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(d) 1927
2. In which place did Satyagraha first started
(a) Delhi
(b) Calcutta
(c) Baroda
(d) Champaran
3. First census in India was conducted at the time of
(a) Lord Dufferin
(b) Lord Lytton
(c) Lord Auckland
(d) Sir John Napier
4. Who was the Viceroy of India when the Rowlatt Act was Passed
(a) Lord Irwin
(b) Lord Reading
(c) Lord Chelmsford
(d) Lord Wavell
5. Who introduce English as official language
(a) Lord William Bentick
(b) Sir Charles Wood
(c) Dalhousie
(d) Allan Octawain Hume
6. Who was the founder of the Indian Association
(a) Dadabhai Naoroji
(b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(c) Surendranath Banerjee
(d) AO Hume
ANSWERS:
1. c
2. d
3. a
4. c
5. b
6. c
7. a
8. c
9. b
10. b
2.House of Lords is the name of the upper house of the parliament of?
a. Britain
b. U.S.A.
c. Canada
d. Germany
6.when the aeroplanes / aircraft / airplanes were used in the war for first time?
a. October, 1912
b. October, 1913
c. November, 1910
d. October, 1911
Answers
1 B
2. A
3. C
4. C
5. B
6. D
7. D
8. A
9. D
10. D
1. Which among the following was the venue of the Second Round Table
Conference at London?
[A] St. James Palace
[B] Kingsley Palace
5. The British East India Company ceased to be a trading Company via which
among the following legislation?
[A] Pitts India Act of 1784
[B] Charter Act of 1833
[C] Charter Act of 1813
[D] Government of India Act 1858
9. During the company rule, the Hindu Widows Remarriage Act was drafted
by__ ?
[A] Lord Canning
[B] Lord Dalhousie
[C] Lord Hardinge
[D] None of the above
ANSWERS:-
1. A
2. C
3. A
4. D
5. B
6. D
7. A
8. A
9. B
10. A
4.What was the name of the atom bomb dropped by USA on Hiroshima in
Japan during the second world war ?
A) Little Boy
B) Little Fly
C) Little Devil
D) None of these
7.With which of the following is the term Liberty, Equality and Fraternity
associated?
A) Industrial Revolution
B) Russian Revolution
C) French Revolution
D) Olympic Games
B) Nepal
C) USA
D) Laos
12.When did the first Railway Train begin to carry passengers and freight?
A) 1814 AD
B) 1830 AD
C) 1853 AD
D) 1784 AD
Answers
1.B
2. D
3. D
4. A
5. B
6. C
7. C
8. A
9. A
10. B
11.A
12.B
13.B
14.A
15.D
16.C
17.A
18.B
19. D
20. B
D) Porus
6. Which one of the following dynasties was ruling over North India at the time
of Alexander's invasion
A) Nanda
B) Maurya
C) Sunga
D) Kanva
11. Where has the World's largest Monolithic statue of Buddha been installed
A) Bamiyan
B) Hyderabad
C) Kandy
D) Lhasa
C) Sen Dynasty
D) Pala Dynasty
14. The ancient India ,the earliest capital of Magadha kingdom was at
A) Pataliputra
B) Rajgir
C) Vaishali
D) Varanasi
ANSWERS
1.B
2.A
3. B
4. A
5. B
6.A
7.B
8. B
9.B
10. C
11.A
12. D
13. C
14. B
15. A
1. The Two Nation Theory was propounded in which session of the Muslim
League?
1. Lahore Session, 1940
2. Bombay Session, 1915
3. Delhi Session, 1918
4. Calcutta Session, 1917
2. September 1756
3. February 1757
4. April 1757
3. During the company rule, the Hindu Widows Remarriage Act was drafted
by__ ?
1. Lord Canning
2. Lord Dalhousie
3. Lord Hardinge
4. None of the above
4. The statement “Like summer gale revolt of Meerut was unprecedented and
short-lived” was made by __?
1. S. N. Sen
2. R. C. Majumdar
3. S. B. Chaudhuri
4. V. D. Savarkar
6. Which party observed the “Black Day” on July 3, 1947 against Partition of
India?
