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

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Nuruddin Muhammad Jahangir

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    A)Yugantar
    B)Anusilan Samiti
    C)Abhinava Bharata
    D)Abhinava Bharat Society
    Answer: Anusilan Samiti
  • Q. The second session of the congress met in Calcutta on December 1886, under the president ship of __________
    A)Kadambini Ganguli
    B)Dadabhai Naoroji
    C)Pherozeshah Mehta
    D)D.Ewacha
    Answer: Dadabhai Naoroji
  • Q. To take care of the conquered lands, Muhmmad Ghori left behind his trusted General
    A)Iltutmish
    B)Nasiruddin
    C)Qutub-din-Aibak
    D)Malik Kafur
    Answer: Qutub-din-Aibak
  • Q. Who is hailed as the “God of Medicine” by the practitioners of Ayurveda?
    A)Chyavana
    B)Susruta
    C)Dhanwantari
    D)Charaka
    Answer: Dhanwantari
  • Q. Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati was an important Hindu religious scholar, reformer, and founder of the __________
    A)Brahma Samaj
    B)Arya Samaj
    C)Ramakrishna Mission
    D)Theosophical society
    Answer: Arya Samaj
  • Q. The name of the Indian Astronomer (who knew five astronomical systems), who lived in the 6th century was
    A)Bhandarkar
    B)Varahamihira
    C)Pujyapada
    D)Prasastapada
    Answer: Varahamihira
  • Q. Tipu was defeated in the __________ Anglo-Maratha war by the British
    A)Second
    B)First
    C)Third
    D)Fourth
    Answer: Third
  • Q. Who was the last Mughal emperor?
    A)Noor Jehan
    B)Babur
    C)Akbar
    D)Bahadur Shah
    Answer: Bahadur Shah
  • Q. What is meant by a ‘Pir’ in the Sufi tradition?
    A)The Guru of the Sufis
    B)The Supreme God
    C)The greatest of all Sufi saints
    D)The orthodox teacher who contests the Sufi beliefs
    Answer: The Guru of the Sufis
  • Q. During the first hundred years of the British rule in India, people’s resentment and opposition to the British policies mainly surfaced in the form of
    A)Peasant uprisings
    B)Tribal uprisings
    C)Civil uprisings
    D)Both A and B above
    Answer: Both A and B above
  • Q. Aurangzeb came to power after winning the war of succession and by defeating his three brothers
    A)Shuja
    B)Dara
    C)Askari
    D)Murad
    Answer: Dara
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    A)Jinnah
    B)Mohammed Iqbal
    C)Abul Kalam Azad
    D)Rahmat Ali
    Answer: Rahmat Ali
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    A)Indian National Conference
    B)Indian Association of Calcutta
    C)British India association
    D)Indian Union
    Answer: Indian National Conference
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    A)Deimachus
    B)Gautamiputra Satakarni
    C)Nahapana
    D)Simuka
    Answer: Simuka
  • Q. In which of the following provinces the Congress Ministry was not formed in June 1937?
    A)Central Provinces
    B)United Provinces
    C)Madras
    D)Assam
    Answer: Assam
  • Q. India Home Rule Society, founded in London in February 1905, was one of the earliest revolutionary societies set up outside India. This society was founded by
    A)VD Savarkar
    B)Lala Har Dayal
    C)Shyamji Krishnavarma
    D)Madan Lal Dhingra
    Answer: Shyamji Krishnavarma
  • Q. Swami Dayananda had translated the __________ into Hindi.
    A)Four Vedas
    B)Rig Veda and Yajur Veda
    C)Sama Veda and Atharva Veda
    D)Sama Veda and Yajur Veda
    Answer: Rig Veda and Yajur Veda
  • Q. In early 1898 Swami Vivekananda acquired a big plot of land on the western bank of the Ganga at a place called . . . . . to have a permanent abode for the monastery and monastic order originally started at Baranagar, and got it registered as Ramakrishna Math after a couple of years
    A)Lahore
    B)Allahabad
    C)Amritsar
    D)Belur
    Answer: Belur
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    A)1909
    B)1905
    C)1919
    D)1857
    Answer: 1909
  • Q. __________, a judge of the Supreme Court founded the Asiatic society of Bengal in 1784 A.D.
    A)Warren Hastings
    B)Sir William Jones
    C)Raja Ram Mohan Roy
    D)Lord Macaulay
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