More Questions on History
- Q. Tulsidas composed his Ramacharitamanas during the reign of
A)Alauddin Khalji
B)Harsha
C)Akbar
D)Krishnadeva Raya
Answer: Akbar
- Q. Who founded the Vikramashila University?
A)Dharmapala
B)Devapala
C)Dhruva
D)Gopala
Answer: Dharmapala
- Q. Who founded the Pala Empire?
A)Dharmapala
B)Devapala
C)Dhruva
D)Gopala
Answer: Gopala
- Q. The first Swarajist Conference was held at
A)Allahabad
B)Ahmedabad
C)Madras
D)Bardoli
Answer: Allahabad
- Q. The Sikh Guru who had been killed at the instance of Aurangzeb was
A)Guru Hargobind
B)Guru Atjan Dev
C)Guru Tegh Bahadur
D)Guru Gobind Singh
Answer: Guru Tegh Bahadur
- Q. According to Gandhi, ahimsa could not be construed to mean
A)a positive state of law
B)truth
C)tolerance of the wrong and unjust
D)doing good even to the evildoers
Answer: tolerance of the wrong and unjust
- Q. The famous Mughal General who conquered Assam, Chittagong, etc. in the north-east was
A)Mir Jumla
B)Shaista Khan
C)Mirza Raja Jai Singh
D)Jaswant Singh
Answer: Mir Jumla
- Q. In which year Bastille of Paris stormed by the people which lead to the French Revolution
A)1779
B)1746
C)1789
D)1808
Answer: 1789
- Q. I. Jahangir had set up his court at Allahabad, assumed royal titles and struck coins in his name II. He banned slaughter of animals on two days in every week viz – Sunday & Thursday. Which of the above statement (s) is/are correct related to Jahangir?
A)Only II
B)Only I
C)Both I and II
D)Neither I nor II
Answer: Both I and II
- Q. According to __________ the mutiny was a purely military outbreak
A)VASmith
B)VD Sarkar
C)Sir John Lawrence
D)Roberts
Answer: Sir John Lawrence
- Q. Which nationalist had stoutly preached “Be proud that you are an Indian, proudly claim I am an Indian”?
A)Lala Lajpat Rai
B)MK Gandhi
C)Swami Vivekanand
D)Jawaharlal Nehru
Answer: Swami Vivekanand
- Q. Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, better known as Frontier Gandhi, organised the Red Shirt Movement in the NorthWest Frontier Province (NWFP) for
A)establishing separate Pakhtoonistan
B)countering the communal propaganda of the Muslim League
C)social and religious reforms
D)All the above
Answer: social and religious reforms
- Q. The Revolt of 1857 in Awadh and Lucknow was led by
A)Begum Hazrat Mahal
B)Wajid Ali Shah
C)Asaf-ud-daula
D)Begum Zeenat Mahal
Answer: Begum Hazrat Mahal
- Q. Who is known as the founder of the Durrani Empire
A)Zaman Shah Durrani
B)Timur Shah Durrani
C)Mahmud Shah Durrani
D)Ahmad Shah Durrani
Answer: Ahmad Shah Durrani
- Q. Harappa is situated on the bank of the river
A)Ravi
B)Ganga
C)Yamuna
D)Sindhu
Answer: Ravi
- Q. Dayananda was born on February 12 in 1824, in the town of Tankara, near Morvi (Morbi) in the Kathiawar region of the princely state of__________
A)Uttar Pradesh
B)Assam
C)Bihar
D)Gujarat
Answer: Gujarat
- Q. Who among the following built the largest number of irrigation canals in the Sultanate period?
A)Ghiyasuddin Balban
B)Nasiruddin Mahmud
C)Ibrahim Lodi
D)Firuz Shah Tughlaq
Answer: Firuz Shah Tughlaq
- Q. Tipu sultan was the ruler of
A)Madurai
B)Hyderabad
C)Mysore
D)Vijayanagar
Answer: Mysore
- Q. Who said about Mahatma Gandhi that he is a “half naked Fakir”?
A)Lord Mountbatten
B)Winston Churchill
C)Lord Wavell
D)Lord Lirrlithgow
Answer: Winston Churchill
- Q. With which of the following would you associate Jyotiba Phule?
A)Theosophical Society
B)Satya Shodhak Samaj
C)Tattvabodhini Samaj
D)Dharma Sabha
Answer: Satya Shodhak Samaj
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