1. Indian National Congress
2. Forward Bloc
3. Hindu Mahasabha
4. Communist Party of India
7. Who was elected the President of Indian National Congress in the famous
Tripuri Session of 1939 ?
1. Acharya Narendra Deo
2. Sarat Chandra Bose
3. Subhash Chandra Bose
4. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
8. The Hindu Mahasabha was organized for the first time in 1914 at ___:
1. Haridwar
2. Allahabad
3. Varanasi
4. None of the above
ANSWERS
1 1
2 3
3 2
4 1
5 1
6 3
7 3
8 1
9 2
10 3
2) Ropar
3) Harappa
4) None of these
4) Guptas
9) Which of the following is the oldest monument?
1) Qutub Minar
2) Ajanta Caves
3) Taj Mahal
4) Khajuraho
1) Hinduism
2) Buddhism
3) Jainism
4) Zorastrians
16) The Buddhist Sangha was divided into two sects-the Hinayana and the
Mahayana during the reign of
1) Harsha
2) Ashoka
3) Dharampala
4) Kanishka
3) Chandragupta Maurya
4) Harsha
18) The Indus Valley Civillisation reached its zenith in ………. BC:
1) 3500
2) 2500
3) 1700
4) 500
ANSWERS
1 2 11 4
2 1 12 1
3 2 13 3
4 3 14 3
5 3 15 2
6 1 16 4
7 4 17 3
8 1 18 2
9 2 19 4
10 1 20 4
1. The famous Vedic saying “War begins in the minds of men”, is stated in
1) Rig Veda
2) Atharva Veda
3) Sama Veda
4) Mundaka Upnishad
4. Which of the following was not one of the distinguished tribes of the later
Vedic period?’
1) Videhas
2) Bharatas
3) Panchalas
4) Kurus
5. In Rig Vedic period, the most important functionary after the king was
1) Purohita
2) Senani
3) Law Officer
4) Tax Collector
6. The tax which the kings used to collect from the people in the Vedic period
was called
1) Kara
2) Varman
3) Bali
4) Vidatha
7. In the Vedic Society, the term used to denote a group of families was
1) gotra
2) jana
3) vish
4) grama
9. Which of the following Vedangas contains the Srautra, the Grihya and the
Dharma Sutras?
1) Nirukta
2) Shiksha
3) Chhandas
4) Kalpa
10. Which one of the following is the earliest school of Indian philosophy?
1) Vaisesika
2) Samkhya
3) Yoga
4) Karma mimamsa
12. The world is God and God is my soul is the philosophy contained in the
1) Vedas
2) Puranas
3) Brahamanas
4) Upanishads
13. Which of the following was one of the ingredients of ‘Middle Path’
advocated by Buddha?
1) Abandonment of killing
2) Right effort
3) Speak no falsehood
4) Giving up hankering for wealth
19. During the Neolithic age in India, the only metal known to the people was
1) iron
2) copper
3) gold
4) silver
20. Which of the following is the correct statement regarding the Buddha’s
attitude on the subject of entry of women into the Buddhist Sangha?
1) He was indifferent on this subject
2) He gladly accepted women into the Sangha.
3) He did not allow women into the Sangha.
4) None of these
ANSWERS
1 3 11 3
2 2 12 4
3 4 13 2
4 2 14 1
5 1 15 2
6 3 16 1
7 2 17 2
8 1 18 3
9 4 19 3
10 1 20 2
8. The downfall of the Gupta empire was mainly due to the invasions of
A. The pallavas
B. The Hunas
C. Cholas
D. All the above
9. The Gupta empire was divided into the provinces called…….
A. Mandals
B. Sakhas
C. Bhuktis
D. Rathas
D. None
Answers
1. D
2. B
3. A
4. B
5. B
6. B
7. D
8. B
9. C
10. A
11. A
12. A
13. C
14. A
15. B
Q.1) Babur was buried after his death in which one of the following cities?
A. Kabul
B. Patna
C. Kolkata
D. Peshawar
Q.2) The use of half-dome portal is the characteristic of which one of the
following dynasties?
A. Slave Dynasty
B. Lodi Dynasty
C. Mughal Dynasty
D. Tughlaq Dynasty
Q.3) The battle of Chausa is fought between whom among the following?
