Q. Ashoka’s prime claim to greatness lay in

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The promotion of people's welfare by him

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    A)Maharashtra
    B)Kerala
    C)Bengal
    D)Punjab
    Answer: Kerala
  • Q. During the Mughal rule in the field of agriculture Parauti was the land
    A)left fallow
    B)annually cultivated
    C)uncultivated
    D)barren land
    Answer: left fallow
  • Q. The earlier Buddhist sculptures had shied away from depicting the image of the Buddha, except through such symbols as
    A)The Bodhi Tree
    B)Footprints
    C)Stupas
    D)All of the above
    Answer: All of the above
  • Q. Babur was born in the year
    A)1583
    B)1483
    C)1693
    D)1783
    Answer: 1483
  • Q. What did Jyotiba Phule’s Satyashodhak Samaj attempt in the last century?
    A)Attacking the caste system
    B)Saving the lower castes from hypocritical Brahmans and their opportunistic scriptures
    C)Led an antilandlord and antimahajan upsurge in Satara
    D)Seperate representation for untouchables
    Answer: Saving the lower castes from hypocritical Brahmans and their opportunistic scriptures
  • Q. In which European country feudalism process was first started
    A)England
    B)Italy
    C)French
    D)Russia
    Answer: French
  • Q. When was the Trans-Siberian Railway completed?
    A)1882
    B)1872
    C)1890
    D)1916
    Answer: 1916
  • Q. By the Act of 1858, the powers of the Board of Control and the Court of Directors were transferred to __________
    A)Parliament
    B)The Secretary of State
    C)Viceroy
    D)Commander-in-Chief
    Answer: The Secretary of State
  • Q. The demand for Swarajya or self- government within the British empire was made from the Congress platform by
    A)Dadabhai Naoroji
    B)Gopal Krishna Gokhale
    C)Both Gopal Krishna Gokhale and Dadabhai Naoroji
    D)None of these
    Answer: Both Gopal Krishna Gokhale and Dadabhai Naoroji
  • Q. Who among the following was born into a Rathore royal family of Kudki district of Pali, Rajasthan and was a 16th-century Hindu mystic poet and devotee of Krishna?
    A)Mirabai
    B)Ramananda
    C)Tukaram
    D)Kabir
    Answer: Mirabai
  • Q. Which great war was fought between the years 1914 and 1918?
    A)The First World War
    B)The Battle of Tarain
    C)The Battle of Plassey
    D)The Second World War
    Answer: The First World War
  • Q. The organisation ‘League of Nations’ was founded after the end of
    A)World War II
    B)World War I
    C)Crimean War
    D)Vietnam War
    Answer: World War I
  • Q. What was the greatest contribution of Ishwar Chand Vidyasagar in the social reforms in India?
    A)Help in the abolition of Sati Pratha
    B)He ensured the widow's marriage and girl's education
    C)Established the Brahma Samaj
    D)He adopted 100 villages to relocate them from Andhra Pradesh to Bengal for better life
    Answer: He ensured the widow's marriage and girl's education
  • Q. The famous Indo-Greek king to embrace Buddhism was
    A)Strato I
    B)Alexander
    C)Menander
    D)Democritus
    Answer: Menander
  • Q. Satyagraha Sabha was formed by Gandhi at
    A)Calcutta
    B)Bombay
    C)Gujarat
    D)Poona
    Answer: Bombay
  • Q. The problem that exercised and evoked the reformists in the 19th century to the greatest extent related to
    A)Caste restrictions
    B)Education
    C)Religious revivalism
    D)Women's issues
    Answer: Women's issues
  • Q. Who, among the following, was the pioneer of social reform movements in 19th century India?
    A)Raja Ram Mohan Roy
    B)Aurobindo Ghosh
    C)Devendra Nath Tegore
    D)Keshav Chandra Sen
    Answer: Raja Ram Mohan Roy
  • Q. From which port of England, Titanic started its journey
    A)Southampton
    B)Liverpool
    C)Manchester
    D)Sunderland
    Answer: Southampton
  • Q. On June 14, 1927 __________consecrated a mirror – with the message “Om shanti” written on the surface – in a temple in Kalavankode
    A)T. K. Madhavan
    B)Rajaram Mohan Roy
    C)Sree Narayana Guru
    D)Govindan Vaidyar
    Answer: Sree Narayana Guru
  • Q. What was the purpose of the Indian visit of Hiuen Tsang?
    A)To amass wealth
    B)To visit the holy places connected with Buddhism
    C)To know the geography of India
    D)To establish political ties with India
    Answer: To visit the holy places connected with Buddhism

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