1. The 6th Century BCE chronology is NOT associated with one of the following:

Urbanization in the Ganges Plain

The Rise of Magadha

Gautama Buddha

Accession of Ajatashatru

2. The Harappan seals depict and also throw light on:

Tigers and Rhinoceroses

Trade with Mesopotamia

Horse

System of stamping goods

3. In whose reign the Hunas attacked north India?

Kanishka, Kushana King

Chandra Gupta I

Skandagupta

Harshavardhana

4. What following event did NOT take place in Indian history between 1075-1200 CE?

Establishment of the Ganga kingdom

Embassy of Chola merchants to China

Kalhana writes the Rajatarangini

Sun temple at Konarak

5. During the 8th and 13th Centuries CE,. the following kingdoms fought for political sway on India.

Rashtrakutas

Turvasa and the Bharatas

Gurjara-Pratiharas

Solankis and Paramaras or Pawars

6. Vajjians, Videhas and Sakyas during the 5th and 6th centuries BCE are examples of

Chiefdoms

Kingdoms

Republics

Empires

7. The arrival of Arbs in Sind happened in the following century:

6th Century CE

7th Century CE

9th Century CE

10th Century CE

8. Which one of the following is a famous Neolithic site?

Aihole

Burzahom

Arikamedu

Pllavaram

9. Silk Route was a famous trading route connecting:

Rome and West Asia

West Asia and Europe

China and Western World

Mediterranean and Indian Ocean

10. Nalanda University was founded by:

Kumara Gupta

Chandra Gupta

Samudra Gupta

Skanda Gupta

11. The Charavakas, an atheistic sect during the ancient period, was led by:

Makkhali Goshala

Ajita Kesakambala

Sanjaya Belatthiputa

Nagarasena

12. Which of the association of the text(s) with the period is NOT correct?

c.1500-900 BCE -Rig Veda (oral and written)

c.300 BCE-500 CE -Jaina Anga (Limbs) and texts

c.380-230 BCE -Mahabharata

c.450 CE -Kama Sutra

13. In historical time the movements of armies influenced the history of India. Which one the following is an exception?

Achaemenid emperor, Cyrus, conquered North-Western India in about 530 BCE

Kushanas' conquests had pushed the Shakas South and Eastwards India

The Chalukyas in Deccan were overthrown by the Rashtrakutas, in 8th and 9th C.

Cholas (907-1300) were overthrown by Arabs from the West

14. District officers during the era of the Gupta dynasty were called

Ayuktakas

Adhikaris

Pradesikas

Mandalikas

15. The most important Pallava structures, from the perspective of art and architecture are:

Kailasanadha temple

Rathas at Mamallapuram

Architecture of Elura

Pallava architecture are always lions, and never tigers

16. Who were the successors to Satavahanas?

Ikshvakus

Anandas and Sa1ankayanas

Vishnukundins and Kadambas

All of the above

17. Which of the following classical accounts ofIndia are related to the reconstructing of ancient Indian history?

Herodotus, Arrian and Ptolemy

Strabo, Justin and Plutarch

Periplus Maris Erythraei

All of the above

18. The period from 200 BCE to 300 CE witnessed a remarkable change in Indian economy, which is characterised by

Increasing visibility of the merchant and the artisan classes

Decline of urban centres and rise of rural economy

Central Asia into the orbit of the Indian merchants

Yavana traders from eastern Mediterranean to southern and western India

19. The early history of south India has been reconstructed from diverse sources and they are:

Arabic

Tamil poems of the Shangam literature

Ptolemy's Geography

Megalithic burials, inscriptions in Tamil Brahmi

20. The following statement about the Ajivikas, an unorthodox sect, is NOT correct:

Was founded by Gosala Maskariputra

Practised complete nudity

They enjoyed prosperity under Gupta dynasty

Survived till 14th century in Eastern Mysore and Madras areas

21. The following statement about the Mahabharata is NOT correct

It consists of65,000 stanzas, most of them of thirty-two syllables

The Santi Parva, is the longest text on statecraft and ethics, recited by Bhisma

Story ofNala and Damayanti, told to Yudhisthira, to convince him of evil of gambling

