Question bank

1. Which of the following is regar-ded as the real founder of portugese power in India?

(A) Pedro Cabral

(B) Almeida

(C) Vasco da Gama

(D) Alfonso de Albuquerque

2. Of the various Europeans who came to India, Whose missio-nary activities were more

important than commerce ?

(A) Dutch

(B) Portuguese

(C) Danes

(D) English

3. The battle of ‗Swali Hole‘ was fought between which of the following countries ?

I. Portugal

II. Nettherland

III. France

IV. Britain

(A) I and II

(B) II and III

(C) I and IV

(D) III and IV

4. Who was the founder of the French East India Company ?

(A) Colbert

(B) De La Haye

(C) Duplex

(D) Dumas

5. The Danes sold all their settle-ments in India to—

(A) The portugese

(B) The Dutch

(C) The English

(D) The French

6. ‗Calicoes‘ stood for Indian—

(A) Indigo

(B) Textiles

(C) Cotton

(D) Spices

7. The portuguese established a number of factories in India. Which of the following was not one

of them ?

(A) Bombay

(B) Masulipatam

(C) Bassein

(D) Salsette

8. On which occassion did the Port-uguese handed over Bombay to English ?

(A) Marriage of Charles II with the portugese princess Catherine of Braganza

(B) By the treaty of Ax la chap-elle

(C) As a result of Portugal‘s independence from the con-trol of Spain

(D) The defeat of Spanish Armada by the British (U.P.P.C.S. 2001, I.A.S. 98)

9. Match the following—

(a) Pondicherry

(b) Goa

(c) Tranquebar

(d) Nagapattinam

1. French

2. Portuguese

3. Donish

4. Dutch

(a) (b) (c) (d)

(A) 4 3 2 2

(B) 2 4 1 3

(C) 3 2 1 4

(D) 1 2 3 4

10. The term ‗Interpolers‘ was used by the—

(A) Danish

(B) French

(C) English

(D) Dutch

11. From whom was Goa acquired by Albu querque ?

(A) Bijapur

(B) Golcunda

(C) Berar

(D) Bidar

12. Arrange the following in proper chronological order—

I. Formation of Dutch East India Company

II. Formation of French East India Company

III. Formation of the Swedish East India Company

IV. Formation of the English East India Company

(A) I, II, IV, III

(B) IV, I, II, III

(C) II, I, IV, III

(D) III, II, I, IV

13. The Dutch who discovered commercial possibilities in India and whose book caused sensa-

tion in the western world is—

(A) Jan Pietyoovan Coen

(B) Huyghen van Linschoten

(C) William Barents

(D) Houtman

14. Where did the English open their first factory in the South in 1611 ?

(A) Madras

(B) Trichonapally

(C) Masulipatam

(D) Pulicat

15. Who said about the English company in Bengal that it is ―A company of base, quarelling

people and foul dealers ?‖

(A) Mir Jumla

(B) Shaista Khan

(C) Murshi Quli Khan

(D) Aliwardi Khan

16. The nickname of English East India Company was—

(A) Bob Company

(B) Sam Company

(C) Tom Company

(D) John Company

17. Which of the following state-ment is false with regard to the Dutch interest and activities in

India ?

I. They treated the local inhabi- tants cruelly and exploited them

II. They did not get involved in the politics

III. They became the carrier of trade between India and the Islands of the Far East

IV. Many attempts were made by them to monopolise the channels of trade between India and

the west.

(A) I, II, III

(B) II, III, IV

(C) I, III, IV

(D) I, II, IV

18. Which of the following state-ment is false ?

(A) The lease of Madras in 1639 was obtained by the English from the ruler of Chandr-agiri

(B) Colbert founded the French East India Company

(C) The ‗Blue Water Policy‘ associated with Albuquer-que

(D) The Portuguese power was not organised on commer-cial lines

19. Who founded Calcutta in 1690 ?

(A) Almeida

(B) Albuquerque

(C) Job Charnock

(D) Lins Choten

20. The Dutch fort called Geldria was to eated at—

(A) Golcunda

(B) Goa

(C) Pune

(D) Pulicat

21. What was the reason of Mughal wrath towards the English com-pany—

(A) Unreasonable demands of the Mughal official

(B) The French pirates

(C) Interlopers

(D) Arrongant attitude of the company‘s officials

22. Tick the greatest failure of Aurangzeb in contributing the rise of the European powers in India

?

I. He failed to understand the political and military implic- ations of the fortified facto-ries

II. He could not stop the exercise of administrative authority by the Europeans in their settlements

III. He permitted the Dutch and English to use their military power against portuguese

IV. He thought that the Euro-pean companies were only commercial in nature

(A) I, II

(B) II, III, IV

(C) I, III, IV

(D) I, IV

23. Which European power called the port of Chittagong as the ‗Porto grande‘ or the grand port

was—

(A) French

(B) Portuguese

(C) English

(D) Danes

24. The English Governor who was expelled by Aurangzeb was—

(A) De la Haye

(B) Sir John Child

(C) Dumas

(D) Aungier

25. Name of state which granted the ‗Golden Farman‘ to the Dutch to trade freely on payment of

only 500 ‗Pagodas‘ per annum as duty was—

(A) Gingee

(B) Ikkeri

(C) Chandragiri

(D) Golcunda

Answers : 1. (D) 2. (C) 3. (D) 4. (A) 5. (C) 6. (B) 7. (B) 8. (A) 9. (D) 10. (C)

11. (A) 12. (B) 13. (B) 14. (C) 15. (B) 16. (D) 17. (A) 18. (C) 19. (C) 20. (D)

21. (C) 22. (A) 23. (B) 24. (B) 25. (D)

1. Which among the following Vedas is partly in prose ?

(A) Rigveda

(B) Samaveda

(C) Yajurveda

(D) Atharvaveda

Ans : (C)

2. Which one among the following is a Tamil grammatical treatise ?

(A) Pattupattu

(B) Ettutogai

(C) Silappadikaram

(D) Tolkappiam

Ans : (D)

3. Who among the following has not quoted from the Indica of Megasthenese ?

(A) Pliny

(B) Strabo

(C) Diodorus

(D) Arrian

Ans : (C)

4. Who was the first to decipher the inscriptions of Ashoka and the Brahmi script ?

(A) Alexander Cunningham

(B) James Princep

(C) Max Muller

(D) Mortimer Wheeler

Ans : (B)

5. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below the lists—

List-I

(a) Stuart Piggot

(b) Subbarao

(c) B. and R. Alchin

(d) H. D. Sankalia

List-II

1. Personality of India

2. The Birth of Indian Civilization

3. Prehistoric India

4. Prehistory and Protohistory of India and Pakistan

Codes :

(a) (b) (c) (d)

(A) 1 2 4 3

(B) 3 1 2 4

(C) 1 2 3 4

(D) 3 1 4 2

Ans : (B)

6. Select the correct statement about the Nanaghat Inscription of the Satavahanas—

(A) It speaks about Shaka-Satavahana conflict

(B) It refers to the place of origin of Satavahanas

(C) It speaks about the navy of the Satavahanas

(D) It refers to one of the mother-queens of the Satavahanas

Ans : (B)

7. Which among the following excavated sites is related to Malwa culture ?

(A) Navadatoli

(B) Nagda

(C) Eran

(D) Azadnagar

Ans : (A)

8. In which one of the following regions the earliest evidence of rice cultivation has come ?

(A) Central Ganga Valley

(B) Belan Valley

(C) Gomal Valley

(D) Bolan Valley

Ans : (B)

9. Horse remains are found at which of the following Harappan sites ?

(A) Surkotada, Kalibangan and Dholavira

(B) Kalibangan, Manda and Surkotada

(C) Surkotada, Dholavira and Manda

(D) Surkotada and Kalibangan

Ans : (D)

10. Identify the incorrect combination among the following—

(A) Harappa and Grenary

(B) Mohen-jo-daro and the great bath

(C) Dholavira and single citadel

(D) Lothal and Dockyard

Ans : (C)

11. At which place among these the rows of distinctive fire altars with provision of ritual bathing

have been found ?

(A) Mohen-jo-daro

(B) Harappa

(C) Kalibangan

(D) Lothal

Ans : (C)

12. The main focus of the Rigvedic culture was—

(A) The Indo-Gangetic region

(B) The Punjab and Delhi region

(C) The Indus valley region

(D) The region between Swat and Indus

Ans : (A)

13. The Rigvedic king did not maintain an administrative machinery because—

(A) The king did not wish to have so

(B) The Rigvedic economy was not suitable to it

(C) The social structure was not in accordance

(D) The kingship was not hereditary

Ans : (B)

14. Which of the following statements regarding Vedic woman is not correct ?

(A) Woman attended assemblies

(B) Woman participated in sacrifices

(C) Woman was allowed to have Vedic education

(D) The family was matriarchal

Ans : (D)

15. For what reason the ganasamgha areas have been indicated as ‗mlechchhadesha‘ in the

post-Vedic period ?

(A) Absence of ranking based on varna

(B) Rejection of Vedic rituals

(C) Killing of cows

(D) Speaking alien languages

Ans : (B)

16. With what name the Jainism referred to before the coming of Mahavir ?

(A) Jina

(B) Kevalin

(C) Nirgranthas

(D) Tirthankaras

Ans : (D)

17. Which tradition has most importance for deciding the dates of birth and death of lord Buddha

?

(A) Ceylones Tradition–Mahavansa and Deepavansa

(B) Chinese Tradition–Canton

(C) Indian Buddhist literature–Avadana literature

(D) Tibetan Tradition–Historian Taranath

Ans : (A)

18. Which one of the following ancient cities is not related to the life of Gautam Buddha ?

(A) Champa

(B) Saketa

(C) Pataliputra

(D) Kosambi

Ans : (C)

19. The term ‗Rupadarshaka‘ denotes what ?

(A) The supervisor of prostitutes

(B) The supervisor of royal harem

(C) The supervisor of the quality of coins

(D) The supervisor of the folkdancers

Ans : (C)

20. Which one of the statements is controversial in the context of the treaty of 303 B.C. between

Chandragupta and Seleucus ?

(A) Seleucus surrendered his large territories to Chandragupta

(B) Chandragupta made a gift of 500 elephants to Seleucus

(C) Megasthenes was sent as a Greek envoy to the court of Chandragupta

(D) Seleucus gave his daughter in marriage to Chandragupta

Ans : (D)

21. In which year of Asoka‘s coronation did the Kalinga war take place ?

(A) First

(B) Fifth

(C) Eighth

(D) Thirteenth

Ans : (C)

22. Which among the following combinations is correct ?

(A) Pushyamitra Shunga–Patanjali

(B) Kanishka–Thera Nagasena

(C) Menander–Ashvaghosh

(D) Chandragupta I–Harishena

Ans : (C)

23. Which Gupta emperor has been called ‗Lichchhavi-dauhitra‘ ?

(A) Shrigupta

(B) Chandragupta I

(C) Chandragupta II

(D) Samudragupta

Ans : (B)

24. Which Kushana king adopted the epithet ‗dhrama-thida‘ ?

(A) Vim Kadaphises

(B) Kuzul Kadaphises

(C) Kanishka the Great

(D) Huvishka

Ans : (B)

25. Which of the following inscriptions record the annihilation of Hunas ?

(A) Prayag-Prashasti

(B) Bhitari Inscription

(C) Junagarh Inscription

(D) Mandasor Inscription

Ans : (C)

26. Who impressed upon Harsha to incline towards Buddhism ?

(A) Bhikshu Mahakashyapa

(B) Hiuen-Tsang

(C) Thera Nagasen

(D) Diwakarmitra

Ans : (D)

27. Which king is called ‗Kaviraj‘ in one of his inscriptions ?

(A) Pratihara king Mihirbhoja

(B) Paramara king Bhoja

(C) Pala king Dharmapala

(D) Chalukya king Kumarapala

Ans : (B)

28. Who among these is credited with the construction of ‗Pagodas‘ at Mahabalipuram ?

(A) Cholas

(B) Chalukyas of Kalyani

(C) Pallavas

(D) Pandyas

Ans : (C)

29. The Office-in-charge of collection of revenue in the Mauryan administration was—

(A) Sannidhatri

(B) Pradeshta

(C) Yukta

(D) Samahatri

Ans : (D)

30. Which of the statements about the trade regulation in the Mauryan period is not correct ?

(A) The state exercised control over the trade process and profits

(B) A levy of 1/10th was fixed on merchandise

(C) The state kept strict vigil on the sale of merchandise

(D) The state employed a few of the artisans directly

Ans : (B)

31. Which one among the following statements about the land-system of post-Mauryan period is

not true ?

(A) The private individuals had absolute right over their land

(B) The private individuals had limited right to alienation of land

(C) There is no record to transfer of land non-religious purposes

(D) The person who brought the land under cultivation was the owner

Ans : (B)

32. Who among the following constituted the local town administration council during the Guptas

?

