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  • Q. Indian Mutiny began in __________
    A)1657
    B)1557
    C)1857
    D)1957
    Answer: 1857
  • Q. To which personality Mahatma Gandhi gave the title “Deen Bandhu”?
    A)CF Andrews
    B)Sri Aurobindo
    C)Vinoba Bhave
    D)CR Das
    Answer: CF Andrews
  • Q. Whose speeches at the World’s Parliament of Religions held in September 1893 made him famous as an ‘orator by divine right’ and as a ‘Messenger of Indian wisdom to the Western world’
    A)Sri Ramakrishna
    B)Swami Vivekananda
    C)Chandra Sekhar Deb
    D)Shyama Charan Sen
    Answer: Swami Vivekananda
  • Q. The Mughal leader Babur originally invaded northern India
    A)Because he was unable to achieve his ambitious goals in central Asia
    B)To creates a Shiite Muslim state
    C)To control the trade routes into Southeast Asia
    D)To defeat his longstanding enemy, the sultan of Delhi
    Answer: Because he was unable to achieve his ambitious goals in central Asia
  • Q. The great exponent of Mahayana Buddhism was
    A)Vasubandhu
    B)Ashvaghosa
    C)Nagarjuna
    D)Nagasena
    Answer: Nagarjuna
  • Q. I. Nasir Jang II. Muzaffar Jang III. Anwaruddin IV. Chanda Sahib Which of the above ruler(s) is/are associated with the French during the course of the Carnatic wars?
    A)III & IV
    B)I & II
    C)II & III
    D)II & IV
    Answer: II & IV
  • Q. Which of the following statements about the Government of India Act of 1935 is not correct?
    A)The Viceroy was given special powers
    B)Diarchy was established in the provinces
    C)The federal executive was to consist of the Viceroy, councillors and the ministers
    D)The federal legislature was to be bicameral
    Answer: Diarchy was established in the provinces
  • Q. The Non-Cooperation movement had been launched by Gandhi in the year
    A)1919
    B)1916
    C)1920
    D)1923
    Answer: 1920
  • Q. Name the Commission that came to India in 1928 to reform India’s constitutional system
    A)Pitt's India Act
    B)Rowaltt Act
    C)Partition of Bengal
    D)Simon Commission
    Answer: Simon Commission
  • Q. Ram Prasad Bismil had been associated with the case?
    A)Kanpur conspiracy
    B)Alipore bomb
    C)Kokori bomb
    D)Meerut conspiracy
    Answer: Kokori bomb
  • Q. The words Satyameva Jayate in the State Emblem adopted by the Government of India have been taken from which Upanishad?
    A)Mundaka Upanishad
    B)Aitareya Upanishad
    C)Adhyatma Upanishad
    D)Prasna Upanishad
    Answer: Mundaka Upanishad
  • Q. When did the October Revolution occur?
    A)1918
    B)1917
    C)1920
    D)1923
    Answer: 1917
  • Q. Alexander was trained by
    A)Aristotle
    B)Socrates
    C)Plato
    D)Homer
    Answer: Aristotle
  • Q. Which of the following animals was not known to the people of Indus Valley Civilisation?
    A)Cow
    B)Horse
    C)Giraffe
    D)Elephant
    Answer: Giraffe
  • Q. The Akbar of Kashmir who reconstructed and rehabilitated all the temples and asked Jonaraja to continue further Kalhana’s Rajatarangini was
    A)Shah Mir Samsuddin
    B)Sikandar
    C)Zain-ul-Abidin
    D)Saifuddin
    Answer: Zain-ul-Abidin
  • Q. The Namdhari, or Kuka, movement had its origin in the __________ corner of the Sikh kingdom, away from the places of royal pomp and grandeur
    A)North-south
    B)North-west
    C)North-east
    D)South
    Answer: North-west
  • Q. Who said that the constant ‘drain of wealth’ from India was responsible for India’s economic miseries?
    A)BP Wadia
    B)BC Pal
    C)Dadabhai Naoroji
    D)GS Arundale
    Answer: Dadabhai Naoroji
  • Q. Gandhara Art is the combination of
    A)Indo Greek
    B)Indo Roman
    C)Indo Islamic
    D)Indo China
    Answer: Indo Greek
  • Q. Nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah of Bengal was defeated by the English in the battle of Plassey, mainly
    A)because of Clive's conspiracy with the Nawab's Commanderin- Chief Mir Jafar and rich bankers of Bengal
    B)because the English forces were much stronger than those of the Nawab
    C)because of Siraj-ud-Daulah's retirement from the battlefield
    D)because of the capture of a band of Frenchmen under the Nawab's service by the English
    Answer: because of Clive's conspiracy with the Nawab's Commanderin- Chief Mir Jafar and rich bankers of Bengal
  • Q. Siraj-ud-Daulah renamed which city as Alinagar?
    A)Agra
    B)Calcutta
    C)Ferozpur
    D)Fatehpur
    Answer: Calcutta

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