c. Vishnu and Shiva d. Indra and Varun 494. The contents of Allahabad Pillars inscription of Samudragupta were written by a. Harisena b. Virasen c. Vishakhadatta d. Kalidas 495. Sculptures of the Gandhara school reflect the influence of the a. Italians b. Persians c. Greeks d. Chinese 496. An example of Chola architecture can be sent at a. Kanchipuram b. Tanjore c. Ellora d. Mahabalipuram 497. During the Mughal period of Indian history, the name of Mansur became famous in the field of a. Painting b. Garden Laying c. Music d. Architecture 498. Sarnath's Lion Capital is attributed to a. Chandragupta b. Ashoka c. Kanishka
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d. Harshavardhana 499. The Darvidian style of architecture can be seen in a. Mahabodhi temple at Gaya b. Jagannath Temple at Puri c. Dharamaraja-ratha at Mamallapuram d. Sun Temple at Konark 500. Which of the following is correct chronological sequence? a. Fatehpur Sikri, Taj Mahal, Qutub Minar b. Taj Mahal, Fatehpur Sikri, Qutub Minar c. Qutub Minar, Fatehpur Sikri, Taj Mahal d. Qutub Minar, Taj Mahal, Fatehpur Sikri 501. The large Shiva Temple at Thanjavur was built by a. Rajaraja Chola b. Rashtrakutas c. Rajendra Chola d. Chandellas 502. Which of the following was built by Akbar? a. Fort of Ahmednagar b. Agra Fort c. Fort of Daulatabad d. Red Fort 503. The Kirti Stambha (Tower of Victory) at Chittor was built by a. Rana Pratap b. Bappa Raval c. Rana Sanga d. Rana Kumbha 504. The Red Fort of Delhi was built by a. Sher Shah b. Shahjahan c. Akbar d. Jehangir 505. Which of the following is not related to Gandhara School of Art? a. Elephanta b. Khajuraho c. Ellora d. Ajanta
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506. The monuments at Khajuraho belong to the period of a. Chandellas b. Gahadavalas c. Vakatakas d. Rashtrakutas 507. In the Gandhar Sculptures, the preaching mudra associated with the Buddha's first sermon at Sarnath is a. Dharmachakra b. Dhyana c. Abhaya d. Bhumisparsa 508. The Mughal painting reached its zenith during the reign of a. Jehangir b. Shahjahan c. Akbar d. Babar 509. Which of the following is not correctly matched? a. Nalanda-Monastic establishment b. Tanjore-Cave Temple c. Konark-Sun Temple d. Amravati – Stupa 510. Gandhara School of Art was established in a. Western India b. Southern India c. Eastern India d. North-Western India 511. Temples at All the following places are well known for their erotic sculptures except a. Khajuraho b. Madurai c. Halebid and Belur d. Konark 512. Taxila was a famous site of a. Mauryan art b. Gupta art c. Gandhara art d. Early Vedic art
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513. The structure of Qutub Minar was completed by a. Muhammad bin Tughlaq b. Iltutmish c. Aram Shah d. Qutbuddin Aibak 514. In the medieval period, Indian painting reached a high degree of perfection during the reign of a. Jehangir b. Aurangzeb c. Firoz Tughlaq d. Sher shah 515. Fourteen rock edicts of ashoka have been unearthed at a. Kandhar b. None of these c. Girnar d. Sasaram 516. Which sufi saint's dargah is at Ajmer? a. Baba Farid b. Hazrat Nizamuddin c. Salim Chisti d. Muinuddin Chisti 517. Gandhara School of art developed during the time of a. Sakas b. Sungas c. Mauryas d. Kushans 518. Which of the following is not associated with growth of cave art? a. Bagh b. Mahabalipuram c. Karle d. Amarnath 519. The distinctive contribution of the Turkish rulers of India to architecture was the a. Building of towers b. Use of motifs for decoration c. Use of arch and dome
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d. Use of red stone 520. Which of the following statements is true of the Gandhara School of art? a. It was Greek in technique and indian in Theme b. It was a form of Ashokan art c. It was an indigenous school of art d. It was an offshoot of greek art 521. Buland Darwaza is situated in a. Delhi b. Meerut c. Lucknow d. Fatehpur Sikri 522. The images in the temple of ankorvat are those of a. Tirthankaras b. Combodians Kings c. Hindu Deities d. Buddha 523. Which of the following is not a characteristics of the painting of Mughal period? a. Court and Cultural scenes were depicted b. Mythological themes were depicted c. Scenes of battels were shown d. Religious scenes were depicted 524. Nishat Garden was built by a. Jehangir b. Shahjahan c. Babar d. Sher shah 525. Who is considered as Trimurti (Trinity) of Carnatic music? a. Purandaradasa b. Muthuswami Dikshitar c. Thyagaraja d. Swati Thirunal 526. Which of the following is the oldest monuments? a. Ajanta b. Khajuraho c. Qutub Minar
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d. Taj Mahal 527. Which temple got the name of Black Pagoda? a. Lingharaja Temple b. Bhuvneshwari Temple c. Jagannath Temple d. Sun Temple 528. Who built Char Minar? a. Quli Qutb Shah b. Ibrahim Adil Shah II c. Ibrahim Qutb Shah d. Ali Adil Shah 529. Vakatakas belong to the period of a. Kushans b. Harsha c. Guptas d. Mauryas 530. Which of the following schools of paintings developed independently during the Mughal Period? a. The Kangra School b. The Rajputs School c. The Bijapur School d. The Golconda School 531. Development of architecture was as its peak during a. Mughal period b. Pandhya period c. Gupta period d. Chola period 532. Who built the famous Dilwara temple at Mount Abu in the 13th century? a. Tejapala b. Mahipala c. Mahendrapala d. Rajyapala 533. The originators of the Dravidian style of architecture and sculpture in south India were a. Cholas b. Pandyas
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c. Hoysalas d. Pallavas 534. To whom was place for Amritsar given by Mughal emperor Akbar? a. Guru Ram Das b. Guru Teg Bahadur c. Guru Amar Das d. Guru harkrishan 535. The Mathura school of art fluorished during the reign of a. Kadphises-I b. Vaishka c. Vasudeva d. Kanishka 536. Which of the following is an example of Mauryan art? a. Bull capital, Rampurva b. The panel showing Mahakapi Jataka at Bharhut c. Image of Nara-Narayana in the temple at Deogarh d. Terracotta figures found at Ter 537. Buland Darwaza, built by Akbar, is to commemorate the victory of a. Delhi b. Gujarat c. Orissa d. Bengal 538. The mausoleum of Sher Shah is at a. Agra b. Lahore c. Sasaram d. Delhi 539. The famous monastery at Vikramasila was founded by the a. Senas b. Guptas c. Rashtrakutas d. Palas 540. Most of the Ajanta paintings were done during the period of a. Kushans b. Guptas
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c. Harshavardhana d. Mauryas 541. The Iron Pillar are Mehrauli was built by a. Nandas b. Khiljis c. Gupta d. Mauryas 542. The Gandhara school of art developed during the time of a. The Sungas b. The Kushans c. The Mauryas d. The Sakas 543. The construction of the Golden Temple at Amritsar was done under the supervision of a. Guru Nanak b. Guru Govind Singh c. Guru Arjun d. Guru Ramdass 544. Who among the following Mughal rulers banned music and dancing? a. Aurangzeb b. Babar c. Humayun d. Jehangir 545. Who among the following was a great musician in the court of Akbar? a. Ramdas b. Abul Fazal c. Tansen d. Amir Khusro 546. Who among the following are credited to have built the famous Ellora caves? a. Rashtrakutas b. Cheras c. Cholas d. Satavahanas 547. Fatehpur Sikri was founded by
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a. Akbar b. Jehangir c. Babar d. Humayun 548. The caves and rock-cut temples at Ellora are a. Buddhist b. Hindu and Jain c. Buddhist and Jain d. Hindu, Buddhist and Jain 549. The cult of Krishna is mainly exhibited through the a. Bengal School of Art b. Rajasthani Group c. Mughal School of Art d. Ancient Art 550. The famous bronze image of Nataraja is a fine example of a. Gupta art b. Mauryan art c. Chola art d. Gandhara art 551. Fresco paintings of Ajanta caves is the art of a. Kushans b. Rastrakutas c. Guptas d. Mauryas 552. The statue of Gomateswara at Sravanabelagola was built by a. Kharavela b. Amoghavarsha c. Chamundaraya d. Chandragupta Maurya 553. Pallava Kings are remembered as the makers of rock-cut temples at a. Mahabalipuram b. Khajuraho c. Rameshwaram d. Thanjavur 554. In which of the following caves, 28 new caves have been discovered?
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a. None of these b. Elephanta caves c. Ajanta caves d. Ellora caves 555. Jama Masjid in Delhi was built by a. Jehangir b. Humayun c. Akbar d. Shahjahan 556. Who was the Hindu king shown playing on the Veena, on ancient coins? a. Samudragupta b. Ashoka c. Vikramaditya d. Shivaji 557. An example of the Nagara style of architecture is provided by the a. Kandariya Mahadeva Temple, Khajuraho b. Brihadeeswara Temple, Thanjavur c. Kailasnatha Temple, Kanchipuram d. Lingaraja Temple, Bhubaneshwar 558. Which of the following pairs is not correctly matched? a. Mandasor : Yasodharman b. Junagarh : Pushyamitra c. Allahabad Pillar : Samudragupta d. Satkarni : Kharavela 559. The celebrated Rummindei pillar of Ashoka marked the site where Gautama Buddha a. Died at the age of eighty b. Preached his first sermon c. Was born in 566 B.C. d. Attained into supreme knowledge and insight 560. The Ellora caves in Maharashtra were built by a. Palas b. Rashtrakutas c. Cholas d. Pallavas
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561. The best specimen of the Mauryan art is represented in a. Stupas b. Chaityas c. Pillars d. Cave architecture 562. Which among the following dynasties were not patrons of temple architecture? a. Yadavas of Devagiri b. Paramars of Malwa c. Chalukyas of Gujarat d. Chandellas of Bundelkhand 563. Which of the following Mughal emperors is credited with the composition of Hindi songs? a. Akbar b. Jahangir c. Babar d. Humayun 564. Which of the undermentioned facts about Taj is not correct? a. It is situated outside the Agra Fort. b. The names of artisans who built it are engraved on it. c. It is a magnificent mausoleum. d. It was built by Shah Jahan. 565. Which of the following Mughal emperor's tomb is outside India? a. Jehangir b. Aurangzeb c. Akbar d. Shah Jahan 566. Which of the following forts was not built by Akbar? a. Gwalior Fort b. Agra Fort c. Lahore Fort d. Allahabad Fort 567. The earliest known Pahari paintings are from a. Basholi b. Chamba c. Guler
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d. Kangra 568. The coins of which of the following reveal their love for music? a. Chalukyas b. Cholas c. Guptas d. Mauryas 569. The Buddhist sculpture and art is found at a. Kanchi b. Vijayanagar c. Amravati d. Mahabalipuram 570. Mughal architecture reveals a blending of a. Turkish and Persian styles b. Timurid and Indian styles c. Turkish and Afghan styles d. Indian and Persian styles 571. The most famous musician at the court of Akbar was Tansen. His original name was a. Ramatanu Pande b. Lal Kalwant c. Baz Bahadur d. Makaranda Pande 572. The existing specimens of Ashoka's monuments may be grouped under three heads. Which is not one of the categories? a. Monolithic sandstone pillars b. Stupas c. Caves with highly polished walls d. Viharas 573. Which art did Jahangir mainly patronise? a. Music b. Paintings c. Sculpture d. Architecture 574. What was the raw material that was generally used in Akbar's time? a. Red Stone
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b. None of these c. Brick d. Marble 575. Which of the following is an architectural achievement of the Chandellas? a. Sun Temple, Modhera b. Rock-cut caves at Mahabalipuram c. Temples at Khajuraho d. Sun Temple, Konark 576. Who built the Tower of Victory (Vijay Stambha) in the Chittor fort? a. Rana Khumba b. Rana Ratan Singh c. Rana Sanga d. Rana Hamir Deva 577. Which of the following is similar to the Taj Mahal in construction? a. Humayun's tomb b. Bibi-ka-maqbara c. Akbar's tomb d. Jahangir's tomb 578. Purana Qila was constructed during the reign of a. Jahangir b. Sher Shah c. Humayun d. Akbar 579. The temple of Angkorvat is in a. Laos b. Vietnam c. Myanmar d. Gambodia 580. Graeco-Roman influence in Indian art is found at a. Sanchi b. Bharhut c. Gandhara d. Bodh Gaya 581. The Hathigumpha inscription is found in
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a. Nasik (Maharashtra) b. Halebid (Karnataka) c. Kakatiya (Andhra Pradesh) d. Udayagiri (Cuttack) 582. The tomb of Babar is at a. Sikandra b. Kabul c. Lahore d. Sasaram 583. The most famous interpolation made by the Brahmins was the addition of Bhagvad Gita to a. Vedas b. Puranas c. Upanishads d. Mahabharat 584. Taxila was a famous site of a. Mauryan Art b. Gupta Art c. Gandhara Art d. Early Vedic Art 585. The Vimana style in temple architecture came into vogue during the reign of a. Cholas b. Rashtrakutas c. Mauryas d. Guptas 586. In Mughal paintings, one notices the adoption of the principle of foreshortening whereby near and distant people and things could be placed in perspective. This was due to the influence of a. British b. Spanish c. Dutch d. Portuguese 587. The two colossal images of the Buddha at Bamiyan are works of a. The Maurya Art
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b. The early Mathura school of Art c. The Gandhara Art d. The Gupta Art 588. Qutub Minar was built by a. Razia Sultan b. Shahjahan c. Qutb-ud-din Aibak d. Iltutmish 589. Bronze coins of Nataraja cast during the Chola period invariably show the deity with a. Eight hands b. Six hands c. Two hands d. Four hands 590. Ajanta paintings are the finest specimens of a. Rock engravings b. Rajasthani miniature paintings c. Persian art d. Indian cave paintings 591. The paintings in the Ajanta and Ellora Caves are indicative of development of art under the a. Pallavas b. Chalukyas c. Pandyas d. Rashtrakutas 592. The buildings constructed by which Mughal ruler represent the climax in the evolution of Mughal arhitecture? a. Akbar b. Aurangzeb c. Jehangir d. Shahjahan 593. Who among the following Gupta rulers was a poet and a musician and was adorned with the title of Kaviraja or King of poets? a. None of these b. Samudragupta c. Chandragupta I
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d. Skandagupta 594. The new element of Gopuram was encouraged in temples of South India by a. Pandyas b. Chalukyas c. Cholas d. Pallavas 595. Which of the following was built by Rashtrakutas? a. Siva temple of Ellora b. Channakeshava temple of Betur c. Kailasha temple of Mahabalipuram d. Surya temple of Konark 596. Of all the great powers that made the history of South India, none had a more marked effect on the architecture of this region than the earliest of all. This observation refers to a. Cholas b. Pallavas c. Rashtrakutas d. Chalukyas 597. The earliest extant (still standing) temples date from a. The Sunga period b. The Gupta period c. The Vedic period d. The Maurya period 598. Which of the following is not connected with Kushans? a. Fourth Buddhist Council b. Gandhara Art c. Mathura Art d. Ajanta paintings 599. Ajanta paintings depict scenes from the a. Mahabharat b. Upanishads c. Jatakas d. Ramayana 600. The stupa at Sanchi and the railings surrounding it, belong to the period of a. Kushans
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b. Mauryas c. Guptas d. Cholas 601. The temple built during the medieval period by which of the following dynasties are known as Seven Pagodas? a. Choias b. Hoysalas c. Pallavas d. Chalukyas 602. The first Mughal building to have been built entirely of marble is a. Akbar's mausoleum b. Itmat-ud-Daula's tomb c. Humayun's tomb d. Taj Mahal 603. The finest and most eleborate temple of Chola architecture is the a. Subrahmanya temple at Thanjaur b. Temple at Gangaikonda Cholapuram c. Kailashanatha temple at Kanchipuram d. Brihadisvara temple at Thanjaur 604. Biwi Ka Maqbara is the tomb of a. Nurjahan b. Mumtaz Mahal c. Humayun's sister d. Aurangzeb's wife 605. Akbar built the Panch Mahal, noted for its various types of pillars, at a. Delhi b. Lahore c. Agra d. Fatehpur Sikri 606. Who built the mausoleum of Jahangir and where? a. Nur Jahan at Lahore b. Nur Jahan at Fatehpur Sikri c. Shahjahan at Agra d. Shahjahan at Delhi
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607. The city of Agra was founded by a. Ibrahim Lodi b. Firuz Tughlaq c. Sikandar Lodi d. Rana Sanga 608. An overwhelming majority of the images at Ajanta are those of a. Buddha b. Durga c. Siva d. Vishnu 609. The largest grant of villages to temples and brahmana was given by the ruling dynasty known as a. Pratiharas b. The Guptas c. The Palas d. Rashtrakutas 610. Which of the following Indian kings excelled in art and music? a. Harshavardhana b. Kanishka c. Samudragupta d. Chandragupta Maurya 611. Which Sultans added the Alai Darwaza to the Qutub Minar? a. Alauddin Khilji b. Iltutmish c. Muhammad bin Tughlaq d. Firoz Tughlaq 612. The use of Kharoshti in ancient Indian architecture is the result of India's contact with a. Iran b. Central Asia c. Greece d. China 613. The rock-cut caves at Elephanta belong to the period of a. Rashtrakutas b. Vakatakas
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c. Satavahanas d. Chalukyas 614. The Kailashanath Temple at Ellora was excavated at the instance of a. Govinda III b. Amoghavarsha I c. Krishna I d. Krishna II 615. The material used in Mathura school of art is a. Slate b. Red sandstone c. Granite d. White marble 616. Which one of the following monuments has a dome which is said to be one of the largest in the world? a. Jama Masjid, Delhi b. Tomb of Ghiyas-ud-din Tughlaq, Delhi c. Gol Gumbaz, Bijapur d. Tomb of Sher Shah, Sasaram 617. The Mughal school of painting formed the spinal column of the various schools of Indian miniature art. Which of the following painting styles was not affected by Mughal Painting? a. Kangra b. Kalighata c. Rajasthani d. Pahari 618. Most of the buildings of Fatehpur Sikri are built with a. Red sandstone b. Marble c. Brick d. Limestone 619. Which of the following is not true about Ajanta Caves? a. They are in Maharashtra. b. They do not have paintings of flora and fauna. c. They are decorated with Buddhist art. d. They depict the techniques used in ancient India.
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620. On the wall of which of the following buildings built by Shah Jahan, the Persian couplet If there is a paradise on earth, it is this, it is this, it is this is inscribed? a. Moti Masjid b. Diwani-e-Am, Delhi c. Jasmine Palace d. Diwani-i-Khas, Delhi 621. The Rathas at Mahabalipuram are a. Monolithic structures b. All the above c. Square or rectangular d. Eight in number 622. Arhai-Din-Ka Jhopra built by Qutuddin Aibak is located in a. Badayun b. Kalinjas c. Ajmer d. Delhi 623. Tansen, the greatest musician of Akbar's court, belonged to a. Delhi b. Kanauj c. Agra d. Gwalior 624. The famous book Geet Govind was written by a. Banabhatta b. Jayadev c. Mirabai d. Kalidas 625. Kalidasa lived during the reign of a. Chandragupta II b. Chandragupta II c. Samudragupta d. Ashoka, the Great 626. Which of the following works of kalidasa is not a play? a. Vikramorvasiya b. Malavikagnimitra c. Meghadoot d. Abhijinana Shakuntalam
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627. The Panchatantra was written during the a. Sultanate period b. Gupta period c. Maurya period d. Later Vedic period 628. The famous epic Mahabharata was written by a. Valmiki b. Bhavabhuti c. Patanjali d. Ved Vyas 629. Aryabhatta was a famous a. Scientist b. Painter c. Astronomer d. Physician 630. Who among the following was a lexicographer? a. Banabhatta b. Panini c. Dandin d. Amarasimha 631. Who is author of Ashtadhyayi? a. Charak b. Aryabhatta c. Vishnu Sharma d. Panini 632. Names of sixteen Mahajanapadas were found in a. Anguttara Nikaya b. Harshacharita c. Indica d. Kalpa Sutra 633. Harsha wrote a. Kadambari b. Meghasandesam c. Ratnavali d. Raghuvamsa 634. Mitakshara, an authoritative treatise on Hindu law, was written by
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a. Vigneswara b. Manu c. Jimutavahana d. Hemadri 635. Kalhan's Rajatarangini is a history of a. Kashmir b. Chandragupta's reign c. Harsha's reign d. Rajasthan 636. Who among the following is the author of the book Yogasutra? a. Manu b. Visvamitra c. Vasishtha d. Patanjali 637. The Shahnama was written by a. Abul Fazal b. Firdausi c. Alberuni d. Amir Khusrao 638. The great scholar, Banabhatta, lived during the reign of a. Chandragupta II b. Ashoka c. Kanishka d. Harsha 639. Which of the following is an ancient Indian work relating to prayer and sacrificial ceremony? a. Brahamanas b. Aranyakas c. Amarakosa d. Vajasaneyi Samhita 640. Padmavat of Malik Muhammad Jaisi, a notable work in Hindi, was completed during the reign of a. Akbar b. Aurangzeb c. Sher Shah d. Babar
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641. The poet Harisena was the courtier of a. Lakshmana Sena b. Chandragupta c. Samudragupta d. Chandragupta 642. All the following literary works are traditionally ascribed to personages who lived in the Maurya period, except a. Mrichchhakatika b. Kalpasutra of Bhadrabahu c. Kautilya's Arthashastra d. Katha Vathu 643. Which is not a Vedic text? a. The Smritis b. The Upanishads c. The Brahmanas d. The Angas 644. Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitamanas during the reign of a. Rama Raya b. Krishnadeva Raya c. Akbar d. Jehangir 645. In which of the following modern states Asokan insirations are not found? a. Tamil Nadu b. Orissa c. Karnataka d. Andhra Pradesh 646. Who among the following saints wrote Bijak? a. Tulsidas b. Guru Arjun c. Kabir d. Ramdas 647. Matta Vilasa Prahansa was written during the period of a. None of these b. Pallavas c. Sangam d. Later Pandayas
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648. The account of Babur's life was written in a. Turki b. Arabic c. Urdu d. Persian 649. Mahabharata is also known as a. Chhandogya b. Vijay-Pitaka c. Katha Vatthu d. Jayanama-Itihasa 650. The Head of the University of Nalanda was the great Bengali scholar a. Sheelabhadra b. Shreejnan Atisha c. Basubandhu d. Nagarjuna 651. Tahqiq-I-Hind, a famous literary work, was written by a. Minhaj-us-Siraj b. Alberuni c. Badauni d. Nizam-ud-din-Ahmad 652. Of the following, the oldest Sanskrit poet, whose composition still remains in original classical style, is a. Bhavabhuti b. Dandin c. Ashvaghosa d. Kalidasa 653. The most outstanding feature of Babar's memoirs (Tuzuk-i- Baburi) is its a. Literary value b. Authentic record c. Candidness in description d. Large volume 654. Who among the following ladies wrote a historical account during the Mughal Period? a. Gulbadan Begam b. Zebun-nissa Begam
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c. Nurjahan Begam d. Jahanara Begam 655. The first major work in the development of Marathi literature, was done by a. Sant Dhyaneshwar b. Sant Namdev c. Yogi Mukundraj d. Sant Ramdas 656. Who among the following literary figures of the Gupta Age is given the title of Indian Shakespeare? a. Bharavi b. Kalidasa c. Harisena d. Vishakhadatta 657. In which of the following inscriptions is Ashoka mentioned by name? a. Bairat inscription b. None of these c. Major Rock Edict at Girnar d. Lamghan inscription 658. Kadambari was written by a. Harsha b. Bana c. Kalidasa d. Kautilya 659. The famous poet in the court of Alauddin Khilji was a. Barauni b. Sadi c. Badre Chach d. Amir Khusrau 660. Sangam literature is a. Early Tamil literature attributed to the first three centuries of the Christian era. b. Sanskrit works of Puranic nature dealing with the sanctity of the place where there is confluence of rivers in Prayaga. c. Classical Sanskrit literature patronised by the Guptas.
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d. Pali literature dealing with the history of the Buddhist samghas. 661. Who recast the original single Veda into four Vedas? a. None of these b. Vyas c. Patanjali d. Shankaracharya 662. The Buddhist religious literature produced during the Mauryan period was in a. Ardhamagadhi b. Pali c. Sanskrit d. Prakrit 663. Dhanvantri, a renowed physician of ancient India, adorned the court of a. Kanishka b. Ashoka c. Samudragupta d. Chandragupta Vikramaditya 664. The literature of the Sangam Age was written mostly in the form of a. Drama b. All the above c. Poetry d. Prose 665. In the beginning, Jain texts were originally written in a. Pali b. None of these c. Sanskrit d. Prakrit 666. The immediate cause of invasion of Ahmad Shah Abdali on India was a. He was attracted by its wealth. b. He was invited by Shah Nawaz Khan. c. He hed a strong army. d. The Indian rulers were weak. 667. The invasion of Huns first took place during the rule of
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a. Gupta b. Kushans c. Mauryas d. Nandas 668. The First Battle of Panipat was fought in the year a. 1764 b. 1776 c. 1526 d. 1527 669. Fahien came to India during the reign of a. Chandragupta Vikramaditya b. Ashoka c. Harshavardhana d. Chandragupta Maurya 670. The Second Battle of Panipat was fought during the reign of a. Humayun b. Aurangzeb c. Akbar d. Babar 671. Alberuni came to India with a. Alexander b. Timur c. Babur d. Mahmud of Ghazni 672. Who looted the temple of Somnath? a. Mohammad Ghori b. Nadir Shah c. Mahmood of Ghazni d. Changhiz Khan 673. The historical source attributed to Megasthenes is a. Indica b. The Periplus of the Erythrean Sea c. Naturalis Historia d. Geography 674. Changiz Khan invaded India during the rule of a. Balban b. Ala-ud-din Khilji
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c. Iltutmish d. Qutubuddin Aibak 675. The first to invade India out of the following were a. Turks b. Mongols c. Arabs d. Afghans 676. Black Hole Episode was the main cause of a. Battle of Wandiwash b. Battle of Haldighati c. Battle of Plassey d. Battle of Buxar 677. Who among the following scholars was the first to visit India? a. Ibn- Batutah b. Marco Polo c. Fa-Hien d. Hiuen Tsang 678. Hiuen Tsang, the Chinese pilgrim, visited India during the reign of a. Ashoka b. Harshavardhana c. Chandragupta I d. Kanishka 679. The Battle of Talikota was fought in the year a. 1586 b. 1565 c. 1526 d. 1576 680. The first Muslim invasion of India was led by a. Mahmud Ghazni b. Timur Lane c. Muhammad Ghori d. Muhammad bin Kasim 681. The term Macedonia's Madman referred to a. Xerxes b. Darius c. Alexander
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d. Philip II 682. The Third Battle of Panipat was fought between a. Marathas and Britishers b. Rajputs and Britishers c. Marathas and Rajputs d. Marathas and Afghans 683. The Battle of Kanwah was fought between a. Babar and Rana Sangha b. Akbar and Rana Sangram Singh c. Babar and Hemu d. Akbar and Rana Pratap 684. Which of the following statements is incorrect in regard to Battle of Buxar? a. Mir Kasim was routed at the Battle of Buxar b. None of these c. The battle was fought in 1863. d. British took over the administration of Bengal after the battle. 685. Chengez Khan was a a. Mongol b. None of these c. Turk d. Persian 686. Akbar defeated Rana Pratap in the Battle of Haldighati in the year a. 1596 b. 1576 c. 1570 d. 1588 687. Mahmud of Ghazni attacked India mainly a. To spread Islam in India b. To take the famous artisans of India to his court c. To plunder the wealth of India d. To establish his empire in India 688. Ibn - Batutah visited India during the reign of Sultan a. Muhammad Tughlaq b. Sikander Lodhi
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c. Ala-ud-din Khilji d. Feroz Tughlaq 689. Which of the following is correctly matched? a. Battle of Wandiwash - Akbar and English forces b. Battle of Tarain - Prithviraj Chauhan and Mohammed Ghori c. Battle of Panipat - Babur and Rana Sanga d. Battle of Kanwah - Humayun and Sher Shah 690. The Third Battle of Panipat was fought in the year a. 1739 b. 1757 c. 1761 d. 1707 691. Nadir Shah invaded India during the reign of a. Bahadur Shah b. Farrukhsiyar c. Muhammed Shah d. Shah Alam 692. Which of the following battles was fought in 1192 A.D.? a. Second Battle of Tarain b. Battle of Kanwah c. First Battle of Tarain d. Battle of Talikota 693. India's famous Peacock Throne and the diamond koh-e-Noor were taken away by a. Ahmad Shah Abdali b. Robert Clive c. Mohammad Ghori d. Nadir Shah 694. Ashoka, the Great conquered Kalinga in the year a. 261 A.D. b. 78 A.D. c. 261 B.C. d. 58 B.C. 695. Chinese pilgrim Fahien visited India in a. 5th century b. 7th century c. 4th century
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d. 6th century 696. The Battle of Plassey was fought in the year a. 1761 b. 1775 c. 1757 d. 1576 697. The Second Battle of Panipat was fought between a. Akbar and Hemu b. Clive and Siraj-ud-Daula c. Babar and Rana Sanga d. Ahmad Shah Abdali and Marathas 698. The first Hun invasion took place during the reign of a. Yasodharman b. Kanishka c. Skandagupta d. Samudragupta 699. Porus was defeated by Alexander at the Battle of a. Heart b. Kabul c. Hydaspes d. Buxar 700. India was invaded by Timur Lung in a. 1335 b. 1389 c. 1385 d. 1398 701. Alberuni , the famous historian came to India in the a. 9th century A.D. b. 16th century A.D. c. 12th century A.D. d. 10th century A.D. 702. The First Battle of Panipat was fought between a. Humayun and Sher Shah Suri b. Babar and Ibrahim Lodhi c. Akbar and Hemu d. Hemu and Babar
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703. Mongols intruded into India for the first time during the reign of (a) Balban (b) Firoz Shah Tughlaq (c) Iltutmish (d) Alauddin Khilji 704. The Second Battle of Panipat was fought in (a) 1456 (b) 1556 (c) 1526 (d) 1761
705. Megasthenes was the Ambassador of (a) The Persians (b) Seleucus Nikator (c) Alexander (d) Darius
706. The treaty of Purandhar was signed in 1665 with Shivaji by which soldier statesman? (a) Shaista Khan (b) Raja Jay Singh (c) Raja Jaswant Singh (d) Afzal Khan
707. Which of the following was the main function of the Peshwa under Shivaji's administration? (a) He advised the king about foreign affairs. (b) He was incharge of all public finance and accounts of the kingdom (c) He was to fix dates for religious ceremonies (d) He was to look after the general intrest and welfare of the state
708. When did Vasco Da Gama come to India ? (a) 1498 (b) 1542
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(c) 1492 (d) 1398
709.The Maratha Chief, Sambhaji, was executed during the reign of (a) Aurangzeb (b) Mahabat Khan (c) Jehangir (d) Shahjahan
710 .What was the capital of Shivaji's kingdom ? (a) Raigarh (b) Karwar (c) Pune (d) Purandhar
