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Q1. Among the following scripts which one was not used in Ashokan inscriptions?
Correct answer : 3
Q2. During the pre-Mauryan period states, BALI was .....
Correct answer : 3
Q3. Alexander's invasion of North west India was around......
Correct answer : 1
Q4. From various evidences specially at Kalibangan, it is presumed that the Harappans used a wooden plough. The plough was believed to have been drawn by.......
Correct answer : 4
Q5. Among the following provinces during British regime, which one had the largest number of members in the Constituent Assembly?
Correct answer : 3
Q6. Mauryan Society was divided into seven classes and it is mentioned in.........
Correct answer : 3
Q7. Which of the following organisation has been termed as the "forerunner to Gandhian programmes for the Harijan"?
Correct answer : 3
Q8. "Educated completely in English, strongly influenced by Bankim Chandra Chatterji's ideologies, and believed that 'Shakti or mother' represented India and it was his focus of attention for life". Relate this statement to the correct person from the following.
Correct answer : 2
Q9. Among the following leaders whose effortrs was the social reform movement first put on the national map?
Correct answer : 3
Q10. The origin of medieval Hindu devotionalism which transformed Hinduism was from.......
Correct answer : 2
Q11. Which of the following crops was not introduced through the European (specially the Portuguese) efforts to introduce new crops in India?
Correct answer : 1
Q12. When did the "mother goddess" become an object of worship again after being neglected for centuries?
Correct answer : 1
Q13. Which of the following developments did not take place during the Mauryan period?
Correct answer : 2
Q14. In the Interim government formed in 1946, who among the following was NOT a member?
Correct answer : 1
Q15. Which of the following was the main cause for the Indian women getting enfranchised on the same terms as men for the first time on the basis of the Montford Reforms?
Correct answer : 4
Q16. At which place Vinoba Bhave started the Individual Satyagraha in 1940?
Correct answer : 3
Q17. Which of the following region took active part in the Quit India movement?
Correct answer : 3
Q18. When did Gandhiji coin the term "Harijan" for the 'untouchables' in our country?
Correct answer : 2
Q19. Which of the following was the first fortified English port in India?
Correct answer : 1
Q20. Brahminism as is understood today, with the outlook and attitude of the superior caste, has its roots in which of the following periods?
Correct answer : 1
Q21. Which of the following is believed to contain texts on earliest architecture?
Correct answer : 2
Q22. Large scale murals gave way for the miniatures in painting after ......
Correct answer : 1
Q23. Which one of the following is correct with regard to the split up of the late Chalukyan Empire?
Correct answer : 2
Q24. Who was Greek explorer and navigator whom Darius the Great had directed around 510 BC to explore the Indus till its mouth?
Correct answer : 3
Q25. Which of the following river is related with the Battle of Hydaspes?
Correct answer : 1
Q26. Which of the following Peshwa was known as "Nana Saheb"?
Correct answer : 3
Q27. What was "Arz"?
Correct answer : 2
Q28. What was an "Agrahara Grant"?
Correct answer : 1
Q29. At which place the British and the French clashed for the first time?
Correct answer : 3
Q30. Which of the following metal was not known to the Indus people?
Correct answer : 3
Q31. About the unilateral decision to withdraw the Non cooperation movement in February 1922 by Gandhiji, who has quoted :"to sound the order of retreat just when public enthusiasm was reaching the boiling point was nothing short of a national calamity"
Correct answer : 2
Q32. When for the first time an organisational change was brought in the Congress to turn it into a real mass political party?
Correct answer : 2
Q33. When did Gandhiji make the first use of hunger strike as a weapon?
Correct answer : 4
Q34. When the Congress took a critical stand over the Montford reforms of 1919, the old moderate remnants like Sapru, Jayakar and Chintamani broke up and formed the......
Correct answer : 2
Q35. Which one of the following was not one of the central agenda of the Khilafat movement?
Correct answer : 3
Q36. During the I WW assistance to revolutionaries was organized through which of the following foreign centres?
Correct answer : 3
Q37. The Simon Commission was appointed to look into the working of the reforms introduced under the Act of 1919. The Indians decided to boycott the commission because....
Correct answer : 4
Q38. The "August Offer of 1940" sought to conciliate the Congress by guaranteeing......
Correct answer : 4
Q39. The much talked about "August Offer" was made during which year?
Correct answer : 2
Q40. Prime Minister of Uk, Clement Atlee announced on 20th February 1947, that the British Government would withdraw from India by.....
Correct answer : 3
Q41. About which one of the following song did Gandhiji wrote "that one song is enough to sustain me even if I were to forget the Bhagvad Gita"?
Correct answer : 2
Q42. At which of these places, unprecedented riot and bloodshed occurred between 16-19, August 1946 among Hindus and Muslims due to the 'direct action to achieve Pakistan' policy of Muslim League?
Correct answer : 2
Q43. In the March 1939 Tripuri session of the Indian National Congress, Nethaji defeated which of the following opponents who was also sponsored by Gandhiji?
Correct answer : 4
Q44. For what reason Gandhiji began a fast unto death on 20th September 1932 in Yeravada Jail?
Correct answer : 3
Q45. The Khilafat movement subsided following the......
Correct answer : 2
Q46. Which one of the following does not relate to Lala Hardayal of the Ghadar movement?
Correct answer : 3
Q47. In which year the Muslim League adopt self government as one of its objectives?
Correct answer : 2
Q48. Who was the President at the time of the time of the split of Moderate Vs Extremist in the Congress?
Correct answer : 1
Q49. Which of the following Acts formallly introduced the principle of elections for the first time?
Correct answer : 2
Q50. During Indian freedom struggle, the National Social Conference was formed. What was the reason for its formation?