More Questions on History
- Q. The Hindu College was started in 1817 at
A)Bombay
B)Calcutta
C)Madras
D)Pondicherry
Answer: Calcutta
- Q. Through which one of the following, the king exercised his control over villages in the Vijayanagar Empire?
A)Sumanta
B)Dannayaka
C)Nayaka
D)Mahanayakacharya
Answer: Mahanayakacharya
- Q. The joint session of the Congress and Muslim League was held in 1916 at
A)Kanpur
B)Delhi
C)Lucknow
D)Madras
Answer: Lucknow
- Q. Which of the following is/are poetry and drama?
A)Raghuvamsa
B)Kumarasambhava
C)Abhijnanashakuntalam
D)All of the above
Answer: All of the above
- Q. When was “The Communist Manifesto” written?
A)1872
B)1848
C)1890
D)1882
Answer: 1848
- Q. Who among the following introduced Ryotwari system in madras?
A)Lord Wellesley
B)Lord Hastings
C)Sir Thomas Munro
D)Lord Cannemara
Answer: Sir Thomas Munro
- Q. What was the number of Gandhars of Abhinandannath Tirthankar?
A)114
B)112
C)116
D)118
Answer: 116
- Q. Assertion (A): In some places artisans and craftsmen participated in the Revolt of 1857. Reason (R): The British policy of ‘one-way’ free trade destroyed village industries and handicrafts in India
A)Both A and R is true but R is not a correct explanation of A
B)Both A and R is 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. For which community were seats reserved by the Morley-Minto reforms?
A)Muslims
B)Jews
C)Christians
D)Sikhs
Answer: Muslims
- Q. Of the following scholars who was the first to discover the traces of the Harappan Civilisation?
A)RD Banerji
B)Sir John Marshall
C)A Cunningham
D)Daya Ram Sahani
Answer: A Cunningham
- Q. During whose reign did Buddhism become the state religion?
A)Skandagupta I
B)Chandragupta Maurya
C)Samudragupta
D)Ashoka
Answer: Ashoka
- Q. The Monk whom Chandragupta Maurya accompanied to South India was __________
A)Vasumitra
B)Asvaghosa
C)Upagupta
D)Bhadrabahu
Answer: Bhadrabahu
- Q. The Moplah Rebellion in 1921 in Malabar was Muslim Peasants Rabellion against :
A)The British Government Authority
B)Muslim Land Holders
C)The non-tribal outsiders
D)Hindu Land Holders
Answer: Hindu Land Holders
- Q. Indian Dyarchy was started by :
A)Minto-Morley Reforms, 1909
B)Indian Council Act, 1861
C)Indian Council Act, 1992
D)Montague-Chelmsford Reforms, 1919
Answer: Montague-Chelmsford Reforms, 1919
- Q. Who is the founder of the concept “Sarvodaya”?
A)Mahatma Gandhi
B)Vinobha Bhave
C)Jai Prakash Narayan
D)K. G. Mushroowala
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi
- Q. Who was the last ruler of India that adopted Jainism in his last days?
A)Bindusara
B)Samudra Gupta
C)Chandra Gupta Maurya
D)Ashoka
Answer: Chandra Gupta Maurya
- Q. The swadeshi movement in Bengal started on __________
A)1905
B)1902
C)1908
D)1909
Answer: 1905
- Q. Megasthenes was succeeded as ambassador by
A)Demetrius
B)Darius
C)Deimachos
D)Philip
Answer: Deimachos
- Q. Who is the first female governor of Independent India?
A)Sharda Mukherjee
B)Vijayalakshmi Pandit
C)Fathima Beevi
D)Sarojini Naidu
Answer: Sarojini Naidu
- Q. According to __________ the Mutiny was a popular rebellion
A)V ASmith
B)V D Sarkar
C)L Mukherjee
D)Chabbra
Answer: V ASmith
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