1. Arrange the following events in correct chronological sequence
using the code given below
1. Satyagraha against the Rowlatt Act
2. Champaran Satyagraha
3. Kheda Peasant struggle
4. Ahmedabad Mill Strike
Codes
(a) 2,4,3,1
(b) 1,2,3,4
(c) 2,1,4,3
(d) 3,2,4,1
Answer: a
2. Whose army was defeated by the army of Kakatiya rulers in
1303 at Warangal?
(a) of Iltutmish
(b) of Balban
(c) of Alauddin Khalji
(d) of Muhammad Tughlaq
Answer: c
3. The name ‘Aghanya’ mentioned in many passages of the Rig Veda
refers to :
(a) Priest
(b) Women
(c) Cows
(d) Brahmanas
Answer: c
4. In which of the following rock-cut caves eleven headed
Bodhisattva image is depicted?
(a) Ajanta
(b) Ellora
(c) Kanheri
(d) Karle
Answer: c
5. Consider the following statements :
1. The early Chaityagrihas and viharas of Guntuphalli in West
Godavari district is rock-cut.
2. The chaityas and viharas of Eastern Deccan are usually rock
cut.
Of these statements :
(a) Only 1 is correct
(b) Only 2 is correct
(c) Both 1 and 2 are correct
(d) Neither 1 nor 2 is correct
Answer: c
6. A resolution passed by the Rajya Sabha under Article 249 of
the constitution empowering Parliament to legislate on a state subject in
national interest remains in force for a period.
(a) Not exceeding six months
(b) Not exceeding two years
(c) Not exceeding one year
(d) of unlimited time
Answer: c
6. Which among the following system of levying land revenue in
Deccan was prevalent during the reign of Akbar?
(a) Kankut
(b) Number of ploughs
(c) Zabt
(d) Ghallabakshi
Answer: c
7. Who among the following foreign travelers visited India during
the reign of Jahangir?
(a) Father Anthony Monserate
(b) Francisco Pelsaert
(c) Niccolo Manucci
(d) Francois Bernier
Answer: b
8. Consider the following statements and select the correct answer
from the codes given below the statements :
Assertion [A]: Generally India had a favorable balance of trade
during the British rule.
The reason [R]: The drain of wealth took the form of unrequited
exports.
Codes
(a) Both [A] and [R] are true and [R] is the correct explanation
of [A]
(b) Both [A] and [R] are true but [R] is not the correct
explanation of [A]
(c) [A] is true but [R] is false
(d) Both [A] and [R] are false
Answer: d
9. Who was the last ruler of ‘Jaunpur state’?
(a) Mohammed Shah
(b) Hussain Shah
(c) Mubarak Shah
(d) Ibrahim Shah
Answer: b
10. Which of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
(a) Hector Munro – Battle of Buxar
(b) Lord Hastings – Anglo – Nepal War
(c) Lord Wellesley – Fourth Anglo Mysore War
(d) Lord Cornwallis – Third Anglo – Maratha War
Answer: d
11. Match List I with List-II and select the correct answer using
the code is given below :
The list I [Tirthankara]
A. Adinatha
B. Mallinatha
C. Parshvanatha
D Sambhavnatha
List II [Cognizance]
1. Bull
2. Horse
3. Snake
4. Water Jar
Codes :
A B C D
(a) 1 4 3 2
(b) 1 3 2 4
(c) 2 4 3 1
(d) 3 1 4 2
Answer: a
12. Which one of the following is not true about the
Barabar hill caves?
(a) There are in all four caves on the Barabar hill
(b) Inscriptions of Ashoka are found on the walls of three caves
(c) These inscriptions inform us about the dedication of these caves
to the Ajivikas
(d) These inscriptions date back to 6th century BC.
Answer: d
13. Matsya Mahajanapada of 6th century B.C was located in :
(a) Western Uttar Pradesh
(b) Rajasthan
(c) Bundelkhand
(d) Rohilkhand
Answer: b
14. Match List I with List-II and select the correct answer using
the code given below :
List I
A. Gandhar Art
B. Junagarh Rock inscription
C. Milinapanho
D. Taxila inscriptions
List II
1. Menander
2. Patika
3. Kushanas
4. Rudradaman I
Codes :
A B C D
(a) 1 3 4 2
(b) 2 4 3 1
(c) 3 4 1 2
(d) 2 1 3 4
Answer: c
15. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
Revolt
Year
a) Prabna
revolt
1873
(b) Deccan Kisan revolt 1875
(c) Sanyasi
revolt
1894
(d) Kol
uprising
1870
Answer: d
16. Which one of the following social reformers strongly opposed
Jury Act of 1826?
(a) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
(b) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
(c) Mahadev Govind Ranade
(d) Rajnarayan Basu
Answer: b
17. In which of the following places the Dutch established their
trading centers in India?
(a) Nagappattinam, Chinsura, Machilipatnam
(b) Surat, Bharuch, Agra
(c) Cochin, Ahmedabad, Patna
(d) All the above
Answer: d
18. Who among the following supported the Swaraj Party in Central
Legislative Assembly in pre-independent India?
(a) M.A.Jinnah
(b) Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad
(c) Dr.Rajendra Prasad
(d) Jawaharlal Nehru
Answer: a
19. In which year Gopal Krishna Gokhale founded ‘Servants of India
Society’?
(a) 1902
(b) 1903
(c) 1904
(d) 1905
Answer: d
20. In which of the following years the Jatiya Sarkar was formed
in the Midnapur district of Bengal?
(a) 1939
(b) 1940
(c) 1941
(d) 1942
Answer: d
21. Which of the following trials attracted worldwide publicity
and drew sympathetic comments from Albert Einstein, H.G.Wells, Harold Laski and
Roosevelt in favor of the convicts?
(a) INA trial
(b) Lahore conspiracy case
(c) Meerut conspiracy case
(d) None of the above
Answer: c
22. Who remarked about the East India Company that “The Company is
an anomaly but it is part of a system where everything is an anomaly”?
(a) Warren Hastings
(b) G.B.Macaulay
(c) Lord Clive
(d) Henry Dundas
Answer: b
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