More Questions on History
- Q. Who is the only women historian to have written a historical account of Mughal Period?
A)Zebun-nissa Begum
B)Noorjahan Begum
C)Gulbadan Begum
D)Jahanara Begum
Answer: Gulbadan Begum
- Q. The Sikh gurus who compiled the Guru Granth Sahib was
A)Har Rai
B)Nanak
C)Arjan
D)Bahadur
Answer: Arjan
- Q. Which of the following ladies wrote an historical account during the Mughal period?
A)Noorjahan Begum
B)Gulbadan Begum
C)Jahanara Begum
D)Zebun-nissah Begum
Answer: Gulbadan Begum
- Q. Gandhi gave the call to reject all foreign goods during the __________ Movement
A)Non-cooperation
B)Khilafat
C)Swadeshi
D)Civil Disobedience
Answer: Swadeshi
- Q. The sun saint who maintained that devotional music was one way of coming close to God was
A)Baba Farid
B)Muin-ud-din Chishti
C)Saiyid Muhammad Gesudaraz
D)Shah Alam Bukhari
Answer: Muin-ud-din Chishti
- Q. Which of the following was not the saint of Varkari sect?
A)Namdev
B)Tukaram
C)Eknath
D)Kabir
Answer: Kabir
- Q. I. System of Purva Mimamsa was propagated by sage Jaimini, a disciple of Veda Vyasa. II. The main objective of the Purva Mimamsa School is to interpret and establish the authority of the Vedas. Which of the statement(s) given above is/are correct related to the Purva Mimamsa?
A)II only
B)I only
C)Both I and II
D)Neither I nor II
Answer: Both I and II
- Q. The famous Mughal General who conquered Assam, Chittagong, etc. in the north-east was
A)Mir Jumla
B)Shaista Khan
C)Mirza Raja Jai Singh
D)Jaswant Singh
Answer: Mir Jumla
- 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. Who founded Tattvabodhini sabha in 1839 ?
A)Maharishi Devendranath Tagore
B)Dayanand Sarswati
C)Raja Ram Mohan Roy
D)Jogesh Chandra Dutt
Answer: Maharishi Devendranath Tagore
- Q. The landmarks or Dalhousie’s administration did not include
A)English as the medium of instruction
B)Indian Railways
C)Public works department
D)Telegraph
Answer: English as the medium of instruction
- Q. When were ancient Olympic games held first?
A)780 BC
B)776 BC
C)790 BC
D)800 BC
Answer: 776 BC
- Q. The programme of Swadeshi and Boycott against the partition of Bengal was visualised by
A)BC Pal
B)Surendra Nath Bennerjee
C)Aurobindo Ghose
D)Rash Behari Bose
Answer: Aurobindo Ghose
- Q. The institution of varna appeared in the
A)Later vedic period
B)Rigvedic period
C)Period of the Manava Dharm Shastra
D)Period of consolidation of text of the Mahabharata
Answer: Rigvedic period
- Q. In 1848, an incident took place in his life that later sparked off the dalit-revolution in the Indian society. Jyotirao was invited to attend a wedding of one of his __________friends
A)Christian
B)Brahmin
C)Pulaya
D)Nayar
Answer: Brahmin
- Q. Sri Ramanuja Acharya was an Indian philosopher and is recognized as the most important saint of
A)Sri Vaishavism
B)Sri Vaishnavism
C)Nirguna
D)Sikkhism
Answer: Sri Vaishnavism
- Q. What is the first discourse that the Buddha had delivered at the Deer Park in Sarnath called?
A)Mahamastabhisheka
B)Mahaparinirvana
C)Mahabhiniskraman
D)Dharmachakrapravartan
Answer: Dharmachakrapravartan
- Q. The Mughal School of Painting was interested in portraying
A)Domestic subjects
B)Mughal court
C)Scenes from the Indian classics
D)The scenes of their motherland
Answer: Mughal court
- Q. Which of the following is/are correct statement(s) related to the Buddhist Philosophy?
A)Buddhism is a non-theistic system of beliefs based on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama, an Indian prince later known as the Buddha, in the 5th Century B.C.
B)Buddhist philosophy deals extensively with problems in metaphysics, phenomenology, ethics and epistemology.
C)Both A & B
D)Netheir A nor B
Answer: Both A & B
- Q. The caves and rock-cut temples at Ellora are?
A)Hindu and Muslim
B)Buddhist and Jain
C)Buddhist only
D)Hindu, Buddhist and Jain
Answer: Hindu, Buddhist and Jain
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