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)Sharda Mukherjee
    B)Vijayalakshmi Pandit
    C)Fathima Beevi
    D)Sarojini Naidu
    Answer: Sarojini Naidu
  • Q. The Government of India Act of 1935 borrowed its preamble from
    A)The Constitution of Australia
    B)The Constitution of the USA
    C)From the Government of India Act of 1919
    D)From Pitt's India Act
    Answer: From the Government of India Act of 1919
  • Q. The Ibadat Khana was a meeting house built by which Mughal Emperor?
    A)Humayun
    B)Babur
    C)Akbar
    D)Aurangzeb
    Answer: Akbar
  • Q. The greatest Buddhist commentator of the Buddhist canonical literature has been
    A)Ashvaghosha
    B)Nagarjuna
    C)Vasumitra
    D)Buddhaghosha
    Answer: Ashvaghosha
  • Q. Aryabhatta and Varahamihira lived during the
    A)Gupta Period
    B)Maurya Period
    C)Nanda Period
    D)Sunga Period
    Answer: Gupta Period
  • Q. Ramcharitmanas is an epic poem written in which language ?
    A)Munda
    B)Santali
    C)Awadhi
    D)Sanskrit
    Answer: Awadhi
  • Q. In which of the following years 26th January was celebrated as an independence day?
    A)1929
    B)1930
    C)1942
    D)1946
    Answer: 1930
  • Q. Who was the first Governor General of Bengal?
    A)William Bentinck
    B)Robert Clive
    C)Warren Hasting
    D)Col. Sanders
    Answer: Warren Hasting
  • Q. In the Mughal administration, military recruitment had been looked after by the
    A)Bakhshi
    B)Kotwal
    C)Wazir
    D)Diwan
    Answer: Bakhshi
  • Q. When were Morley-Minto reforms taken place?
    A)1909
    B)1905
    C)1919
    D)1857
    Answer: 1909
  • Q. The Ajanta Paintings belong to the
    A)Mauryan period
    B)Harappan period
    C)Buddhist period
    D)Gupta period
    Answer: Gupta period
  • Q. Champaran Satyagraha was related to
    A)Mill-owners
    B)Indigo
    C)Plague
    D)Fresh assessment of land
    Answer: Indigo
  • Q. Who among the following built the largest number of irrigation canals in the Sultanate period?
    A)Ghiyasuddin Balban
    B)Nasiruddin Mahmud
    C)Ibrahim Lodi
    D)Firuz Shah Tughlaq
    Answer: Firuz Shah Tughlaq
  • Q. Which amidst the following sites/monuments in India is on the UNESCO’s list of World Cultural Heritages?
    A)Kashi Viswanath Temple
    B)Ellora Caves
    C)Qutab Minar
    D)Manas Wildlife - Sancturary
    Answer: Kashi Viswanath Temple
  • Q. Harshavardhana moved his capital from __________ to __________
    A)Delhi, Deogiri
    B)Thanesar, Kannauj
    C)Kamboj, Kannauj
    D)Valabhi, Delhi
    Answer: Thanesar, Kannauj
  • Q. Emperor Harsha’s southward march was stopped on the Narmada river by
    A)Pulakesin-Il
    B)Pulakesin-I
    C)Vikramaditya-I
    D)Vikramaditya-II
    Answer: Pulakesin-Il
  • Q. Who said the given statement – “I came alone and I am going alone. I have not done well to the country and the people, and of the future there is no hope”
    A)Dara Shikoh
    B)Mir Jumla
    C)Jahangir
    D)Aurangzeb
    Answer: Aurangzeb
  • Q. For the cause of national liberation Swami Dayananda stressed on :
    A)Swadharma
    B)Swabhasha and Swarajya
    C)Swadeshi
    D)All of the above
    Answer: All of the above
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    A)Mahatma Gandhi
    B)Jayaprakash Narayan
    C)Karl Marx
    D)Lenin
    Answer: Jayaprakash Narayan
  • Q. Who is called the “Lokhitwadi”?
    A)Gopal Hari Deshmukh
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    C)Mahadev Govend Ranade
    D)Mul Sankara
    Answer: Gopal Hari Deshmukh

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