Question: Who was the first scholar to use the term “Indus Civilization”?
1. Rakhal Das Bannerji
2. John Marshall
3. Dayaram Sahani
4. R. S. Bist
Answer: 2
Question: Which British Prime Minister announced a scheme of representation of the minorities which came to be known as Communal Award in 1932?
1. Ramsay Mac Donald
2. Clement Atlee
3. Winston Churchill
4. None of the Above
Answer: 1
Question: Which one of the following was a journal brought out by Abul Kalam Azad?
1. Al-Hilal
2. Comrade
3. The Indian Sociologist
4. Zamindar
Answer: 1
Question: Who among the following was the author of Tarikh-i-Alai,which contains the details of the first few years of Sultan Alauddin Khilji?
1. Ziauddin Barani
2. Shams Siraj Afif
3. Amir Khusrau
4. Yahiya bin Ahmad
Answer: 3
Question: In which State was the Nalanda University located in India
1. Orissa
2. Jharkhand
3. Bihar
4. Bengal
Answer: 3
Question: The French Revolution gave its modern meaning to the term
1. Nation
2. Capitalism
3. Republic
4. Sovereignty
Answer: 2
Question: Who among the following Urdu poets was invited to the Second and Third Round Table Conference?
1. Faiz Ahmad Faiz
2. Muhammad Iqbal
3. Firaq Gorakhpuri
4. Josh Malihabdi
Answer: 2
Question: Bahadur Shah was the
1. last ruler of the Lodis
2. successor of Sher Shah Suri
3. last Mughal ruler
4. successor of the Maratha ruler Shivaji
Answer: 3
Question: Which one of the following stages of the life of man in Aryan Society, in ascending order of age, is correct?
1. Brahmacharya – Grihastha – Vanaprastha – Sanyasa
2. Grihastha – Brahmacharya – Vanaprastha – Sanyasa
3. Brahmacharya – Vanaprastha – Sanyasa – Grihastha
4. Grihastha – Sanyasa – Vanaprastha – Brahmacharya
Answer: 1
Question: ‘Charak’ was the famous court physician of
1. Harsha
2. Chandra Gupta Maurya
3. Ashoka
4. Kanishka
Answer: 4
Question: In which of the following years was the first Railways line between Bombay and Thane laid?
1. 1853
2. 1854
3. 1856
4. 1858
Answer: 1
Question: Who among the following was not a member of the Cabinet Mission?
1. Sir Stafford Cripps
2. A.V. Alexander
3. Radcliffe
4. Pethwick Lawrence
Answer: 3
Question: Which one of the following slogans is attributed to Subhash Chandra Bose?
1. Jai Jawan Jai Kisan
2. Bande Mataram
3. Jai Hind
4. Inquilab Zindabad
Answer: 3
Question: Who among the following Gandhian followers was a teacher by profession?
1. A.N. Sinha
2. Braj Kishore Prasad
3. J.B. Kriplani
4. Rajendra Prasad
Answer: 1
Question: From which one of the following did Kosovo declare its independence?
1. Bulgaria
2. Croatia
3. Macedonia
4. Serbia
Answer: 4
Question: In India, the first Municipal Corporation was set up in which one among the following cities?
1. Calcutta
2. Madras
3. Bombay
4. Delhi
Answer: 2
Question: Who among the following founded the Ahmedabad Textile Labour Association?
1. Mahatma Gandhi
2. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
3. N.M. Joshi
4. Morarji Desai
Answer: 1
Question: Anekantavada is a core theory and philosophy of which one of the following?
1. Buddhism
2. Jainism
3. Sikhism
4. Vaishnavism
Answer: 2
Question: Who among the following Prime Minsters sent Cripps Mission to India?
1. James RAmsay McDonald
2. Stanley Baldwin
3. Neville Chamberlain
4. Winston Churchill
Answer: 4
Question: In the ‘Individual Satyagraha’, Vinoba Bhave was chosen as the first Satyagrahi. Who was the second?
1. Dr. Rajendra Prasad
2. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
3. C. Rajagopalachari
4. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Answer: 2
Question: When was the meeting of the Agriculture Ministers of the BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India and China) held for the first time?
1. March 2009
2. December 2009
3. February 2010
4. March 2010
Answer: 4
Question: The historic Lucknow session, (1916) of the Indian National Congress was presided over by-
1. Mrs. Annie Besant
2. S. N. Banerjee
3. Madan Mohan Malaviya
4. A. C. Majumdar
Answer: 4
Question: Who among the following is the author of the book, ‘New India’?
