More Questions on History

  • Q. When Humayun was in exile Koh-i-noor Diamond was with
    A)Shah Tahmasp of Persia
    B)The Raja Bikramajid
    C)Sultan of Bijapur
    D)Sher Shah
    Answer: Shah Tahmasp of Persia
  • Q. Which of the following statement (s) is/are correct related with the Kautilya’s Arthashastra? I. Kautilya’s Arthashastra is a book on statecraft was written in Gupta Period. II. Arthashastra was written in the fourth century B.C. by Kautilya, from which it appeared a tradition of writing on and teaching of statecrafts because Kautilya acknowledges his debt to his predecessors in the field
    A)Only II
    B)Only I
    C)Both I & II
    D)None of the above
    Answer: Only II
  • Q. The term samanta, meaning a feudatory from the sixth century AD, originally meant a
    A)cultivator
    B)slave
    C)neighbour
    D)foreigner
    Answer: neighbour
  • Q. Writing Social History is the book of __________
    A)Sumit Sarkar
    B)Ania Loomba
    C)Cohn Bernard
    D)Ranajith Guha
    Answer: Sumit Sarkar
  • Q. In order to study the position of education Indian constitutional commission was constituted in 1929 under the chairmanship of
    A)Phillip Reading
    B)Phillip Uartog
    C)Uartog Reading
    D)None of these
    Answer: Phillip Uartog
  • Q. Name the river on the banks of which the city of Vijayanagar is located?
    A)Krishna
    B)Kaveri
    C)Wainganga
    D)Tungabhadra
    Answer: Tungabhadra
  • Q. Who wrote Si- Yu- ki?
    A)Selucas Nicator
    B)Harshavardhan
    C)Hieun Tsiang
    D)Megasthanese
    Answer: Hieun Tsiang
  • Q. Two highest gods in the Vedic religion were
    A)Vishnu and Mitra
    B)Agni and Savitri
    C)Indra and Varuna
    D)Surya and Pushan
    Answer: Indra and Varuna
  • Q. How many times Shivaji plundered Surat?
    A)Once
    B)Four Times
    C)Thrice
    D)Twice
    Answer: Twice
  • Q. The proceedings of the Third Buddhist Council led to the issue of Edict?
    A)Sarnath
    B)Sanchi
    C)Bhabra
    D)Kalinga
    Answer: Sarnath
  • Q. Which of the following was not one of the actual cause for the decline of the Mauryan empire?
    A)Division of the empire after Ashoka
    B)Ashoka's pacifist policies
    C)Foreign aggressions particularly Greek
    D)Economic and financial crisis
    Answer: Ashoka's pacifist policies
  • Q. Which statement is not the advocacy of Nirguna Saints?
    A)It is the concept of a formless God, which has no attributes or quality
    B)It advocated the worshiped the anthropomorphic manifestations of the divine being, particularly Rama and Krishna
    C)It conceived as Ishvara, the personal and purely spiritual aspect of godhead, beyond all names and forms (nama-rupa), and is to be apprehended only by inner (mystical) experience
    D)None of the above
    Answer: It advocated the worshiped the anthropomorphic manifestations of the divine being, particularly Rama and Krishna
  • Q. I. Aurangzeb abolished Rahdari, Pandari and Pilgrim tax. II. Aurangzeb discontinued the practice of inscribing the Kalima on the coins. Which of the above statements is/are correct related to Aurangzeb?
    A)Only II
    B)Only I
    C)Both I and II
    D)Neither I nor II
    Answer: Only II
  • Q. Gokhale was born in a Marathi Brahmin family at __________
    A)Poona
    B)Ratnagiri
    C)Allahabad
    D)Assam
    Answer: Ratnagiri
  • Q. Under the Mughals, in urban area the judicial powers were exercised by
    A)Faujdar
    B)Kazis
    C)Kotwal
    D)Wazir
    Answer: Kotwal
  • Q. Purana Qila at Delhi was built by
    A)Sher Shah
    B)Akbar
    C)Humayun
    D)Shah Jahan
    Answer: Sher Shah
  • Q. Identify the European power from whom Shivaji obtained cannons and ammunition
    A)The Portuguese
    B)The French
    C)The Dutch
    D)The English
    Answer: The Portuguese
  • Q. In 1893 __________ landed in India, made a tour of the country in the company of H. S. Olcott, and by her splendid presentation of Indian philosophy and her undisguised personal preference for the Indian spiritual heritage, won the support of orthodox Brahmins to Theosophy
    A)Upendranath Basu
    B)Annie Besant
    C)I. N. Gurtu
    D)George Thompson
    Answer: Annie Besant
  • Q. The main focus of the Rigvedic culture was
    A)Punjab and Delhi region
    B)Indo-Gangetic Valley
    C)Indus Valley
    D)Region between the Swat and the Indus
    Answer: Indus Valley
  • Q. Who played an important role in the Gadar Movement in 1915?
    A)Lala Lajpat Rai
    B)Lala Hardayal
    C)Bal Gangadhar Tilak
    D)None of above
    Answer: Lala Hardayal

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