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Q1. During the colonial period in India, what was the purpose of the Whitley Commission?
Q2. Emperor Harsha's southward march was stopped on the Narmada river by .....
Q3. Assertion (A): Emperor Akbar marched towards Afghanistan in 1581 with a huge army. Reason {R}: He was on his way to reclaim his ancestral country of Ferghana in Central Asia.
Q4. Assertion (A): In 1916, Maulana Mohammad Ali and Abul Kalam Azad resigned from the Legislative Council. Reason {R}: The Rowlatt Act was passed by the Government in spite of being opposed by all Indian members of the Legislative Council.
Q5. Assertion (A): Shah Alam II spent the initial years as an Emperor far away from his capital. Reason {R}: There was always a lurking danger of foreign invasion from the north-west frontier.
Q6. Assertion (A): Saluva Narasimha put an end to old dynasty and assumed the royal title. Reason {R}: He wanted to save the kingdom from further degeneration and disintegration.
Q7. Assertion (A): Marathas emerged as the strongest native power in India after the decline of Mughal Empire. Reason {R}: Marathas were the first to have a clear concept of a united Indian nation.
Q8. With reference to the entry of Euroopean powers into India, which one of the following statements is NOT correct?
Q9. With reference to Indian Freedom struggle, which one of the following statements is NOT correct?
Q10. Alam Khan, one of those who invited Babur to invade India was .....
Q11. The battle of Dharmat was fought between .....
Q12. How did the Mughal Emperor Jahandarshah's reign come to an early end?
Q13. In India, among the following locations, the Dutch established their earliest factory at ......
Q14. Consider the following statements: (1) The Cholas defeated Pandya and Chera rulers and established their domination over peninsular India in the early medieval times. (2) The Cholas sent an expedition against Sailendra empire of South East Asia and conquered some of the areas. Which of these statements is/are correct?
Q15. Which one of the following statements is correct?
Q16. Consider the following statements: (1) The last Mauryan ruler, Brihadratha was assassinated by his commander-in-Chief, Pushyamitra Sunga. (2) The last Sunga king, Devabhuti was assassinated by his Brahmana minister Vasudeva Kanva who usurped the throne. (3) The last ruler of the Kanva dynasty was deposed by the Andhras. Which of these statements is/are correct?
Q17. The aim of education as stated by the Wood's dispatch of 1854 was ....
Q18. Which one of the following statements is NOT correct?
Q19. How did Sultan Qutb-ud-din Aibak die?
Q20. Which one of the following provisions was NOT made in the Charter Act of 1833?
Q21. What was the main reason for a great civil strife in Argentina in the early 2000s?
Q22. With reference to colonial rule in India, what was sought by the Ilbert Bill in 1883?
Q23. An important aspect of the Cripps Mission of 1942 was .....
Q24. When the Congress leaders condemned the Montague-Chelmsford Report, many moderates left the party to form the ......
Q25. During the Indian freedom struggle, the Khudai Khidmatgars, also known as Red Shirts, called for ......
Q26. Assertion (A): Muhammad Bin Tughluq left Delhi and for two years, he lived in a camp called Swargo-dwari. Reason {R}: At that time, Delhi was ravaged by a form of plague and many people died.
Q27. Assertion (A): The effect of labour participation in the Indian nationalist upsurge of the early 1930s was weak Reason {R}: The labour leaders considered the ideology of Indian National Congress as bourgeois and reactionary.
Q28. The last opportunity to avoid the partition of India was lost with the rejection of ......
Q29. The historian Barauni refused to consider the state in India under Delhi Sultans as truly Islamic, because
Q30. Match the following ancient sites (in alphabets) and their archaeological findings (in numbers): (A) Lothal (B) Kalibangan (C} Dholavira (D) Banawali ..... (1) Ploughed Field (2) Dockyard (3) Terracota replica of a plough (4) An inscription comprising ten large sized signs of the Harappan script.
Q31. With reference to " Sufism " in Indian history, consider the following statements: (1) Shaikh Ahmad Sarhandi was a contemporary of Ibrahim Lodi. (2) Shaikh Nasiruddin Chirg-i-Dehlavi was a disciple of Shaikh Nizamuddin Auliya (3) Aurangazeb was a contemporary of Shaikh Salim Chisti (4) The Qadiri order of Sufis was first introduced in India by Shaikh Niamtullah and Makhdum Muhammad Jilani. Which of these statements are correct?
Q32. The ancient Indian play " Mudrarakshasa " of Visakhadutta has its subject on ....
Q33. With reference to the period of extremist nationalist movement in India with its spirit of Swadeshi, which one of the following statements is NOT correct?
Q34. With reference to the Indian freedom struggle, which one of the following statements is NOT correct?
Q35. With reference to the medieval Indian rulers, which one of the following statements is correct?
Q36. The motive behind Shah Jahan's Balkh campaign was to .....
Q37. Which one of the following submitted in 1875 a petition to the House of Commons demanding India's direct representation in the British Parliament?
Q38. The real intention of the British to include princely states in the Federal Union proposed by the India Act of 1935 was to .....
Q39. Match the following Acts of Colonial Government of India (in alphabets) with their provisions (in numbers): (A) Charter Act 1813 (B) Regulating Act (C} Act of 1858 (D) Pitt's India Act ..... (1) Set up a board of control in Britain to fully regulate the East India Company's affairs in India (2) Company's trade monopoly in India was ended (3) The power to govern was transferred from East India Company to the British Crown. (4) The Company's directors were asked to present to the British government all correspondence and documents pertaining to the administration of the company.
Q40. The President of Indian National Congress at the time of partition of India was ....
Q41. Match the following British Governor General/Viceroys ( in alphabets ) with the events that occurred during their period (in numbers) : (A) MacDonald (B) Linlithgo (C} Dalhousie (D) Chelmsford ..... (1) Doctrine of Lapse (2) Communal Awards (3) August Offer (4) Dyarchy
Q42. Who among the following Indian rulers established embassies in foreign countries on modern lines?
Q43. The Hunter Commission was appointed after the
Q44. Under the "Permanent Settlement" 1793, the Zamindars were required to issue pattas to the farmers which were not issued by many of the Zamindars. The reason was .....
Q45. The Mongols under Gengis Khan invaded India during the reign of ......
Q46. Who among the following leaders proposed to adopt "complete independence" as the goal of the Congress in the Ahmedabad session of 1920?
Q47. Which of the following pairs is correctly matched?
Q48. Who among the following organised the famous "Chittagong Armoury Raid"?
Q49. A London branch of the All India Muslim League was established in 1908 under the presidency of .....
Q50. Assertion (A): The Battle of Khanua was certainly more decisive and significant than the First Battle of Panipat. Reason {R}: Rana Sanga, the Rajput hero, was certainly a more formidable adversary than Ibrahim Lodi.