More Questions on History
- Q. Who was the trusted General of the Mughal emperor Akbar?
A)Man Singh I
B)Raja Todar Mal
C)Birbal
D)Tansen
Answer: Man Singh I
- Q. Wahabi movement aimed to organize Muslims around two fold ideas, which of the following forms the ideas among them? I. Harmony among 4 schools of Muslim which were divided at that time II. Recognition of the role of individual conscience in religion as conflicting interpretations were derived from quran and other practices
A)Only II
B)Only I
C)Both I and II
D)None of the above stated
Answer: Both I and II
- Q. The innovator of the Revenue settlement during the rule of Akbar was
A)Raja Bhagwan Das
B)Raja Mansingh
C)Raja Todarmal
D)Raja Birbal
Answer: Raja Todarmal
- Q. The English rounded Calcutta after obtaining the zamindari of three villages, viz Sutanuti, Kalikata and Govindpur, from the Mughal Viceroy of Bengal in 1698. The nucleus of the British settlement in Calcutta was
A)Victoria Memeorial
B)San Thome
C)Fort William
D)Howrah Port
Answer: Fort William
- Q. Who among the following was first initiated disciple of Akbar’s Din-i-Ilahi?
A)Tansen
B)Todarmal
C)Birbal
D)Mansingh
Answer: Birbal
- Q. Arthasastra was written by
A)Kautilya
B)Dhanananda
C)Bimbisara
D)Pushyamitra
Answer: Kautilya
- Q. Who said “Truth is the ultimate reality and it is God”?
A)Rabindra Nath Tagore
B)Swamy Vivekananda
C)M. K. Gandhi
D)Radhakrishnan
Answer: M. K. Gandhi
- Q. Who amongst the following is associated with the study of the Harappan Civilization?
A)Cunningham
B)Charles Mason
C)M. Wheeler
D)M.S. Vats
Answer: M.S. Vats
- Q. The Buland Darwaza was built to mark Akbar’s conquest of
A)Malwa
B)Awadh
C)Gujarat
D)Chittor
Answer: Gujarat
- Q. The All India Muslim league was founded by
A)Mohammad Ali Jinnah
B)Maulana Ahmed Ali
C)Agha Khan
D)Hakim Ajmal Khan
Answer: Agha Khan
- Q. Mahatma Gandhi considered preconditions as necessary for a satyagrahi to fulfill namely :
A)Prefect Chastity
B)Follow truth and cultivate fearlessness.
C)Adopts poverty
D)All of these
Answer: All of these
- Q. In Greek mythology, Apollo is the god of what?
A)Medicine
B)Prophecy
C)Love
D)Peace
Answer: Prophecy
- Q. In 1932, Poona Pact was signed between:
A)Gandhiji and Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
B)Gandhiji and Jawahar Lal Nehru
C)Dr. B. R. Ambedkar and Jawahar Lal Nehru
D)Gandhiji and Md. Ali Jinnah
Answer: Gandhiji and Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
- Q. Who ruled that pilgrims could wear yellow clothes – the colour of the garments Sri Buddha wore
A)Govindan Vaidyar
B)P. K. Kesavan
C)P. K. Divakara Panicker
D)Sree Narayana Guru
Answer: Sree Narayana Guru
- Q. Assertion (A): East India Association in London was organised by Dadabhai Naoroji. Reason (R): He wanted to influence the British public opinion
A)Both A and R is true but R is not a correct explanation of A
B)Both A and R is true and R is the correct explanation of A
C)A is true but R is false
D)A is false but R is true
Answer: A is true but R is false
- Q. Which of the following writers did not have a profound influence on the thinking of Mahatma Gandhi?
A)Thoreau
B)Tolstoy
C)Ruskin
D)Marx
Answer: Marx
- Q. Which of the following statement is not correct about Poona pact?
A)It was signed on January 23, 1932
B)It was signed between Madan Mohan Malaviya and Dr. Ambedkar
C)It was signed in yarvada jail in Puna
D)This act increased the number of seats reserved for depressed class from 71 to 147
Answer: It was signed on January 23, 1932
- Q. Aryabhatta and Varahamihira lived during the
A)Gupta Period
B)Maurya Period
C)Nanda Period
D)Sunga Period
Answer: Gupta Period
- Q. Which Bhakti saint opposed cast distinctions and sympathetic towards lower caste in the 6th century AD?
A)Chaitanya
B)Gnanadev
C)Namadeva
D)Ekanatha
Answer: Ekanatha
- Q. The first muslim woman who ruled Northern India was
A)Nurjahan
B)Razia Sultana
C)Mumtaz
D)None of the above
Answer: Razia Sultana
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