1500+ Indian History GK Previous Years Solved Questions SSC, CGL, UPSC, Railways, IAS, Civil Services and All Competitive Exams-Part 44

Q.1:- Gupta Dynasty was famous for

1. Art and Architecture
2. Imperialism
3. Revenue and Land Reforms
4. None of these

Q.2:- The author of ‘Arthashastra’ was a contemporary of

1. Ashoka
2. Chandragupta Maurya
3. Samudragupta
4. Chandragupta Vikramaditya

Q.3:- Which of the following was an illiterate ?

1. Jahangir
2. Shah Jahan
3. Akbar
4. Aurangzeb

Q.4:- Who wrote Akbarnama ?

1. Akbar
2. Birbal
3. Abul Fazal
4. Bhagwan Das

Q.5:- The Sultan who described himself “The Second Alexander” (Sikandar-i-Sani) was

1. Balban
2. Alauddin Khilji
3. Muhammad bin Tughlaq
4. Sikandar Lodi

Q.6:- Who of the Delhi Sultans pursued the policy of ‘blood and iron’ ?

1. Alauddin Khilji
2. Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq
3. Balban
4. Iltutmish

Q.7:- The Muslim League advocated a separate Muslim State

1. At its birth in 1906
2. During the Khilafat Movement
3. In 1930, when it opposed Civil Disobedience Movement
4. At the Lahore Session of 1940

Q.8:- In which year Lala  Lajpat Rai was deported to Mandalay for organizing the agrarian movement in Punjab ?

1. 1905
2. 1907
3. 1909
4. 1911

Q.9:- Swarajya was declared as the goal of the Congress as its session held in 1906 at

1. Bombay
2. Calcutta
3. Lucknow
4. Madras

Q.10:- Who was the governor-general during the Second Anglo-Mysore War ?

1. Lord Wellesley
2. Lord Cornwallis
3. Sir John Shore
4. Warren Hastings

Q.11:- Who betrayed Siraj-ud-Daula in the Battle of Plassey in 1757 ?

1. Hyder Ali
2. Mir Qasim
3. Mir Jaffar
4. Nawab of Oudh

Q.12:- The Rashtakuta kingdom was founded by

1. Dandi Durga (Danti Durga)
2. Amoghavarsha
3. Govinda II
4. Indra III

Q.13:- Tripitakas are sacred book of

1. Hindus
2. Jains
3. Parsis
4. Buddhists

Q.14:- The first Indian Hindi Scholar of the Mughal period was

1. Malik Muhammed Jayasi
2. Abdur Rahim
3. Mulla Wajhi
4. Chandd Bardai

Q.15:- The founder of the Independent Sikh State was

1. Guru Nanak
2. Guru Govind Singh
3. Dalip Singh
4. Ranjit Singh

Q.16:- Tulsidas wrothe Ramcharitmanas during the reign of

1. Krishnadeva Raya
2. Akbar
3. Rama Raya
4. Jahangir

Q.17:- Maharaja Saiai Jai Singh of Jaipur had not built the observatory at

1. Varanasi
2. Allahabad
3. Ujjain
4. Mathura

Q.18:- The Indian Universities were first founded in the time of

1. Macaulay
2. Warren Hastings
3. Lord Canning
4. Lord William Bentinck

Q.19:- The pledge for “Poorna Swaraj” was taken at the Congress Session of

1. Calcutta
2. Lahore
3. Allahabad
4. Madras

Q.20:- Who was the leader of the Young Bengal Movement ?

1. Raja Ram Mohan Roy
2. Debendranath Tagore
3. Henry Vivian Derozio
4. David Hare