(A) Purupala, Sarthavaha, Pratham Kulika, Pratham Kayastha

(B) Purupala, Sarthavaha, Dvarapala, Karnika

(C) Sarthavaha, Pratham Kulika, Pratham Kayastha

(D) Purupala, Pratham Kulika, Pratham Kayastha

Ans : (C)

33. Who lamented upon the drain of gold from Rome to India ?

(A) Ptolemy

(B) Nero

(C) Strabo

(D) Pliny

Ans : (D)

34. Which of the following statements about the agrahara land grant is not correct ?

(A) The king could offer it to any one

(B) It was a village granted taxfree to Brahmanas

(C) The king could confiscate it on being displeased by the grantee

(D) It underlined the privileges of the Brahmanas

Ans : (A)

35. Debasement of the coins and gradual disappearance of goldcoins during the post-Gupta

period indicates—

(A) Cheapness of commodities, no need of gold-coins

(B) Non-availability of gold

(C) Decline of money economy

(D) Decline of Trade

Ans : (D)

36. Which new route was added for foreign trade during Gupta period ?

(A) Overseas route to South Africa

(B) Overseas route to Alexandria

(C) Overland route to China

(D) Overland route to North Russia

Ans : (C)

37. The most famous bronze image of the Chola period belongs to—

(A) Murugan

(B) Nataraja

(C) Venkateshwar

(D) Vishnu

Ans : (B)

38. Which one among these is not a work of Kalidasa ?

(A) Ritusamhara

(B) Meghaduta

(C) Dashakumarcharita

(D) Kumarashambhava

Ans : (C)

39. The most important feature of the Dravida style of temple architecture is—

(A) Shikhara

(B) Gopuram

(C) Vimana

(D) Mandapa

Ans : (C)

40. The earliest example of a ‗Panchayatana‘ composition in temple is—

(A) Dashavatara temple–Deogarh

(B) Temple at Pathari

(C) Shatrughneshwara temple at Bhubaneshwar

(D) Lakshmana temple at Sirpur

Ans : (A)

41. Who is the writer of ‗Kitab-ur-Rehla‘ ?

(A) Maulana Sharafuddin Ali Yazid

(B) Amir Timur

(C) Ibn-i-Batuta

(D) Khwaja Abdullah Malik Isami

Ans : (C)

42. Which of these books was authored by Sultan Feroz Shah Tughlaq himself ?

(A) Fautuhat-i-Ferozshahi

(B) Fatawa-i-Jahandari

(C) Tarikh-i-Ferozshahi

(D) Tughlaqnama

Ans : (A)

43. Which of these books is not a composition of Amir Khusrau ?

(A) Qiran-u-Sadain

(B) Tahqiq-i-Hind

(C) Miftah-ul-Futuh

(D) Nur-i-Sipihar

Ans : (B)

44. Who among the following kings formed a confederacy of Hindu kings against Mahmud of

Ghazni ?

(A) Jaipala

(B) Anandapala

(C) Both Jaipala and Anandpala

(D) Anangapala

Ans : (C)

45. When did the Mahmud of Ghazni attack last on India ?

(A) 1021–22 A.D.

(B) 1024 A.D.

(C) 1025 A.D.

(D) 1027 A.D.

Ans : (D)

46. Name the Arab astronomer who studied Sanskrit and astronomy for a decade at Varanasi ?

(A) Alberuni

(B) Amir Khusrau

(C) Al‘bidari

(D) Al‘Masher

Ans : (A)

47. Who among the following foreign travellers did not visit Vijayanagar during the time of

Krishnadeo Raya ?

(A) Nicolo Conti

(B) Fernao Nuniz

(C) Domingo Paes

(D) Duarte Barbosa

Ans : (A)

48. Which of these features of Indian art was adopted in the construction of Mosques in India ?

(A) Turned Lotus

(B) Kalash on the domes

(C) Ornamentation

(D) All of these

Ans : (D)

49. Who said, ―God knows man‘s virtues and inquires not his caste; in the next world there is no

caste‖ ?

(A) Kabir

(B) Guru Nanak

(C) Chaitanya

(D) Ramananda

Ans : (A)

50. Who among these devotional saints was a cobler ?

(A) Tulsidas

(B) Surdas

(C) Raidas

(D) Malukdas

Ans : (C)

51. Who founded the Varkari sect in Maharashtra ?

(A) Tukaram

(B) Namdev

(C) Visoba Khechar

(D) Eknath

Ans : (C)

52. The Sufi concept of Anal Haq was inspired by the following concept of Vedanta—

(A) Tat Twam Asi (that thou art)

(B) Ekam Advaitam (one without the second)

(C) Aham Brahmasmi (I am the supreme spirit)

(D) All of the above

Ans : (C)

53. Which Muslim poet of Hindi literature in medieval period wrote poetry essentially on Hindu

mythological heroes ?

(A) Qutban

(B) Rasakhan

(C) Mulla Daud

(D) Amir Khusrau

Ans : (B)

54. Which of the following musical instruments is not composite or Indo-Islamic in origin ?

(A) Sitar

(B) Shehnai

(C) Tabla

(D) Sarangi

Ans : (B)

55. Which among the following wars Muhammad Ghori did not participate himself in India ?

(A) Battle of Tarain in 1191

(B) Battle against Kannauj in 1194

(C) Against Chalukyas of Anhilawada in 1197-98

(D) Against Khokharas in 1205

Ans : (C)

56. Who was the Turkish commander who conquered Bihar and Bengal ?

(A) Mohammad of Ghur

(B) Kutub ud-Din Aibak

(C) Ikhtiyar ud-Din-Muhammad

(D) Bakhtiyar Khalji

Ans : (D)

57. Where did Kutub ud-Din Aibak lay the foundation of ‗seven cities‘ in medieval Delhi ?

(A) Siri

(B) Tughlaqabad

(C) Mehrauli

(D) Hauz Khas

Ans : (B)

58. Which Sultan called himself ‗Naib-i-Khudai‘ ?

(A) Iltutmish

(B) Balban

(C) Alauddin Khalji

(D) Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq

Ans : (B)

59. Which sultan of Delhi refused to read ‗Khutba‘ in the name of Khalifa for the first time ?

(A) Alauddin Khalji

(B) Mohammad-bin-Tughlaq

(C) Sikandar Lodi

(D) Ibrahim Lodi

Ans : (A)

60. Which Delhi Sultan styled himself Sikandar-i-sani (the second Alexander) ?

(A) Balban

(B) Alauddin Khalji

(C) Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq

(D) Sikandar Lodi

Ans : (B)

61. The dynasty founded by Khizr Khan is known as Sayyid dynasty because—

(A) He and his successors adopted the title Sayyid

(B) Khizr Khan belonged to the Sayyid tribe of eastern Turkistan

(C) Khizr Khan was the descendant of the prophet Muhammad

(D) He was a scholar of Islamic theology

Ans : (C)

62. Who were called barids ?

(A) Craftsmen working in state workshops

(B) Bodyguards of the sultan

(C) Officer-in-charge of state exchequer

(D) The spy reporters

Ans : (D)

63. Who among the following officers held highest stature in the central government of the

Sultanate ?

(A) Qazi-ul-Mulk

(B) Naib-i-Mulk

(C) Head of the Majlis-i-Khalawat

(D) Wazir

Ans : (B)

64. Who among the following did not act as a tax farmer ?

(A) Village headman

(B) Patwari

(C) Governor

(D) Tributary chief

Ans : (D)

65. In Early Medieval India ―Dosi Hatt‖ was—

(A) Animal Market

(B) Meena Bazar

(C) Kapaas (Cotton) Market

(D) Slave Bazar

Ans : (C)

66. Who was the founder of independent kingdom of Gujarat ?

(A) Zafar Khan

(B) Tatar Khan

(C) Shama Khan

(D) Ahmad Shah

Ans : (A)

67. The single biggest item of import to the Vijayanagar empire was—

(A) Precious stones

(B) Horses

(C) Luxury goods

(D) Raw Silk

Ans : (B)

68. Which contemporary Mughal historian of the age of Akbar had prepared a list of charges

calling him an enemy of Islam ?

(A) Badauni

(B) Niamtullah

(C) Abbas Khan Sarwani

(D) Nizamuddin Ahmad

Ans : (A)

69. Who is the writer of ‗Tabqat-i-Akbari‘ ?

(A) Badauni

(B) Khwaja Nizamuddin Ahmad

(C) Abul Fazl

(D) Khwand Mir

Ans : (B)

70. Which famous painter among the following did not remain in the court of Akbar ?

(A) Farrukh Beg

(B) Dasawanth

(C) Aga Reza

(D) Basawan

Ans : (A)

71. Who among the following Mughal princess produced a ‗diwan‘ (collection of poems) with the

name ‗Makhi‘ ?

(A) Humayun‘s sister Gulbadan Begum

(B) Shah Jahan‘s daughter Jahanara

(C) Shah Jahan‘s daughter Roshanara

(D) Aurangzeb‘s daughter Zibunnisa

Ans : (D)

72. Which jeweller foreign traveller of the Mughal period has left a detailed account of Takht-i-

Taus (Peacock throne) ?

(A) Travernier

(B) Geronimo Verroneo

(C) ‗Omrah‘ Danishmand Khan

(D) Austin of Bordeaux

Ans : (A)

73. Whom did Sher Shah appoint to provide bed and food to Hindu travellers staying at ‗Sarais‘

(rest houses) ?

(A) Afghan Muslims

(B) Muslims

(C) Brahmanas

(D) Low caste Hindus

Ans : (D)

74. Which one among the following statements is not correct about the agrarian policy of Sher

Shah ?

(A) Sher Shah insisted upon measurement of the sown land

(B) Sher Shah drew up schedule of rates for state‘s share of the different types of crops

(C) The amount each peasant had to pay was to be written down on a paper called ‗patta‘

(D) The measuring part was allowed to fix fee at their will

Ans : (D)

75. When did Aurangzeb arrive in Deccan finally to quell the revolt of Marathas ?

(A) 1681

(B) 1682

(C) 1689

(D) 1700

Ans : (C)

76. Which among the following is the most important source of information about the agrarian

conditions during Mughals ?

(A) Ain-i-Akbari

(B) Akbarnama

(C) Muntakhab-ul-Lubab

(D) Tarikh-i-Ferishta

Ans : (B)

77. What portion of actual produce was fixed as the demand of the state under the ‗Zabit‘ system

?

(A) One-half

(B) One-third

(C) One-fourth

(D) One-fifth

Ans : (B)

78. Which Maratha saint is most importantly known for social reform, national regeneration and

the rise of Maratha power ?

(A) Eknath

(B) Tukaram

(C) Samartha Ramdas

(D) Vaman Pandit

Ans : (C)

79. The chief gain to Shivaji from his raids of Surat in 1664 and 1670 was—

(A) Immense increase in his prestige

(B) Demoralisation of the Mughal forces

(C) Capture of the English factory

(D) A lot of booty

Ans : (D)

80. What was the unit of measurement of land in Maratha dominion ?

(A) Kathi

(B) Tanab

(C) Jarib

(D) Daftari bigha

Ans : (A)

81. How did Portuguese firstly affect Indian trade and industry ?

(A) By forcing Gujarat and Calicut to abandon construction of ships or even armed rowing boats

(B) By monopolising port-toport trade on the Malabar coast and the trade from Indian to Persian

coast

(C) In both (A) and (B) ways above

(D) By dictating the prices of horses imported by native Indian powers after ousting Arabs

Ans : (B)

82. What was the occasion of handing over of Mumbai (Bombay) to Britishers by the Portuguese

?

(A) Freedom of Portuguese from the control of Spain

(B) Marriage of Charles II with the Portuguese princess Catherine of Braganza

(C) Crushing of Spanish Armada by British in 1588

(D) The Treaty of Madrid in 1630

Ans : (B)

83. What made Jahangir to issue a farman in 1613 A.D. to the English to establish a factory at

Surat ?

(A) Reconciliation between the English and Portuguese

(B) A secret offer of naval help to the Mughal emperor to oust the Portuguese

(C) A heavy dose of bribe to Nur Jahan

(D) The defeat of Portuguese naval squadrons by the English

Ans : (D)

84. The Indian port(s) utilized by Dutch for their trade in India was/were—

(A) Pulicat

(B) Masulipattam

(C) Nagapattam

(D) All of these

Ans : (D)

85. The founder of French East India Company for trade in India was—

(A) Colbert

(B) Francois Martin

(C) Francois Caron

(D) De La Haye

Ans : (A)

86. Where was the first Presidency of English East India Company in India ?

(A) Chennai (Madras)

(B) Masulipattam

(C) Surat

(D) Hugli

Ans : (C)

87. Aurangzeb ordered the arrest of all Englishmen and the seizure of all English factories

throughout his dominion, because—

(A) The English had refused to pay local duties in Bengal

(B) The English had attacked the Mughal ships on the western coast

(C) The English were fortifying their trading stations

(D) All of the above

Ans : (D)

88. The English exported from Bengal—

(A) Sugar

(B) Saltpetre

(C) Silks

(D) All of these

Ans : (C)

89. The immediate cause of Siraj-uddaula‘s campaign against the English in 1757 was—

(A) The refusal of the English to pay taxes on their goods

(B) The levying of heavy duties by the English on Indian goods entering Kolkata (Calcutta)

(C) Additional fortification of Kolkata (Calcutta) without the permission or even the knowledge of

the nawab

(D) The English taking up the cause of Shaukut Jang, a rival of Siraj-ud-daula

Ans : (A)

90. How was the control of company in Bengal legitimized ?

(A) The imperial grant of the ‗diwani‘ of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa by Shah Alam II

(B) The treaty with Mir Zafar after the battle of Plassey in 1757

(C) The treaty with Mir Zafar after the battle of Buxar in 1764

(D) The treaty of February 1765 with Nizam-ud-daula

Ans : (D)

91. The first serious blow inflicted by the English on India‘s handloom industry was—

(A) Duty imposed on the looms

(B) Compulsion of weavers to sell their goods on dictated prices

(C) Shortage of cotton due to export of raw-cotton

(D) Infiltration of cash crops like indigo and opium in the cottongrowing area

Ans : (B)

92. Which of the following statements is not applicable to the Mahalwari settlement ?

(A) It was a permanant measure introduced as an improvement on the other two measures

(B) It was applied to each village and the estate separately

(C) The government instead of coming in contract with the cultivator made settlement with the

village community as a whole

(D) It was introduced in the Gangetic valley, the Punjab and the parts of Central India

Ans : (A)

93. Which of the following statements about the new landlords is not correct ?

(A) They were town dwelling merchants and moneyed classes with no roots in the village

(B) They were free to harass the cultivators

(C) They were mere rent collecting absentee businessmen

(D) They had converted the peasants to mere cultivators by taking away their traditional rights

over their land

Ans : (C)

94. Which of the following reasons is not correct with regard to the decline of economy of India

during English rule ?