A. Alberuni
B. Amir Khusro
C. Minhaj-us-Siraj
D. Badauni
Q.5) Consider the following statements:
i) Ahmednagar was ruled by Nizamshahi dynasty.
ii) Bijapur was ruled by Adil Shahi dynasty
Choose the right option:
A. Poet
B. Soldier
C. Emperor
D. Musician
Q.8) Which one among the following Indian emperors founded the Jaunpur
city?
A. Akbar
B. Humayun
C. Firoz Shah Tughlaq (Your Answer)
D. Jehangir
Q.9) Al-Beruni was the contemporary of which one of the following emperors?
A. Mahmud Ghaznavi
B. Akbar
C. Humayun
D. Shershah
A. 18th century
B. 16th century
C. 12th century
D. 14th century
1. [A]
2. [C]
3. [A]
4. [A]
5. [A]
6. [A]
7. [A]
8. [C]
9. [A]
10.[D]
4. Who among the following was not one of the founding fathers of the All
India Muslim League ?
1. Nawab Moshin-ul-Mulk
2. Maulana Abul KalamAzad
3. Aga Khan
4. Nawab Salimullah of Dacca
4. Jyotiba Phule
7. The first President of the Indian Home Rule League (1916) was__?
1. Joseph Bapista
2. Annie Besant
3. N.C. Kelkar
4. B.G. Tilak
12. Who among the following preached the doctrine of “One religion, one
caste and one God for mankind“?
1. Jyotiba Phule
2. Vivekananda
3. Sri Narayan Guru
4. Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
14. Who among the following established the Ved Samaj in Madras in 1864?
1. Keshab Chandra Sen
2. Lokhitwadi
3. Shibnath Shastri
4. Debendranath Tagore
15. Who among the following established the Bhil Seva Mandal in 1922?
ANSWERS
1 1 11 4
2 4 12 3
3 3 13 4
4 2 14 1
5 3 15 2
6 4
7 1
8 4
9 2
10 4
1. Who among the following is said to have hatched the Delhi Conspiracy
1912?
1. Rasbehari Bose
2. Bhai Paramanand
3. Sachindranath Sanyal
4. Sohan Lal Pathak
2. Which among the following marks Mahatma Gandhi’s first fast unto death?
1. Kheda Satyagraha
2. Champaran Satyagraha
3. Ahmedabad Mill Strike
4. Jallianwala Bagh tragedy
4. Who among the following were the main leaders of Khilafat Movement?
1. Syed Ahmad Khan and Agha khan
2. Mohammad Ali and Shaukat Ali
3. Muhammad Iqbal and Salimullah Khan
4. Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Sikandar Hayat Khan
5. Which among the following was the venue of All India Khilafat Conference,
1919?
1. Lucknow
2. Delhi
3. Aligarh
4. Porbandar
7. The statement “Like summer gale revolt of Meerut was unprecedented and
short-lived” was made by __?
1. S. N. Sen
2. R. C. Majumdar
3. S. B. Chaudhuri
4. V. D. Savarkar
8. During the company rule, the Hindu Widows Remarriage Act was drafted
by__ ?
1. Lord Canning
2. Lord Dalhousie
3. Lord Hardinge
4. None of the above
9. The Treaty of Alinagar was signed in ___?
1. February 1756
2. September 1756
3. February 1757
4. April 1757
10. The Two Nation Theory was propounded in which session of the Muslim
League?
1. Lahore Session, 1940
2. Bombay Session, 1915
3. Delhi Session, 1918
4. Calcutta Session, 1917
1. W. Wederbirn
2. Lord Dufferin
3. J. Charles
4. None of the above
13. In which year English was made the medium of instruction in India ?
1. 1844 A.D.
2. 1835 A.D.
3. 1833 A.D.
4. 1813 A.D.
15. Which one of the following leaders was not a part of Non cooperation
movement ?
1. M. A. Ansari
2. M. A. Zinnah
3. Abul Kalam Azad
4. Hakim Ajmal Khan
ANSWERS
1 1 11 1
2 3 12 2
3 4 13 2
4 2 14 1
5 2 15 2
6 1
7 1
8 2
9 3
10 1
Q.1) Babur was buried after his death in which one of the following cities?
