Q. The remains of the Great Vijayanagar Empire can be found in

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Hampi

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    A)Lord William Bentinck
    B)Lord Wellesley
    C)Lord Macaulay
    D)Lord Dalhousie
    Answer: Lord Dalhousie
  • 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. Who was the last Mughal emperor to sit on the peacock throne?
    A)Muhammad Shah
    B)Jahandar Shah
    C)Shah Alam-I
    D)Bahadur Shah Zafar
    Answer: Muhammad Shah
  • Q. The main centre of Wahabi Movement during the freedom movement was
    A)Mysore
    B)Lucknow
    C)Patna
    D)Delhi
    Answer: Patna
  • Q. In 1906 to protest discrimination against Indians in S. Africa Mahatma Gandhi started
    A)Satyagraha at Cape Town
    B)Satyagraha at Durban
    C)Satyagraha at Port Elizabeth
    D)Satyagraha at Johannesburg
    Answer: Satyagraha at Johannesburg
  • Q. Mahabhasya was written by
    A)Manu
    B)Gargi
    C)Bana
    D)Patanjali
    Answer: Patanjali
  • Q. Rohelas were of __________ origin
    A)Afghan
    B)Turkish
    C)British
    D)Chinese
    Answer: Afghan
  • Q. To bring Hindu-Muslim unity, Akbar
    A)prohibited cow-killing
    B)encouraged cow-killing
    C)taxed cow-killing
    D)remained silent to cow-killing
    Answer: prohibited cow-killing
  • Q. Who were associated with Indian league established in 1875 in Calcutta (now Kolkata) ?
    A)Kali Mohan Das and Arvindo Ghosh
    B)Sisir Kumar Ghosh and Arvindo Ghosh
    C)Sisir Kumar Ghosh and Sambhu Charan Mukherjee
    D)None of these
    Answer: Sisir Kumar Ghosh and Sambhu Charan Mukherjee
  • Q. During whose reign did William Hawkins visit the Mughal court to secure a right. to trade in Mughal ports?
    A)Shah Jahan
    B)Aurangzeb
    C)Akbar
    D)Jahangir
    Answer: Jahangir
  • Q. Who among the following was the reformer and philosopher from Ramanandi Sampradaya in the lineage of Jagadguru Ramanandacharya renowned for his devotion to the Lord Shri Rama?
    A)Tukaram
    B)Ramananda
    C)Valmiki
    D)Tulsidas
    Answer: Tulsidas
  • Q. Consider the following statements related to the cause of 1857 revolt. I. It was a great disparity in salaries between the Indian and European soldiers. II. The Indian sepoys were treated with contempt by their European officers. III. The sepoys were sent to distant parts of the empire, but were not paid any extra allowance.
    A)Only II
    B)Only I
    C)Both I and II
    D)I, II and III
    Answer: I, II and III
  • Q. Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct related to the Non-cooperation Movement? I. It aimed to resist British rule in India through non violent means. Protestors would refuse to buy British goods, adopt the use of local handicrafts and picket liquor shops. II. The ideas of Ahimsa and nonviolence, and Gandhi’s ability to rally hundreds of thousands of common citizens towards the cause of Indian independence, were first seen on a large scale in this movement through the summer 1920, they feared that the movement might lead to popular violence
    A)Only II
    B)Only I
    C)Both I & II
    D)Neither I nor II
    Answer: Both I & II
  • Q. In the . . . . . . Provinces were allowed to form groups with common executives and legislatures
    A)Dikie Bird Plan
    B)Wavell Plan
    C)Cabinet Mission Plan
    D)Mountbatten Plan
    Answer: Cabinet Mission Plan
  • Q. The Bombay Association, the first political association in Bombay presidency was founded by __________ in 1852
    A)Pulinbehari Sarkar
    B)Dadabhai Naoroji
    C)Amaresh Chakravarty
    D)Prankrishna Parija
    Answer: Dadabhai Naoroji
  • Q. The Cabinet Mission Plan ruled out the possibility of the formation of
    A)Pakistan
    B)Union of India
    C)Constituent Assembly
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    Answer: Pakistan
  • Q. Which religious reformer of Western India was known as ‘Lokhitwadi’?
    A)R. G. Bhandarkar
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    C)Mahadev Govind Ranade
    D)B. G. Tilak
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  • Q. Who issued the Emancipation Proclamation?
    A)George Washington
    B)Abraham Lincoln
    C)John F. Kennedy
    D)William Wallace Lincoln
    Answer: Abraham Lincoln
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    A)Santiago Calatrava
    B)Frederick William Stevens
    C)Fazlur Rahman Khan
    D)Frei Otto
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  • Q. With which of the following was Annie Besant Associated?
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    B)Ramakrishna Mission
    C)ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness)
    D)Theosophical Society
    Answer: Theosophical Society

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