1. When did Portuguese admiral Vasco da Gama come
to Calicut?
(1) 1478
(2) 1488
(3) 1498
(4) 1500
2. Which of the following pairs is not correctly
matched?
(Event)
(year)
(1) Pitt’s India Act
1784
(2) Morley – Minto Reforms 1909
(3) Partition of Bengal annulled 1911
(4) Montagu – Chelmsford Reforms 1929
3. When did the French gain control over
Pondicherry?
(1) 1685
(2) 1697
(3) 1705
(4) 1733
4. Who introduced the silver tanka and the copper
jital – the two basic coins of the sultanate period?
(1) Iltutmish
(2) Raxia Sultan
(3) Balban
(4) Alauddin Khalji
5. Who propagated Pushtimarga, a religion of
grace?
(1) Chaitanya
(2) Vyasaraja
(3) Ravidas
(4) Vallabhacharya
6. Match List I with List II and select the
correct answer from the code given below:
List
I
List II
(Monument)
(Place)
a. Char mInar
I. Delhi
b. Akbar’s Tomb
II. Agra
c. Humayun’s Tomb III.
Hyderabad
d. Taj Mahal
IV. Sikandara
codes:
a b c d
(1)
III I IV II
(2)
IV III I II
(3)
III IV I II
(4)
II I IV III
7. After 1857 Revolt, Bahadur Shah Zafar, the
last Mughal ruler of India, was exiled to
(1) Bangkok
(2) Rangoon
(3) Colombo
(4) Kathmandu
8. Which of the following rulers of Mysore sent
ambassadors to France to bring in European technology and went on to build a
navy?
(1) Hyder Ali
(2) Tipu sultan
(3) Chikkadeva Raja Wodeyar
(4) Nanraj
9. Who said that, “Nothing can emancipate the
outcaste except the destruction of the caste system”?
(1) Mahatma Gandhi
(2) Jawaharlal Nehru
(3) B.R. Ambedkar
(4) K.B. Hedgewar
10. Who wrote “why I am an Atheist’, defending
total rejection of all religion on grounds of human dignity and rationalist
logic?
(1) Bhagat Singh
(2) Chandra Sekhar Azad
(3) Batukeshwar Dutt
(4) Ajoy Ghosh
11. Why was Doddi Komaraiah, a village militant,
murdered on 4 July, 1946, in Janagam taluka of Nalgonda?
(1) He was Razakar who fought against the
Deshmukh, hence was murdered
(2) For trying to defend a poor washer – woman’s
mite of land
(3) For defending thugs employed by the deshmukh
(4) For opposing wartime exactions, rationing
abuses, excessive rents and vethi (forced labour)
12. In the Indian context, ‘ Drain of wealth’
means foreign power in India squeezed Indian economy through various means and
transferred it to their native country. This surplus capital caused industrial revolution
in their country.
Which of the following foreign ruling powers is
associated with the above theory of Drain of Wealth?
(1) Aryans
(2) Turks
(3) Mughals
(4) British
13. Who from the following were associated with
Subash Chandra Bose’s Indian National Army and faced the trail in Delhi in
1945?
(a) P.K. Sahgal
(b) G.S. Dhillon
(c) Shah Nawaz Khan
(d) Bhulabhai Desai
Select the correct answer from the code given
below:
Codes:
(1) (a), (c) and (d) only
(2) (a), (b) and (c) only
(3) (b) and (d) only
(4) (a), (b), (c), (d)
14. Whose book ‘Unto this Last’ left a deep
impact on Mahatma Gandhi and he even translated into Gujarati?
(1) John Ruskin
(2) Leo Tolstoy
(3) Michael Madhusudhan Dutt
(4) Maxim Gorky
15. In the early decades of the twentieth
century, caste movements began to proliferate in the Indian society.
Which of the following movements are related to
caste – consciousness leading to caste movements in particular regions?
