114 PU Ph D History

1 of 100 101 PU_2016_114_E Nil-Darpan (1860) was written by:-

Debendranath Tagore

W.C. Banerjee

Dinabandhu Mitra

Bipan Chandra Pal

2 of 100 157 PU_2016_114_E The year in which the Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place was:-

1919

1929

1939

1909

3 of 100 173 PU_2016_114_E Name the following person who wrote the Biography of Raja Rammohun Roy?

Sarojini Naidu

Aruna Asaf Ali

Mary Carpenter

Annie Beasant

4 of 100 108 PU_2016_114_E The result of the Industrial Revolution was a creation of a new section of society distinctly known:-

Land Lords

Clergymen

Engineers

Capitalists

5 of 100 217 PU_2016_114_E 'All history is contemporary history' was stated by whom?

Voltaire

Karl Marx

Lord Actor

Beneditto Croce

6 of 100 196 PU_2016_114_E The first Roman ruler who adopted Christianity was:-

Augustus Caesar

Julius Caesar

Constantine

Pompeii

7 of 100 105 PU_2016_114_E Which of the following can be considered as the birth place of South Indian architecture and sculpture?

Mahabalipuram

Kanchi

Kaveripattinam

Madurai

8 of 100 172 PU_2016_114_E Romantic idealism correlated the events of the past to a natural explanation of progress and continuity, which was profusely expressed in the writings of the following philosophers?

Karl Marx, Max Weber and Rousseau

Herder, Kant and Hegel

Adam Smith, Voltaire & Montesquieu

Vico, Descartes and Jean Bodin

9 of 100 125 PU_2016_114_E Which of the following is the world heritage rock art site in India?

Pachmarhi

Lekhania

Chopani-Mando

Bhimbetka

10 of 100 188 PU_2016_114_E The birth place of Nepolean Bonaparte is:-

Sicily

Corsica

Paris

Malta

11 of 100 164 PU_2016_114_E The Mahavir belonged to the clan:-

Lichhavis

Bulis

Bhaggas

Kalams

12 of 100 129 PU_2016_114_E What is the use of Thermoluminescence method?

Dating the fossil

Tree-Ring analysis

Carbon dating

Dating the pottery

13 of 100 181 PU_2016_114_E Which of the following extremists settled at Pondicherry?

V. D. Savarkar

B. G. Tilak

B. C. Pal

Aurbindo Ghosh

14 of 100 208 PU_2016_114_E Who among the following is the First Indian to pass Indian Civil Service Exam?

Satyendranath Tagore

Subhash Chandra Bose

Ajay Harit

Debendranath Tagore

15 of 100 133 PU_2016_114_E Who among the following organized the Radical Democratic Party in the year 1940?

Subhash Chandra Bose

Ajit Roy

Rash Behari Bose

M.N. Roy

16 of 100 148 PU_2016_114_E Monalisa is the painting of:-

Leonardo Vinci

Boucassion

Raphael

Michel Angelo

17 of 100 104 PU_2016_114_E Where was the first French factory established?

Madras

Surat

Mahe

Goa

18 of 100 153 PU_2016_114_E Humayun ascended the throne at Agra on:-

23rd

September 1530

7th January 1530

29th December 1530

16th February 1530

19 of 100 205 PU_2016_114_E "Komagata Maru Incident" was a Japanesae Steamer commissioned by Gurdit Singh to transport Indian to which of the following places?

Japan

Canada

Hongkong

Singapore

20 of 100 169 PU_2016_114_E Which was the word used for the royal military troops of the Cholas?

Bhrtaka

Kattupaddi

Kaikkolar

Kadgham

21 of 100 185 PU_2016_114_E When was Indian Constitution adopted by the Constituent Assembly?

26thJan., 1950

26th Nov., 1949

26th Jan.,1949

15th Aug., 1947

22 of 100 144 PU_2016_114_E Ibn Batuta was a traveller from:-

China

Europe

Africa

Arab

23 of 100 145 PU_2016_114_E Who organized the Abhinav Bharat, a secret society of revolutionaries?

S.C. Bose

Lala Lajpat Rai

Jai Prakash Narain

V.D. Savarkar

24 of 100 200 PU_2016_114_E Which of the following British Governor general took the First census?

Robert Clive 1756

Warren Hasting 1776

William Bentinck, 1881

Lord Ripon in 1881

25 of 100 152 PU_2016_114_E The Marathas were defeated in the third battle of Panipat (1761) by:-

Babur

Sher Khan

Ahmad Shah Abdali

Nadir shah

26 of 100 124 PU_2016_114_E Who among the following had introduced the permanent land revenue settlement (1793) in Bengal?