(A) Lack of qualification and technical skill in the Indians

(B) Failure to get overseas market due to lack sea power

(C) Unprotected indigenous industry due to weak guild organizations

(D) Lack of the class of industrial enterprizers in India

Ans : (A)

95. Who first expounded the theory of ‗economic drain‘ of India during the British rule ?

(A) Raja Ram Mohan Roy

(B) Ramesh Chanda Dutt

(C) Dadabhai Naoroji

(D) Surendra Nath Banerjee

Ans : (C)

96. What among the following factors was not applicable to the conditions of abject poverty in

India during the British rule ?

(A) Decay of Agricultural production and indigenuous industries

(B) Investment of foreign capital in India

(C) Insufficient growth of modern industries

(D) High taxation

Ans : (B)

97. Who among these was not a part of triple alliance on the eve of first Anglo-Mysore war of

1767-69 ?

(A) The English

(B) Nizam of Hyderabad

(C) The Marathas

(D) Raja of Travancore

Ans : (D)

98. Tipu Sultan was ahead of his contemporaries in many respect because—

(A) He understood the threat posed by English to the Indian powers

(B) He understood the importance of strong economic base for the military power

(C) He understood the importance of modern trade and industry

(D) All of the above

Ans : (D)

99. Who among the following Maratha chiefs was the last to enter into a subsidiary alliance with

the English ?

(A) The Peshwas

(B) Holkar

(C) Bhonsle

(D) Scindia

Ans : (B)

100. On what condition Wellesly agreed to help Peshwa Bajirao II ?

(A) His agreeing to the abolition of the office of the Peshwa after his death

(B) An underhand transaction of Rs. 15 lakh

(C) His consent to the subsidiary alliance

(D) His agreeing to dispossess Scindia from his fief

Ans : (C)

101. From whom did the English secure the rights of duty free trade after Bengal ?

(A) Nawab of Awadh

(B) Raja of Banaras

(C) The Nizam of Hyderabad

(D) The Jats of Bharatpur

Ans : (A)

102. With whom did Raja Ranjit Singh conclude the treaty of Lahore in 1806 which gave him

freedom to expand north of Sutlej ?

(A) Peshwa Bajirao II

(B) Holkar of Indore

(C) Scindia of Gwalior

(D) East India Company

Ans : (D)

103. Who among the following did not become a prey of Dalhousie‘s policy of absorption ?

(A) Satara

(B) Nagpur

(C) Scindia

(D) Mysore

Ans : (D)

104. Why did Mumbai (Bombay) and Chennai (Madras) not join the revolt of 1857 along with

northern provinces ?

(A) They failed to find necessary leadership due to ryotwari settlement

(B) They had remained comparatively free from annexations and confiscations

(C) They had more tolerant and enlightened administrators

(D) They were at a great distance from Kolkata (Calcutta), the seat of British administration

Ans : (D)

105. What was the grieviest cause of discontent among soldiers before the revolt of 1857 ?

(A) Question of promotion and pay

(B) Non-observance of caste distinctions

(C) Frequent campaigns in distant lands

(D) Absence of a proper and equitable procedure for discipline and control

Ans : (A)

106. Who led the revolt of 1857 in Lucknow ?

(A) Tatya Tope

(B) Maulvi Ahmadullah Shah

(C) Birjis Qadir

(D) Begum Hazrat Mahal

Ans : (D)

107. Who among the following said, ―One religion, one caste and one God for mankind‖ ?

(A) Jyotiba Phule

(B) Vivekananda

(C) Sri Narayan Guru

(D) Dr. B. R. Ambedkar

Ans : (C)

108. Which is called the ‗magna carta‘ of western education system in India ?

(A) The report of the Committee of Public Instruction, 1823

(B) The Charter Act of 1833

(C) Report of the Hunter Commission, 1862

(D) Despatch of Sir Charles Wood, Secretary of State, 1854

Ans : (D)

109. Which of the following organizations did Raja Ram Mohan Roy conceive of ahead of his

times ?

(A) World Court of Justice

(B) Economic Community

(C) League of Nations

(D) Common Market

Ans : (C)

110. Who guided the establishment of Prarthana Samaj in Maharashtra ?

(A) Keshub Chunder Sen

(B) Lokhitwadi

(C) Shibnath Shastri

(D) Debendranath Tagore

Ans : (A)

111. Which of the following books does not match with its author ?

(A) Dadabhai Naoroji—‗Poverty and Un-British Rule in India‘

(B) R. C. Dutt—‗Economic History of India‘

(C) Mahatma Gandhi—‗Hind Swaraj‘

(D) D. R. Gadgil—‗Indian Industry, Today and Tomorrow‘

Ans : (D)

112. In 1922 ―Bhil Seva Mandal‖ was established by—

(A) Narain Malhar Joshi

(B) Amritlal Vitthaldas Thakkar

(C) Jyotiba Phule

(D) Baba Amte

Ans : (B)

113. On what ground the second split in Congress took place in 1918 ?

(A) Lucknow Pact

(B) Montague Declaration

(C) Election of Mrs. Annie Besant as the President of the Congress in 1917

(D) Both (B) and (C) above

Ans : (B)

114. By which Act the Public Service Commission was first established in India ?

(A) The Indian Council Act, 1892

(B) The Act of 1909

(C) The Government of India Act, 1919

(D) The Government of India Act, 1935

Ans : (C)

115. Who was the mastermind of bomb attack on Lord Hardinge at Chandani Chowk, Delhi in

1912 ?

(A) Rasbehari Bose

(B) Bhai Paramanand

(C) Sachindranath Sanyal

(D) Sohan Lal Pathak

Ans : (A)

116. Who was selected as the first satyagrahi by Mahatma Gandhi to begin the individual

satyagraha in 1940 ?

(A) C. Rajagopalachari

(B) Vallabhbhai Patel

(C) J.B. Kripalani

(D) Dr. Rajendra Prasad

Ans : (B)

117. Who was the founder president of Harijan Sevak Samgha founded by Mahatma Gandhi ?

(A) Mahadev Desai

(B) G. D. Birla

(C) Amrit Lal Thakkar

(D) B. R. Ambedkar

Ans : (C)

118. What was the provocation behind the damand of separate electorate etc. under fourteen

points of Jinnah ?

(A) Fear of the majority rule

(B) Communal politics of Hindu Mahasabha and Sikh League

(C) Disagreement with the proposals contained in the Nehru report

(D) The challenge of the British government for drawing up an agreed Constitution of India

Ans : (C)

119. What was the reason for the rejection of the Government of India Act, 1935 by the Congress

?

(A) The Indians were not consulted

(B) It was stalling the establishment of people‘s government

(C) The provisions made in the name provincial autonomy were violative of democratic rights

(D) All of the above

Ans : (D)

120. When did Gandhiji go to fast unto death for the first time ?

(A) At the time of Communal award

(B) At the time of riots in Kolkatta (Calcutta)

(C) At the time of riots in Delhi

(D) At the time of Jallianwala Bagh tragedy

Ans : (D)

1. Which one of the following left the Congress to form the Indian Liberal Federation and give the

1919 Act a chance ?

(A) C.R. Das

(B) S.N. Bannerjee

(C) Anil Baran Roy

(D) None of these

Ans : (A)

2. In which of the following movements ‗Bande Matram‘ was adopted slogan for agitation ?

(A) Revolt of 1857

(B) Partition of Bengal in 1905

(C) Non-cooperation Movement in 1922

(D) Quit India Movement in 1942

Ans : (B)

3. The Act of 1909 is also popular as—

(A) Montageau–Chelmsford Reform

(B) Morley–Minto Reform

(C) Balkan plan

(D) None of these

Ans : (B)

4. Which one of the following Acts empowered the Governor General of India to issue ordinances—

(A) Charter Act of 1833

(B) Indian Council Act of 1861

(C) Indian Council Act of 1892

(D) Indian Council Act of 1909

Ans : (A)

5. Under the permanent settlement, 1793, the Zamindars were required to issue pattas to the farmers

which were not issued by many of the Zamindars. The reason was—

(A) The Zamindars were trusted by the farmers

(B) There was no official check upon the Zamindars

(C) It was the responsibility of the British Government

(D) The farmers were not interested in getting pattas

Ans : (B)

6. Which of the following gave an impetus to the growth of militant nationalism on a widespread

scale?

(A) Partition of Bengal

(B) Lytton‘s oppressive rule

(C) Vernacular Press Act

(D) Ilbert Bill agitation

Ans : (A)

7. The public safety bill on which the Government was defeated in the Legislature in 1928 related to—

(A) Compulsory recruitment to the armed forces

(B) Health measures which offended Indian religious sentiments

(C) Arming the Government with power to deport ‗undesirable‘ and ‗subversive foreigners‘

(D) Curbing industrial strikes

Ans : (C)

8. The ‗no-changers‘ did not include—

(A) N.C. Kelkar

(B) Bithalbai Patel

(C) C. R. Das

(D) Ballabhbhai Patel

Ans : (D)

9. The Act of 1935 was—

(A) Welcomed by all sections of Indian opinion except the Congress

(B) Accepted by the Congress with reservations

(C) Was unanimously rejected by the Congress

(D) Responsible to Gandhi‘s resignation from the Congress

Ans : (C)

10. The Act of 1935 provided for—

(A) A unicameral legislature

(B) Diarchy at Central and Provincial Level

(C) Universal adult franchise

(D) A disproportionate representation to princely states in the legislature

Ans : (D)

11. Why was the Simon Commission appointed before the passage of the stipulated ten years after

the 1919 reforms ?

(A) The nationalist pressure became too heavy for the British government

(B) The conservative Government of Britain did not want to leave the constitutional issue to the labour

government in case of their defeat in the impending election

(C) The British Government capitulated to nationalists demand in the wake of excessive revolutionary

activities

(D) All of the above

Ans : (B)

12. Lord Birkenhead, the conservative secretary of State, justified the exclusion of Indians from the

Simon Commission on the ground that—

(A) Indians were not yet prepared to be included on such a commission

(B) Due to the revolutionary activities being carried on by the Indians

(C) Indians could not be legally included

(D) There were vital differences among the various Indian political groups

Ans : (D)

13. Which of the following was not a recommendation for the Simon Commission Report ?

(A) Reservation of seats for depressed classes

(B) Establishment of a Responsible Government at the centre

(C) Scrapping of Dyarchy in the provinces

(D) Grant of Federal structure to India

Ans : (B)

14. It was decided to boycott the Simon Commission by the Indian National Congress and—

(A) Jinnah led Muslim League

(B) Hindu Mahasabha

(C) Liberal Federation

(D) All of the above

Ans : (D)

15. The Cripps Mission mainly failed because—

(A) It offered a clear programme for partitioning India

(B) It said nothing about a constitution making body for India

(C) The Congress demand for effective transfer of power to Indians was not met

(D) The Congress was no longer willing to trust the British

Ans : (C)

16. Nehru Report is related to—

(A) Motilal Nehru

(B) Jawahar Lal Nehru

(C) B.K. Nehru

(D) R.K. Nehru

Ans : (A)

17. The ‗fourteen points‘ put forward in 1929 came from—

(A) Gandhi

(B) Moti Lal Nehru

(C) Ballabhbhai Patel

(D) Mohammed Ali Jinnah

Ans : (D)

18. Bhoodan Movement was started by—

(A) Acharya Vinoba Bhave

(B) Jaya Prakash Narain

(C) M.K. Gandhi

(D) Gautam Buddha

Ans : (A)

19. Under the provisions of the Act of 1919, elections were held in—

(A) 1926

(B) 1923

(C) 1920

(D) All of the above

Ans : (D)

20. The Congress rejected the Government of India Act, 1935 on the ground that—

(A) The provincial Autonomy armoured with safeguards was violative of democratic rights

(B) The Indian people were not consulted in formulating it

(C) The Act opposed the establishment of a Responsible Government so as to perpetuate the British

rule

and exploit India

(D) All of the above

Ans : (D)

1. The Monotheism and soical reform preached by the Kherwar or Sapha Har Movement (1870)

turned into a—

(A) Violent movement against the Zamindars

(B) Peasant movement demanding reduction in rent

(C) Campaign against revenue settlement

(D) Movement for a separate State

Ans : (C)

2. The Kheda peasants grievance was against—

(A) European planters

(B) Moneylenders

(C) The Government

(D) All of the above

Ans : (C)

3. The tinkathia system practiced in Champaran and which hurt the peasants, demanded that—

(A) The peasants cultivate indigo on 3/20 th of their holdings

(B) The peasants give up their share of revenue on growing indigo to the extent of 3/20 to the

planters

(C) The peasants pay a large revenue to the planters for being allowed to cultivate indigo

(D) The peasants give to the state one-third of the indigo they cultivated

Ans : (A)

4. The Kheda Satyagraha was withdrawn—

(A) Because the Government agreed to meet the demands of the peasants

(B) Because the peasants fell out with Gandhi over the efficiency of the Satyagraha in the face of

government repression

(C) By Gandhi when he got to know that the Government had issued secret instructions not to collect

revenue for the year

(D) By Gandhi when he got to know that instructions had been issued in private that revenue be

recovered only from those peasants who could afford it

Ans : (D)

5. The general reasons for tribal unrest in the period of British rule did not include—

1. Authorities curbing shifting cultivation

2. Setting up of reserved forests

3. Attempt to bring in a uniform Civil Code

4. Harassment of money landers who were helpful towards tribals

(A) 3 and 4

(B) 2 and 4

(C) 2 and 3

(D) 1 and 2

Ans : (A)

6. Which of the following factors were responsible in the growth of modern nationalism ?

1. Political, administrative and economic unification of the country

2. Western thought and education

3. Role of press and literature

4. Rise of middle class intelligntia

(A) 1, 2 and 3

(B) 2 and 3

(C) 2 and 4

(D) 1, 2, 3 and 4

Ans : (D)

7. The British contributed to the rise of nationalism in India by—

1. Introducing English language which provided Indians with a ‗lingua franca‘

2. Introducing modern means of transport and communication

3. Excluding Indians from responsible posts and thus creating bitter feelings

4. Encouraging a free press

(A) 1, 2 and 3

(B) 1, 2 and 4

(C) 1, 3 and 4

(D) 1, 2, 3 and 4

Ans : (A)

8. Which one of the following was the common factor for all the tribal uprisings ?

(A) The influx of the Christian missionaries into the tribal areas

(B) Efforts of the colonial administration to end the relative isolation of the tribals and bring them

within the ambit of colonialism

(C) Restrictions placed by the colonial administration on access to forest products for the tribals

(D) The complete destruction of the old agrarian order of the tribal communities by the colonial

administration

Ans : (D)

9. In the second half of the 19th century, the Indian intellectual class started opposing the different

colonial policies. which of the following was not the part of their opposition ?

