Question: Government of India calendars show dates both in Christian era (AD) and Saka era. In which year did the Saka era start?
1. 150 BC
2. 130 BC
3. 56 BC
4. AD BC
Answer: 4
Question: Which of the following did not form part of the Agrarian Programme outlined in the famous Faizpur Session of Congress in 1936?
1. Taxation on Agriculture Income and Cooperative Farming
2. Recognition of Peasant Unions (Kisan Sabhas)
3. 50 percent Reduction in Rent and Revenue
4. Abolition of Zamindari and Taluqdari System
Answer: 4
Question: Who among the following did not attend the Second Round Table Conference of 1931?
1. Yusuf Mehrauli
2. S. K. Dutta
3. Ali Imam
4. G. D. Birla
Answer: 1
Question: During the Anti-Partition popular movement in the wake of partition of Bengal in 1905, boycott of British goods served as an effective weapon. From which of the following nationalist leaders did the boycott suggestion first come?
1. Krishna Kumar Mitra
2. Rabindranath Tagore
3. Ramendra Sunder Tridevi
4. Prafulla Chandra Roy
Answer: 1
Question: Which of the following objects were presented by Thomas Roe to Jahangir when he visited the latter’s court?
1.A coach drawn by four horses
2.A watch
3.An English gun
4.Perfume
Select the correct answer from the codes given below:
1. 1 and 2
2. 3 and 4
3. 2 and 3
4. 1,2 and 4
Answer: 1
Question: Which of the following statements best explains ‘Interlopers’?
1. It was a term used in the East India Company barracks to describe the Englishmen who kept mistresses.
2. The dismissed employees of the East India Company.
3. The Free Merchants, who traded independently in Asia despite the monopoly of the East India Company
4. The middlemen engaged by the East India Company to negotiate with the merchants and traders in India
Answer: 3
Question: Apart from Sir Stafford Cripps who was the President of the Board of Trade, who among the following was/were part of the Cabinet Mission that visited India in 1946?
1.Lord Pethic Lawrence
2.A. V. Alexander
3.C. H. Philips
4.Allan Campbell-Johnson
Select the correct answer from the codes given below:
1. 1 and 2
2. 2 and 3
3. 3 and 4
4. 1, 2, 3 and 4
Answer: 1
Question: “Indica” was a famous book written by –
1. Megasthenes
2. Amir Khusro
3. Ibn Batuta
4. Fa-Hien
Answer: 1
Question: Who was defeated in the Battle of Waterloo?
1. Hitler
2. Napoleon
3. Mussolini
4. Bismarck
Answer: 2
Question: Who was the First President of the United States of America?
1. George Washington
2. Abraham Lincoln
3. J. F. Kennedy
4. Roosevelt
Answer: 1
Question: Which freedom movement was initiated from Bombay?
1. Quit India Movement
2. Civil Disobedience Movement
3. Non-Cooperative Movement
4. Rowlatt Satyagraha
Answer: 4
Question: Which famous freedom fighter was born at Lyallpur Punjab Province of British India?
1. Jinnah
2. Bhagat Singh
3. Rajguru
4. Batukeshwar Dutt
Answer: 2
Question: “Akbarnama” was written by –
1. Birbal
2. Kalhan
3. Abul Fazl
4. Ibn Batuta
Answer: 3
Question: Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq was a failure because –
1. he was mad
2. he transferred his capital city
3. he killed his father
4. he was not a practical statesman
Answer: 4
Question: In which year was the Third battle of Panipat fought?
1. 1556
2. 1630
3. 1761
4. 1769
Answer: 3
Question: Which newspaper was started by Lokmanya Balgangadhar Tilak to serve the cause of India’s freedom struggle?
1. Kesari
2. Gadar
3. Free Hindustan
4. Swadesh Mitra
Answer: 1
Question: The ideology of fascism developed in
1. Germany
2. Japan
3. Italy
4. Russia
Answer: 3
Question: Which of the following domesticated animals was absent in the terracottas of the Indus civilization?
1. Buffalo
2. Sheep
3. Cow
4. Pig
Answer: 3
Question: Which among the following is the sacred book of the Buddhists?
1. Upanishads
2. Vedas
3. Tripitaka
4. Jatakas
Answer: 3
Question: Who among the following leaders was not assassinated?
1. Mahatma Gandhi
2. Liaqat Ali Khan
3. Muhammed Ali Jinnah
4. Lord Louis Mountbatten
Answer: 3
Question: Who was the first known Gupta ruler?
1. Sri Gupta
2. Chandragupta I
3. Ghatotkacha
4. Kumaragupta I
Answer: 2
Question: Mughal presence in the Red Fort ceased with the fall of
1. Aurangzeb
2. Muhammad Shah
3. Shah Alam
4. Bahadur Shah Zafar
Answer: 4
Question: The greatest development in the Kushana period was in the field of
1. Religion
2. Art
3. Literature
4. Architecture
Answer: 2
Question: ‘Khalsa’ was founded by
1. Guru Gobind Singh
2. Guru Ramdas
3. Guru Nanak
4. Arjun Dev
Answer: 1
Question: On the ruins of which old Hindu kingdom the Muslim kingdom of Golcunda grew up?
1. Devagiri
2. Dwarasamudra
3. Kanchi
4. Warangal
Answer: 4
Question: Who was the only Sultan of Delhi, who wrote his autobiographical account?
1. Mubarak Shah Khalji
2. Feroz Shah
3. Nasiruddin Mahmud
4. Sikandar Lodi
Answer: 2
Question: Who among the following was ruling the Chola country at the time of Mahmud Ghazni’s expedition of Gujarat?
1. Uttama Chola
2. Rajaraja I
3. Rajendra I
4. Kulottunga
Answer: 3
Question: Who among the following Astronomers was a native of Avanti?
1. Aryabhata
2. Brahmagupta
3. Bhaskaracharya II
4. Varahamihira
Answer: 4
Question: Which of the following temples was a well known centre of Higher Education?
1. Dasavatara temple at Deogarh
2. Sas-bahu temples at Gwalior
3. Shore temple at Mamallapuram
4. Trayipurusha temple at Salotgi
Answer: 4
Question: Which of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
1. Ashtanga hridaya – Drama
2. Brihajjataka – Astrology
3. Lilavati – Mathematics
4. Manasara – Architecture
Answer: 1