More Questions on History

  • 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. British Crown assumed sovereignty over Indian from the East Indian Company in the year
    A)1858
    B)1857
    C)1859
    D)1860
    Answer: 1858
  • Q. The privileges of free trade granted to the English East India Company were confirmed in 1717 by Emperor
    A)Farrukh-Siyar
    B)Bahadur Shah
    C)Muhammad Shah
    D)Aurangzeb
    Answer: Farrukh-Siyar
  • Q. Which of the following temples was not constructed by Chandela dynasty?
    A)Chaturbhuja
    B)Kandariya Mahadev
    C)Lakshman
    D)Somnath
    Answer: Somnath
  • Q. Who has completed the annexation of Ahmednagar?
    A)Shahjahan
    B)Jahangir
    C)Akbar
    D)Aurangzeb
    Answer: Shahjahan
  • Q. PIassey is located near
    A)Rajashahi in Bangladesh
    B)Murshidabad in West Bengal
    C)Calcutta
    D)Monghyr in Bihar
    Answer: Murshidabad in West Bengal
  • Q. As per Indian Independence Act, the suzerainty of His Majesty over the Indian State would come to an end on __________
    A)14 August 1947
    B)15 August 1947
    C)15 August 1950
    D)26 January 1950
    Answer: 14 August 1947
  • Q. Which one of the following was the first English ship that came to India?
    A)Bengal
    B)Elizabeth
    C)Red Dragon
    D)Mayflower
    Answer: Red Dragon
  • Q. Assuming the title of Alamgir, Aurangzeb crowned himself as Emperor on July 21, 1658 at
    A)Aurangabad
    B)Agra
    C)Fatehpur Sikri
    D)Delhi
    Answer: Delhi
  • Q. Who among the following Bhakti Saint emphasised the essential oneness of all religion by describing Hindus and Muslims ‘as pots of the same clay’?
    A)Tulsidas
    B)Kabir
    C)Ramananda
    D)Raidasa
    Answer: Kabir
  • Q. Who amidst the following was a wife of emperor Ashoka who influenced him?
    A)Charulata
    B)Chandalika
    C)Gautami
    D)Karuwaki
    Answer: Karuwaki
  • Q. The famine which killed nearly 8 lakh people during British rule as per the report furnished by the Femine Commissioon of 1660 had struck :
    A)Northern India
    B)Eastern India
    C)Southern India
    D)Western India
    Answer: Western India
  • Q. Who is known as the “slave of a slave”?
    A)Mahmud of Ghazni
    B)Muhammad bin Oasim
    C)Iltutmish
    D)Outbuddin Aibak
    Answer: Iltutmish
  • Q. Akbar saw the sea for the first time in his life at
    A)Surat
    B)Calcutta
    C)Cambay
    D)Madras
    Answer: Cambay
  • Q. The Khilafat Movement of the Indian Muslims related to
    A)restoration of territories to Turkey captured by Britain in the First World War
    B)provision of separate electorate for the Muslims in the Act of 1919
    C)restoration of the Sultan of Turkey who was Caliph of the Muslim World
    D)lifting of martial law in Punjab
    Answer: restoration of the Sultan of Turkey who was Caliph of the Muslim World
  • Q. The decisive battle of the third Carnatic War was waged between the French and the British at
    A)Jhansi
    B)Arcot
    C)Plassey
    D)Wandiwash
    Answer: Wandiwash
  • Q. Who was appointed by Akbar as his Court Musician?
    A)Miyan Tansen
    B)Abul Fazal
    C)Raja Birbal
    D)Raja Todar Mal
    Answer: Miyan Tansen
  • Q. Which of the following Sultans of Tughlaq dynasty issued copper coins instead of silver ones?
    A)Muhammad Bin Tughlaq
    B)Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq
    C)Firoz Shah Tughlaq
    D)Mahmud Tughlaq
    Answer: Muhammad Bin Tughlaq
  • Q. Who was the first Sultan of Delhi to issue regular currency and to declare Delhi as the capital of his empire?
    A)Aram Shah
    B)Balban
    C)Nasiruddin Mahmud
    D)Iltutmish
    Answer: Iltutmish
  • Q. Which of the following Gupta kings stopped the Huns from invading India?
    A)Samudragupta
    B)Kumaragupta
    C)Skandgupta
    D)Chandragupta
    Answer: Skandgupta

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