It contains as an episode, the story of Rama

22. Gurjaras, who became rulers in Rajasthan in the Seventh Century CE, migrated from

Southeast Asia

West Asia

Central Asia

Afghanistan

23. The origin of the Kushanas is traced to

Yueh Chi tribe

Sakas

Persians

Mongols

24. Periplu Maris Erythraei (Periplus of the Erythrean Sea) was written by

Hippalus

Vasco da Gama

Ptolemy

Anonymous author

25. Allahabad pillar inscription prominently mentions the achievements of

Ashoka

Chandra Gupta

Samudra Gupta

Harisena

26. Information about astronomy and geometry is provided in

Taittiriya Brahmana

Aitareya Brahmana

laiminiya Brahmana

Chandoga Brahmana

27. Indian component of the Persian empire under Darius I did NOT consist of the following regIOn:

Sind

Afghanistan

Baluchistan

Rajasthan

28. The author of 'Buddha-charita' was

Asvaghosha

Bhasa

Bana

Harsha

29. Ashtadhyayi, a Sanskrit grammar treatise, was written about 500 BCE, by

Patanjali

Bhavabhuti

Katyayana

Panini

30. Bodhisattva is

Previous incarnation of the Buddha

First monk

Donor to Buddhism

Buddhist philosopher

31. The town of Daulatabad was built by

Ala aI-Din Khalji

Sher Shah

Khizr Khan

Muhammad bin Tughlaq

32. SABHA was a Brahmanical village institution under the rule of

Hoysalas

Pallavas

Cholas

Rashtrakutas

33. Rana Sanga was in the 16th century the ruler of

Mewar

Chitor

Jaipur

Udaipur

34. The city of Delhi was first built in the medieval period by

Rajputs of Rajasthan

Jats of Punjab

Yadavs of Agra

Tomaras of Haryana

35. Somanath, a town off the coast of Gujarat, was plundered in the 11 th century by

Mahmud Ghazni

Muhammud Ghauri

Balban

Iltutmish

36. Who among the following used to look after the army during the Sultanate Period?

Naib

Wazir

Qazi

Ariz-i-Mumaliq

37. Which among the following historical accounts was NOT written during the reign of Akbar?

Tarikh-i-Ferishta

Humayun-nama

Tarikh-i-Shershahi

Tabakat-i-Akbari

38. Which Sultan of Delhi got Qutb Minar repaired, cleaned the derelict Hauz Khas, and erected on its bank a spacious madrasa?