Lord Dalhousie

Lord Cornwallis

Lord Wellesley

Lord Bentick

27 of 100 140 PU_2016_114_E The Indian National Army was founded by:-

Capt Mohan Singh

Subhash Chandra Bose

Bhagat Singh

C.R. Dass

28 of 100 180 PU_2016_114_E The first compiled legal code was inscribed by Hammurabi on stone in:-

Egypt

Indus Valley

Babylonia

China

29 of 100 189 PU_2016_114_E 'History is an unending dialogue between the present and the past' was one of the remarks of the following person?

E.H. Carr

Arthur Marwick

R.G. Collingwood

Toynbee

30 of 100 113 PU_2016_114_E Which one of the following reformer in India is called First Modern Man?

Swami Vivekananda

Dayananda saraswati

Mahatma Gandhi

Raja Ram Mohan Roy

31 of 100 204 PU_2016_114_E Identify the following places where Gandhi first resorted to Satyagraha in India.

Champaran in Bihar

Ahmedabad

Kheda in Gujarat

Gorakhpur

32 of 100 201 PU_2016_114_E Which of the following Governor general set up the Calcutta Madrasah?

Warren Hasting

William Bentinck

Lord Wellesley

Jonathan Duncan

33 of 100 109 PU_2016_114_E The 'Drain of Wealth' theory in India was propounded by:-

Lala Lajpat Rai

B.G. Tilak

Dadabhai Naoroji

Mahatma Gandhi

34 of 100 176 PU_2016_114_E India became a member of the United Nations in:-

1949

1947

1950

1945

35 of 100 160 PU_2016_114_E The Second Burmese War was fought in the year:-

1849

1852

1851

1850

36 of 100 121 PU_2016_114_E The Viceroy associated with the policy of the Partition of Bengal (1905) was:-

Lord Hastings

Lord Curzon

Lord William Bentick

Lord Dufferin

37 of 100 161 PU_2016_114_E The author of 'Humayun Nama' was:-

Firdosi

Humayun

Badayuni

Gul Badan Begam

38 of 100 212 PU_2016_114_E In which of the following place was Gandhi Phoenix farm located?

Champaran in Bihar

Durban in South Africa

Ahmedabad in Gujarat

Pretoria in South Africa

39 of 100 184 PU_2016_114_E Greek and Persian Wars was documented by:-

Herodotus

Tacitus

Machiavelli

Thucydides

40 of 100 216 PU_2016_114_E Who was the founding member of Annales School in France?

Marc Bloch

Fernand Braudal

Marcel Mauss

Emile Durkheim

41 of 100 168 PU_2016_114_E Founder of the Satvahana dynasty was:-

Simuka

Rudradaman I

Shatkarni I

Shatkarni II

42 of 100 100 PU_2016_114_E Which one of the following Janapadas was famous for its cotton textiles?

Anga

Kosala

Magadha

Kasi

43 of 100 141 PU_2016_114_E "Chalo Delhi" was a slogan used during India's struggle for Independence by:-

Indian National Army

Indian National Congress

Congress Socialist Party

Muslim League

44 of 100 132 PU_2016_114_E What was the Script used in the earliest Inscriptions found in some natural caves of South India?

Devanagari

Grantha

Brahmi

Kharoshti

45 of 100 117 PU_2016_114_E Who was the founder of the Brahma Samaj in India?

W.C. Banerjee

Raja Rammohan Roy

Dayananda Saraswati

Swami Vivekananda

46 of 100 137 PU_2016_114_E Gauthama Buddha's mother belonged to:-

Lichchavi clan

Koliya Clan

Maya clan

Sakya clan

47 of 100 156 PU_2016_114_E Who among the following was associated with the Theosophical Society in India

B.G. Tilak

Surendranath Banerjee

Annie Besant

M.G. Ranade

48 of 100 120 PU_2016_114_E Who developed Radio Carbon Dating?

C.J.Thomsen

D.L.Clarke

Willard Libby

M.C.Burkitt

49 of 100 197 PU_2016_114_E In which of the following year Farukh Siyyar granted the firman to the English East India Company?

1718

1717

1715

1713

50 of 100 136 PU_2016_114_E Mein Kampf was written by:-

Ottovon Bismarck

Mussolini

General Franco

Adolf Hitler

51 of 100 128 PU_2016_114_E Who wrote what Happened in History?

