More Questions on History
- Q. Which of the following Acts had provision of Indian Civil Services recruitment on the basis of competitive examination?
A)Government of India Act, 1858
B)Charter Act of 1813
C)Charter Act of 1853
D)Charter Act of 1833
Answer: Charter Act of 1853
- Q. Ashoka’s conquest of Kalinga has been described in the minor rock edict number.
A)IV
B)I
C)VIII
D)XIII
Answer: XIII
- Q. Which battle led to the downfall of the Vijayanagar empire?
A)Battle of Talikota
B)Battle of Takkolam
C)Battle of Khanwa
D)Battle of Panipat
Answer: Battle of Talikota
- Q. Consider the following statement (s) related to the Dara Shikoh I. Dara Shikoh was the youngest son of Shahjahan. II. Dara Shikoh was the devotee of Qadiri Silsila.
A)Both I and II are incorrect
B)Both I and II are correct
C)Only I is correct
D)Only II is correct
Answer: Only II is correct
- Q. Hyder Ali was the ruler of __________
A)Mysore
B)Hyderabad
C)Cochi
D)Bengal
Answer: Mysore
- Q. Who discovered America?
A)Columbus
B)Vascoda Gama
C)Captain Cook
D)Amundsen
Answer: Columbus
- Q. Baji Rao-II (1796-1818 A.D.) was the ruler of which dynasty?
A)Haryanka
B)Nanda
C)Maurya
D)Peshwas
Answer: Peshwas
- Q. The designation ‘amil’ during Akbar’s reign denoted a
A)Retail trader
B)Policeman
C)Postman
D)Revenue official
Answer: Revenue official
- Q. Which one of the following monuments in Delhi is not included as a World Heritage Site?
A)Humayun's Tomb
B)Red Fort
C)Qutub Minar
D)Jantar Mantar
Answer: Jantar Mantar
- Q. Who was the first Indian ruler to apply the western methods to his administration?
A)Tipu Sultan
B)Haider Ali
C)Murshid Quli Khan
D)Malhar Rao Holkar
Answer: Tipu Sultan
- Q. The name of the periodical published by Gandhi during his stay in South Africa was
A)India Gazette
B)Navjivan
C)Afrikaner
D)Indian Opinion
Answer: Indian Opinion
- Q. Assertion (A): Firuz Shah Tughlaq did not leavy jizya tax. Reason (R): His influential minister Khan-i-Jahan Maqbul was a converted Hindu.
A)Both A and R are true but R is not a correct explanation of A
B)Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
C)A is true but R is false
D)A is false but R is true
Answer: A is false but R is true
- Q. What was the another name of ‘Pledge of Indian Independence’?
A)Declaration of Constitution
B)Declaration of Independence
C)Declaration of Constituent Assembly
D)None of the above
Answer: Declaration of Independence
- Q. At the time, when Nadir Shah attacked Delhi, the Mughal Emperor was
A)Muhammad Shah
B)Ahmad Shah
C)Bahadur Shah
D)Shah Alam
Answer: Muhammad Shah
- Q. As per government of India Act-1858, how many members were appointed to assist the Secretary of State for India?
A)15
B)10
C)13
D)14
Answer: 15
- Q. Sati was prohibited by
A)Lord Wellesley
B)Warren Hastings
C)Lord William Bentinck
D)Lord Dalhousie
Answer: Lord William Bentinck
- Q. Who attended the Congress of Oppressed Nationalities at Brussels in 1927, on behalf of the National Congress?
A)Mahatma Gandhi
B)Jawaharlal Nehru
C)Dr. Ansari
D)Motilal Nehru
Answer: Jawaharlal Nehru
- 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. 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. After Tilak’s deportation which of the following extremist leaders was not similarly deported to Mandalay prison in Burma?
A)Bipin Chandra Pal
B)Lala Lajpat Rai
C)Aswini Kumar Datta
D)CR Das
Answer: CR Das
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