More Questions on History
- Q. At which of the following Harappan sites has a supposed dockyard been found?
A)Lothal
B)Kalibangan
C)Suktagendor
D)Sotka Koli
Answer: Lothal
- Q. Kalinga’s ruler Kharavela gave his protection to
A)Shaivism
B)Hinduism
C)Buddhism
D)Jainism
Answer: Jainism
- Q. The town planning in the Harappan Civilisation was inspired by a regard for
A)uniformity
B)beauty and utility
C)sanitation and public health
D)demographic factor
Answer: sanitation and public health
- Q. Which of the following is correctly matched?
A)Regulating Act: 1773
B)Third Battle of Panipat: 1764
C)Pitt's India Act: 1761
D)Treaty of Allahabad: 1784
Answer: Regulating Act: 1773
- Q. When did the USS ‘Panay’ incident happen?
A)1936
B)1935
C)1937
D)1939
Answer: 1937
- Q. The Act constituting the first legislative interference by the British Parliament in the affairs of India was the
A)Pitt's India Act, 1784
B)Fox's India Act, 1783
C)Regulating Act, 1773
D)Declaratory Act, 1781
Answer: Regulating Act, 1773
- Q. The Declaration of American Independence was based on the theory of
A)Moral Rights
B)Civil Rights
C)Legal Rights
D)Natural Rights
Answer: Natural Rights
- Q. Who said, The Congress is tottering to its fall and one of my greatest ambitions while in India is to assist it to a peaceful demise?
A)Lord Curzon
B)Lord Dufferin
C)Lord Lansdowne
D)Lord Elgin
Answer: Lord Curzon
- Q. The Law of Twelve Tables was concerned with which civilization
A)Greece
B)Egypt
C)Rome
D)China
Answer: Rome
- Q. The Hindu Pioneer started in __________
A)1831
B)1827
C)1834
D)1838
Answer: 1838
- Q. Which of the following are the basis tenants of Bhakti Movement?
A)Ideas were the Bhakti movement—devotion to God with the help of a priest. Bhakti to God was accepted as damnation
B)Ideas was the Bhakti movement—devotion to God. Bhakti to God was accepted as salvation
C)Spiritual sessions in meeting places known as zawiyas, khanqahs, or tekke
D)Described as the interiorization, and intensification of human faith and practice
Answer: Ideas was the Bhakti movement—devotion to God. Bhakti to God was accepted as salvation
- Q. Consider the following on the chronology of appointment of Viceroys I. Reading II. Irwin III. Wellingdon IV. Linlithgow
A)III, II, IV, II
B)I, II, III , IV
C)IV, III, II, I
D)II, IV, III, I
Answer: I, II, III , IV
- Q. Theosophical society was started by whom and where, initially?
A)Blavatsky and Olcott in united states
B)A.O Hume in India
C)M.G Ranade in India
D)Mahatma Gandhi in South Africa
Answer: Blavatsky and Olcott in united states
- Q. Harsha was defeated by
A)King of Valabhi
B)Sasanka
C)Bhaskarvarman
D)Pulakeshin II
Answer: Pulakeshin II
- Q. The term Khalisa in Mughal administration signified the
A)land owned by the emperor himself
B)entire Imperial establishment
C)religious land grants
D)land from where revenue was collected for the Imperial Treasury
Answer: land owned by the emperor himself
- Q. During Mughal rule, excellent cotton goods were woven in which one of the following centres?
A)Surat
B)Agra
C)Delhi
D)Calcutta
Answer: Agra
- Q. Who among the following built the largest number of irrigation canals in the Sultanate period?
A)Ghiyasuddin Balban
B)Nasiruddin Mahmud
C)Ibrahim Lodi
D)Firuz Shah Tughlaq
Answer: Firuz Shah Tughlaq
- Q. Which of the following statement is/are correct? I. Panini’s Ashtadhyayi, book on grammar in eight chapters is the final culmination of this excellent art of writing in sutra (precepts) in which every chapter is precisely interwoven. II. The Brahmanas elaborates vedic caste system of the society
A)Only II
B)Only I
C)Both I & II
D)None of the above
Answer: Both I & II
- Q. Who proclaimed: It is years since I left castes and religions. Yet some people think that I belong to their caste. That is not correct. I do not belong to any particular caste or religion
A)T. K. Madhavan
B)Mahatma Gandhi
C)Rajaram Mohan Roy
D)Sree Narayana Guru
Answer: Sree Narayana Guru
- Q. Raja Rammohan Roy’s contribution to education are: I. Assisted David Hare in setting Hindu college II. English school at Calcutta was maintained at his own cost III. Established Vedanta College which taught only western social and physical sciences
A)Both II and III
B)Only III
C)Only I and II
D)All the above
Answer: Only I and II
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