More Questions on History
- Q. I. Raja Ram Mohan Roy established the “Calcutta Unitarian Committee”. II. Social Service League was established by Mahadev Govind Ranade. III. Deccan Education Society was founded by Gopal Krishna Gokhale. IV. Annie Besant started the Central Hindu School. Which of the above statement(s) is/are correct with reference to the reformers & leaders of India’s Struggle for Independence?
A)I & IV
B)I, II & IV
C)II & III
D)III Only
Answer: I & IV
- Q. What is the meaning of Kaivalya Gyan (enlightenment) received by Abhinandannath Tirthankar?
A)Sangeet Siksha
B)Shastra Gyan
C)Nartya Siksha
D)Brahma Vidya
Answer: Brahma Vidya
- Q. Who was the author of Kitab-ul-Hind?
A)Abul Fazl
B)Abu Said
C)Firdausi
D)AI-Beruni
Answer: AI-Beruni
- Q. After receipt of Diksha, with which food Abhinandannath Tirthankar initiated first Parna?
A)Kheer
B)Milk
C)Water
D)Dahi
Answer: Kheer
- Q. Who was the founder of Satyashodhak Samaj?
A)Gopal Hari Deshmukh
B)Jyotiba Phule
C)Mahadew Govind Ranade
D)Ramakrishna Bhandarkar
Answer: Jyotiba Phule
- Q. Alauddin Khalji rigidly enforced ‘market control’ or economic regulations for
A)the general welfare of the people
B)building up a large and contented army with small salaries
C)both (A) and (B) above
D)curbing dishonest merchants and traders
Answer: both (A) and (B) above
- Q. Who discovered a direct sea route to India?
A)Germans
B)Portuguese
C)The French
D)The Dutch
Answer: Portuguese
- Q. As the unrest continued unabatedly, the Madras government appointed . . . . . . the collector of Malabar as special commissioner to enquire into the causes of the uprisings and recommend remedial measures.
A)William Logan
B)Connolly
C)S. N. Banerjee
D)Gokahale
Answer: William Logan
- Q. Ibn Batuta visited India during the reign of
A)Alauddin Khalji
B)Iltutmish
C)Muhammad bin Tughlaq
D)Balban
Answer: Muhammad bin Tughlaq
- Q. The INA was largely composed of
A)Overseas Indians
B)Indian Revolutionaries
C)Indian Prisoners of war under the Japanese
D)Deserters from the British Indian Army
Answer: Indian Prisoners of war under the Japanese
- Q. Who had observed that “Good government was never a good substitute for self-government”?
A)Ramakrishna Paramahansa
B)Swami Vivekananda
C)Swami Dayananda
D)Aurobindo Ghose
Answer: Swami Dayananda
- Q. Who said that ‘the real seat of taste is not the tongue but the mind.’?
A)Mahatma Gandhi
B)Aurobindo Ghosh
C)Bal Gangadhar Tilak
D)Swami Vivekananda
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi
- Q. The guerilla warfare was pioneered by
A)Akbar
B)Aurangzeb
C)Shivaji
D)Balaji Rao
Answer: Shivaji
- Q. Taxila University was located between which two rivers?
A)Jhelum and Ravi
B)Indus and Jhelum
C)Beas and Indus
D)Satluj and Indus
Answer: Indus and Jhelum
- Q. Who has given the treatise on the rule of the Pandyan kingdom by Pandala a daughter of Herakles?
A)Kautilya
B)Megasthenes
C)Banabhatt
D)Kalidas
Answer: Megasthenes
- Q. Who said Hanooz Dilli Door Ast?
A)Farid
B)Nizamuddin Aulia
C)Todarmal
D)Firdausi
Answer: Nizamuddin Aulia
- Q. After Tilak’s deportation which of the following extremist leaders was not similarly deported to Mandalay prison in Burma?
A)Bipin Chandra Pal
B)Lala Lajpat Rai
C)Aswini Kumar Datta
D)CR Das
Answer: CR Das
- Q. What was the meaning of the symbol Horse of Sambhavnath Tirthankar?
A)Restrained heart
B)Speed
C)Anger
D)Charm
Answer: Restrained heart
- Q. Who was the first Indian civil servant?
A)S N Banerjee
B)Motilal Nehru
C)C R Das
D)Bhagat Singh
Answer: S N Banerjee
- Q. Name the Commission that came to India in 1928 to reform India’s constitutional system
A)Pitt's India Act
B)Rowaltt Act
C)Partition of Bengal
D)Simon Commission
Answer: Simon Commission
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