More Questions on History
- Q. Which Mughal Emperor transferred the Mughal Capital from Agra to Delhi?
A)Aurangzeb
B)Jahangir
C)Shahjahan
D)Bahadur Shah
Answer: Shahjahan
- Q. Who among the following is the great disciple of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and helped in spreading the message that there are many roads to god and salvation and service of god for man was embodiment of god?
A)Swami Vivekananda
B)Raja Rammohan Roy
C)Swami Dayananda Saraswati
D)Annie Besant
Answer: Swami Vivekananda
- Q. The socialist group in the INC during, the 1930s had been led by
A)Rajendra Prasad
B)Bipin Chandra Pal
C)Lala Lajpat Rai
D)Subhas Chandra Bose
Answer: Subhas Chandra Bose
- Q. Who wrote the history of Aurangzeb’s reign in total secrecy because of the emperor’s opposition to it and what was the name of that historical work?
A)Mirza Muhammad Kazim's Alamgir Nama
B)Khafi Khan's Muntakhab-ul-Lubab
C)Muhammad Saqi's Masir-i-Alamgiri
D)Aquil Khan Razi's Zafar Nama-i-Alamgir
Answer: Khafi Khan's Muntakhab-ul-Lubab
- Q. Who among the following came to India at the instance of Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni?
A)Al-Biruni
B)AI-Masudi
C)Sulaiman
D)Abdul Haq
Answer: Al-Biruni
- Q. Who build the St. Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow, Russia
A)Vladislav I
B)Peter I
C)Ivan the Terrible
D)Feodor I
Answer: Ivan the Terrible
- Q. The ultimate ownership of land during the post-Gupta period lay with
A)The village community
B)The cultivator
C)The king
D)The joint family
Answer: The king
- Q. On which of the following systems of Hindu Philosophy , Shankaracharya wrote commentary in 9th century AD?
A)Vaisheshika
B)Sankhya
C)Yoga
D)Uttarmimansa
Answer: Uttarmimansa
- Q. Under the Mughals, the Police duties in urban areas were entrusted to the officers known as
A)Kazi
B)Kotwal
C)Vakil
D)Amin
Answer: Kotwal
- Q. The sole representative of the Congress in the Second Round Table Conference was
A)Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru
B)Subhas Chandra Bose
C)Mahatma Gandhi
D)Jawaharlal Nehru
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi
- Q. Bhakti Saint who was contemporary of Sivaji?
A)Ekanatha
B)Namadev
C)Tukaram
D)Gnanadeva
Answer: Tukaram
- Q. Assertion (A): Akbar’s official historian Abul Fazl neither gives the prices of slaves nor does he mention slave markets. Reason (R): Akbar prohibited slave trade in his empire
A)Both A and R are true but R is not a correct explanation of A
B)Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
C)A is true but R is false
D)A is false but R is true
Answer: A is true but R is false
- Q. An interim cabinet headed by Jawaharlal Nehru was formed by the congress in :
A)August 1943
B)August 1940
C)September 1946
D)September 1942
Answer: September 1946
- Q. Nalanda University was a great centre of learning, especially in
A)Jainism
B)Buddhism
C)Vaishnavism
D)Tantra
Answer: Buddhism
- Q. After the Bardoli Satyagraha, the title of ‘Sardar’ to Vallabhbhai Patel was given by
A)Motilal Nehru
B)Jawaharlal Nehru
C)Mahatma Gandhi
D)Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi
- Q. Which of the following powers did not fight for the Tungabhadra Doab?
A)Cholas and later Chalukyas of Kalyana
B)Pallavas and Chalukyas
C)Golconda and Ahmadnagar Sultanates
D)Vijayanagar and Bahmani kingdoms
Answer: Golconda and Ahmadnagar Sultanates
- Q. Who said – “patriotism is religion and religion is love for India?”
A)Bipin Chandra Pal
B)Bhagat Singh
C)Ashok Mehta
D)Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Answer: Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
- Q. The Tokyo Conference which passed a resolution to form an Indian National Army or Azad Hind Fauj was a conference of
A)Indians living in Tokyo
B)different associations of Indians living in South-East Asia
C)Indian prisoners of war in Japanese custody
D)Indian revolutionaries living outside India
Answer: different associations of Indians living in South-East Asia
- Q. In the early Vedic-period, Varna system was based on
A)Birth
B)Education
C)Occupation
D)Talent
Answer: Occupation
- Q. Aryabhatta, believed to have been born in the 5th century AD, was a most renowned scholar of
A)Biology
B)Astronomy
C)Medicine
D)Physiology
Answer: Astronomy
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