More Questions on History
- Q. When the East India Company was formed, the Mughal emperor in India was
A)Humayun
B)Jahangir
C)Aurangzeb
D)Akbar
Answer: Akbar
- Q. The Mughal ruler, Bahadur Shah II had been exiled by the British and sent to
A)Fatehpur Sikri
B)Andman and Nicobar
C)Mandalay
D)Rangoon
Answer: Rangoon
- Q. Assertion (A): The Sultans may not have been too eager to encourage large scale conversion. Reason (R): The increasing conversion could lead to a loss of revenue, as jizya paying citizens to Islam
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 true but R is false
- Q. Who was the first Sultan of Delhi to issue regular currency and to declare Delhi as the capital of his empire?
A)Aram Shah
B)Balban
C)Nasiruddin Mahmud
D)Iltutmish
Answer: Iltutmish
- Q. Which of the following Vedas is rendered musically?
A)Yajur Veda
B)Rig Veda
C)Sama Veda
D)Atharva Veda
Answer: Sama Veda
- Q. Which of following Chalcolithic sites comes under Ganges system?
A)Alamgirpur
B)Hanumangarh
C)Ropar
D)Mohenjodaro
Answer: Alamgirpur
- Q. Which ruler of India issued Mahzarnama to take all the religious matters into his own hands?
A)Akbar
B)Iltutmish
C)Nadir Shah
D)Shahjahan
Answer: Akbar
- 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 was common to both the Harappan society and the Rigvedic society?
A)Female deities
B)Horse
C)Urban centres
D)Iron implements
Answer: Horse
- Q. The greatest historian of the reign of Akbar, who wrote Akbarnama and Ain-i-Akbari, was
A)Abdur Qadir Badauni
B)Nizamuddin Ahmad
C)Abul Fazl
D)Abdas Khan Arwani
Answer: Abul Fazl
- Q. Which one of the following rulers built the Bibi ka Maqbara?
A)Jahangir
B)Akbar
C)Shahjahan
D)Aurangzeb
Answer: Aurangzeb
- Q. The capital of the Yadava rulers was
A)Warangal
B)Dwarasamudra
C)Kalyani
D)Devagiri
Answer: Devagiri
- Q. Kandariya Mahadeva Temple of the Medieval India is dedicated to which Lord?
A)Brahma
B)Shiva
C)Vishnu
D)Ram
Answer: Shiva
- Q. Brihadeshwara Temple which was built by Raja Raja Chola I is dedicated to?
A)Shiva
B)Vishnu
C)Brahma
D)None of the above
Answer: Shiva
- Q. Vikram Shila University was founded by
A)Kanishka
B)Chandra Gupta Maurya
C)Dharampala
D)Pulakesin II
Answer: Dharampala
- Q. Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct related to the Non-cooperation Movement? I. It aimed to resist British rule in India through non violent means. Protestors would refuse to buy British goods, adopt the use of local handicrafts and picket liquor shops. II. The ideas of Ahimsa and nonviolence, and Gandhi’s ability to rally hundreds of thousands of common citizens towards the cause of Indian independence, were first seen on a large scale in this movement through the summer 1920, they feared that the movement might lead to popular violence
A)Only II
B)Only I
C)Both I & II
D)Neither I nor II
Answer: Both I & II
- Q. The Vijayanagara ruler, Kirshnadev Raya’s work Amuktamalyada, was in
A)Sanskrit
B)Telugu
C)Tamil
D)Kannada
Answer: Telugu
- Q. What was the capital of Pallava Dynasty?
A)Tiruchirapalli
B)Kanchipuram
C)Tanjore
D)Chennai
Answer: Kanchipuram
- Q. The Shivaji Festival was inaugurated in 1895 by
A)Morley
B)Hume
C)Tilak
D)Gokhale
Answer: Tilak
- Q. One of the following Indus Valley site is in Pakistan
A)Kalibangan
B)Lothal
C)Alamgirpur
D)Harappa
Answer: Harappa
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