711. Goa was captured by the Portuguese in (a) 1510 A.D. (b) 1610 A.D. (c) 1470 A.D. (d) 1570 A.D.
712. The beginning of the British political sway over India can be traced to the battle of (a) Panipat (b) Plassey (c) Buxar (d) Wandiwash
713.Who was the ruler of an Indian state who allied himself with the French? (a) Nizam-ul-Mulk Asaf Jah (b) Saadat Khan (c) Alivardi Khan (d) Tipu Sultan
714. The final defeat of the Maratha confederacy came during the time of
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(a) Wellesley (b) Cornwallis (c) Minto (d) Hastings
715. The Finance Minister under Shivaji was (a) Mantri (b) Samanta (c) Pandit Rao (d) Amatya
716. The Maratha power reached the zenith of its glory during the reign of (a) Shivaji (b) Baji Rao II (c) Balaji Vishwanath (d) Balaji Baji Rao
717. Who among the following rulers belonged to the Holkar dynasty ? (a) Ahalyabai (b) Shivaji (c) Tukoji (d) Prithviraj
718. When the East India Company came into existence, England was ruled by the (a) Stuarts (b) Normans (c) Tudors (d) Hanovarians
719. The Dutch first established their hold in India in 1605 at (a) Gujrat (b) Surat (c) Masulipatnam (d) Goa
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720. The first Europeans to come to India were (a) Dutch (b) French (c) Portuguese (d) British
721. Who laid the foundation of Portuguese power in India ? (a) None of these (b) Affonso De Albuquerque (c) Vasco da Gama (d) Bartholomew Dias
722. The tax collected by Marathas was known as (a) Chauth (b) Pilgrim Tax (c) Jazia (d) Sardeshmukhi
723. Which of the following statements about Hyder Ali is incorrect ? (a) He was defeated at porto Novo in 1781 (b) He made a coalition with Nizam and Maratha against the English in the Second Anglo Mysore war. (c) He was a man of great determination (d) He was a great scholar
724. Which of the following is not true about Hyder Ali ? (a) He was a tactful general (b) He was an able administrator (c) He was a profound scholar (d) Mysore under him was a cause of anxiety for British
725.Bombay was taken by the English East India Company from (a) Charles I (b) The Dutch (c) Charles II (d) The Portuguese
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726. The immediate successors of Shivaji's descandents who came to power in the Maratha Kingdom, were in (a) Bhonsles (b) Gaekwards (c) Holkars (d) Peshwas
727. Tipu Sultan was defeated in Third Mysore War in 1790 by (a) Lord Cornwallis (b) Sir John Macpherson (c) John Shore (d) Warren Hastingts
728. Who among the following is known for his introduction of a new calendar, a new system of coinage and new scales of weight and measures ? (a) Nizam-ul-Mulk Asaf Jah (b) Saadat Khan Burhan-ul-Mulk (c) Tipu Sultan (d) Murshid Quli Khan
729. The Maratha Kingdom was founded by Shivaji during the reign of (a) Shahjahan (b) Aurangzeb (c) Muhammad bin Tughlaq (d) Akbar
730. The Maratha power reached its zenith during the Peshwaship of (a) Narayan Rao (b) Madhav Rao I (c) Bajirao I (d) Balaji II
731. Which was not one of the regions in which the English first set up trading posts ? (a) Coromandel Coast
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(b) Goa (c) Bengal (d) Gujrat
732. Who succeeded Mir Jafar ? (a) Haider Ali (b) Tipu Sultan (c) Chanda Sahib (d) Mir Kasim
733. Who among the following Maratha Generals restored Maratha control over the imperial Mughal government in Delhi in 1784 ? (a) Visaji Krishna (b) Mahadji Sindhia (c) Tukoji Holkar (d) Raghunath Rao
734. In 1757, Siraj-ud-Daula was defeated by (a) Cornwallis (b) Clive (c) Canning (d) Hastings
735. The Peshwa become the official head of Maratha administration in the year (a) 1748A.D (b) 1742 A.D (c) 1730 A.D (d) 1736 A.D
736. Albuquerque captured Goa from the ruler of (a) Vijaynagar (b) Bijapur (c) Golconda (d) Ahmednagar
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737. Which of the following Peshwa preached the ideal of Hindu- Padpadshahi? (a) Baji Rao I (b) Madhav Rao II (c) Balaji Vishwanath (d) Baji Rao II
738. Who amongst the British Generals defeated Peshwa Baji Rao II ? (a) Outram (b) Kitchener (c) Elphinstone (d) Malcolm
739. Which Indian King requested Napolean for help to drive the British from India? (a) Rani of Jahnsi (b) Shivaji (c) Jai Singh (d) Tipu Sultan
740. Which body guard of Shivaji accompained him during his famous escape bid from Afzal Khan ? (a) Dev Nath (b) Shambhuji Kavji (c) Gopi Nath (d) Sonaji Pant
741. Who succeded Siraj-ud-Daula as Nawab of Bengal after the Battle of Plassey ? (a) Aliwardi Khan (b) Shuja-ud-daulah (c) Mir Kasim (d) Mir Jafar
742. Tipu Sultan Ruled from (a) Mysore (b) Belur
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(c) Halebid (d) Srirangapatnam
743. Goa was first colonised by (a) Portuguese (b) English (c) French (d) Dutch
744. The East India Company received the zamindary of the 24 parganas from (a) Mir Jafar (b) Chanda Sahib (c) Mir Qasim (d) Siraj-ud-Daulah
745. Which one of the following is not correctly paired ? (a) Gaekwad-Baroda (b) Scindhia-Gwalior (c) Bhonsle-Indore (d) Peshwa-Poona
746. Tranquebar on the Tamil Nadu coast was a colonial outpost of the (a) Portuguese (b) Danish (c) Dutch (d) French
747. Which of the following countries did not attempt to establish trading centres at India? (a) Portuguguese (b) England (c) France (d) Italy
748. In 1498, Vasco da Gama landed at (a) Bombay
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(b) Goa (c) Cochin (d) Calicut
749. Which of the following pairs is correctly matched ? (a) Battle of Buxar - Mir Jafar vs Clive (b) Battle of Kharda - Nizam vs East India Company (c) Battle of Chilianwala - Dalhousie vs Marathas (d) Battle of Wandiwash - French vs East India Company
750. Shivaji was crowned as an independent king at (a) Poona (b) Singhagarh (c) Surat (d) Raigarh
751. Shivaji was known as a nation-builder and a graet administrator. Yet, who among the following could not understand it and played into the hands of Farrukhsiyar? (a) Baji Rao II (b) Parashram Srinivas (c) Sambhaji (d) Shahu
752. Which of the following rulers died while playing Changan? (a) Sher Shah (b) Jalal-ud-din-Khilji (c) Qutub-ud-din Aibak (d) Balban
753. The ancient name of the city of Patna is (a) Kausambi (b) Kapilavastu (c) Kanauj (d) Pataliputra
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754. Who was the ruler of medieval India who is credited with the construction of Grand Trunk Road? (a) Babur (b) Krishnadeva Raya (c) Jehangir (d) Sher Shah Suri
755. Which of the following were the contemporaries of Kanishka ? (a) Kambar, Banabhatt, Asvaghosha (b) Asvagosha and Kambar (c) Asvagosha, Kalidas, Nagarjuna (d) Nagarjuna, Asvaghosha, Vasumitra
756. Rudradaman was one of the greatest (a) Maurya rulers (b) Pallavas rulers (c) Saka rulers (d) Kushan rulers
757. In whose rule was Islam as the state religion abolished ? (a) Balban (b) Ghias-ud-din Tughlaq (c) Ibrahim Lodi (d) Akbar
758. Bernier visited India during the reign of (a) Jahangir (b) Shahjahan (c) Aurangzeb (d) Akbar
759. Which is not the name of Kautilya ? (a) Chanakya (b) Dramidacharya (c) Vishnugupta (d) Devaputra
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760. Gradual decline of towns was an important feature of the (a) Gupta period (b) Rashtrakuta Khilji (c) Satavahana age (d) Pratihara age
761. Who is regarded as the greatest law giver of ancient India ? (a) Manu (b) Patanjali (c) Kautilya (d) Panini
762. Which Muslim emperor was attracted by the beauty of Queen Padmini? (a) Humayun (b) Akbar (c) Alauddin Khilji (d) Babar
763. Saranjami system was an important feature of (a) None of these (b) Maratha revenue system (c) Taluqdari system (d) Administration of the Qutub Shahis
764. Which of the following is wrongly matched ? (a) Chandragupta - Kautilya (b) Harshavardhana - Chaitanya (c) Vikramaditya - Chaitanya (d) Akbar - Todar Mal
765. The Kalachuri era counted from A.D. 248 was mostly current in (a) Kashmir (b) Bengal (c) Central India (d) Andhra
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766. The Hijra era is counted from (a) 1526 A.D. (b) 622 A.D. (c) 632 A.D. (d) 712 A.D.
767. The ancient name of Bengal was (a) Vatsa (b) Kamarupa (c) Gauda (d) Matsya
768. The capital of the ancient Vrijian state was (a) Ujjain (b) Vaishali (c) Pataliputra (d) Ayodhya
769. Who among the following is most famous for building a large number of canals for irrigation ? (a) Akbar (b) Shahjahan (c) Firuz Shah Tughlaq (d) Muhammad bin Tughlaq
770. Akbar founded his own religion known as Din-i-Ilahi which means (a) Divine Faith (b) None of these (c) House of Worship (d) Universal peace
771. The first Indian ruler to organise Haj pilgrimage at the expense of the state was (a) Aurangzeb (b) Akbar (c) Alauddin Khilji (d) Feroz Tughlaq
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772. Who was the first Sultan of Delhi to introduce the practice of Sijda? (a) Balban (b) Muhammad Tughlaq (c) Firoz Tughlaq (d) Alauddin Khilji
773. Gujarat was traditionally known as (a) Telangana (b) Saurashtra (c) Konkan (d) Rann of Kutch
774. Pushyabhuti dynasty ruled over (a) Thaneshwar (b) Sakal (c) Pataliputra (d) Ujjain
775. Who amongst the following lost his kingdom in Hindustan but retrieved it after about 15 years in exile ? (a) Ala-ud-din Khilji (b) Ghiyas-ud-din Tughlaq (c) Humayun (d) Firuz Shah Tughlaq
776. Who was the first ruler to annex any part of the Deccan to the Mughal empire ? (a) Jahangir (b) Aurangzeb (c) Humayun (d) Akbar
777. Charaka was the court physician of (a) Ashoka (b) Harshavardhana (c) Kanishka
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(d) Chandragupta Maurya
778. The chief centre of Indo - Roman trade was (a) Arikamedu (b) Muziris (c) Alexander (d) Madurai
779. The first metallic coin used in India, (first by Indo-Greeks) was in (a) Bihar and eastern U.P. (b) Western India (c) Central India (d) South India
780. Sanchi is famous for (a) Cave paintings (b) The rock edicts of Ashoka (c) The largest Buddhist Stupa (d) Rock- cut temples
781. Before ascending the Maurya throne, Ashoka served as a Viceroy of (a) Taxila (b) Kaushambi (c) Pataliputra (d) Tosali
782. The Nagara, the Dravida and the Vesara are (a) The three main linguistic divisions of India (b) The three main racial groups of Indian subcontinent (c) The three main styles of Indian temple architecture (d) The three main musical gharanas as prevalent in India. 783. Ahmad Shah built the capital city of Ahmedabad on the site of the old town of (a) Idar (b) Sidhpur (c) Asawal (d) Sabarmati
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784. Who was the founder of the Nanda dynasty ? (a) Ashoka Nanda (b) None of these (c) Mahapadma Nanda (d) Dhana Nanda
785. Which of the later Guptas assumed the imperial title of Maharajadhiraja and performed the horse sacrifice to show his strenght ? (a) Kumaragupta III (b) Kamarupa (c) Adityasena (d) Mahasena Gupta
786. Lingayat movement owes its origin to (a) Purandharadasa (b) Vidyaranya (c) Appar (d) Basava
787. After the decline of the Guptas, a large part of North India was reunited by (a) Harshavardhana (b) Chalukyas (c) Rajputs (d) Saka Satraps
788. During the reign of which of the following emperors was the artillery most perfect and numerous ? (a) Jahangir (b) Shahjahan (c) Akbar (d) Aurangzeb
789. Chachnama is a famous work on the history of (a) Kashmir (b) Sind
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(c) Gujarat (d) Punjab
790. The Mahajanapada which gained prominence to become an empire was (a) Kasi (b) Magadha (c) Kosala (d) Avanti
791. Which of the later Gupta rulers was a contemporary and ally of Harshavardhana ? (a) Mahasena Gupta (b) Kamarupa (c) Madhava Gupta (d) Damodar Gupta
792. The word Hindu as referrence to the people of Hind (India) was first used by (a) The Arabs (b) The Romans (c) The Chinese (d) The Greeks
793. Which of the following renders a proof of trade with Rome in old times ? (a) Harappa (b) Ropar (c) Mohenjodaro (d) Lothal
794. The coin rupia was first issued by (a) Akbar (b) Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq (c) Sher Shah (d) Ala-ud-din Khilji
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795. Among the following , whose empire was the largest ? (a) Aurangzeb (b) Jehangir (c) Babar (d) Akbar
796. Which of the following varieties of land available during the Mughal times did not yield any land revenue to the state ? (a) Raiyvati lands (b) Sayurghal lands (c) Jagir Lands (d) Khalisa (Crown) lands
797. Who among the following is known as the Heroine of 1942 Quit India Movement ? (a) Suchitra Kriplani (b) Sarojini Naidu (c) Aruna Asaf Ali (d) Dr. Annie Besant
798. The first to start a joint stock company trade with India were the (a) Danish (b) Portuguese (c) Dutch (d) French
799. Who amongst the following is associated with the Local Self- Government Act ? (a) William Bentick (b) Dalhousie (c) Ripon (d) Cornwallis
800. Seeds of Indian participating in the Legislative Council of the Governor General of India are embodied in the (a) Indian Councils Act, 1892 (b) Government of India Act, 1919
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(c) Indian Councils Act, 1861 (d) Indian Councils Act, 1909
801. Arya Samaj was started by (a) Swami Dayanand Saraswati (b) Gopal Krishna Gokhale (c) Raja Ram Mohan Roy (d) Swami Vivekananda 802. Which of the following is the most significant contribution of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel to modern India ? (a) His Presidentship of Indian National Congress (b) His participating in Quit India Movement (c) His role in Non-Cooperation Movement (d) His achievement of integration of princely states
803. Who is known as the Grand Old Man of India ? (a) Dadabhai Naoroji (b) Lala Lajpat Rai (c) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (d) C. Rajagopalachari
804. Which of the following was a recommendation of Hunter's Commission? (a) Women's education (b) Introduction of civic education at college university level (c) New regulation for the organized senates system (d) Gradual withdrawal of state support from higher education 805. The theory of economic drain of India during British imperialism was propounded by (a) R.C. Dutt (b) Dadabhai Naoroji (c) M.K. Gandhi (d) Jawaharlal Nehru
806. Who amongst the following was involved in the Alipore Bomb case ? (a) S.N. Banerjea
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(b) Aurobindo Ghosh (c) Bipin Chandra Pal (d) Jatin Das
807. Which one of the following upheavals took place in Bengal immediately after the Revolt of 1857 ? (a) Indigo Disturbances (b) Pabna Disturbances (c) Sanyasi Rebellion (d) Santal Rebellion
808. Which of the following was not founded by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar ? (a) Samaj Samata Sangh (b) Depressed Classes Institute (c) Peoples Education Society (d) Deccan Education Society 809. The title Punjab Kesari was conferred on (a) Lala Lajpat Rai (b) Sardar Baldev Singh (c) Ranjit Singh (d) Bhagat Singh
810. The affairs of East India Company came into the hands of the British Crown under (a) Regulating Act (b) Govt. of India Act (c) Pitt's India Act (d) Cabinet Mission Plan
811. Muslim League first demanded partition of India in (a) 1916 (b) 1946 (c) 1940 (d) 1906
812. The Supreme court in British India was established under (a) The Charter Act of 1813
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(b) The Charter Act of 1833 (c) Regulating Act of 1773 (d) Pitt's India Act of 1784
813. Gandhiji wanted that the students should spend their vacations in (a) Social Service (b) None of these (c) Studies (d) Games
814. Who gave the motto Back to the Vedas? (a) Swami Dayanand Saraswati (b) Swami Vivekananda (c) Ramkrishna Paramhansa (d) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
815. Theosophist, educationist and Indian national leader. This description fits (a) Srinivasa Shastri (b) Shyama Prasad Mookherji (c) Annie Besant (d) Madan Mohan Malviya
816. The most effective contribution made by Dadabhai Naoroji to the cause of Indian National Movement was that he (a) Brought the problems of Indians to the notice of the British (b) Stressed the need for eradication of all the social evils before anything else. (c) Interpreted the ancient Indian texts and restored the self - confidence of Indians. (d) Exposed the economic exploitation of India by the British
817. The year 1943 is important because (a) World War II ended. (b) Quit India Resolution was passed. (c) Azad Hind Fauj was formed. (d) Dandi March was organised by Mahatma Gandhi
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818. The Indians celebrated the Independence Day for the first time on (a) 10984 (b) 18289 (c) 10959 (d) 17394
819. Abandonment of the policy of annexation and aggrandizement towards Indian states came under the (a) Indian Councils Act, 1861 (b) Indian Councils Act, 1909 (c) Indian Councils Act, 1892 (d) Government of India Act, 1858
820. Who was the first European to translate the Bhagwad Gita into English ? (a) Sir Alexander Cunningham (b) Charles Wilkins (c) William Jones (d) James Prinsep
821. Which of the following was a continous movement based on the philosophy of Gandhiji, and not a specific movement ? (a) Quit India Movement (b) Civil Disobedience Movement (c) Swadeshi Movement (d) Non-Cooperation Movement 822. Who was the leader of Poona Sarvajanik Sabha founded in 1870 ? (a) Justice Ranade (b) erozeshah Mehta (c) S.N. Banerjee (d) K.T. Telang
823. Which of the following is correctly matched ? (a) New India - M.K. Gandhi
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(b) Yugantar - Aurobindo Ghosh (c) Young India - Annie Besant (d) Kesari - B.G. Tilak
824. Who was the first Indian to pass the Indian Civil Service ? (a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak (b) D.N. Wacha (c) Surendranath Banerjee (d) Dadabhai Naoroji
825. The Lucknow Pact of 1916 was made between (a) The Hindus and the Muslims (b) The Congress and the Muslim League (c) The moderates and extremists (d) The British and the Indians
826. Who was the Chairman of Boundary Commission to define the boundries of the dominions under the Indian Independence Act of 1947 ? (a) Stafford Cripps (b) Lord Mountbatten (c) Cyril Radcliffe (d) Lord Wavell
827. Which of the following universities was not established by Lord Dalhousie ? (a) Calcutta (b) Delhi (c) Bombay (d) Madras
828. When was the Cooperative Societies Act first passed in India? (a) 1904 (b) 1906 (c) 1900 (d) 1902
829. Who started the Bhoodan Movement?
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(a) Swami Vivekananda (b) Acharya Vinoba Bhave (c) Mahatma Gandhi (d) Jayaprakash Narayan
830. The Forward Bloc was formed by (a) B.R. Ambedkar (b) Subhash Chandra Bose (c) P.C. Joshi (d) Acharya Narendra Dev
831. Non Cooperation Movement started in : (a) 1870 (b) 1942 (c) 1921 (d) 1920
832. Ancient Monuments Preservation Act was passed during the Viceroyalty of (a) Lansdowne (b) Curzon (c) Ripon (d) Minto
833. Who said, I therefore want freedom immediately, this very night, before dawn if it can be had? (a) Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru (b) Annie Besant (c) Dr. Rajendra Prasad (d) Mahatma Gandhi
834. Who was called by the British rulers as the leader of Indian unrest? (a) Subhas Chandra Bose (b) M.K. Gandhi (c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak (d) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
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835. Which of the following Acts was described by Jawaharlal Nehru as Charter of Slavery? (a) Regulation Act (b) Vernacular Press Act (c) Government of India Act, 1919 (d) Government of India Act, 1935
836. The British Governor General, who formulated the policy of Subsidiary Alliance with regard to Indian powers was (a) Lord Wellesley (b) Lord William Bentick (c) Warren Hastings (d) Lord Dalhousie
837. Where did Mahatma Gandhi first try the weapon of Satyagraha ? (a) South Africa (b) Dandi (c) Champaran (d) Bardoli
838. The first main British Parliament Act regarding East India Company's administration in India was (a) Rowlatt Act (b) Pitts India Act (c) Charter Act of 1913 (d) Regulation Act
839. Who was the first Indian to become the member of British Parliament ? (a) D.N. Wacha (b) Dadabhai Naoroji (c) Badruddin Tyabji (d) W.C. Banerjee
840. Who conceived the idea of Pakistan ? (a) Mohd. Ali Jinnah
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(b) H.S. Suharwardhy (c) Chlowdhary Rahmat Ali (d) Asaf Ali
841. Which one of the following is not correctly matched ? (a) Lord Rippon-Local Self Government (b) Thomas Munro-Ryotwari System (c) Holt Mackenzie-Mahalwari Settlement in Northern India (d) Lord Cornwallis-Subsidiary System 842. Gandhiji started Satyagraha movement in 1919 in protest against the (a) Simon Commission (b) Colonial exploitation of India (c) Champaran wrongs (d) Enactment of Rowlatt Act
843. Satyagraha Ashram was established by who among the following ? (a) Lokanayak Jayaprakash Narayan (b) Acharya Vinoba Bhave (c) Mahatma Gandhi (d) Acharya Kripalani
844. Who was the founder of the Muslim League in India ? (a) Nawab Salimulla (b) None of these (c) Sir Syed Ahmad Khan (d) M.A. Jinnah
845. Who was the Governor General of India when the Indian National Congress was formed ? (a) Lord Cornwallis (b) Lord Mountbatten (c) Lord Lytton (d) Lord Dufferin
846. Regarding the freedom struggle, which of the following events is/are not true ?
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(a) Morley-Minto reforms granted Muslim demands in 1909. (b) Transfer of India's capital from Calcutta to Delhi was announced in 1910. (c) Muslim League was founded in 1907. (d) The partition of Bengal was done in 1905
847. Which was the first newspaper to be published in India ? (a) Bengal Chronicle (b) The Hindu (c) Bengal Gazette (d) Bombay Samachar
848. Uplift of the backward classes was the main programme of the (a) Prarythana Samaj (b) Ramakrishna Mission (c) Arya Samaj (d) Satyashodhak Samaj
849. Permanent Revenue System of Lord Cornwallis proved oppressive to the tenants because they were (a) Asked to pay under military pressure (b) Exploited by the zamindars (c) Forced to produce more (d) Asked to pay yearly revenue in advance
850. Legalisation of widow remarriage in India was first secured by (a) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (b) Maharishi Karve (c) Pandit Ramabai (d) K. Natarajan 851. The Doctrine of Lapse was introduced by (a) Warren Hastings (b) Lord Dalhousie (c) Lord Canning (d) Lord Wellesley
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852. Who among the following analysed the cause of the uprising of 1857 advocating a reconciliation between the British and the Muslims ? (a) Syed Ahmed Bardvi (b) Shah Wali-Ullah (c) Syed Ahmed Khan (d) Syed Amir Ali
853. During the British rule, first partition of Bengal was done in (a) 1903 (b) 1908 (c) 1905 (d) 1885
854. The British law which provoked Mahatma Gandhi to crusade for the Asians in South Africa was called (a) The Apartheid Act (b) The Asiatic Registration Act (c) The Blacks Registration Act (d) The Coloured's Licence Act 855. When did the British Parliament pass the Indian Independence Bill ? (a) 17393 (b) 17349 (c) 17218 (d) 17250
856. Vallabhbhai Patel was born at (a) Borsad (b) Nadiad (c) Ahmedabad (d) Baroda
857. The founder of Boy Scouts and Civil Guides Movement in India was (a) Robert Montgomery (b) Baden Powell (c) Charles Andrews (d) Richard Temple
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858. The Rowlatt Act led to (a) Economic reforms in U.P. (b) Massacre at Amritsar (c) Communal riots in Bengal (d) Social legislation in Madras
859. In 1917, at Champaran, the government forced farmers to undertake (a) Opium cultivation (b) Land ceiling (c) Indigo cultivation (d) Hallow cultivation
860. The first session of Indian National Congress was held at (a) Surat (b) Lahore (c) Calcutta (d) Bombay
861. Woods Despatch of 1854 resulted in the (a) Establishment of educational system (b) Establishment of Indian universities (c) Introduction of Postal System (d) Abolition of child marriage
862. The English Weekly edited by Mahatma Gandhi was (a) Young India (b) Bombay Chronicle (c) Kesari (d) Comrade
863. The first railway started in India under the Governor-Generalship of (a) Lord Dalhousie (b) Lord Cornwallis (c) Lord Canning
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(d) Lord Hastings
864. The Act which imparted provincial autonomy is (a) Government of India Act, 1919 (b) Indian Independence Act, 1947 (c) Government of India Act, 1935 (d) Indian Councils Act, 1909
865. Indian sepoys in the Bengal army revolted because (a) The British tried to make them use the greased catridges. (b) The British passed the General Service Enlistment Act. (c) The British officers ill-treated them. (d) The British discontinued the payment of field allowance.
866. From where did Mahatma Gandhi start his historic Dandi March ? (a) Chauri Chaura (b) Dandi (c) Sabarmati Ashram (d) Champaran 867. Quit India Movement started after the failure of (a) Cripps proposal (b) None of these (c) Simon recommendation (d) Cabinet Mission 868. The practice of Sati was declared illegal by (a) Lord Ripon (b) Raja Rammohan Roy (c) Lord Cornwallis (d) Lord William Bentick
869. Except Jammu and Kashmir and Hyderabad, the integration of Indian states was completed in (a) 17807 (b) 18598 (c) 18203 (d) 17380
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870. Who among the following could not be captured by the British in 1857? (a) Nana Saheb (b) Tantia Tope (c) Bahadur Shah II (d) Mangal Pandey
871. The Simon Commission was concerned with (a) Famines (b) Constitutional reforms (c) Higher education (d) Reforms in princely states 872. The Vernacular Press Act 1878 was repealed by (a) Lord Lytton (b) Lord Ripon (c) Lord Minto (d) Lord Curzon
873. The first national leader to attack the Salt Tax in Indian Legislature was (a) Mahatma Gandhi (b) Pherozeshah Mehta (c) Dadabhai Naoroji (d) G.K. Gokhale
874. The Indian states that were annexed by invokingthe Doctrine of Lapse included (a) Mysore, Satara and Bhavnagar (b) Jhansi, Nagpur and Satara (c) Jhansi, Nagpur and Travancore (d) Jhansi, Satara and Mysore
875. The Congress split into moderates and extremists in the session at (a) Surat (b) Lucknow (c) Ahmedabad (d) Madras
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876. Which of the following was an empire Communist journal of M.N. Roy? (a) Kishan Sabha (b) The Worker (c) Vanguard (d) Anushilan
877. The Gandhi - Irwin Pact proclaimed the suspension of (a) Dandi March (b) None of these (c) Civil Disobedience Movement (d) Non Cooperation Movement
878. The office of the Secretary of State for India was created by the (a) Morley - Minto Reforms, 1908 (b) Montague- Chelmsford Reforms (c) Indian Councils Act, 1861 (d) Government of India Act, 1858
879. The Indian National Congress adopted the resolution of Poorna Swaraj (complete independence) at its session held at (a) Calcutta (b) Allahabad (c) Karachi(d) (d) Lahore
880. After 1853, a very large amount of the British capital was invested in (a) Coal mining (b) Tea plantation (c) Railways (d) Jute mills
881. The Home Rule Movement in India was started by
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(a) S.N. Banerjee and W.C. Banerjee (b) Annie Besant and Gokhale (c) Mahatma Gandhi and Motilal Nehru (d) Annie Besant and Tilak 882. The importance of Gandhiji's Non-Cooperation Movement was that (a) It showed the ability and the willingness of the people in general to endure. (b) None of these (c) Non-violence was employed for the first time as an effective weapon of mass movement. (d) It was a great movement on a large scale.
883. Who among the following was the leader of the moderates ? (a) B.G. Tilak (b) C.F. Andrews (c) Annie Besant (d) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
884. Who among the following started Bhudan Movement ? (a) Jayaprakash Narayan (b) Acharya Kripalani (c) Vinoba Bhave (d) Mahatma Gandhi
884. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was born in the year (a) 1889 (b) 1914 (c) 1899 (d) 1900
885. Who among the following was a prominent officer of the Azad Hind Fauj? (a) Shah Nawaz Khan (b) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (c) Aruna Asaf Ali (d) DR. M.A. Ansari
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886. Which of the following revolutionary leaders organised an attack on the armoury of Chittagong? (a) Surya Sen (b) C.R. Das (c) Jatin Das (d) Chandrashekhar Azad
887. Luckhnow Pact of 1916 is significant in the history of Indian National Movement because (a) None of these (b) It ended separate electorates for Hindus and Muslims. (c) It decide India's non participating in World War I. (d) Both the groups of Congress men settled their disputes .
888. What was the chief characteristic of Government of India Act, 1935 ? (a) Unitary Government at Centre (b) None of these (c) Interim Indian Government at Centre (d) Federal Government at Centre
889. Which of the following statements is not correct ? (a) Swami Dayanand Saraswati established the Arya Samaj. (b) Mahatma Gandhi was born in Gandhinagar. (c) Dr. Annie Besant was a theosophist (d) The international headquarter of the Theosophical Society is in Madras.
890. The title of Governor - General was changed to that of Viceroy in the year (a) 1905 A.D. (b) 1917 A.D. (c) 1858 A.D. (d) 1885 A.D.
