More Questions on History

  • Q. Which of the following statements are correct regarding Aurangzeb? I. He forbade the cultivation of Bhang II. Forbade singing at court III. A proficient player of Veena IV. His tomb is at Tughlaqabad
    A)I, II and IV
    B)I, II and III
    C)II, III and IV
    D)All the above
    Answer: I, II and III
  • Q. In Indus Valley Civilization, Kalibangan is famous for which of the following?
    A)Sea port
    B)Rock cut architecture
    C)Cotton cultivation
    D)Pottery
    Answer: Pottery
  • Q. Lytton held an Imperial Durbar at Delhi in 1877 to announce __________ as the Empress of India at a time when a large part of the country was in the grip of a severe famine
    A)Queen Victoria
    B)Queen Elizabeth
    C)Queen Anne
    D)Queen Marie
    Answer: Queen Victoria
  • Q. Who established the ‘Sharda Sadan’, a school for Indian Widows in colonial India?
    A)Sarojini Naidu
    B)Mahadev Govind Ranade
    C)Dayanand Saraswati
    D)Pandita Ramabai
    Answer: Pandita Ramabai
  • Q. Ranthambhor was
    A)A Rajput fort
    B)A Mughal palace
    C)Capital of the khaljis
    D)A Buddist pilgrimage centre
    Answer: A Rajput fort
  • Q. Who built Hawa Mahal?
    A)Maharaja Pratap Singh
    B)Guru Ramdas
    C)RabindraNath Tagore
    D)British Govt
    Answer: Maharaja Pratap Singh
  • Q. Who was the founder of the Satavahana dynasty?
    A)Deimachus
    B)Gautamiputra Satakarni
    C)Nahapana
    D)Simuka
    Answer: Simuka
  • Q. Which of the following was a leader of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army founded in 1928?
    A)Bhagat Singh
    B)Khudiram Bose
    C)Chandra Shekhar Azad
    D)Subhash Chandra Bose
    Answer: Chandra Shekhar Azad
  • Q. The court language of the Delhi Sultanate was
    A)Persian
    B)Urdu
    C)Hindi
    D)Arabic
    Answer: Persian
  • Q. Which of the following songs was so dear to Mahatma Gandhi’s heart, that he wrote: ‘That one song is enough to sustain me, even if I were to forget the ‘Bhagavad Gita’
    A)Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram
    B)Hare Ram
    C)Vaishnava Jana To Tene Kahiye
    D)Ishwar Allah Tero Nam
    Answer: Vaishnava Jana To Tene Kahiye
  • Q. Who established the Sadr-Di-wani-Adalat during the British East India Company’s rule?
    A)Warren Hastings
    B)Wellesley
    C)Dalhousie
    D)Cornwallis
    Answer: Warren Hastings
  • Q. Satyashodhak Samaj was founded by whom?
    A)Jyotibha Phule
    B)Mahatma Gandhi
    C)Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
    D)Swami Vivekanand
    Answer: Jyotibha Phule
  • Q. Who had succeeded Mir Jumla as governor of Bengal in the reign of Aurangzeb?
    A)Izid Bakhsh
    B)Siphr Sukoh
    C)Shaista Khan
    D)Shah Shuja
    Answer: Shaista Khan
  • Q. The first Defence Minister of India was
    A)Gopalaswami Aiyangar
    B)K. M. Cariappa
    C)Baldev Singh
    D)Sardar Patel
    Answer: Baldev Singh
  • Q. Pazhassi Samarangal (Malayalam) was written by __________
    A)Bhattacharya Sabya
    B)K. K. N. Kurup
    C)K. K. Kusuman
    D)B. Sobhanan
    Answer: K. K. N. Kurup
  • Q. Harshavardhana moved his capital from __________ to __________
    A)Delhi, Deogiri
    B)Thanesar, Kannauj
    C)Kamboj, Kannauj
    D)Valabhi, Delhi
    Answer: Thanesar, Kannauj
  • Q. An interim cabinet headed by Jawaharlal Nehru was formed by the congress in :
    A)August 1943
    B)August 1940
    C)September 1946
    D)September 1942
    Answer: September 1946
  • Q. The famous Kailashnath Temple at Kanchi was built by
    A)Narasimhavarman II
    B)Mahendravarman 1
    C)Nandivarman II
    D)Daritivarrnan
    Answer: Narasimhavarman II
  • Q. Jyotiba Phule, popularly known as Baba Phule, was a social reformer in Maharashtra. Which of the following is not true about him
    A)Phule through his book Ghulamagiri (1872) and his organization Satyashodhak Mandal, proclaimed the need to save the lower castes from the hypocritical Brahmans and their scriptures
    B)He was the first to raise his voice against Brahmans in Maharashtra in the 1870s
    C)His Satyashodhak Mandal contained both an elite based conservative trend and a genuine mass-based radicalism
    D)The urban educated Marathas were his most ardent followers
    Answer: The urban educated Marathas were his most ardent followers
  • Q. The greatest Buddhist commentator of the Buddhist canonical literature has been
    A)Ashvaghosha
    B)Nagarjuna
    C)Vasumitra
    D)Buddhaghosha
    Answer: Ashvaghosha

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