A. Afghanistan
B. Turkey
C. Mongolia
D. Persia
Answer : C
202. The concept of Anuvrata was advocated by?
A. Mahayana Buddhism
B. Hinayana Buddhism
C. Jainism
D. The Lokayata School
Answer : C
203. Ashtapradhan was a Council of Ministers?
A. In the Gupta administration
B. In the Maratha administration
Answer : B
204. Which one has a dome which is said to be one of the largest in the world?
A. Gol Gumbaz, Bijapur
B. Jama Masjid, Delhi
Answer : A
205. Mansabdari system introduced by Akbar was borrowed from the system followed in?
A. Afghanistan
B. Turkey
C. Mongolia
D. Persia
Answer : C
206. Toramana belonged to the ethnic horde of the?
A. Scythians
B. Hunas
C. Yue-chis
D. Sakas
Answer : B
207. Vidhushaka, a common character in Sanskrit drama is invariably a?
A. Brahmana
B. Kshatriya
C. Vaishya
D. Shudra
Answer : A
208. The first Indian ruler who joined the subsidiary Alliance was?
A. The Nawab of Oudh
B. The Nizam of Hyderabad
Answer : B
209. Which important trade centre of ancient India was on trade route connecting Kalyana with Vengi?
A. Tagara
B. Sripura
C. Tripuri
Answer : A
210. The name of the poet Kalidas is mentioned in the?
A. Allahabad pillar inscription
B. Aihole inscription
C. Alapadu grant
Answer : B
211. In the Gandhara sculptures the preaching mudra associated with the Buddha's 1st Sermon at Sarnath is?
A. Abhaya
B. Dharmachakra
Answer : B
212. The capital of the kingdom of Maharaja Ranjit Singh was?
A. Amritsar
B. Patiala
C. Lahore
D. Kapurthala
Answer : C
213. Statue of Gomateshwara at Sravanabelagola was built by?
A. Chandragupta Maurya
B. Kharvela
C. Amoghavarsha
D. Chamundaraya
Answer : D
214. Who introduced paper currency in India?
A. Hindu Kings
B. Muslim rulers
C. The British rulers
D. The Greek conquerors
Answer : C
215. Who introduced leather coins?
A. Ibrahim Lodhi
B. Mohammad Tuglak
C. Jahangir
D. Akbar
Answer : B
216. Which period came first?
A. British period
B. Muslim period
C. Greek period
D. Hindu period
Answer : D
217. Who is USA's Father of the Nation?
A. Abraham Lincoln
B. Washington
C. Jefferson
D. Roosevelt
Answer : B
218. Who first built the Grand Trunk Road?
A. Humayun
B. Sher Shah Suri
C. Shahjahan
D. Jahangir
Answer : B
219. Why did Aryans come to India?
A. To find grass for their cattle
B. To hunt tigers
C. To drive out Tamils
D. To conquer land
Answer : A
220. Which Revolution fathered Russian Revolution?
A. French revolution
B. American Revolution
C. Industrial Revolution
D. All
Answer : D
221. Who helped America the most in getting freedom from the British?
A. Italy
B. Canada
C. France
D. India
Answer : C
222. What was Burma before its independence?
A. A part of India
B. A part of China
C. A part of Thailand
D. A part of Malaysia
Answer : A
223. Where do we find the remains of Buddhist religion?
A. Thailand
B. Sri Lanka
C. Afghanistan
D. All of the above
Answer : D
224. What should a genuine history deal with?
A. Lives of kings
B. Lives of masses of people
C. Lives of feudal lords
D. All
Answer : B
225. The Golden Temple at Amritsar was built by
A. Guru Nanak
B. Guru Arjan Dev
C. Guru Tej Bahadur
D. Gobind Sing
Answer : B
226. Kautilya, the author of Arthasathra was a contempoary of?
A. Ashoka
B. Samura Gupta
C. Harshavardhana
D. Chandra Gupta Maurya
Answer : D
227. Which among the following is the oldest dynasty?
A. Maurya
B. Gupta
C. Kushan
D. Kanva
Answer : A
228. Where did the traveler Ibn Batuta come from?
A. Persia
B. Morocco
C. Turkey
D. Central Asia
Answer : B
229. The ancient name of North Bihar was?
A. Vriji
B. Vasta
C. Surasena
D. Avanti
Answer : A
230.'Charak' was the famous court physician of?
