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Q. Mahatma Gandhi was first arrested, during ‘Satyagrah’ in the year

A
1908
B
1906
C
1913
D
1917

Correct Answer

1908

More Questions on History

  • Q. The most important saint of the Bhakti Movement in Maharashtra who was born at Satara and is said to have died in Punjab, was
    A)Namadeva
    B)Jnanesvar
    C)Tukaram
    D)Guru Ramdas
    Answer: Namadeva
  • Q. When King George-V and Queen of India visited India, a magnificent Durbar was held at
    A)Delhi
    B)Calcutta
    C)Bombay
    D)Madras
    Answer: Delhi
  • Q. The Treaty of Mangalore was in the year __________
    A)1584
    B)1484
    C)1684
    D)1784
    Answer: 1784
  • Q. When was the Trans-Siberian Railway completed?
    A)1882
    B)1872
    C)1890
    D)1916
    Answer: 1916
  • 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. Who was the French Governor of Pondicherry who tried to make the French Company as a powerful company?
    A)Godeheu
    B)Thomas Arthur, Comte de Lally
    C)La Bourdonnais
    D)Joseph Francois Dupleix
    Answer: Joseph Francois Dupleix
  • 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. The Tomar Rajputs, were defeated in the middle of the twelfth century by the Chauhans of __________
    A)Ajmer
    B)Ayodhya
    C)Gwalior
    D)Dwarka
    Answer: Ajmer
  • Q. Which religious reformer of Western India was known as ‘Lokhitwadi’?
    A)R. G. Bhandarkar
    B)Gopal Hari Deshmukh
    C)Mahadev Govind Ranade
    D)B. G. Tilak
    Answer: Gopal Hari Deshmukh
  • Q. When did Congress pass the Sherman Antitrust Act?
    A)1911
    B)1890
    C)1900
    D)1872
    Answer: 1890
  • Q. Which of the following event compel the Rabindranath Tagore to renounce his knighthood?
    A)To protest against lathi charge on Lala Lajpat Rai that caused his death
    B)To protest against the Jallianwalla Bagh incident
    C)To express solidarity with the leaders of Non-Cooperation Movement
    D)To express solidarity with the protestors against the arrival of Simon Commission
    Answer: To protest against the Jallianwalla Bagh incident
  • Q. When did the second Russian revolution start
    A)February, 1917
    B)August, 1905
    C)October, 1917
    D)March, 1921
    Answer: October, 1917
  • Q. When was the Treaty of Versailles signed?
    A)1919
    B)1918
    C)1920
    D)1923
    Answer: 1919
  • Q. The Greek viewed ‘politics’ as the basis of
    A)Ethical terms
    B)Both ethical and legalistic terms
    C)Terms of power
    D)Legalistic terms
    Answer: Ethical terms
  • Q. In U.S.A. the President is elected by
    A)Universal Adult Franchise
    B)The Senate
    C)The House of Representatives
    D)The Congress
    Answer: Universal Adult Franchise
  • Q. The Sikh Guru who wrote Guru Nanak’s biography was
    A)Guru Amardas
    B)Guru Angad Dev
    C)Guru Ramdas
    D)Guru Arjun Dev
    Answer: Guru Angad Dev
  • Q. What does Jahangir mean?
    A)The Grand Monarch
    B)National Monarach
    C)Conqueror of the world
    D)Hero of hundred battles
    Answer: Conqueror of the world
  • Q. On which of the following systems of Hindu Philosophy , Shankaracharya wrote commentary in 9th century AD?
    A)Vaisheshika
    B)Sankhya
    C)Yoga
    D)Uttarmimansa
    Answer: Uttarmimansa
  • Q. Which of the following statement is wrong?
    A)Ashoka the great Mauryan king died in 332 BC
    B)Sunga dynasty was founded by pushyamitra
    C)Ashoka invaded the Kalinga in 261 BC
    D)Chandragupta Maurya earned the title of the Liberator
    Answer: Ashoka the great Mauryan king died in 332 BC
  • Q. Which of the following is the correct chronological sequence of the ruling dynasties of northern India, from the decline of the Mauryas to the rise of the imperial Guptas?
    A)Sungas, Kushans, Parthians, Sakas and Guptas
    B)Sungas, Indo-Greeks, Kushans, Sakas and Guptas
    C)Sungas, Kanvas, Indo-Greeks, Sakas, Parthians and Guptas
    D)Kanvas, Sungas, Indo-Greeks, Sakas, Parthians and Guptas
    Answer: Sungas, Kanvas, Indo-Greeks, Sakas, Parthians and Guptas

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