Iltutmish

Alauddin Khilji

Firuz Tughlaq

Sikandar Lodi

39. The Ilbari ruler who introduced Sijada, Paibos and Nauroz to the Delhi Sultanate was

Qutbuddin Aibak

Iltutmish

Balban

Bahram Shah

40. Identify the foreign traveller who wrote an account of the Bahmani kingdom

A Nikitin

Ralph Fitch

Nicolo Conti

F Nuniz

41. 'Mawarun Nahr' was the Arabic term for the central Asian region of

Farghana

Khurasan

Khwarizm

Transoxiana

42. Which one of the following Sultans brought the Ashokan pillar to Delhi?

Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq

Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq

Firoz Tughlaq

Sikandar Lodi

43. Title of the book in which Amir Khusrau described the conquest of Alauddin Khilji is

Khazain-ul-Futuh

Nuh-i-Siphr

Mifta-ul-Futuh

Tughlaq Nama

44. Who established Diwan-i-Khairat?

Alauddin Khilji

Firoz Tughlaq

Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq

Iltutmish

45. The work in which Sultan Firoz Shah wrote about his victories was titled

Tarikh-i-Firoz Shahi

Futuhat-i-Firoz Shahi

Sirat-i-Firoz Shah

Fatwa-i-Jahandari

46. Who was the highest judicial officer in the medieval state after the Sultan?

Qazi-ul-Quzat

Dabir-i-Khas

Sadr-ul-Sudur

Diwan-i-Risalat

47. Who among the following in South India did NOT accept the sovereignty of Alauddin Khilji?


Hoyasalas

Yadavas

Kakatiyas

Pandyas

48. Vallabhacharya, the bhakti teacher ofthe 16th century, became most popular in the province of

Sind

Gujarat

Rajputana

Punjab

49. Zamorins were,

Parsee elites on the west coast

Portuguese settlers in Goa

Rulers of Calicut on the Malabar coast

French settlers in Pondicherry

50. The technology of gun-powered based rocket reached India from China in the

13th century

15th century

16th century

17th century

51. The sixth Dalai Lama Tsangyang Gyatso (1683-1706) hailed from the following part of India:

Sikkim

Tawang

Darjeeling

Ladakh

52. In what language, Sirappuranam, a work on the life of the Prophet Muhammad, was written?

Malayalam

Konkani

Kannada Tamil

53. In whose rule the famous 'Uttaraimerur' inscription, which describes the working of the Sabha was produced?

Parantaka 1

Vijayalaya

Raja Raja

54. Valangai and Idangai in medieval South India refer to

North-and South-oriented mathas

Right-and Left-hand castes

East-and West-facing streets

Higher and Lower strata of merchants

55. The most important item that the Vijayanagara rulers imported from Portugal was

Gunpowder

Artillery

Horses

Cannons

56. Which following text is the most important source for the study of medieval Manipur?

Cheitaron Kumpapa

Ahom Buranji

Tripura Rajmala

Burmese royal chronicles

57. Which following territory was the bone of contention between the Vijayanagara and the Bahmanis?

Bellary

Orissa

Raichur Doab

Goa

58. During the Chola period, which one of the following sequences correctly describes the hierarchy of administrative divisions?

Kurram, mandalam, valanadu

Kurram, nagaram, mandalam

Mandalam, valanadu, kurram

Nadu, nadu-nadu, perur

59. The first Vijayanagara ruler to enter into treaty with the Portuguese was

RamaRaya

Achyuta Raya

Deva Raya II

Krishnadeva Raya

60. The Afaqis in medieval Deccan were

Immigrant Muslims from West Asia

Representatives of the Khalifa

Followers of the Sufi orders

Shias

61. Dyarchy in the provinces was introduced as part of

Morley-Minto Reforms

Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms

Government of India Act of 1935

Simon Commission Recommendations

62. Lucknow Pact was signed between

Muslim League of Government of India

Hindu Mahasabha and Congress

Congress and Government of India

Congress and Muslim League

63. The transfer of Indian capital from Calcutta to Delhi happened during the reign of

Edward I

Edward II

George V

Queen Victoria

64. Christian missionaries were pennitted to enter India in large numbers following the passage of

Charter Act of 1793

Charter Act of 1813

Charter Act of 1833

Charter Act of 1853

65. The North Indian province that featured prominently in the Revolt of 1857 was

Awadh

Agra

Bihar

Punjab

66. The dynasty of Wodeyar was associated with the state of

Kochi

Travancore

Mysore

Thanjavur

67. The surname of Scindia is associated with the princely state of

Jhansi

Indore

Gwalior

Satara

68. Rabindranath Tagore's novel, The Home and the World, was written with the backdrop of

Swadeshi Movement

Non-Cooperation Movement

Bengal Famine of 1943

Quit India Movement

69. The states of the Indian Union, Chhatisgarh and Jharkhand, were created in the year

1995

2000

2005

2010

70. The Muslim League was founded in 1906 by

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Syed Ahmed Khan

Aga Khan

Muhammad Iqbal

71. Ilbert Bill, which was introduced in 1883, sought to allow

European judges to try the Indian accused

European judges to try the European accused

Indian judges to try the Indian accused

Indian judges to try the European accused

72. Jallianwala Bagh protest and shooting happened in the backdrop of

Gandhian agitation against indigo cultivation

Non-Cooperation Movement

Akali mobilization of Sikh peasants

Agitation against the Rowlatt Act

73. The Age of Consent Act of 1891 which sought to raise the age of marriage for girls was opposed by the following Indian leader