E.H.Carr

Gordon Childe

H.D.Sankalia

Stuart Piggott

52 of 100 149 PU_2016_114_E The earliest 'man-like creature,' which racially differed from Homo sapiens, is generally known as:-

Hominid

Pithecanthropus

Sinanthropus

Eoanthropus

53 of 100 116 PU_2016_114_E What is the meaning of the word 'Upanishad'?

To sing with

To sit near

To recite

To sleep with

54 of 100 209 PU_2016_114_E January 9(nine) of the year is celebrated as Pravasi Bharatya Divas (PBD) day in India to commemorate:-

The Day Gandhi landed in South Africa to fight Apartheid

The day Gandhi was first arrested in South Africa

The day Gandhi launch satyagraha in South Africa

The day Gandhi returned from South Africa

55 of 100 193 PU_2016_114_E Kritivas translated a book in Bengali. Which is the book?

Mababharat

Ramayan

Puran

Geeta

56 of 100 192 PU_2016_114_E During Alauddin Khalzi 's time which of the following was sold as 5 Jeetal per Maund?

Moth

Wheat

Rice

Millet

57 of 100 112 PU_2016_114_E The city of Vijayanagar is now known as:-

Chandragiri

Kondavidu

Hampi

Halebidu

58 of 100 165 PU_2016_114_E Which one of the following social reformer was responsible for founding the Prarthana Samaj?

Atmaram Pandurang

Jyotioba Phule

Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

Acharya Vinobha Bhave

59 of 100 177 PU_2016_114_E Which one of the following travellers is not associated with the description of the glories of Vijayanagar kingdom?

Ibn Battuta

Nuniz

Paes

Abdul Razzaq

60 of 100 213 PU_2016_114_E

The book Planned Economy for India is written by:-

M. Visvesvaraya

Manmohan Singh

KasturiAiyangar

J M Keynes

61 of 100 228 PU_2016_114_M Who wrote the Social Contract?

Rousseau

Montesquieu

Voltaire

Locke

62 of 100 242 PU_2016_114_M Which of the following is not a Vedic text?

Vedanta

Samhita

Brahmana

Pitaka

63 of 100 224 PU_2016_114_M The author of the famous book What Congress and Gandhi have done to the Untouchables?

B.M. Malabari

B.R. Ambedkar

R.G. Bhandarker

Annie Besant

64 of 100 252 PU_2016_114_M Who spread Bhakti to Assam?

Shankardeva

Dadu Dayal

Chaitanya

Raidas

65 of 100 220 PU_2016_114_M

Who was the first governor of French Pondicherry?

Benoist Dumas

Le Noir

Provisterre

Francois Martin

66 of 100 239 PU_2016_114_M Which amongst the following is not a source for knowing the history of the Mauryas?

Accounts of Greek Writers

Painted Grey Ware (P.G.W.) Culture

Inscriptions of Ashoka

Arthashastra of Kautilya

67 of 100 243 PU_2016_114_M Slavery was absent in the Mauryan kingdom according to:-

Asvaghosh

Marco polo

Chanakya

Megasthenes

68 of 100 234 PU_2016_114_M Which one of the following pair is correctly matched?

Chandragupta HathiGumpha Pillar

Skandagupta Bhitari Pillar

Samudragupta Paharpur Copper Plate

Buddhagupta Eran stone Pillar

69 of 100 231 PU_2016_114_M In which year the three universities of Calcutta, Madras and Bombay were started in India?

1867

1857

1864

1847

70 of 100 225 PU_2016_114_M

Which act authorized the British government to imprison any Indian without trial and conviction in a court of law?

Rowlatt Act of 1917

Government of India Act of 1919

Charter Act of 1909

Government of India Act of 1858

71 of 100 247 PU_2016_114_M Pana in Mauryan Period was used for:-

measurement of land

an official

currency

dam

72 of 100 251 PU_2016_114_M Who was popularly known as 'Nana Saheb'?

Balaji Baji Rao

SawaiMadhav Rao

BalajiVishwanath

Shivaji

73 of 100 227 PU_2016_114_M India wins freedom is the autobiography of:-

Subhas Chandra Bose

Mahatma Gandhi

Abul Kalam Azad

Jawaharlal Nehru

74 of 100 254 PU_2016_114_M What was the khutba?