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891. What was the name of the periodical published by Mahatma Gandhi during his stay in South Africa? (a) Afrikaner (b) Indian Opinion (c) India Gazette (d) Navjivan
892. Which of the following was written by Raja Rammohan Roy ? (a) Tuhfatul Muwahiddin (b) Kiratarjuniya (c) Mother India (d) Brahma Samhita
893. Whom did Mahatma Gandhi describe as pure as crystal, as brave as a lion and the most perfect man in the political field ? (a) B.G. Tilak (b) C.R. Das (c) Motilal Nehru (d) G.K. Gokhale
894. Who among the following first propounded the idea of basic education? (a) Raja Ram Mohan Roy (b) Dayanand Saraswati (c) Mahatma Gandhi (d) Jawaharlal Nehru
895. What did Gandhiji do to practise the ideals of truth and non- violence in 1916 ? (a) He started an all-India Satyagrahs. (b) He founded Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad (c) He founded the Gujarat Vidyapeeth. (d) He joined the Indian National Congress. 896. The Prime Minister of Britain at the time of India's independence was (a) Ramsay Macdonald (b) Clement Attlee
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(c) Lord Mountbatten (d) Wintson Churchill
897. The split between the extremists and the moderates took places in the sessions Indian National Congress held at (a) Bombay (b) Surat (c) Calcutta (d) Lahore
898. Which of the following statements regarding Quit India Movement is correct ? (a) The movement paved the way for British seriously considering granting freedom to India. (b) The Muslims did not participate in the movement. (c) It was entirely a non-violent movement. (d) The upper middle class did not show interest in this movement. 899. General Dyer who was responsible for Jallianwala Bagh massacre was shot dead by (a) Udham Singh (b) Hasrat Mohani (c) Sohan Singh Bhakna (d) V.V.S. Iyer
900. The famous song Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram was sung during Dandi march by the renowed musician (a) Mallikarjun Mansur (b) Onkar Nath Thakur (c) Krishna Rao Shankar Pandit (d) Digambar Vishnu Paluskar 901. The greatest evil that arose out of British policies with regard to Indian agriculture, was the (a) Emergence of the money lenders (b) None of these (c) Transformation of the peasant cultivators into tenants at will.
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(d) Improverishment of the peasantry 902. The Home Rule Movement started by Annie Besant aimed at (a) Boycotting foreign goods. (b) Attaining self rule for India (c) Educating the Indian masses (d) Agitating against the British monopoly in administration.
903. Before Delhi, where was the capital of India during the British India ? (a) Lucknow (b) Patna (c) Bombay (d) Calcutta
904. In 1930 Mahatma Gandhi started Civil Disobedience Movement from (a) Sabarmati (b) Dandi (c) Wardha (d) Sevagram
905. Which Governor General abolished the system of dual government established by Robert Clive and established the Company's control over Bengal ? (a) Warren Hastings (b) Sir Charles Metacalfe (c) Lord Wellesley (d) Lord Cornwallis 906. Which of the following is not a form of Ganshian Satyagraha? (a) Civil Disobedience (b) Hunger strike (c) Hijrat (d) Non - Cooperation 907. The immediate cause for precipitation of the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857 was (a) Disparity in salaries of native sepoys and British soldiers (b) The rumour of use of catridges greased with cow fat
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(c) Spread of Christianity (d) Doctrine of Lapse 908. The Viceroy upon whom a bomb was thrown but he did not change his attitude towards the Indians, was (a) Lord Chelmsford (b) Lord Hardinge (c) Warren Hastings (d) Lord Curzon 909. The capital of India was shifted to Delhi during the reign of (a) Curzon (b) Hardinge (c) Minto (d) Chelmsford 910. Which of the following is correctly matched ? (a) Pararthana Samaj : Dayanand Saraswati (b) Brahmo Samaj : Jyotiba Phule (c) Satya Shodhak Mandal : Keshab Chandra Sen (d) Sri Narayan Dharma Paripalana Yogam : Narayana Guru 911. The Separatist system of representation by various religious communities and other groups was a prominent feature of the (a) Government of India Act, 1919 (b) Indian Independence Act, 1947 (c) Government of India Act, 1935 (d) Indian Council Act, 1861 912. Lala Lajpat Rai was assulted by the British during (a) The protest against the Simon Commision (b) The First war of Indian Independence (c) The salt Satyagraha (d) The Civil Disobedience Movement 913. The Young India was edited by (a) Acharya Narendra Dev (b) Mahatma Gandhi (c) Jawaharlal Nehru (d) Mahadev Desia 914. Vande Mataram was first published in (a) Anand Math (b) Kesari
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(c) Gitanjali (d) Harijan 915. The song Jana-Gana-Mana composed by Rabindranath Tagore, was first published in January 1912 under the title of (a) None of these (b) Bharat Vidhata (c) Rashtra Jagrati (d) Tatva Bodhini
916. The Muslim League demanded a separate nation for the Muslim in India from the year (a) 1920 (b) 1940 (c) 1945 (d) 1930
917. The resolution to start the Quit India Movement was adopted by INC at its session held at (a) Bombay (b) Karachi (c) Lahore (d) Calcutta 918. Which school of religion started in 1867, was basically anti- British ? (a) Deoband (b) Farazi (c) Wahabi (d) Aligarh 919. The first Indian Councils Act was passed in (a) 1857 (b) 1892 (c) 1861 (d) 1853 920. Why were the Indians dissatified with the Simon Commission ? (a) It recommended that Dyarchy in the provinces should be abolished. (b) None of these
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(c) There was no Indian member in the Commission. (d) Indians never wanted the review of the working of the Act of 1919.
921. By which law did the British Crown take over the power to rule over India from the East India Company ? (a) Magna Carta of Rights (b) None of these (c) Indian Councils Act, 1861 (d) Ilbert Bill 922. Who founded the Indian National Social Congress in 1887 ? (a) B.G. Tilak (b) M.G. Ranade (c) G.K. Gokhale (d) Ram Prasad Bismil 923. Who was responsible for the introduction of English as the official language in India ? (a) Lord William Bentick (b) Allan Octavian Hume (c) Marquess of Dalhousie (d) Sir Charles Wood 924. Mahatma Gandhi gave the call Do or Die during the (a) Quit India Movement (b) Civil Disobedience Movement (c) Khilafat Movement (d) Non-cooperation Movement
925. According to Mountbatten Plan, which of the following provinces was not to be included in the Indian dominion ? (a) Bihar (b) Madras (c) Bombay (d) Sind 926. British merchants were willing to invest in railways and mines but not in cotton textiles industry. The reason was (a) Competition from the Indians (b) Lack of Technology
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(c) None of these (d) Lack of raw material 927. Who introduced the system of Civil Services ? (a) Lord Hardinge (b) William Bentick (c) Warren Hastings (d) Lord Dalhousie 928. Who was named as Mira Behn by Mahatma Gandhi ? (a) Annie Besant (b) Maria Montessouri (c) Kamla Devi (d) Madeline Slade 929. Who was known as the Liberator of the Press? (a) Bentick (b) Macaulay (c) Hastings (d) Metcalfe 930. Who initiated the introduction of education in English in India? (a) Lord Dalhousie (b) Lord Bentick (c) Lord Curzon (d) Lord Macaulay 931. Which of the following institutions was not founded by Mahatma Gandhi ? (a) Phoenix Ashram (b) Sabarmati Ashram (c) Sevagram Ashram (d) Vishwa Bharati 932. Who commented that Cripps Mission was a post-dated cheque on a crashing bank ? (a) Mahatma Gandhi (b) Jawaharlal Nehru (c) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (d) Subhash Chandra Bose 933. Which of the following upheavals took place in Bengal immediately after the Revolt of 1857 ? (a) Pabna Disturbances
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(b) Indigo Disturbances (c) Sanyasi Rebellion (d) Santal Rebellion 934. When was the first interim government formed during the British rule in India ? (a) 17046 (b) 17015 (c) 16650 (d) 16681 935. The major difference between the moderates and the extremists in the Congress session of 1907 was regarding (a) Satyagraha (b) Swaraj (c) Education (d) Boycott 936. Who after the Constitutional deadlock due to the Quit India Movement, gave the call - Back of Cripps ? (a) C. Rajagopalachari (b) Rajendra Prasad (c) Mahatma Gandhi (d) Jawaharlal Nehru 937. The Arya Samaj was founded by Swami Dayanand Saraswati in (a) 1875 (b) 1893 (c) 1874 (d) 1882 938. Cripps Mission aimed at (a) Giving proportional representation to the Muslims under the framework of the new Constitution (b) A compromise between Congress demand of united India and Muslim League's demand for a partitioned India. (c) Giving complete independence to united India. (d) Widening the gulf between the Congress and the Muslim League. 939. Whom did Lord Wavell invite to make proposal for formation of an interim government ? (a) Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad
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(b) Jawaharlal Nehru (c) Mahatma Gandhi (d) M.A. Jinnah 940. The author of Hind Swaraj was (a) M.K. Gandhi (b) Swami Sharddhanand (c) V.D. Savarkar (d) B.G. Tilak 941. Who declared: The only hope for India is from the masses. The upper classes are physically and morally dead? (a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak (b) Swami Vivekananda (c) Mahatma Gandhi (d) Gopal Krishna Gokhale 942. Who among the following characterised the Revolt of 1857 as a conspiracy? (a) G.B. Malleson (b) Sir John Kaye (c) T.R. Holmes (d) Sir Lawrence 943. Which of the following is not a provision of the Charter Act of 1853 ? (a) Governor General was given the power to veto the bills passed by the Legislative Council. (b) A provision was made for an open competitive examination for recruitment to Indian Civil Services. (c) None of these (d) Under thid Act, a legislative Council for India was created. 944. Lala Lajpat Rai did not write in (a) English (b) Urdu (c) Hindi (d) Punjabi 945. One of the most important activities of Mahatma Gandhi was the abolition of untouchability. For this purpose he founded the All India Harijan Sangh in (a) 1931
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(b) 1932 (c) 1928 (d) 1930 946. Dadabhai Naoroji declared Swarajya as the aim of the INC at the Calcutta session in (a) 1906 (b) 1905 (c) 1896 (d) 1901 947. Non-Cooperation Movement was passed in which session of Indian National Congress ? (a) Kanpur (b) Nagpur (c) Bombay (d) Calcutta 948. King George V visited India during the viceroyalty of (a) Lorg Curzon (b) Lord Rippon (c) Lord Reading (d) Lord Hardinge 949. The first Governor - General of Bengal was (a) Lord Clive (b) Lord Wellesley (c) Warren Hastings (d) Lord Cornwallis 950. In whose regime during the British period was Samachar Darpan the first vernacular paper, published? (a) Marquess of Hastings (b) Lord Minto (c) Lord Curzon (d) Lord William Bentick 951. who among the following was not associated with Home Rule Movement? (a) Annie Besant (b) M.A. Jinnah (c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak (d) Bipin Chandra Pal
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952. Who said the following of the Indian National Congress: A safety valve for the escape of great and growing forces generated by our own actions was urgently needed? (a) A.O. Hume (b) Lord Curzon (c) Annie Besant (d) Lord Rippon 953. The Revolt of 1857 affected several town in Bihar. Which of the following entries gives the correct sequence of the outbreak of the revolt in different towns of Bihar? (a) Jagdishpur, Patna, Rohini, Muzaffarpur (b) Rohini, Patna, Muzaffarpur, Jagdishpur (c) Muzaffarpur, Patna, Jagdishpur, Rohini (d) Patna, Muzaffarpur, Rohini, Jagdishpur
954. Who among the following was not one of the revolutionaries abroad who added a new dimension to our struggle for freedom? (a) Chidambaran Pillai (b) Raja Mahendra Pratap (c) Har Dayal (d) Maulana Barkatullah 955. Be proud that you are an Indian, proudly claim I am an Indian, every Indian is my brother? who had said these words ? (a) Vivekananda (b) Mahatma Gandhi (c) Jawaharlal Nehru (d) Lala Rajpat Rai 956. What was the ultimate goal of Gandhi's Salt Satyagraha? (a) Purna Swaraj for India (b) Removal of economic hardship to the people (c) Repeal of Salt Laws (d) Abolition of Government monopoly on taxation 957. Shuddhi Movement was started by (a) Arya Samaj (b) Brahma Samaj (c) Theosophical Society (d) Prarthana Samaj
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958. Who introduced the railways and telegraphs in India? (a) Lord Dalhousie (b) Lord Canning (c) Lord Hardinage (d) Lord Ripon 959. The Chauri-Chaura incident (during Non-Cooperation Movement) relates to (a) Large scale looting of government property by Congress workers. (b) A major offensive by underground revolutionaries (c) Massive police firing on unarmed Satyagrahis. (d) The burning of a police post by a mob. 960. Who advocated the policy of abolishing princely states in free India ? (a) Mahatma Gandhi (b) Jawaharlal Nehru (c) C.Rajagopalachari (d) Vallabhbhai Patel 961. All the three Round Table Conferences were held in (a) London (b) Manchester (c) Calcutta (d) Bombay 962. Which of the following Movements was started by the Indian National Congress during the course of the Second World War and formed a part of our freedom struggle? (a) Quit India (b) Swadeshi (c) Home Rule (d) Civil Disobedience 963. Who among the following was the leader of a number of anti- British revolts in Sambalpur ? (a) Sayyid Ahmad Barelvi (b) Surendra Sai (c) Utirat Singh (d) Kattabomman 964. The Cripps Mission visited India during the regime of
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(a) Lord Wellington (b) Lord Linlithgow (c) Lord Wavell (d) Lord Mountbatten 965. The system of budget was introduced in India during the viceroyalty of (a) Ripon (b) Canning (c) Dalhousie (d) Elgin 966. The Quit India Movement started at (a) Lahore on July 7, 1942 (b) Wardha on Aug 7, 1942 (c) Bombay on Aug 8, 1942 (d) Delhi on Aug 15, 1942
967. Who was the Governor-General when the Great Mutiny of 1857 broke out? (a) Lord Dalhousie (b) Lord Hardinge (c) Lord Canning (d) Lord Ripon 968. Which one of the following was the most immediate factor for the spread of Swadeshi and boycott of foreign goods during the first decade of the present century ? (a) Curzon's Partition of Bengal (b) Curzon's plan to curb the growing popularity of the Indian National Congress. (c) Curzon's design to curtail the sphere of local self government (d) Curzon's attempt to control the universities 969. Indian National Congress split for the first time in its session at (a) Surat (b) Calcutta (c) Allahabad (d) Lahore
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970. The first Indian to be elected to the leadership of Communist International was (a) Sohan Singh Josh (b) M.N. Roy (c) P.C. Joshi (d) S.A. Dange 971. In 1941, …………….had escaped from India and had reached Germany. a) Subhash Chandra Bose b) S.A. Dange c) A.K.Gopalan d) Jayaprakash Narayan
972. In July 1943 ……………….came to Singapore. a) Subhash Chandra Bose b)N.G. Ranga c) Ram Manohar Lohia d) Acharya Narendra Dev
973.……………………was organised from among the Indian soldiers who had been taken prisoner by the Japanese. a) INA b) Homerule League c) Individual Satyagraha d) AIKS
974. The Resolution for Quit India was made in the ……………session of Congress held in 8th August, 1942. a) Uttar Pradesh b) Bombay c) Bihar d) West Bengal
975. Indian National Army, also known as the…………….., was formed for the liberation of India from the British rule. a) Azad Hind Fauj b) Punjab Regiment
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c) Red shirts d) MSP
976. Indian National Army was formed in South-East Asia in the year …………..by pioneering Indian Nationalists and prisoners who wanted to throw off the yoke of foreign domination and liberate the country. a) 1931 b) 1936 c) 1939 d) 1942
977. The ………….was initially formed under Mohan Singh, after the fall of Singapore, the captain in the 1/14th Punjab Regiment in the British Army. a) INA b) AIKS c) Labour Party d) Congress party
978. The first INA under Mohan Singh collapsed and finally it was revived under the leadership of ……………in 1943. a) Subash Chandra Bose b) Bankim Mukerji c) Jyoti Basu d) Harkishan Singh Surjeet
979. At the time of Japan`s surrender in September 1945, …………..left for Manchuria to attempt to contact the advancing Soviet troops, and was reported to have died in an air crash near Taiwan. a) Subhash Chandra Bose b) John Thivy c) Dr. Lakhsmi Sehgal d) Narayan Karruppiah
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(b) None of these (c) The strategy for elections was made. (d) A joint electorate for the Scheduled castes with the Hindus was suggested. 982. Who among the following was a prominent officer of the Azad Hind Fauj ? (a) DR. M.A. Ansari (b) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (c) Shah Nawaz Khan (d) Aruna Asaf Ali 983. Sharada Act deals with (a) Intercaste marriage (b) Polygamy (c) Child Marriage (d) Widow remarriage 984. Who among the following was associated with the Home Rule Movement from Madras in 1922 ? (a) C. Rajagopalachari (b) T.Prakasham (c) Mahatma Gandhi (d) Annie Besant
985. The first fort which the British constructed in India was (a) Agra Fort (b) St. David Fort (c) St. George Fort (d) Hoogly Fort 986. Those who joined Mahatma Gandhi during the Champaran struggle included (a) Rajendra Prasad and Anugraha Narayan Sinha (b) Mahadev Desai and Maniben Patel (c) Vallabh bhai Patel and Vinobha Bhave (d) Jawaharlal Nehru and Rajendra Prasad 987. The Indian National Congress represented the views of the microscopic minority in India. This contention was maintained by (a) Lord Curzon (b) Lord Lansdowne
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(c) Lord Dufferin (d) Lord Ripon 988. The first Indian university opened in 1857 was in (a) Banaras (b) Bombay (c) Calcutta (d) Madras
989. Between which periods were the three Round Table Confrences held in London? (a) 1906-1909 (b) 1914-1942 (c) 1929-1931 (d) 1930-1932 990. The setting up of a Constituent Assembly of India was not acceptable to the Indian National Congress when it was proposed under the (a) Mountbatten Plan (b) Cabinet Mission Plan (c) Cripps Plan (d) Government of India Act, 1935 991. The Dual Government introduced by Robert Clive in Bengal was a failure because (a) He was not a good administrator. (b) Local people rose against Clive. (c) Power was divorced from responsibility. (d) The home government did not encourage it. 992. Who among the following was responsible for the revival of Hinduism in the 19th century? (a) Swami Vivekananda (b) Raja Ram Mohan Roy (c) Swami Dayananda (d) Guru Shankaracharya
993. What is not ahimsa according to Gandhiji? (a) It is tolerating the wrong. (b) It is truth.
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(c) It is a positive state of love. (d) It is doing good even to the evil doer. 994. Who amongst the following Englishmen was fellow of Gandhiji in South Africa ? (a) None of these (b) Polak (c) C.F. Andrews (d) Peterson 995. The Interim Government formed by INC in September 1946 was headed by (a) Jawaharlal Nehru (b) C. Rajagopalachari (c) Dr. Rajendra Prasad (d) Mahatma Gandhi 996. In which of the sessions, Home Rule Leaguers were able at demonstrate their political strength? (a) The Lucknow Session of Congress in 1916 (b) The joint session of the ATTUC and NFTL in Nagpur in 1938 (c) The All India Trade Union Congress held in Bombay in 1920 (d) The first A.U.P. Kisan Sabha in 1918
997. The first Bengali political drama which presented the story of the brutality of English indigo planters was (a) Neel Darpan (b) Shome Prakash (c) Rast Goftar (d) Indian Social Reformer 998. Who among the following was responsible for the revival of Hinduism in 19th century? (a) Swami Vivekananda (b) Raja Ram Mohan Roy (c) Guru Shankaracharya (d) Swami Dayanand 999. The main aim of forming the Indian National Congress in its initial stages was
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(a) To reduce the military expenditure (b) To improve the lot of peasants and indigo cultivators (c) To secure the right of recruitment of Indians in the higher civil services under British administration (d) To hold a simultaneous examination in India and England for the ICS 1000. Jallianwala Bagh Massacre took place in the city of (a) Bombay (b) Hyderabad (c) Lahore (d) Amritsar 1001. On whose recommendations was the Constituent Assembly formed? (a) Cabinet Mission Plan (b) Govt. of India Act, 1935 (c) Mountbatten Plan (d) Cripps Mission 1002. Moderates and extremists of the Indian National Congress differed mainly on the issue of (a) National education (b) Swaraj (c) Swadeshi (d) Boycott 1003. Who among the following were popularity known as Red Shirts ? (a) Khudai Khidmatgars (b) Mambers of the Azad Hind Fauj (d) People led by Rani Gaidinliu 1004. The Indian Independence League was set up by (a) Jayaprakash Narayan (b) Aruna Asaf Ali (c) Rash Behari Bose (d) S.M. Joshi 1005. Who among the following, analysed the cause of uprising of 1857 advocating a reconcilation between the British and the Muslims? (a) Syed Ahmed Khan (b) Syed Ahmed Bardvi
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(c) Syed Amir Ali (d) Shah Wali- ullah 1006. Who was the Viceroy of India at the time of Jallianwala Bagh Massacre? (a) Lord Hardinage (b) Lord Irwin (c) Lord Chelmsford (d) Lord Curzon 1007. Jallianwala Bagh massacre occurred on (a) 43568 (b) 11142 (c) 43130 (d) 44057 1008. The Civil Disobedience Movement was led in the North - West Frontier Province by (a) Sewa Singh Thikriwala (b) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (c) Shaikh Mohammad Abdullah (d) Dr. M.A. Ansari 1009. Which of the following Acts was known as Morley Minto reforms ? (a) Indian Councils Act, 1892 (b) Government of India Act, 1919 (c) Government of India Act, 1915 (d) Government of India Act, 1909 1010. Who among the following was impeached in England for his actions in India ? (a) Lord Cornwallis (b) Warren Hastings (c) Lord Wavell (d) Lord Ripon 1011. The famous Pakistan resolution was passed at (a) Delhi (b) Calcutta (c) Lahore (d) Bombay 1012. Mahatma Gandhi started his Dandi march from
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(a) Sabarmati Ashram (b) Ahmedabad (c) Dandi (d) Porbandar 1013. When was the monopoly of East India Company in trade brought under the control of the British Crowns ? (a) 1784 A.D. (b) 1813 A.D. (c) 1793 A.D. (d) 1773 A.D.
1014. Gandhi- Irwin Pact was signed in London in (a) 1931 (b) 1925 (c) 1937 (d) 1930 1015. The communal award declared in 1932 by Ramsay Macdonald provided a separate electorate for the (a) Sikhs (b) Anglo- Indians (c) Muslims (d) Depressed classes 1016. Who was the head of the Committee formed by the government to enquire into Jallianwala Bagh massacre? (a) General Dyer (b) None of these (c) John Simon (d) Hunter 1017. Which of the following is considered as the Revolutionary Era ? (a) None of these (b) 1900-1913 (c) 1857-1890 (d) 1934-1942 1018. In 1943, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose proclaimed the Independent India (Azad Hind) in (a) Vienna (b) Singapore
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(c) Rangoon (d) Tokyo 1019. Ryotwari was started by (a) Hastings (b) Dalhousie (c) Munro (d) Wellesley 1020. The Great Mutiny of 1857 broke out during the Governor - General ship of (a) Lord Dalhousie (b) Lord Canning (c) Lord Wellesley (d) Lord Hardinage 1020. Who among the following worked for the upliftment of depressed classes before independence? (a) Ram Manohar Lohia (b) Rajendra Prasad (c) Jagjivan Ram (d) Bhim rao Ambedkar 1021. Mahatma Gandhi Thoughts were greatly influenced by (a) The Vedas (b) None of these (c) The upanishads (d) Bhagwad Gita 1022. The centenary celebration of Indian National Congress was held at (a) Delhi (b) Madras (c) Calcutta (d) Bombay 1023. Which of the following movements truly reflected the spirit of Hindu - Muslim unity ? (a) Civil Disobedience Movement (b) Quit India Movement (c) Swadeshi Movement (d) Khilafat Movement
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1024. Who played the prominent part in bringing about the Lucknow Pact ? (a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak (b) Mahatma Gandhi (c) Motilal Nehru (d) Lajpat Rai 1025. Moplah rebellion of 1921 took place in (a) Kerala (b) North - west Frontier Province (c) Assam (d) Kashmir 1026. Burma was seperated from India in (a) 1935 (b) 1941 (c) 1939 (d) 1937 1027. Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated on (a) 18289 (b) 17562 (c) 17558 (d) 17928 1028. The 19th Century reawakening in India was confined to be (a) Upper middle classes (b) Rich peasantry (c) Urban landlords (d) Priestly classes 1029. Who founded the Scouts Movement ? (a) Clement Attlee (b) Lord Baden Powell (c) Annie Besant (d) Florence Nightingle 1030. English as a media of education was introduced in India in (a) 1835 (b) 1883 (c) 1838 (d) 1853
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1031. To promote the cause of Indian independence Home Rule society, popularly called India House was established in London by (a) Hardayal (b) Shyamji Krishna Varma (c) Madan Lal Dhingra (d) V.D. Sarvarkar 1032. The East India Company assumed responsibility for the education of the Indian people by the Charter Act of (a) 1774 (b) 1793 (c) None of these (d) 1758 1033. With how many volunteers did Gandhiji start on his famous Dandi march on March 12, 1930? (a) 78 (b) 108 (c) 12 (d) 58 1034. The secret society of revolutionaries which was organised by V.D. Savarkar in 1904 was (a) Abhinav Bharat (b) Sandhya (c) Yugantar (d) Ghadar 1035. Which of the following statements about Mahatma Gandhi's views on Satyagraha is not correct ? (a) It is the best weapon of the week against the strong. (b) It accepts the concept of self- suffering to wean away the evil doer by love and suffering. (c) It denotes assertion and economic dominance. (d) It is the exercise of the purest soul force against all types of injustice. 1036. Rani Lakshmi Bai died fighting the British in the battle of (a) Gwalior (b) Kalpi (c) Kanpur (d) Jhansi
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1037. The Simon Commision visited India to (a) Discuss the demand for the formation of Pakistan. (b) None of these (c) See the important historical places (d) Enquire into the progress of responsible government in India. 1038. Who said, Good government was never a good substitute for self government? (a) Swami Dayananda (b) Swami Vivekanand (c) Raja Ram Mohan Roy (d) Ramakrishna Paramhansa 1039 . The first weekly paper published by the INC (in 1889) was (a) India (b) Young India (c) Voice of India (d) Indian Opinion 1040. The post and telegraph system in India was introduced during the time of (a) Lord Cornwallis (b) Lord Canning (c) Lord Hardinage (d) Lord Dalhousie 1041. The reform movement among the Muslims started by Sir Khan is known as ?? Movement. (a) Khilafat (b) Wahabi (c) Aligarh (d) Sufi 1042. During whose Viceroyalty, Queen Victoria was crowned with Kaiser-i-Hind in Delhi Durbar ? (a) Lytton (b) Lord Minto (c) Hastings (d) Elgin
1043. The Communal Award which was later changed after Mahatma Gandhi's fast unto death in a jail at Poona, was given by
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(a) Winston Churchill (b) Stanley Baldwin (c) Ramsay Macdonald (d) Lloyd George 1044. The first Swarajist Conference was held at (a) Madras (b) Allahabad (c) Bardoli (d) Ahmedabad 1045. Gandhiji started Satyagraha in 1919 in protest against (a) Act of 1909 (b) Salt law (c) Jallianwala Bagh massacre (d) Rowlatt Act 1046. When the East India Company came into existence, England was ruled by the (a) Hanovarians (b) Tudors (c) Normans (d) Stuarts 1047. Lord Mountbatten replaced?.as Viceroy of India in 1947. (a) Lord Curzon (b) Lord Linlithgow (c) Lord Chelmsford (d) Lord Wavell 1048. Who presided over the Cabinet Mission ? (a) A.V. Alexander (b) Sir P. Lawrence (c) Stafford Cripps (d) Clement Attle 1049. The moderate and extremist sections of INC were reunited in the??? session (a) 1920 Calcutta (b) 1922 Karachi (c) 1921 Bombay (d) 1916 Lucknow
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1050. Who among the following attended all the Round Table Conferences ? (a) Jawaharlal Nehru (b) Madan Mohan Malaviya (c) Mahatma Gandhi (d) B.R. Ambedkar
1051. The author of the book Hindu way of Life is (a) Aurobindo Ghosh (b) Dr. S. Radhakrishnan (c) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (d) Jawaharlal Nehru 1052. The objective of the Cabinet Mission was (a) None of these (b) To help establish a Constituent Assembly to form the Constitution (c) For partition of India (d) To hand over power to Indians 1053. Which Act was the first legislative interference by the British Parliament in the affairs of India ? (a) Fox's India Bill, 1783 (b) Pitt's India Act, 1784 (c) The Regulating Act, 1773 (d) The Declaratory Act, 1781 1054. The last Governor General of India was (a) C. Rajagopalachari (b) Lord Mountbatten (c) Lord Wavell (d) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
1055. The Congress ministries that had been formed in several provinces in 1937 resigned in November 1939 in protest against the (a) British policy of repression (b) Interference of the Viceroy and the Governors, in administration (c) Participation of India in the Second World War, without consulting the Indian National Congress
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(d) Refusal of the British government to grant independence to India 1056. Who was the pioneer among the following social reformers ? (a) Raja Ram Mohan Roy (b) Swami Vivekanand (c) Dayanand Saraswati (d) Ramakrishna Paramhansa 1057. Wood's Despatch of 1854 resulted in the (a) Introduction of postal system (b) Establishment of educational system (c) Abolition of child marriage (d) Establishment of Indian universites 1058. Who once remarked, Nehru is a patriot while Jinnah is a politician. (a) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (b) Mahatma Gandhi (c) Sir Mohammad Iqbal (d) Abdul Ghaffar Khan
1059. When Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated, who said, None will believe that a man like this body and soul ever walked on this earth? (a) Leo Tolstoy (b) Bertrand Russel (c) Jawaharlal Nehru (d) Albert Einstein 1060. Who initiated the greeting of Jai Hind ? (a) Subhash Chandra Bose (b) Jawaharlal Nehru (c) Mahatma Gandhi (d) B.G. Tilak 1061. Satyagraha Sabha was formed by Mahatma Gandhi at (a) Ahmedabad (b) Bombay (c) Poona (d) Calcutta 1062. Which of the following enactments of British Parliament allowed Indian magistrates to try the cases of British nationals as well in India ?
