More Questions on History
- Q. Which religious reformer of Western India was known as ‘Lokhitwadi’?
A)R. G. Bhandarkar
B)Gopal Hari Deshmukh
C)Mahadev Govind Ranade
D)B. G. Tilak
Answer: Gopal Hari Deshmukh
- Q. Where was the introductory capital of Harsha?
A)Kannoj
B)Paryag
C)Thaneshwar
D)Mathura
Answer: Thaneshwar
- Q. What was the capital of Shivaji’s Kingdom?
A)Raigarh
B)Pune
C)Karwar
D)Purandhar
Answer: Raigarh
- 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 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 got the monumental ‘Rayagopurams’ in front of the temples at Hampi, Tiru-pati, etc., constructed?
A)Krishnadeva Raya
B)Vidyaranya
C)Harihara
D)Raja raj
Answer: Krishnadeva Raya
- Q. The English East Company achieved a major victory over the Portuguese in the Battle of __________ in 1612
A)Plassey
B)Buxar
C)Swally
D)Trafalgar
Answer: Swally
- Q. Which one of the following novels was a source of inspiration for the freedom fighters in India?
A)Anandmath
B)Pariksha Guru
C)Rangbhoomi
D)Padmarag
Answer: Anandmath
- Q. In 1939 Subhash Chandra Bose was elected as President of the Congress Party defeating
A)Jawaharlal Nehru
B)Pattabhi Sitharamayy
C)Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
D)VB Patel
Answer: Pattabhi Sitharamayy
- Q. The Great Wall of China was built by
A)Shih Huang-ti
B)Li-tai-pu
C)Lao-tze
D)Confucius
Answer: Shih Huang-ti
- Q. Jyotiba Phule, popularly known as Baba Phule, was a social reformer in Maharashtra. Which of the following is not true about him
A)Phule through his book Ghulamagiri (1872) and his organization Satyashodhak Mandal, proclaimed the need to save the lower castes from the hypocritical Brahmans and their scriptures
B)He was the first to raise his voice against Brahmans in Maharashtra in the 1870s
C)His Satyashodhak Mandal contained both an elite based conservative trend and a genuine mass-based radicalism
D)The urban educated Marathas were his most ardent followers
Answer: The urban educated Marathas were his most ardent followers
- Q. Who said, The Congress is tottering to its fall and one of my greatest ambitions while in India is to assist it to a peaceful demise?
A)Lord Curzon
B)Lord Dufferin
C)Lord Lansdowne
D)Lord Elgin
Answer: Lord Curzon
- Q. Who said that the constant ‘drain of wealth’ from India was responsible for India’s economic miseries?
A)BP Wadia
B)BC Pal
C)Dadabhai Naoroji
D)GS Arundale
Answer: Dadabhai Naoroji
- Q. Who is called as the ‘second Ashoka’ ?
A)Chandra Gupta Maurya
B)Samudra Gupta
C)Kanishka
D)Harshavardhana
Answer: Kanishka
- Q. Which of the following libraries has the largest collection of manuscripts of historical value?
A)Tanjavur Maharaja Serfoji Saraswati Mahal Library
B)Khuda Baksh Oriental Public Library
C)Asiatic Society Library
D)Rampur Raza Library
Answer: Khuda Baksh Oriental Public Library
- Q. Which of the following statement is not true about “Doctrine of Lapse”?
A)It was in operations between 1848 and 1856
B)It was started by Lord Dalhousie
C)Nagpur was the first state annexed under this rule
D)Satara, jaipur, Jhansi and Nagpur states were annexed under this rule
Answer: Nagpur was the first state annexed under this rule
- Q. The Muslim League demanded a separate homeland for Indian Muslims for the first time at its :
A)Lucknow session in 1916
B)Lahore session in 1940.
C)Meerut Session 1946
D)Tripuri Session in 1939
Answer: Lahore session in 1940.
- Q. Tashkent Agreement was signed between India and __________
A)China
B)Pakistan
C)Tibet
D)Afghanistan
Answer: Pakistan
- Q. Which Pala ruler founded the famous Vikramashila University for the Buddhists’?
A)Devapala
B)Mahipala
C)Gopala
D)Dharmapala
Answer: Dharmapala
- Q. Which ascetics of the Yoga school of Hindu philosophy influenced the Ramananda?
A)Krishna Cult
B)Kabirpanthi
C)Nathpanthi
D)None of the above
Answer: Nathpanthi
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