More Questions on History
- Q. The first Famine Commission was constituted under
A)Sir John Strachey
B)Sir Richard Strachey
C)Roberts
D)Chamberlain
Answer: Sir Richard Strachey
- Q. The Svetambara Jains were
A)clad in black
B)clad in white
C)clad in red
D)saffron clad
Answer: clad in white
- 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. The rulers of the Lodi dynasty were
A)Pure Turks
B)Turks settled in Afghanistan
C)Pure Afghan
D)Timurid Turks
Answer: Pure Afghan
- Q. Recognize the medicinal trio of ancient India from the following options
A)Charak, Sushruta and Patanjali
B)Charaka, Sushruta, and Bharata
C)Charak, Sushruta, and Banabhatta
D)Charak, Vatsyayana, and Banabhatta
Answer: Charak, Sushruta and Patanjali
- Q. Who were the first kings to issue gold coins in India?
A)Indo-Greeks
B)Mauryas
C)Guptas
D)Kushans
Answer: Indo-Greeks
- Q. Who among the following, propounded the theory of zero?
A)Chanakya
B)Charak
C)Aryabhatta
D)Varahamihira
Answer: Aryabhatta
- Q. The Simon Commission was boycotted by Indians because
A)It proposed to partition India
B)It sought to curb civil liberties of the Indians
C)It was an all-white commission without Indian representation
D)It proposed measures to contain nationalism
Answer: It was an all-white commission without Indian representation
- Q. Who said “The Simmon Commission Report should be thrown on a heap of rubbish”?
A)Shivaswami Iyer
B)Mahatma Gandhi
C)Mohammad Ali Jinnah
D)Jawaharlal Nehru
Answer: Shivaswami Iyer
- Q. Mahatma Gandhi was profoundly influenced by the writings of
A)Karl Marx
B)Bernard Shaw
C)Lenin
D)Leo Tolstoy
Answer: Leo Tolstoy
- Q. To which Ganarajya Gautam Buddha belonged?
A)Shakya
B)Shibi
C)Saurasena
D)Shabara
Answer: Shakya
- Q. Hyder Ali was the ruler of __________
A)Mysore
B)Hyderabad
C)Cochi
D)Bengal
Answer: Mysore
- Q. The Non-Cooperation Movement under Gandhi was in full swing during the Viceroyalty of
A)Irwin
B)Chelmsford
C)Reading
D)Hardinge
Answer: Reading
- Q. In 1848, an incident took place in his life that later sparked off the dalit-revolution in the Indian society. Jyotirao was invited to attend a wedding of one of his __________friends
A)Christian
B)Brahmin
C)Pulaya
D)Nayar
Answer: Brahmin
- Q. Land Revenue under Tipu__________
A)Was mainly collected by Government officials appointed by Tipu
B)Was mainly collected through revenue officers
C)Was collected by interme-diaries
D)Was not allowed to go into the hands of Sultan
Answer: Was mainly collected by Government officials appointed by Tipu
- Q. Mahabandula was killed at __________
A)Tenesserin
B)Rangoon
C)Danubyu
D)Prome
Answer: Danubyu
- Q. What is ‘Milind panho’?
A)One of the names of Buddha
B)A Buddhist place
C)A Buddhist Specimen of Art
D)Buddhist text
Answer: Buddhist text
- Q. What does Jahangir mean?
A)The Grand Monarch
B)National Monarach
C)Conqueror of the world
D)Hero of hundred battles
Answer: Conqueror of the world
- Q. Which one of the following is not a sect of Buddhism?
A)Hinayana
B)Mahayana
C)Digambar
D)Theravad
Answer: Digambar
- Q. Assertion (A): The Gupta period is often called the ‘Golden Age’ of ancient India. Reason (R): The Gupta rulers issued gold coins
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: Both A and R is true but R is not a correct explanation of A
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