A. Harsha
B. Chandragupta Maurya
C. Ashoka
D. Kanishka
Answer : D
231.In 1751 the Nawab of Bengal ceded Orissa to—
A. The Marathas
B. The Nawab of Avadh
C. The Afghans
Answer : A
232. The relics of Indus Valley Civilization indicate that the main occupation of the people was?
A. Agriculture
B. Cattle rearing
Answer : A
233. Which type of ancient script did the Harappan use?
A. Pictographic
B. Linear
C. Hieroglyphic
D. Symbolic
Answer : A
234. Which of the following materials was mainly used in manufacture of Harappan seals?
A. Terra cotta
B. Bronze
C. Copper
D. Iron
Answer : A
235. Which Sultan of Delhi had accepted the suzerainty of the Timurid ruler Mirza Shah Rukh?
A. Firuz Tughlaq
B. Khizr Khan Sayyid
Answer : B
236. Who among the following ruler was a famous musician?
A. Swathi Thirunal
B. Moolam Thirunal
C. Marthanda Varma
Answer : A
237. The development of architecture was at its peak during the reign of?
A. Nandas
B. Cholas
C. Guptas
Answer : C
238. Which port was called Babul Makkha (Gate of Makkah) during the Mughal period?
A. Calicut
B. Calcutta
C. Surat
Answer : C
239. Who among the following was a great musician in the court of Akbar?
A. Abdul Fazal
B. Amir Khusro
C. Ramdas
D. Ten
Answer : D
240. The literature of the Sangam age was written mostly in the form of?
A. Prose
B. Poetry
C. Drama
D. All of these
Answer : B
241. Which rulers built Ellora temple?
A. Chalukya
B. Rashtrakuta
C. Pallava
D. Sunga
Answer : B
242. The Hoysala's capital was?
A. Warangal
B. Devagiri
C. Dwarasamudra
D. Krishnagiri
Answer : C
243. Who introduced the famous Persian festival of Nauroz?
A. Alauddin Khilji
B. Iltumish
C. Firoz Tughlaq
D. Balban
Answer : D
244. Chinese pilgrim who visited India during Harsha Vardhana's period was?
A. Hiuen Tsang
B. Fa-hien
C. Itsing
D. Nishka
Answer : A
245. Which of the following is a port town of Indus Valley Civilization?
A. Harappa
B. Ropar
C. Banawali
D. Lothal
Answer : D
246. Which of the following was the physician who adored Kanishka's court?
A. Vasumita
B. Charaka
C. Parsva
D. Asvaghosha
Answer : B
247. Who among the following Mugal Emperors had the longest reign?
A. Muhammad Shah
B. Bahadur Shah
C. Farrukhsiyar
Answer : A
248. Two principal monuments of Ala-ud-din Khiliji's reign, the Jama'at Khana Masjid & Alai Darwaja were constructed at?
A. Delhi
B. Mysore
Answer : A
249. Who amidst the following lived the earliest?
A. Panini
B. Asvaghosha
C. Kalidasa
Answer : A
250. The Meenahshi temple at Madurai is the monument of?
A. Pallavas
B. Pandyas
C. Cholas
D. Cheras
Answer : B
251. Chalukya King who had title of Sri Prithvi-Vallabha and Parameswara was?
A. Pulakesin I
B. Maharaja Kirthivarman
C. Pulakesin II
Answer : c
252. Who introduced first the famous token currency system in India?
A. Ghiyas-ud-Din Tughlak
B. Muhamad-bin-Tughlak
Answer : B
253. Who was the first ruler of the Pala Dynasty of Bengal?
A. Gopala
B. Devapala
C. Vigropala
D. Dharmapala
Answer : A
254. Which of the following animals was generally not known to the Indus Valley People?
A. Horse
B. Rhinoceros
C. Bull
D. Cow
Answer : A
255. Which of the following Mughal emperor's tomb is outside India?
A. Akbar
B. Shajahan
C. Aurangazeb
D. Jehangir
Answer : D
256. Which among the following dynasties had the strongest navy?
A. Chalukya
B. Chola
C. Gupta
D. Pallava
Answer : B
257. The large residential university established in ancient time was at?
A. Cochin
B. Vaishali
C. Nalanda
D. Harappa
Answer : C
258. At the earlier stage backward classes movement means?
A. Santal movement
B. Non-Brahmin movement
C. Harijan movement
Answer : B
259. Which language was used in the literature of sangam period
A. Kannada
B. Telugu
C. Tamil
D. Sanskrit
Answer : C
260. Which of the following Shaka king reconstructed the Sudarshana lake
A. Rudradaman I
B. Manes
C. Chastana
D. Bhumaka21
Answer : A
261. Who was the first ruler in India to issue coins which can be definitely attributed to the kings?
A. Indo-Greeks
B. Kushans
Answer : A
262. The Hathigumpha inscription (near Bhubaneshwar, Orissa) relates to which king?
A. Susharma
B. Hala
C. Kharavela
D. Pulamayi
Answer : C
263. Who among the following was a famous astronomer?
A. Bhanabhatta
B. Vishakadatta
C. Nagarjuna
D. Aryabhatta
Answer : D
264. The capital of Mysore during Tipu Sultan's rule was?
A. Bangalore
B. Devagiri
C. Coimbatoor
D. Srirangapattanam
Answer : D
265. Sir Thomas Rose visited the court of?
A. Akbar
B. Jehangir
C. Shajahan
Answer : B