A. Kabul
B. Patna
C. Kolkata
D. Peshawar
Q.2) The use of half-dome portal is the characteristic of which one of the
following dynasties?
A. Slave Dynasty
B. Lodi Dynasty
C. Mughal Dynasty
D. Tughlaq Dynasty
Q.3) The battle of Chausa is fought between whom among the following?
A. Sher Shah and Humayun
Q.8) Which one among the following Indian emperors founded the Jaunpur
city?
A. Akbar
B. Humayun
C. Firoz Shah Tughlaq (Your Answer)
D. Jehangir
Q.9) Al-Beruni was the contemporary of which one of the following emperors?
A. Mahmud Ghaznavi
B. Akbar
C. Humayun
D. Shershah
Answers-:
1. [A]
2. [C]
3. [A]
4. [A]
5. [A]
6. [A]
7. [A]
8. [C]
9. [A]
10.[D]
3. There were widespread risings against the British in the 1820s. Which one
of the following did not revolt in the 1820s?
A. Santhals
B. Ahoms
C. Pagal Panthis
D. Ramosi
5. Under the Mountbatten Plan of 1947 the people of ___ were given the
right to decide through a plebiscite whether they wished to join Pakistan or
India.
A. Assam
B. Punjab
C. Bengal
D. N.W.F.P and the Sylhet district of Assam
6. Three major powers that emerged in southern India in the 7th century AD
were
Cheras
Cholas
Chalukyas
Pallavas
Pandyas
A. I, II, V
B. II, III, IV
C. III, IV, V
D. I, II, IV
8. The Timariots Governors and the Revenue Contractors, on their part reason
in this manner: "Why should the neglected state of this land create uneasiness
in our minds and why should we expend our money and time to render it
fruitful? We may be deprived of it in a single moment, and our exertions would
benefit neither ourselves nor our children." This statement was made by
A. Monserrate
B. Tavernier
C. Manrique
D. Bernier
9. The ultimate ownership of land during the post-Gupta period lay with
A. the cultivator
B. the village community
C. the king
D. the joint family
B. Sakyas
C. Mallas
D. None of the above
Answers:-
1. (D)
2. (C)
3. (A)
4. (A)
5. (D)
6. (A)
7. (B)
8. (D)
9. (C)
10. (B)
1. The most plausible explanation for the location of the Thar desert in
western India is
A. the obstruction caused by the Aravalis to the rain-bearing wind that
proceeds to the Ganga Valley
B. the evaporation of moisture by heat
C. the absence of mountains to the north of Rajasthan to cause orographic
rainfall in it
D. that the moisture carried by the South-west monsoon is driven away by
the dry upper air current
3. Which of the following food grain crops occupies the largest part of the
cropped area in India?
A. Barley and maize
B. Jowar and bajra
C. Rice
D. Wheat
7. Which of the following groups of states has the largest deposits of iron
ore?
A. Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka
B. Bihar and Orissa
C. Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra
D. West Bengal and Assam
8. Which of the following union territories of India has the highest density of
population per sq km?
A. Pondicherry
B. Lakshadweep
C. Delhi
D. Chandigarh
10. The south-west monsoon contributes ____ of the total rain in India.
A. 86%
B. 50%
C. 22%
D. 100%
Answers:-
1. (C)
2. (B)
3. (C)
4. (B)
5. (A)
6. (A)
7. (B)
8. (C)
9. (A)
10. (A)
Which one of the following pairs of composers in different languages and their
works on Mahabharata theme is correctly matched?
