Question: Who among the following had the longest tenure as the Prime Minister of India?
1. Morarji Desai
2. Charan Singh
3. V. P. Singh
4. Lal Bahadur Shastri
Answer: 1
Question: During whose tenure as the Viceroy of India were the great martyrs Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru hanged?
1. Lord Curzon
2. Lord Irwin
3. Lord Minto
4. Lord Chemsford
Answer: 2
Question: In the year 1946, who among the following joined the Viceroy’s Executive Council with the finance portfolio?
1. Mohammad Ali Jinnah
2. Liaqat Ali Khan
3. Nawab Salimullah
4. Shaukat Ali
Answer: 2
Question: Aryabhatta and Varahamihira belong to which age?
1. Guptas
2. Cholas
3. Mauryas
4. Mughals
Answer: 1
Question: To which dynasty did Ashoka belong?
1. Vardhana
2. Maurya
3. Kushan
4. Gupta
Answer: 2
Question: Who of the following kings was an ardent follower of Jainism?
1. Bimbisara
2. Mahapadma Nanda
3. Kharavela
4. Pulakesin – II
Answer: 3
Question: The Treaty of Bassein(1802) was signed between:
1. Madhav Rao and the British
2. Balaji Rao II and the British
3. Mahadji Scindia and the British
4. Holkar and the British
Answer: 2
Question: Who among the following was associated with the foundation of Ghadar Party?
1. Lala Lajpat Rai
2. Lala Hardyal
3. C. R. Das
4. Bipin Chandra Pal
Answer: 2
Question: Which one of the following battles was fought between babar and the Rajputs in 1527?
1. The First Battle of Panipat
2. The Battle of Khanwa
3. The Battle of Ghagra
4. The Battle of Chanderi
Answer: 2
Question: During the Civil Disobedience Movement, who led the ‘Red Shirts’ of North-Western India?
1. Abdul Kalam Azad
2. Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
3. Mohammad Ali Jinnah
4. Shaukat Ali
Answer: 2
Question: Who among the following taught the doctrine of ‘Shunyata’?
1. Nagarjuna
2. Shankaracharya
3. Harisena
4. Vallabhacharya
Answer: 1
Question: With reference to the Indian Freedom Struggle, which one of the following events occurred earliest?
1. Surat Split
2. Lucknow Pact
3. Rowlatt Satyagraha
4. Communal Award
Answer: 1
Question: During the Indian freedom Struggle, who of the following founded the Parthana Samaj?
1. Atmaram Pandurang
2. Gopal Hari Deshmukh
3. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
4. Keshab Chandra Sen
Answer: 1
Question: Which factor influenced Ghandhi’s ideas on Indian Culture most?
1. Brief in the fundamentals of ancient culture.
2. Influenced by western ideas
3. ‘Sermon on the Mount’
4. Tolstoy’s idea
Answer: 1
Question: The Temples at Khajuraho were build by –
1. Chandelas
2. Pallavas
3. Chalukyas
4. Qutubuddin
Answer: 1
Question: The Sarvodaya Movement was started by –
1. Mahatma Gandhi
2. Jayprakash Narayan
3. Vinoba Bhave
4. Datta Dharmodhikari
Answer: 3
Question: Who of the following was not the acting President of India?
1. V. V. Giri
2. B. D. Jatti
3. Hidayatullah
4. Zakir Hussain
Answer: 4
Question: Who had demarcated the border-line between India and Pakistan?
1. McMohan
2. Lord Durand
3. Redcliffe
4. None of these
Answer: 3
Question: Who had appointed the first Prime Minister of India?
1. Lord Mountbatten
2. C. Rajgopalachari
3. President of India
4. None of these
Answer: 1
Question: The Colonial system of the Company was formalized by –
1. Battle of Plassey
2. Battle of Buxar
3. Battle of Panipat
4. Battle of Wandiwash
Answer: 2
Question: Where are the caves of Ajanta located?
1. Orissa
2. Kerala
3. Maharashtra
4. Madhya Pradesh
Answer: 3
Question: Who started the Shaka era?
1. Ashok
2. Chandragupta-II
3. Kanishka
4. Harsha
Answer: 3
Question: Which organization had proposed first to constitute the Constitution Assembly to form the Indian Constitution?
1. Swaraj Party in 1928
2. Indian National Congress in 1936
3. Muslim League in 1942
4. By all parties convention in 1946
Answer: 2
Question: Which of the following kings of ancient India embraced Jainism and became a Sanyasi?
1. Bimbisara
2. Chandra Gupta Maurya
3. Pushyamitra
4. Harsha
Answer: 2
Question: In which Buddhist Council Hinyan and Mahayan School of thought emerged in Buddhism?
1. First
2. Second
3. Third
4. Fourth
Answer: 4
Question: In which book or books the religious discourses of Gautam Buddha were collected?
1. Suttapitaka
2. Jataks
3. Vinayapitaka
4. Amidhammapitaka
Answer: 1
Question: The main emphasis of Upnishads is on which aspect of philosophy?
1. Bhakti
2. Gyan
3. Karma
4. Tapa
Answer: 2
Question: Where did Rigvedic Aryans live in India?
1. Northern India
2. All over India
3. Eastern part of India
4. Sapta Sindhu area
Answer: 4
Question: Which of the following was the most significant feature of the Indus Valley Civilization?