(a) Satyashodhaj samaj in Maharashtra
(b) Self – respect agitation in Tamilnadu
(c) Ghadar movement in Punjab
(d) Bijolia movement in Rajasthan
Select the correct answer from the code given
below:
Codes:
(1) (a) and (b) only
(2) (a), (b), (c), (d)
(3) (b), (c) and (d)
(4) (c) and (d) only
16. Vijnanesvara wrote Mitakshara at the court of
the Chalukya emperor Vikaramaditya VI. It was
(1) A commentary on the law book of Yajnavalkya
(2) Treatise on inheritance
(3) Law of primogeniture
(4) Family feuds
17. Which of the following pairs is not correctly
matched?
(Traveller)
(Reigning Ruler)
(1) Megasthenes
Chandragupta Maurya
(2) Fa- Hien
Chandragupta II
(3) Huan Tsang
Harsha
(4) I-Tsing
Ashoka
18. Which of the following pairs of temples and
places is not correctly matched?
(Temple)
(Place)
(1) Virupaksha temple
Thiruvananthapuram
(2) Kandariya Mahadev Temple Khajuraho
(3) Lingaraja temple
Bhubaneshwar
(4) Mahabodhi Temple Bodh
Gaya
19. Identify the sultan of Delhi who prohibited
drinking of alcohol, introduced market control policy and inflicted severe
punishment to rapists
(1) Sultan Qutubuddin
(2) Sultan Iltutmish
(3) Sultan Alauddin Khalji
(4) Shaikh Sadruddin Arif
20. The first Round table conference was held at
London in 1930 to discuss
(1) Future constitution in India
(2) Dominion status of India
(3) Trail of the Indian National Army Prisoners
(4) To hand over power
21. Point out from the following Sufis, who is
from the Chishti Sufi Silsilah?
(1) Shaikh Gesudaraz
(2) Shaikh Nuruddin Rishi
(3) Shaikh Bahaddin Zakariya
(4) Shaikh Sadruddin Arif
22. Muhammad Ghori’s forces won the battle fought
against Pritviraj Chauhan primarily because of
(1) The better war slogans of the Turks
(2) Superior war technology of the Turks
(3) Use of gun powder
(4) Use of guerrilla war tactics
23. Third Battle of Panipat was fought between
(1) Akbar and Hemu
(2) Humayun and Shershah
(3) Maharaja Ranjith Singh and Madho Rao Scindia
(4) Ahmad Shah Abdali and the Marathas
24. In January 1565, the Battle of Talikota was
fought between
(1) The Vijayanagara Empire and the Deccani sultanate
(2) The Marathas and Mughals
(3) Malik Ambar and Mughals
(4) Tipu
sultan and the Britishers
25. Name the Rana of Mewar who employed Baksariya
Muslims in his army:
(1) Rana Kumbha
(2) Rana Udai singh
(3) Rana Prathap
(4) Rana Raj singh
26. In medieval Deccan, Deshmukh was a village
official, who was responsible to
(1) Collect land revenue from the peasants and to
deposit it in the state treasury
(2) Collect Chauth from the local chiefs
(3) Maintain Soldiers
(4) Keep watch over the merchants
27. In which year was the Rail network started
from Bombay to Thane?
(1) 1847
(2) 1853
(3) 1858
(4) 1875
28. Chronologically arrange the following
Governor – Generals of India.
Selct the correct answer from the code given
below:
(i) Lord Wellesley
(ii) Lord William Bentick
(iii) Warren Hastings
(iv) Lord Cornwallis
Code:
(1) (iii), (iv), (i), (ii)
(2) (ii), (i), (iv), (iii)
(3) (i), (iii), (ii), (iv)
(4) (iv), (ii), (iii), (i)
29. Arrange the following rulers of Gupta dynasty
in chronological order:
(i) Chandragupta II
(ii) Skandagupta
(iii) Samudragupta
(iv) Kumaragupta I
Select the correct answer from the code given
below:
Code:
(1) (iii).
(i). (iv). (ii)
(2) (iv),
(i), (ii), (iii)
(3) (ii),
(iii), (i), (iv)
(4) (i),
(ii), (iv), (iii)
30. The poet Bana was patronized by which of the
following rulers?
(1) Chandragupta Maurya
(2) Harsha
(3) Ashoka
(4) Vikramaditya