More Questions on History
- Q. The Battle of Plassey is a particularly important event in Indian history because
A)It enabled the British to have power in Bengal
B)The Nawab of Bengal lost in it
C)It laid the foundation for British rule in India
D)It enabled the British to reap higher trade profits
Answer: It laid the foundation for British rule in India
- Q. Which of the following was not the saint of Varkari sect?
A)Namdev
B)Tukaram
C)Eknath
D)Kabir
Answer: Kabir
- Q. Which Sikh guru was executed by Aurangzeb?
A)Arjun Dev
B)Tegh Bahadur
C)Hargobind
D)Gobind Singh
Answer: Tegh Bahadur
- Q. On which date was the announcement formally made that India and Pakistan would be made free?
A)June 3, 1947
B)May 2, 1947
C)July 4, 1947
D)August 5, 1957
Answer: June 3, 1947
- Q. Who among the following Indian cracks the British Indian Civil Services Examination in the first time of Indian History?
A)R. C. Dutt
B)Satyendranath Tagore
C)Behari Lal Gupta
D)Surendranath Banerjee
Answer: Satyendranath Tagore
- Q. The ruler of Kharavela was the greatest ruler of which Chedi Dynasty?
A)Kalinga
B)Cholamandalam
C)Kannoj
D)Purushpura
Answer: Kalinga
- Q. Who among the following rulers abolished Jiziya?
A)Balban
B)Aurangzeb
C)Akbar
D)Jahangir
Answer: Akbar
- Q. Who called the revolt of 1857 as a war between barbarism and civilization?
A)T. R. Holmes
B)V A Smith
C)J K Hikki
D)Sir Ahmed Khan
Answer: T. R. Holmes
- Q. Jainism was divided into two sects – Swetambaras (White-clad) and Digambaras (Sky clad or naked) – During the reign of the
A)Mauryas
B)Nandas
C)Kusanas
D)Shungas
Answer: Mauryas
- Q. Who established Narayana Gurukulam in 1923 in the Nilgiri Hills with the blessings of Narayana Guru?
A)Chattambi Swamikal
B)Nataraja Guru
C)T. K. Madhavan
D)Dr. Palpu
Answer: Nataraja Guru
- Q. The Muslim League demanded a separate homeland for Indian Muslims for the first time at its :
A)Lucknow session in 1916
B)Lahore session in 1940.
C)Meerut Session 1946
D)Tripuri Session in 1939
Answer: Lahore session in 1940.
- Q. When was Sputnik 1 launched?
A)1957
B)1970
C)1980
D)1990
Answer: 1957
- Q. Assertion (A): The largest number of Persian works on classical Indian music was written in Aurangzeb’s reign. Reason (R): Aurangzeb was a great patron of Classical Indian Music.
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. Assertion (A): Akbar’s official historian Abul Fazl neither gives the prices of slaves nor does he mention slave markets. Reason (R): Akbar prohibited slave trade in his empire
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. Which of all Harappan sites, has the most impressive drainage system?
A)Banawali
B)Harappa
C)Dhaulavira
D)Mohenjodaro
Answer: Mohenjodaro
- Q. Permission to the British to establish their trading centre at Surat had been given by the Mughal emperor
A)Akbar
B)Babur
C)Jahangir
D)Humayun
Answer: Jahangir
- Q. The most famous Indo-Greek ruler of India, famous for his sense of Justice and dialogues with a Buddhist monk Nagasena (as described in the Buddhist work Milinda Panho) was
A)Menander
B)Demetrius
C)Eukratises
D)Heliocles
Answer: Menander
- Q. The date of the Harappan Civilisation (2300-1750 BC) has been fixed on the basis of
A)Stratification
B)Pottery design
C)Aryan invasion
D)Radio Carbon-14 dating
Answer: Radio Carbon-14 dating
- Q. Which of the following Indian literature is the earliest known works?
A)Rig Vedas
B)Puranas
C)Sama Vedas
D)Rajtrangini
Answer: Rig Vedas
- Q. Which of the following is related to the concept of Nirguna Brahman?
A)Visisthadvaita
B)Advaita
C)Both A & B
D)Neither A nor B
Answer: Advaita
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