1500+ Indian History GK Previous Years Solved Questions SSC, CGL, UPSC, Railways, IAS, Civil Services and All Competitive Exams – Part 5

Q.1:- Which of the following Vedas provides information about the civilization of the Early Vedic Age ?

  1. Rig-veda
  2. Yajur-veda
  3. Atharva-veda
  4. Sama-veda

Q.2:- Which among the following is the oldest dynasty ?

  1. Maurya
  2. Gupta
  3. Kushan
  4. Kanva

Q.3:- ‘Charak’ was the famous court physician of

  1. Harsha
  2. Chandra Gupta Maurya
  3. Ashoka
  4. Kanishka

Q.4:- Vaishakha Poornima has a great significance because it was on this day

  1. Buddha was born
  2. Buddha got enlightened
  3. Buddha died
  4. All of the above

Q.5:- The year of accession of Kanishka to throne was :

  1. 108 AD
  2. 78 AD
  3. 58 AD
  4. 128 AD

Q.6:- The Jaina literature is known as

  1. Tripitakas
  2. Epics
  3. Aryasutras
  4. Angas

Q.7:- The famous poet Kalidasa lived in the courtier ?

  1. Chandra Gupta
  2. Samudra Gupta
  3. Kumara Gupta
  4. Chandra Gupta II

Q.8:- Where did the traveller Ibn Batuta come from  ?

  1. Morocco
  2. Persia
  3. Turkey
  4. Central Asia

Q.9:- The writer of Ram Charit Manas, Tulsidas, was related to which ruler ?

  1. Chandragupta Maurya
  2. Nawab Vajid Ali Sah
  3. Harsha
  4. Akbar

Q.10:- The Sikh Guru who wrote Guru Nanak’s biography was

  1. Guru Angad Dev
  2. Guru Amardas
  3. Guru Ramdas
  4. Guru Arjun Dev

Q.11:- The court language of the Mughalis was

  1. Urdu
  2. Hindi
  3. Arabic
  4. Persian

Q.12:- ‘The Sikh Guru who wrote “Zafar Namah” in Persian was

  1. Guru Har Rai
  2. Guru Har Krishan
  3. Guru Gobind Singh
  4. Guru Tegbahadur

Q.13:- ______ was the first Muslim ruler of Delhi.

  1. Akbar
  2. Shahjahan
  3. Qutub-ud-din-Aibak
  4. Ala-ud-din Khilji

Q.14:- Which British Gorvernor General introduced Postage Stamp in India ?

  1. Lord Dalhousie
  2. Lord Auckland
  3. Lord Canning
  4. Lord William Bentinck

Q.15:- Who introduced the permanent settlement in Bengal ?

  1. Lord Cornwallis
  2. Lord Dalhousie
  3. William Bentinck
  4. Lord Curzon

Q.16:- The English established these first factory in India at

  1. Bombay
  2. Surat
  3. Sutanati
  4. Madras

Q.16:- Mahatma Gandhi owed his inspiration for civil disobedience and non-payment of taxes to

  1. Thereau
  2. Leo Tolstoy
  3. John Ruskin
  4. Gopal Krishna Gokhale

Q.17:- The first General Secretary of the Indian National Congress was

  1. Dadabhai Naoroji
  2. O.Hume
  3. Ferozeshah Mehta
  4. Badruddin Tyabji

Q.18:- In which city of South Africa was Gandhi beaten up and thrown off the pavement by the white people ?

  1. Cape Town
  2. Durban
  3. Johannesburg
  4. Pretoria
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Q.19:- Morley-Minto Reforms were introduced in which of the following years ?

  1. 1909
  2. 1919
  3. 1924
  4. 1935

Q.20:- Who among the following is the founder of the “Azad Hind Fauj”

  1. Lala Har Dayal
  2. Subhash Chandra Bose
  3. Veer Savarkar
  4. Chandrashekhar Azad