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Q. Which foreigner arrived in India on Nov. 16, 1893?

A
W A Hume
B
Khan Abdul Gaffar
C
Annie Besant
D
None of these

Correct Answer

Annie Besant

More Questions on History

  • Q. Who said “Sir Saiyad was an ardent reformer and he wanted to reconcile modern scientific thought with religion by rationalistic interpretations and not by attacking basic belief. He was anxious to push new education. He was in no way communally separatist. Repeatedly he emphasized that religious differences should have no political and national significance”
    A)Jawaharlal Nehru
    B)Inder Kumar Gujral
    C)Mahatma Gandhi
    D)Mohammad Iqbal
    Answer: Jawaharlal Nehru
  • Q. The greatest development in the Kushana period was in the field of
    A)Art
    B)Religion
    C)Literature
    D)Architecture
    Answer: Art
  • Q. The philosophical essence, The world is but God manifest and God is my own soul may be traced to the
    A)Upanishadas
    B)Vedas
    C)Puranas
    D)Manusmriti
    Answer: Upanishadas
  • Q. In which session of Congress the demand of “Purna Swaraj” was accepted as the aim of the congress ?
    A)Madras
    B)Calcutta
    C)Nagpur
    D)Lahore
    Answer: Lahore
  • Q. Which is the holy book of the Sikh religion?
    A)Baani
    B)Bhagwad Gita
    C)Gurmukhi
    D)Guru Granth Sahib
    Answer: Guru Granth Sahib
  • Q. During the tenure of which Governor general was the resolution of total independence passed?
    A)Lord Minto
    B)Lord Irwin
    C)Lord Chelmsford
    D)Lord Reading
    Answer: Lord Irwin
  • Q. The remains of the Great Vijayanagar Empire can be found in
    A)Golconda
    B)Bijapur
    C)Hampi
    D)Baroda
    Answer: Hampi
  • Q. Champaran Satyagraha was related to
    A)Mill-owners
    B)Indigo
    C)Plague
    D)Fresh assessment of land
    Answer: Indigo
  • Q. What is Gandhi’s definition of Rama Raj?
    A)Sovereignty of the people based on pure moral authority
    B)The rule as it was during the time of Rama
    C)The greatest good of all
    D)The absolute powerconcentrated in the hands ofa king
    Answer: Sovereignty of the people based on pure moral authority
  • Q. In which year, NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) was established
    A)1948
    B)1945
    C)1949
    D)1952
    Answer: 1949
  • Q. The Civil Disobedience Movement was suspended after the Gandhi-Irwin Pact. Why did the Congress decide to resume the movement In January 1932?
    A)Repudiation of the Gandhi-Irwin Pact by the British Government
    B)Failure of the Second Round Table Conference
    C)British policies of repression
    D)All the above
    Answer: All the above
  • Q. The caste system of India was created for
    A)Recognization of the dignity of labour
    B)Immobility of labour
    C)Economic uplift
    D)Occupational division of labour
    Answer: Occupational division of labour
  • Q. Who wrote Dasa Sloki, which deals with three realities (tri-tattava) –Brahma (Krishna), soul (Chit) and matter (Achit)?
    A)Ramanuja
    B)Nimbarka
    C)Madhva
    D)Vallabhacharya
    Answer: Nimbarka
  • Q. The revolutionary who was an accused in Lahore Conspiracy Case and who died in Jail after 64 days fast was
    A)Sukh Dev
    B)Jatin Das
    C)Raj Guru
    D)Both A and B above
    Answer: Jatin Das
  • Q. Which of the following Congress leader rejected the ‘August Offer’ of 1940?
    A)Lord Linlithgow
    B)Lord Wavell
    C)Sir George Stanley
    D)Lord Willingdon
    Answer: Lord Linlithgow
  • Q. Who wrote Tughlaqnama?
    A)Amir Khusrau
    B)Abu Nasr Utbi
    C)Abul Fazl
    D)Hasan Nizami
    Answer: Amir Khusrau
  • Q. Find the odd one
    A)Yajur veda
    B)Sam veda
    C)Vishnu Purana
    D)Rig veda
    Answer: Vishnu Purana
  • Q. Where did Lord Buddha breathe his last?
    A)Bodh Gaya
    B)Rajgir
    C)Sarnath
    D)Kushinagar
    Answer: Kushinagar
  • Q. For the cause of national liberation Swami Dayananda stressed on :
    A)Swadharma
    B)Swabhasha and Swarajya
    C)Swadeshi
    D)All of the above
    Answer: All of the above
  • Q. When was Xerxes I murdered?
    A)460 BC
    B)465 BC
    C)449 BC
    D)447 BC
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