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Indian History Questions and Answers

1. Who issued a firman on 12 August 1765 granting to the English the Diwani of Bengal,

Bihar and Orissa ?

(A) Shah Alam II

(B) Bahadur Shah

(C) Furrukhsiyar(D) Muhammad Shah

Answer:Shah Alam II

2. The Mangols under Gengis Khan invaded India during the reign of(A) Balban

(B) Feroz Tughlaq(C) Iltutmish

(D) Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq

Answer:Iltutmish

3. Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched ?

(A) Harappan civilizationPainted grey Ware Art

(B) The KushansGandhara School of Art

(C) The MughalsAjanta Paintings

(D) The MarathasPahari School of Painting

Answer:The KushansGandhara School of Art

4. Guru Nanak preached(A) The unity of the Sikhs

(B) Sikh religion(C) Making Sikhs a militant organisation

(D) Human brotherhood

Answer:Human brotherhood

5. Which of the following pairs is correctly matched ?

(A) Dewan-i-BandaganiTughlaq(B) Dewan-i-MustakhrajBalban

(C) Dewan-i-KohiAlauddin Khilji

(D) Dewan-i-ArzMuhammad Tughlaq

Answer:Dewan-i-BandaganiTughlaq

6. In which one of the following cities is the Lingaraja Temple located ?

(A) Bhubaneswar

(B) Bijapur(C) Kolkata

(D) Shreavanabelagola

Answer:Bhubaneswar

7. Which one of the following pairs (of dynasties and their founders) is not correctly matched?

(A) Slave dynasty Balban(B) Tughlaq dynasty Ghiyasuddin

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(C) Khalji dynasty Jalaluddin(D) Second Afghan Empire Shershah Suri

Answer:Second Afghan Empire Shershah Suri

8. Babar came to India originally from

(A) Farghana

(B) Khiva(C) Khorasan

(D) Seistan

Answer:Farghana

9. Which one of the following was the result of the third Buddhist council in ancient India ?

(A) Adoption of Vinaya Pitaka

(B) Compilation of Abhidhamma Pitaka

(C) Permanent split of Buddhist Church into Stharviras and Mahasanghikas

(D) Composition of commentaries known as Vibhashas

Answer:Compilation of Abhidhamma Pitaka

10. Who among the following Chola Kings reigned as Kulotting Chola-I ?(A) Vikramaditya I

(B) Vikramaditya II(C) Rajaraja Narendra I

(D) Rajendra IIIAnswer:Rajendra III

11. Which one of the following sources of Islam is associated with the preaching of Prophet

Mohammad ?

(A) Quran

(B) Hidaya

(C) Fiqah

(D) Sunnah

Answer:Sunnah

12. The French East India Company was formed in

(A) 1600

(B) 1660

(C) 1664(D) 1668

Answer:1664

13. The Indus Valley people traded with the

(A) Chinese(B) Mesopotamians(C) Parthians

(D) Romans

Answer:Mesopotamians

14. The Indian National song was composed by

(A) Rabindranath Tagore

(B) Bankim Chandra Chatterji

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(C) Bal Gangadhar Tilak(D) Sarojini Naidu

Answer:Bankim Chandra Chatterji

15. Nander Gurudwara is sacred to Sikhs because of the tomb of

(A) Guru Amar Das

(B) Guru Angad(C) Guru Arjun Dev

(D) Guru Govind Singh

Answer:Guru Govind Singh

16. Harihara and Bukka founded which Indian Kingdom/dynasty ?

(A) Vijayanagar

(B) Bahamani

(C) The Marathas

(D) The Tughlaq

Answer:Vijayanagar

17. Which one of the following places is considered to be a Jain Siddha-Kshetra on accountof its association with Parsvanatha ?

(A) Champa(B) Pavapuri

(C) Sammeda Shikhara(D) Urjayanta

Answer:Sammeda Shikhara

18. The Torah is the holy book of which Community ?

(A) Rastafarians

(B) Buddhists

(C) Jews

(D) Jesuits

Answer:Jews

19. The Finance Minister during the Mughal rule was

(A) Emperor

(B) Sadr

(C) Diwan-i-Ala(D) Mir-i-Bakshi

Answer:Diwan-i-Ala

20. Ashoka's Dhamma can be best described as

(A) Modified form of Brahmanism(B) A socio ethical code of conduct(C) Propagation of Bhakti

(D) Modified form of Dharmasastra

Answer:A socio ethical code of conduct