A robe of honour

The recital of sermon after the congregational Friday prayer

The right to coin money

None of the above

75 of 100

255 PU_2016_114_M Who was the founder of Qadri order?

Khwaja Baqi Billah

Shihab- ud- din Suhrawardi

Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani

Moin- ud- in Chisti

76 of 100 230 PU_2016_114_M 'The British government in India had appointed the Hunter Commission in 1882 to review the progress of :-

Finance

Education

Political conditions

Law

77 of 100 221 PU_2016_114_M In which year slavery was declared illegal in India:-

1873

1843

1834

1865

78 of 100 235 PU_2016_114_M Megaliths of South India are associated with which of the following ages?

Mesolithic age

Iron age

Neolithic age

Chalcolithic age

79 of 100 246 PU_2016_114_M The great Trigonometrical Survey of India was started by:-

Alexander Cunningham

James Prinsep

George Everest

William Lambton

80 of 100 238 PU_2016_114_M What was 'Arghatta'?

A Machine to break forts

A type of painting

A special type of cloth

A device to lift water

81 of 100 265 PU_2016_114_D Alberuni in hisKitabul Hind had particularly appreciated the Indians for a very high degree of proficiency in:-

raising a powerful business class

exchanging and communicating their knowledge

construction of tanks and reservoirs at holy places

miniature paintings

82 of 100 277 PU_2016_114_D When was the Chamber of Princes inaugurated?

1921

1858

1821

1886

83 of 100 293 PU_2016_114_D Who is the author of The Emergence of Indian Nationalism?

John Gallaher

Anil Seal

C A Bayly

Bipan Chandra

84 of 100 268 PU_2016_114_D The afaqis in the Bahmani Kingdom were:-

The Muslim immigrants from Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Arabia

South Indian Muslim converts

Shia nobles of the Bahmani court

Foreign merchants settled in the Bahmani Kingdom

85 of 100 288 PU_2016_114_D Which of the following pair is correctly matched?

1688-Glorious revolution

1902- Unification of Germany

1925- end of the Cold War

1750- French Revolution

86 of 100 264 PU_2016_114_D Whose assertion is that Shivaji's Swaraj was nothing but the replica of Watan?

Andre Wink

V.A. Smith

Jadunath Sarkar

A.R. Kulkarni

87 of 100 285 PU_2016_114_D Industrial Revolution is related to:-

Manual production

Agrarian economy

Factory production

Domestic production

88 of 100 280 PU_2016_114_D A Gift to Monotheists was written by:-

B.G.Tilak

Ram Mohan Roy

Annie Besant

Gopal Hari Deshmukh

89 of 100 289 PU_2016_114_D The Treaty of Versailles took place in:-

1922

1925

1919

1915

90 of 100 276 PU_2016_114_D Who was the founder of the Amrita Bazar Patrika?

Prafulla Kumar Chaki

Sisir Kumar Ghose

Sri Aurobindo

Rash Behari Bose

91 of 100 273 PU_2016_114_D In 1580, Akbar instituted a new system of revenue administration called:-

Kaveri system

Dahsala system

Zabti system

Batai system

92 of 100 292 PU_2016_114_D In the year 1739, Marathas captured Salsette and Bassein from which one of the following powers?

Portuguese

French

English

Dutch

93 of 100 296 PU_2016_114_D 'Greatest Happiness for the Greatest Number' is the idea of:-

Utilitarianism

Romanticism

Subaltern school

Enlightenment

94 of 100 281 PU_2016_114_D The Scientific Society was founded by:-

Arthur Cotton

Sayyid Ahmad Khan

Alexander Duff

H.Derozi

95 of 100 260 PU_2016_114_D Who was the author of Travels in the Mughal Empire?

Francois Bernier

Abbe Carre

Niccolai Mannuci

Francisco Pelsaert

96 of 100 261 PU_2016_114_D Which of the following medieval Indian rulers founded the city of Agra?

Akbar

Sikandar Lodi

Firuz Shah Tughlaq

Sher Shah Suri

97 of 100 269 PU_2016_114_D The provinces of the Bahmani Kingdom were known as:-

Tarafs

Mahamandalas

Subah-i-laskars

Subahs

98 of 100 272 PU_2016_114_D The new addition in the temple architecture introduced by the Vijayanagar rulers was:-

Vimana

Prakara

Kalyanamandapa

Garbhagriha

99 of 100 297 PU_2016_114_D Who among the following is considered as the father of Humanism?

Garibaldi

Napoleon Bonaparte

Bismarck

Thomas Petrarch

100 of 100 284 PU_2016_114_D The Making of the Madras Working Class is written by?

Eric Hobsbawn

D Veeraraghvan

A R Venkatachalpathy

E P Thompson