More Questions on History

  • Q. What is the correct meaning of Khanqah?
    A)A form of veena
    B)A form of music
    C)The place where Sufi Mystics lived
    D)None of the above
    Answer: The place where Sufi Mystics lived
  • Q. In which one of the following do we come across a detailed account of the municipal administration of Mauryas?
    A)The account of Megasthenes
    B)The Arthashastra of Kautilya
    C)The Mudrarakshasa
    D)Mauryan inscription
    Answer: The account of Megasthenes
  • Q. The eighth-century tripartite power struggle was among which of the following?
    A)Chalukyas, Pallavas and Pandyas
    B)Cholas, Rastrakutas and Yadavas
    C)Cholas, Pandyas and Chalukyas
    D)Chalukyas, Pallavas and Yadavas
    Answer: Chalukyas, Pallavas and Pandyas
  • Q. Which of the following Vedas was compiled first?
    A)Samaveda
    B)Rigveda
    C)Yajurveda
    D)Atharvaveda
    Answer: Rigveda
  • Q. The term used to denote a group of families in the vedic society was
    A)Jana
    B)Vish
    C)Grama
    D)Gotra
    Answer: Grama
  • Q. Who started the English weekly ‘New India’?
    A)Bipin Chandra Pal
    B)Lala Lajpat Rai
    C)Dada Bhai Naoroji
    D)Madan Mohan Malviya
    Answer: Bipin Chandra Pal
  • Q. How did Europeans use the term ‘middle ages’?
    A)The medieval era of European history
    B)The crisis of Western Europe
    C)The fact that Europe became mature from 500 to 1500
    D)The time between the fall of Rome and the emergence of Christianity
    Answer: The medieval era of European history
  • Q. The Sage who is said to have Aryanised South India, was
    A)Vashistha
    B)Yagnavalkya
    C)Agastya
    D)Vishwamitra
    Answer: Agastya
  • Q. “Din-i-Ilahi” was the new religion started by
    A)Jahangir
    B)Humayun
    C)Akbar
    D)Shahjahan
    Answer: Akbar
  • Q. Under the Mountbatten Plan of 1947 the people of ___ were given the right to decide through a plebiscite whether they wished to join Pakistan or India.
    A)Punjab
    B)Assam
    C)Bengal
    D)N.W.F.P and the Sylhet district of Assam
    Answer: N.W.F.P and the Sylhet district of Assam
  • Q. Which statement (s) is/are correct related to the Ramananda? I. He worshipped Ram and Sita but preached the oneness of God and the doctrine of Bhakti for everyone II. Dismissed the caste system and untouchability, simplified rules of worship and made rigidity of the Varnashrama tradition milder
    A)II only
    B)I only
    C)Both I and II
    D)Neither I nor II
    Answer: Both I and II
  • Q. In 1906 to protest discrimination against Indians in S. Africa Mahatma Gandhi started
    A)Satyagraha at Cape Town
    B)Satyagraha at Durban
    C)Satyagraha at Port Elizabeth
    D)Satyagraha at Johannesburg
    Answer: Satyagraha at Johannesburg
  • Q. Nana Sahib the adopted son of Peshwa Baji Rao II had become a great enemy of the British because
    A)He had lost his title
    B)The Queen had humiliated him
    C)The British had stopped his pension
    D)His estate had been snatched from him
    Answer: The British had stopped his pension
  • Q. During young age, what did Sambhavnath Tirthankar feel while watching the dispersal of medieval clouds?
    A)Mortification
    B)Togetherness
    C)Happy
    D)Sad
    Answer: Mortification
  • Q. The peacock throne was constructed by the Mughal Emperor
    A)Shah Jahan
    B)Akbar
    C)Jahangir
    D)Aurangzeb
    Answer: Shah Jahan
  • Q. The single biggest item of British capital investment in India was
    A)Plantations and mines
    B)Railways
    C)Banking and insurance
    D)Shipping
    Answer: Railways
  • Q. After the defeat at Plassey, Siraj-ud-daullah was assassinated __________and was made the nawab
    A)Mir Qasim
    B)Mir Jafar
    C)Haider Ali
    D)Tipu Sultan
    Answer: Mir Jafar
  • Q. In __________ , Jyotiba Phule formed the Satya Shodhak Samaj (Society of Seekers of Truth)
    A)1853
    B)1773
    C)1873
    D)1889
    Answer: 1873
  • Q. What were the taxes extracted by Church during late eighteenth century in the French Society called
    A)Taille
    B)Tithes
    C)Livre
    D)Jizya
    Answer: Tithes
  • Q. Nalanda Mahavihara site is in
    A)Assam
    B)Rajasthan
    C)Bihar
    D)Gujrat
    Answer: Bihar

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