More Questions on History
- Q. Kabir was contemporary of
A)Sultan Sikandar Lodi
B)Guru Nanak
C)Both (A) and (B) above
D)Babur
Answer: Both (A) and (B) above
- Q. The first Indian to contest an election to the British House of Commons was
A)Womesh Chandra Banerjee
B)Dadabhai Naoroji
C)Surendranath Banerjee
D)Pheroze Shah Mehta
Answer: Womesh Chandra Banerjee
- Q. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was equated with
A)Cavour
B)Mazzini
C)Garibaldi
D)Bismarck
Answer: Bismarck
- Q. Who among of the following started Marathi fortnightly newspaper ‘Bahishkrit Bharat’?
A)Vir Savarkar
B)Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
C)Vinobha Bhave
D)Lokmanya Tilak
Answer: Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
- Q. Under the Mughals the Governor was popularly known as
A)Wazir
B)Subahdar
C)Vakil
D)Faujdar
Answer: Subahdar
- Q. Narayana Guru started a Sanskrit school in __________
A)Kottayam
B)Varkala
C)Mahi
D)Calicut
Answer: Varkala
- Q. The battle of Thermopylae was fought between
A)Athens and Rome
B)Sparta and Athens
C)Greece City States and Persia
D)Rome and Carthage
Answer: Greece City States and Persia
- Q. Regulating Act was in the year of__________
A)1673
B)1573
C)1773
D)1873
Answer: 1773
- Q. Visakhadatta sketches the event after the death of Samudragupta in his work
A)Devi Chand Guptam
B)Mudrarakasam
C)Mrichekakatika
D)Malavikagnimitra
Answer: Mudrarakasam
- Q. The family of the Rig Vedic Aryans was
A)Patriarchal
B)Patrilineal
C)Matriarchal
D)Matrilineal
Answer: Patriarchal
- Q. Which one of the following was the cause of disintegration of the Mughal Empire?
A)Attacks of Nadir Shah and Ahmad Shah Abdali
B)War of succession among sons of Aurangzeb
C)Revolts of various communities like Jats, Sikhs, Rajputs etc.
D)All of the above mentioned factors contributed to the downfall of the Mughal Empire.
Answer: All of the above mentioned factors contributed to the downfall of the Mughal Empire.
- Q. The Simla Conference called by Viceroy Lord Wavell (to discuss the so-called Wavell Plan) in June 1945 failed on account of
A)the demand of the Congress to include the members of all communities in their quota to the Executive Council
B)Jinnah's demand that the Muslim League alone would nominate Muslim members to the Executive Council
C)the demand of the Scheduled Castes to reserved seats in the Executive Council in Proportion to their population
D)All the above
Answer: All the above
- Q. Who built Jama Masjid?
A)Shah Jahan
B)Guru Ramdas
C)Rao Jodhaji
D)Mahatma Gandhi
Answer: Shah Jahan
- Q. What was the unique system developed by the Mughals?
A)Ryotwari settlement
B)Centralised autocracy
C)Mansabdari system
D)Local responsibilities for crime detection
Answer: Mansabdari system
- Q. The partition of Bengal had to be annulled in __________
A)1911
B)1907
C)1928
D)1929
Answer: 1911
- Q. Kalibangan is situated in
A)Sindh
B)Uttar Pradesh
C)Rajasthan
D)Gujarat
Answer: Rajasthan
- Q. In which century Bhakti movement began?
A)7th century
B)6th century
C)8th century
D)9th century
Answer: 7th century
- Q. The famous ‘Ratings Mutiny’ (Revolt of a section of Indian soldiers serving in the Royal Indian Navy) in Bombay in February 1946 was calmed down largely by the efforts of
A)C Rajagopalachari
B)Mahatma Gandhi
C)Jawahar Lal Nehru
D)Vallabhbhai Patel
Answer: Vallabhbhai Patel
- Q. According to the Regulating Act, Directors were to be elected for a period of
A)4 years
B)5 years
C)6 years
D)3 years
Answer: 4 years
- Q. Because of his virtuous deeds Ajitnath Tirthankara was born from whose womb?
A)Tara
B)Vijaya
C)Sharmestha
D)Geeta
Answer: Vijaya
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