1. Durgadas
2. R. C. Majumdar
3. Annie Besant
4. Madan Mohan Malaviya
Answer: 3
Question: Which of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
1. Indira Gandhi – Total Revolution
2. Mahatma Gandhi – Trusteeship
3. Balwant Raj Mehta – Democrativ Decentralisation
4. Vinoba Bhave – Anushasan Parva
Answer: 1
Question: The Non-Cooperation Movement was withdrawn because-
1. Its objectives were achieved
2. It indicated people’s preference to use violence
3. The British Government agreed to negotiate with the Indian leaders
4. None of the above
Answer: 2
Question: Arrange the following in chronological order-i)Home Rule Movement
ii)Khilafat Movement
iii) Dandi March
iv) Champaran Satyagraha
1. (i), (iv), (ii), (iii)
2. (iii), (iv), (ii), (i)
3. (iv), (ii), (i), (iii)
4. (iv), (i), (iii), (ii)
Answer: 1
Question: Who rote the book, `True Law of Free Monarchies’ to justify Divine Theory of the Origin of the State?
1. Louis 14th
2. Jenks
3. Aristotle
4. James I
Answer: 4
Question: Who is the author of the book, ‘The political Biography of Mahatma Gandhi’ ?
1. G.L.Nanda
2. B.R.Nanda
3. D.N.Dhawan
4. None of the above
Answer: 3
Question: ‘Fourteen points’ proposed by M.A.Jinnah was against
1. Non-Cooperation Movement
2. Nehru Report
3. Simon Commission Report
4. All the above
Answer: 2
Question: Who said in 1936, ‘There is no such thing as Gandhism’?
1. Jawaharlal Nehru
2. Maulana Azad
3. Tagore
4. Mahatma Gandhi
Answer: 4
Question: ‘Cripps Mission, came to India in –
1. 1928
2. 1940
3. 1942
4. 1945
Answer: 3
Question: The main objective Swaraj Party was
1. To gain Purna Swaraj
2. To enter the Councils
3. To start Non-Cooperation
4. To demand a new Constitution for India
Answer: 2
Question: The Right to impose reasonable restrictions on the fundamental Right of Indian Citizens lies with –
1. Supreme Court
2. Prime Minister
3. President
4. Parliament
Answer: 4
Question: The exclusion of Indians in the Simon Commission was a
1. National Insult
2. Racial Insult
3. Both A and B
4. None of the above
Answer: 3
Question: Who among the following was not associated with Congress Socialist Party –
1. Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant
2. Dr. Ram Monhar Lohia
3. Jaya Prakash Narayan
4. Acharya Narendra Deo
Answer: 1
Question: Who among the following was not associated with the Swaraj Party?
1. C. R. Das
2. P. R. Das
3. Motilal Nehru
4. Dr. B.s. Moonje
Answer: 2
Question: Who said “while the state exists there is no freedom while there is freedom there will be no state”.
1. Marks
2. Bentham
3. Mill
4. Lenin
Answer: 1
Question: Who among the following moderate leaders had been called “a silver tongued orator”?
1. Dadabhai Naoroji
2. Gopal Krishna Gokhale
3. Madan Mohan Malaviya
4. M. G. Ranade
Answer: 2
Question: In which of the session did the Muslim League given a call to ‘Divide and Quit’?
1. Lahore, 1940
2. Karachi, 1933
3. Lucknow, 1931
4. Karachi, 1943
Answer: 4
Question: In India, Plan holiday was after
1. China-India war of 1962
2. Drought of 1966
3. Pakistan war of 1971
4. Pakistan war of 1965
Answer: 2
Question: Who is the first Indian Field Marshal?
1. K. M. Kariappa
2. S.H.F.J. Manekshaw
3. K. Sunderji
4. None of those
Answer: 2
Question: The first Europeans to start trade relations with India were the
1. Portuguese
2. British
3. French
4. Dutch
Answer: 4
Question: Communal electorate in India was introduced through which of the following acts?
1. 1909
2. 1919
3. 1935
4. None of these
Answer: 1
Question: Rowlatt Act was passed in the year
1. 1917
2. 1919
3. 1921
4. 1923
Answer: 2
Question: 4th July, 1776 is important in world history because
1. Battle of Plassey started
2. Sea route to India was discovered
3. English King Charles II was executed
4. American congress adopted the Declaration of Independence
Answer: 4
Question: Which of the following pairs is correct?
1. Ashvaghosa – Vikramaditya
2. Banabhatta – Harshvardhan
3. Harisena – Kanishka
4. Kalidasa – Samudragupta
Answer: 2
Question: The sea route to India was discovered by the
1. Dutch
2. English
3. Portuguese
4. French
Answer: 3