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(a) Bill of Rights (b) Pitt's India Act (c) Ilbert Bill (d) Rowlatt Act 1063. Queen Victoria was appointed Empress of India in (a) 1885 (b) 1877 (c) 1858 (d) 1876 1064. The first Governor -General of India was appointed in (a) 1911 (b) 1858 (c) 1774 (d) 1833 1065. The Second Civil Disobedience Movement started with (a) The adoption of a resolution declaring Poorna Swaraj as the objective of the Congress (b) The failure of Cripps Mission (c) Dandi march (d) The passing of the Quit India Resolution 1066. When did the Indian National Congress ask for the Dominion Status ? (a) 1942 (b) 1947 (c) 1908 (d) 1929 1067. The Cripps Mission visited India during the regime of (a) Lord Wavell (b) Lord Mountbatten (c) Lord Wellington (d) Lord Linlithgow 1068. Who among the following was not the Viceroy of India during the 20th century ? (a) Lord Minto (b) Lord Dalhousie (c) Lord Chelmsford (d) Lord Irwin
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1069. The slogan Inquilab Zindabad was given by (a) Khudi Ram Bose (b) Subhash Chandra Bosse (c) Chandra Shekhar Azad (d) Sardar Bhagat Singh 1070.Who was the Viceroy of India at the time of Quit India Movement ? (a) Lord Mountbatten (b) Lord Wellington (c) Lord Wavell (d) Lord Linlithgow 1071. Bombay Samachar, the first newspaper started in Bombay, was a venture by the (a) Parsees (b) Sindhis (c) Hindus (d) Gujaratis 1072. Which of the folowing is correctly matched? (a) Non- Cooperation Movement : 1920 (b) Jallianwala Bagh Massacre : 1921 (c) Salt Satyagraha : 1929 (d) Surat split : 1905 1073. The credit for forming an all India organisation of nationalist political workers goes to (a) A.O. Hume (b) W.C. Bonnerjee (c) S.N. Banerjea (d) Dadabhai Naoroji 1074. Which reformer from Maharashtra was known as Lokhitavadi? (a) M.G. Ranade (b) Gopal Hari Deshmukh (c) Pandit Ramabai (d) Gopal Krishna Gokhale 1075. Who said: Bengal united is a power. Bengal divided will pull several different ways? (a) Hardinge (b) Risley
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(c) Dufferin (d) Curzon
1076. Who among the following was not one of the founders of the Congress Socialist party set up in 1934 ? (a) P.C. Joshi (b) Acharya Narendra Dev (c) Ashok Mehta (d) Jaya Prakash Narayan 1077. The purpose of the Whitley Commission was (a) To suggest measures to improve conditions of labourers (b) None of these (c) To look into the problem of minorities in India (d) To enable political parties in India to reach a consensus on the constitutional question 1078. Identify the area where the Santhals proclaimed a government of their own in 1855-56 : (a) Munger - Bhagalpur (b) Gaya -Munger (c) Bhagalpur-Rajmahal (d) Shahabad- Gaya 1079. Mahatma Gandhi gave the call to reject foreign goods during the (a) Civil Disobedience Movement (b) Non Cooperation Movement (c) Khilafat Movement (d) Swadeshi Movements
1080. Who among the following opposed Mahatma Gandhi's association with the Khilafat movement? (a) Mohammed Ali Jinnah (b) Abul Kalam Azad (c) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (d) Fazlul Haquer 1081. The integration of Indians States is the achievement of (a) Subhash Chandra Bose (b) Mahatma Gandhi (c) Rajendra Prasad
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(d) Vallabhbhai Patel 1082. Jawaharlal Nehru helped to start the newspaper (a) Pioneer (b) Patriot (c) Kesri (d) National Herald 1083. Who was the British Prime Minister at the time of the Second Round Table Conference ? (a) Clement Attlee (b) None of these (c) Neville Chamberlain (d) Ramsay Macdonald
1084. Who was the Viceroy during the time Mr. Attlee of England declared the British intention to transfer power to Indians ? (a) Lord Irwin (b) Lord Linlithgow (c) Lord Mountbatten (d) Lord Wavell 1085. The Wavell Plan aimed at (a) Complete Indianisation of the Executive Council (b) None of these (c) Complete Europeanisation of the Executive Council. (d) Giving equal representation to the Indians and the European in the Executive Council 1086. The leader who left politics, retired to Pondicherry and set up an ashram there, was (a) Aurobindo Ghosh (b) Bhikaji Cama (c) Lokmanya Tilak (d) Bipin Chandra Pal 1087. The first Satyagraha of Gandhiji for the cause of indigo farmers was observed at (a) Champaran (b) Sabarmati (c) Chauri Chaura (d) Bardoli
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1088. Which of the following was East India Company's most significant parliamentary Act ? (a) Regulation Act (b) Rowlatt Act (c) Charter Act of 1813 (d) Pitts Act 1089. The word Adivasi was used for the first time to refer to the tribal people by (a) Jyotiba Phule (b) Thakkar Bappa (c) B.R. Ambedkar (d) Mahatma Gandhi 1090. Except Jammu and Kashmir and Hyderabad, the integrationof Indian states was completed in (a) 18598 (b) 18203 (c) 17380 (d) 17807 1091. Which of the following Acts of British Parliament was introduced to remove the shortcomings of the Regulation Act ? (a) Government of India Act, 1919 (b) Rowlatt Act (c) Pitt's India Act, 1784 (d) Charter Act of 1793
1092. Indian National Congress held its first sessum at (a) Lahore (b) Madras (c) Bombay (d) Lucknow 1093. Who was the founder of Muslim League in India ? (a) None of these (b) Aga Khan (c) Sir Syed Ahmad Khan (d) M.A. Jinnah 1094. When was Purna Swaraj day first decided tobe celebrated ?
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(a) 17394 (b) 18289 (c) 10984 (d) 11185 1095. The trial of INA heroes was held at (a) Delhi (b) Simla (c) Bombay (d) Calcutta 1096. Who among the following was the follower of Mahatma Gandhi's philosophy? (a) Bertrand Russel (b) Martin Luther (c) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (d) Marshal Tito 1097. Montague -Chelmsford reforms were (a) Educational reforms (b) Constitutional reforms (c) Political reforms (d) Social reforms 1098. First Governor - General of India, after independence was (a) C. Rajagopalachari (b) Lord Mountbatten (c) Rajendra Prasad (d) Jawaharlal Nehru 1099. In the history of the freedom movement of India, the year 1930 is associated with (a) Chauri Chaura incident (b) Jallianwala Bagh Tragedy (c) Partition of Bengal (d) Dandi March 1100. Which of the following revolutionary groups was involved in Kakori Conspiracy Case ? (a) Ghadar Party (b) Abhinav Bharat Group (c) Anushilan Samiti (d) Hindustan Republican Association
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1101. The Second International was attended by (a) Pherozeshah Mehta (b) Dinshaw Edalji Wacha (c) Surendranath Banerjee (d) Dadabhai Naoroji 1102. The Buddha, the Ramayana and the Mahabharat are three treasures of India. Who said this? (a) Swami Vivekananda (b) Mahatma Gandhi (c) Rabindranath Tagore (d) Jawaharlal Nehru 1103. Who among the following was not the member of the Cabinet Mission which visited India in 1946? (a) Lord Pethick Lawrence (b) A.V. Alexander (c) Sir Stafford Cripps (d) Lord Mountbatten 1104. Who, amongst the following is associated with the Local Self- Government Act ? (a) Lord Cornwallis (b) Lord Dalhousie (c) William Bentick (d) Lord Ripon 1105. When Mahatma Gandhi set out on the Dandi march, he was accompanied, among others, by (a) Jawaharlal Nehru and Sarojini Naidu (b) Rajendra Prasad and Sarojini Naidu (c) Vallabhbhai Patel and Sarojini Naidu (d) Jawaharlal Nehru and Rajendra Prasad 1106. Raja Rammohan Roy's Brahmo Samaj rejected (a) Casteism (b) Ritualism (c) Idolism (d) All of the above 1107. In the early stages, the moderates in IndianNational Congress sought political progress through (a) Renonucing the titles conferred on them by Britishers
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(b) None of these (c) Boycotting the legislature and judiciary (d) Instigating violence 1108. Who said:Cowa rdice and ahimsa do not go together any more than water and fire ? (a) Mahatma Gandhi (b) Jayaprakash Narayan (c) Acharya Narendra Dev (d) Acharya Vinoba Bhave
1109. Who was the political guru of Gandhiji? (a) Dadabhai Naoroji (b) Lala Lajpat Rai (c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak (d) Gopal Krishna Gokhale 1110. In 1921, Chamber of Prince was established to (a) Al of these (b) Organize the princes of India provinces (c) Demand self rule (d) Support Gandhiji in Satyagraha 1111. The Barrah dacoity was the first major venture of the revolutionary terrorists of the freedom movement in (a) The Madras Presidency (b) Bombay- Karnataka (c) Punjab (d) East Bengal 1112. Legislature of widow remarriage in India was first secured by (a) K. Natarajan (b) Maharshi Karve (c) Pandita Ramabai (d) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar 1113. Who led Quit India Movement in the absence of Mahatma Gandhi ? (a) Sardar Patel (b) Aruna Asaf Ali (c) Sarojini Naidu (d) Jawaharlal Nehru
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1114. A.O. Hume belongs to (a) Germany (b) Britain (c) Indian Councils Act, 1892 (d) U.S.A. 1115. The aim of the Swarajya party was to (a) Boycott the Congress moves (b) Agitate for total freedom (c) Resort to extremism (d) Enter the legislature and wreck the government from within 1116. On the death of Gandhiji, who said that the light has gone out of our lives? (a) Dr. S. Radhakrishna (b) Lord Mountbatten (c) Jawaharlal Nehru (d) Dr. Rajendra Prasad 1117. Give me blood, I will give you freedom. These words are attributed to (a) Subhash Bose (b) Veer Savarkar (c) Khudi Ram Bose (d) Bhagat Singh
1118. What was the rate of land revenue as given in the dharma shastras? (a) 4-Jan (b) 8-Jan (c) 6-Jan (d) 3-Jan 1119. During the Gupta period of Indianhistory, the village affairs were managed by the village headman with the assistance of (a) Vishyapati (b) Amatya (c) Gopa (d) Mahattara 1120. Who was the first king to conquer Malwa, Gujarat and Maharashtra ?
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(a) Skandagupta (b) Harshavardhana (c) Samudragupta (d) Chandragupta Maurya 1121. Name the great Hindu King who combined in himself the qualities of Samudragupta and Ashoka ? (a) Harshavardhana (b) Chandragupta II (c) Kanishka (d) Chandragupta I
1122. Who among the following was a great ruler of Kalinga in ancient times ? (a) Kharavela (b) Mayurasarman (c) Bindusara (d) Ajatashatru 1123. The great Hindu law -giver was (a) Kautilya (b) Manu (c) Kapil (d) Banabhatta 1124. Which of the following is the correct chronological order ? (a) Guptas - Kushans - Mauryas - Sungas (b) Sungas - Mauryas - Guptas - Kushans (c) Mauryas - Sungas - Kushans - Guptas (d) Kushans - Guptas - Sungas - Mauryas 1125. Which of the following was an important port of the eastern coast during the Gupta period ? (a) Kalyan (b) Sopara (c) Tamralipti (d) Broach
1126. The Arab conquest of Sindh took place in
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(a) 712 A.D. (b) 1009 A.D. (c) 740 A.D. (d) 1001 A.D. 1127. Sakas were finally overthrown by (a) Chandragupta Vikramaditya (b) Devapala (c) Gautamiputra Satakarni (d) Kanishka 1128. Which of the following was a republic in sixth century B.C.? (a) Vrijian state (b) None of these (c) Magadha (d) Avanti 1129. In the sixth and fifth centuries B.C., the most remarkable king of the Haryanka line was (a) Bimbisara (b) Sisunaga (c) Udayi (d) Ajatashatru
1130. The Arthashastra is not concerned with (a) Administration of tests of loyalty to ministers. (b) Appointment of superintending officers for industries. (c) Appointment of superintending officers for agriculture (d) Assignment of lands to officers for their services. 1131.The original name of the Kushanas was in (a) Chinese Turkistan (b) Arabia (c) Persia (d) Macedonia 1132. Who among the following was not a Saka ruler? (a) Nahapana (b) Menander (c) Rudradaman
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(d) Sodassa 1133. Maurya empire declined after Ashoka mainly because of (a) Weak successors of Asoka (b) Decentralisation of powers (c) Ashoka's excessive patronage to Buddhism. (d) The policy of ahimsa leading to military weakness. 1134. The most commonly used coin, during the Mauryan period, was (a) Nishka (b) Karashapana (c) Suvarna (d) Kakini 1135. The first monarch of Magadh kingdom in the sixth century B.C. was (a) Jarasandha (b) Bimbisara (c) Prasenajit (d) Ajatashatru 1136. Chandragupta Maurya's empire extended in the north -west upto (a) Indus (b) Sutlej (c) Hindukush (d) Ravi 1137. Chandragupta Maurya overthrew the power of Nandas at (a) Taxila (b) Sravana Belgola (c) Ujjain (d) Magadha 1138 .The official religion during the rule of the Sunga dynasty was (a) The Ajivika religion (b) Brahmanism (c) Buddhism (d) Jainism
1139. The Huna leader Mihirgula was defeated by (a) Rajyavardhana (b) Buddhagupta
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(c) Chandragupta (d) Yashodharman 1140. Who amongst the rulers of southern India were the contemporaries of kings of the Gupta empire ? (a) Rashtrakutas (b) Cholas (c) Vakatakas (d) Satavahanas 1141. The name by which Ashoka is generally reffered to in his inscription is (a) Dharmakirti (b) Priyadarshi (c) Dharmadeva (d) Chakravarti 1142. Hindu colonieswere founded in the south-east Asian countries mostly during the period of (a) The Cholas (b) The Mauryas (c) The Guptas (d) The Rajputs
1143. Before ascending the Mauraya throne, Ashoka served as a Viceroy of (a) Taxila (b) Kaushambi (c) Tosali (d) Patliputra 1144. After the Mauryas, the most important kingdom in Deccan and Central India was that of (a) Vakatakas (b) Satavahanas (c) Pallavas (d) Cholas 1145. The Kaulinya system was introduced in Bengal by (a) Lakshmana Sena (b) Vijaya Sena
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(c) Hemanta Sena (d) Ballala Sena 1146. Who amongst the following is credited by a Chinese pilgrim with having built the ancient city of Rajagriha, the modern Rajgir in Patna district ? (a) Prasenajit (b) Bimbisara (c) Udayi (d) Ajatashatru
1147. Pulakesin II was a contemporary of (a) Harsha (b) Chandragupta Maurya (c) Samudragupta (d) Ashoka 1148. In early ancient India, the largest urban centre was (a) Pataliputra (b) Kanauj (c) Taxila (d) Kausambi 1149. Which Saka ruler was responsible for important irrigation works in Saurashtra ? (a) Nahapana (b) None of these (c) Menander (d) Rudradaman 1150. The most important kingdom in Deccan and Central India after the Mauryas was the (a) Pallavas (b) Satavahanas (c) Cholas (d) Vakatakas
1151. Which of the following dynasties ruled over Magadha in the 6th century B.C. ? (a) Sisunaga
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(b) Haryanka (c) Mauryas (d) Nandas 1152. Which of the following became the most important city of northern India under Harsha ? (a) Thaneswar (b) Kanauj (c) Pataliputra (d) Ujjain 1153. The most famous Indo-Greek ruler to rule over India, noted for his justice and popularity with his subjects, was (a) Menander (b) Demetrios (c) Rudradaman (d) Eukratides 1154. The Arab conquest of Sindh took place in 712 A.D. under the leadership of (a) Muhammad bin Kasim (b) Qutub-ud-din (c) Subuktagin (d) Mahmud Ghaznavi
1155. Chandragupta II fought war with the (a) Sakas (b) Parthians (c) Huns (d) Kushans 1156. The Gupta feudatories who became strong and independent in Gujarat were known as (a) Yaudheyas (b) Pundra Vardhanas (c) Maitrakas (d) Vakatakas 1157. Lichchavi princess Kumara Devi was married to (a) Pravarasena (b) Harshavardhana (c) Chandragupta II
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(d) Chandragupta I 1158. Gondophernes belonged to (a) The Saka dynasty (b) The Satavahana dynasty (c) The Kushana dynasty (d) The Parthian dynasty
1159. Rudradaman was one of the greatest (a) Kushan rulers (b) Pallava rulers (c) Maurya rulers (d) Saka rulers 1160. The ancient kingdom of Avanti had its capital at (a) Ayodhya (b) Ujjain (c) Vaishali (d) Pataliputra 1161. The Ashokan inscription which gives an account of the Kalinga war and its effects is (a) Minor Rock Edict IV (b) Minor Rock Edict XIII (c) Girnar Rock Edict (d) Minor Rock Edict III 1162. The only ruler of India who ruled over territories in Central Asia beyond the Pamirs was (a) Kanishka (b) Harsha (c) Ashoka (d) Samudragupta
1163. The great Royal Road mentioned by Megasthenes ran from (a) Prayag to Ujjaini (b) Pataliputra to Taxila (c) Pataliputra to Prayag (d) Indus to Pataliputra 1164. Who among the following is considered as the first national ruler of India ?
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(a) Kanishka (b) Chandragupta Maurya (c) Ashoka (d) Chandragupta I 1165. Which Gupta ruler had led a compaign to the south and was an expert Veena player ? (a) Chandra Gupta Vikramaditya (b) Skanda Gupta (c) Samudragupta (d) Chandragupta I 1166. In which century did Ashoka reign ? (a) Third century B.C. (b) Third century A.D. (c) Second century B.C. (d) Second century A.D.
1167. The medium of exchange in gold during the Gupta period was known as the (a) Suvarna (b) Karshapana (c) Dinara (d) Dramma 1168. Ashoka's claim of greatness chiefly lay in the (a) Extensive conquests (b) Exclusive patronage to Buddhism (c) Strengthening of army (d) Promotion of welfare of his people 1169. Kanishka's capital was at (a) Mathura (b) Peshawar (c) Amravati (d) Kanauj 1170. Which of the following rulers was adorned with the title of Maharajadhiraja (king of kings)? (a) Chandragupta Maurya (b) Ashoka (c) Chandragupta I
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(d) Kanishka
1171. Ashoka's invasion of Kalinga resulted in (a) Wealth and prosperity of Mauryan empire. (b) Victory to the policy of war and territorial conquests. (c) The development of peace and non-violence as state policy. (d) Peaceful relations with Kalinga. 1172. Who among the following has been called the Napoleon of India ? (a) Harshavardhana (b) Samudragupta (c) chandragupta (d) Ashoka 1173. Who amongst the following kings defeated Harsha's army on the bank of river Narmada ? (a) Rajendra Chola (b) Pulakesin II (c) Krishnadeva Raya (d) Rajendra I 1174. Who among the following was a Satavahana ruler ? (a) Nahapana (b) Mahendravarman (c) Vasisthiputra Pulumayi (d) Rudradaman 1175. The political and cultural centre of the Pandyas was (a) Vengi (b) Mahabalipuram (c) Kanchipuram (d) Madurai 1176. Vijayanagara is compared to the Chola for (a) Display of land revenue (b) System of land revenue (c) Rural local self government (d) Foreign conquests 1177. Kanchi was the capital of (a) Rashtrakutas
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(b) Cholas (c) Chalukyas (d) Pallavas 1178. Krishnadevaraya was the ruler of (a) Bahmani (b) Vijayanagar (c) Pallava (d) Chola 1179. Who was the founder of Sunga dynasty ? (a) Bimbisara (b) Agnimitra (c) Pushyamitra (d) Ajatashatru 1180. The Chola king who conquered the northern part of Sri Lanka and made it a province of his empire, was (a) Adhirajendra (b) Rajaraja (c) Parantaka I (d) Rajendra I 1191.The Chola empire reached its zenith under (a) Parantaka I (b) Rajendra Chola II (c) Rajaraja (d) Rajendra Chola I 1192. The capital of Kakatiya dynasty was (a) Hampi (b) Dwarasamudra (c) Warangal (d) Madurai 1193. Which of the following is the oldest dynasty ? (a) Pallavas (b) Cheras (c) Chalukyas (d) Satavahanas 1194. The Chola ruler who subdued the Ganges and obtained the title Gangai Konda Cholan was (a) Kulottunga
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(b) Rajendra Chola I (c) Rajadhiraja Chola (d) Rajaraja Chola 1195. Which of the following statements about Krishnadevaraya is incorrect? (a) He founded a new city, Nagalapur in honour of his mother Nagaladevi. (b) After his death, there were struggles for succession as successors were incompetent. (c) He fought the Battle of Talikota. (d) He was an accomplished writer and poet. 1196. The last ruler of Sunga dynasty was (a) Sujyeshtha (b) Vasudeva (c) Devabhuti (d) Bhaga 1197. Satavahanas belonged to (a) Konkan region (b) Kalinga (c) Andhra region (d) Maharashtra 1198. Which of the following was the lowest unit of Chola administration ? (a) Mandalam (b) Valanadu (c) Kottam (d) Kurram 1199. Bahmani Kingdom in South India extinguished in the (a) End of 16th century (b) Later half of 17th century (c) Beginning of 17th century (d) Beginning of 16th century 1200. The capital of Bahmani Kingdom was (a) Gulbarga (b) Ellichpur (c) Warangal (d) Devagiri
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1201. The Kingdom of Vijayanagar came into existence during the reign of (a) Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq (b) Balban (c) Harshvardhana (d) Alauddin Khilji 1202. The earliest evidence of Jewish community settling in India is provided by a charter of a (a) Chera King (b) Vijayanagara King (c) Chola King (d) Pandya King 1203. Harihara and Bukka, the founders of the Vijayanagara kingdom shaped the course of their conduct on the advice of (a) Vidyaranya (b) Tulsidas (c) Tukaram (d) Ramdas 1204. The first ruling dynasty of Vijayanagara Kingdom was (a) Aravidu dynasty (b) Sangama dynasty (c) Saluva dynasty (d) Tuluva dynasty 1205. The special feature of the financial system of Vijayanagara was (a) Land tax (b) Currency system (c) Revenue from seaports (d) Surplus revenue 1206. The Bahmani Kingdom was founded by (a) Malik Kafur (b) Hasan (c) Timur (d) Zain-ul-Abidin 1207. A lot of details regarding the village administration under the Cholas is provided by the inscriptions at (a) Kanchipuram (b) Uttaramerur
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(c) Thanjavur (d) Uraiyur 1208. Chalukya dynasty in South India was founded by (a) Bukka (b) Parantaka I (c) Pulakesin I (d) Harihara 1209. When Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency in India? a) 25th June 1975 b) 2nd June 1975 c) 5th June 1975 d) 20th June 1975
1210. The dynasty that excelled itself as a naval power was that of the (a) Cholas (b) Hoysalas (c) Cheras (d) Pallavas 1211. Pallava Kings were the devotees of (a) Vishnu (b) Shiva (c) Mahavira (d) Buddhacharita 1212. Bahmani Kingdom was founded by (a) Zain-ul-Abidin (b) Malik Kafur (c) Timur (d) Hason 1213. Who amongst the following rulers of Southern India was/were the contemporaries of Harshavardhana ? (a) Both (a) and (b) (b) Rajendra Chola (c) Pulakesin II of Chalukyas (d) Narasimhavarman of Pallavas 1214. The founder of Vijayanagar kingdom was (a) Krishnadeva Raya (b) Narasimha Varman (c) Raja Raja
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(d) Harihar and Bukka 1215. Which of the following kingdoms od South India was well known for its naval power ? (a) Hoysala (b) Pandya (c) Chola (d) Chalukya 1216. The power of the great Cholas was established by (a) Rajaraja I (b) Rajaraja (c) Kulothunga (d) Aditya 1217. Madurai was the capital of (a) Rashtrakutas (b) Pandyas (c) Cholas (d) Pallavas 1218. Vijayanagar empire ruins are found in (a) Bijapur (b) Baroda (c) Golconda (d) Hampi 1219. The …………….had great respect for the Caliph. a) Muslims b) Hindus c) Sikhs d) Christians
1220. Which of the following was a special feature of Chola administration? (a) Full powers to ministers in the rule (b) Cheap and proper tax collecting method (c) Autonomy for village administration (d) Division of empire into mandalams 1221. After the Mauryas the most important kingdom in the Deccan and Central India was that of the (a) Cholas (b) Pallavas (c) Satavahanas
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(d) Vakatakas 1222. Vikramasila University was founded by (a) Chandragupta Maurya (b) Pulakesin II (c) Kanishka (d) Dharmpala 1223. Who amongst the following Chola Kings fought against the Shailendera King of Shri Vijaya and defeated him ? (a) Sundar Chola (b) Rajaraja Chola I (c) Rajendra Chola (d) Parantaka I 1224. A Pala ruler who was raised to the throne by different sections of people was (a) Mahipala (b) Dharmapala (c) Devapala (d) Gopala 1225. In the Sangam age, Uraiyur was important for (a) Its being a great emporium of foreign trade. (b) Its being a great centre of indigenous trade. (c) Its being a great centre of cotton trade. (d) Its being a great centre of spice trade. 1226. The capital of Eastern Chalukyas was (a) Vatapi (b) Amravati (c) Nagarjunakonda (d) Vengi 1227. The Satavahana King who defeated the western Saka King, Nahapana was (a) Satakarni I (b) Vasishthiputra Pulumayi (c) Yajna Satakarni (d) Gautamiputra Satakarni 1228. In Krishnadevaraya's court, Ashtadiggajas were the (a) Eight great poets of his court. (b) Eight great scholars of his kingdom
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(c) Eight great ministers in his court (d) Eight elephants placed at eight corners of his capital. 1229. Nicolo Conti, the traveller who visited Vijayanagara kingdom in 1420 A.D., was (a) A Frenchman (b) An Italian (c) A Greek (d) A Russian
1230. The Arabs were established traders on the west coast of India and had the support of the rulers of Kerala. Which one of the following rulers first conducted a naval campaign on important Arab trade centres to check their monopoly ? (a) Mahendravarman (b) Dantidurga (c) Rajaraja Chola (d) Chalukya Vikramaditya VI
1231. The main purpose of Fahien's visit to India was to (a) Study Indian art and music (b) Find out an easy land route for trade with India (c) Visit Buddhist monasteries and record their history and condition (d) Study the administrative system of Gupta rulers 1231. Which of the following are true of the Mesolithic period? Select your answer from the code given below: (i) Microliths are found in general. (ii) Bagor, Langhnaj and Bhim-betka are some important sites. (iii) Bones of wild and domesticated animals are found. (iv) Rock-paintings are available during this period. Code : (A) i, ii, iii and iv (B) i, ii and iii (C) ii, iii and iv (D) i, ii and iv
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1232. With the emergence of ……………., the element of mass mobilisation was introduced. a) Rabindranath Tagore b) Annie Besant c) Gopal Krishna Gokhale d) Mahatma Gandhi
1233. The ………….were fighting against the Turkish Empire which was ruled by the Caliph (Khalifa). a) Germany b) British c) Autria d) Hungary 1234. The Indian Muslims joined the Khilafat Movement for the defence of ……………..against the British. a) Turkey b) America c) Bulgaria d) Italy 1235. Annie Besant joined the …………….in 1914. a) Congress b) CSP c) CPI d) CPI (ML) 1236. In 1916 ……………along with Bal Gangadhar Tilak started the Home Rule Movement. a) Annie Besant b) Gopal Krishna Gokhale c) Rabindranath Tagore d) Sri Aurobindo 1237. The ……………….demanded self-government to the Indians. a) Home Rule League b) All India Youth League c) Sri Aurobindo d) Muslim League 1238. The Lucknow Pact was in………………. a) 1916 b) 1918 c) 1919 d) 1925 1239. In………………., at the Lucknow Session, the 'moderates' and the 'extremists' were united. a)1896 b) 1897 c) 1899 d) 1916
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1241. In the year 1919, the British Government passed a new rule called…………………, under which the Government had the authority and power to arrest people and keep them in prisons without any trial if they are suspected with the charge of terrorism. a) Rowlatt Act b) Trade Union Act c) Gandhi-Irwin pact d) Min to-Morley Act 1242. The Rowlatt act was effective from 10th March,…………….. a) 1914 b) 1919 c) 1923 d) 1927 1243. In Punjab the protest movement was vast and strong.On 10th April, 1919 two renowned leaders of the Congress, …………….and Dr. Saifuddin Kithlew were arrested and were taken to unknown place. a) Mahatma Gandhi b) Dr. Satya Pal c) Gopal Krishna Gokhale d) Rabindranath Tagore 1244. A public meeting was held on 13th April 1919 at …………….in a small park enclosed by buildings on all sides to protest against the arrest. a) Jallianwala Bagh b) Uttar Pradesh c) Mumbai d) Delhi 1245. Brigadier-General ………………with his British troops entered the park at Jallianwala Bagh , closed the entrance of the park and commanded his army to fire on the gathered people without any warning. a) Reginald Dyer b) Sir Stafford Cripps c) Sir Claude Auchinleck d) General Sir Rob Lockhart. 1246. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on 2nd October………….. a) 1859 b) 1869 c) 1889 d) 1900 1247. After …………….came back to India from South Africa, where he worked as a barrister. a) Mahatma Gandhi b) Rabindranath Tagore c) Motilal Nehru d) Gopal Krishna Gokhale 1248. ………………….., who led the Congress party, introduced Mahatma Gandhi to the concerns in India and the struggle of the people. a) Tej Bahadur Sapru b) Rabindranath Tagore c) Mohammad Ali Jinnah d) Gopal Krishna Gokhale 194 MCQs FOR COMPETITIVE EXAMS
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1249. A series of non-violence campaigns of Civil Disobedience Movement were launched by the Indian National Congress under the leadership of……………………….
a) Mohammad Ali Jinnah b) Mahatma Gandhi c) Motilal Nehru d) Sri Aurobindo 1250. The Kheda Satyagraha and Champaran agitation in 1918 was one of ……………….first significant steps to achieve Indian independence. a) Gandhi`s b) Rabindranath Tagore’s c) Motilal Nehru’s d) Mohammed Ali Jinnah’s 1251. Mahatma Gandhi went to Champaran in …………….in 1917 at the request of the poor peasants to enquire about the situation as they were compelled by British indigo planters to grow indigo on 15% of their land and part with the whole crop for rent. a) Bihar b) Gujarat c) Uttar Pradesh d) Mumbai 1252. …………………accorded Mahatma (Great Soul) title to Gandhi in the year 1920. a) Mohammed Ali Jinnah b) Motilal Nehru c) Rabindranath Tagore d) Tilak 1253. The ……………….Era in the Indian Freedom Struggle took place with the Non Cooperation Movement. a) Gandhi b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak c) Sri Aurobindo d) Gokhale 1254. Non Cooperation movement was led by ………………..and the Indian National Congress. a) Motilal Nehru b) Rabindranath Tagore c) Mahatma Gandhi d) Gokhale 1255. The Non Cooperation movement took place from September …………….. until February 1922. a) 1914 b) 1917 c) 1920 d) 1921 1256. In the fight against injustice, ……………..weapons were non- cooperation and peaceful resistance. a) Gandhi`s b) Rabindranath Tagore c) Motilal Nehru d) Tilak
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1257. …………………. addressed all the Indians to wear Khadi (homespun cloth) instead of British-made textiles. a) Tilak b) Rabindranath Tagore c) Mahatma Gandhi d) Sukhdev 1258. ……………….. strongly appealed to all Indians to spend some time spinning khadi for supporting the independence movement of India. a) Mahatma Gandhi b) Rabindranath Tagore c) Motilal Nehru d) Sukhdev 1259. ……………….. urged to boycott the British educational institutions, to resign from government jobs, and to leave British titles. a) Mahatma Gandhi b) Rabindranath Tagore
c) Sukhdev d) Qutubuddin Ahmad 1260. Nobel laureate ……………….resigned the title knight from the British soon after the Jalianwalabagh Massacre as a protest. a) Rabindranath Tagore b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak c) Sri Aurobindo d) EMS 1261. When the movement reached great success, it ended unexpectedly after the violent clash at Chauri Chaura in…………………. a) Kashmir b) Delhi c) Bihar d) Uttar Pradesh 1262. On March 12, …………..Gandhi launched a new Satyagraha against the tax on salt known as Dandi March. a) 1917 b)1920 c) 1928 d) 1930 1263. ……………. started the historic Dandi March, by walking from Ahmedabad to Dandi, to break the law that had deprived the poor of his right to make his own salt. a) Mahatma Gandhi b) Motilal Nehru c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak d) Sri Aurobindo 1264. …………….. movement stimulated the entire nation and it came to be known as Civil Disobedience Movement. a) Dandi b) Mumbai c) Chauri Chaura d) Kheda
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1265. On 8th May, 1933, ……………..started a 21-day fast of self- purification in order to help the Harijan movement. a) Mahatma Gandhi b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak c) Sri Aurobindo d) Gokhale 1266. Mahatma Gandhi on August 8, ………….gave the call for Quit India Movement. a) 1919 b) 1920 c) 1930 d) 1942 1267. ………………called on all Congressmen and Indians to maintain discipline via non violence and Do or Die in order to achieve ultimate freedom. a) Mahatma Gandhi b) Motilal Nehru c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak d) Sri Aurobindo 1268. On 9th of August, 1942, Mahatma Gandhi and the entire Congress Working Committee were arrested in……………. a) UP b) Delhi c) Ahmedabad d) Mumbai 1269. In 1946, upon persuasion of…………………, Mahatma Gandhi reluctantly accepted the proposal of partition and independence offered by the British cabinet, in order to evade a civil war. a) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel b) Rajguru
c) Sukhdev d) Mohammed Ali Jinnah 1270. During the First World war, …………….joined the central powers against Britain. a) America b) Britain c) France d) Turkey 1271. A Khilafat Committee was formed under the leadership of Mahammad Ali, ……………….., Maulana Azad and Hasrat Mohini to organise a country-wide agitation. a) Shaukat Ali b) Qutubuddin Ahmad c) Shamsuddin Hussain d) Mohammed Ali Jinnah 1272. The main object of Khilafat Movement was to force
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the …………..Government to change its attitude towards Turkey and to restore the Sultan. a) British b) Austrian c) American d) Serbian 1273. October 17, …………….was observed as Khilafat Day, when the Hindus alongwith Muslims in fasting observed hartal on that day. a) 1908 b)1909 c) 1916 d)1919 1274. An All India Khilafat Conference was held at …………..on November 23, 1919 with Gandhi as its president. a) Calcutta b) Punjab c) Gujarat d) Delhi 1275. Congress leaders, like Lokamanya Tilak and Mahatma Gandhi, viewed the ………………..as an opportunity to bring about Hindu-Muslim unity against British. a) Khalifat Movement b) Khudai Khidmatgars c) Peasant movement d) Womens’ movement 1276. ………….visited Malabar in 1921, giving a further impetus to the Khalifat movement. a) Gandhiji b) Motilal Nehru c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak d) Sri Aurobindo 1277. The speed with which the Khilafat agitation spread, especially in the …………..and Valluvanad taluks in Malabar, created alarm in official circles. a) Eranad b) Tellicherry c) Kannur d) Edapal 1278. A tragic episode namely the Moppila Rebellion or the Malabar Rebellion occurred in………………. a) 1911 b)1919 c) 1920 d) 1921 1279. Police attempted to arrest the secretary of the Khilafat Committee of …………………in Eranad on a charge of having stolen a pistol.
