1500+ Indian History GK Previous Years Solved Questions SSC, CGL, UPSC, Railways, IAS, Civil Services and All Competitive Exams – Part 13

Q.1:- Which Turkish ruler invaded India 14 times between 1000 and 1026 AD ?

1. Mohammad of Ghazni
2. Mohammad Tughlaq
3. Changez Khan
4. Mahmood Ghalib

Q.2:- Which one of the following painter of Jahangir’s reign was conferred the title of Nadir-ul-Asra ?

1. Bishandas
2. Mansur
3. Manohar
4. Daulat

Q.3:- The first Tirthankara of the Jains was

1. Arishtanemi
2. Parshvanath
3. Ajitanath
4. Rishabha

Q.4:- Which was the only Indus site with an artificial brick dockyard ?

1. Lothal
2. Kalibangan
3. Harappa
4. Mohenjodaro

Q.5:- Harshavardhana organized his religious assembly at

1. Mathura
2. Prayag
3. Varanasi
4. Tamralipt

Q.6:- Harshavardhana was defeated by

1. Prabhakaravardhana
2. Pulakesin II
3. Narasimhavarma Pallava
4. Sasanka

Q.7:- Where is the Lingaraja Temple located ?

1. Madurai
2. Tiruchendur
3. Bhubaneswar
4. Ujjain

Q.8:- ‘Prince of Pilgrims’ was the name attributed to

1. Fa-Hien
2. Hiuen Tsang
3. I-tsing
4. Megasthenes

Q.9:- The capital of the ancient Chola kingdom was

1. Uraiyur
2. Kaveripoompattinam
3. Thanjavur
4. Madurai

Q.10:- The Uttaramerur inscription provides information on the administration of the

1. Chalakyas
2. Satavahanas
3. Pallavas
4. Cholas

Q.11:- The first Sultan of Delhi, who attempted the conquest of South India was

1. Qutb-ud-din Mubarak
2. Nasir-ud-din Khusrav Shah
3. Ala-ud-din Khilji
4. Jala-ud-din Firoz

Q.12:-  Khalsa Panth was created by Guru Gobind Singh in which year ?

1. 1599
2. 1707
3. 1699
4. 1657

Q.13:- Bahadur Shah (First) was born in the year ___

1. 1543
2. 1643
3. 1743
4. 1843

Q.14:- Mahatma Gandhi was first arrested during ‘Satyagrah’ in the year ___

1. 1906
2. 1908
3. 1913
4. 1917

Q.15:- Who led the armed raid on the government armoury at Chittagong in 1930 ?

1. Chandra Shekhar Azad
2. Bhagat Singh
3. Surya Sen
4. Sukhdev

Q.16:- The partition of Bengal was revoked by the British in

1. 1911
2. 1914
3. 1917
4. 1919

Q.17:- Bardoli Satyagraha is associated with

1. Rajendra Prasad
2. Acharya Vinoba Bhave
3. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
4. Jamnalal Bajaj

Q.18:- The Governor General of India impeached by the House of Commons in England was

1. Waren Hastings’s
2. Cornwallis
3. Wellesley
4. William Bentict

Q.19:- The first Governor-General of Bengal was

1. Lord Clive
2. Lord Warren Hastings
3. Lord John Shore
4. Lord Corniwallis

Q.20:- Raja Ram Mohan Roy was the founder of

1. Arya Samaj
2. Ram Krishna Mission
3. Brahmo Samaj
4. Prathna Samaj