Q. Aurangzeb put his father under house arrest in Agra Fort

Correct Answer

Shah Jahan

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  • Q. On Cabinet Mission, __________ observed, the proposals preserve the essential unity of India which la threatened by the dispute between two major communities
    A)Nehru
    B)Lord Wavell
    C)Patel
    D)Mahatma Gandhi
    Answer: Lord Wavell
  • Q. The famous Peacock Throne of Shah Jahan was taken away in 1739 by
    A)Persian invader Nadir Shah
    B)Afghan invader Ahmed Shah Abdali
    C)Mongol invader Chengiz Khan
    D)British East India Company
    Answer: Persian invader Nadir Shah
  • Q. Who are the earliest migrants from Europe to South America
    A)French
    B)Britishers
    C)Portuguese
    D)Spaniards
    Answer: Spaniards
  • Q. Assertion (A): Nalanda was the centre of Buddhist learning in the post-Gupta period. Reason (R): It was patronised by the Pala rulers.
    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 British official intiated the Doctrine of Lapse?
    A)Lord Auckland
    B)Lord Wellesley
    C)Lord Dalhousie
    D)Warren Hastings
    Answer: Lord Dalhousie
  • Q. This Vedic God was ‘a breaker of the forts’ and also a ‘war god’
    A)Yama
    B)Indra
    C)Marut
    D)Varuna
    Answer: Indra
  • Q. Which of the following was not to be ceded by Mir Kasim to the Company as per the treaty signed between Mir Kasim and Calcutta Council?
    A)Midnapur
    B)Burdwan
    C)Chittagong
    D)Monghyr
    Answer: Monghyr
  • Q. Alexander and the army of Porus camped on the opposite bank of which river?
    A)Jhelum
    B)Ravi
    C)Sutlej
    D)Chenab
    Answer: Jhelum
  • Q. The caste system of India was created for
    A)Recognization of the dignity of labour
    B)Immobility of labour
    C)Economic uplift
    D)Occupational division of labour
    Answer: Occupational division of labour
  • Q. Who propounded the ‘Eight-Fold Path’ for the end of misery of mankind?
    A)Gautam Buddha
    B)Mahavir
    C)Adi Shankaracharya
    D)Kabir
    Answer: Gautam Buddha
  • Q. Shuja-ud-Daulah was the Nawab of
    A)Arcot
    B)Rampur
    C)Awadh
    D)Surat
    Answer: Awadh
  • Q. Who said that “My ultimate aim is to wipe every tear from every eye”?
    A)Mahatma Gandhi
    B)Lord Curzon
    C)Jawahar Lal Nehru
    D)Daya Nand Saraswati
    Answer: Jawahar Lal Nehru
  • Q. At the Calcutta session of the Indian National Congress (INC) held in 1906 the flag of Swaraj for India was unfurled by
    A)Dadabhai Naoroji
    B)AO Hume
    C)GK Gokhale
    D)BG Tilak
    Answer: Dadabhai Naoroji
  • Q. The Charter Act of 1793 Renewed the Company’s monopoly for __________ years
    A)10 years
    B)20 years
    C)30 years
    D)15 years
    Answer: 20 years
  • Q. Which of the following is correctly matched?
    A)Regulating Act: 1773
    B)Third Battle of Panipat: 1764
    C)Pitt's India Act: 1761
    D)Treaty of Allahabad: 1784
    Answer: Regulating Act: 1773
  • Q. When was ‘Hammer of the Witches’ published?
    A)1471
    B)1414
    C)1484
    D)1487
    Answer: 1487
  • Q. The Vedic term vrihi stands for
    A)Wheat
    B)Cotton
    C)Rice
    D)Barley
    Answer: Rice
  • Q. What was Chandragupta-II also known as?
    A)Skanda Gupta
    B)Samudra Gupta
    C)Vikramaditya
    D)Rama Gupta
    Answer: Vikramaditya
  • Q. The Shuddhi Movement, involving the conversion of non-Hindus to Hinduism, was started by
    A)Raja Ram Mohan Roy
    B)Swami Vivekanand
    C)Swami Dayanand Saraswati
    D)Aurobindo Ghosh
    Answer: Swami Dayanand Saraswati
  • Q. To establish French political influence in Sothern India, Dupleix had an opportunity in the disputed succession to the thrones of
    A)Hyderabad and Carnatic
    B)Delhi and Awadh
    C)Travancore
    D)Vijayanagar and Ahmednagar
    Answer: Hyderabad and Carnatic

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