Q. Akbar’s son and successor Salim, on becoming the emperor, assumed the name of

Correct Answer

Nuruddin Muhammad Jahangir

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    A)Both A and R is true but R is not a correct explanation of A
    B)Both A and R is 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: Both A and R is true but R is not a correct explanation of A
  • Q. Which of the following is not a holy book of Jainism?
    A)Upang sahitya
    B)Anga sahitya
    C)Sutta pitaka
    D)Kalpasutra
    Answer: Sutta pitaka
  • Q. Confessions of Thug’ was written by
    A)Meadows Taylor
    B)Burke
    C)Havell
    D)Moreland
    Answer: Meadows Taylor
  • Q. Who was the 1st President of South Africa after apartheid?
    A)Nelson Mandela
    B)Zuma
    C)Kofi Annan
    D)Booker T. Washington
    Answer: Nelson Mandela
  • Q. Who among the following Bhakti Saint emphasised the essential oneness of all religion by describing Hindus and Muslims ‘as pots of the same clay’?
    A)Tulsidas
    B)Kabir
    C)Ramananda
    D)Raidasa
    Answer: Kabir
  • Q. The theory of economic drain of India during British imperialism was propounded by
    A)Dadabhai Naoroji
    B)Jawaharlal Nehru
    C)R.C. Dutt
    D)M.K. Gandhi
    Answer: Dadabhai Naoroji
  • Q. The Mughal Emperor who caused the murder of Guru Arjan was
    A)Akbar
    B)Babur
    C)Shah Jahan
    D)Jahangir
    Answer: Jahangir
  • 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. During the last 25 years of his reign, Aurangzeb was mainly involved in long-drawn wars against
    A)Golcunda
    B)Bijapur
    C)Marathas
    D)All the above
    Answer: Marathas
  • Q. Who was the first to call the revolt of 1857 as an organized war for national Independence?
    A)Dr. S Gopal
    B)Ashok Mehta
    C)Syed Hasan Imam
    D)V. D. Savarkar
    Answer: V. D. Savarkar
  • Q. Ashoka’s conquest of Kalinga has been described in the minor rock edict number.
    A)IV
    B)I
    C)VIII
    D)XIII
    Answer: XIII
  • Q. Which statement on the Harappan Civilization is correct?
    A)Cow was sacred to them
    B)Horse sacrifice was known to them
    C)Pashupati' was venerated by them
    D)The culture was generally static
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  • Q. The Government of India Act of 1935 borrowed its preamble from
    A)The Constitution of Australia
    B)The Constitution of the USA
    C)From the Government of India Act of 1919
    D)From Pitt's India Act
    Answer: From the Government of India Act of 1919
  • Q. Banga Darshan – a monthly magazine – was started in 1872 from Behrampur by:
    A)Umakant desai
    B)Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
    C)Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
    D)None of these
    Answer: Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
  • Q. From where the Mansabdari system was borrowed?
    A)Turkey
    B)Afghanistan
    C)Mongolia
    D)Persia
    Answer: Mongolia
  • Q. Bal Gangadhar Tilak was given the epithet of Lokmanya during
    A)Home Rule Movement
    B)His imprisonment in 1908
    C)Revolutionary Movement
    D)Swadeshi Movement
    Answer: Home Rule Movement
  • Q. During the reign of which ruler use of Halo or Divine Lights were started in paintings?
    A)Aurangazeb
    B)Iltutmish
    C)Jahangir
    D)Akbar
    Answer: Jahangir
  • Q. Who was the last Mughal emperor?
    A)Noor Jehan
    B)Babur
    C)Akbar
    D)Bahadur Shah
    Answer: Bahadur Shah
  • Q. Which of the following statement is/are correct? I. Panini’s Ashtadhyayi, book on grammar in eight chapters is the final culmination of this excellent art of writing in sutra (precepts) in which every chapter is precisely interwoven. II. The Brahmanas elaborates vedic caste system of the society
    A)Only II
    B)Only I
    C)Both I & II
    D)None of the above
    Answer: Both I & II
  • Q. Which among the following ‘MATH’ is related with Buddhism?
    A)Chaitya
    B)Dakhma
    C)Khangah
    D)Angeri
    Answer: Chaitya

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