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a) Pokottur b) Valluvanad c) Mambaram d) Payangadi 1280. The police party in search of Khilafat rebels entered the famous ……………….mosque at Tirurangadi. a) Mambaram b) Pokottur c) Valluvanad d) Manjeri 1281. The epilogue was the "Wagon Tragedy" in which 61 of the 70 Moppila prisoners packed in a closed railway goods wagon and carried to ………………jails, died of suffocation on November 10, 1921. a) Delhi b) Coimbatore c) Kannur d) Calicut 1282. Non-Cooperation was a movement of passive resistance against British rule, which was initiated by ………………….. a) Mahatma Gandhi b) Motilal Nehru c) Sir Stafford Cripps d) Sri Aurobindo 1283. The non-cooperation movement took place from September …………….. to February 1922 and initiated Gandhi era in the Independence Movement of India. a) 1914 b) 1916 c) 1917 d) 1920 1284. The Rowlatt Act, Jaliwanwala Bagh massacre and Martial Law in …………….. caused the native people not to trust the British Government anymore. a) Delhi b) Punjab c) Bombay d) Bihar 1285. The ……………………Report with its diarchy could satisfy a few only. a) Montagu-Chelmesford b) Lord Irwin c) Sir Stafford Cripps d) Lord Wavell 1286. In the meantime the Muslims in India also revolted against the harsh terms of the Treaty of severes between Allies and Turkey and they started ………………………. a) Khilafat movement b) Khudai Khidmatgars
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c) Labour movement d) Non-Cooperation Movement 1287. ………………… idea of winning over Muslim support also helped in Non-Cooperation Movement of India. a) Motilal Nehru’s b) Gandhiji`s c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak’s d) Sri Aurobindo’s 1288. After the notice had expired the Non-Cooperation movement was launched formally on 1st August of……………….
a) 1915 b)1916 c) 1918 d) 1920 1289. At the ……………….Session on September, 1920 the program of the Non-Cooperation movement was started. a) Punjab b) Calcutta c) Delhi d) Lahore 1290. The programs of ……………….involved the surrender of titles and offices and resignation from the nominated posts in the government body. a) Non-cooperation b) Khudai Khidmatgars c) Labour movement d) Womens’ movement 1291. …………….. strictly advised the Non-Cooperators to observe truth and non-violence. a) Tilak b) Motilal Nehru c) Gandhiji d) Sri Aurobindo 1292. The decision taken in Calcutta Session was supported in the ………………Session of the Congress on December 1920. a) Nagpur b) Bengal c) Andhra d) Karnataka 1293. ……………… along with Ali Brothers went to a nationwide tour during which he addressed the Indians in hundreds of meetings. a) CR Das b) Motilal Nehru c) Gandhi d) J.M Sengupta 1294. The educational boycott was most successful in ……………..under the leadership of Chitta Ranjan Das and Subhas Chandra Bose. a) Bihar b) Bombay c) Bengal d) Madras. 200 MCQs FOR COMPETITIVE EXAMS
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1295. In ………………the educational boycott was extensive under the leadership of Lala Lajpat Rai a) Assam b) Orissa c) Punjab d) Uttar Pradesh 1296. In ……………the Akali Movement was considered as a part of Non- Cooperation movement. a) Punjab b) Delhi c) Kahmir d) Haryana 1297. The Non-Cooperation movement reached a climax after the Gurkha assault on coolies on the river port of…………………. a) Chandpur b) Delhi c) Punjab d) Sambalpur 1298. The Anti-Union Board agitation in Midnapur was led by……………... a) Birendranath Sashmal b) J.M Sengupta c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak d) Bipin Chandra Pal 1299. Chelmsford was the …………………of India. a) Viceroy b) Captain c) Vice chancellor d) Governor 1300. The Act of …………….. introduced Diarchy in the provinces. a) 1919 b) 1929 c) 1935 d) 1947 1301. The Act of 1919 reformed some of the maladies of the Morley- Minto Reforms of……………., and introduced Diarchy in the provinces. a) 1909 b) 1919 c) 1931 d) 1935 1302. The Indian Statutory Commission (Simon Commission) was a group of …………….British Members of Parliament that had been dispatched to India in 1927 to study constitutional reform. a) three b) four c) five d) seven 1303. The Government of India Act 1919 had introduced the system of ………………to govern the provinces of British India.
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a) Doctrine of Lapse b) Permanent settlement c) Ryotwari d) Diarchy 1304. In November of 1927, Prime Minister …………..appointed seven MPs (including Chairman Simon) to constitute the commission. a) Stanley Baldwin b) V. V. Giri c) Sir Stafford Cripps d) Jawaharlal Nehru 1305. The ………………..movement in India forms a study of the working class, their demands, response of their owners and redressal measures of the government. a) trade union b) Khudai Khidmatgars c) Non-Cooperation Movement d) Akali Movement 1306. The Russian Revolution of …………….. exerted tremendous influence over the working class people of the world. a) 1917 b) 1789 c) 1897 d) 1927 1307. By the efforts of the leaders like N.M. Joshi, Lala Lajpat Rai and Joseph, the All-India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) was established in…………….. a) 1916 b) 1918 c) 1919 d) 1920 1308. With the recognition of the trade unions by the Trade Union Act of……………., the trade union movements in India gained momentum. a) 1918 b)1920 c) 1923 d) 1926 1309. The ……………Congress of the Communist International sent a message to the AITUC to overthrow capitalism and imperialism. a) first b) second c) third d) fourth 1310. The revolutionary of Muscovite group wanted to affiliate the AITUC with the Red Labour Union framed at…………….. a) China b) India c) Calcultta d) Moscow
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1311. In the power struggle, the liberal leader …………..left the AITUC and a) N.M. Joshi b) S.A.Dange c) Muzaffar Ahmed d) Joglekar 1312. The trade union activities were so rampant that in 1928 Viceroy Lord Irwin arrested the prominent leaders and brought them to …………..for trial. a) Meerut b) Peshawar c) Delhi d) Bombay 1313. The Socialist Party formed in ………… wanted to cement coherence between the moderate and the radical trade unions. a) 1920 b) 1924 c) 1928 d) 1934 1314 . ………….’s uncle, Ajit Singh was a pioneer in opposing the Colonization Act 1905 and had to remain in exile till the country gained independence. a) Bhagat Singh b) Lala Lajpath rai c) Baikuntha Shukla d) Surya Sen 1315.The conduct of Bhagat Singh and his comrades during their historic trial at ……………created new precedents of revolutionary behaviour. a) Lahore b) Peshawar c) Chouri chura d) Bengal 1316.Surya Sen was a prominent ………….freedom fighter. a) Bengal b) Kerala c) Bombay d) Delhi 1317. ………………..the chief architect of anti-British freedom movement in Chittagong, Bengal (now in Bangladesh). a) Surya Sen b) Baikuntha Shukla c) M.N. Roy d) Abani Mukherji 1318. ………….. major success in the anti-British revolutionary violence was the Chittagong Armoury Raid on April 18, 1930. a) Surya Sen’s b) Baikuntha Shukla c) Chandrasekar Azad d) Abdul Ghaffar Khan
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1319. …………………, being constantly followed up by the police, had to hide at the house of Sabitri Devi, a widow, near Patiya. a) Surya Sen b) Pratul Ganguly c) Narendra Mohan Sen d) Sachindra Nath Sanyal 1320. Bhagat Singh, Yogendra Shukla and Chandrasekar Azad were the key functionaries of……………………. a) Hindustan Socialist Republican Association b) Khudai Khidmatgars c) Naujawan Bharat sabha d) Arya samaj 1321. Hindustan Socialist Republican Association was first launched during a meeting in Bholachang village, Brahamabaria subdivision,…………….. a) East Bengal b) Chauri Chaura c) Peshawar d) west Bengal 1322. …………………. association was formed as an outgrowth of the Anushilan Samiti. a) Hindustan Socialist Republican b) Khudai Khidmatgars c) Hindu Maha Sabha d) Brahma samaj 1323. Gandhiji canceled the Non cooperation movement after the …………..incident. a) Chauri Chaura b) Peshawar c) Delhi d) Malabar 1324. On 9th August…………., the revolutionists ransacked the train.This now famous incident is known as the Kakori train robbery. a) 1920 b) 1921 c) 1923 d) 1925 1325. As a result of the Kakori train robbery case, ………………, Ramprasad Bismil, Roshan Singh, Rajendra Lahiri were hanged to death. a) Ashfaqullah Khan b) Phanindrananth Ghosh c) Abdul Ghaffar Khan d) Tilak 1326. Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev were executed in…………., as a result of their trial in the `Lahore conspiracy case`. a) 1923 b) 1927 204 MCQs FOR COMPETITIVE EXAMS
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c) 1931 d) 1934 1327. Kalpana Datta Joshi was born in…………….. a) Peshawar b) Chittagong c) Delhi d) Travancore 1328. …………………. was connected with Calcutta Chhatri Sangha, a quasi revolutionary organization for young girls. a) Bina Das Bhaumik b) Abdul Ghaffar Khan c) Sir Stafford Cripps d) Lala Har Dayal 1329. In 1871 a group in Calcutta had contacted ……………with the purpose of organising an Indian section of the First International. a) Lenin b) Karl Marx c) EMS D) Bipin Chandra Pal 1330. The short biographical article titled Karl Marx – a modern Rishi was written by the German-based Indian revolutionary……………... a) Lala Har Dayal b) Abdul Ghaffar Khan c) Ramsay Macdonald d) Lenin
1331. The first biography of Karl Marx in an Indian language was written by …………………in 1914. a) R. Rama Krishna Pillai b) Abdul Ghaffar Khan c) Jawaharlal Nehru d) EMS 1332. Bipin Chandra Pal and Bal Gangadhar Tilak were amongst the prominent Indians who expressed their admiration of ……………and the new rulers in Russia. a) Jawaharlal Nehru b) Abdul Ghaffar Khan c) Lenin d) Ramsay Macdonald 1333. In…………….., the All India Trade Union Congress was founded. a) 1916 b)1918 c) 1920 d) 1934 1334. .…………….. published a pamphlet titled Gandhi Vs. Lenin in 1921 a) S. A. Dange b) Abdul Ghaffar Khan c) Jawaharlal Nehru d) Ghulam Hussain 1335. In 1922, with Lotvala's help,…………..launched the English weekly, Socialist, the first Indian Marxist journal.a) Dange b) M.N. Roy
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c) Satyabhakta d) Abdul Ghaffar Khan 1336. The Communist Party of India was founded in ……………on 17 October 1920, soon after the Second Congress of the Communist International. a) Tashkent b) Peshawar c) Pinarai d) Calcutta 1337. On 1 May 1923 the Labour Kisan Party of Hindustan was founded in Madras, by……………………. a) Abdul Ghaffar Khan b) Satyabhakta c) Singaravelu Chettiar d) Jawaharlal Nehru 1338. …………….. was born in village Uttamazai (now in Pakistan) in a Pathan family. a) Abdul Ghaffar Khan b) Jawaharlal Nehru c) Mohammad Ali Jinnah d) Tej Bahadur Sapru 1339. …………………… came to be known as 'Frontier Gandhi'. a) Tej Bahadur Sapru b) Mohammad Ali Jinnah c) Abdul Ghaffar Khan d) Mohammad Shafiq Siddiqui 1340. ……………….. set up an organisation, Khudai Khidmatgars (Servants of God) in 1929. a) Abdul Ghaffar Khan b) Jawaharlal Nehru c) Mohammad Ali Jinnah d) Tej Bahadur Sapru 1341. ……………was also known as 'Red Shirts’ comprised non-violent revolutionaries who were also devoted social workers and played an active role in the nationalist movement. a) Khudai Khidmatgars b) Cripps Mission c) Simon commission d) Socialists 1342. ………….. was given the title Fakhar- e-Afghan (the pride of Afghan). a) Abdul Ghaffar Khan b) Mohammad Ali Jinnah c) Tej Bahadur Sapru d) Shaukat Usmani 1343. In December 1929, the Congress held its annual session at Lahore under the presidentship of………………… 206 MCQs FOR COMPETITIVE EXAMS
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a) Jawaharlal Nehru b) Mohammad Ali Jinnah c) Tej Bahadur Sapru d) B.R.Ambedkar 1344. The Congress held its annual session at Lahore in December 1929 and declared ‘Purna Swaraj’ or Complete Independence as its ultimate goal. a) 1909 b) 1919 c) 1924 d) 1929
1345. The………………., which was formed in November 1927 by the British Government to chart and conclude a Constitution for India, included members of the British Parliament only. a) Swarajist party b) Cripps Mission c) Cabinet mission d) Simon Commission
1346. On 8th of April 1929, members of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association attacked the assembly chamber of the Imperial Legislative Council in………………. a) Bombay b) Punjab c) Bengal d) Delhi
1347. Gandhi-Irwin pact was signed between Mahatma Gandhi and the then Viceroy of India, Lord Irwin on 5 March……………….. a) 1920 b) 1921 c) 1929 d) 1931
1348. Ramsay MacDonald was the …………….Prime Minister a) British b) Indian c) French d) Russian
1349. In the second Round Table Conference, ………….was appointed as the representative of the Congress, which was convened from 1st September to 1st December in the year1931. a) Gandhiji b) B.R.Ambedkar c) Annie Besant d) Maulana Azad 207 MCQs FOR COMPETITIVE EXAMS
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1350. .………………..announced"Communal Award" on August 4, 1932. a) Ramsay Macdonald b) Qutubuddin Ahmad c) Shamsuddin Hussain d) Mohammad Ali Jinnah
1351. The third Round Table Conference was convened in ………….on November 17th to December 24th in the years 1932. a) Oxford b) India c) Cambridge d) London
1352. .……………said that ‘There is no god higher than truth’. a) Mahatma Gandhi b) Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari c) Hakim Ajmal Khan d) Abbas Tyabji
1353. .………………… adopted the methods of Satyagraha in his fight against the racial discrimination of the American authorities in 1950. a) Martin Luther King b) Motilal Nehru c) B.R.Ambedkar d) Mahatma Gandhi
1354. Whose autobiography was titled 'My Experiments with Truth?' a) Mahatma Gandhi b) Motilal Nehru c) C. Rajagopalachari d) Rajendra Prasad
1355. The Lahore Congress of 1929 was monumental in the political career of …………..as well as the history of India's freedom struggle. a) Jawaharlal Nehru b) B.R.Ambedkar c) K. Damodaran d) Mahatma Gandhi
1356. …………….. was born on 23rd Jan, 1897 in Cuttack, Orissa, India. a) Subhas Chandra Bose b) B.R.Ambedkar c) Krishna Pillai d) N.C.Sekhar
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1357. ………………became the president of the Haripura Indian National Congress against the wishes of Gandhiji in 1938. a) Subhas Chandra Bose b) Qutubuddin Ahmad c) Shamsuddin Hussain d) Maulana Shaukat Ali
1358. The Workers and Peasants Party (WPP) was founded in Bengal on Ist November, …………. a) 1920 b) 1925 c) 1928 d) 1931
1359. Meerut Conspiracy case was in the year………………. a) 1924 b) 1926 c) 1929 d) 1932
1360. The chief editor of ……………was Kazi Nazrul Islam and the editor was Manibhusan Mukhopadhaya. a) Langal b) Yugandar c) Bengal Gazette d) Madras mail
1361. In ……………the publication Kirti ('Worker') had been started in 1926 by Santokh Singh of the Ghadar Party. a) Punjab b) Bengal c) Gujarat d) Orissa
1362. After the failure of the Second Round Table conference, Mr. ……………….announced the ‘Communal Award’ on August 16, 1932. a) MacDonald b) B.R.Ambedkar c) Ghulam Hussain d) R.C. Sharma
1363. Poona Pact of ……………. is an agreement between the untouchables or depressed classes of India and the Hindus. a) 1926 b) 1928 c) 1930 d) 1932
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1364. The Poona Pact took place at …………….Jail in Pune, Maharashtra on 24th September, 1932. a) Vellore b) Yerawada c) Lucknow d) Allahabad
1365. During the first Round Table Conference, …………..favored the move of the British Government to provide separate electorate for the oppressed classes as was done in case of other minorities like Muslims, Sikh etc. a) Singaravelu Chettiar b) Nalini Gupta c) Shaukat Usmani d) Ambedkar
1366. The compromise between the leaders of caste Hindu and the depressed classes were achieved when ……………signed the Poona Pact on September 24, 1932. a) B.R.Ambedkar b) M.N. Roy c) S.A. Dange d) Muzaffar Ahmed
1367. The Communist Party of India was founded in Tashkent on October 17, 1920, soon after the …………..Congress of the Communist International. a) First b) Second c) third d) fourth
1368. On December 25, 1925 a communist conference was organized in…………………... a) Madras b) Calicut c) Kanpur d) Bombay
1369. On December 25, 1925 a communist conference was convened by a man called………………. a) Satyabhakta b) P.Sundarayya c) Amir Hyder Khan d) E.M.S. Namboodiripad
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1370. At the second congress of the CSP, held in ………….in January 1936, a thesis was adopted which declared that there was a need to build 'a united Indian Socialist Party based on Marxism-Leninism'. a) Peshawar b) Faizpur c) Meerut d) Lucknow
1371. In 1957, the …………….won the state elections in Kerala. a) CPI b) CPI (M) c) Congress d) CSP
1372. .……………. formed in 1929 the Bihar Provincial Kisan Sabha (BPKS) to mobilise peasant grievances against the zamindari attacks on their occupancy rights. a) Swami Sahajanand Saraswati b) B.T.Ranadive c) P.Sundarayya d) P.C.Joshi
1373. All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) was formed at the ……………session of the Indian National Congress in April 1936, with Swami Sahajanand Saraswati elected as its first president. a) Lucknow b) Bihar c) Bengal d) Jaipur
1374. All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) was formed at the Lucknow session of the Indian National Congress in April …………. a) 1931 b) 1936 c) 1939 d)1947
1375. Haripura session of the Congress was held in 1938 under the presidship of ……………. a) Subhash Chandra Bose b) Maulana Mohammad Ali c) Motilal Nehru d) C. R. Das
1376. The Communist Party of India (CPI) split into two in ……………… a) 1918 b) 1920 211 MCQs FOR COMPETITIVE EXAMS
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c) 1925 d) 1964
1377. In order to give some concession to Indians in the field of administration, the Government of India Act, 1935 was designed on the basis of the recommendation of…………………. a) Simon Commission b) Cripps Mission c) Cabinet mission d) Lord Wavell
1378. In September……………., the Second World War broke out. a) 1919 b) 1929 c) 1939 d) 1945
1379. In October…………., the Individual Satyagraha was launched by Gandhiji. a) 1920 b) 1930 c) 1940 d)1942
1380. In March……………., Sir Stafford Cripps came to India to hold talks with the Indian leaders, which failed because the British were not willing to promise independence to India. a) 1925 b) 1927 c) 1939 d) 1942
1381. The Congress passed a resolution on 8th August ……….., which mentioned the 'immediate ending of British rule in India'. a) 1922 b) 1931 c) 1938 d) 1942
1382. In 1941, …………….had escaped from India and had reached Germany. a) Subhash Chandra Bose b) S.A. Dange c) A.K.Gopalan d) Jayaprakash Narayan
1383. In July 1943 ……………….came to Singapore. a) Subhash Chandra Bose b)N.G. Ranga
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c) Ram Manohar Lohia d) Acharya Narendra Dev
1384. ……………………was organised from among the Indian soldiers who had been taken prisoner by the Japanese. a) INA b) Homerule League c) Individual Satyagraha d) AIKS
1385. The Resolution for Quit India was made in the ……………session of Congress held in 8th August, 1942 . a) Uttar Pradesh b) Bombay c) Bihar d) West Bengal
1386. Indian National Army, also known as the…………….., was formed for the liberation of India from the British rule. a) Azad Hind Fauj b) Punjab Regiment c) Red shirts d) MSP
1387. Indian National Army was formed in South-East Asia in the year ………….. by pioneering Indian Nationalists and prisoners who wanted to throw off the yoke of foreign domination and liberate the country. a) 1931 b) 1936 c) 1939 d) 1942
1388. The ………….was initially formed under Mohan Singh, after the fall of Singapore, the captain in the 1/14th Punjab Regiment in the British Army. a) INA b) AIKS c) Labour Party d) Congress party
1389. The first INA under Mohan Singh collapsed and finally it was revived under the leadership of ……………in 1943. a) Subash Chandra Bose b) Bankim Mukerji
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c) Jyoti Basu d) Harkishan Singh Surjeet
1390. At the time of Japan`s surrender in September 1945, …………..left for Manchuria to attempt to contact the advancing Soviet troops, and was reported to have died in an air crash near Taiwan. a) Subhash Chandra Bose b) John Thivy c) Dr. Lakhsmi Sehgal d) Narayan Karruppiah
1391. A women regiment in Indian National Army was formed in……………... a) 1934 b)1936 c)1939 d)1943 1392. On 12 July 1943, ……………….announced the formation of the Women`s Regiment, naming it "Rani of Jhansi Regiment" a) Subhash Chandra Bose b) Sir Stafford Cripps c) Mohammed Ali Jinnah d) Tej Bahadur Sapru
1393. Sir Stafford Cripps was a radical member of the …………………. a) Labour Party b) RIN Mutiny c) The Bombay Mutiny d) Concervative party
1394. The Royal Indian Navy Mutiny also known as …………. a) The Bombay Mutiny b) The Delhi Mutiny c) The Meerut Mutiny d) The Calcutta Mutiny
1395. RIN Mutiny occurred on 18th February…………... a) 1937 b) 1939 c) 1946 d) 1948
1396. The INA trials also known as ………………… a) Allahabad trials b) Bombay trials c) Lahore trials d) The Red Fort Trials
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1397. …………. arrived on 24th March 1946 was mainly aimed at devolution of power from the British crown to India giving India independence under Dominion Status in the Commonwealth of Nations. a) Cabinet Mission b) Cripps Mission c) Simon commission d) Elizabeth II
1398. Clement Attlee was the Prime Minister of the…………... a) USA b) UK c) India d) America
1399. …………….included Lord Pethick Lawrence, the Secretary of State for India, Sir Stafford Cripps, President of the Board of Trade and A.V.Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty. a) The Cabinet Mission b) Cripps Mission c) Simon commission d) RTC
1400. The interim government of India was formed on 2 September ……………. a) 1929 b) 1936 c) 1946 d) 1947
1401. After the end of the……………., the British authorities in India released all political prisoners who had participated in the Quit India movement. a) first World War b) Second World War c) Anglo-French wars d) Indo-pak wars
1402. The newly elected government of ……………….dispatched the 1946 Cabinet Mission to India to formulate proposals for the formation of a government that would lead an independent India. a) Lord Wavell b) Lord Mountbatten c) Clement Attlee d) Elizabeth II
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1403. In October, 1943 …………..who had succeeded Lord Linlithgow as Governor-General, made an attempt resolve the stalemate the deadlock in India. a) Clement Attlee b) Lord Wavell c) Lord Mountbatten d) Sir Stafford Cripps
1404. Direct Action Day hartal called by the …………….on August 16, 1946 to get rid of 'British slavery and contemplated future caste- Hindu domination'. a) Muslim League b) Congress c) CPI d) CSP
1405. Direct Action Day hartal called by the Muslim League on 16th August ……………to get rid of 'British slavery and contemplated future caste-Hindu domination'. a) 1926 b) 1935 c) 1938 d) 1946
1406. The ………….government sent a Cabinet Mission to India in March 1946 to negotiate with Indian leaders and agree to the terms of the transfer of power. a) British b) French c) Portuguese d) Dutch
1407. Lord Mountbatten replaced …………..as Viceroy of India in 1947. a) Lord Wavell b) Lord Irwin c) Lord Rippon d) Clement Attlee
1408. ………………. first proposed solution for the Indian subcontinent, known as the 'May Plan', was rejected by Congress leader Jawaharlal Nehru on the grounds it would cause the 'balkanisation of India'. a) Mountbatten's b) Lord Wavell’s c) Lord Irwin’s d) Lord Rippon’s
1409. June third plan was associated with ……………. 216 MCQs FOR COMPETITIVE EXAMS
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a) Lord Mountbatten b) Lord Wellesly c) Lord Delhousie d) Lord Wavell
1410. The initial demand for a separate state was made by an eminent writer and philosopher …………..who raised his voice for a separate electorate for the less represented group of Muslim Communities. a) Allama Iqbal b) Mohammed Ali Jinnah c) Tej Bahadur Sapru d) Ghulam Hussain
1411. On 7th August 1947 Mohammad Ali Jinnah along with his old associations went to…………... a) Karachi b) Peshawar c) Bombay d) Kashmir
1412. The Indian Independence Act 1947 was the legislation passed and enacted by the ……………..Parliament that officially announced the Independence of India and the partition of India. a) British b) Indian c) French d) Dutch
1413. The legislation of Indian Independence Act was designed by the Prime Minister …………………. a) Lord Wavell b) Clement Attlee c) Lord Irwin d) Lord Mountbatten
1414. Indian Independence Act was passed in ……………..1947. a) April b) May c) June d) August 1415. The British rule of India over on the midnight of ………….. a) August 15, 1947 b) August 5, 1947 c) August 13, 1947 d) August 16, 1947 1416. ………………. was the last Viceroy of India under British rule. a) Lord Mountbatten b) Lord Rippon 217 MCQs FOR COMPETITIVE EXAMS
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c) Lord Wavell d) Lord Irwin 1417. ………………………first the Governor General of Independent India. a) Lord Mountbatten b) Lord Wavell c) Lord Irwin d) Dr. Rajendra Prasad 1418. ……………….was the first Prime Minister of India a) Jawaharlal Nehru b) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel c) Mahatma Gandhi d) Farouq Abullah 1419. ……………. was the first President of India. a) Jawaharlal Nehru b) Dr. Rajendra Prasad c) S.Radhakrishnan d) Moraji Desai 1420. ………………….. was the Deputy Prime minister of India. a) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel b) Jawaharlal Nehru c) Farouq Abullah d) Indira Gandhi 1421. Mahatma Gandhi assassinated on 30th …………….1948. a) January b) March c) October d) December
1422. Mahatma Gandhi assassinated on 30th January 1948 by a radical minded Hindu, ………………… a) Nathuram Godse b) Mohammed Ali Jinnah c) Ghulam Hussain d) Pethick Lawrence
