Q. The use of spinning wheel (Charkha) became common during the

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    B)Dayanand Saraswati and Vivekananda
    C)MG Ranade and DK Karve
    D)Keshab Chandra Sen and Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
    Answer: Dayanand Saraswati and Vivekananda
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    A)Pulinbehari Sarkar
    B)Dadabhai Naoroji
    C)Amaresh Chakravarty
    D)Prankrishna Parija
    Answer: Dadabhai Naoroji
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    A)Lord Mountbatten
    B)Winston Churchill
    C)Lord Wavell
    D)Lord Lirrlithgow
    Answer: Winston Churchill
  • Q. The Iron Pillar at Mehrauli in Delhi is believed to record the achievements of
    A)Chandragupta Maurya
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    C)Samudragupta
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    A)Ranjit Singh
    B)Baba Dyal Singh
    C)Lal Singh
    D)Tej Singh
    Answer: Baba Dyal Singh
  • Q. The Gupta king who assumed the title of ‘Vikramaditya’ was
    A)Samudragupta
    B)Skandagupta
    C)Chandragupta-II
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    Answer: Chandragupta-II
  • Q. The varnas came to be transformed into the hereditary castes during the
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    C)Mauryan period
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    Answer: Later Vedic period
  • Q. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity’ is the call associated with
    A)French Revolution
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    C)Chinese Revolution
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    A)Iran
    B)Central Asia
    C)Greece
    D)China
    Answer: Greece
  • Q. Who was the master of imperial mint at Delhi during the reign of Akbar?
    A)Mansur
    B)Khwaza Abdus Samad
    C)Mir Sayyid Ali
    D)Jehangir
    Answer: Khwaza Abdus Samad
  • Q. Who was the President of Indian National congress when the Mountbatten Plan of independence was accepted?
    A)Sardar Patel
    B)Jawaharlal Nehru
    C)Maulana Azad
    D)Acharya J. B. Kripalani
    Answer: Acharya J. B. Kripalani
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    B)Rowlatt Satyagraha
    C)Quit India Movement
    D)Non-Cooperation Movement
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  • Q. Where did Babur died?
    A)Kabul
    B)Agra
    C)Lahore
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    A)Kautilya
    B)Dhanananda
    C)Bimbisara
    D)Pushyamitra
    Answer: Kautilya
  • Q. Who among the following was the pioneer of Yoga?
    A)Banabhatta
    B)Patanjali
    C)Atreya
    D)Vrudukanta
    Answer: Patanjali
  • Q. Who is said to be responsible for the spread of Jainism in Karnataka?
    A)Chandragupta Maurya
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    C)Bimbisara
    D)Mahapadma Nanda
    Answer: Chandragupta Maurya
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    A)Guru Ramdas
    B)Guru Angad
    C)Guru Arjun
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    A)The Vaisnava Alvars
    B)The Saiva Nayanars
    C)Nirguna Saints
    D)Both A & B
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    B)Sikandar
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    C)Iltutmish
    D)Qutb-ud-din Aibak
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