More Questions on History
- Q. Whom had the rebels of 1857 enthroned as the emperor/emperess of India?
A)Tantia Tope
B)Rani Laxmi Bai of Jhansi
C)Bahadur Shah Zafar
D)Faqir-ud-din
Answer: Bahadur Shah Zafar
- Q. The Congress ministries gave up office in October 1939 over the issue of
A)propaganda of the Muslim League against the Congress
B)constant interference by Governors in day-to-day administration
C)India having been unwillingly dragged into the Second World War
D)failure of the British to define their war aims
Answer: failure of the British to define their war aims
- Q. In Gandhian Socialism
A)State is not required
B)State is required
C)State is sometimes required and sometimes not required
D)State is neither required
Answer: State is not required
- Q. Select the incorrect pair
A)Hiuen-Tsang : Promotes the term Yin-Tu to refer India.
B)Chinese : Used the term Tien-Chu or Chuantu for India during the 1st century A.D.
C)I-Tsing : Mentioned the terms such as Arya-desa and Brahmarashtra for India.
D)Panini : Mentioned the term 'Bharata' for a region of 60 Janapadas.
Answer: Panini : Mentioned the term 'Bharata' for a region of 60 Janapadas.
- Q. The term ‘Upanishad’ Literally implies
A)Wisdom
B)Knowledge
C)Sitting near
D)Recitation
Answer: Sitting near
- Q. Who was the last Mughal emperor to sit on the peacock throne?
A)Muhammad Shah
B)Jahandar Shah
C)Shah Alam-I
D)Bahadur Shah Zafar
Answer: Muhammad Shah
- Q. Which of the following is not correct about Montegu- Chelmsford’s Reform & Government of India Act, 1919?
A)In this Act the central legislative council was replaced by two houses-the imperial legislative assembly and the council of state
B)It changed the administrative system in India
C)Education and public health were placed under charge of ministers responsible to the legislature
D)All of the above are incorrect
Answer: All of the above are incorrect
- Q. The Minto Morley reforms was in the year __________
A)1907
B)1906
C)1909
D)1919
Answer: 1909
- Q. The Third battle of Panipat was fought in the year
A)1556 A.D.
B)1526 A.D.
C)1761 A.D.
D)1776 A.D.
Answer: 1761 A.D.
- Q. Who among the following Indian cracks the British Indian Civil Services Examination in the first time of Indian History?
A)R. C. Dutt
B)Satyendranath Tagore
C)Behari Lal Gupta
D)Surendranath Banerjee
Answer: Satyendranath Tagore
- Q. Author of Poverty and Un-British Rule in India is__________
A)Irfan Habib
B)Romila Thapar
C)S.C.Ghosh
D)Naoroji Dadabhai
Answer: Naoroji Dadabhai
- Q. Which reforms Act had created the office of the secretary of state for India?
A)The Government of India Act, 1858
B)Montague-Chelmsford Reforms
C)The Indian Councils Act, 1861
D)Minto-Morley Reforms, 1908
Answer: The Government of India Act, 1858
- Q. Who wrote a commentary on the Brahma sutras refuted Shari Kara and offered an interpretation based on the theistic ideas?
A)Ramanuja
B)Nimbarka
C)Madhva
D)Vallabhacharya
Answer: Ramanuja
- Q. Who played Socrates to the first generation of the English educated young men of Bengal
A)Rai Narain Bose
B)Swami Vivekananda
C)Henry Vivian Derozio
D)Drinkwater Bethun
Answer: Henry Vivian Derozio
- 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. Who had introduced the Indian Universities Act 1904?
A)Lord Hardinge
B)Lord Ripon
C)Lord Curzon
D)Lord Auckland
Answer: Lord Curzon
- Q. Bal Gangadhar Tilak popularly known as Lokamanya Tilak was born in 1856 at
A)Pune
B)Ratnagiri
C)Mumbai
D)None of these
Answer: Ratnagiri
- Q. Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct about Alvars and Nayanars? I. Some of the earliest bhakti movements (c. sixth century) were led by the Alvars (literally, those who are “immersed” in devotion to Vishnu) and Nayanars (literally, leaders who were devotees of Shiva). II. They travelled from place to place singing hymns in Tamil in praise of their gods. III. During their travels the Alvars and Nayanars identified certain shrines as abodes of their chosen deities
A)I and II
B)Only I
C)I and III
D)All of the above
Answer: All of the above
- Q. Who among the following is known as the “Father of the Indian Renaissance”?
A)Rabindra Nath Tagore
B)Raja Ram Mohan Roy
C)Swami Dayanand Saraswati
D)Swami Vivekanand
Answer: Raja Ram Mohan Roy
- Q. The system of civil services had been introduced into India by
A)Lord Dalhousie
B)Lord Ripon
C)Lord Bentick
D)Lord Hastings
Answer: E
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