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Q1. Kautilya and Panini were from which one of the following ancient institutions?
Correct answer : 3
Q2. Who among the following introduced the 'market control mechanism'?
Correct answer : 1
Q3. During the rule of which Mughal emperor, British East India Co., established its first factory in Surat?
Correct answer : 2
Q4. Who was the first to occupy Rashtrapati Bhavan?
Correct answer : 2
Q5. Which Indian freedom fighter was popularly called "Mahamana"?
Correct answer : 3
Q6. Which of the following parties were established by Dr.B.R.Ambedkar? (1) The Peasants and Workers Party of India (2) All India Scheduled Castes Federation (3) The Independent Labour Party
Correct answer : 2
Q7. Who is the founder of the Irish Party Sinn Fein?
Correct answer : 1
Q8. Whom did the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi depose in a bloodless coup in 1969?
Correct answer : 2
Q9. Lal Mahal in Pune, Maharashtra was the house of which famous Indian ruler?
Correct answer : 3
Q10. To which American General did the British General Cornwallis formally surrender, though not in person, at Yorktown in 1781?
Correct answer : 2
Q11. Which Mughal emperor issued gold coins bearing depictions of Rama & Sita
Correct answer : 3
Q12. Which island, a former capital of Port Blair, remained under Japanese occupation during 1942-1945?
Correct answer : 1
Q13. Who is the only Mughal empress whose image appears on the Mughal coinage of her time?
Correct answer : 2
Q14. One of the statement below does not relate to the later Vedic period?
Correct answer : 3
Q15. Which of the following orders was known for its proselytizing activities in medieval India?
Correct answer : 4
Q16. Arrange the following important travellers to India in the chronological order of their visits: a)Marco Polo b)Ibn Batuta c)Alberuni d)Athanasius Nikitin
Correct answer : 1
Q17. Which of the following was NOT a recommendation of the Nehru Report 1928?
Correct answer : 2
Q18. Among the following events, what can be called the first step of the British to introduce communal politics in India?
Correct answer : 2
Q19. Which of the following envisaged a 'federation between the states and British India'?
Correct answer : 1
Q20. Who among the following transferred to Ashokan Pillars from Topra and Meerut to Delhi?
Correct answer : 2
Q21. Which of the following statement is NOT correct about the Rowlatt Act?
Correct answer : 1
Q22. Which of the following, for the first time spelt out the possibility of Independence for India?
Correct answer : 2
Q23. In which year the Muslim League declared for the first time that their aim was for self government within the empire?
Correct answer : 2
Q24. The 1857 mutiny brought about a change in the administrative system of the British rule over India from 1858 onwards. Which among the following is not one of those changes?
Correct answer : 2
Q25. Among the following what established first the system of a large and well established system of rule in India?
Correct answer : 1
Q26. Which Governor General's administration was notable by the absence of warfare and carrying out many reforms?
Correct answer : 2
Q27. Pick the correct one relating to the later vedic period:
Correct answer : 2
Q28. In which year the Congress agreed to the Muslim demands for separate electorates and weighted representation in the councils?
Correct answer : 2
Q29. Among the following who collaborated actively in the development of a market economy by the British during the colonial rule?
Correct answer : 2
Q30. In which year, Gandhi - Jinnah talks ended without any result?
Correct answer : 2
Q31. At the Madras session of the INC a resolution was passed without the presence of Gandhiji. About this Gandhiji remarked "hastily conceived and thoughtlessly passed". What was the resolution?
Correct answer : 3
Q32. Who among the following is credited to be the first empire builders of India?
Correct answer : 3
Q33. Punch marked coins are believed to be the first metal coins used in India. They belong to the.......
Correct answer : 2
Q34. The tendency for increased litigation was visible after the introduction of the land settlement system of Lord Cornwallis in 1793. The reason for this is normally traced to which of the following provisions?
Correct answer : 1
Q35. From among the following who was the first Greek to invade India?
Correct answer : 1
Q36. Who among the following was not a taxation officer in the pre-Mauryan period?
Correct answer : 2
Q37. In which of the following proposals/plan the partition of India into India and Pakistan was proposed?
Correct answer : 3
Q38. Arrange the following events in the correct chronological order: a)Bengal famine with a huge loss of life b)Despite the death of Haider Ali, Tipu Sultan fights against the British c)Establishment of the Board of Control in London d)Impeachment of Warren Hastings
Correct answer : 2
Q39. Who among the following was not a ruler of Magadha Kingdom?
Correct answer : 4
Q40. Why did the Muslim League decide to go in for direct action on 16th August 1946?
Correct answer : 4
Q41. Who among the following is accused by the scholars for destroying the importance of Delhi as the centre of Chisti order
Correct answer : 3
Q42. Which of the following statements established that the Harappans had trade links with Mesopatamia and Persian Gulf?
Correct answer : 3
Q43. Among the following who was not a member of the Select Committee headed by Pt.Motilal Nehru and appointed by the All Parties Conference in 1928, for drafting a Constitutional scheme for India?
Correct answer : 4
Q44. Who founded Agra in advance to be used as a headquarters to capture Gwalior and other Rajput regions?
Correct answer : 2
Q45. Among the following who gave his successors the never before strongest North West Frontier, not even by the Britishers except for a brief during 1800-1801?
Correct answer : 4
Q46. In which year, the British Parliament decided that the East India Company should cease to be a trading company?
Correct answer : 1
Q47. Among the following, who detached the whole Deccan, including Daulatabad from the Sultan's Dominions. Never again, except briefly and insecurely for a generation after Aurangazeb's conquests, did Delhi rule the Deccan
Correct answer : 3
Q48. Coins of the I BC onwards are important to the study of history because.....
Correct answer : 1
Q49. Associate the following officials with the correct kingdom/king when they existed: Gopa, Sthanika, Dharmasastha, Panyadh-yaksha,Samasthaadhyaksha and Agarka