1423. The French authorities ceded Pondicherry and Chandannagore to India on 1st November,……………..
a) 1946 b) 1947 c) 1948 d) 1954
1424. Goa, Daman and Diu were liberated from ……………and annexed to India on 19th December, 1961. a) British b) Dutch 218 MCQs FOR COMPETITIVE EXAMS
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c) Portugal d) French
1425. The Constitution of India came into force on 26 January………….. a) 1947 b) 1948 c) 1949 d) 1950
1426. The Cabinet Mission, which arrived in India on 24 March…………... a) 1938 b) 1939 c) 1942 d) 1946
1427. …………………. appointed in August 1953 the States Reorganization Commission (SRC), with Justice Fazi Ali, K.M.Panikkar and Hridaynath Kunzru as members, to examine ‘objectively and dispassionately’ the entire question of the reorganization of the states of the union. a) Jawaharlal Nehru b) Farouq Abullah c) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel d) V.P Menon
1428. The States Reorganization Act was passed by parliament in November……………….. a) 1947 b) 1948 c) 1956 d) 1957
1429. The greatest success of Jawaharlal Nehru's non-committal international politics was the formation of ……………. a) NAM b) TMS c) CEC d) SAPTA
1430. The South Asian Association for regional Cooperation (SAARC) was established on 8 December …………………. a) 1947 b) 1957 c) 1975 d) 1985
1431. The First National Trade union organization (The All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)) was established in……………… a) 1916 b) 1918 c) 1920 d) 1933 219 MCQs FOR COMPETITIVE EXAMS
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1432. The Tebhaga movement tookplace in …………… a) Orissa b) Bengal c) Andhra d) Bihar
1433. The Tebhaga movement started in Bengal in ………… a)1936 b)1937 c) 1939 d)1946
1434. The Telengana peasant movement started in mid-1946 and continued till the October of…………….. a) 1948 b)1951 c)1957 d) 1961
1435. The Naxalbari peasant uprising that occurred in the northern part of ………………is the last of the major uprisings India has witnessed. a) West Bengal b) Assam c) Tripura d) Bombay
1436. India introduced ……………..in 1958 to put down separatist movements in certain parts of the country. a) SEATO b) AFSPA c) NATO d) CENTO
1437. The term 'Naxal' derives from the name of the village Naxalbari in the state of………………, India. a) Karnataka b) Andhra c) Kerala d) West Bengal
1438. In 1969, the Communist Party Marxist-Leninist (ML) was formed under the leadership of………………... a) Charu Majumdar b) P.Sundarayya c) Amir Hyder Khan d) EMS
1439. Prime Minister ……………declared a state of emergency in India in 1975. 220 MCQs FOR COMPETITIVE EXAMS
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a) Indira Gandhi b) Jawaharlal Nehru c) Moraji Desai d) Sanjaya Gandhi
1440. Raj Narain, a socialist who was defeated by Indira Gandhi in the Rae Bareilly parliamentary constituency of………………., submitted to the Allahabad High Court charges of corruption in the election process against Mrs. Gandhi. a) Bihar b) Bengal c) Uttar Pradesh d)NewDelhi
1441. Under …………..and Rajendra Chola I, the empire became powerful in the field of army, finance and culture in South Asia and South-east Asia. a) Rajaraja Chola I b) Vijayalaya c) Pulakesin I d) Mahendraverman I
1442. The Pandyas expelled the Hoysala Dynasty who were partners of the Cholas from Tamil country and subsequently causing the end of the Cholas themselves in……………. a) 1169 AD b) 1179 c) 1269 d) 1279
1443. The Chalukya Dynasties were in power of Indian medieval history from the reign of 600 to 1200 AD in the state of…………... a) Thanjavur b) Deccan c) Badami d) Kalyani
1444. Western Chalukyas ruled from…………….. a) Badami b) Thanjavur c) Kalyani d) Vengi
1445. The Chalukyas who ruled from ………… capital city were referred as Later Western Chalukyas. a) Kanchi b) Badami c) Thanjavur d) Kalyani
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1446. The Chalukyas ruled their kingdom from the ………….capital city were known as the Eastern Chalukyas. a) Badami b) Vengi c) Thanjavur d) Kalyani
1447. Founder of the Western or Early Chalukya Dynasty was ………… a) Pulakesin I b) Vijayalaya c) Shashanka d) Dharmapala
1448. …………. was in power from 609 AD to 642 AD of Early Chalukya Dynasty. a) Simha Vishnu b) Vijayalaya c) Rajaraja Chola I d) Pulakesin II
1449. The Western Chalukya Dynasty’s capital of …………. was destroyed by the Pallavas in the 7th century. a) Thanjavur b) Badami c) Vengi d) Kalyani
1450. The Eastern Chalukya dynasties were in power from the capital city of ………….and the dynasty was lasted from 624 AD to 11th century. a) Vengi b) Badami c) Thanjavur d) Peshawar
1451. Western Chalukyas reestablished the dynasty in the Deccan and created a new capital at ……………... a) Thanjavur b) Badami c) Kalyani d) Thaneswar
1452. ………….. were a powerful Dynasties of Andhra Pradesh in Indian medieval history in the end of 500 AD. a) Pandyas b) Cholas c) Pallavas d) Chalukyas
1453. The founder of pallava Dynasty was ………….. a) Rajaraja Chola I b) Vijayalaya
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c) Simha Vishnu d) Pulekisin II
1454. …………. expanded the Pallava kingdom in Northern Orissa, Tanjore and Trichirapalli. a) Simha Vishnu b) Vijayalaya c) Rajaraja Chola I d) Pulakesin I
1455. Mahendravarman established a cave temple at ……………. a) Trichirapalli b) Tanjore c) Mahabalipuram d) Pullalur
1456. In 620 AD, Mahendravarman was attacked by the Chalukya king Pulekisin II in a battle at …………… and loosed very badly. a) Pullalur b) Thanjavur c) Mahabalipuram d) Manimangalam
1457. Mahendravarman was succeeded by his son Narasimhavarman in ….. a) 630 AD b) 6 34 c) 639 d) 702
1458. The …………… period was an era of chivalry and feudalism. a) Pallavas b) Chola c) Rajput d) Vijaynagara
1459. Vijaynagar Empire was established by two brothers Harihara and Bukka in the middle of …………. century. a) 8th b) 9th c) 13th d) 14th
1460. ………………… was the best ruler of Vijaynagar Empire. a) Krishanadev Raya b) Harihara c) Bukka d) Sher Shah
1461. …………….. dynasty ruled India from 1206 AD to 1290 AD. a) Slave b) Khalji c) Tughluq d) Sayyid
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1462. ……………..dynasty ruled India from 1290 AD to 1320 AD. a) Khalji b) Slave c) Tughluq d) Sayyid
1463. ……………. dynasty ruled India from 1320 AD to 1413 AD. a) Tughluq b) Slave c) Khalji d) Sayyid
1464. ……………… dynasty ruled India from 1414 AD to 1451 AD. a) Sayyid b) Slave c) Khalji d) Tughluq
1465. …………….dynasty ruled India from 1451 AD to 1526 AD. a) Lodi b) Slave c) Khalji d) Sayyid
1466. ……………, the founder of the Mughal Empire in India, was the descendant of as Changez Khan. a) Babur b) Vijayalaya c) Shah Jahan d) Humayun
1467. Babur came to India and defeated Ibrahim Lodi in ………….. at the First Battle of Panipat. a) 1326 b) 1426 c) 1520 d) 1526
1468. There was a brief interruption to Mughal rule when Babur's son Humayun was ousted from Delhi, by …………., an Afghan chieftain. a) Sher Shah b) Shah Jahan c) Ibrahim Lodi d) Pulakesin I
1469. It was Babur's grandson …………… who consolidated political power and extended his empire over practically the whole of north India and parts of the south. a) Ibrahim Lodi b) Shivaji
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c) Shah Jahan d) Akbar
1470. ………….succeeded Akbar was a pleasure loving man of refined taste. a) Aurangazeeb b) Shah Jahan c) Ibrahim Lodi d) Jahangir
1471. …………. fame rests on the majestic buildings he has left behind - the Taj Mahal, the Red Fort and the Jama Masjid. a) Shah Jahan's b) Babur c) Changez Khan d) Humayun
1472. ……………… was the last Great Mughal ruler. a) Aurangzeb b) Babur c) Shivaji d) Shah Jahan
1473. The Marathas were initially in the service of Bijapur sultans in the western Deccan which was under siege by the …………. Empire. a) Mughal b) Mauryan c) Gupta d) British
1474. The founder of Maratha dominance, ………… is known as the "father of the Maratha nation’. a) Shivaji b) Babur c) Ibrahim Lodi d) Pulakesin I
1475. The people of his nation called …………. as Chhatrapati (means who provide shelter). a) Shivaji b) Shah Jahan c) Ibrahim Lodi d) Pulakesin I
1476. The deliverance of the ...... teachings is known as “turning the wheel of dharma”. a) Hindu b) Jain c) Buddhist d) Parsi
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1477. The concept of the Chakravartin probably arose from the ...... ideal of the “maha purusha” or “great man”. a) Vaishnavite b) Bureaucracy c) dutaka d) ‘Senapati’
1478. The “Madhuban Copper Plates’ of the …………… century mention about the names of various officials like that of ‘Uparika’ or provincial governors. a) 3rd b) 4th c) 5th d) 7th
1479. Huen-Tsang the …………… Budhist pilgrim. a) Chinese b) Indian c) Russian d) Japanese
1480. The rulers who ruled over North India between the period 1206- 1526 are popularly known as the rulers of ……………. a) Delhi Sultanate b) Mughal c) Mauryas d) Kalachuris
1481. …………….. was the first ruler of the Delhi Sultanate and the founder of the slave dynasty. a) Qutab-ud-din Aibak b) Iltumish c) Sulthana Raziya d) Giyasuddin Balban
1482. The second phase of the Delhi Sultanate began with the establishment of the Khilji dynasty in ……………. a) 1250 b) 1260 c) 1278 d) 1290
1483. …………………… laid the foundation the Tughlaque dynasty. a) Muhammad bin Tughlaque b) Ghiyasuddin Tughlaque c) Firoz Shah Tughlaque d) Bahram
1484. In 1526 Lodi dynasty was overthrown by…………., and Mughal Empire was established. a) Babar b) Qutubuddin Aibak
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c) Masud Shah d) Alauddin Kilji
1485. ………………, was a department was set up to look after the military organization of the empire. It was headed by Ariz-i- Mumalik. a) Sultan b) Wazir c) Diwan-i-Arz d) Waqfs
1486. ………….. introduced the system of Dagh (branding) and huliya (description) and cash payment to the soldiers in order to strengthen his control over the army. a) Feroz Tughlaq b) Alauddin Khalji c) Kutbuddin Ibak d) Balban
1487. ……………. was a department looked after the state correspondence. It was headed by Dabir-iKhas. a) hasham-i-qalb b) Diwan-i-Insha c) hasham-i-atraf d) Dabir-iKhas
1488. …………. drafted and despatched royal orders and received reports from various officers. a) Dabir-iKhas b) Mustaufi-i-Mumalik c) Mushrif-i-Mumalik d) Majmuadar
1489. The ……………. was the formal channel of communication between the centre and other regions of the empire. a) Majmuadar b) Dabir b) Mustaufi-i-Mumalik d) Wizarat
1490. The ……………. was the head of the state news gathering and dealt with intelligence. a) Barid-i-Mumalik b) Dabir c) Dabir-iKhas d) Mustaufi-i-Mumalik
1491. …………….. was a department dealt with the administration of Justice. It was headed by Sadr-usSadr who was also the qazi-i- mumalik.
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a) Diwan-i-Rasalat b) The Muhtasibs c) Dabir d) Dabir-iKhas
1492. …………….. looked after the royal household and managed the personal services of the Sultan. a) Wakil-i-dar b) Dabir c) Dabir-iKhas d) Mustaufi-i-Mumalik
1493. …………looked after the royal ceremonies and used to act as an intermediary between the Sultan and subordinate officials and between Sultan and the public. a) Dabir-iKhas b) Dabir c) Amir-i-Hajib d) Mustaufi-i-Mumalik
1494. ………….. looked after the royal body guards of the Sultan. a) Sar-i-Jandar b) Amir-i-Akhur c) Shahnah-i-fil d) Dabir-iKhas
1495. ……………looked after the arrangement of meetings and special ceremonies. a) Amir-i-Majlis b) Mutasarrif c) Dabir d) Mushrif-i-Mumalik
1496. The Royal workshops (Karkhanas) played an important role in the administrative system of the ……………. a) Sultanate b) Mushrif-i-Mumalik c) Mughals d) Bhamini
1497. Each ………….was supervised by a noble who had the rank of a Malik or a Khan. a) Karkhana b) Banjaras c) Maktabs d) Dabir
1498. The shiqs were administered by the Shiqdar. Subsequently the Shiqs got transformed into Sarkar during the …………. period. a) Afghan b) Mushrif-i-Mumalik c) Mughals d) Vijayanagara
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1499. The market reforms of ……………. were oriented towards administrative and military necessities. a) Alauddin Khalji b) Pulakesin I c) Sheikh Abdullah d) Sheikh Azizullah
1500. ..…………………. was more or less the first ruler who looked at the problem of price control, in a systematic manner and was able to maintain stable prices for a considerable period. a) Sheikh Abdullah b) Pulakesin I c) Alauddin Khalji d) Sheikh Azizullah
1501. The technological development in Indus valley Civilization became manifest in A) cities built on uniform plan B) well-burnt bricks of a controlled size C) Domestic pottery D) All of the above 1502. Indus Valley people did not know the use of A) copper B) iron C) silver D) gold Explanation: The Indus valley people knew the use of copper, bronze, silver, gold but not iron. 1503. Which of the following animal figures is frequently represented in most of the Indus Seals? A) Elephant B) Humped bull C) Unicorn D) Rhinoceros 1504. The unit of the Vedic social system was the A) individual B) family C) clan D) tribe 1505. The Aryans came to India in around
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A) 1300 BC B) 1400 BC C) 1500 BC D) 1600 BC 1506. Jainism came closer to A) Christianity B) Buddhism C) Hinduism D) Sikhism 1507. Which of the following statements is not correct? A) Harappan people knew the use of geometrical designs B) Harappan people knew the game of dice C) In kalibangan, most construct ion was done by using mud bricks D) In Lothal, the inhabitants never used burnt bricks for construction 1508. In the 6th century BC, the lead of the reformation in religious practices were taken by A) Brahmanas B) Kshatriyas C) Vaishyas D) Sudras 1509. The Jain scholar Jinasena was a contemporary of A) Pushyamitra sunga B) Gautamiputra satakarni C) Samudragupta D) Amoghavarsha I 1510. Kautilya was a A) Great ruler B) Great religious saint C) Great military genius D) Master of art of government 1511. Who tried to make the Mauryan administration more humane than bureaucratic? A) Chandragupta Maurya B) Kautiaya C) Ashoka D) Megasthenes 1512. Andhra is another name of
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A) Suga Dynasty B) Satavahana Dynasty C) Kushana Dynasty D) Kanva Dynasty 1513. Charaka was the famous court physician of A) Harsha B) Chandragupta Maurya C) Ashoka D) Kanishka 1514. The Rajatarangini was composed by A) Kalidasa B) Kautilya C) Todar Mal D) Kalhana 1515. Fa-Hien visited India during the reign of A) Harsha B) Chandragupta I C) Samudragupta D) Chandragupta II 1516. Pulakesin II belonged to which dynasty? A) Chalukyas B) Mauyas C) Delhi Sultanate D) Mughals 1517. Match the following : a) Fiat 1. Gurgaon b) Ambassador 2. Mumbai c) Maruti 3. Noida d) Hyundai 4. Kolkata a) A B C D 3 2 1 4 b) A B C D 2 4 1 3 c) A B C D 1 2 3 4 d) A B C D 1 2 3 4
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1518. PCG stands for A) People’s Consultative Group B) People’s Consultancy Group C) Public Consultative Group D) Public Communicative Group 1519. In which date the prestigious Nobel Prize is awarded? A) November 30 B) December 10 C) January 17 D) January 21 Explanation: Except for the Peace Prize, the Nobel Prizes are presented in Stockholm, Sweden, at the annual Prize Award Ceremony on 10 December, the anniversary of Nobel's death. 1520. The Country which had the first official family planning programme was A) South Africa B) India C) China D) USA 1521. Simon Commission of 1927 was boycotted because A) there was no Indian member in the commission B) it supported the Muslim league C) congress felt that people of India were entitled to swaraj D) there were differences among the members 1522. The film ‘Adajya’ by Santana Bordoloi won the National Award in the year 1997. The film was based in the novel A) ‘Datal Hatir Uye khowa Hauda’ of Indira Gosawami B) ‘Yarungam’ of Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya C) ‘Patal Bhairabi’ of Lakhinandan Borah D) ‘Dawar Aru Nai’ of jogesh Das 1523. Who presides over the joint sitting of both the Houses of Parliament? A) President of India B) Vice-President of India C) Speaker of Lok Sabha D) Chief Justice of India
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1524. The President of India may have the choice in the appointment of the Prime Minister when A) no party is having an absolute majority in parliament B) Lok sabha consist of more than one party C) One party is having a minority in the Lok sabha D) no single party is having majority in Lok sabha 1525. According to the Preamble to the Constitution of India, the main sources of political authority is A) the People and the Government B) the Socielty and the judiciary C) the people D) the state 1526. Which of the following is not a source of the constitution of India? A) Debates of the constitution Assembly B) Opinions of the constitutional jurists C) Debates of the British Parliament D) Enactment of the Indian Parliament 1527. Which of the following shall be considered as Indian citizen? A) Children born to the citizens of neighboring countries B) Children born to the diplomatic agents on the territory of India C) Children born to the Indian citizens on the territory of foreign countries D) children born to the foreign nationals on the territory of India 1528. Who is Ex-officio Chairman of the Rajya sabha A) President of India B) Leader of the Ruling Party C) Vice-President of India D) Speaker of the Lok sabha 1529. In the absence of the Chief Justice of the High Court, the oath of the Governor is administered by A) Senior most Judge of High Court B) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court C) Senior Justice of the Supreme Court D) President of India 1530. Indicate the first women President of the Indian National Congress from the following
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A) Annie Besant B) Sarojini Naidu C) Vijaya Lkshimi Pandit D) Aruna Asaf Ali 1531. Who among the following attended all the three Round Table Conferences? A) Jawaharlal Nehru B) B.R Ambedkar C) Mahatma Gandhi D) Madan Mohan Malaviya 1532. Mahatma Gandhi was called ‘Father of the Nation’ first by A) Jawaharlal Nehru B) R.R Ambetkar C) V.Patel D) Subhas Chandra Bose 1533. ‘Vande Mataram’ was composed by A) Rabindranath Tagore B) Bhupan Hazarika C) B.G Tilak D) Bankim Ch. Chatterjee 1534. Who among the following was an extremist turned spiritual leader? A) Vinova Bhave B) M.N Roy C) Aurobindo Ghose D) Swami Vivekananda 1535. Purna Swaraj resolution was adopted by the Congress in A) 1921 B) 1928 C) 1903 D) 1918 1536. Not less than ……..of the total number of seats to be filled by direct election in every Panchayat shall be reserved for woman A) One-forth B) One-third C) One-sixth D) One-fifth
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1537. Which of the following commissions has the Power to conduct the election to the Panchayati Raj Institutions under the 73rd Constitution Amendment Act, 1992? A) Central Election Commission B) State Election Commission C) Central Vigilance Commission D) Sarkaria Commission 1538. Which of the following committees was appointed by the Government to review the working of the community Development Programme? A) Santharam committee B) Ashok mehat Committee C) Balwant Rai Metha Committee D) G.V.K. Rao committee 1539. The National Development Council is the Key organization of A) Planning system B) Federal system C) Budgetary system D) None of these 1540. Which of the following is wrongly identified as an institution having important role in the planning process in India? A) Planning Commission B) National Development Council C) State Planning Department D) Tribal Welfare Department 1541. Which of the following is the function of the National Development Council? A) Collection of for taxes for national development B) Providing guidelines for the formulation of the national plan C) To prepare budgets for the nation D) To sanction grand to the State 1542. The Earth’s shape most closely resembles A) a basketball B) a pear C) a ping-pong ball D) an apple 1543. The envelope of air in contact with the Earth’s surface is called
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A) the atmosphere B) the stratosphere C) the homosphere D) the troposphere 1544. How are latitude and longitude lines drawn on a globe of Earth? A) Latitude lines are parallel and longitude limes meet at the equator B) Longitude lines are parallel and latitude lines meet at the equator C) Latitude lines are parallel and longitude lines meet at the poles D) Longitude lines are parallel and latitude lines meet at the poles 1545. What are the two most abundant elements by mass found in Earth’s crust? A) Aluminum and iron B) Sodium and chlorine C) Calcium and carbon D) Oxygen and silicon 1546. Which radioactive isotope is the most useful for nuclear power generation? A) Uranium-238 B) Uranium-235 C) Carbon-14 D) Rubidium-87 1547. Which planet takes more time to complete one rotation on its axis than to complete one revolution around the Sun? A) Mercury B) Venus C) Mars D) Jupiter 1548. Energy is transferred from the Sun to Earth mainly by A) molecular collisions in the atmosphere B) ultraviolent radiation C) infrared radiation D) visible light Description: Heat travels from the sun by a process called radiation. Radiation is the transfer of heat by electromagnetic waves. When infrared rays strike a material, the molecules in that material move faster.
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1549. As an object falls freely through air, the kinetic energy of the object A) decreases B) increases C) does not change D) become zero 1550. The third most abumdant gas in the atmosphere is A) argon B) carbon dioxide C) helium D) hydrozen 1551. The obnoxious smell mear a pulp and paper mill is due to A) carbon dioxide B) hydrogen sulfide C) Organic sulfar compounds D) Aromatic hydrocarbons 1552. The heat of fusion is defined as the energy required at constant temperature to change 1 unit mass of A) a gas to a liquid B) a gas to a solid C) a solid to gas D) a solid to a liquid Description: Heat of fusion is the amount of energy (joules) needed to melt 1 unit of solid mass to a liquid at constant temperature. It is measured in joules/gram. 1553. a compound differs from a mixture in that a compound always has A) a homogeneous composition B) maximum of two components C) minimum of three components D) a heterogenous composition 1554. Petroleum is classified chemically as A) a substance B) a compound C) a mixture D) None of these 1555. Which radioactive isotope is used in geological dating?
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A) Uranium-238 B) Iodine-131 C) Cobalt-60 D) Technetium-99 1556. Which are the four most abundant elements in living cells? A) Carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, sulfar B) Carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen C) Carbon, oxygen, sulfar, phosphorus D) Carbon, sulfar, hydrogen, magnesium 1557. Most cell membranes are composed principally of A) DNA and ATP B) Proteins and lipids C) Chitin and starch D) Nucleotides and amino acids 1558. The presence of DNA is important for cellular metabolic activities because DNA A) directs the production of enzymes B) is a structural components of cell walls C) directly increases the solubility of nutrients D) is the major components of cytoplasm 1559. Because the gene for hemophilia is located in the X- chromosome,it is normally impossible for A) a carrier mother to pass the gene to her son B) a hemophiliac father to pass the gene to his daughter C) a carrier mother to pass the gene onto her daughter D) a hemophiliac father to pass the gene onto his son Description: Females give an X-chromosome to their sons, the males give the Y-chromosome. Therefore, it doesn't matter if the father is a hemophiliac or not in terms of his son, he can't give his defective gene to his son. 1560. Presence of the fluoride in drinking water is associated with A) mottling of teeth B) dental fluorosis C) skeletal fluorosis D) All of these 1561. The highest urbanized district of North- East India is A) Kamrup
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B) Lower Subansiri C) Aizawl D) Thoubal 1562. Identity the National Highway connecting Guwahati with Shillong A) NH-37 B) NH-40 C) NH-31 D) NH-39 1563. The gross irrigated area in Assam to the State’s gross cropped area is only A) 30 percent B) 25 percent C) 15 percent D) 20 percent Answer: Net irrigated area according to latest report is 748530 Ha For more details please visit https://diragri.assam.gov.in/portlets/irrigation 1564. The occurrence of oil seepage in Assam’s Burhi-Dihing at Sapkhong in 1825 was recorded by A) Robert Bruce B) Sir Goodenough C) Lieut R. Wilcox D) Varrier Elwin 1565. Kaolin or china clay used in manufacture of porcelain, files, paper and toothpaste, etc. is found in A) Longnit, Manju and Bokajan B) Amtereng, Umrangsho and Maibong C) Upper Deopani, Sheelvetta and Silonijan D) Dobaka, Hojai and Sariahjan 1566. In which of the following districts of Assam, the number of Large and Medium Scale Industries(LMSI) is the highest? A) Bongaigaon B) Tibsukia C) Dibrugarh D) Kamrup (Metro) 1567. ‘Kitab-al-Hind’(Geography of India) was written by A) Al-Beruni
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B) Ibn-Sina C) Al-Battani D) Claudius Ptolemy 1568. Hiuen Tsang visited Assam (Kamrup) in 640 AD. He was received by the king A) Kumar Bhaskara Barmana B) Bhagadatta C) Kumar Rudra Barmana D) Swargadeo Rudra Singha 1569. The Barak or Surama river of Cachar originates from A) Karbi-Anglong B) Manipur C) Tripura D) Khasia-Jaintia(Meghalaya) 1570. With Moni Ram Dewan, was hanged A) Formud Ali B) Piyali Phukan C) Piyali Barua D) Dutiram Barua 1571. Year 1894 is related to A) Patharughat Revolt B) Phulaguri Dhawa C) Rangia Revolt D) None of these 1572. Saraighat Battle was fought and won by the Ahoms in 1669-70. After ten years of it, Gauhati(Guwahati) was A) occupied by the Mughals by another battle B) presented to Mughals by Laluk Sola Borphukan C) a part of Ahom Kingdom forever D) Occupied by Koch general Chilarai 1573. 1836 CE was crucial in case of Assamese Language and literature because A) Assamese was reinstated as official language of Assam B) Bengali was introduced as official language of Assam C) First Assamese Novel was published D) First Assamese Magazine was published from Calcutta(Kolkata)
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1574. The Satradhikar who took active role in social reform and Freedom Movement of India was A) Auniatiya Satradhikar (Pitambar Dev Goswami) B) Bengenatiya Satradhikar (Banamali Dev Goswami) C) Kamalabari Satradhikar (Dr. Narayan Dev Goswami) D) Dakhinpatiya Satradhikar (Ramakanta Dev Goswami) 1575. When was the first Five-year plan started in India? A) 1949-50 B) 1950-51 C) 1951-52 D) 1952-53 1576. The Suggestion of transfer of two Central Governments, India and Pakistan, on the basis of grant of dominion status was given by A) Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Patel B) Gandhiji and Jawaharlal Nehru C) Lord Mountbatten and Jawaharlal Nehru D) V.P. Menon and Sardar Patel 1577. The Supreme Court of Calcutta was established by A) North Regulating Act of 1773 B) Pitt’s India Act of 1784 C) Charter Act of 1793 D) Charter Act of 1813 1578. The Revolt of the khasis against the British was led by A) Surendra Sai B) Gobinda Sai C) Birsa Munda D) U. Tirot Singh 1579. British introduced Western Education A) for colonial economy B) for colonial administration C) to popularize the Christian ideals D) All of the above 1580. Mongal Pandy fired the first shot of revolt at A) Barrackpore B) Meerut C) Kanpur
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D) Jhansi 1581. British India exported to England A) human resource B) technology C) raw material D) capital 1582. ‘Cotton Roads’ were constructed connection the cotton- producing was areas seaports in A) Calcutta B) Madras C) Maharashtra D) Delhi 1583. The Partition of Bengal was done by A) Lord Ripon B) Lord Curzon C) Lord Lytton D) Lord Dalhousie 1584. The Indian National Congress was founded by A) S.N. Banerjee B) W.C. Banerjee C) A.O. Hume D) Lala Lajpat Rai 1585. After the Churi-Chaura Incident, Gandhiji suspended the A) Civil Disobedience Movement B) Khilafat Movement C) Non-Cooperation Movement D) Quit India Movement 1586. Gandhiji’s movement of boycotting the foreign goods aimed at A) full independence B) creating anti-British sentiment C) promotion of welfare State D) promotion of cottage industries 1587. Which Act introduced competitive examination in England in which Indians could appear? A) Act of 1853 B) Act of 1833 C) Act of 1858
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D) Act of 1861 Description: Indian Civil Services Act, 1861 1588. Indian Penal Code was passed in A) 1859 B) 1860 C) 1861 D) 1872 Description: 6th October 1860 1589. Who introduced Income Tax in India for the first time? A) Curzon B) Canning C) Dalhousie D) Ripon Description: In 1860 the first Income Tax Act was introduced by James Wilson who was the (British) India's first finance member. 1590. Which British Policy finally led to the Mutiny of 1857? A) Permanent Settlement B) Annexation of Avadh C) Doctrine of Lapse D) Subsidiary 1591. In which year Wellesley forced Avadh to accept Subsidiary Alliance and occupied Rohilkhand? A) 1798 B) 1800 C) 1801 D) 1804 1592. Who among the following was the last Nawab of Avadh? A) Nasiruddin B) Nassirud Daulah C) Md. Ali Shah D) Wazed Ali Shah 1593. Who led the extremists before the arrival of Gandhi on the political scene for India’s struggle for freedom? A) Dadabhai Naoraji B) S.N. Banerjee C) G.K. Gokhale D) B.G. Tilak
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1594. Swadeshi Movement started in India A) during the Champaran Satyagraha B) during the anti-Bengal Partition Agitation C) after the Jalianwalla Bagh Massacre D) during the Non-Cooperation Movement 1595. Muslim League demanded separate Pakistan for the first time in A) 1939 B) 1940 C) 1941 D) 1942 1596. The Quit India Movement started in A) March 1930 B) August 1940 C) August 1942 D) August 1947 1597. The political prisoner who died in prison In the course of hunger strike was A) Bhagat Singh B) Chandra Sekhar Azad C) Surya Sen D) Jatin Das 1598. Whom did Gandhi consider his Political Guru? A) Dadabhai Naoraji B) M. G. Ranade C) G. K. Gokhale D) B. G. Tilak 1599. ‘Chauri-Chaura’ is the place A) Where Gandhi conducted his first Satyagraha B) From where the Dandi March began C) Where violence erupted during the Non-Cooperation Movement D) From where Gandhi started his Non-Cooperation Movement 1600. The Simon Commission visited India in the year A) 1947 B) 1945 C) 1942 D) 1928
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1601. Who was the author of the first monumental book on the Indus Valley Civilization? A) Sir W. W. Hunter B) Sir John Shore C) Sir John Marshall D) Sir William Jones 1602. Gautama Buddha was born at A) Kapilavastu B) Vaishali C) Vidisha D) Gorakhpur Answer. Buddha was born in 563 BC in Lumbini (now in Nepal) in Sakya Kshatriya clan of Kapilvastu. 1603. The credit of the discovery of Monsoon for the development of communication goes to A) Pliny B) Hippalus C) Ptolemy D) Marco Polo 1604. The Third Buddhist Council was held during the reign of A) Ashoka B) Kaniska C) Chandragupta Maurya D) Skandagupta 1605. The founder of Pataliputra city was A) Udayin B) Brihadratha C) Darsaka D) Ajatshatru 1606. The First Indian ruler who surrendered before Alexander was A) Porus B) Bishamitra C) Ambhi D) Ashoka 1607. The Sunga Dynasty was founded by A) Pushyamitra Sunga B) Agnimitra
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C) Bhagvata D) Devabhuti 1608. Kashmir was under the control of Indian rulers during A) Mauryas and Kushanas B) Nandas C) Sungas D) Non of the above
1609. Jizya (poll-tax) was imposed on A) Muslims B) Hindus C) Buddhists D) Sikhs 1610. The First Battle of Tarain took place in A) 1191 B) 1192 C) 1193 D) 1526 1611. For the first time Rupee was minted in India in the form of coins by A) Sher Shah B) Islam Shah C) Babur D) Akbar 1612. The Battle of Saraighat was fought in A) 1671 B) 1556 C) 1561 D) None of the above 1613. The warrior king who made the Chalukyas the paramount power in the Deccan was A) Pulakesin I B) Pulakesin II C) Vikramaditya I D) Kirtivarman II 1614. Who was the greatest king of the Pala Dynasty of Kamrupa?
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A) Dharmapala B) Gopala C) Jaypala D) Ratnapala 1615. Charaka-Samhita is a work on A) Law B) Medicine C) Religion D) the Varna system 1616. The Arab conquest of Sindh took place in the year A) 711 AD B) 712 AD C) 998 AD D) 1000 AD
1617. Who was the author of Tughlaqnama? A) Alberuni B) Amir Khusrau C) Ibn Batuta D) Utbi 1618. Siri, the Second City of Delhi, was built by A) Iltutmish B) Jauna Shah C) Firuz Shah Tughlaq D) Alauddin Khilji 1619. The Palace of Forty Pillars is located at A) Allahabad B) Sikri C) Lahore D) Sikandara 1620. Akbarnama was written by A) Akbar B) Firishta C) Abul Fazl D) Abdul Qadir Badauni 1621. Who was the mother of Shah Jahan?