[A]Sarladasa- Bengali
[B]Kasirama- Oriya
[C]Tikkana- Marathi
[D]Pampa- Kannada
2. The medieval Indian writer who referred to the discovery of America is-
[A]Malik Mohammad Jayasi
[B]Amir Khusro
[C]Raskhan
[D]Abul Fazl
3. The members of Shivaji’s Astha Prdhana who looked after foreign affairs is-
[A]Peshwa
[B]Sachiv
[C]Pandit Rao
[D]Sumant
4. The loss of Qandhar was a big blow to Mughal Empire from the point of view
of:
[A]Natural resources
[B]Buffer territory
[C]Communication
[D]Strategic stronghold
6. The Sultan of Delhi who is reputed to built the biggest networks of canal in
India is-
[A]Izeltutmish
[B]Ghiyyasuddin Tuglaq
[C]Feroze Shah Tughlaq
[D]Sikander Lodhi
7. Directions: The following items consist of two statement One labelled the
'Assertion A' and the other as 'Reason R' You are to examine these two
statements carefully and decid if the ' Assertion A' and the 'Reason R' are
individually tru and if so, whether the 'Reason R' is the correct explanatin of
the given' Assertion A'.
Assertion (A) : At first the Turkish administration in India was essentially
military
Reason(R): The country was parcelled out as Iqtas to the leading military
leaders
[A]Both A and R is true and R is the perfect explanation of A
[B]Both A and R is 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
8. Assertion (A): During the reign of Shahjahan, Dara Shikoh was sent on the
expedition on Balkha, Badakhshan, Qandhar
Reason [R]: the expedition sent by Shahjahan to Middle East was a marvellous
success
[A]Both A and R is true and R is the perfect explanation of A
[B]Both A and R is 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
[D]1-3-4-2
Answers:
1.[D]
2.[B]
3.[D]
4.[D]
5.[C]
6.[C]
7.[A]
8.[C]
9.[B]
10.[D]
1. Which one of the following rivers thrice forks into two streams and reunites
a few miles farther on, thus, forming the islands of Srirangappattanam,
Sivasamudram and Srirangam?
[A]Cauvery
[B]Tungabhadra
[C]Krishna
[D]Godavari
3. His principle forte was social and religious reform. He relied upon legislation
to do away with social ills and worked unceasingly for the eradication of child
marriage, the purdah system.To encourage consideration of social problems on
a national scale, he inaugurated the Indian National Social Conference, which
for many years met for its annual sessions alongside the Indian National
Congress.
The reference in this passage is to:
[A]Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
[B]Behramji Merwanji Malabari
[C]Mahadev Govind Ranade
[D]B.R. Ambedkar
5. Who among the following was the first European to initiate the policy of
taking part in the quarrels of Indian princes with a view to acquire territories?
[A]Clive
[B]Dupleix
[C]Albuquerque
[D]Warren Hastings
10. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the codes given
below the lists:
LIST I
A. Moplah revolt
B. Pabna revolt
C. Eka Movement
D. Birsa Munda revolt
LIST II
1. Kerala
2. Bihar
3. Bengal
4. Awadh
Codes:
[A]A-1; B-3; C-4; D-2
[B]A-2; B-3; C-4; D-1
[C]A-1; B-2; C-3; D-4
[D]A-3; B-4; C-1; D-3
Answers:
1.[A]
2.[A]
3.[C]
4.[D]
5.[B]
6.[A]
7.[B]
8.[B]
9.[A]
10.[A]
12. Panni, the first Grammarian of Sanskrit language in India, lived during the –
(1) 2nd Century BC (2) 6th – 5th Century BC
(3) 2nd Century AD (4) 5th – 6th Century AD
13. The words Satyameva Jayate in the State Emblem of India have been
adopted from which one of the following?
(1) Mundak Upanishad (2) Brahma Upanishad
(3) Mudgala Upanishad (4) Maitreyi Upnishad
19. Which one of the following four Vedas contains an account of magical
charms and spells?
(1) Rigaveda (2) Samaveda
(3) Yajurveda (4) Atharvaveda
ANSWERS:
1. 3 11. 3
2. 2 12. 2
3. 3 13. 1
4. 3 14. 4
5. 4 15. 1
6. 1 16. 1
7. 2 17. 1
8. 4 18. 1
9. 1 19. 4
10. 1 20. 1
7.Which one of the following scripts of ancient India was written from right to
left?
A.Brahmi
B.Nandnagari
C.Sharada
D.Kharoshti
B.karshapana
C.dinara
D.pana
Answers:
1.A
2.D
3.A
4.A
5.C
6.A
7.D
8.A
9.B
10.D