Gopalkrislma Gokhale

M GRanade

B G Tilak

Aurobindo Ghosh

74. Taluqdars, a group of landlords, were to be found in the following province of British India

North-Western Frontier Province

United Provinces

Punjab

Sind

75. The following Indian was once a member of the British House of Commons

Dadabhai Naoroji

Badruddin Tyabji

W.C Bonnerjee

Surendranath Banerjee

76. The first all-India census was conducted in the year

1861

1871

1881

1891

77. Which one ofthe following was NOT a martial race, as per the British classification?

Gurkhas

Sikhs

Pathans

Kayasthas

78. The Viceroy of India at the time of the founding of the Indian National Congress in 1885 was

Lytton

Ripon

Dufferin

Lansdowne

79. The most important taxation during the 19th century in colonial India was

Income tax

Wealth tax

Customs duty

Land revenue

80. The first Indian to join the Indian Civil Service was

Debendranath Tagore

Satyendranath Tagore

R.C Dutt

W.C Bonnerjee

81. The Governor General of India during the Revolt of 1857 was

Dalhousie

Canning

Elgin

John Lawrence

82. The revolutionary leader who was drawn to the ideology of socialism and who wrote the tract, "Why I am an Atheist", was

Batukeshwar Dutt

Bhagat Singh

Surya Sen

JatinDas

83. Subhas Bose founded the Indian National Army in 1942 in

Singapore

Japan

Burma

Germany

84. The following region was NOT directly administered by the British

Berar

Bihar

Baroda

Berhampur

85. In the Bengal election of 1937, the following party won a majority

Congress

Muslim League

Krishak Praj a Party

Unionist Party

86. The pamphlet "Hindutva Who is a Hindu?" was written by

M.S Golwalkar

Madan Mohan Malaviya

V.D Savarkar

M.R Jayakar

87. Split between Moderates and Extremists in the Indian National Congress during the annual session that took place at

Nagpur

Surat

Rajkot

Poona

88. Which one of the following politicians did Gandhi regard as his political guru?

Aurobindo Ghosh

Motilal Nehru

E.G Tilak

G.K Gokhale

89. Architecture and town planning for the city ofNew Delhi was planned by

Le Corbusier

Edwin Lutyens

Laurie Baker

Frank Lloyd Wright

90. Non-Brahmin politics in the electoral arena in pre-1947 South India were represented by

Liberal Party

Republican Party

Dravida Kazhagam

Justice Party

91. Berlin Wall was dismantled in the year

1978

1989

1996

2001

92. The trials ofNazi military leaders for war crimes were known as

Gettysburg trials

St Petersburg trials

Hamburg trials

Nuremberg trials

93. The following republic was NOT part of the erstwhile USSR

Latvia

Georgia

Bulgaria

Kirghiz

94. Spanish Civil War took place in the decade of the

1940s

1930s

1920s

1910s

95. The following empire was officially dissolved in 1922

The Safavid Empire

The Portuguese Empire

The Austro-Hungarian Empire

The Ottoman Empire

96. The majority religion in the Republic of Ireland is

Catholicism

Protestantism

Evangelicalism

Anglicanism

97. The American Civil War was fought in the United States over the question of

Civil Rights

Slavery

Adult Franchise

Feudalism

98. The following was NOT ancient Greek city

Athens

Sparta

Venice

Corinth

99. The Aztec Civilization flourished in the region of

Argentina

Brazil

Costa Rica

Mexico

100. The capital of the Byzantine Empire was

Baghdad

Teheran

Jerusalem

Istanbul