1500+ Indian History GK Previous Years Solved Questions SSC, CGL, UPSC, Railways, IAS, Civil Services and All Competitive Exams-Part 33

Q.1:- Who among the following, propounded the theory of zero ?

  1. Charak
  2. Chanakya
  3. Aryabhatta
  4. Varahamihira

Q.2:- Ranthambhor was

  1. A Mughal palace
  2. A Rajput Fort
  3. Capital of the Khaljis
  4. A Buddhist Pilgrimage Centre

Q.3:- Who was the greatest Bhakti poet of Maharashtra ?

  1. Ramdas
  2. Tukaram
  3. Namdeva
  4. Eknath

Q.4:- Bibi-Ka-Maqbara is located in India at

  1. Fatehpur Sikri
  2. Aurangabad
  3. Hyderabad
  4. Jaunpur

Q.5:- Who scripted Gandhiji’s favorite song ‘ Vaishnav Jan To ….. ?

  1. Narsingh Mehta
  2. Premanand
  3. Chunilal
  4. Dharmiklal

Q.6:- Who wrote “Sarfaroshi Ki Tamanna Ab Hamaare Dil Mein Hai” ?

  1. Mohammad Iqbal
  2. Ramprasad Bismil
  3. Kazi Nazrul Islam
  4. Firaq Gorakhpuri

Q.7:- ‘Do or Die (Karenge ya Marenge) – Gandhiji gave this Mantras the nation on the eve of which mass movement ?

  1. Rowlatt Satyagraha
  2. Salt Satyagraha
  3. Quit India Movement
  4. Non-Cooperation Movement

Q.8:- The call of “Black to the Vedas” was given by

  1. Swami Vivekananda
  2. Swami Dayanand Saraswati
  3. Aurobindo Ghosh
  4. Raja Ram Mohan Roy

Q.9:- The Asiatic society of Bengal (founded in 1784) owes its origin to

  1. Warren Hastings
  2. Sir William Jones
  3. Sir James Mackintosh
  4. James Princep

Q.10:- Who was called the “Father of the Local Self-Government” in India ?

  1. Lord Ripon
  2. Lord Hardinge
  3. Lord Dalhousie
  4. Lord Lytton

Q.11:- Who is the first female governor of Independent India ?

  1. Vijayalakshmi Pandit
  2. Sharda Mukherjee
  3. Fathima Beevi
  4. Sorojini Naidu

Q.12:- Who was the Indian women president of the United Nations General Assembly ?

  1. Sarojini Naidu
  2. Margret Thatcher
  3. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
  4. Golda Mayer

Q.13:- What was ‘Komagata Maru’ ?

  1. An army unit
  2. A harbor
  3. A ship
  4. An industrial township

Q.14:- India attained ‘Dominion Status’ on

  1. 15th January, 1947
  2. 15th August, 1947
  3. 15th August, 1950
  4. 15th October, 1947

Q.15:- Who was the first Indian to be made a fellow of the Royal Society of London ?

  1. Srinivas Ramanujam
  2. C. Wadia
  3. V. Raman
  4. C. Mahalanobis

Q.16:- Who was the National leader who wrote History of India on the wall of the Andaman Cellular Jail ?

  1. Nandlal Bose
  2. Ambedkar
  3. Veer Savarkar
  4. Jyotiba Phule

Q.17:- Mahatma Gandhi was profoundly influenced by the writings of

  1. Benard Shaw
  2. Karl Marx
  3. Lenin
  4. Leo Tolstoy
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Q.18:- When and where did the Theosophical Society establish its headquarters in India ?

  1. 1882-Adyar
  2. 1885-Belur
  3. 1890-Avadi
  4. 1895-Vellore

Q.19:- In 1939 Subhash Chandra Bose was elected as President of the Congress Party defeating

  1. Pattabhi Sitharamayya
  2. Jawaharlal Nehru
  3. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
  4. VB Patel

Q.20:- Gandhi’s inspiration for Civil Disobedience came from the writings of

  1. Henry David Thoreau
  2. David Ricardo
  3. Henry Kissinger
  4. Bertrand Russell