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A) Man Bai B) Jagat Gosaini C) Mehrunnisa D) Ladli Begum 1622. Name the Mughal General who took possession of the Ahom Capital Gahrgaonin1662. A) Murshid Quli Khan B) Islam Khan C) Sharista Khan D) Mir Jumla 1623. Who had written the book, Tuzuk-i-Jahangir ? A) Abul Fazl B) Jahangir C) Mulla Daud D) Abdul Haq 1624. Which of the following revolts during Aurangazeb’s period has a peasant agrarian background ? A) The revolt of the Rajputs B) The revolt of the Jats and Satnamis C) The revolt of the Marathas D) The revolt of the Sikhs
1625. After the coronation, Shivaji assumed the title of A) Maharaja B) Peshwa C) Samrat D) Chhatrapati
1626. Tulsidas composed his Ramcharitamanas during the reign of A) Harsha B) Alauddin Khilji C) Akbar D) Krisnadeva Raya 1627. From where was the Mansabdari system borrowed? A) Afghanistan B) Turkey
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C) Mongolia D) Persia 1628. ‘Ashtapradhan’ was a council of Ministers in A) the Gupta Administration B) the Chola Administration C) the Vijayanagar Administration D) the Maratha Administration 1629. Vasco da Gama was a/an ______sailor. A) Portuguese B) Amerian C) German D) South American 1630. Which of the following statements is not correct? A) The Battle of Wandiwash was fought between French and Portuguese. B) The French came to India mainly with a purpose of trade and commerce C) In 1673 A.D. the Mughal Subedar of Bengal allowed French to set up a township at Chandernagar D) The French East India Company was formed in 1664 AD 1631. Who was the earliest exponent of the Bhakti Movement in India? A) Ramanuja B) Ramananda C) Mirabai D) Kabir 1632. Which place did British use as the springboard for the conquest of India? A) Calcutta B) Chandernagar C) Madras D) Surat 1633. The Permanent Settlement of Bengal brought maximum benefit to the A) Government B) Zamindars C) Ryots
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D) Bureaucrats 1634. Who was the central figure of the revolt of 1857 in Assam? A) Kandarpeswar Singha B) Maniram Dewan C) Piyali Barua D) Bahadur Gaoburah 1635. Which Act led to the introduction of Dual system of Government in India? A) The Pitt’s India Act, 1784 AD B) The Regulating Act, 1773 AD C) The Charter Act, 1793 AD D) The Charter Act, 1813 AD 1636. Who declared Bengal an independent State in 1771? A) Murshid Quli Khan B) Shuja Khan C) Alivardi Khan D) Muhammad Shah 1637. Which Nawab breathed his last in the Battle of Plassey in 1757? A) Mir Jafar B) Mir Kasim C) Alivardi Khan D) Siraj-ud-daula 1638. Name the Peshwa who was the founder of the Peshwa Dynasty. A) Balaji Vishwanath B) Baji Rao C) Balaji Baji Rao D) Shambhaji 1639. The French East India Company was established in A) 1663 AD B) 1664 AD C) 1765 AD D) 1766 AD 1640. What was the final result of Impeachment of Warren Hastings? A) He was convicted
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B) He was acquitted C) He was hanged D) None of the above
1641. The decisive battle between the Rohillas and the combined forces of the Nawab and the English was fought of A) Miranpur Katra B) Rampur C) Shahjahanpur D) None of the above 1642. Hastings robbed who among the following in order to collect money for the Company? A) Nandkumar B) Raja Chait Singh C) Begum of Oudh D) All of the above 1643. Who succeeded the throne of Awadh after the death of Nawab Shuja-ud-daula? A) Asaf-ud-Daula B) Siraj-ud-Daula C) Atmad-ud-Daula D) Nasir-ud-Daula 1644. The salient terms of the Treaty of Salbari concluded in 1782 AD between Poona Darbar and the English was that A) Salsette was given to Britain B) the English gave up the support of Raghav Rao C) Scindia regained his territory in the west of Yamuna river D) All of the above 1645. Haidar Ali breathed his last in 1782 AD due to A) Cancer B) invasion of the English C) prolonged sickness D) None of the above 1646. Who among the following tribal leaders was looked upon as God-incarnate? A) Kanhu Majhi B) Rupa Naik
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C) Joria Bhagat D) Birsa Munda 1647. The prime targets of the Santhal Uprisings were the A) Zamindars B) British officials C) Money-lenders D) foresters 1648. Who was the First President of the Indian National Congress? A) Dadabhai Naoroji B) W. C. Banerjee C) A. O. Hume D) M. G. Ranade 1649. Swami Vivekananda attended the Parliament of Religion (1893), held in A) Boston B) Chicago C) Peru D) Benares 1650. What was the capital of the Province ‘Eastern Bengal and Assam? A) Shillong B) Rangpur C) Chittagong D) Dacca 1651. “Swaraj is my birthright and I shall have it.” Who said this? A) Subhash Chandra Bose B) B. G. Tilak C) Bhagat Singh D) Lala Lajpat Rai 1652. The ideology of Socialism was strongly defended inside the Indian National Congress by A) M. N. Roy B) Jawaharlal Nehru C) Sarojini Naidu D) C. R. Das 1653. Bhagat Singh and his associates Rajguru and Sukhdev were hanged on 23rd of March in
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A) 1928 B) 1927 C) 1931 D) 1934 1654. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was compared with A) Mazzini B) Bismarck C) Lenin D) Leo Tolstoy 1655. The Partition of Bengal took place in A) 1904 B) 1903 C) 1902 D) 1905 1656. Who started ‘Jugantar’? A) Sri Aurobindo Ghose B) B. G. Tilak C) Subhash Chandra Bose D) V. D. Savarkar
1657. The Treaty of Badarpur was singed between David Scott and Govinda Chandra on March A) 1820 B) 1821 C) 1823 D) 1824 1658. Cachar was placed under the Commissionerate of Dacca in A) 1836 B) 1837 C) 1839 D) 1840 1659. Who built Rang Ghar? A) Rajeswar Singha B) Pramatta Singha C) Kandarpeswar Singha
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D) Chandrakanta Singha 1660. How many kings do you have during the Ahom Period? A) 30 B) 40 C) 50 D) 60 1661. The Second Burmese invasion took place in A) 1817 B) 1818 C) 1819 D) 1821 1662. Maniram Dewan and Piyali Barua were hanged on A) 26th February, 1858 B) 30th January, 1860 C) 20th March, 1861 D) 21st April, 1856 1663. In the Quit India Movement of 1942, Kanak Lata and Mukunda Kakati were shot dead by the British Police at A) Sonitpur B) Tezpur C) Gohpur D) Biswanath 1664. After the demise of 1st Prime Minister of Assam (so called) Gopinath Bordoloi in 1950, the 2nd Chief Minister was A) B. P. Chaliha B) B. R. Medhi C) Sarat Chandra Singha D) M. M. Choudhury 1665. Sadulla’s Coalition Ministry took place on A) 1st April, 1937 B) 1st March, 1937 C) 5th March, 1939 D) 5th April, 1941 1666. The River Communication of Assam via East Pakistan was completely discontinued after the Indo-Pak war of A) 1960 B) 1965
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C) 1966 D) 1967 1667. The Civil Disobedience Movement started with the enforcement of the A) Rowlatt Acts B) Dandi March C) Both (A) and (B) D) None of the above 1668. Gandhi –Irwin Pact was concluded in A) 1931 AD B) 1932 AD C) 1933 AD D) 1934 AD Answer. Gandhi-Irwin Pact, agreement signed on March 5, 1931, between Mohandas K. Gandhi, leader of the Indian nationalist movement, and Lord Irwin (later Lord Halifax), British viceroy (1926–31) of India 1669. Who was the elected leader of the Labour Party in England in 1946? A) W. Churchill B) Clement Attlee C) Lawrence D) None of them 1670. Who is known as the Father of Muslim Communalism? A) Maulana Azad B) Liaqat Ali C) Sir Sayyid Ahmed Khan D) None of them 1671. The chief aim of the Muslim League was to A) Create friendship between Muslim and English B) Safeguard the interest of the Muslims C) Create harmony between Muslims and others D) All of the above 1672. Which was rejected by both Hindus and Muslims? A) Cabinet Mission Plan B) Wavell Plan C) Cripps Plan
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D) None of the above
1673. Who wrote India’s Poverty and un-British Rule in India? A) M. K. Gandhi B) Dadabhai Naoroji C) J. Nehru D) G. K. Gokhale 1674. Which of the following was the famous work of B. G. Tilak? A) The Ancient Home of the Aryans B) The Gita Rahasya C) Both (A) and (B) D) None of the above 1675. When did M. K. Gandhi go to South Africa? A) 1891 B) 1892 C) 1893 D) 1894 1676. Which tragedy took place in 1919? A) Jallianwala Bagh B) The Rowlatt Acts C) Both (A) and (B) D) None of the above 1677. The greater contribution of Gandhi was A) Satyagraha B) Non-violence C) Both (A) and (B) D) None of the above 1678. When did Jawaharlal Nehru lead the Farmers Movement of Pratapgarh and Faizabad? A) 1916 AD-1920 AD B) 1919 AD-1921 AD C) 1920 AD-1921 AD D) 1921 AD-1922 AD 1679. Where did Netaji establish Provisional Government of India? A) Berlin B) Singapore C) Tokyo
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D) None of the above 1680. Indian National Association installed the Indian National Flag in Kohima in Assam in A) 1941 B) 1942 C) 1944 D) 1945
1681. The Transfer of Power Act was passed in A) 1858 AD B) 1859 AD C) 1860 AD D) 1861 AD 1682. Who led the conflict of the peasants of Champaran in Bihar in 1917-1918? A) J. Nehru B) Motilal Nehru C) M. K. Gandhi D) None of them 1683. The First Bengal Peasants Party and Workers Party was organized in A) 1925 AD B) 1926 AD C) 1927 AD D) 1928 AD 1684. Who encouraged the voluntary institutes of the establishment of schools and colleges? A) Sir Charles Wood B) W. W. Hunter C) Lord Macaulay D) None of them 1685. The priority for the development of Primary Education in 1882-83 was recommended by A) Hartog Committee B) Hunter Commission C) Sargent Plan
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D) None of the above 1686. When was a Printing Press established in Bombay by the English? A) 1683 AD B) 1684 AD C) 1685 AD D) 1686 AD 1687. Who removed restrictions imposed Indian Press? A) Warren Hastings B) Bentinck C) Metcalfe D) None of them 1688. Hindustan Times was started in A) 1923 AD B) 1924 AD C) 1925 AD D) 1926 AD
1689. The Economic Policy of the English (in India) is known as A) Brain of wealth B) Drain of wealth C) Straim of wealth D) None of the above 1690. Who was the immediate ruler of Jammu and Kashmir after the Independence of I ndia? A) Hari Singh B) Nihal Singh C) Jagat Singh D) Kripalani 1691. Which Session of the Congress declared Purna Swaraj to be the sole objective of the INC? A) Calcutta (1928) B) Lahore (1929) C) Karachi (1931) D) Lucknow (1936)
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1692. The only Indian leader who attended all the three Round Table Conferences held in London was A) M. K. Gandhi B) Sardar B. Patel C) Dr. B. R. Ambedkar D) Dr. Rajendra Prasad 1693. In 1942, the message ‘Do or Die’ came from A) Acharya J. B. Kripalani B) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad C) Mahatma Gandhi D) Subhash Chandra Bose 1694. Who gave the call for ‘Direct Action Day’ on 16th August, 1946 ? A) Hindustan Socialist Republican Association B) Hindu Mahasabha C) Indian National Army D) Muslim League 1695. The Constituent Assembly met for the first time in New Delhi on A) 16th March, 1946 B) 17th July, 1946 C) 9th December, 1946 D) 11th December, 1946 1696. Who said, “Every blow on my body will prove a nail in the coffin of the British Empire”? A) Lala Lajpat Rai B) Abdullah Seth C) G. B. Pant D) Pioli Phukan
1697. Who criticized the Government of India Act 1935 as ‘thoroughly rotten, fundamentally bad. And totally unacceptable’? A) Md. Ali Jinnah B) Sir Sayyid Ahmed C) Md. Iqbal D) None of them
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1698. Who was the First Indian Governor General of Free India? A) Chakravarti Rajagopalachari B) Dr. B. R. Ambedkar C) Pt. J. Nehru D) Lord Mountbatten 1699. Pakistan attained freedom on A) 14th August, 1937 B) 14th August, 1947 C) 15th August, 1947 D) None of the above
1700. Who said, “One religion, one caste and one God for mankind”? A) Ghandhiji B) Guru Nanak C) Narayana Guru D) Saint Kabir.
Paper 2015 1701. Which of the following was not a feature of Indus Valley Civilization? A) Town planning B) Use of iron C) Use of bronze D) Drainage system 1702. Who is called the father of Indian Archaeology? A) Sir John Marshall B) Dayaram Sahani C) S. R. Rao
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D) Sir Alexander Cunningham 1703. Who was the first scholar to decipher the Asokan inscriptions? A) James Prinsep B) R. K. Mukherji C) Sir Alexander Cunningham D) R. S. Sarma 1704. Which of the following Buddhist Councils was presided over by Vasumitra? A) First Buddhist Council, Rajgir B) Second Buddhist council, Vaisali C) Third Buddhist council, Pataliputra D) Fourth Buddhist council, Kundalvana 1705. The birthplace of Gautama Buddha was at A) Kapilavastu B) Bodh-Gaya C) Vaisali D) Vidisa Answer. Lumbini is a Buddhist pilgrimage site in the Rupandehi district of Nepal. It is the place where Queen Mayadevi gave birth to Siddhartha Gautama, who as the Buddha Gautama founded the Buddhist tradition. 1706. The Sangam literary works were compiled in A) North India B) North-East India C) South India D) Takshashila 1707. Who assumed power after the death of Chandragupta Maurya? A) Bindusara B) Bimbisara C) Asoka D) Kharavela 1708. Who among the following king was known as ‘Devanam Piya Piyadasi’? A) Chandragupta Maurya B) Samudra Gupta C) Asoka
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D) Harshavardhana
1709. Charaka Samhita was a work on A) Medicine B) Religion C) Astrology D) Law 1710. Who was the ‘court poet’ of Harsha? A) Banudatta B) Vasumitra C) Harishena D) Kalhana 1711. Who among the following was an ally of Harshavardhana? A) Kumar Bhaskaravarman B) Sasanka C) Dharmapala D) Fa-Hien 1712. Who was the twenty-third Tirthankar of Jainism? A) Parsvanath B) Rishabha C) Vardhamana Mahavira D) Siddharth 1713. The last Nanda King defeated by Chandragupta Maurya was A) Mahapadma Nanda B) Dhana Nanda C) Ugrasena D) Rudradaman 1714. Who was Mihirkula? A) A Chinese pilgrim B) An Indo-Greek ruler C) A Saka ruler D) A Huna invader 1715. The caves of Ajanta are famous for A) Sculpture B) Paintings C) Temples D) Terra-Cotta
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1716. Who has been described as the ‘destroyer of the Sakas, the Yavanas and the Pallavas? A) Simuka B) Skanda Gupta C) Satarami I D) Gautamiputra Satakami
1717. Which Chola king assumed the title ‘Gangaikonda’ and built the new capital Gangaikonda-cholapuram? A) Rajaraja B) Rajaraja II C) Kulottunga II D) Rajendra I 1718. Dantidurga was the founder of which dynasty? A) Cholas B) Rashtrakutas C) Chalukyas D) Pallavas 1719. The Arthasastra of Kautilya is a A) Biography of kautilya B) Book on the principles of government C) Biography of Chandragupta Maurya D) Book of poems 1720. The Saka era began from A) 78 B.C. B) 100 A. D. C) 712 A. D. D) 78 A. D. 1721. Kalhana’s Rajatarangini is a historical work on A) Malwa B) Kashmir C) Gujarat D) Orissa 1722. The style of architecture that was prevalent under chola dynasty was A) Nagara style B) Dravida style
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C) Gopuram style D) Solanki style 1723. Who was the founder of the Pala dynasty of Bengal? A) Dharmapala B) Mahipala C) Gopala D) Devapala 1724. Tamralipti was A) An island B) A temple C) An Indian port D) A driver
1725. The greatest Chalukya ruler who was contemporary of Harsha was A) Pulakesin II B) Govinda II C) Krishna II D) Kakka II 1726. Who completed the construction of Qutb-Minar? A) Qutb-ud-din Aibak B) Iltutmish C) Raziya Sultana D) Firoz Shah Tughluq 1727. Timur’s invasion took place in the year A) 1398 AD B) 1598 AD C) 1739 AD D) 1761 AD 1728. Who among the following introduced the market control policy during the Sultanate rule in India? A) Iltutmish B) Firoz Shah Tughluq C) Ala-ud-din Khilji D) Ibrahim Lodi 1729. Who was the author of Kitab-ul-Hind? A) Isami
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B) Ibn Batutah C) Al-Biruni D) Utbi 1730. The commonly used silver coin of the Turko-Afgans was the A) Jital B) Dam C) Dinar D) Tanka 1731. The iqta system means A) The grant or revenue from a territory B) Crown lands C) State’s share of 1/5th of the spoil of war D) Law of primogeniture 1732. What was the official language of the Sultanate? A) Persian B) Urdu C) Arabic D) Hindi
1733. The Muslim general who campaigned deep into South India going as far as Kanyakumari is A) Ala-ud-din Khilji B) Malik Kafur C) Muhammad ibn-Kasim D) Jauna Khan 1734. Dohas are A) The religious teachings of Sufis B) The Muslim devoteeswho emphasized personal devotion of man to god through love C) A group of merchants D) Couplets which Kabir composed and by which he taught his followers 1735. The word Sikh means A) Single B) Devotee C) Disciple D) Fighter
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1736. The name of the last Sikh Guru is A) Guru Amardas B) Guru Teg Bahadur C) Guru Govind Singh D) Guru Har Govind 1737. Ibn Batutah compiled his memoirs and named it A) Travel in India B) Mukujul Jabab C) Rihla D) Tughluqnamah 1738. When did the Arabs invade Sindh? A) 710 AD B) 712 AD C) 714 AD D) 716 AD 1739. Mehr-un-nisa is popularly known as A) Nur Jahan B) Mumtaz C) Hamida Banu D) Gulbadan Begum 1740. Captain Hawkins and Sir Thomas Roe visited India during the reign of the Mughal emperor A) Akbar B) Jahangir C) Shah Jahan D) Aurangzeb
1741. Tulsi Das was the author of A) Sursagar B) Ramcharit Manas C) Padmavat D) Ram Navami 1742. Who discontinued the policy of Jharokha-Darshan? A) Akbar B) Jahangir
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C) Shah Jahan D) Aurangzeb 1743. Which is the name of the Memoirs of Jahangir? A) Tuzuk-i-Jahangir B) Iqbalnama-i-Jahangir C) Tarikh-i-Jahangir D) Masir-i-Jahangir 1744. The mother of Shivaji was A) Jija Bai B) Putali Bai C) Ramabai D) Meera Bai 1745. The first Battle of Panipat (1526) was fought between A) Babur and Ibrahim Lodi B) Akbar and Hemu C) Akbar and Rana Pratap Singh D) Humayun and Sher Shah 1746. The original name of Sher Shah was A) Farid B) Salim C) Karim D) Abdul 1747. The distinguishing feature of the reign of Shah Jahan was A) Economic prosperity B) The loss of Qandahar C) The Deccan conquest D) The development of architecture 1748. Pietra Dura means A) Decorating walls with miniature paintings B) Decorating walls with floral designs made of semiprecious C) Construction of building with glazed tiles D) Indo-Muslim architecture
1749. Nadir Shah, who invaded India in 1739, came from A) Persia B) Afghanistan C) Central Asia
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D) Iraq 1750. The third Battle of Panipat was fought between A) The Marathas and the Aghans B) The Mughals and the Marathas C) The Marathas and the British D) The British and the Afgans 1751. Who wrote the couplet? “If there is a paradise on earth, it is this, none but this.” A) Amir Khusrau B) Abul Fazl C) Birbal D) Niram-ud-din Aulia 1752. The English East India Company acquired the Dewani of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa by A) The Treaty of Allahabad, 1765 B) The Treaty of Sagauli, 1816 C) The Treaty of Seringapatam, 1792 D) The Treaty of Bassein, 1802 1753. The Third Anglo-Mysore War took place between English East India Company and Tipu Sultan during the period of Governor-General A) Lord William Bentinck B) Lord Cornwallis C) Lord Wellesley D) Lord Hastings 1754. Which of the following Mughal rulers died at Rangoon in 1862? A) Aurangzeb B) Jahandar Shah C) Bahadur Shah I D) Bahadur Shah II 1755. The book Poverty and Un-British Rule in India was written by A) M. N. Roy B) Dadabhai Naoroji C) C. Gopalachari D) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
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1756. Which Act was created in British India by the Supreme Court? A) Regulating Act of 1773 B) Pitt’s India Act of 1784 C) Charter Act of 1813 D) Charter Act of 1833 Answer: Grace mark
1757. The most important French Settlement in Bengal was A) Hugli B) Chinsura C) Chandernagar D) Kasimbazar 1758. Who abolished dual government in Bengal? A) Sir John Shore B) Warren Hastings C) Lord Hastings D) Lord Cornwallis 1759. Non-Intervention Policy was followed by A) Lord Lytton B) Lord Auckland C) Lord Lawrence D) Sir John Shore 1760. Who among the following has been popularly known as ‘Frontier Gandhi’? A) M. K. Gandhi B) Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan C) Indira Gandhi D) Firoz Gandhi 1761. The play Neel Darpan deals with which of the following subjects? A) Poetry of 19th century B) The miserable condition of industrial labours C) Plight of indigo plantation workers D) Plight of cotton cultivators 1762. The leader of the Young Bengal Movement was A) Henry Vivian Derozio
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B) Dwarakanath Tagore C) William Jones D) Raja Rammohan Roy 1763. Where did Swami Vivekananda attend the World Parliament of Religions? A) Chicago B) New York C) Washington D) Boston 1764. The first Indian National Congress consisted of A) 90 delegates B) 89 delegates C) 72 delegates D) 76 delegates
1765. “Swaraj is my birth right and I shall have it.” Who said this? A) B. G. Tilak B) Annie Besant C) Mahatma Gandhi D) Subhash Chandra Bose 1766. The Widow Remarriage Act was passed in the year A) 1856 B) 1756 C) 1865 D) 1872 1767. The first martyr of Sepoy Mutiny (1857) was A) Mangal Pandey B) Nana Sahib C) Bhagat Singh D) Maniram Dewan 1768. Who started the Ajigarh Movement? A) Aga Khan B) Salimullla Khan C) Sir Syed Ahmed Khan D) Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan 1769. The period from 1813 to 1858 is known as
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A) The policy of subordinate isolation B) The policy of ring fence C) The policy of subordinate union D) The policy of equal federation 1770. Who repealed the Vernacular Press Act? A) Lord Ripon B) Lord Lytton C) Lord Curzon D) Lord Canning 1771. Who was the first Indian to join the Civil Service in 1863? A) Surendra Nath Benerjee B) Romesh Chandra Dutta C) Satyendranath Tagore D) Biharilal Gupta 1772. In which Session, Indian National Congress was divided into moderates and extremists? A) Surat Session, 1907 B) Lucknow Session, 1916 C) Nagpur Session, 1920 D) Lahore session, 1929
1773. Which of the following granted ‘separate electorate’ to Indian Muslins? A) Morley-Minto Reforms, 1909 B) Charter Act of 1833 C) Muslim League in 1906 D) Government of India Act, 1935 1774. When was the first jute mill established? A) 1856 B) 1855 C) 1854 D) 1888 1775. Who among the following struggled for upliftment of Harijans? A) Gopal Krishna Gokhale B) Mahatma Gandhi
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C) Bal Gangadhar Tilak D) Tyagaraj 1776. Who was the first female Chairman of Indian National Congress? A) Aruna Asaf Ali B) Sarojini Naido C) Annie Besant D) Raj Kumari Amrit Kaur 1777. J. K. Bethune is associated with A) Theosophical society B) Women’s education C) Spread of English education D) Widow remarriage 1778. Who came to be known as the ‘Grand Old Man of India? A) Justice Ranade B) Mahatma Gandhi C) Rabindranath Tagore D) Dadabhai Naoroji 1779. Gandhiji was associated with the peasant movement of A) Bardoli B) Champaran C) Bengal D) Chauri Chaura 1780. Who was the President of the Swaraj Party? A) C. R. Das B) Motilal Nehru C) Vallabhbhai Patel D) Madam Mohan Malviya
1781. Quit India Resolution was adopted on A) 8th August, 1942 B) 9th August,1942 C) 24th August, 1945 D) 15th August, 1947 1782. Who said, “Give me blood, I will give you freedom”? A) Jawaharlal Nehru B) Mahatma Gandhi
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C) B. G. Tilak D) Subhash Chandra Bose 1783. Simon Commission visited India in the year A) 1926 B) 1927 C) 1929 D) 1930 1784. The “Inquilab Zindabad” slogan was given by A) Chandra Sekhar Azad B) Subhash Chandra Bose C) Bhagat Singh D) Iqbal Answer. The famous slogan Inquilab Zindabad was given by Hasrat Mohani. 1785. Who wrote Hind Swaraj? A) Bal Gangadhar Tilak B) Vinoba Bhave C) Chandra Sekhar Azad D) M. K. Gandhi 1786. Which of the following does not match? A) 1930-Dandi March B) 1940-Resolution of Pakistan C) 1938-Individual Satyagraha D) 1942-Quit India Movement 1787. Who was the Prime Minister of England when India got independence? A) Earl Mountbatten B) Winston Churchill C) Lord Irwin D) Lord Atlee 1788. Where in 1943 was the Azad Hind Fauz organized? A) Mandalay B) Singapore C) Midnapur D) Kualalampur 1789. The resolution of Purna Swaraj was adopted in A) Lahore Session, 1929
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B) Calcutta Session, 1933 C) Lucknow Session, 1936 D) Tripuri Session, 1939 1790. Where did Jallianawala Bagh Massacre occur? A) Jalandhar B) Amritsar C) Ludhiana D) Hoshiarpur 1791. Who among the following was not a member of the Cabinet Mission? A) P. Lawrence B) Anthony Eden C) Stafford Cripps D) A. V. Alexander 1792. Who said,’India is not one but two nations’? A) Mohammad Iqbal B) Mohammad Ali Jinnah C) Syed Ahmed Khan D) Maulana Abul Kalam 1793. Who among the following was known as the ‘Iron Man of India’? A) Subhash Chandra Bose B) B. G. Tilak C) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel D) Dadabhai Naoroji 1794. When was the Non-Cooperation Movement suspended? A) 1920 B) 1922 C) 1930 D) 1942 1795. Rabindranath Tagore gave up his knighthood because of A) Jallianwala Bagh tragedy B) brutal suppression of Civil Disobedience Movement C) execution of Bhagat Singh D) Chauri Chaura incident 1796. The Poona Pact aimed at A) Hindu-Muslim unity
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B) Representation of lower castes C) Privileges of the Princes D) Review of the working of diarchy 1797. Who was not related to Home Rule Movement A) Bal Gangadhar Tilak B) Annie Besant C) Jinnah D) Arunadale 1798. After leaving the Congress, Subhash Chandra Bose organized the Forward Bloc in A) 1936 B) 1937 C) 1939 D) 1941 1799. From where did the Quit India Movement begin? A) Nagpur B) Delhi C) Calcutta D) Bombay 1800. Who formed the interim government in 1946? A) Lord Wavell B) Lord Mountbatten C) Mohammad Ali Jinnah D) Clement Atlee.
. 1801. Excavation at Harappa was carried out in 1920’s by which of the following archaeologists? A) Dayaram Sahni, M.S. Vats and Mortimer Wheeler B) R.D. Banarjee and Sir John Marshall C) B.K. Thapar and S.R. Rao D) Makey and George Dales 1802. Which of the following Indus Valley Civilizations is in Pakistan? A) Lothal
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B) Alamgirpur C) Harappa D) Kalibangan 1803. The Harappans used the tools made of A) Copper, bronze and stone B) Copper,stone and iron C) Stone,bronze and tin D) Stone,bronze and iron 1804. Which of the following may not be regarded as Vedic Literature proper? A) Rig Veda B) Sathapatha Brahmana C) Kaushitaki Upanishad D) Dharmasastras 1805. The Hindu society in the Vidic Age was divied into four castes based on A) Tribes B) Religion C) Occupation D) Customs 1806. The Harappans grew great variety of crops,like A) Wheat, barley, pulses, mustard, sesame and cotton B) Wheat, brrley, mustard and jute C) Rice, pulses and mustard D) Barley, rice, bajra and mustard 1807. In Rig-Vedic period, women attended which of the following tribal assemblies? A) Sabha and Samiti B) Sabha and Vidatha C) Vidatha and Gana D) Samiti and Gana 1808. In later-Vedic times, the king’s influence was strengthened by performing rituals, like A) Rajasuya sacrifice B) Rajasuya and Asvamedha only C) Rajasuya, Asvamedha and Vajapeya D) None of the above
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1809. Jaina religious literature was written in A) Sanskrit B) Prakrit C) Ardhamagadhi D) Brahmi 1810. The First Jain Council was held in the 3rd century B. C. at A) Valabhi B) Pataliputra C) Taxila D) Ujjain 1811. The term ‘Brahmanism’ indicates A) Religious system of the brahmanas B) Caste system C) Religious system of the brahmanas as well as the social structure characterized by caste system D) monopoly to the priestly knowledge 1812. The greatest achievement of the Sisunaga dynasty was A) Destruction of the power of Avanti B) Fortification of Rajgir C) Establishment of a powerful army D) Destruction of the power of the Lichchhavis 1813. Which of the following revenue items was collected only in cash during the Mauryan period A) Kara B) Bhaga C) Hiranya D) Pranaya 1814. Who among the following according to Ceylonese Chronicles, converted Ashoka to Buddhism? A) Upagupta B) Nigrodha C) Uddaka Ramaputta D) Asvaghosha 1815. Which of the following was the religion of Chandragupta Maurya? A) Buddhism B) Hinduism
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C) Jainism D) Vaishnavism 1816. Which of the following is not true of the imperial currency of the Mauryas? A) They were punch-marked silver coin B) They were punch-marked copper coin C) They bore the symbol of peacock, hill and crescent D) They were discovered in large numbers 1817. Ashokan inscriptions were written in A) Brahmi B) Kharosthi C) Aramaich Greek D) All of the above 1818. A new class of administrative officers appointed during Ashoka’s reign was known as A) Rajukas B) Bhandargarikas C) Dharmamahamatras D) Dustamattyas 1819. The most important source of information for the municipal administration of the city of pataliputra in Mauryan empire is A) Indica B) Mudra-Rakshasa C) Ashokan inscription D) Arthasastra 1820. Kanishka’s court was adorne by A) Parsva B) Vasumitra C) Asvaghosha D) All of them 1821. The official language of the Satavahana period was A) Brahmi B) Sanskrit C) Prakrit D) Kharosthi 1822. Which among the following statements explains the downfall of the Mauryan empire?