1. Economic System
2. Religious life
3. Town Planning
4. Social life
Answer: 3
Question: Which metal was unknown to Indus Valley people?
1. Gold
2. Silver
3. Iron
4. Copper
Answer: 3
Question: The largest number of seals of Indus Valley Civilization are made of –
1. Terracotta
2. Faience
3. Agate
4. Steatite
Answer: 4
Question: Why was the Swaraj Party established?
1. To co-operate with Government
2. To place obstacles in the functioning of the legislative council
3. To form an organization parallel to the Congress
4. Because of schism in the Congress
Answer: 2
Question: Among the following who never joined the Congress Socialist Party?
1. Sampurnanand
2. Jaiprakash Narayan
3. Jawaharlal Nehru
4. Acharya Narendra Deva
Answer: 3
Question: Which of the following events was the first to take place?
1. Chauri Chaura Incident
2. Kakori Incident
3. Bardoli Satyagraha
4. Rowlatt Satyagraha
Answer: 4
Question: Whichone of the following newspaper was launched by Motilal Nehru?
1. Leader
2. The Independent
3. Hindustan Times
4. National Herald
Answer: 2
Question: Where did the Mopalla Revolt of 1921 take place?
1. Telangana
2. Malabar
3. Mysore
4. Vidarbha
Answer: 2
Question: How long A. O. Hume guided the Congress while living in India?
1. Twenty years
2. Fifteen years
3. Ten years
4. Six years
Answer: 1
Question: Who launched the strongest opposition to the Ilbert Bill during Ripon’s regime?
1. Educated Indians
2. Indian Association
3. European Businessmen
4. Surendra Nath Banarjee
Answer: 3
Question: Which of the following did not attract foreign capital?
1. Cotton
2. Indigo
3. Jute
4. Tea
Answer: 1
Question: Which of the following was the main source of the revenue of the Government of India in the second half of the 19th Century?
1. Land Revenue
2. Tariff Duties
3. Monopoly tax of Opium and Salt
4. Income Tax
Answer: 1
Question: What was Gandhiji’s view regarding the VArna System?
1. Expressed opposition
2. Expressed no definite opinion
3. Opposed it in theory only
4. Accepted it in original form
Answer: 4
Question: Who played the most significant role in the enactment of the Widow Remarriage Act of 1856?
1. Ishwarchandra Vidhyasagar
2. Ram Mohan Roy
3. Keshab Chandra Sen
4. Mahadeva Govinda Ranade
Answer: 1
Question: Which one of the following is correctly matched?
1. Brahmo Samaj – Annie Basant
2. Arya Samaj – Lala Lajpat Rai
3. Ram Krishna Mission – Keshab Chandra Sen
4. Theosophical Society – vivekananda
Answer: 2
Question: How did Tilak react to the Age of Consent Act of 1891?
1. Total Support
2. Limited Support
3. Total opposition
4. Neutrality
Answer: 3
Question: He has been called the pioneer of Indian Renaissance –
1. Ramkrishna Paramhansa
2. Raja Rammohan Roy
3. Ishwarchandra Vidhyasagar
4. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Answer: 2
Question: What policy was followed by British administrators towards the Indian States after the Revolt of 1857?
1. To annex as many Indian states as possible to the British empire
2. To maintain the status of Indian States
3. To give more powers to Indian states
4. To allow Indian states to maintain relations with foreign powers
Answer: 2
Question: Which one of the following is correctly matched?
1. Permanent Settlement – Madras
2. Ryotwari Settlement – Bengal
3. Mahalwari Settlement – United province and North Western Province
4. Talukdari System – Bombay
Answer: 3
Question: Which of the following was the first event relating to the Revolt of 1857?
1. Revolt in Kanpur and taking over the leadership by Nana Saheb
2. Marching of sepoys to Red Fort of Delhi
3. Raising of the Banner of revolt by the Rani Jhansi
4. Hanging of Tantia Tope to death
Answer: 2
Question: Who among the following writers described the Revolt of 1857 as the ‘First War of Independence’?
1. V. D. Savarkar
2. R. C. Majumdar
3. S. N. Sen
4. Ashok Mehta
Answer: 1
Question: Which of the following Acts abolished thebtrading rights of the East India Company?
1. Regulating Act
2. Charter Act of 1813
3. Charter Act of 1833
4. Charter Act of 1853
Answer: 3
Question: During whose Governor Generalship the Maratha confederacy ended?
1. Wellesley
2. Cornwallis
3. Lord Hastings
4. Dalhousie
Answer: 3
Question: Historians are of the view that the British signed the Treaty of Bassien (1802) with a ‘Cypher’. Who was this ‘Cypher’?
1. Baji Rao II
2. Raghunath Rao
3. Nana Phadanvis
4. Daulat Rao Sindhia
Answer: 1
Question: What was the British policy towardsMysore after Tipu Sultan’s death?
1. Establishing control over the whole of Mysore
2. The whole of Mysore was handed over to the successor of Tipu Sultan
3. The whole of Mysore was handed over to the successor of Wadyar dynasty
4. Only the central part of erstwhile Mysore was handed over to the successor of Wadyar dynasty
Answer: 4