More Questions on History
- Q. Who founded the city of Singapore?
A)Herman Willem Daendels
B)Francis Light
C)Lee Kuan Yew
D)Stamford Raffles
Answer: Stamford Raffles
- Q. The doctrine of lapse had been put to much use by
A)Lord Bentick
B)Lord Dalhousie
C)Lord Curzon
D)Lord Ripon
Answer: Lord Dalhousie
- Q. Who among the following renowned Scholar wrote the biography of King Harsha and Kadambari?
A)Bhartrihari
B)Bharavi
C)Bana
D)Magha
Answer: Bana
- Q. Which one of the four varnas mentioned in the Purushasukta of the mandala X of the Rig Veda is referred in the other parts of Rig Veda in the sense of a Varna?
A)Kshatriyas
B)Brahmanas
C)Vaishyas
D)Shudras
Answer: Shudras
- Q. Under the Mughals the jizya was collected from
A)Muhammadans
B)Persians
C)Hindus
D)Foreign visitors
Answer: Hindus
- Q. Who was the last Byzantine Emperor during the fall of Constantinople in 1453
A)John V
B)Manuel II
C)John VIII
D)Constantine XI
Answer: Constantine XI
- Q. An interim cabinet headed by Jawaharlal Nehru was formed by the congress in :
A)August 1943
B)August 1940
C)September 1946
D)September 1942
Answer: September 1946
- Q. The official court language of the Guptas was
A)Prakrit
B)Pali
C)Hindi
D)Sanskrit
Answer: Sanskrit
- Q. The world’s first drainage system was built by the people of
A)Indus Valley civilization
B)Egyptian civilization
C)Chinese civilization
D)Mesopotamian civilization
Answer: Indus Valley civilization
- Q. Which of the following was not of the achievements of the Exteremist Group in the Congress?
A)The Calcutta Corporation Act and the Indian Universities Act were taken off the statute book
B)The partition of Bengal was annulled in 1911
C)Nationalism took root among the progressive sections of society
D)The Extremists taught people self-confidence and selfreliance and prepared the social base of the nationalist movement
Answer: The Calcutta Corporation Act and the Indian Universities Act were taken off the statute book
- Q. Which of the following statements is/are not correct regarding the age of Vedic Civilisation? I. Bal Gangadhar Tilak, on astronomical grounds, dated Rig Veda to 6000 B.C. to Harmon Jacobi, Vedic civilization flourished between 4500 B.C. and 2500 B.C. and the Samhitas were composed in the latter half of the period. II. Famous Sanskritist, Winternitz felt that the Rig Veda was probably composed in the third millennium B.C.
A)Only II
B)Only I
C)Both I and II
D)Neither I nor II
Answer: Neither I nor II
- Q. Who was the first to call the revolt of 1857 as an organized war for national Independence?
A)Dr. S Gopal
B)Ashok Mehta
C)Syed Hasan Imam
D)V. D. Savarkar
Answer: V. D. Savarkar
- Q. Rohelas were of __________ origin
A)Afghan
B)Turkish
C)British
D)Chinese
Answer: Afghan
- Q. Which was the only Indus site with an artificial brick dockyard?
A)Kalibangan
B)Lothal
C)Harappa
D)Mohenjo Daro
Answer: Lothal
- Q. Who instituted Scientific Society in 1863 to create a scientific temperament among the Muslims and to make the Western knowledge available to Indians in their own language?
A)Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
B)Mohammad Iqbal
C)Karim Ali
D)Inayat Ali
Answer: Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
- Q. Warren Hastings was appointed as the Governor of __________ in 1772
A)Madras
B)Bengal
C)Bombay
D)Delhi
Answer: Bengal
- Q. Which painting is made from Fresco style?
A)Piklikhal
B)Bhimbetka
C)Ajanta
D)Ellora
Answer: Ajanta
- Q. The greatest historian of the reign of Akbar, who wrote Akbarnama and Ain-i-Akbari, was
A)Abdur Qadir Badauni
B)Nizamuddin Ahmad
C)Abul Fazl
D)Abdas Khan Arwani
Answer: Abul Fazl
- Q. Who called Subhash Chandra Bose as Desh Nayak ?
A)Rabindranath Tagore
B)Lala Lajpat Rai
C)Mahatma Gandhi
D)Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Answer: Rabindranath Tagore
- Q. Indian handicrafts rapidly declined due to
A)growing craze for imported goods
B)lack of patronage
C)stiff competition from the machine-made goods of England
D)All the above
Answer: All the above
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