More Questions on History
- Q. Which Viceroy of India had largest tenure during British rule:
A)Lord Mountbatten
B)Lord Linlithgow
C)Lord Bentick
D)None of above
Answer: Lord Linlithgow
- Q. Who was the only Indian to be elected as President of the United Nations General Assembly?
A)V. K. Krishna Menon
B)Vijayalakshmi Pandit
C)Jawaharlal Nehru
D)Rajeswar Dayal
Answer: Vijayalakshmi Pandit
- Q. Which of the following literatures is known as Apaurusheya?
A)Brahman
B)Vedas
C)Upanishad
D)Aranyak
Answer: Vedas
- Q. Sri Narayana Guru was born into an __________ family.
A)Nayar
B)Ezhava
C)Pulaya
D)Vannan
Answer: Ezhava
- Q. Which Sufi’s dargah is at Ajmer?
A)Qutbdin Bakhtiyar Kaki
B)Baba Farid
C)Moinuddin Chisti
D)Khwaja Bahuddin
Answer: Moinuddin Chisti
- Q. The one most important feature of the Mauryan Administration was
A)the presence of a 'council of ministers'
B)wide powers enjoyed by the provincial governors
C)the presence of vast, numerous powers of the bureaucracy
D)an extensive network of spy-system
Answer: the presence of vast, numerous powers of the bureaucracy
- Q. Name the Pala ruler who was the first to plunge into the tripartite struggle
A)Mahipala
B)Devapala
C)Dharmapala
D)Gopala
Answer: Gopala
- Q. After the Kalinga War, Ashoka decided never to wage any war because?
A)Ashoka felt apologetic about the destruction of men and material on both sides in the war
B)After the conquest of Kalinga the political unity of Mauryan India had been achieved
C)He was moved by the violence, slaughter and sufferings to the combatants and noncombatants in the war
D)Shortly after the war he adopted Buddhism which was opposed to violence
Answer: He was moved by the violence, slaughter and sufferings to the combatants and noncombatants in the war
- Q. The Rowlatt Act was passed in :
A)1913
B)1905
C)1919
D)1925
Answer: 1919
- Q. For which community were seats reserved by the Morley-Minto reforms?
A)Muslims
B)Jews
C)Christians
D)Sikhs
Answer: Muslims
- Q. Who said “Where there is no law, there is no freedom”?
A)Lenin
B)Bentham
C)Marx
D)Locke
Answer: Locke
- Q. Who attended the Imperial Durbar of 1877 dressed in hand-spun Khadi?
A)Bal Gangadhar Tilak
B)M.K. Gandhi
C)Bipin Chandra Pal
D)Ganesh Vasudev Joshi
Answer: Ganesh Vasudev Joshi
- Q. The Treaty of Surat was in the year __________
A)1575
B)1475
C)1675
D)1775
Answer: 1775
- Q. Which of the Act made the governor of Bengal as Governor General of India?
A)Charter Act, 1813
B)Pitt's India Act, 1784
C)Charter Act, 1833
D)Regulating Act, 1773
Answer: Charter Act, 1813
- Q. A Study in Consciousness was written by __________
A)Mrinal Gore
B)Annie Besant
C)Prasanna Kumar Tagore
D)Rajkamal Sen
Answer: Annie Besant
- 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
- Q. The language from which the term ‘India’ is derived is
A)Greek
B)English
C)Persian
D)Arabic
Answer: Persian
- Q. What benefits did the Poona Pact offer to the depressed classes?
A)20% reservation in the provincial legislature
B)44 seats in the central legislature
C)18% seats in the central legislature and 148 seats in the provincial legislature
D)50% reservation in the ICS
Answer: 18% seats in the central legislature and 148 seats in the provincial legislature
- Q. Bicameral Legislature was first provided to India by the
A)Government of India Act of 1935
B)Pitt's India Act
C)Government of India Act of 1919
D)Council Act of 1861
Answer: Government of India Act of 1919
- Q. When was Gandhi-Irvin Pact taken place?
A)March 15, 1933
B)September 23, 1932
C)March 5, 1931
D)February 10, 1930
Answer: March 5, 1931
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