(A) To write articles and books on this issue

(B) To publish newspapers in order to clarify their thoughts

(C) To form committees, institutions and organisation in order to complain

(D) Shelter of armed resistance

Ans : (D)

10. Dadabhai Naoroji did for the first time explain the drain of Indian wealth to England in his article—

(A) England‘s debt to India

(B) The wants and means of India

(C) On the commerce of India

(D) None of the above

Ans : (C)

11. Which among the following factors caused greatest racial cleavage in India before 1885 ?

(A) The Arms Act of 1878

(B) The Vernacular Press Act

(C) The Ilbert Bill controversy

(D) Reduction of age for entry to the civil service

Ans : (C)

12. The Vernacular Press Act of 1878, adopted by Lord Lytton, intended to—

(A) Promote freedom of the press

(B) Help English newspapers

(C) Curb freedom of the press in general

(D) Restrain newspapers published in Indian languages

Ans : (D)

13. The most important aspect in Queen Victoria‘s proclamation was—

(A) The Governor of Bengal came to be called as Governor General

(B) Provincial autonomy was accorded

(C) Property qualifications were prescribed for franchise

(D) The administration in India was taken over by the crown

Ans : (D)

14. Who among the following wrote ‗Unhappy India‘ ?

(A) Lala Lajpat Rai

(B) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

(C) Annie Besant

(D) Mahatma Gandhi

Ans : (A)

15. Which one of the following factors did ‗not‘ help in the growth of Indian nationalism in the 19th

century ?

(A) Western education

(B) Russophobia

(C) Racial arrogance of the British

(D) Pro-Muslim attitude of the British

Ans : (B)

16. The offence for which Tilak and others were imprisoned in 1897 was—

(A) Spreading disaffection against the British rule through speeches and writings

(B) Breaking the salt laws

(C) Violating the Arms Act

(D) Refusal to appear before the court

Ans : (A)

17. By which Act the Viceroy was empowered to raise the strength of his Executive Council ?

(A) 1858

(B) 1861

(C) 1892

(D) 1909

Ans : (B)

18. Which of the following Acts introduced the principle of the ‗constitutional autocracy‘ ?

(A) The Indian Council Act of 1909

(B) Government of India Act of 1919

(C) The Act of 1935

(D) Indian Independence Act of 1947

Ans : (C)

19. Re-marriage of widows was legalized in—

(A) 1859

(B) 1856

(C) 1872

(D) 1869

Ans : (B)

20. The Morley-Minto reforms mainly aimed at—

(A) Delegating more powers to the Indians

(B) Wooing the Moderates in the Indian National Congress

(C) Expansion of the legislature

(D) None of the above

Ans : (C)

1. Mahatma Gandhi gave the title of Sardar to Vallabhbhai Patel for his great organisational skill in—

(A) The Salt Satyagraha

(B) The Bardoli Satyagraha

(C) The Kheda Satyagraha

(D) The Indiviual Satyagraha

Ans : (B)

2. The first tribal leader who was inspired by Mahatma Gandhi and his ideology, was—

(A) Thakkar Bapa

(B) Alluri Sitaram Raju

(C) Rani Gaidinliu

(D) Jadonang

Ans : (D)

3. Which of the following national movements was supported by the Indian capitalist class ?

(A) Non-cooperation Movement

(B) Civil Disobedience Movement

(C) Quit India Movement

(D) None of these

Ans : (B)

4. A Congress leader, who held that the Quit India Movement was misguided and detrimental to

India‘s long term interests, was—

(A) J.B. Kripalani

(B) Tej Bahadur Sapru

(C) Jaya Prakash Narayan

(D) C. Rajagopalachari

Ans : (D)

5. Which Ashram was founded by Mahatma Gandhi on the banks of the river Sabarmati near

Ahmedabad in 1915 ?

(A) Harijan Ashram

(B) Satyagraha Ashram

(C) Sabarmati Ashram

(D) Swaraj Ashram

Ans : (B)

6. Which of the following parties supported the Quit India Movement ?

(A) The communist party of India

(B) The Hindu Mahasabha

(C) The Unionist party in the Punjab

(D) None of the above

Ans : (D)

7. The twin principles of Mahatma Gandhi‘s Ram Rajya were—

(A) Truth and Non-violence

(B) Right means and Right ends

(C) Khadi and Ahimsa

(D) Satyagraha and Non-violence

Ans : (B)

8. A popular movement of the nineteenth century, which was much better planned than the revolt of

1857, was—

(A) The Sanyasi rebellion

(B) The Munda rebellion

(C) The Kuka revolt

(D) The Wahabi Movement

Ans : (D)

9. Which among the following is popularly known as Gadkari Movement ?

(A) The revolt organized by Dadaji Daulat Rao Ghorpade in the interests of Kolhapur

(B) The rising of the Sawantwadi under the leadership of phoned sawant

(C) The rising of Narsappa for the restoration of the deposed Raja Pratap Singh of Satara

(D) The rising of the hereditary servants by Daji Krishna pandit, Minister of Kolhapur

Ans : (B)

10. Which of the following tribals rebelled because their villages were transferred from their headmen

to Sikh and Muslim revenue collectors ?

(A) Santhals of Raj Mahal hills

(B) Kots of Chhota Nagpur

(C) Bhumij of Manbhum

(D) Chuars of Jungle Mahals

Ans : (C)

11. Which of the following leaders and their areas of tribal unrest is wrongly matched ?

(A) Rani Gaidinliu—Assam

(B) Alluri Sitaramaraju—Rampa region

(C) Roop Singh—Panch Mahal

(D) Birsa Munda—Chhota Nagpur

Ans : (B)

12. Yelu thampi, the Dewan of Travancore revolted in—

(A) 1800

(B) 1805

(C) 1809

(D) 1811

Ans : (C)

13. Which one of the following was a precursor of the 1857 revolt ?

(A) Sanyasi revolt

(B) Indigo revolt

(C) Veluthampi revolt

(D) Pabna uprising

Ans : (A)

14. What was the new role of Awadh Talluqdars after the revolt of 1857 ?

(A) They lost all interests in politics

(B) They organized themselves to fight against the British

(C) They became supporters of the Congress

(D) They became strong allies of the British

Ans : (D)

15. The tribal leader who was regarded as an incarnation of God and father of the world was—

(A) Jogia Bhagat

(B) Nanak Bhil

(C) Birsa Munda

(D) Siddhu Santhal

Ans : (C)

16. Which one of the following revolts is related with ‗Siddhu‘ and ‗Kanhu‘ ?

(A) Santhal rebellion, 1855

(B) Kol uprising, 1820–37

(C) Munda revolt, 1899-1900

(D) Revolt of Zamindars of Orissa, 1804–1817

Ans : (A)

17. The rebellion of the ‗Moplah‘ peasants during 1836 to 1854 were directed against the oppression

of—

(A) Landlords

(B) Moneylenders

(C) Foreign planters

(D) Revenue officials of the British Government

Ans : (A)

18. The play ‗Nil Darpan‘ portrays the oppression of—

(A) The artisans

(B) The indigo planters

(C) The handloom wearers

(D) The cotton planters

Ans : (B)

19. The Kuka Movement to overthrow the British rule was organised in—

(A) Uttar Pradesh

(B) Bihar

(C) Punjab

(D) Bombay

Ans : (C)

20. Which of the following was the leader of the ‗Pagal panthi‘, the sect that defied authority and set

the tenants against the Zamindars ?

(A) Haji Shariatullah

(B) Dadu Mian

(C) Tipu

(D) Karamshah

Ans : (C)

1. Who wrote the Book entitled ‗Ghulamgiri‘ ?

(A) B. R. Ambedkar

(B) Narayan Guru

(C) Jyotiba Phule

(D) M. P. Pillai

Ans : (C)

2. Which one of the following had supported Mahatma Gandhi on the Non-cooperation resolution at

the Special Calcutta Session, 1920 ?

(A) C. R. Das

(B) B. C. Pal

(C) Annie Besant

(D) Motilal Nehru

Ans : (D)

3. Which one of the following books is the official History of Revolt of 1857 ?

(A) Eighteen Fifty Seven

(B) Theories of Indian Mutiny

(C) The Sepoy Mutiny and the Revolt of 1857

(D) None of the above

Ans : (A)

4. Which one of the following had for the first time accepted that British victory at Plassey was the

victory of breach of faith ?

(A) Lord Clive

(B) Vansittort

(C) Hector Munro

(D) None of the above

Ans : (D)

5. Which one of the following Bengali drama was directed against Polygamy ?

(A) Bhanumati Chittavikas

(B) Kulin Kulasarvasva

(C) Vidhva Vivaha

(D) Nava Natak

Ans : (B)

6. The statement, ―on bended knees I asked for bread and received stone instead‖ is associated

with—

(A) Khilafat Movement

(B) Non-Cooperation Movement

(C) Dandi March

(D) Quit India Movement

Ans : (C)

7. Which operation was started by the British Government to arrest the leaders of Quit India

Movement ?

(A) Operation Reander Paste

(B) Operation Zero Hour

(C) Operation Thunderbolt

(D) Operation Blue Star

Ans : (C)

8. Which one of the following had drafted the fundamental rights resolution at the Karachi Session,

1931 ?

(A) Jawaharlal Nehru

(B) Acharya Narendra Deo

(C) Subhash Chandra Bose

(D) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

Ans : (A)

9. Which one of the following Bengali writers was the first to suggest the adoption of Hindi as India‘s

National Language ?

(A) Bhudeva Mukherjee

(B) Dinbandhu Mitra

(C) Madhusudan Datta

(D) Kali Prasanna Sinha

Ans : (A)

10. Which one of the following is known as Mother of Indian Revolutionaries ?

(A) Annie Besant

(B) Sarojini Naidu

(C) Madame Cama

(D) Usha Mehta

Ans : (C)

11. Which one of the following had drafted the ‗Quit India Resolution‘ ?

(A) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

(B) Jawahar Lal Nehru

(C) Mahatma Gandhi

(D) Acharya Narendra Deo

Ans : (B)

12. In which of the following places Hindu Mahasabha was for the first time organised in 1915 ?

(A) Haridwar

(B) Allahabad

(C) Varanasi

(D) None of the above

Ans : (A)

13. Who among the following had read the English version of Presidential address in the Tripuri

Session of Indian National Congress, 1939 ?

(A) Acharya Narendra Deo

(B) Sarat Chandra Bose

(C) Subhash Chandra Bose

(D) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

Ans : (C)

14. The party which observed the ‗Black Day‘ on July 3, 1947 against Partition of India was—

(A) Indian National Congress

(B) Forward Bloc

(C) Hindu Mahasabha

(D) Communist Party of India

Ans : (C)

15. The First President of Muslim League was—

(A) Nawab Viqar-ul-Mulk Mustaq Hussain

(B) Mian Abdul Aziz

(C) Hidayat Hussain Khan

(D) Mohammad Ali Jinnah

Ans : (A)

16. Who said, ―Like summer gale revolt of Meerut was unprecedented and short-lived‖ ?

(A) S. N. Sen

(B) R. C. Majumdar

(C) S. B. Chaudhuri

(D) V. D. Savarkar

Ans : (A)

17. Which one of the following had drafted the Hindu Widows Remarriage Act ?

(A) Lord Canning

(B) Lord Dalhousie

(C) Lord Hardinge

(D) None of the above

Ans : (B)

18. When was the Treaty of Alinagar signed ?

(A) February 1756

(B) September 1756

(C) February 1757

(D) April 1757

Ans : (C)

19. In which of the following Sessions of Muslim League Two—

Nation Theory was propounded ?

(A) Lahore Session, 1940

(B) Bombay Session, 1915

(C) Delhi Session, 1918

(D) Calcutta Session, 1917

Ans : (A)

20. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched ?

