More Questions on History
- Q. Which book described the Arab invasion of Sindh for the very first time?
A)Baburnama
B)Shahnama
C)Akbarnama
D)Chachnama
Answer: Chachnama
- Q. The Moplahs of Malabar (Kerala) who were largely Muslim leaseholders and cultivators, indulged in a series of rebellions in Kerala between 1836-1919. Which of the following regarding these Moplah uprisings is not true?
A)These uprisings were a peculiar form of rural terrorism
B)They were mainly directed against the upper caste Hindu landlords
C)Most of the Moplah martyrs were poor peasants of landless lobourers
D)A small band of Moplahs committed collective suicides in the belief of being called Shahids (martyrs)
Answer: A small band of Moplahs committed collective suicides in the belief of being called Shahids (martyrs)
- Q. Which of the following is/are poetry and drama?
A)Raghuvamsa
B)Kumarasambhava
C)Abhijnanashakuntalam
D)All of the above
Answer: All of the above
- Q. Which one of the following was an important Port of the eastern coast during Gupta period?
A)Tamralipti
B)Kalyan
C)Sopara
D)Baroch
Answer: Tamralipti
- Q. In which year ‘University of Oxford’ was founded
A)1562
B)1096
C)1117
D)1342
Answer: 1096
- 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. The rulers of the Lodi dynasty were
A)Pure Turks
B)Turks settled in Afghanistan
C)Pure Afghan
D)Timurid Turks
Answer: Pure Afghan
- Q. In the Delhi Sultanate an administrative unit called Pargana was headed by
A)Barid
B)Shiqdar
C)Ariz
D)Amil
Answer: Amil
- Q. Which of the following treaties brought an end to the independent existence of Peshwa Baji Rao-II?
A)Convention of Wadgaon
B)The Treaty of Purandhar
C)Treaty of Bassein
D)Treaty of Salbai
Answer: Treaty of Bassein
- Q. Who among the following was ruler from The Kushan dynasty?
A)Danti Durga
B)Vikarmaditya
C)Khadphises I
D)Pushyamitra
Answer: Khadphises I
- Q. Who preached the idea of Home Rule through his two news papers – the Kesari and the Maratha?
A)Annie Besant
B)Gokhale
C)Tilak
D)Jawaharlal Nehru
Answer: Tilak
- Q. Who said, “India is for Indians?”
A)Mahatma Gandhi
B)Syed Hasan Imam
C)Dr. S.Gopal
D)Dayanand Saraswati
Answer: Dayanand Saraswati
- Q. Which among the following place, was not an important centre of the Revolt of 1857 ?
A)Kanpur
B)Agra
C)Jhansi
D)Lucknow
Answer: Agra
- Q. In violation of the Salt Laws, Gandhiji started a movement called
A)Swadeshi Movement
B)Non-Cooperation movement
C)Civil Disobedience movement
D)None of the above
Answer: Civil Disobedience movement
- Q. Vaishakha Purnima has a great significance because it was on this day
A)Buddha got enlightened
B)Buddha was born
C)Buddha died
D)All of the above
Answer: All of the above
- Q. Fakir-Sannyasi Resistance against the East India Company dominated in __________
A)Kerala
B)Gujarat
C)Karnataka
D)Bengal
Answer: Bengal
- Q. Which king of England was forced to signed the ‘Magna Carta’
A)King Louis
B)King Richard I
C)Henry III
D)King John
Answer: King John
- Q. The Bhakti cult spread in Maharashtra with the teaching of
A)Sant Jnanesvar
B)Sant Tukaram
C)Samarth Guru Ramdas
D)Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
Answer: Sant Tukaram
- Q. Which statement is not the advocacy of Nirguna Saints?
A)It is the concept of a formless God, which has no attributes or quality
B)It advocated the worshiped the anthropomorphic manifestations of the divine being, particularly Rama and Krishna
C)It conceived as Ishvara, the personal and purely spiritual aspect of godhead, beyond all names and forms (nama-rupa), and is to be apprehended only by inner (mystical) experience
D)None of the above
Answer: It advocated the worshiped the anthropomorphic manifestations of the divine being, particularly Rama and Krishna
- Q. Subhash Bose established the Provisional Government of Free India at
A)Bangkok
B)Berlin
C)Singapore
D)Tokyo
Answer: Singapore
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