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Q. Commissioners for the Affairs of India were known as

A
Board of Directors
B
Court of Directors
C
Board of Control
D
Board of Merchants

Correct Answer

Board of Control

More Questions on History

  • Q. The title VIKRAMADITYA was assumed by:
    A)Kanishka
    B)Samudragupta
    C)Chandragupta II
    D)Ashoka
    Answer: Chandragupta II
  • Q. Cold War refers to
    A)Ideological rivalry between Capitalist and Communist world
    B)Tension between East and West
    C)Tension between Superpowers
    D)Tension between Superpowers
    Answer: Tension between East and West
  • Q. Which of the following are the paths chosen by Ramakrishna Paramahamsa towards salvation
    A)Belief in one single god monotheism
    B)Gyana marg
    C)Vedas and Upanishads are the only way to salvation
    D)Renunciation, meditation and devotion
    Answer: Renunciation, meditation and devotion
  • Q. Who wrote Shiksha Ashtak which was called as the cream of the Shastras?
    A)Tulsidas
    B)Mirabai
    C)Kabir
    D)Chaitanya
    Answer: Chaitanya
  • Q. Who threw two bombs on the Door of the Central Assembly in New Delhi on April 8, 1929?
    A)Batukeshwar Dutt
    B)Bhagat Singh
    C)Raj Guru
    D)Both A and B above
    Answer: Both A and B above
  • Q. Narendra MandaI was inaugurated by Duke of Connaught in the year
    A)1921
    B)1920
    C)1931
    D)1910
    Answer: 1921
  • Q. What was the single most significant contribution of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel to Indian History?
    A)As the Home Minister of free India he brought about the integration of 600-odd Indian States with the Indian Republic
    B)He was responsible for the acceptance of the Mountbatten Plan by the Congress
    C)He was the leading light of Mahatma Gandhi's NonCooperation and Civil Disobedience Movements
    D)As President of the Indian National Congress he engineered the passing of the Quit India Resolution
    Answer: As the Home Minister of free India he brought about the integration of 600-odd Indian States with the Indian Republic
  • Q. The Idea of federation was first proposed in
    A)Morley Minto Reforms
    B)Indian Councils Act of 1892
    C)Montague Chelmsford Reforms
    D)Nehru Report of 1928
    Answer: Nehru Report of 1928
  • Q. Which of the following was not the saint of Varkari sect?
    A)Namdev
    B)Tukaram
    C)Eknath
    D)Kabir
    Answer: Kabir
  • Q. Shah Jahan was kept in prison by Aurangzeb at
    A)Agra
    B)Ajmer
    C)Delhi
    D)Daulatabad
    Answer: Agra
  • Q. “The word impossible is found, in the dictionary of fools” was the famous quote of
    A)Alexander the Great
    B)Hitler
    C)Julius Caesar
    D)Napoleon
    Answer: Napoleon
  • Q. Provision was made in the Act of 1919, for the appointment of a Commission in __________ to investigate the working of the Constitution
    A)1929
    B)1930
    C)1939
    D)1925
    Answer: 1929
  • Q. The Peloponnesian War was fought between which cities?
    A)Carthage and Athens
    B)Athens and Macedonia
    C)Sparta and Carthage
    D)Sparta and Athens
    Answer: Sparta and Athens
  • Q. In 1893 __________ landed in India, made a tour of the country in the company of H. S. Olcott, and by her splendid presentation of Indian philosophy and her undisguised personal preference for the Indian spiritual heritage, won the support of orthodox Brahmins to Theosophy
    A)Upendranath Basu
    B)Annie Besant
    C)I. N. Gurtu
    D)George Thompson
    Answer: Annie Besant
  • Q. Who has built the Vijay Stambha (Tower of Victory) in Chittorgarh?
    A)Rana Kumbha
    B)Maharana Pratap
    C)Rana Sanga
    D)Kunwar Durjan Singh
    Answer: Rana Kumbha
  • Q. Jyotirao Phule was born in Satara district of __________ in 1827
    A)Madras
    B)Maharastra
    C)Gujarat
    D)Malabar
    Answer: Maharastra
  • Q. Mahatma Gandhi launched the Civil Disobedience Movement on March 12, 1930 by
    A)Dandi March to break the Salt Laws
    B)asking the Viceroy through a letter containing Eleven Points Programme to remove the evils of the British rule
    C)asking the people to take Poorna Swaraj Pledge
    D)launching the non-payment of taxes campaign
    Answer: Dandi March to break the Salt Laws
  • Q. Which of following Chalcolithic sites comes under Ganges system?
    A)Alamgirpur
    B)Hanumangarh
    C)Ropar
    D)Mohenjodaro
    Answer: Alamgirpur
  • Q. When did the second Russian revolution start
    A)February, 1917
    B)August, 1905
    C)October, 1917
    D)March, 1921
    Answer: October, 1917
  • Q. The accounts of Kalinga war is depicted by
    A)Ruminidei
    B)Rock edict XIII
    C)Kalsi
    D)Junagarh
    Answer: Rock edict XIII

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