More Questions on History
- Q. In May 1933, Mahatma Gandhi began a fast of 21 days
A)to launch a campaign against untouchability
B)to appeal to the Hindus to throw open the temples and public wells to the Harijans
C)for his own purification and that of his associates for greater commitment to the cause of the Harijans
D)For all the above
Answer: for his own purification and that of his associates for greater commitment to the cause of the Harijans
- Q. Which of the following institutions was not founded by Gandhi?
A)Ramakrishna Mission
B)Sevagram Ashram
C)Phoenix Ashram
D)Sabarmati Ashram
Answer: Ramakrishna Mission
- Q. The INA was largely composed of
A)Overseas Indians
B)Indian Revolutionaries
C)Indian Prisoners of war under the Japanese
D)Deserters from the British Indian Army
Answer: Indian Prisoners of war under the Japanese
- Q. Who was the Mughal emperor at the time of Ahmad Shah Abdali’s invasion of India?
A)Bahadur Shah-II
B)Bahadur Shah-I
C)Shah Alam-I
D)Shah Alam-II
Answer: Shah Alam-I
- 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. In 1916-18 the Home Rule League movement was launched under the leadership of :
A)G. S. Khaparde and Sir S. Subramania Iyer
B)Mohammad Ali Jinnah and G. S. Khaparde
C)Annie Besant and Bal Gangadhar Tilak
D)Sir S. Subramania Iyer and Mohammad Ali Jinnah
Answer: Annie Besant and Bal Gangadhar Tilak
- Q. Who of the following was a contemporary of Alexander the Great?
A)Chandragupta Maurya
B)Bimbisara
C)Ashoka
D)Pushyamitra Sunga
Answer: Chandragupta Maurya
- Q. When did the second Russian revolution start
A)February, 1917
B)August, 1905
C)October, 1917
D)March, 1921
Answer: October, 1917
- Q. According to Gandhi, ahimsa could not be construed to mean
A)a positive state of law
B)truth
C)tolerance of the wrong and unjust
D)doing good even to the evildoers
Answer: tolerance of the wrong and unjust
- Q. Under the Government of India, Provincial Legislatures consisted of two chambers, except in the case of
A)Bihar
B)Assam
C)Madras
D)Punjab
Answer: Punjab
- Q. The word Jina from which the Jain(ism) has originated stands for
A)detached
B)great
C)non-violence
D)conqueror (of senses)
Answer: conqueror (of senses)
- Q. Alexander was trained by
A)Aristotle
B)Socrates
C)Plato
D)Homer
Answer: Aristotle
- Q. The Upanishads were translated into Persian by
A)Dara Shikoh
B)Akbar
C)Shah Jahan
D)Jahangir
Answer: Dara Shikoh
- Q. Who was the founder of Kushan Empire?
A)Virna Kadphises
B)Kanishka
C)Kujula Kadphises
D)Vasiskha
Answer: Kujula Kadphises
- Q. Which is representative of Dravida style of temple architecture?
A)Shikhara
B)Viman
C)Mandapa
D)Gopuram
Answer: Viman
- Q. Name of the Bengali poet who was conferred with the title of Gunraj Khan in the Sultanate period?
A)Rahim
B)Maladhar Basu
C)Chaitanya
D)Jaydeva
Answer: Maladhar Basu
- Q. In order to secure co-operation of Indians the British government in the midst of worsening wartime international situation sent Cripps Mission to India:
A)In 1942
B)In 1940
C)In 1945
D)In 1946
Answer: In 1942
- Q. The well-known painting showing the arrival at the Mughal Court of the great singer Tansen exhibits
A)Gandhara Style
B)The Persian Style
C)Hindu Style
D)The fusion of the Mughal and Hindu Styles
Answer: The fusion of the Mughal and Hindu Styles
- Q. Which of the following statements is not correct? The materials for the Government of India Act of 1935 were drawn from
A)The Nehru Committee Report
B)The Simon Commission Report
C)The White Paper issued by the British Government
D)Morley-Minto Reforms
Answer: Morley-Minto Reforms
- Q. Assertion (A): In the beginning, only high caste Kshatriya communities adopted Jainism. Reason (R): Vardhaman Mahavira belonged to a well-known Kshatriya community
A)Both A and R is true but R is not a correct explanation of A
B)Both A and R is 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: Both A and R is true but R is not a correct explanation of A
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