More Questions on History

  • Q. Henry Vivian Derozio started young Bengal movement with the inspiration of which revolutionary ideas?
    A)French revolution
    B)Industrial revolution
    C)American Revolution
    D)Marxian theory
    Answer: French revolution
  • Q. The policy of Doctrine of lapse was introduced by __________
    A)Lord William Bentinck
    B)Lord Wellesley
    C)Lord Macaulay
    D)Lord Dalhousie
    Answer: Lord Dalhousie
  • Q. The first muslim woman who ruled Northern India was
    A)Nurjahan
    B)Razia Sultana
    C)Mumtaz
    D)None of the above
    Answer: Razia Sultana
  • Q. Mahatma Gandhi had been joined the Champaran struggle by
    A)Rajendra Prasad and Anugraha Narayan Sinha
    B)Vallabhbhai Patel and Vinoba Bhave
    C)Mahadev Desai and Maniben Patel
    D)Rajendra Prasad and Jawaharlal Nehru
    Answer: Rajendra Prasad and Anugraha Narayan Sinha
  • Q. In which of the following movement did Mahatma Gandhi make the first use of Hunger Strike as a weapon?
    A)Rowlatt Satyagraha, 1919
    B)Non-Cooperation Movement, 1920-22
    C)Ahmedabad Strike, 1918
    D)Bardoli Satyagraha
    Answer: Ahmedabad Strike, 1918
  • Q. The State, from among the following, which was not annexed by the ‘doctrine of lapse’ is
    A)Gwalior
    B)Baghat
    C)Sambalpur
    D)Satara
    Answer: Gwalior
  • Q. Punjab was annexed to the British empire during the reign of Governor General
    A)Lord Dalhousie
    B)Lord Bentinck
    C)Lord Cornwallis
    D)Lord Canning
    Answer: Lord Dalhousie
  • Q. Who had, while fasting in the prison, written to the British governor, The individual must die so that the nation may live. Today, I must die so that India may win freedom and glory?
    A)Lala Lajpat Rai
    B)Jatin Das
    C)MK Gandhi
    D)SC Bose
    Answer: Jatin Das
  • Q. Who said about Mahatma Gandhi that he is a “half naked Fakir”?
    A)Lord Mountbatten
    B)Winston Churchill
    C)Lord Wavell
    D)Lord Lirrlithgow
    Answer: Winston Churchill
  • Q. The British colonial policies in India proved most ruinous for Indian
    A)trade
    B)agriculture
    C)industry
    D)handicrafts
    Answer: handicrafts
  • Q. Which event brought about a profound change in Ashoka’s administrative policy?
    A)The Kalinga War
    B)The third Buddhist Council
    C)His embracing of Buddhism
    D)His sending missionary to Ceylon
    Answer: The Kalinga War
  • Q. Kabir was a disciple of
    A)Ramanujana
    B)Ramananda
    C)Shakracharya
    D)None of the above
    Answer: Ramananda
  • Q. Who shot dead John Saunders on 17th December 1928?
    A)Mangal Pandey
    B)Bhagat Singh
    C)Sukhdev
    D)Bipin Chandra Pal
    Answer: Bhagat Singh
  • Q. All India State’s Peoples Conference formed in 1927 launched popular movements in
    A)British Provinces
    B)Princely States
    C)Hill Regions
    D)Tribal Areas
    Answer: Princely States
  • Q. Which of the following Kushan kings, who assumed the title “the Lord of the Whole World”?
    A)Kadphises II
    B)Kadphises I
    C)Kanishka
    D)Huvishka
    Answer: Kadphises II
  • Q. Which Indian ruler fought the Kalinga War?
    A)Chandragupta
    B)Samudragupta
    C)Shivaji
    D)Ashoka
    Answer: Ashoka
  • Q. Which of the following is an intensely emotional form of Hinduism that flourished from the sixteenth century, mainly in Bengal and eastern Orissa?
    A)Krishna cult of Vallabhacharya
    B)Gaudiya Sampradaya
    C)Shiva cult of Vallabhacharya
    D)None of the above
    Answer: Gaudiya Sampradaya
  • 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. Mahatma Gandhi was profoundly influenced by the writings of
    A)Karl Marx
    B)Bernard Shaw
    C)Lenin
    D)Leo Tolstoy
    Answer: Leo Tolstoy
  • Q. Chhatrapati Sambhaji (1680-1688 AD) was the ruler of which dynasty?
    A)Nanda
    B)Maratha
    C)Haryanka
    D)Maurya
    Answer: Maratha

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