Q. The term Khalisa in Mughal administration signified the

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land owned by the emperor himself

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    B)Afghanistan
    C)Iraq
    D)Saudi Arabia
    Answer: Saudi Arabia
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    B)Chaitanya
    C)Tulsidas
    D)Surdas
    Answer: Chaitanya
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    B)Kamasutra
    C)Both A & B
    D)Neither A & B
    Answer: Kamasutra
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    A)Only II
    B)Only I
    C)Both I & II
    D)Neither I nor II
    Answer: Both I & II
  • Q. Who was the American leader who led a non-violent movement to obtain full civil rights for American Negroes?
    A)John F. Kennedy
    B)Abraham Lincoln
    C)Martin Luther King Junior
    D)George Washington
    Answer: Martin Luther King Junior
  • Q. Whom had Gandhi named as Mira Behn?
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    B)Annie Besant
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    D)Madeline Slade
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  • Q. Which of the following statement is wrong?
    A)Ashoka the great Mauryan king died in 332 BC
    B)Sunga dynasty was founded by pushyamitra
    C)Ashoka invaded the Kalinga in 261 BC
    D)Chandragupta Maurya earned the title of the Liberator
    Answer: Ashoka the great Mauryan king died in 332 BC
  • Q. Which country emerged as the biggest colonial power at the end of the nineteenth century?
    A)Spain
    B)France
    C)Britain
    D)Germany
    Answer: Britain
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    A)Rabindra Nath Tagore
    B)Raja Ram Mohan Roy
    C)Swami Dayanand Saraswati
    D)Swami Vivekanand
    Answer: Raja Ram Mohan Roy
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    B)Only I
    C)II and III
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  • Q. Who was the Delhi Sultan to impose Jiziya on Brahmans?
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    C)Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq
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    Answer: Firoz Tughlaq
  • Q. Who of the following attended all the Three Round Table Conferences?
    A)M. M. Malavia
    B)B. R. Ambedkar
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  • Q. One of the following was not involved in the Chittagong Armoury Raid, 1934. Who was he?
    A)Surya Sen
    B)Kalpana Dutt
    C)Pritialata Woddekar
    D)Dinesh Gupta
    Answer: Dinesh Gupta
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    A)Patliputra
    B)Delhi
    C)Calcutta
    D)Taxila
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  • Q. Chinese travellers visited India primarily because-
    A)They were invited by ten Indian kings
    B)They were interested in Buddhism
    C)They were interested to study Indian culture
    D)They were interested to stay in India
    Answer: They were interested in Buddhism
  • Q. Alexander sent back home a portion of his army under an admiral called __________
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    B)Ptolemy
    C)Menander
    D)Porus
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    B)Jahangir
    C)Jahangir Alamgir
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    C)Africa
    D)America
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    B)Only I
    C)II and III
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