Indian History (Model Set 3)

Model Set No. 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10

1. Which of the following Englishmen was honoured by Jahangir withe the title of ‘Khan’ ?
(A) Edward Terry
(B) Hawkins
(C) Sir Thomas Roe
(D) Thomas Paine

2. Which of the following events is not correct ?
(A) Simon Commission 1927
(B) Salt Satyagraha 1930
(C) Gandhi-Irwin Pact 1931
(D) Quit India Movement 1941

3. Which of the following events took place during Warren Hastings Governor Generalship ?
(A) The Treaty of Bassein
(B) War against Rohillas
(C) Annexation of Avadh
(D) First Anglo-Mysore War

4. Which of the following gives information that Kalinga is the only conquest of Ashoka and after that he stood for dhammavijayal—
(A) Major pillar edict II
(B) Major rock edict XIII
(C) Minor rock edict II
(D) Major rock edict XI

5. Which of the following Gupta rulers is said to have embraced Buddhism towards the end of his reign and also founded the Nalanda University ?
(A) Skandagupta
(B) Buddhagupta
(C) Purugupta
(D) Kumaragupta I

6. Which of the following is not concerned with the Kushanas ?
(A) Mathura art
(B) Gandhara art
(C) Ajanta’s paintings
(D) Fourth Buddhist council

7. Which of the following is not correct ?
(A) Alai Darwaza—Ala-ud-din Khalji
(B) Jamait Khana Masjid—Balban
(C) Qutub Minar—Iltutmish
(D) Hissar—Firuz Shah Tughlaq

8. Which of the following Muslim rulers remained in the captivity of his son ?
(A) Akbar
(B) Aurangzeb
(C) Iltutmish
(D) Shahjahan

9. Which of the following Nawabs was deposed by the English on the annexation of Awadh to British Dominion in 1856 ?
(A) Saadat Khan Burhan-ul Mulk
(B) Safdar Jung
(C) Wajid Ali Shah
(D) Birjis Qadar

10. During the Indus valley civilisation period, the dominant number used for weights and measures was —
(A) 6
(B) 8
(C) 12
(D) 16

11. Which of the following provided the revenue for the Delhi Sultanate ?
(A) Kharaj
(B) Khams
(C) Jiziah
(D) Zakat

12. Which of the following schools of paintings developed independently during the Mughal period ?
(A) Bijapur School
(B) Golconda School
(C) Kangra School
(D) Rajput School

13. Which of the following Sikh Gurus rose against Shahjahan and defeated an imperial army at Sangrama, near Amritsar, in the first half of 17th century?
(A) Guru Arjun Dev
(B) Guru Har Gobind
(C) Guru Har Rai
(D) Guru Har Kishan

14. Which of the following statements is not correct ?
(A) The Revolt of 1857 started from Meerut
(B) The Quit India movement started in August 1942
(C) The first partition of Bengal was made when Lord Curzon was Governor-General of India
(D) The control of the India Government was assumed by the British Crowns in 1858

15. Which of the following statements is not correct ?
(A) The Rig Vedic people worshipped nature.
(B) The Rig Vedic Aryans were by and large urban people.
(C) The Rig Vedic family comprised parents and other kith and kin apart from husband and wife.
(D) The Rig Vedic women were highly respected and that most of the religious ceremonies were considered incomplete unless wives joined their husbands.

16. Who said ‘Go back to Vedas’ ?
(A) Swami Vivekanand
(B) Swami Dayanand
(C) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
(D) Pandit Vidyasagar

17. Who said, “The time has come when badges of honour make our shame glaring in their incongruous context of humiliation?
(A) C. R. Das
(B) Motilal Nehru
(C) Mahatma Gandhi
(D) Rabindranath Tagore

18. Which of the following was a novelty in Shahjahan’s buildings ?
(A) Bulbous dome
(B) Makrana marble
(C) Tapering pillars
(D) Gardens

19. Which of the following was known as centre of learning in the ancient period ?
(A) Nalanda
(B) Ujjain
(C) Allahabad
(D) Vishwa Bharati

20. Which of the following was not a social reform measure introduced by William Bentinck ?
(A) Abolition of sati
(B) Abolition of slavery
(C) Removal of disablities arising from change of religion
(D) Suppression of the organized bands of thagi

21. Khajuraho temples are associated with —
(A) Buddhism
(B) Jainism
(C) Hinduism
(D) Both b and c

22. Which of the following was not an independent kingdom of the South in the fourteenth century ?
(A) The Vijayanagar empire
(B) The Bahmani Kingdom of Gulbarga and Bidar
(C) The Qutub Shahi Kingdom of Golconda
(D) The Sultanate of Madura

23. Which of the following was not written by Kalidasa ?
(A) Ritusamhara
(B) Raghuvamssa
(C) Kumarasambhava
(D) Meghapriya

24. Which of the following was the official court language during Akbar’s reign ?
(A) Arabic
(B) Persian
(C) Urdu
(D) Turki

25. Which of the following was/were stressed by the Bhakti saints of the 15th and 16th centuries ?
I. Idea of personal God
II. Purity of caste system
III. Futility of religions rites
IV. Conceptionof Nirguna brahma
Select the correct answer by using the codes given below.
(A) I, II
(B) I, III
(C) III, IV
(D) IV

Answers:
1. (B) 2. (D) 3. (D) 4. (B) 5. (D) 6. (C) 7. (B) 8. (D) 9. (C) 10. (D)
11. (A) 12. (A) 13. (B) 14. (C) 15. (B) 16. (B) 17. (D) 18. (A) 19. (A) 20. (B)
21. (C) 22. (C) 23. (D) 24. (B) 25. (B)