Author —Drama

(A) Girish Chandra Ghose —Mir Kasim

(B) D. L. Roy —Chhatrapati Shivaji

(C) Kshirod Prasad Vidyavinod —Nand Kumar

(D) Nikhil Nath Roy —Pratapaditya

Ans : (B)

21. Who was the biographer of A.O. Hume ?

(A) W. Wederbirn

(B) Lord Dufferin

(C) J. Charles

(D) None of the above

Ans : (A)

22. Which young woman leader was symbol of defiance and resistance during Quit India Movement ?

(A) Sarojini Naidu

(B) Kalpana Dutt Joshi

(C) Sucheta Kriplani

(D) Aruna Asaf Ali

Ans : (D)

23. Who hailed Gandhi‘s call for ‗Quit India‘ as an ‗Epic Movement‘ ?

(A) Ram Manohar Lohia

(B) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

(C) Subhash Chandra Bose

(D) Jai Prakash Narayan

Ans : (B)

24. In which year English was made the medium of instruction in India ?

(A) 1844 A.D.

(B) 1835 A.D.

(C) 1833 A.D.

(D) 1813 A.D.

Ans : (B)

25. Who is known as the ―Father of Muslim Renaissance in Bengal‖ ?

(A) Abdul Latif

(B) Mirza Ghulam Ahmed

(C) Muhammad Qasim

(D) Rashid Ahmed Gangohi

Ans : (A)

26. Which one of the following leaders was not a part of Noncooperation movement ?

(A) M. A. Ansari

(B) M. A. Zinnah

(C) Abul Kalam Azad

(D) Hakim Ajmal Khan

Ans : (B)

27. Between which stations was the first railway line opened in India ?

(A) Calcutta to Raniganj

(B) Bombay to Pune

(C) Calcutta to Jamshedpur

(D) Bombay to Thane

Ans : (D)

28. Who was the President of the ‗Flag Committee‘ ?

(A) B. R. Ambedkar

(B) J. B. Kriplani

(C) K. M. Munshi

(D) D. P. Khetan

Ans : (B)

29. Who said over the radio on 30th January 1948 ―The Father of Nation is no more‖ ?

(A) Sardar Patel

(B) Jawaharlal Nehru

(C) Rajendra Prasad

(D) Rajgopalachari

Ans : (B)

30. In which year was the National Development Council set up ?

(A) 1949 A.D.

(B) 1950 A.D.

(C) 1951 A.D.

(D) 1952 A.D.

Ans : (D)

31. Which one of the following books is associated with rise of National Movement in India ?

(A) Gitanjali

(B) Anand Math

(C) Satyagrah Prakash

(D) Gita Rahasya

Ans : (B)

32. Bijauliya Movement was related to—

(A) Kerala

(B) Assam

(C) Rajasthan

(D) Orissa

Ans : (C)

33. Which was the first State to be created on linguistic basis ?

(A) Madras

(B) Andhra Pradesh

(C) Bombay

(D) Gujarat

Ans : (B)

34. Indo-Pak border is known as—

(A) Durand Line

(B) Mc Mohan Line

(C) Redcliffe Line

(D) Line of Control

Ans : (C)

35. The excavation at Chanhu Daro was directed by—

(A) John Marshall

(B) J. H. Mackay

(C) R. E. M. Wheeler

(D) Aurel Stein

Ans : (B)

36. Which of the following Harappan towns is divided into three parts ?

(A) Kalibanga

(B) Lothal

(C) Chanhudaro

(D) Dholavira

Ans : (D)

37. Which of the following is the most common motif of the Indus Seals ?

(A) Unicorn

(B) Bull

(C) Rhinoceros

(D) Elephant

Ans : (A)

38. Robert Bruce Foote, who discovered first Palaeolithic tool in India, was originally a—

(A) Palaeobotanist

(B) Geologist

(C) Archaeologist

(D) Historian

Ans : (B)

39. The earliest evidence of agriculture in Indian Subcontinent has been obtained from—

(A) Brahmagiri

(B) Chirand

(C) Mehrgarh

(D) Burzahom

Ans : (C)

40. Which of the following was not worshipped by the Harappans ?

(A) Shiva

(B) Mother Goddess

(C) Peepal

(D) Vishnu

Ans : (D)

41. Satapatha Brahmana is related to—

(A) Rigveda

(B) Yajurveda

(C) Samaveda

(D) Atharvaveda

Ans : (B)

42. King Ashvapati of the Upanishadic Age was the ruler of—

(A) Kekaya

(B) Matsya

(C) Panchala

(D) Sursena

Ans : (A)

43. Who of the following propounded the theory of the Arctic region as the home land of the Aryan

speaking people ?

(A) Max Muller

(B) Edward Meyer

(C) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

(D) Herzefeld

Ans : (C)

44. Who was the priest of the Bharatas in the battle of Ten Kings ?

(A) Visvamitra

(B) Vasishtha

(C) Atri

(D) Bhrigu

Ans : (B)

45. To which Sakha does the published Rigveda Samhita belong ?

(A) Saunaka

(B) Ashvalayan

(C) Shakala

(D) Sankhayana

Ans : (C)

46. Who among the following teachers were visited by Siddhartha Gautama in the quest of

knowledge before his enlightenment ?

1. Alara Kalama

2. Udraka Ramaputra

3. Makkhali Gosala

4. Nigantha Nataputta

Indicate your answer from the codes given below—

(A) 1 and 4

(B) 4 and 2

(C) 2 and 3

(D) 1 and 2

Ans : (D)

47. Which of the following Upnishads is written in prose ?

(A) Isa

(B) Katha

(C) Brihadaranyaka

(D) Svetasvatara

Ans : (C)

48. The twenty thrid Jain Tirthankar was associated with—

(A) Vaishali

(B) Kausambi

(C) Varanasi

(D) Sravasti

Ans : (C)

49. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below the lists—

List-I (Jain Tirthankaras)

(a) Santinatha

(b) Mallinatha

(c) Parsvanatha

(d) Mahavira

List-II (Cognizance)

1. Antelope

2. Lion

3. Serpent

4. Water jar

Codes :

(a) (b) (c) (d)

(A) 1 2 4 3

(B) 4 1 3 2

(C) 2 3 1 4

(D) 1 4 3 2

Ans : (D)

50. Who among the following laid down punishment for a person becoming mendicant without making

adequate provision for dependent wife and children ?

(A) Manu

(B) Yajnavalkya

(C) Kautilya

(D) Narada

Ans : (C)

51. Consider the following statements and select the correct answer from the codes given below—

Assertion (A) : In the maximum number of Varsavasas Gautama Buddha stayed at Sravasti.

Reason (R) : Prasenjit, the ruler of Sravasti was of the same age as Gautama Buddha.

Codes :

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)

(B) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)

(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false

(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true

Ans : (B)

52. Which of the following pairs is not correctly matched ?

(A) Sakyas —Kapilvastu

(B) Koliyas —Ramagrama

(C) Kalamas —Allakappa

(D) Mallas —Kusinagara

Ans : (C)

53. Where did the Mahasamghika School arise ?

(A) Bodha Gaya

(B) Rajagriha

(C) Sravasti

(D) Vaisali

Ans : (D)

54. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched ?

(A) Charsada —Pushkalavati

(B) Sirkap —Takshasila

(C) Nagarjundakonda —Dhanyakataka

(D) Tamluk —Tamralipti

Ans : (C)

55. Rulers of which of the following dynasties bore the title Devaputra ?

(A) Maurya

(B) Sunga

(C) Kushana

(D) Saka-Kshatrapa

Ans : (C)

56. Rulers of which of the following dynasties maintained diplomatic relations with distant countries

like Syria in the West ?

(A) Maurya

(B) Gupta

(C) Pallava

(D) Chola

Ans : (A)

57. Who identified ‗Sandra Kottus‘ of the Greco-Roman literature with Chandragupta Maurya ?

(A) D. R. Bhandarkar

(B) Alexander Cunningham

(C) R. P. Chanda

(D) William Jones

Ans : (D)

58. Who were the beneficiaries of Asoka‘s donations in the region of Barabar Hill ?

(A) Buddhists

(B) Ajivikas

(C) Svetambar Jains

(D) Digambar Jains

Ans : (B)

59. In which of the following inscriptions Ashoka made his famous declaration, ‗All men are my

children‘ ?

(A) Minor Rock Edict (Ahraura)

(B) Pillar Edict VII

(C) Lumbini Pillar Edict

(D) Separate Kaling Rock Edict I

Ans : (D)

60. Who among the following is credited to have performed four Asvamedha sacrifices ?

(A) Pushyamitra Sunga

(B) Pravarasena I

(C) Samudragupta

(D) Nandivarman Pallavamalla

Ans : (B)

61. Who among the following was the ruler of Kanchi during the time of Samudragupta ?

(A) Hastivarman

(B) Mantaraja

(C) Nilaraja

(D) Vishnugopa

Ans : (D)

62. Which one of the following places was a mint centre of the Yaudheyas ?

(A) Bayana

(B) Rohtak

(C) Bareilly

(D) Mathura

Ans : (B)

63. Which of the following parts were situated on the west coast of South India ?

1. Kaveripattanam

2. Korkai

3. Musiri

4. Tondi

Indicate the correct answer from the codes given below—

(A) 1, 2

(B) 2, 3

(C) 3, 4

(D) 2, 3, 4

Ans : (C)

64. Who among the following was the first Satavahana King to introduce the ruler‘s head on the coins

?

(A) Satakarni I

(B) Gautamiputra Satakarni

(C) Vasishthiputra Pulumavi

(D) Yajna Satakarni

Ans : (A)

65. The largest of the Pallava Rathas is—

(A) Arjuna

(B) Bhima

(C) Dharmaraja

(D) Draupadi

Ans : (C)

66. Who of the following adopted ‗Garuda‘ as dynastic emblem after the imperial Guptas ?

(A) Rashtrakutas

(B) Western Chalukyas

(C) Shilaharas

(D) Chedis

Ans : (A)

67. Who among the following had the title ‗Parama-Saugata‘ ?

(A) Bhaskar Varman

(B) Shashanka

(C) Rajya Vardhana

(D) Harsha

Ans : (D)

68. Who had appointed Parnadatta as the Provincial Governor of Saurashtra ?

(A) Chandragupta Maurya

(B) Rudradaman

(C) Chandragupta II

(D) Skandagupta

Ans : (D)

69. Who among the following was a lady Alvar Saint ?

(A) Andal

(B) Madhura Kavi

(C) Perumal

(D) Tirupan

Ans : (A)

70. Which of the following pairs is not correctly matched ?

(A) Nagananda —Harsha

(B) Mudrarakshasa—Visakhadatta

(C) Mrichchhakatika —Sudraka

(D) Ratnavali —Rajasekhara

Ans : (D)

71. Who among the following called themselves ‗Brahma-Kshatriay‘ ?

(A) Palas

(B) Senas

(C) Pratiharas

(D) Chahamanas

Ans : (B)

72. The North Indian Dynasties that confronted the Rashtrakutas were—

(A) The Pratiharas and the Paramaras

(B) The Palas and the Chandelas

(C) The Pratiharas and the Palas

(D) The Chalukyas and the Chahamanas

Ans : (C)

73. ‗Niralamba Saraswati (Saraswati is now without support)‘ thus lamented a poet at the demise of—

(A) Chahmana Visaladeva

(B) Chandela Kirtivarma

(C) Mihira Bhoja

(D) Bhoja Paramara

Ans : (D)

74. The custom ‗Santhara‘ is related to which of the following sects ?

(A) Jain

(B) Saiva

(C) Sakta

(D) Vaishnava

Ans : (A)

75. Who is supposed to be the future Buddha in Mahayana Buddhism ?

(A) Krakuchanda

(B) Amitabha

(C) Maitreya

(D) Kanak Muni

Ans : (C)

76. Which of the following incarnations of Vishnu is represented in art as raising the Earth from the

Ocean ?

(A) Kurma

(B) Varaha

(C) Matsya

(D) Nrisingha

Ans : (B)

77. The Srivijaya ruler, who completed the construction of the Buddhist Vihara started by his father at

Nagapattana during the reign of Rajaraja I, was—

(A) Samaragravira

(B) Balaputradeva

(C) Maravijayottunga Varman

(D) Trailokyaraja

Ans : (C)

78. Gangaikondacholapuram became the capital of the Chola empire from the time of—

(A) Parantaka I

(B) Rajendra I

(C) Kulottunga I

(D) Vikrama Chola

Ans : (B)

79. Who are the four Rajput clans described in Prithviraja-Raso of Chanda Bardai, who are said to

have emerged from fire-pit of Mount Abu ?

(A) Pratiharas, Chahamanas, Gahadavalas, Kalachuris

(B) Paramaras, Chandelas, Chahamanas, Chalukyas

(C) Chahamanas, Kalachuris, Chandelas, Pratiharas

(D) Pratiharas, Chahamanas, Chalukyas, Parmaras

Ans : (D)

80. The Vikramshila Mahavihara, the renowned educational centre of Pala period was at—

(A) Antichak

(B) Aphasad

(C) Basarh

(D) Chandimau

Ans : (A)

81. Which one of the following temples does not belong to the Cholas ?

(A) Brihadishwara

(B) Koranganatha

(C) Kailashanatha

(D) Airavateshwar

Ans : (C)

82. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched ?

