More Questions on History

  • Q. The sepoy mutiny of 1857 occurred during the Governor Generalship to
    A)Charles wood dispatch on education, influenced it towards female education
    B)Break priestly monopoly of scriptural knowledge(Sanskrit) and opening to non- Brahmins
    C)Lady Hardinge medical college at Delhi
    D)Both A and B
    Answer: Both A and B
  • Q. Who was the last Mughal emperor?
    A)Noor Jehan
    B)Babur
    C)Akbar
    D)Bahadur Shah
    Answer: Bahadur Shah
  • Q. Who among the following organised the “All India Depressed Classes Association” in colonial India?
    A)Jyotiba Phule
    B)M. K. Gandhi
    C)Pandita Ramabai
    D)B. R. Ambedkar
    Answer: B. R. Ambedkar
  • Q. In which language were the Buddhist-texts ‘Pitakas’ composed?
    A)Ardhamagadhi
    B)Sanskrit
    C)Pali
    D)Prakrit
    Answer: Pali
  • Q. Lord Lytton had lowered the age limit for Indian for the ICS from 21 year to
    A)19 years
    B)20 years
    C)18 years
    D)17 years
    Answer: 19 years
  • Q. The Sufi saint who maintained that devotional music was one way of moving closer to God was
    A)Baba Farid
    B)Muin-ud-din-Chisti
    C)Saiyid Mummed
    D)Shah Alam Bukhari
    Answer: Baba Farid
  • Q. What had the Sir Charles Wood Despatch of 1854 primarily dealt with?
    A)Administrative reforms
    B)Social reforms
    C)Educational reforms
    D)Political consolidation
    Answer: Educational reforms
  • Q. Akbar granted the present site of Amritsar to the Sikh Guru
    A)Angad
    B)Amar Das
    C)Ram Das
    D)Arjan
    Answer: Amar Das
  • Q. We do not seek our independence out of Britain’s ruin’ said
    A)Mahatma Gandhi
    B)Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
    C)Gokhale
    D)Rabindranath Tagore
    Answer: Mahatma Gandhi
  • Q. In the world history, who is also known as “Little Corporal”
    A)Adolf Hitler
    B)Bismark
    C)Lord Curzon
    D)Napoleon Bonaparte
    Answer: Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Q. The roots of the 1857 revolt lay in
    A)Exploitative land revenue policy
    B)Blatantly discriminatory policies
    C)The policy of greased cartridges
    D)All of the above
    Answer: All of the above
  • Q. The Sayyid dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate is called so because__________?
    A)Its founder and his successors belonged to the Sayyid tribe of eastern Turkistan
    B)Its founder and his successors adopted the title Sayyid
    C)Its founder and his successors were descendant of the prophet Muhammad
    D)Its founder was a scholar of Islamic theology
    Answer: Its founder and his successors were descendant of the prophet Muhammad
  • Q. In 1928 Gurudevan took part in the special meeting of the Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana Yogam at __________
    A)Trivandrum
    B)Kollam
    C)Kottayam
    D)Aluva
    Answer: Kottayam
  • Q. Who was the Viceroy at the time of Quit India Movement?
    A)Lord Wavell
    B)Lord Mountbatten
    C)Lord Linlithgow
    D)Lord Irwin
    Answer: Lord Linlithgow
  • Q. The Ryotwari System of Land Tenure to a situation where
    A)The Ryot is an occupancy tenant of his/her land and pays the land revenue to the Zamindar
    B)The Ryot is the owner of the land held by him/ her and directly pays the revenue assessed on the land to the State
    C)The person cultivates the land leased from a landlord and inreturn pays rent to the landlord
    D)The land is collectively owned and cultivated on a cooperative basis
    Answer: The Ryot is the owner of the land held by him/ her and directly pays the revenue assessed on the land to the State
  • Q. Assertion (A): The announcement of the Simon Commission aroused widespread Indian resentment. Reason (R): The British Government in defiance of the opinion of all parties in India had deliberately decided to appoint an all British Commission
    A)Both A and R is true but R is not a correct explanation of A
    B)Both A and R is 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: Both A and R is true and R is the correct explanation of A
  • Q. Who is called as “beacon of light of Asia”
    A)Mahatma Gandhi
    B)Gautam Buddha
    C)Subhash Chandra Bose
    D)Abdul Gaffer khan
    Answer: Subhash Chandra Bose
  • Q. Who is known as the founder of the Durrani Empire
    A)Zaman Shah Durrani
    B)Timur Shah Durrani
    C)Mahmud Shah Durrani
    D)Ahmad Shah Durrani
    Answer: Ahmad Shah Durrani
  • Q. The word ‘Veda’ has been derived from the root word ‘Vid’ which means
    A)Sacredness
    B)Divinity
    C)Doctrine
    D)Knowledge
    Answer: Knowledge
  • Q. The Home Rule League was formed during the
    A)Partition of Bengal
    B)First World War
    C)Struggle following the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
    D)Implementation of Minto-Morley Reforms
    Answer: First World War

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