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A) Rise of Brahmana dynastic, financial crisis, oppressive measures of the mahamatras and neglect of the north-west frontier B) Ashoka’s deliberate and systematic policy of acculturation through the appointment of Dharmamahamatras C) The spread of material culture, inscription and punchmarked coins in Bangladesh, Orissa Andhra and Karnataka D) Pushyamitra Sunga killed the last Maurya king Brihadratha in 185 B.C. 1823. Which of the following statements is true of the rise of the Sungas and the Kanvas in central india? A) Knowledge of the use of iron tools and weapons acquired from Magadha B) The art of marking steel has led to the use of batter methods of cultivation C) The decline of Royal Control D) Employment of slaves in agricultural oppressions 1824. Which of the following Buddhist council was Presided over by Moggaliputta Tissa? A) 1 st Buddhist council B) 2 nd Buddhist council C) 3 rd Buddhist council D) 4 th Buddhist council 1825. Chandragupta Maurya spent his last days at A) Shravana Belgola B) Nalanda C) Ujjain D) Patna 1826. The first to invade India from about 200 B.C. were the Bactrian Greeks. They were followed by A) Kushanas B) Parthians C) Arabs D) Sakas 1827. Brahmadeya settliments are A) Royal grants to Buddhist and jaina monasteries B) Land grants to Vaishnava and Saiva temples C) Secular land geants
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D) Land grants to Brahmanas 1828. THE style and arehitecture which came into vogue during the Chola period is called A) Vimana B) Dravida C) Gopuram D) Mandapa 1829. Which of the following is the characteristic of Gandhara Art under the patronage of the Kushanas? A) Images of Buddha were made in the Greco-Roman style B) Images of siva were made in the Greco-Roman style C) It was totally an indigenous art D) It was made from red sandstone of Mathura 1830. Ramaka-Sidhanta of the Gupta Period was a book on A) Religion B) Astronomy C) Agriculture D) Politics 1831. Harshavardhana’s administration recorded the from of taxation as A) Bhaga B) Bhoga C) Hiranya D) All of the above 1832. The extension of Harsha’s empire of the south of Narmada river was obstructed by A) Chalukya king pulakesin B) Haider Ali of Mysore C) Chola king of karikala D) Vakataka king Rudrasena 1833. Samudragupta is said to have received tributes from which of the following easternmost areas? A) Pokharan of Bankura district B) Samatata rgion C) Devaka and kamarupa D) Comilla area
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1834. A new type of society seems to emerge from the eighth century onwards in india which emphasized on A) Subregionalism B) Feudalism C) Medievalism D) All of the above 1835. Chola rulers drew their income from A) Land tax B) Tolls on trade C) Taxes on professions D) All of the Above 1836. Who among the following Pala rulers founded the university of Vikramasila A) Gopala B) Devapala C) Narayanapala D) Dharmapala 1837. The Arab conquest of sindh was strongly opposed by A) Gurjara Pratiharas of Kanauj B) Chauhans of Ajmer and Delhi C) Paramaras of Malwa D) Chandellas of Bundelkhand 1838. The first ruling dynasty of Vijayanagara kingdom was A) Aravidu dynasty B) Sangama dynasty C) Saluva dynasty D) None of the above 1839. Who among the following was the ruler of Chitor when Ala- ud-din Khilji attacked and conquered it in 1303 A.D.? A) Rana Sanga B) Rana Kumbha C) Rana Ratan Sing D) Rana Hamir 1840. Which of the following is not true of Litutmish’s claim to fame A) Establishment of the indeperdent Sultanate of Delhi B) Freed Delhi from being a mere subordinate to Ghazni
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C) Successfully resisted Chengiz Khan’s attack D) Delhi emerged as a centre of Islamic power and culture in India 1841. Chihilgan, ‘a corps of the forty’,was A) A political faction consisting of litutmish’s personal slaves B) the army of the Slaves dynasty C) district administrator D) advisor and Ulema 1842. Ibon Batuta, an African traveler,visited India during the reign of A) Khalijis B) Sayyids C) Tughlaqs D) Lodis 1843. Who among the following was the chalukya ruler when Mahmud of Ghazni invaded and plundered Somnath Temple? A) Jayasimha Siddharaja B) Mularaja II C) Bhima I D) Kumarapala 1844. Raziya’s death marked the decline of A) the Slave dynasty B) the line of Ilitutmish C) the line of Balban D) Mongol attack 1845. Dahir was the ruler of A) Multan B) Kabul C) Sind D) Baluchistan 1846. Which of the following chronological orders of the rulers of Slave dynasty is correct? A) Iltutmish-Ghiyas-ud-din Balban-Raziya-Qutb-ud-din B) Qutb-ud-din-Iltutmish-Ghiyas-ud-din-Balban-Raziya C) Qutb-ud-din-Iltutmish-Raziya-Ghiyas-ud-din-Balban D) None of the above 1847. The first Battle of Panipat was fought between A) Ibrahim Lodi and babur
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B) Sultan Mahmud and Prithviraj Chouhan C) Akbar and Bahlal Lodi D) None of the above 1848. Which of the following statement is not true of Ala-ud-din Khilji’s administration? A) He detached religion from politics B) He struck a great blow to the traditional influence of the Ulema over the affairs of the state C) He decentralized the agrarian taxation system D) He included non-Turk Muslim nobility in his administration 1849. Who among the following was the author of kitab-ul-Hind? A) Ibn Batuta B) Al-beruni C) Abul Fazl D) Zia-ud-din Barani 1850. The Tabaqaat-Nasiri was authored by A) Al-Beruni B) Amir Khusru C) Ibn Batuta D) Minhaj-uj-siraj 1851. Historians, writing on the eventful reign of Muhammad bin Tughlaq,were A) Ibn Batuta, Ferishta, Badauni Zia-ud-din Barani B) Abdur Razzaq, Al-Firdausi,Al-Bazi C) Haji Iliyas, Amir Khusru D) Malik Muhammad Jayasi, Minhaj-uj-siraj,Medi Ray 1852. The structure of Qutb Minar was completed by A) Aram Shah B) Iltutmish C) Qutb-ud-din Aibak D) Raziya Sultan 1853. Sher Shah during the span of his rule A) Issued the coin called ‘Rupia’ B) Fixed standard weights and measures all over the enpire C) Built the Grand Trunk Road from Peswar to Calcutta D) All of the above
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1854. In administration, Firuz Shah was assisted by the famous Wazir who also a converted Brahmin, named A) Hasan Gangu B) Ghiyas-ud-din C) Khwaja Jahan D) Khan-i-Jahan Maqbul 1855. Who among the following is famous for building a large number of canals? A) Akbar B) Ala-ud-din Khalji C) Firuz Tughlaq D) None of them 1856. The rising power of the Vijayanagara empire had many rivals.In the south, the main rivals were A) Hoysala rulers of Mysore B) Sultans of Madurai C) Western Chalukyas D) Cheras 1857. The Persian traveller Abdur Razzaq visited Vijayanagara during the reign of A) Harihara B) Bukka C) Deva Raya I D) Deva Raya II 1858. Who among the following was a saint of the Bhakti Movement in Bengal? A) Kabir B) Tulsidas C) Vivekananda D) Chaitanya 1859. Battle of Plassey proved to be a step towards the acquisition of A) territorial supremacy B) economic rights C) free trade D) war indemnity
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1860. When the revolt of Tughril Khan occurred in Bengal, the Sultan was A) Firuz Tughlaq B) Muhammad Tughlaq C) Ghiyas-ud-din Balban D) Ala-ud-din Khalji 1861. The Tomb of Babur is at A) Kabul B) Lahore C) Sasaram D) Delhi 1862. During the reign of Akbar, revenue system was in the hands of A) Todar Mal B) Abdul Hamid Lahori C) Tansen D) Birbal 1863. The Finance Minister(or, auditor who checked public income and expenditure) under Shivaji was called as A) Amatya B) Samanta C) Mantri D) Pandit Rao 1864. Which Mughal ruler built a new city at Delhi, called Din Panah? A) Babur B) Humayun C) Shah Jahan D) Aurangzeb 1865. The ‘dagh’ system was A) A fixed standerd of weights and measures B) Minting of a uniform standerd of gold, silver and copper in place of debased coins of mixed metal C) Branding of horses with the imperial sign so that horses of inferior quality may not be substituted D) None of the above 1866. Akbar instituted a new system called the ‘Dahsala’. It was
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A) An organization of local government B) An organization of his army on a decimal basis C) A ten-year settlement of revenue D) A system under which the average produce of different crops as well as the average prices prevailing over the last ten years were calculated 1867. On which wall of the following buildings, the Persian couplet, ‘If there is a paradise on earth,it is this,it is this’ is inscribed? A) Diwan-i-Khas B) Tajmahal C) Diwan-i-Am D) None of the above 1868. Tulsidas wrote Ramcharitamanasa during the reign of A) Akbar B) Jahangir C) Sher Shah D) Aurangzeb 1869. Which of the following is the autobiography of Babur? A) Babur-i-Jurk B) Tuzuk-i-Baburi C) Baburi I Tuzuk D) None of above 1870. Persian prose and poetry reached a climax under Akbar’s reign. The translation of Mahabharata was carried out under the supervision of A) Abul Fazi B) Utbi C) Naziri D) Faizi 1871. There was a long-drawn war between the Maghals and the Ahoms during the reign of A) Shah Jahan B) Akbar C) Jahangir D) Aurangzeb 1872. Shah Alam II was succeeded by A) Bahadur Shah I
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B) Bahadur Shah II C) Akbar II D) Ahmad Shah 1873. The settlement of the French in Bengal was at A) Hugli B) Chandernagar C) Balasore D) Murshidabad 1874. English was introduced as a medium of higher education during colonial rule on the advice of A) Babington Macaulay B) Charles Metcalfe C) Raja Rammohan Roy D) Dayananda Saraswati 1875. The English East India Company was originally known as A) The Company of Merchants of London Trading in the East Indies B) The Company of Merchants in the East Indies C) The Company of London Trade D) None of the above 1876. Who among the following laid the foundation of the Portuguese empire in India? A) Vasco da Gama B) Bartholomew Dias C) Affonso de Albuquerque D) None of the above 1877. Who among the following wrote The History of British India (1817) based on utilitarianism? A) Macaulay B) Trevelyan C) Bentham D) Mill 1878. Which among the following was called the ‘steel frame’ that sustained British ruie under Cornwallis? A) His Revenue Reforms B) His Judicial System C) The Indian Civil Service D) The Permanent Zamindary Settlement of Land
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1879. The concept, ‘back to the Vedas’ was propounded by A) Swami Dayananda Saraswati B) Vidyasagar C) Keshab Chandra Sen D) Raja Mammohan Roy 1880. The first railway line was opened in 1853 between A) Bombay and Thane B) Bombay and Calcutta C) Bombay and Agra D) Bombay and Delhi 1881. Mohammadan Anglo-Oriental College at Aligarh was opened during the time of A) Lord Elgin B) Lord Mayo C) Lord Lytton D) Lord Northbrook 1882. John Shore was known for his policy of non-intervention. However, he followed this policy only with regard to A) Awadh B) Assam C) Rohilkhand D) None of the above 1883. During which of the following periods was the policy of subordinate isolation followed? A) 1765-1813 B) 1813-1857 C) 1857-1882 D) 1882-1947 1884. Which of the following Acts, passed by Lord Lytton, manifested clear-cut racial discriminations? A) The Royal Tiles Act, 1876 B) The Vernacular Press Act, 1878 C) The Arms Act,1878 D) The Statutory Civil Service Act, (1878-79) 1885. The consequence of Anti-Partition of Swadeshi Movement of 1905 was that A) many swadeshi banks and insurance companies were launched
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B) journalism and national poetry developed which inculcated the feeling of nationalism in the Indian masses C) All of the above 1886. The provision of separate electorate for Muslim was envisaged by the A) Morley-Minto Reforms, 1909 B) Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms, 1919 C) Government of India Act, 1935 D) Indian Independence Act, 1947 1887. The main aim of Home Rule Movement was to A) remove British rule B) turn out the British from India C) keep Hindu-Muslim unity and fight for freedom D) attain self-government within the British empire 1888. The Young Bengal Movement in 19th century was inspired by A) Peary Chand Mitra B) Henry Vivian Derozio C) Annie Besant D) None of them 1889. As regards the Partition of Bengal (1905) who said, ‘Bengal united is a power , Bengal divided will pull in several different ways’? A) Lord Curzon B) H. H. Risley C) Francis Buchanon D) S. N. Bannerjea 1890. Who wrote the book, The Indian Mussalmans (1871)? A) H. H. Risley B) Sayyed Ahmed Khan C) Abdul Lalit Khan D) W.W. Hunter 1891. By the Charter Act of 1793, the Company’s commercial privileges were extended for another A) Fifteen years B) Twenty years C) One hundred years D) None of the above
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1892. Non-Cooperation Movement was withdrawn mainly because of the A) friction between the moderates and the extremists B) withdrawal of support by Muslim League C) Chauri Choura incident D) None of the above 1893. The resolution of ‘Poorna Swaraj’ or ‘full Independence’ was adopted in the A) Bombay Session, 1885 B) Nagpur Session, 1920 C) Lucknow Session, 1916 D) Lahore Session, 1929 1894. The Cabinet Mission which visited India in 1946 was constituted of A) Sir Pethick Lawrence B) Sir Stafford Cripps C) V. Alexander D) All of them 1895. Which of the following was not in the agenda of the Simon Commission A) Working of the system of government B) Trial of revolutionary offenders C) Growth of education D) Development of representative institutions in British India 1896. The year 1945 is associated with A) Wavell Plan B) Cabinet Mission Plan C) August Offer D) Navy Putiny 1897. Why did Gandhi go to Champaran? A) To launch Salt Satyagraha B) To launch Non-Cooperation Movement C) To make personal enquiry into the grievances of the indigo cultivators D) To launch campaign against the zamindars 1898. Who among the following was not connected with the Azad Hind Fauz?
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A) Shah Nawaj Khan B) Captain Lakshmi Sehgal C) Ehsan Qadir D) V. D. Savarkar 1899. Match List -1 with List-2 using the codes given below the List: List-1 List-2 A) The Indian Council (i) Separate electorate Act of 1909 B) The Government of (ii) Dyarchy in the provinces India Act,1919 C) The Government of (iii) Federation India Act, 1935 D) The Indian (iv) Transfer of authority to Independence Act, Indians 1947 Code : A) (a)-(i), (b)-(iii), (c)-(ii), (d)-(iv) B) (a)-(ii), (b)-(i), (c)-(iii), (d)-(iv) C) (a)-(ii), (b)-(ii), (c)-(iv), (d)-(iii) D) (a)-(i), (b)-(ii), (c)-(iii), (d)-(iv) 1900. Which of the following statement is wrong? A) Lord Linlithgow inaugurated the working of the Government of India Act of 1935 B) The Cripps Mission was headed by Sir Stafford Cripps C) Sardar Patel was the first Defence Minister of Free India D) The August Rebellion took place in 1942 A.D.
1901. Which of the following archaeological sites is located in Rajasthan? A) Kalibangan B) Mohenjo-Daro C) Harappa D) Lothal 1902. Indus Valley people produced A) Wheat B) Barley C) Peas
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D) All of the above 1903. Indus Valley Civilization belong to the A) Palaeolithic Age B) Neolithic Age C) Chalcolithic Age D) Iron Age 1904. Which of the following Indus culture sites gives evidence of a dockyard? A) Harappa B) Lothal C) Mohenjo-Daro D) Rakhigarhi 1905. The Vedic term ‘Kula’ stands for A) Country B) District C) Family D) Village 1906. The clan-based assemblies of the Vedic polity were A) Sabha B) Samiti C) Vidhata D) All of the above 1907. Which of the following is associated with the Vedic Aryans? A) Temples B) Idols C) Yajna D) All 1908. Which of the following is known as ‘turning of the wheel of law’? A) Buddha’s First Sermon B) Buddha’s Second Sermon C) Buddha’s Third Sermon D) None of the above 1909. The first ‘Tirthankara’ was A) Rishabhanatha B) Persvanatha C) Aristhanemi
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D) Vardhaman Mahavira 1910. The third Buddhist Council, that was organized in Pataliputra during the reign of Ashoka, was presided by A) Asvaghosha B) Kusuaril Bhatta C) Sanghamitra D) Mogalliputta Tissa 1911. Chandragupta Maurya was succeeded by A) Ashoka B) Kalashoka C) Bimbisara D) Bindusara 1912. The original name of Kautilya was A) Chanakya B) Bishnugopa C) Charaka D) None of the above 1913. Who among the following Greek Philosophers accompanied Alexander in his invasion of India? A) Strabo B) Arrian C) Herodotus D) Nearchus 1914. Ashoka created the post of A) Samahartre B) Dhamma-mahamattas C) Anta-mahamattas D) Saminidhatre 1915. Which of the following was the capital of the Rashtrakutas? A) Badami (Karnataka) B) Kalyani (Karnataka) C) Vengi (Andhra Pradesh) D) Manyakheta (Maharashtra) 1916. The founder of the Satavahana dynasty was A) Kanhu B) Simuka C) Gautamiputra Satakarni
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D) Satakarni I 1917. Harshavardhana authored the drama A) Nagananda B) Ratnavali C) Priyadarshika D) All of the above 1918. Who of the following built the KonarkSun Temple? A) Narasimaha Deva B) Rajendra Chola C) Ashoka D) Krishnadeva Raya 1919. Which of the following was the capital of Kanishka? A) Pataliputra B) Purushapura C) Magadha D) Kanauj 1920. The Gandhara Art was as important art from to have evolved during the reign of the A) Mauryas B) Guptas C) Kushanas D) Sakas 1921. The Aihole Inscription is an eulogy written by the Court Poet Ravikirti about his ruler A) Vikramaditya II B) Narasimhavarman C) Pulakesin II D) Harshavardhana 1922. The Rashtrakuta Kingdom was founded by A) Amoghavarsha B) Dantidurga C) Govinda III D) Indra III 1923. Muhammad Ghori established his rule in India while Muhammad Ghaznavi was contended with A) The spread of Islam in India B) Plundering the wealth of India
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C) Punishing the idolators in India D) All of the above 1924. Chihilgani was identified by another name A) Crop of the Twenty B) Crop of the Thirty C) Crop of the Forty D) Crop of the Fifty 1925. Ala-ud-din Khilji was unparalleled in Medieval Indian History for A) Repulsing the Mongol invasion B) Separating politics from religion C) Market control policy D) All of the above 1926. To which of the following imperial dynasties did Raziya Sultana belong? A) Mughal dynasty B) Khilji dynasty C) Slave dynasty D) Tughluq dynasty 1927. Who of the following suppressed the band of forty slaves? A) Iltutmish B) Balban C) Nasir-ud–din Muhammad D) Chinghiz Khan 1928. The scholar who accompanied Muhammad of Ghazni was A) Ibn Batuta B) Al-Firdausi C) Al-Beruni D) Al-Bazi 1929. The Italian traveller to have visited Vijayanagar in 1420 AD was A) Abdur Razzaq B) Nicolo de Conti C) Nuniz D) Ferishta 1930. Muhammad Bin Tughluq shifted his capital back to Delhi from Deogiri because
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A) He realized that he could not control North India from there B) The arrangement in Deogiri was temporary C) Local dynasties in the Deccan proved too strong D) Unsettled condition prevailed in the South 1931. Who among the following was the first ruler to formulate the theory of kingship on the principle of divine right? A) Balban B) Ala-ud-din C) Qutb-ud-din Aibak D) Raziya Sultana 1932. Ibn Batuta visited India during the reign of A) Firuz Shah Tughluq B) Raziya Begum C) Muhammad bin Tughluq D) Ghiyas-ud-din Tughluq 1933. The title of Malik-ul-Tujjar was granted to A) Malik Kafur B) Mahmud Gawan C) Gesu Daraz D) Muhammad Shah I 1934. Officials engaged in the collection of revenue in Sher Shah’s administration were A) Amins B) Shiqdars C) Quanungoes D) All of the above 1935. Which two of the following were basic coins of the Sultanate period? (i) Tanka (ii) Dam (iii) Jital (iv) Rupiya A) (i) and (iv) B) (ii) and (iii) C) (i) and (iii) D) (ii)and (iv) 1936. Which of the following Sultans issued silver coinage ‘Tanka’?
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A) Iltutmish B) Ala-ud-din Khilji C) Muhammad Bin Tughluq D) Firuz Tughluq 1937. The largest canal of its time which is still used and is most beneficial to North India was built by A) Alu-ud-din Khilji B) Sher Shan C) Firuz Tughluq D) Babur 1938. Which of the following kings issued Hanuman type coins in Vijayanagar State? A) Bukka I B) Harihara I C) Harihara II D) Both (A) and (B) 1939. The founder of the Bahmani kingdom was A) Alauddin Hasan Baham Shah B) Muhammad Shah I C) Gangu D) Firuz Shah 1940. The original name of Nur Jahan was A) Mehrunissa B) Ladli Begum C) Mumtaz Mahal D) Begum Hazrat Mahal 1941. Satnamis were a sect of simpleminded Hindus, who were basically A) Priests B) Agriculturists and traders C) Jagirdars D) Pirates Ans. The Satnamis were originally a militant sect of Hindu worshippers. Mewar and Narnol were their chief centres. 1942. The Mansabdari System was established during the reign of A) Babur B) Akbar
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C) Jahangir D) Sher Shah 1943. Who among the following Vijayanagar kings first concluded treaties with the Portuguese? A) Deva Raya II B) Virupaksha C) Achyutadeva Raya D) Krishnadeva Raya 1944. Which of the following was not a province of Bahmani kingdom? A) Daulatabad B) Berar C) Gulbarga D) Golkunda 1945. Which of the following was not one of the causes of the attack of Babur on India? A) Babur’s failure to extend his empire towards West B) Babur’s ambition C) Babur’s desire to plunder the wealth of India D) Invitation of attack to Babur by Daulat Khan, Alam Khan and Sangram Singha 1946. Which among the following measures was taken by Sher Shah to check the revolt of the governors in a distant province like Bengal? A) Administrative and financial powers were divided and given to two different officers B) Espionage was strictly organized there C) Governors were very frequently transferred from there D) No governor having an army was appointed there but instead a civilian officer, called Amin-i-Bangala, was appointed 1947. Who among the following Muslim rulers is described as the forerunner of Akbar? A) Balban B) Alu-ud-din C) Firuz Tughluq D) Sher Shah
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1948. The first Rajput Chief who entered into matrimonial alliance with Akbar was A) The ruler of Ranthambhor B) The ruler of Marwar C) The ruler of Jaipur D) The Ruler of Kalinjar Answer: Raja Bharmal of Amber was the first to enter into alliance with Akbar. 1949. Ibadat-Khana of Akbar was constructed by Akbar to A) Propagate Islam vigorously B) Provide religious leaders an opportunity to express their viewpoint C) Discuss religious matters affecting the State D) Have a place where secular matters could be discussed 1950. The Akbarnamah was written by A) Faizi B) Abdur Rahim C) Abdul Fazal D) Akbar 1951. The famous ‘Peacock Throne’ originally belonged to A) Chandragupta Vikramaditya B) Bhoja C) Shah Jahan D) Jahangir 1952. The Peshwa who greatly contributed to the rise of the Maratha Power in India was A) Balaji Viswanath B) Baji Rao I C) Balaji Baji Rao D) Madhava Rao 1953. The ‘Diwani of Bengal’ was granted to the East India Company in 1765 by A) Mir Qasim B) Shah Alam II C) Shuja-ud-daulah D) Robert Clive 1954. The Ilbert Bill was introduced
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A) To train the Indians for self-government B) To remove the inequalities between the Indians and the Europeans in the eye of law C) To abolish the authority of the East India Company D) None of the above 1955. Who among the following was called the ‘Father’ of Indian National Congress? A) A. O. Hume B) W. C. Banerjee C) Lala Lajpat Raj D) M.K. Gandhi Ans. Allan Octavian Hume 1956. The Bardoli Satyagraha was led by A) C. Rajagopalachari B) Dr. Rajendra Prasad C) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel D) Chandrashekhar Azad 1957. The most important French Settlement in Bengal was A) Hugli B) Murshidabad C) Dacca D) Chandernagar 1958. Akbar issued a square rupee, called A) Dam B) Jalali C) Illahi D) Paisa 1959. The European traveller(s), who visited India during the reign of Jahangir and left valuable account for his reign was/were A) William Finch B) William Hawkins C) Francis Palsaert D) All of the above 1960. The contribution of Todar Mall is A) Land tax B) Revenue administration C) Trade
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D) None of the above 1961. The credit of founding Calcutta goes to A) Admiral Watson B) Havelock C) Job Charnock D) None of them 1962. The battlefield of Plassey is situated in A) Bihar B) Andhra Pradesh C) Orissa D) West Bengal 1963. The Pitt’s India Act of 1784 was passed by the ‘British’ Parliament during by the Governor-Generalship of A) Warren Hastings B) Lord Cornwallis C) Lord Wellesley D) Lord Hastings 1964. Raja Ram Mohan Roy was associated with A) Abolition of Sati B) Widow remarriage C) Promotion of English education D) Promotion of Sanskrit education 1965. The Partition of Bengal was undertaken with a view to A) Satisfying the Hindus and the Muslims B) Meeting the demand of the Muslim C) Dividing the Hindus of East Bengal and West Bengal D) Suppressing the Congress Movement 1966. Ring Fence is associated with A) Robert Montgomery B) Warren Hastings C) Dalhousie D) None of them 1967. Who among the following was the Governor General when the Treaty of Amritsar with Ranjit Singh took place? A) Lord Minto I B) Lord Hastings C) Lord Wellesely
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D) Lord Amherst 1968. The Treaty of Salbai was signed between A) The English and the Marathas B) The English and Tipu Sultan C) The French and the English D) None of the above 1969. Which among the following was the nature of the Indigo Movement? A) Refusal to grow indigo B) Refusal to perform as forced labour C) Refusal to pay revenue D) Armed insurrection of the peasants against the planters 1970. Who among the following declared that the Vedas contained absolute and the only truth? A) Raja Ram Mohan Roy B) Swami Dayanand C) Swami Ramakrishna D) Swami Vivekananda 1971. The leader of the Muslim League in 1906 was A) Nawab Salimulla of Dacca B) Muhammad Ali Jinnah C) Aga Khan D) Syed Ahmad Khan 1972. The leader of the Moderate group among the following was A) Lala Lajpat Rai B) Bal Gangadhar Tilak C) Bipin Chandra Pal D) Gopal Krishna Gokhale 1973. Which among the following was the most effective organization prior to the founding of the All India Congress? A) The British India Association B) Poona Sarvajanik Sabha C) Bombay Presidency Association D) Indian association 1974. Which among the following was the cause of the withdrawal of the Non-Cooperation Movement? A) Repressive policy of the British
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B) Gandhi’s illness C) People lost their vigour D) Incident at Chauri Chaura 1975. Henry Vivian Derozio was associated with the A) Swadeshi Movement B) Anti-Partition Movement C) Young Bengal Movement D) Young India Movement 1976. The Indian National Congress adopted the resolution of ‘Complete Independence’ in its Session held at A) Lahore B) Calcutta C) Madras D) Bombay 1977. Which among the following was the cause of protest by the Indians against the ‘Simon Commission’ A) The Commission was not asked to discuss the issue of local self- government of India B) The Commission had only to suggest some improvements in the Act of 1991 C) The commission was authorized to deal with the relation of native States with the British-governed provinces D) The Commission was an all-white Commission 1978. Who among the following was the pioneer of the Communist Movement of India? A) S.A. Danga B) M.N. Roy C) Philip Spirate D) Fazl-ul-Huq 1979. The Mughal princess who was a great historian was A) Jahanara B) Zeb-un-Nisa C) Roshanara D) Gulbadan Begum 1980. The Dewani Powers to the English East India Company was provided by the A) Treaty of Bassein
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B) Treaty of Srirangapatan C) Treaty of Allahabad D) Treaty of Gandamak 1981. The Second round table conference held in London in 1931, was attended by A) Jawaharlal Nehru B) M.K. Gandhi C) Dadabhai Naoroji D) B.R. Ambedkar 1982. Who among the following established the ‘Servants of India Society’? A) G.K. Gokhale B) Dadabhai Naoroji C) B.G. Tilak D) M.G. Ranade 1983. Communal Franchise was introduced in India by the A) Act of 1861 B) Act of 1892 C) Act of 1909 D) Act of 1919 1984. The ‘Quit India’ resolution was adopted in the year A) 1942 B) 1941 C) 1943 D) 1940 1985. The Muslim League adopted the name of Pakistan for a separate homeland for the Muslims in A) 1940 B) 1906 C) 1943 D) 1939 1986. Dadabhai Naoroji presented his ‘Drain of Wealth’ theory in A) Economic Problems of India B) Economic Essay C) British Rule and its Consequences D) Poverty and Un-British Rule in India 1987. Gandhi-Irwin Pact was concluded in the year
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A) 1930 B) 1931 C) 1941 D) 1945 1988. The Direct Action Campaign was launched by the Muslim League in the year A) 1946 B) 1945 C) 1947 D) 1948 1989. Who was destined to die after ‘hunger strike in jail’? A) Bhagat Singh B) Chandrashekhar Azad C) Jatindra Nath Das D) Surya Sen 1990. The Government of India Act, 1935 A) Introduced provincial autonomy B) Abolished dyarchy in provinces C) Made ministers responsible to the legislature and federation at the centre D) All of the above 1991. U Tirot Singh, who fought against the British, was a A) Naga B) Lushai C) Dimasa D) Khasi 1992. The Cabinet Mission plan was constituted by A) Lord Lawrence B) Sir Stafford Cripps C) A.V. Alexander D) All of them 1993. The first railway line was opened between Bombay and Thane in the year A) 1858 B) 1853 C) 1854 D) 1852
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1994. The first newspaper in India was A) Sambad Kaumudi B) The Bengal Gazette C) Merawl Akhbar D) The Pioneer 1995. The epithet ‘Grand Old Man of India’ was given to A) Madan Mohan Malaviya B) Dadabhai Naoroji C) M.G. Ranade D) Keshab Chandra Sen 1996. Morley-Minto Reforms was introduced in A) 1919 B) 1909 C) 1907 D) 1908 1997. The book, India Wins Freedom is authored by A) B.G. Tilak B) G.K. Gokhale C) A. K. Azad D) M. Nehru 1998. Which among the following pairs are correctly matched? Name Year (i) Lord William Bentinck 1828-1835 (ii) Lord Amherst 1823-1828 (iii) Lord Hardinge 1844-1848 (A) (i) and (iii) (B) (ii) and (iii) (C) (i) and (ii) (D) (i), (ii) and (iii) 1999. Who among the following Nawabs transferred his capital from Murshidabad to Munger? A) Mir Jafar B) Mir Qasim C) Nijzam-ud-daulah D) Siraj-ud-daulah 2000. The tax collected by the Marathas was known as A) Chauth
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B) Jagir C) Sardeshmukhi D) None of the above
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