More Questions on History
- Q. The Charter Act of 1813 allotted Rupees __________ annually for Indian learning and spread of Scientific knowledge
A)Two lakhs
B)One lakh
C)£10000
D)£5000
Answer: One lakh
- Q. The British Government intervened in the affairs of the Company and passed an Act in 1773 A.D., known as the
A)Pitt's India Act
B)Regulating Act
C)Charter Act
D)Company Act
Answer: Regulating Act
- Q. Of the following who are not given reserved seats in the Indian legislature?
A)Scheduled Tribes
B)Scheduled Caste
C)Anglo-Indian
D)Landed Gentry
Answer: Landed Gentry
- Q. In which of the following years 26th January was celebrated as an independence day?
A)1929
B)1930
C)1942
D)1946
Answer: 1930
- Q. Which one of the following stages of the life of man in Aryan Society, in ascending order of age, is correct?
A)Grihastha- Brahmacharya- Vanaprashta- Sanyasa
B)Brahmacharya- Grihashta- Vanaprastha- Sanyasa
C)Brahmacharya- Vanprastha- Sanyasa- Grihastha
D)Grihastha- Sanyasa- Vanaprastha- Brahmacharya
Answer: Brahmacharya- Grihashta- Vanaprastha- Sanyasa
- Q. Which one of the following famous ruler is called as ‘Father of Inscriptions’?
A)Chandragupta Maurya
B)Samudra Gupta
C)Ashoka
D)Kanishka
Answer: Samudra Gupta
- Q. When did the Constitution of Australia come into force?
A)1906
B)1901
C)1909
D)1910
Answer: 1901
- Q. The Venetian traveler who travelled with his wife and reached Vijayanagar around 1420 was
A)Niccolo de Conti
B)Athanasius Nikitin
C)Ibn Batuta
D)Ferishta
Answer: Niccolo de Conti
- Q. The word Pakistan was coined by
A)Jinnah
B)Mohammed Iqbal
C)Abul Kalam Azad
D)Rahmat Ali
Answer: Rahmat Ali
- Q. MSP means __________
A)Mysore Special police
B)Malabar Special Police
C)Madras Special police
D)Mappila Special Police
Answer: Malabar Special Police
- Q. Indian handicrafts rapidly declined due to
A)growing craze for imported goods
B)lack of patronage
C)stiff competition from the machine-made goods of England
D)All the above
Answer: All the above
- Q. I. Aurangzeb abolished Rahdari, Pandari and Pilgrim tax. II. Aurangzeb discontinued the practice of inscribing the Kalima on the coins. Which of the above statements is/are correct related to Aurangzeb?
A)Only II
B)Only I
C)Both I and II
D)Neither I nor II
Answer: Only II
- Q. Baz Bahadur was a . . . . . . in the court of Akbar
A)Painter
B)Musician
C)Architect
D)Soldier
Answer: Musician
- Q. “The Three Emperors League” 1873 was also known as
A)Triple Alliance
B)Dreikaiserbund Treaty
C)Reinsurance Treaty
D)The Dual Alliance
Answer: Dreikaiserbund Treaty
- Q. Which of the following principle propagated by Aligarh school which helped in bringing reforms in Muslims? I. Intolerance to other religions and religious texts II. Quran was the only authoritative work for Islam and all others are secondary. Therefore said belief in only Islam III. Incorporate modern western thought
A)Both I and II
B)Only I
C)Both II and III
D)All the above
Answer: Both II and III
- Q. What was Jagat Seth’s claim to fame in Bengal?
A)Leading popular poet
B)Diwan of Siraj-ud-Daulah
C)Biggest banker in Bengal
D)Commander of the Nawab's troops
Answer: Biggest banker in Bengal
- Q. Who built the famous Vaikunta Perumal temple at Kanchipuram?
A)Parameswara Varman II
B)Narasimhavarman II
C)Nandivarman II
D)Aparajita Varman
Answer: Nandivarman II
- Q. Who wrote the book ‘A Gift to monotheists’?
A)Raja Ram Mohan Roy
B)David Hare
C)Mahadev Govind Ranade
D)Ramkrishna Bhandarkar
Answer: Raja Ram Mohan Roy
- Q. The Upanishads are
A)Books of ancient Hindu laws
B)A source of Hindu philosophy
C)Books on social behavior of man
D)Prayers to God
Answer: A source of Hindu philosophy
- Q. Whom did B.G.Tilak call the “Diamond of India”?
A)Rabindranath Tagore
B)Mahatma Gandhi
C)Gopal Krishna Gokhale.
D)Bhagat Singh
Answer: Gopal Krishna Gokhale.
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