More Questions on History
- Q. The Treaty of Lahore was signed between the Sikhs and the British in India in the year
A)1846
B)1836
C)1856
D)1866
Answer: 1846
- Q. For how many years Ajitnath Tirthankar practise harsh austerity?
A)Twelve
B)Ten
C)Fourteen
D)Sixteen
Answer: Twelve
- Q. From where the Mansabdari system was borrowed?
A)Turkey
B)Afghanistan
C)Mongolia
D)Persia
Answer: Mongolia
- Q. Jyotiba Phule, popularly known as Baba Phule, was a social reformer in Maharashtra. Which of the following is not true about him
A)Phule through his book Ghulamagiri (1872) and his organization Satyashodhak Mandal, proclaimed the need to save the lower castes from the hypocritical Brahmans and their scriptures
B)He was the first to raise his voice against Brahmans in Maharashtra in the 1870s
C)His Satyashodhak Mandal contained both an elite based conservative trend and a genuine mass-based radicalism
D)The urban educated Marathas were his most ardent followers
Answer: The urban educated Marathas were his most ardent followers
- Q. The main purpose of Brahmo Samaj for which it was set up are
A)Criticize social evils, oppose idolatry and emphasize human dignity
B)Purify Hinduism and to preach monotheism
C)Both A and B
D)None of the above
Answer: Both A and B
- Q. Who issued the Emancipation Proclamation?
A)George Washington
B)Abraham Lincoln
C)John F. Kennedy
D)William Wallace Lincoln
Answer: Abraham Lincoln
- Q. Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man’.Who said this?
A)Sri Ramakrishna
B)Swami Vivekananda
C)Chandra Sekhar Deb
D)Sri Narayana Guru
Answer: Swami Vivekananda
- Q. The art of painting in the Mughal age was __________ in origin
A)Hindu
B)Persian
C)French
D)Afghan
Answer: Persian
- Q. Who had introduced the Indian Universities Act 1904?
A)Lord Hardinge
B)Lord Ripon
C)Lord Curzon
D)Lord Auckland
Answer: Lord Curzon
- Q. The Ahmedabad Satyagraha of Gandhi was directed against
A)Indian mill owners and non government officials
B)British mill owners and government officials
C)British non-government officials
D)Indian government officials
Answer: Indian mill owners and non government officials
- Q. Who was the ruler of Delhi when Ahmad Shah Abdali defeated the Marathas in the third Battle of Panipat in 1761?
A)Muhammad Shah
B)Alamgir-I
C)Jahadar Shah
D)Shah Alam-II
Answer: Shah Alam-II
- Q. Which of the following group of thinkers influenced Fascism?
A)Aristotle, St, Augustine and T.H, Green
B)Plato, Machiavelli and Herbet Spencer
C)Kant, Fichte, Hegel and Rosenberg
D)Karl Marx, Engels and Lenin
Answer: Kant, Fichte, Hegel and Rosenberg
- Q. Rani Gaidinliu was a rebel leader against the Britishers from:
A)Uttar Pardesh
B)Manipur
C)Madhya Pradesh
D)Maharashtra
Answer: Manipur
- Q. Who was the ruler of the kingdom between the rivers Jhelum and Chenab?
A)Darius III
B)Alexander the Great
C)King Porus
D)Chandragupta Maurya
Answer: King Porus
- Q. Which dynasty was ruling in Vijaynagar empire at the time of the Battle of Talikota?
A)Aravidu
B)Sangam
C)Tuluva
D)Saluva
Answer: Tuluva
- Q. The Constitution drawn by the Constituent Assembly (provided in the Cabinet Mission Plan) would be implemented by
A)The British Government
B)Parliament
C)Viceroy
D)Indian National Congress
Answer: The British Government
- Q. Which statement (s) is/are correct about Ancient Indian literature? I. Brahmanas and Aryankas followed by philosophical doctrines of Upanishads. II. Brahmanas are contains detailed explanation about Vedic literature and instructions.
A)Only II
B)Only I
C)Both I & II
D)Neither I nor II
Answer: Both I & II
- Q. Consider the following statement (s) related to the administrative causes of 1857 revolt. I. Deprivation of the traditional ruling classes of their luxury due to the establishment of the company’s suzerainty over the Indian states. II. Introduction of new and revenue system which snatched the land from cultivator and gave it to the moneylender or traitor. III. Lord Canning’s announcement to that Mughals would lose the title of King and be mere Princess.
A)Only II
B)Only I
C)Both I and II
D)Both I and III
Answer: Both I and II
- Q. American Civil War was started in the year
A)1806
B)1756
C)1861
D)1890
Answer: 1861
- Q. When did Europe captured Jerusalem?
A)1088
B)1081
C)1095
D)1099
Answer: 1099
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