More Questions on History

  • Q. Who had strongly advocated the policy of abolishing princely states in free India?
    A)Jawaharlal Nehru
    B)Mahatma Gandhi
    C)C Rajagopalachari
    D)Vallabhbhai Patel
    Answer: C Rajagopalachari
  • Q. The English who twice served as President of the Indian National Congress was
    A)Sir William Wedderburn
    B)George Yule
    C)AO Hume
    D)Mrs Annie Besant
    Answer: Sir William Wedderburn
  • Q. The official language of the Mauryan Court was
    A)Prakrit
    B)Magadhi
    C)Mythili
    D)Sanskrit
    Answer: Magadhi
  • Q. In which of the following sects was Bindusara interested?
    A)Jainism
    B)Buddhism
    C)Ajivakas
    D)Lokayata
    Answer: Ajivakas
  • Q. Which of the following was not one of the actual cause for the decline of the Mauryan empire?
    A)Division of the empire after Ashoka
    B)Ashoka's pacifist policies
    C)Foreign aggressions particularly Greek
    D)Economic and financial crisis
    Answer: Ashoka's pacifist policies
  • Q. __________ , the viceroy of India decided to partition Bengal for administrative purposes, creating a new province of East Bengal and Assam, with a population of 31 million people and with its capital at Dhaka
    A)Lord Rippon
    B)Lord Curzon
    C)Lord Hastings
    D)Wellesley
    Answer: Lord Curzon
  • Q. The first Satyagraha of Gandhiji for the cause of indigo farmers was observed at
    A)ChauriChaura
    B)Champaran
    C)Bardoli
    D)Sabarmati
    Answer: Champaran
  • Q. The young Nanu had a keen mind and was sent to a famous scholar, __________ Asan at Karunagapally, a village fifty miles away from his home, at the age of 21
    A)Kummampilli Raman Pillai
    B)Madan Asan
    C)Krishnan Vaidyan
    D)Kumaran Asan
    Answer: Kummampilli Raman Pillai
  • 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. Provision was made in the Act of 1773, for the office of a Governor-General of
    A)Fort William
    B)India
    C)Madras
    D)Bombay
    Answer: Fort William
  • Q. What is meant by Mughalai?
    A)Very rich food
    B)Infantry of the Mughals
    C)Royal household
    D)Mughal territories from which Chauth was claimed
    Answer: Mughal territories from which Chauth was claimed
  • Q. Sri Ramanuja Acharya was an Indian philosopher and is recognized as the most important saint of
    A)Sri Vaishavism
    B)Sri Vaishnavism
    C)Nirguna
    D)Sikkhism
    Answer: Sri Vaishnavism
  • Q. The most decisive battle between the forces of Dara and Aurangzeb (in the war of Succession) was fought at
    A)Samugarh
    B)Dharmat
    C)Deorai
    D)Khajwa
    Answer: Samugarh
  • Q. In the 18th Century the Royal prerogative in the affairs of the East India Company was controlled by
    A)The Indian Legislature
    B)The Viceroy's Council
    C)The Parliament in England
    D)The Secretary of State
    Answer: The Parliament in England
  • Q. Where did Gandhi call the Congress Working Committee to announce the suspension of Non-Cooperation movement?
    A)Poona
    B)Bardoli
    C)Calcutta
    D)Madras
    Answer: Bardoli
  • Q. Who among the following Mughal Emperors was half Rajput?
    A)Akbar Jahan & Jahangir
    B)Shah Jahan & Aurangzeb
    C)Shah Jahan & Jahangir
    D)Jahangir & Humayun
    Answer: Akbar Jahan & Jahangir
  • Q. Madam Bhikaji Cama unfolded the National Flag of India in 1907 at
    A)International Socialist Congress Stuttgart
    B)India House, London
    C)Vande Mataram Office at San Francisco
    D)Indian Workers Meet Vancouver
    Answer: International Socialist Congress Stuttgart
  • Q. Sundar Vilas is the work of a famous Bhakti Saint
    A)Guru Nanak
    B)Ramananda
    C)Dadu
    D)Tukaram
    Answer: Dadu
  • Q. Assertion (A): The nobility under Muhammad bin Tughlaq was a highly homogeneous one. Reason (R): Royal intervention in the iqta system was as its peak under Muhammad Tughlaq.
    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. I. Hawkins was the first Englishman to visit Jahangir’s court II. Hawkins was called by the name of English Khan, by Jahangir Which of the above statement (s) is/are correct related to Hawkins?
    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: Both I and II are correct

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