History Maratha Empire

Q. During Shivaji’s rule the Council of the State consisted of

A
Eighteen Ministers
B
Eight Ministers
C
Twelve Ministers
D
Fifteen Ministers

Correct Answer

Eight Ministers

More Questions on History

  • Q. Which of the following Mughal monarchs has vividly described Indian flora & fauna, seasons, fruits etc. in his diary?
    A)Jahangir
    B)Akbar
    C)Babur
    D)Aurangzeb
    Answer: Babur
  • Q. What was the policy of “doctrine of lapse”?
    A)States were not allowed to adopt son as an heir
    B)States were allowed to adopt son as an heir
    C)According to this system, every ruler in India had to accept to pay a subsidy to the British for the maintenance of British army
    D)None of these
    Answer: States were not allowed to adopt son as an heir
  • Q. Where is the Bada Imambara located?
    A)Lucknow
    B)Agra
    C)Patna
    D)Allahabad
    Answer: Lucknow
  • Q. Dasavatara temple of Nagra style is located at which of the following places?
    A)Gorakhpur
    B)Badrinath
    C)Jhansi (Lalitpur)
    D)Samstipur
    Answer: Jhansi (Lalitpur)
  • Q. From which of the following Upanishads the words ‘Satyameva Jayate’ inscribed in Devanagari Script below the abacus of the state Emblem are?
    A)Yajurveda
    B)Prashna
    C)Mundaka
    D)Ishavasya
    Answer: Mundaka
  • Q. Who of the following became a member of the “Din-i-Ilahi”?
    A)Raja Birbal
    B)Todarmal
    C)Raja Man Singh
    D)Tansen
    Answer: Raja Birbal
  • Q. Which of the following leader gave the safety valve theory for Indian National Congress and said that it was brain child of Lord Dufferin?
    A)M N Roy
    B)Dadabhai Nairoji
    C)Lala Lajpat Rai
    D)Motilal Nehru
    Answer: Lala Lajpat Rai
  • Q. The violent Mappilas stormed the bungalow of the District Magistrate . . . . . . and murdered him in 1855
    A)William Logan
    B)H.V. Connolly
    C)Lord Ripond
    D)Gladstone
    Answer: H.V. Connolly
  • Q. Where was the introductory capital of Harsha?
    A)Kannoj
    B)Paryag
    C)Thaneshwar
    D)Mathura
    Answer: Thaneshwar
  • Q. Which one of the following sequences represents the correct chronological order?
    A)Shahji, Shivaji, Sambhaji, Rajaram
    B)Shahji, Shivaji, Rajaram, Sambhaji
    C)Shahji, Sambhaji, Shivaji, Rajaram
    D)Sambhaji, Shivaji, Shahji, Rajaram
    Answer: Shahji, Shivaji, Sambhaji, Rajaram
  • Q. The treaty of Srirangapatna was signed between Tipu Sultan and
    A)Cornwallis
    B)Robert Clive
    C)Dalhousie
    D)Warren Hastings
    Answer: Cornwallis
  • Q. During the first hundred years of the British rule in India, people’s resentment and opposition to the British policies mainly surfaced in the form of
    A)Peasant uprisings
    B)Tribal uprisings
    C)Civil uprisings
    D)Both A and B above
    Answer: Both A and B above
  • Q. Who is known as the first pope of Vatican City
    A)Clement XIII
    B)Pope Benedict XV
    C)Pope Pius XI
    D)Benedict XIII
    Answer: Pope Pius XI
  • Q. Which one was the last city founded in the Russian Empire
    A)Vologda
    B)Arkhangelsk
    C)Veliky Novgorod
    D)Murmansk
    Answer: Murmansk
  • Q. Who wrote famous thesis entitled ‘South India in 1857: war of Independence’:
    A)K M Pannikar
    B)J K Hikki
    C)M G Ranade
    D)V.D. Savarkar
    Answer: V.D. Savarkar
  • Q. When Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated, who said, “None will believe that a man like this in body and soul ever walked on this earth.”?
    A)Leo Tolstoy
    B)Bertrand Russell
    C)Albert Einstein
    D)Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
    Answer: Albert Einstein
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    A)A. R. Desai
    B)Eric Stokes
    C)D. N. Dhanagare
    D)Shirin Mehta
    Answer: Eric Stokes
  • Q. Where did Moplah revolt took place?
    A)Bihar
    B)Bengal
    C)Uttar Pradesh
    D)Kerala
    Answer: Kerala
  • Q. Who was the Viceroy when the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre took place?
    A)Chelmsford
    B)Hardinge-II
    C)Reading
    D)Irwin
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  • Q. Which of the following was built by Akbar to commemorate his conquest of Khandesh in Gujarat?
    A)Buland Darwaza
    B)Bada Imambara
    C)Jama Masjid
    D)Siddi Bashir
    Answer: Buland Darwaza

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