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  • Q. The Muslim League passed a resolution demanding the partition of India in the __________ session held in 1940
    A)Allahabad
    B)Lahore
    C)Karachi
    D)Dacca
    Answer: Lahore
  • Q. Which of the following event was the reason for the withdrawn of non cooperation movement?
    A)Jallianwala massacre
    B)Chauri Chaura incident
    C)Gandhi Imprisionment
    D)None
    Answer: Chauri Chaura incident
  • Q. Swami Dayananda had translated the __________ into Hindi.
    A)Four Vedas
    B)Rig Veda and Yajur Veda
    C)Sama Veda and Atharva Veda
    D)Sama Veda and Yajur Veda
    Answer: Rig Veda and Yajur Veda
  • Q. Who were ‘Jagirdars’ during the reign of Akbar?
    A)Officials of state who were given jagir in place of cash pay
    B)Large estate owners
    C)Revenue collectors
    D)Autonomous rulers under Akbar
    Answer: Large estate owners
  • Q. Which of the following was not a common social reform attempted by all the Hindu social reformers of the 19th century
    A)monogamy
    B)emancipation of women
    C)female education
    D)untouchability
    Answer: untouchability
  • Q. When was Government of India Act passed?
    A)1819
    B)1818
    C)1858
    D)1800
    Answer: 1858
  • Q. What is meant by “The Forty”?
    A)The pick of the intellectuals among the Khaljis
    B)The cream of Afghan nobles
    C)The select body of the Turkish aristocracy
    D)The Ulema or the Muslim divines
    Answer: The select body of the Turkish aristocracy
  • Q. Which statement (s) is/are correct about Aryankas? I. It is a treatise of forest which explain the rituals while dwelling into the philosophical discussions of the Brahmanas. II. They record the transitions between ritualistic symbolism of Brahmanas and philosophical aspects of Upanishads
    A)Only II
    B)Only I
    C)Both I & II
    D)Neither I nor II
    Answer: Both I & II
  • Q. The Constitution drawn by the Constituent Assembly (provided in the Cabinet Mission Plan) would be implemented by
    A)The British Government
    B)Parliament
    C)Viceroy
    D)Indian National Congress
    Answer: The British Government
  • Q. Babur’s autobiography, called Tuzuk-i-Baburi or Baburnama, which is reckoned among “the most enthralling and romantic works in the literature of all times” is written in
    A)Persian
    B)Arabic
    C)Turki
    D)Urdu
    Answer: Turki
  • Q. Who was called Lichchavi Dauhitra?
    A)Skandagupta
    B)Chandragupta-I
    C)Kumaragupta
    D)Samudragupta
    Answer: Samudragupta
  • Q. Which of the following statement (s) is/ are correct related to the Atharva Veda? I. The Atharva Veda basically consists of charms and spells that were prevalent at that time in the society. II. The Atharva Veda presents a portrait of the Vedic society. One can find an independent and parallel stream of knowledge and thought in the Atharva Veda
    A)Only II
    B)Only I
    C)Both I & II
    D)Neither I nor II
    Answer: Both I & II
  • Q. Sher Shah defeated Humayan and captured Gaur in the battle of
    A)Chausa in 1539 A.D.
    B)Ghaghra is 1529 A.D.
    C)Panipat in 1526 A.D.
    D)Khanwa in 1527 A.D.
    Answer: Chausa in 1539 A.D.
  • Q. Who is the first crowned Czar (Tsar) of Russia
    A)Ivan IV (the Terrible)
    B)Peter I
    C)Nicholas I
    D)John Adams
    Answer: Ivan IV (the Terrible)
  • Q. Who is known as ‘The Father of English History’
    A)Alfred the Great
    B)Jerome
    C)John Chrysostom
    D)Bede
    Answer: Bede
  • Q. Who is called as the ‘Prophet of New India’?
    A)Sri Ramkrishna
    B)Dayanand Saraswati
    C)Raja Ram Mohan Roy
    D)Swami Vivekananda
    Answer: Sri Ramkrishna
  • Q. Which among the following is correctly matched?
    A)Swadeshi Movement - Rabindra Nath Tagore
    B)Non-Cooperation Movement - Surendra Nath Banerjee
    C)Indian National Army - Subhash Chandra Bose
    D)Swaraj Party - Mahatma Gandhi
    Answer: Indian National Army - Subhash Chandra Bose
  • Q. What was the valid reason of the decline in trade and commerce during the period of later Mughals?
    A)Closure of old routes of trade
    B)Deterioration in law and order situation
    C)Abuse of trade licence by European companies
    D)Poverty of the Mughal nobility
    Answer: Deterioration in law and order situation
  • 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. The first strategically placed factory that the Britishers had fortified was at
    A)Bombay
    B)Surat
    C)Masulipatnam
    D)Madras
    Answer: Madras

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