(A) Baz Bahadur —Malwa

(B) Sultan Muzaffar Shah—Gujarat

(C) Yusuf Adil Shah—Ahmednagar

(D) Qutub Shah —Golkunda

Ans : (C)

83. During the time of Alauddin‘s invasion Warangal was ruled by—

(A) Chalukya Dynasty

(B) Chola Dynasty

(C) Kakatiya Dynasty

(D) Yadava Dynasty

Ans : (C)

84. Who of the following Rajput rulers gave donation for the reconstruction of a mosque ?

(A) Mihir Bhoja

(B) Bhoja Parmar

(C) Prithviraj III

(D) Jai Singh Siddharaj

Ans : (D)

85. Arrange the followig rulers of Kashmir in a chronological order—

1. Avantivarman

2. Didda

3. Harsha

4. Jaya Singh

Indicate your answer from the codes below—

(A) 1, 2, 3, 4

(B) 2, 3, 4, 1

(C) 3, 4, 1, 2

(D) 4, 1, 2, 3

Ans : (A)

86. Which one of the following was not constructed by Qutubuddin Aibak ?

(A) Kubbat-ul-Islam mosque

(B) Qutub Minar

(C) Adhai din Ka Jhopada

(D) Alai Darwaja

Ans : (D)

87. Vijayanagar empire was founded during the reign period of—

(A) Firoz Tughlaq

(B) Sikandar Lodi

(C) Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq

(D) Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq

Ans : (D)

88. The historian Sewell has written a book entitled ‗A Forgotten Empire‘. What was the name of

empire ?

(A) Mughal Empire

(B) Vijayanagar Empire

(C) Maratha Empire

(D) Mauryan Empire

Ans : (B)

89. Who among the following had joined Akbar‘s Din-i-Ilahi ?

(A) Birbal

(B) Bhagwan Das

(C) Man Singh

(D) Surjan Rai

Ans : (A)

90. Jonaraja in his Rajatarangini, continued the narration of Kalhana upto—

(A) Jaya Singh

(B) Sultan Sikandar

(C) Sultan Zainul Abidin

(D) Muhammad Shah

Ans : (C)

91. Which new department was started by Muhammad-bin- Tughlaq for the development of

agriculture ?

(A) Diwan-i-Risalat

(B) Diwan-i-Ashraf

(C) Diwan-i-Kohi

(D) Diwan-i-Mustkharaz

Ans : (C)

92. Who among the following constituted Turkan-e-Chihalgani ?

(A) Qutubuddin Aibak

(B) Iltutmish

(C) Balban

(D) None of these

Ans : (B)

93. Who was Qazi Fazilat during the reign of Sher Shah ?

(A) The Qazi of Bengal

(B) The Chief Qazi of the Afghan Empire

(C) The Governor of Bengal

(D) None of the above

Ans : (C)

94. Which one of the following officers was the superintendent of port under the Mughals ?

(A) Mutsaddi

(B) Mir-i-Bahar

(C) Tahvildar

(D) Mushrif

Ans : (B)

95. Which one of the following was not a reason for Balban abandoning the policy of conquest and

adopting the policy of consolidation ?

(A) Threat of external invasion

(B) Internal revolts

(C) Indian Kings willing to throw off the Turkish rule

(D) His weak nature

Ans : (D)

96. Which one of the following Sultans, was not an off spring of Iltutmish, but was the last successor

of his dynasty ?

(A) Rukn-ud-din Firoz

(B) Razia

(C) Muizuddin Bahram Shah

(D) Nasiruddin Mahmud

Ans : (D)

97. Which one of the following sons of Alauddin Khalji was born of his wife Jhatyapali, the daughter of

Raja Ramchandra Dev of Devagiri ?

(A) Shihabuddin Umar

(B) Khizr Khan

(C) Qutbuddin Mubarak

(D) Sadi Khan

Ans : (A)

98. What was Khanqah ?

(A) Works of Poet Amir Khusro

(B) Court of Sikandar Lodi

(C) Birth place of Khwaja Muinud-din Chisti

(D) The place where Sufi Mystics lived

Ans : (D)

99. On whom Emperor Akbar conferred the title of ‗Jagat Guru‘ ?

(A) Purushottam

(B) Dastur Meherji Rana

(C) Hira Vijay Suri

(D) Devi

Ans : (C)

100. Which Queen of Jahangir had committed suicide by consuming poison ?

(A) Harkhabai

(B) Manmati

(C) Jodhpuri Begam

(D) Zeb-un-nisa

Ans : (B)

101. Who among the foreign travellers describes how the ‗Ganges water‘ was carried in copper

vessels for Mughal Emperors to drink ?

(A) Thomas Coryat

(B) Edward Terry

(C) Ralph Fitch

(D) Sir Thomas Roe

Ans : (B)

102. Who was the member of Ulema, who issued the ‗Fatwa‘ against Akbar from Jaunpur ?

(A) Mullayazdi

(B) Mirza Hakim

(C) Abdun Nabi

(D) Abdullah Sultanpuri

Ans : (C)

103. Who wrote Futuhat-i-Ferozshahi ?

(A) Alberuni

(B) Firoz Shah Tughlaq

(C) Utbi

(D) Ibn Batuta

Ans : (B)

104. Who among the following was the lowest in rank in the Maratha infantry ?

(A) Nayak

(B) Hawaldar

(C) Zumladar

(D) Hazari

Ans : (B)

105. In the third battle of Panipat Marathas were defeated by—

(A) Mughals

(B) Rohillas

(C) Britishers

(D) Afghans

Ans : (D)

106. Roshan Akhtar was of another name of—

(A) Ahmed Shah

(B) Muhammad Shah

(C) Jahandar Shah

(D) Shah Alam

Ans : (B)

107. What was the original name of Afzal Khan ?

(A) Abdullah Bhatari

(B) Samsuddin

(C) Sabar

(D) Muhammad Khan

Ans : (A)

108. Who among the following were Saints of Varkari sect ?

1. Chakradhar

2. Jnanesvar

3. Namadev

4. Ramdas

Indicate the correct answer form the codes given below—

(A) 1, 2

(B) 2, 3

(C) 3, 4

(D) 1, 2, 3, 4

Ans : (D)

109. What was Bargir in Maratha army ?

(A) Infantry

(B) Front liner

(C) Cavalry

(D) Water carrier

Ans : (C)

110. Who among the following was a Jahangiri Painter ?

(A) Abul Hasan

(B) Abdus Samad

(C) Daswant

(D) Mir Sayyid Ali

Ans : (A)

111. Where in India, did the Protuguese build their first fortress ?

(A) Cochin

(B) Goa

(C) Anjidiv

(D) Cannanore

Ans : (A)

112. Which Maratha State was the last to accept the Subsidiary Alliance of the British ?

(A) Gaikwad

(B) Sindhia

(C) Holkar

(D) Bhonsle

Ans : (B)

113. During the Mughal period, what was ‗Narnal‘ or light artillery ?

(A) One carried on elephantback

(B) One carried on camel-back

(C) One carried by man

(D) None of the above

Ans : (C)

114. What do the terms ‗Elchi‘ or ‗Safir‘ denote in the sixteenth century Mughal administrative

vocabulary ?

(A) Ambassadors

(B) Rebels

(C) Spies

(D) Governors

Ans : (A)

115. Which year of Akbar‘s reign has been regarded by the historian, Vincent A. Smith as ‗the most

critical time‘ ?

(A) 1556 A.D.

(B) 1561 A.D.

(C) 1571 A.D.

(D) 1581 A.D.

Ans : (D)

116. Who of the following was the first Indian to write English verse ?

(A) Kashi Prasad Ghosh

(B) Ramchandra Vidyavagish

(C) Krishna Mohan Banerjee

(D) Hariharanand

Ans : (A)

117. Which one of the following statements is not correct about Bahadur Shah Zafar ?

(A) He was an emperor without empire

(B) He was a warrior without any war experience

(C) Hassan Askari was his spiritual guide

(D) He succeeded to the throne in 1845 A.D.

Ans : (D)

118. During whose tenure did the incident of ‗Black Hole‘ take place ?

(A) Mir Zafar

(B) Mir Qasim

(C) Alivardi Khan

(D) Sirajuddaula

Ans : (D)

119. Which one of the following had bestowed the title of ‗Jagat Seth‘ to Fatehchand ?

(A) Alivardi Khan

(B) Sirajuddaula

(C) Mir Zafar

(D) Muhammad Shah

Ans : (D)

120. In which of the following languages the book entitled ‗Hind Swaraj‘ was written ?

(A) Hindi

(B) Urdu

(C) Gujarati

(D) English

Ans : (C)

1. Bombay emerged as a leading port on the western coast on acc-ount of its— (A) Immunity from Maratha invasions (B) Natural harbour (C) Improved administration (D) All of the above 2. Name the state which granted the ‗Golden Farman‘ to Holland to trade freely on payment of 500 ‗PAGODAS‘ a year as duty was— (A) Golcunda (B) Bijapur (C) Berar (D) Ahmadnagar 3. Which of the following was not the Dutch factory on the Coromondel coast— (A) Porto Novo (B) Sadraspatam (C) Ngalwanche (D) Masulipatam 4. Which Portuguese Governor decisively defeated the Bijapur forces which advanced againt Goa ? (A) Albuquerque (B) Almeida (C) Cabral (D) Joa de Castro 5. Name the son of the great Protuguese Governor, who supp-lemented the letters of his father— (A) Bras de Albuquerque (B) Bras de Almeida (C) Bras de Cabral (D) Bras de Lapo soares 6. Which Mughal emperor conqu-ered Golcunda to mark the decline of the Dutch Coromandel Government— (A) Jahangir (B) Shahjahan (C) Aurangzeb (D) Farrukhsiyar 7. The Dutch Christened the fact-ory at Pulicat as St. Geldria, in honour of— (A) Van Berchem, the director general of the Coromandel factories (B) Daniel Havart, the author of the account of Dutch factories on the Coromondel coast (C) Van Reede, the in charge of the Coromandel Governm-ent (D) Van Coen, the Governor General of Batavia 8. The immediate aim of the English East India Company est-ablished in 1600 was— (A) To exploit the Indian coasts (B) The acquisition of the spices and pepper of the Eastern archipelago (C) To trade in Muslin and textiles

(D) None of them 9. Name of Governor of Bombay who is regarded as the true founder of Bombay‘s greatness ? (A) Ropt (B) Sir John Child (C) Gerald Aungier (D) Job Charnock 10. The Bengal presidency was constituted in 1700; who became its first President— (A) Job Charnock (B) Sir charles Eyre (C) Captain William Heath (D) Major Hector Munroe 11. Who among the following Englishmen tried to obtain from Akbar a ‗Firman‘ for trade in Gujarat— (A) Ralph Fitch (B) John Middenhall (C) Sir Thomas Roe (D) Thomas Stephens (R.C.S. 2000) 12. Which one of the following Mughal emperors gave per-mission to East India Company to build a factory at Surat— (A) Jahangir (B) Shahjahan (C) Farrukhsiyar (D) Bahadur Shah II 13. Who among the following issued the founding Charter of the English East India Company— (A) Henry VIII (B) Elizabeth I (C) James I (D) Charles I (I.A.S. 99) 14. The first Danish Trade pact was signed at Tranquebar in the year— (A) 1620 (B) 1630 (C) 1660 (D) 1616 15. Match the following— List I (a) Hawkins (b) Thomas Roe (c) Manucci (d) Ralph Fitch List II 1. 1615 2. 1608 3. 1585 4. 1658 Code— (a) (b) (c) (d) (A) 2 1 4 3 (B) 1 2 4 3 (C) 2 1 3 4 (D) 1 2 3 4 (I.A.S. 2001)

16. Which of the following statem-ents is not correct about William Hawkins— (A) He could not speak Turkish Language (B) He reached Agra in the Court of Jahangir with a letter written by king James I to emperor Akbar (C) The name of his vessel was Hector (D) He had a considerable expe-rience in the Levant (U.P.P.C.S. Sub. 2001) 17. Intially the name of British East India Company was— (A) A British company to trade with India (B) A company of merchants of London (C) A company of Private merchants of London (D) The Governor and company of merchants of London Trading into the East Indies (U.P.P.C.S. Sub. 2001) 18. Who was the first Indian ruler to welcome Vasco da Gama ? (A) Daulat Rao Scindia (B) Chanda Saheb (C) Zamorin (D) Muzaffar Jung (R.A.S./R.T.S. 1999) 19. Name the Mughal emperor who issued firman, permitting East India company to trade with India ? (A) Babar (B) Humayun (C) Akbar (D) Jahangir (R.A.S./R.T.S. 1999) 20. The first English factory was estabished in India at— (A) Surat (B) Hughli (C) Bombay (D) Madras (M.P.P.S.C. 1999) 21. Among European traders the Portugese remained unsuccessful in India because— (A) They had no sea port (B) Their Naval power was weak (C) Ruler of Kochin strongly resisted them (D) Due to their religious fanatism the Indian rulers became their enemies (M.P.P.S.C. 2000) 22. The East India company secured the ‗Golden firman‘ from which ruler ? (A) Jahangir (B) Sultan of Golcunda (C) Ruler of Chandragiri (D) Mughal emperor Farukh-siyar (M.P.P.S.C. 2000) 23. Who was the first representative of English company to reach the court of Jahangir ? (A) Sir Thomas Roe (B) Sir Henry Middleton (C) Captain Hawkins (D) Captain Best (M.P.P.S.C. 2000) 24. Where was the first ever fort erected by any European power in India ? (A) Cochin (B) Calicut (C) Maosaulipattam (D) Goa (M.P.P.S.C. 2000)

25. The commercial objective of the Portuguese in India was to— (A) Capture territories on the western coast (B) Capture trade of textiles and spices (C) Oust Arabs and the Persians from India‘s maritime trade (D) Capture trade of pepper and other superior spices (I.A.S. 2003)