266. In Sanskrit plays written during the Gupta period, women & Sudras speak:
A. Prakrit
B. Sauraseni
C. Pali
D. Sanskrit
Answer : A
267. Temple architecture was most developed under
A. Rastrakutas
B. Pallavas
C. Pandyas
D. Cheras
Answer : B
268. Which ruler went to Sri Lanka to spread Buddhism?
A. Ashoka
B. Samudragupta
C. Sanghamitra
D. Chitragupta
Answer : C
269. The first major inscription in classical Sanskrit is that of?
A. Rudradaman
B. Chandragupta Vikramaditya
C. Kanishka
Answer : A
270. Who built a tomb for Sher Shah at Sasaram?
A. Ibrahim Shah
B. Islam Shah
C. Sher Shah
D. Sikandar Shah
Answer : D
271. The main centre or meeting point of Indo-Roman trade in ancient times was?
A. Rome
B. Calicut
C. Alexandria
D. Karaikkal
Answer : B
272. Who pursued the policy "Blood and Iron" ?
A. Balban
B. Firuz Tughlaq
C. Malik Kafur
D. Alauddin Khilji
Answer : A
273. "Nav Ratnas" (nine gems) were the famous personalities associated with the court of:
A. Chandra Gupta II
B. Harshavardhana
Answer : A
274. Which Indian ruler established embassies in foreign countries on modern lines
A. Shah Alam II
B. Mir Quasim
C. Haider Ali
Answer : A
275. Which of the following rulers had the title Kaviraja?
A. Kumaragupta
B. Chanragupta
C. Skandagupta
D. Samudragupta
Answer : D
276. Which Muslim ruler was keen to have friendly relations with the Rajputs?
A. Akbar
B. Humayun
C. Babar
D. Aurangzeb
Answer : A
277. Which Sikh Guru was executed by Aurangzeb?
A. Guru Arjun Dev
B. Guru Ram Das
C. Guru Teg Bahadur
D. Guru Gobind Singh
Answer : C
278. Which amidst the following was not a fort of the Maratha ruler Shivaji?
A. Sindhudurg
B. Raigad
C. Amber
D. Padmadurg
Answer : C
279. Which of the following Rajput dynasties did not surrender to Akbar
A. Parmar
B. Pratihara
C. Rathor
D. Sisodiya
Answer : B
280. Who announced the Communal Award?
A. British PM Ramsay Macdonald
B. Lord Lytton
Answer : A
281. Who was the founder of the Indian Association?
A. Lala Lajpat Rai
B. Surendranath Banerjee
Answer : B
282. According to the Puranas, original place of the rulers of lunar dynasty was?
A. Kashi
B. Ayodhya
C. Pratishthanpur
Answer : C
283. The best preserved pillar erected by Ashoka is that of -
A. Lauria-Nandangarh
B. Sanchi
C. Sarnath
D. Kausambi
Answer : C
284. Who was called 'Zinda Pir' or 'Living Saint' in Mughal India?
A. Babur
B. Akbar
C. Shahjahan
D. Aurangzeb
Answer : D
285. Who was Titu Mir?
A. Leader of Faraji Movement
B. Leader of Wahabi Movement
C. Leader of Indigo Revolt
D. Leader of Sepoy Mutiny
Answer : A
286. Who wrote Humayunnama?
A. Badaoni
B. Gulbadan Begum
Answer : B
287. Name the Bengali poet who was conferred with the title "Gunaraj Khan" in the Sultanate period :
A. Maladhar Basu
B. Chandidas
Answer : A
288. Who built the famous Adina Mosque in Bengal?
A. Iliyas Shah
B. Sikandar Shah
C. Azam Shah
D. Hamza Shah
Answer : B
289. Name one revolutionary who attacked the 'Writer's Building's'?
A. Anathbandhu Panja
B. Mrigen Datta
C. Binoy Basu
Answer : C
290. Which one of the following books is the official History of Revolt of 1857?
A. Eighteen Fifty Seven
B. Theories of Indian Mutiny
Answer : A
291. Who wrote the Book entitled 'Ghulamgiri'?
A. B. R. Ambedkar
B. Narayan Guru
C. Jyotiba Phule
D. M. P. Pillai
Answer : C
292. 'Civil disobedience Movement' began with -
A. Kakori incident
B. Dandi March
C. Arrival of Simon Commission
D. Chauri-Chaura
Answer : B
293. Who called Mahatma Gandhi a 'naked fakir'?
A. Lord Litton
B. Churchill
C. George Pancham
D. Lincoln
Answer : C
294. In which year Non-cooperation Movement was started?
A. 1922
B. 1923
C. 1920
D. 1921
Answer : C
295. Who wrote the book Hind Swaraj in the year 1909?
A. Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
B. Mahatma Gandhi
C. Jawaharlal Nehru
Answer : B
296. In which year and where Khilafat Committee was constituted?
A. 1921, Madras
B. 1919, Hyderabad
C. 1919, Bombay
D. 1921, Culcutta
Answer : C
297. People gathered in the Jallianwala Bagh on the April, 1919 to protest against-
A. The Rowlatt Act
B. Simon Comission
Answer : A
298. What was the name of Ujjain in ancient times?
A. Takshila
B. Awantika
C. Indraprashtha
D. None of the above
Answer : B
299. Musical instrument 'Tabla' was introduced by-
A. Adil Shah
B. Amir Khusrau
C. Tansen
D. Baiju Bawara
Answer : B
300. "Let no man ask a man's sect or caste." This statement has been given by-
A. Kabir
B. Ramananda
C. Ramanuja
D. Chaitanya
Answer : A
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