More Questions on History
- Q. British Prime Minister Attlee made the historic announcement of the end of British rule in India (and transfer of power to responsible Indian hands by a date not later than June1948) on
A)February 20, 1947
B)May 16, 1946
C)March 10, 1946
D)December 31, 1946
Answer: February 20, 1947
- Q. Which of the following is not true about Tipu Sultan?
A)His autobiography was Tarikh-i-Khudai
B)He was a Great admirer of Jagadguru Sankracharya of Sringeri
C)He died during the fourth Anglo-Mysore war
D)He laid the foundation of Krishnaraj Sagar Dam on Cauvery
Answer: His autobiography was Tarikh-i-Khudai
- Q. Through which Educational Report Calcutta University came into existence?
A)Hunter Commission
B)Macaulay's Minute
C)Charter Act
D)Wood's Despatch
Answer: Wood's Despatch
- Q. Which one of the following indicates the correct chronological order of the Later Mughal Emperors?
A)Farrukh Siyar, Bahadur Shah-I, Jahandar Shah, Muhammad Shah
B)Bahadur Shah-I, Farrukh Siyar, Jahandar Shah, Muhammad Shah
C)Bahadur Shah-l, Jahandar Shah, Farrukh Siyar, Muhammad Shah
D)Jahandar Shah, Bahadur Shah-l, Muhammad Shah, Farrukh Siyar
Answer: Bahadur Shah-l, Jahandar Shah, Farrukh Siyar, Muhammad Shah
- Q. Which of the following statements regarding Gyana Prasarak Mandalis or student literary and scientific societies is / are correct? I. Formed by common people to educate youth II. Had two branches Marathi and Guajarati III. Aimed to start schools for girls. IV. Organized lectures to propagate their ideas
A)I III and IV only
B)I and II only
C)II and III only
D)II, III and IV
Answer: II, III and IV
- Q. In which country the Head of the State gets his office by the law of hereditary succession?
A)Sri Lanka
B)China
C)France
D)Japan
Answer: Japan
- Q. The principles of Ashoka’s Dharma (Dhamma) were taken from
A)Jainism
B)Buddhism
C)Brahmanism
D)The moral virtues of all Indian religions of that period
Answer: The moral virtues of all Indian religions of that period
- Q. Subhash Chandra Bose was elected the president of the Indian national congress :
A)Bombay Session, 1934
B)Ramgarh Session, 1940
C)Tripuri session, 1939
D)Wardha Session, 1942
Answer: Tripuri session, 1939
- Q. First meeting of the United Nations General Assembly was held in
A)New York
B)Paris
C)Moscow
D)London
Answer: London
- Q. Which of the following provision is a part of the Government of India Act of 1919?
A)The enlargement of the Viceroy's Executive Council
B)Transfer of power to the Indians
C)Remodelling of the Central legislature
D)Doing away with the distinction between the regulation and non-regulation provinces
Answer: Transfer of power to the Indians
- Q. During British rule, who was instrumental for the introduction of the Ryotwari system in the then Madras Presidency?
A)Elphinstone
B)Macaulay
C)Thomas Munro
D)John Lawrence
Answer: Thomas Munro
- Q. To which king belongs the Lion capital at Sarnath?
A)Ashoka
B)Chandragupta
C)Kanishka
D)Harshavardhan
Answer: Ashoka
- Q. To bring Hindu-Muslim unity, Akbar
A)prohibited cow-killing
B)encouraged cow-killing
C)taxed cow-killing
D)remained silent to cow-killing
Answer: prohibited cow-killing
- Q. The Minto Morley reforms was in the year __________
A)1907
B)1906
C)1909
D)1919
Answer: 1909
- 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. Who brought out a paper with the title of the ‘loyal Muhammadanans of India’ ?
A)Khan Abdul Ghafar Khan
B)Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan.
C)Abbas Tyabji
D)Rafi Ahmed Kidwai
Answer: Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan.
- Q. Subsidiary Alliance was introduced by __________
A)Sir John Shore
B)Lord Wellesley
C)Robert Clive
D)Lord Dalhousie
Answer: Lord Wellesley
- Q. The Asiatic Society had been established in Calcutta by
A)Sir William Jones
B)TB Macaulay
C)GK Gokhale
D)Annie Besant
Answer: Sir William Jones
- Q. The first grammarian of the Sanskrit language was
A)Maitreyi
B)Kalhana
C)Kalidasa
D)Panini
Answer: Panini
- Q. Who established the Edo society?
A)Kuroda Yoshitaka
B)Akechi Mitsuhide
C)Oda Nobunaga
D)Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Answer: Toyotomi Hideyoshi
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