More Questions on History
- Q. To which Ganarajya Gautam Buddha belonged?
A)Shakya
B)Shibi
C)Saurasena
D)Shabara
Answer: Shakya
- Q. Who amongst the following is associated with the study of the Harappan Civilization?
A)Cunningham
B)Charles Mason
C)M. Wheeler
D)M.S. Vats
Answer: M.S. Vats
- Q. Which among the following is correct
A)The capital of Gahadwal Dynasty was Kannauj
B)The capital of pandyas was Madurai
C)The capital of the Videha Kingdom was Mithila
D)All of the above
Answer: All of the above
- Q. During the Mughal rule, the police duties in the districts were entrusted to the officials known as?
A)Mansabdar
B)Faujdar
C)Kotwal
D)Amin
Answer: Faujdar
- Q. The Mehrauli pillar inscription belongs to the period of the
A)Kushanas
B)Mauryas
C)Sungas
D)Guptas
Answer: Guptas
- Q. The title of ‘Viceroy’ was added to the centre of the Governor-General of India for the first time in
A)1858 A.D.
B)1848 A.D.
C)1862 A.D.
D)1856 A.D.
Answer: 1858 A.D.
- Q. The most famous woman disciple of Vivekananda was
A)Annie Besant
B)Madam Blavatsky
C)Sister Nivedita
D)Sarojini Naidu
Answer: Sister Nivedita
- Q. Queen Victoria became the Empress of India according to the Act of
A)1861
B)1858
C)1876
D)1909
Answer: 1876
- Q. Who said “Curzon’s partition of Bengal gave unwitting initiative to events of such magnitude which returned many years later to port with the cargo of freedom”?
A)Dr. S.Gopal
B)Syed Hasan Imam
C)M.A. Ansari
D)Bharat Kumar
Answer: Dr. S.Gopal
- Q. Lord Cornwallis had introduced the __________ land tenure system
A)Ryotwari
B)Zamindari
C)Mahalwari
D)Inamdari
Answer: Zamindari
- Q. Consider the following on the chronology of appointment of Viceroys I. Reading II. Irwin III. Wellingdon IV. Linlithgow
A)III, II, IV, II
B)I, II, III , IV
C)IV, III, II, I
D)II, IV, III, I
Answer: I, II, III , IV
- Q. In November 1881, Narendra went to meet __________who was staying at the Kali Temple in Dakshineshwar
A)Rashik Krishna Mallik
B)Sri Ramakrishna
C)Dakhinaranjan Mukhopadhyay
D)Ramgopal Ghose
Answer: Sri Ramakrishna
- Q. The policy of Doctrine of lapse was introduced by __________
A)Lord William Bentinck
B)Lord Wellesley
C)Lord Macaulay
D)Lord Dalhousie
Answer: Lord Dalhousie
- Q. Which of the following are the main reasons for failure of Young Bengal Movement? I. Suppression by British new law II. Did not involve peasant cause III. Radicalism was bookish in character and did not develop links with masses
A)Only II
B)Only I
C)Both II and III
D)All the above
Answer: Both II and III
- Q. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was the leader of__________
A)Rowlatt Satyagraha
B)Bhoodan Movement
C)Bardoli Satyagraha
D)Swadeshi Movement
Answer: Bardoli Satyagraha
- Q. Anti Semitism’ to Adolf Hitler meant
A)Anti Jewish policy
B)Anti Black policy
C)Anti Protestant policy
D)Anti German policy
Answer: Anti Jewish policy
- Q. Which of the following Mughal emperors is credited with composition of Hindi songs?
A)Akbar
B)Babur
C)Jahangir
D)Shahjahan
Answer: Jahangir
- Q. The troops raised by the emperor but not paid directly the state and place under the charge of mansabadars were known as
A)Barawardi
B)Walashahi
C)Jcumaki
D)Dakhili
Answer: Dakhili
- Q. The earliest city discovered in India was
A)Punjab
B)Harappa
C)Mohenjo Daro
D)Sindh
Answer: Harappa
- Q. During the first hundred years of the British rule in India, people’s resentment and opposition to the British policies mainly surfaced in the form of
A)Peasant uprisings
B)Tribal uprisings
C)Civil uprisings
D)Both A and B above
Answer: Both A and B above
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