Answers :

1. (D) 2. (A) 3. (D) 4. (D) 5. (A) 6. (C) 7. (A) 8. (B) 9. (C) 10. (B) 11. (B) 12. (A) 13. (B) 14. (A) 15. (A) 16. (A) 17. (D) 18. (C) 19. (D) 20. (A) 21. (D) 22. (B) 23. (C) 24. (A) 25. (D)

1. The officer responsible for the safe custody of land records during the Gupta period was known as—

(A) Dhruvadhikarana

(B) Karanika

(C) Samaharta

(D) Shaulkika

Ans : (B)

2. The Prakrit text Gaudavaho describes the deeds of—

(A) Bhaskaravarman

(B) Isanavarman

(C) Sasanka

(D) Yasovarman Ans : (D)

3. Which of the following refers to ‗Pushyabhuti‘ as the founder of the Vardhana dynasty ?

(A) Kadambari

(B) Harshacharita

(C) Banskhera Inscription of Harsha

(D) Yuan-Chwang Ans : (B)

4. The first Gupta ruler to assume the title of the ‗Maharajadhiraja‘ was—

(A) Srigupta

(B) Chandragupta I

(C) Samudragupta

(D) Ghatotkacha

Ans : (B)

5. Which one of the following statements about Chinese pilgrim Fa-Hien‘s travel in India is not correct?

(A) He came to India during the reign of Chandragupta II

(B) His object was to visit the holy places of Buddhism

(C) He came by the sea route

(D) He visited whole India and went back to his country by the land route

Ans : (C)

6. Which was the first work to recognise the payment of officers by grants of land ?

(A) Kautilya‘s Arthasastra

(B) Indica of Megasthenese

(C) Manusmriti

(D) Harsacharita of Bana Ans : (C)

7. Below are given the pairs of names of the Dharmashastra-writers and their patrons. Indicate the

incorrect match—

(A) Ballalasena – Dharmapala

(B) Hemadri – Yadava Mahadeva

(C) Laxmidhara – Govindachandra Gahadawala

(D) Mitra Misra – Virasinha Bundela Ans : (A)

8. Who among the following was celebrated with the title of ‗Gangai-Konda‘ ?

(A) Rajaraja I

(B) Rajendra I

(C) Mahendravarman I

(D) Kulottunga I Ans : (B)

9. Which Chola emperor received a letter on golden leaves from the Burmese king Kyanzittha ?

(A) Rajaraja I

(B) Rajendra I

(C) Kulottunga I

(D) Rajadhiraja I Ans : (C)

10. Who among the following boldly stood for the sacrificial vedic tradition and opposed the theory of

Sanyasa ?

(A) Kumarila

(B) Ramanuja

(C) Gaudapada

(D) Yamunacharya Ans : (A)

11. In the case of a man dying without a son, whom Yajnavalkya places first in order of succession ?

(A) Wife

(B) Daughters

(C) Parents

(D) Brothers Ans : (A)

12. Consider the following statements and select the correct answer from the code given

below—

Assertion (A) : The Gahadawalas had friendly relations with the Cholas.

Reason (R) : A fragmentary Gahadawala inscription has been found incised below an inscription of

Kulottunga I.

Codes :

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)

(B) Both (A) and (R) are ture, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)

(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false

(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true Ans : (A)

13. Who among the following Europeans was first to come to India to establish trade relations with their

country ?

(A) Dutch

(B) British

(C) Portuguese

(D) French Ans : (C)

14. Which of the following gives the administrative divisions of the chola kingdom in the correct

descending order ?

(A) Mandalam, Valanadu, Kurram

(B) Mandalam, Nadu, Kottam

(C) Kurram, Nadu, Kottam

(D) Nadu, Kurram, Taniyur Ans : (C)

15. Which one of the following was the primary village assembly in the chola village administration ?

(A) Nadu

(B) Sabha

(C) Ur

(D) Mahasabha Ans : (C)

16. Which one of the following states was a milch-cow for the British ?

(A) Hydrabad

(B) Punjab

(C) Mysore

(D) Avadh Ans : (D)

17. Match the authors with their books—

(a) Subramanya Bharti

(b) Bhai Vir Singh

(c) Rabindra Nath Tagore

(d) Michael Madhusudan Dutt

1. Gitanjali

2. Meghnad Badh Kavya

3. Rana Surat Singh

4. Kuyil Pattu

Select the correct answer from the code given below—

Codes :

—(a) (b) (c) (d)

(A) 2 3 1 4

(B) 4 2 1 3

(C) 4 3 1 2

(D) 4 3 2 1 Ans : (C)

18. ―The emergence of British power in India is from the battle of Buxar.‖ Who made this statement ?

(A) Sir Stephen

(B) Ramsay Muir

(C) Dr. K. K. Datta

(D) Dr. R. C. Majumdar Ans : (B)

19. In 1757 Siraj-ud-Daulah attacked British factory at—

(A) Dhaka

(B) Calcutta

(C) Kasimbazar

(D) Murshidabad Ans : (B)

20. Which Governor of Madras presidency made treaty of Mangalore with Tipu ?

(A) Eyercoote

(B) Stephenson

(C) Wellesely

(D) Lord Macartany Ans : (D)

21. What was the bone of contention between Nizam Ali, the ruler of Hyderabad and the English ?

(A) Masulipatanam

(B) Karnataka

(C) The Sarkar of Guntur

(D) The Northern Sarkars Ans : (C)

22. The statement ―we have crippled our enemy without making our friends too formidable.‖ is associated

with—

(A) Fourth Anglo-Mysore war

(B) Third Anglo-Mysore war

(C) Second Anglo-Mysore war

(D) First Anglo-Mysore war Ans : (B)

23. Who among the following Mughal emperors, granted permission to trade free of tax in the territories of

Bengal, Hyderabad and Gujarat to the British ?

(A) Muhammad Shah

(B) Aurangzeb

(C) Bahadur Shah

(D) Farrukh Siyar Ans : (D)

24. Where did the British East India Company open its first factory in India ?

(A) Masulipatanam

(B) Surat

(C) Bharuch

(D) Mumbai

Ans : (B)

25. The Whitley commission was concerned with—

(A) Labour

(B) Education

(C) Public Health

(D) Reorganisation of civil services Ans : (A)

26. Match the following treaties with the years of their conclusion—

(a) Treaty of Srirangapatnam

(b) Treaty of Sangoli

(c) Treaty of Manglore

(d) Treaty of Rajghat

1. 1792 2. 1806

3. 1816 4. 1784

Find the correct answer from code given below—

Codes :

—(a) (b) (c) (d)

(A) 3 2 1 4

(B) 2 3 1 4

(C) 4 3 1 2

(D) 1 3 4 2

Ans : (D)

27. Whom did Sir Charles Napier replace as British Resident of Sindh ?

(A) Alexander Burnier

(B) James Outram

(C) Sir John Karne

(D) Sir Eyre Coote Ans : (B)

28. When was the East India Company brought under the parliamentary control ?

(A) 1773

(B) 1784

(C) 1793

(D) None of the above Ans : (A)

29. Which one of the following Acts created ‗Board of control‘ ?

(A) Regulating Act, 1773

(B) Pitt‘s India Act, 1784

(C) Act of 1813

(D) Act of 1833 Ans : (B)

30. Which one of the following historians has written about the nature of the movement of 1857 that ―It

was neither first nor national nor a war of independence.‖ ?

(A) T. R. Holmes

(B) R. C. Majumdar

(C) S. B. Chaudhuri

(D) G. B. Mallison Ans : (B)

31. Which one of the following pairs

is not correctly matched ?

(A) Jhansi — Laxmi Bai

(B) Gwalior — Tatya Tope

(C) Kanpur — Nana Saheb

(D) Allahabad — Kunwar Singh Ans : (D)

32. The official historian of the movement of 1857 was—

(A) S. N. Sen

(B) R. C. Majumdar

(C) Tarachand

(D) V. D. Savarkar Ans : (A)

33. Match the following associations with their presidents—

(a) British Indian Association, 1851

(b) Deccan Association, 1852

(c) Bombay Association, 1852

(d) British Indian Madras Association, 1850

1. Raja Radhakant Dev

2. Gopal Hari Deshmukh

3. C. Y. Mudaliar

4. Jamshedji Jijabhai

Select the correct answer from the code given below—

Codes :

—(a) (b) (c) (d)

(A) 2 1 4 3

(B) 1 2 4 3

(C) 1 2 3 4

(D) 1 2 4 3 Ans : (D)

34. Who had chaired the Indian Education commission in 1882 ?

(A) Macaulay

(B) Sadler

(C) W. W. Hunter

(D) None of the above Ans : (C)

35. Who was the founder of Seva Sadan in Bombay ?

(A) Baharamji Malabari

(B) Shiva Narrain Agnihotri

(C) R. G. Bhandarkar

(D) B. K. Jayakar Ans : (A)

36. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer by using codes given below—

List-I

(a) Laxmi Bai

(b) Tatya Tope

(c) Nana Saheb

(d) Bahadur Shah

List-II

1. Deported to Rangoon

2. Fled to Nepal

3. Captured and executed

4. Killed in battle

Codes :

—(a) (b) (c) (d)

(A) 4 3 2 1

(B) 2 4 3 1

(C) 1 2 3 4

(D) 4 2 3 1

Ans : (A)

37. Which of the following pairs are correctly matched ?

1. Brahmo Samaj – Swami Brahmanand

2. Dev Samaj – Swami Satyanand Agnihotri

3. Arya Samaj – Swami Dayanand

4. Ram Krishna Mission – Swami Ramkrishna Paramhansa

Choose the correct answer from the codes given below—

Codes :

(A) 1 and 2

(B) 2 and 3

(C) 3 and 4

(D) 1 and 4

Ans : (B)

38. Which one of the following journals had conducted a bitter campaign against the abolition of the

practice of Sati ?

(A) Sambad Kaumadi

(B) Bangadoot

(C) Samachar Darpan

(D) Samachar Chandrika Ans : (A)

39. In which of the following places ‗Jatiya Sarkar‘ a parallel government was formed during the Quit India

Movement ?

(A) Satara

(B) Tamaluk

(C) Ballia

(D) None of the above Ans : (B)

40. Which one of the following was elected as president of Indian National Congress after the resignation

of Subhas Chandra Bose ?

(A) Dr. Rajendra Prasad

(B) Pattabhi Sitaramayya

(C) Sarojini Naidu

(D) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Ans : (A)

41. The party which observed ‗Black day‘ on 3 July, 1947 against partition of India was—

(A) Indian National Congress

(B) Forward Bloc

(C) Hindu Mahasabha

(D) Communist Party of India Ans : (C)

42. Who was the author of ‗Pather Dabi‘ a novel which glorified the path of violent revolution and which

was banned by the British Government ?

(A) Premchand

(B) Sharatchandra Chatterji

(C) Bankimchandra Chatterji

(D) Ajai Ghosh Ans : (B)

43. The newspaper ‗Man in India‘ was edited by—

(A) Surjit Chadra Sinha

(B) Ashok Kumar Sarkar

(C) Ram Gopal Maheshwari

(D) Shiv Prasad Gupta Ans : (A)

44. Who edited ―Sahid Bhagat Singh : Dastavejo Ke Aine Mein‖ ?

(A) Irfan Habib

(B) Malavinder Jit Singh

(C) Chaman Lal

(D) Amalesh Tripathi Ans : (C)

45. Which of the following writers was not associated with ‗economic nationalism‘ ?

(A) R. C. Dutt

(B) G. V. Joshi

(C) Dadabhai Naoroji

(D) Annie Besant Ans : (D)

46. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R)—

Assertion (A) : Dadabhai Naoroji founded East India Association in London.

Reason (R) : He wanted to influence the British Public Opinion.

In the context of the above two statements, which one of the following is correct ?

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)

(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)

(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false

(D) (R) is true, but (A) is false Ans : (A)

47. Which one of the following was not a member of the Hunter committee set up to enquire into the

Jallianwala bagh massacre ?

(A) Lord Hunter

(B) General Dyer

(C) W. F. Rice

(D) Sir Thomas Smith Ans : (B)

48. Which one of the following was not a slave of Mohammad Ghori ?

(A) Ikhtiyaruddin Bhakhtiyar Khalji

(B) Tajuddin Yaldauz

(C) Qutbuddin Aibak

(D) Shamsuddin Iltutmish Ans : (D)

49. Who among the following writers has described the seven fold division of the Hindu society ?

(A) Ibn Khordadbah

(B) Abu zaid-Alhasan

(C) Al-Beruni

(D) Utbi Ans : (A)

50. The foreign invader who plundered somnath temple was—

(A) Mohammad Ghori

(B) Masud III

(C) Muhammad Bin-Qasim

(D) Mahmud Ghaznavi Ans : (D)

51. The first hand account of conquest of India by Mohammad Ghori and the history of newly established

Turkish kingdom is found in which of the following texts ?

(A) Faqra-i-Muddabir

(B) Qamil-ut-Tawarikha

(C) Tabaqat-i-Nasiri

(D) Kitab-ul-Yamini Ans : (C)

52. Select from the following options, the Arab invader who defeated Dahira, the king of Sindh in 712

A.D.—

(A) Budail

(B) Muhammad-bin-Qasim

(C) Sultan Mahmud

(D) Ubaidullah Ans : (B)

53. Which one of the following is not correctly matched ?

(A) Diwan-i-Mushtakharaj – Alauddin Khalji

(B) Diwan-i-Amirkohi – Mohammad Tughlaq

(C) Diwan-i-Khairat – Firoz Shah Tughlaq

(D) Diwan-i-Riyasat – Balban Ans : (D)

54. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R)—

Assertion (A) : Alauddin built the siri fort.

