More Questions on History
- Q. The Brahmin minister of Sambhaji (Son and Successor of Shivaji) upon whom he invested the title of ‘Pinnacle of Poets’ was
A)Kavindra Acharya
B)Kavi Kalash
C)Kavi Bhusan
D)Kavi Martanda
Answer: Kavi Kalash
- Q. Which emperor wrote the play ‘Nagananda’ in Sanskrit language?
A)Harshavardhana
B)Prabhakara vardhana
C)Chandragupta II
D)Bindusara
Answer: Harshavardhana
- Q. When was the Carolingian dynasty replaced in the western lands?
A)918
B)911
C)987
D)996
Answer: 987
- Q. Assertion (A): The nobility under Muhammad bin Tughlaq was a highly homogeneous one. Reason (R): Royal intervention in the iqta system was as its peak under Muhammad Tughlaq.
A)Both A and R are true but R is not a correct explanation of A
B)Both A and R are 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: A is false but R is true
- Q. Which of the following is not the provision of the government of India Act, 1858?
A)The Queen's Principal Secretary of State received the powers and duties of the Company's Court of Directors
B)India was to be governed in the Queen's name
C)Provision for the creation of an Indian Civil Service under the control of the Secretary of State
D)The British Parliament was empowered to appoint a Governor-General and the Governors of the Presidencies
Answer: The British Parliament was empowered to appoint a Governor-General and the Governors of the Presidencies
- Q. Which of the following statement (s) is/are correct related to the Charter Act of 1793? I. Renewed the Charter of the Company for 20 more years. II. Regulated the finances of the Company. III. Lay down that the salaries of the Board of Control and their staffs were to be paid from the British revenues. IV. Prohibited the Commander-in-Chief from being a member of the Governor General’s Council
A)I, II & IV
B)I, II & III
C)I & II
D)II & III
Answer: I, II & IV
- Q. Harshavardhana organised his religious assembly at
A)Prayag
B)Mathura
C)Varanasi
D)Tamralipt
Answer: Prayag
- Q. Which Mauryan king holds the title of Amitraghata?
A)Chandragupta Maurya
B)Bimbisar
C)Bindusara
D)Ashoka
Answer: Bindusara
- Q. Who said: “Let the pilgrims congregate at the beginning of the Gregorian calendar year. It should be Dhanu 16-17 in Malayalam calendar. Let the pilgrims observe 10 days self-purification according to Sri Buddha’s principles of five purities – body, food, mind, word, and deed called as Pancha Dharma”
A)P. V. Raghavan
B)S. Sankunni
C)M. S. Raghavan
D)Sree Narayana Guru
Answer: Sree Narayana Guru
- Q. Which of the following statements is/are not correct regarding the age of Vedic Civilisation? I. Bal Gangadhar Tilak, on astronomical grounds, dated Rig Veda to 6000 B.C. to Harmon Jacobi, Vedic civilization flourished between 4500 B.C. and 2500 B.C. and the Samhitas were composed in the latter half of the period. II. Famous Sanskritist, Winternitz felt that the Rig Veda was probably composed in the third millennium B.C.
A)Only II
B)Only I
C)Both I and II
D)Neither I nor II
Answer: Neither I nor II
- Q. The issue on which the Civil disobedience movement of 1930 was launched was
A)The proposed execution of Bhagat Singh
B)Equal employment opportunities for Indians
C)Salt monopoly exercised by the British Government
D)Complete freedom
Answer: Salt monopoly exercised by the British Government
- Q. When did Henry Tudor seize the crown?
A)1431
B)1420
C)1453
D)1485
Answer: 1485
- Q. Who got the Gita translated into Persian?
A)Akbar
B)Shah Jahan
C)Murad
D)Dara Shikoh
Answer: Dara Shikoh
- Q. What was the policy of “doctrine of lapse”?
A)States were not allowed to adopt son as an heir
B)States were allowed to adopt son as an heir
C)According to this system, every ruler in India had to accept to pay a subsidy to the British for the maintenance of British army
D)None of these
Answer: States were not allowed to adopt son as an heir
- Q. Who was the first propounder of the doctrine of Passive Resistance ?
A)Aurobindo Ghosh
B)B. G Tilak
C)Lajpat Rai
D)G. K. Gokhale
Answer: Aurobindo Ghosh
- Q. Provision was made in the Act of 1773, for the office of a Governor-General of
A)Fort William
B)India
C)Madras
D)Bombay
Answer: Fort William
- Q. The first woman to become a Chief Minister of any State in India was
A)Dr. J. Jayalalitha
B)Nandini Satpathy
C)Sucheta Kripalani
D)Ms. Mayawati
Answer: Sucheta Kripalani
- Q. Which of the Act made the governor of Bengal as Governor General of India?
A)Charter Act, 1813
B)Pitt's India Act, 1784
C)Charter Act, 1833
D)Regulating Act, 1773
Answer: Charter Act, 1813
- Q. In 1930, Mahatma Gandhi started the Civil Disobedience Movement from
A)Sevagram
B)Wardha
C)Sabarmati
D)Dandi
Answer: Sabarmati
- Q. The word ‘Veda’ has been derived from the root word ‘Vid’ which means
A)Sacredness
B)Divinity
C)Doctrine
D)Knowledge
Answer: Knowledge
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