Reason (R) : He wished to safeguard Delhi from Mongol invasions.

In the context of the above two statements, which one of the following is correct ?

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)

(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)

(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false

(D) (R) is true, but (A) is false Ans : (A)

55. The statement ―India is not Arabia, it is not practically feasible to convert it into Darul Islam.‖ is

associated with—

(A) Iltutmish

(B) Balban

(C) Alauddin Khalji

(D) Mohammad-Bin-Tughlaq

Ans : (A)

56. With which sultan of Delhi do you associate the compilation of Kingship theory and principles of

administration called ‗vassayya‘ ?

(A) Iltutmish

(B) Balban

(C) Alauddin Khalji

(D) Firoz Shah Tughlaq

Ans : (B)

57. Which of the following is correct ?

(A) The ministers during the Sultanate period were appointed and dismissed by the Khalifa

(B) The ministers during the Sultanate period were appointed and dismissed by the Ulema

(C) The ministers during the Sultanate period were appointed and dismissed by the Qazi

(D) The ministers during the Sultanate period were appointed and dismissed by the Sultan Ans : (D)

58. Which one of the following works of Amir Khusrau deals with the military expeditions of Alauddin

Khalji ?

(A) Nuh Siphar

(B) Khajain-ul-Futuh

(C) Miftah-ul-Futuh

(D) Quairanus Sadain

Ans : (B)

59. Given below are two statements labelled as Assertion (A) and Reason (R)—

Assertion (A) : Bahlol‘s theory was ‗Kingship is kinship‘.

Reason (R) : Bahlol respected Afghan tribal sentiments.

In the context of the above statements, which one of the following is correct ?

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)

(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)

(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false

(D) (R) is true, but (A) is false Ans : (A)

60. What was the religion of the king Krishnadeva Raya ?

(A) Vaishnavism

(B) Shaivism

(C) Jainism

(D) Buddhism Ans : (A)

61. In which capacity thousands of women were employed in the empire of Vijayanagar ?

(A) Accountants

(B) Royal bodyguards

(C) Palace guards

(D) All of the above Ans : (D)

62. Select the correct chronological order of following reformers of the medieval Bhakti movements by

using code given below—

1. Namdeva

2. Vallabhacharya

3. Ramananda

4. Kabir

(A) 1, 2, 3, 4

(B) 2, 3, 4, 1

(C) 3, 4, 1, 2

(D) 4, 1, 2, 3 Ans : (C)

63. Who was the founder of Pushti marg ?

(A) Chaitanya Mahaprabhu

(B) Vallabhacharya

(C) Madhavacharya

(D) Yamunacharya

Ans : (B)

64. Who was the founder of Qalandariya sect ?

(A) Skeikh Badiuddin Shah

(B) Kutubuddin Kalandar

(C) Shah Abdullah

(D) Abdul Aziza Makki

Ans : (D)

65. In which Hindu Kingdom of medieval India the image of deity Tirupati or Lord Venkateshvara has

been depicted on its gold coins ?

(A) The Vijayanagar Empire

(B) The Kingdom of Hoyasalas of Dwarasamudra

(C) The Kingdom of Kakathiyas of Warrangal

(D) The Kingdom of Yadavas of Devagiri Ans : (A)

66. Who built the city of Nagalapura ?

(A) Bukka I

(B) Devaraya I

(C) Krishnadeva Raya

(D) Virupaksha

Ans : (C)

67. In which language did Babur wrote his autobiography ?

(A) Farsee

(B) Arabi

(C) Turki

(D) None of the above

Ans : (C)

68. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason

(R)—

Assertion (A) : Akbar was the greatest among the Mughal emperors and one among the

great rulers of India.

Reason (R) : He was an ambitious ruler.

In the context of the above two statements, which one of the following is correct ?

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)

(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not a correct explanation of (A)

(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false

(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true Ans : (A)

69. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists—

List-I (Sufi order)

(a) Qadiriya order

(b) Firdausiya order

(c) Chistiya order

(d) Suhrawardia order

List-II (Sufi Saints)

1. Khwaja Nizamuddin

2. Shaikh Shahabuddin

3. Shaikh Sharfuddin Yahya Manairi

4. Shaikh Abdul Qadir Gilani

Codes :

—(a) (b) (c) (d)

(A) 2 4 3 1

(B) 3 2 4 1

(C) 1 3 2 4

(D) 4 3 1 2

Ans : (D)

70. To whom did Shaikh Nizamuddin Auliya bestow the title of ‗Ain-i-Hind (Mirror of India) ?

(A) Shaikh Sirajuddin Usmani

(B) Shaikh Nasiruddin Chirag Dehlavi

(C) Khwaja Syed Muhammad Gesudaraj

(D) Shaikh Bahauddin Zakaria

Ans : ()

71. Given below are two statements labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R)—

Assertion (A) : Mughal emperors from Humayun to Jahangir were obsessed with ‗Nur‘ or light.

Reason (R) : They considered kingship as a light emanating from God to king.

In the context of the above two statements, which one of the following is correct ?

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)

(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)

(C) (A) is the true, but (R) is false

(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true Ans : (A)

72. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer by using the code given below the lists—

List-I (Years)

(a) 1527 A.D.

(b) 1540 A.D.

(c) 1565 A.D.

(d) 1575 A.D.

List-II (Events)

1. Battle of Tukarai

2. Battle of Talikota

3. Battle of Kanwah

4. Battle of Kannauj

Codes :

—(a) (b) (c) (d)

(A) 1 2 3 4

(B) 2 3 4 1

(C) 3 4 2 1

(D) 4 1 3 2 Ans : (C)

73. When was the famous ‗Treaty of Chittor‘ signed during the reign of Jahangir ?

(A) 1605 A.D.

(B) 1610 A.D.

(C) 1615 A.D.

(D) 1620 A.D. Ans : (C)

74. Which Mughal emperor wrote a will and instructed his sons, that they continue Asad Khan as the vazir

?

(A) Akbar

(B) Jahangir

(C) Shahjahan

(D) Aurangzeb Ans : (D)

75. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer, using the code given below the lists—

List-I (Year)

(a) 1627 A.D.

(b) 1659 A.D.

(c) 1666 A.D.

(d) 1674 A.D.

List-II (Events)

1. Shivaji crowned himself at Raigarh and assumed title of Maharaja Chhatrapati.

2. Escape of Shivaji from Agra.

3. Birth of Shivaji.

4. Afzal, Khan was killed by Shivaji.

Codes :

—(a) (b) (c) (d)

(A) 2 3 4 1

(B) 3 4 2 1

(C) 3 2 1 4

(D) 1 3 4 2

Ans : (B)

76. Which one of the following statements is not correct about the Mughal paintings ?

(A) The Mughal school of painting represents one of the most significant phases of Indian art.

(B) Akbar patronized both Persian and Indian painters.

(C) The Mughal school of painting was always under foreign influence.

(D) Jahangir had also taken much interest to promote the Mughal painting.

Ans : (C)

77. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched ?

Emperor / Name

(A) Babur : Zahiruddin Muhammad

(B) Humayun : Nasiruddin Muhammad

(C) Akbar : Jalaluddin Muhammad

(D) Jahangir : Muhiuddin Muhammad

Ans : (D)

78. What was ‗Paga‘ in the Maratha administration ?

(A) Independent soldiers

(B) State dependant soldiers

(C) Professional soldiers

(D) Soldiers of other country Ans : (B)

79. Which one of the following Harappan sites provides the evidence of the fire-alters ?

(A) Alamgirpur

(B) Banavali

(C) Kalibangan

(D) Kunal Ans : (C)

80. Which of the following Harappan city sites had bipartite division – high citadel and lower town ?

1. Harappa

2. Mohenjodaro

3. Kalibangan

4. Surkotada

Select the correct answer from the code given below—

Codes :

(A) 1 only

(B) 1 and 2

(C) 1, 2 and 3

(D) 1, 2, 3 and 4 Ans : (C)

81. Which one of the following wives of Shivaji became sati ?

(A) Puttabai

(B) Sakawarbai

(C) Soyrabai

(D) None of the above

Ans : ()

82. Which one of the following statements is not correct about Shivaji ?

(A) He was simple and religious in his personal life

(B) He did not force any Muslim to embrace Hinduism

(C) He forced prisoners of war to become slave

(D) He organised Marathas against Mughal empire

Ans : (C)

83. Who among the following priests, led the confederacy of the ten kings against Sud-asa ?

(A) Visvamitra

(B) Vasishtha

(C) Bharadwaja

(D) Gritsamada Ans : (A)

84. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the code given below—

List-I

(a) Rigveda

(b) Yajurveda

(c) S-amaveda

(d) Atharvaveda

List-II

1. Gopatha Brahamana

2. Satapatha Brahmana

3. Aitareya Brahmana

4. Tandya Brahmana

Codes :

—(a) (b) (c) (d)

(A) 2 4 3 1

(B) 3 2 4 1

(C) 4 3 1 2

(D) 1 3 2 4 Ans : (B)

85. Which one of the following statements about the Indus Civilization is correct ?

(A) The authors of the Indus Valley Civilization had no trade relations with countries outside India

(B) The authors of the Indus Valley Civilization did not worship Gods and Goddesses

(C) The Indus Valley people know how to construct carts

(D) The Indus Valley people were not familiar with cotton Ans : (C)

86. Which of the Vedic Gods is described as supervising the moral order ?

(A) Indra

(B) Varuna

(C) Rudra

(D) Vishnu Ans : (B)

87. What was main contribution of Jainism to Indian Philosophy ?

(A) The doctrine of rebirth

(B) The doctrine of Syadvada

(C) The doctrine of immortality of soul

(D) The doctrine of Brahma is nirguna

Ans : (B)

88. Arrange in a chronological sequence the following varsavasas of Gautam Buddha during the first

decade of his enlightenment—

1. Kausambi

2. Rajagriha

3. Risipattana

4. Vaisali

Select the correct answer from the code given below—

Codes :

(A) 2, 1, 3, 4

(B) 3, 4, 2, 1

(C) 4, 3, 1, 2

(D) 3, 2, 4, 1 Ans : (D)

89. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer by using the codes given below—

List-I (Jain Tirthankara)

(a) Ajit Nath

(b) Vimal Nath

(c) Shanti Nath

(d) Parshava Nath

List-II (Birth Place)

1. Kashi

2. hastinapur

3. Kampilya

4. Ayodhya

Codes :

—(a) (b) (c) (d)

(A) 1 2 3 4

(B) 2 3 4 1

(C) 3 4 1 2

(D) 4 3 2 1 Ans : (D)

90. The Jain Tirthankara Mahavira has been mentioned in the early Buddhist Literature as—

(A) Nigantha Nataputta

(B) Vardhamana

(C) Vesaliya

(D) Videhaputta Ans : (A)

91. Which of the following inscriptions proves Chandragupta Maurya‘s conquest of Saurashtra ?

(A) Ashoka‘s rock edict of Shahbajgarhi

(B) Ashoka‘s rock edict of Mansehra

(C) Seventh pillar edict of Ashoka

(D) Junagarh rock edict of Rudradamana Ans : (D)

92. The Syrian ambassador who visited the court of Bindusara was—

(A) Dionysus

(B) Daimachus

(C) Hegesander

(D) Athenaus

Ans : (B)

93. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the code given below—

List-I (Ashoka’s contemporary rulers)

(a) Antiyoka

(b) Antikini

(c) Maka

(d) Turamaya

List-II (Countries where they ruled)

1. Cyrene

2. Egypt

3. Macedonia

4. Syria

Codes :

—(a) (b) (c) (d)

(A) 1 4 2 3

(B) 2 1 3 4

(C) 3 2 4 1

(D) 4 3 1 2 Ans : (D)

94. Which of the following is not a text of Buddhism ?

(A) Jatakas

(B) Acharangasutra

(C) Dighnikaya

(D) Sumangalavilasini Ans : (B)

95. Who among the following has been considered a Lady Tirthankara in the Svetambara

tradition ?

(A) Sumatinatha

(B) Santinatha

(C) Mallinatha

(D) Kunthunatha Ans : (C)

96. Which of the following inscriptions of the time of Kanishka indicates that his empire was extended

upto Champa in the east ?

(A) Sarnath Inscription

(B) Saheth-Maheth inscription

(C) Rabataka inscription

(D) None of the above Ans : (A)

97. Who captured the famous ‗silk route‘ of central Asia ?

(A) Ashoka

(B) Kanishka

(C) Menander

(D) Harsha Ans : (B)

98. Consider the following statements and select the correct answer from the code given

below—

Assertion (A) : Bacchanalian scenes are also found in Mathura art.

Reason (R) : The Mathura artists were aware of the Gandhara art tradition.

Codes :

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)

(B) Both (A) and (R) are ture, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)

(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false

(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true Ans : (D)

99. What was the function of the officer known as ‗Gopa‘ during the reign of Chandragupta Maurya ?

(A) He was incharge of a Janapada

(B) He was incharge of a group of villages

(C) He was incharge of a Dronamukha

(D) He was the president of a municipal board

Ans : (B)

100. Which of the following Mauryan pillars were surmounted by lion capital ?

1. Koluha Pillar

2. Lauriya Nandangarh Pillar

3. Sanchi Pillar

4. Sarnath Pillar

Select the correct answer from the code given below—

Codes :

(A) 1, 2, 3 and 4

(B) 1, 2 and 3

(C) 3 and 4

(D) 2 and 3

Ans : (A)