INDIAN HISTORY The first metal to be extensively used by the people in India was ______.

— Copper _______ was the first to discover the traces of the Harappan Civilisation.

— Daya Ram Sahani The utensils of the Indus Valley people were mainly made of ________.

— clay The most common animal figure found at all the Harappan sites is

________. — unihorn bull The term Aryan, Indo-Aryan or Indo-European denotes a _______

concept. — Linguistic According to the most widely accepted view, the Aryans originally came

from ______. — Central Asia ________ Veda was compiled first. — Rigveda _________ Veda deals with magic spells and witchcraft.

— Atharvaveda The Vedic religion along with its Later (Vedic) developments is actually

known as ________. — Brahmanism The Vedic Aryans first settled in the region of ________.

— Saptasindhu _____ Ved contains the famous Gayatrimantra. — Rigveda The famous Gayatrimantra is addressed to ______. — Savita Two highest gods in the Vedic religion were _____ and _______.

— Indra, Varuna Division of the Vedic society into four classes is clearly mentioned in

the ________ of Rigveda. — Purusa - sukta The normal form of government during the Vedic period was ________.

— monarchy Two popular Assemblies of the Vedic period were ______ and ______.

— Sabha, Samiti After the growth of the Vedic religion the most important development in

the history of the so-called Hinduism was the development of ________.— Bhagavatism

Bhagavatism refers to worship of ________. — Vasudeva Krishna Vaishnavism , a later development of Bhagavatism, advocates the wor-

ship of ________. — Vishnu and his incarnations The founder of Jainism was ________. — Parsvanatha Vardhamana Mahavira the 24th Tirthankar of Jainism was born at

_________ and died at _________ — Kundagrama, Pava Of the five vows ( Panch Anuvratas) of Jainism four existed before

Mahavira. The one which he added was ________. — celibacy Jainism was div ided into two sects-Swetambaras (White-clad) and

Digambaras (Sky-clad or naked) - During the reign of the ________.— Mauryas

The name Buddha means ________. — enlightened

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2 Buddhism was divided into Mahayana and Hinayana during the reign of

________. — Kanishka The great exponent of Mahayana Buddhism was ______.

— Nagarjuna Jatakas are the stories of _________. — Buddha’s previous lives Outside India, Buddhism was first accepted in _______.

— Sri Lanka When Alexander invaded India, Magadha was being ruled by the ________.

— Nandas The decline of the Nandas at the hands of Kautilya and Chandragupta

Maurya has been vividly portrayed in the Sanskrit play written by Kalidasais _______. — Malavikagnimitram

The Mauryan sculptors had attained the highest perfection in thecarving of ________. — animal figures

_______ usurped power from the Mauryas after killing the last Mauryanruler Brihadratha — Pushyamitra Sunga

The most famous Indo-Greek ruler of India, famous for his sense ofjustice and dialogues with a Buddhist monk Nagasena (as described inthe Buddhist work Milindpanho) was ________. — Menander

The first great empire to the south of the Vindhayas was of the _______.— Satavahanas

Gautama Buddha was brought up by ______. — Mahaprajapati The phrase the ‘Light of Asia’ is applied to _______. — The Buddha The Eight-fold path was enunciated by _______. — The Buddha The Buddhist Doctrines were written in ______ language. — Pali The first Buddhist Council was held at _______. — Rajagriha Ashoka was much influenced by a Buddhist monk called _______.

— Upagupta Megasthenes visited India during the period of ______.

— Chandragupta Maurya Megasthenes was the Ambassador of ______. — Selukos Nikator “The Indica” was written by ______. — Megasthenes Mauryan Dynasty was founded by _______. — Chandragupta Maurya The Rig Veda consists of ________ hyms. — 1028 _________ Veda is rendered musically. — Sama Veda ________ was the hero of a famous drama Malvikagnimitra written by

Kalidasa. — Agnimitra The duties of Dharmamahamatras are explained in the Minor Rock Edict

No ._______. — V The Vishnu Purana gives an account of ______ dynasty.

— Mauryan A well-organised State machinery was introduced for the first time by

_______. — the Mauryas The last Mauryan king was _______. — Brihadratha Bimbisara was succeeded by _______. — Ajatasatru The Upanishads are separated from the Brahmanas by treatises called

_______. — Aranyakas

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‘Atman is everything and everything is Atman’ is the ...... doctrine— Pantheistic

The salient feature of the Rig Vedic religion was worship of ________.— Nature

When Alexander invaded India, Texila was ruled by ________.— Ambhi

There are similarities between the seals found at Mohenjo-Daro and....... — Sumeria

Megasthenese was a Greek Ambassador sent to the court of the king ......— Chandragupta Maurya

Mudra Rakshasa was written by _______. — Visakadatta Dharmamahamatras were _________ during the Mauryans.

— Officials Kanva dynasty was established by _______. — Vasudeva Kharavela of Kalinga was a follower of the religion _______.

— Jainism The capital of the king Kharavela of Kalinga was ______.

— Kalinganagara Buddha delivered his first sermon at _______. — Sarnath The Buddha attained Nirvana at _______. — Kusinagara The proceedings of the Third Buddhist Council led to the issue of

______ Edict. — Sarnath The most important Pahlava ruler was ________.

— Gondophernes St Thomas died a martyr at _______. — Madras The Capital of Kanishka Empire was _______. — Peshawar The fourth Buddhist Council was held at _____. — Kundalavana Alexander was the son of Philip II of ________. — Macedonia Porus was defeated by Alexander at the battle of _______.

— Hydaspes Alexander the Great died at _______. — Babylon The monolithic image of Jain Saint ‘Gomatiswara’ is at _______.

— Saravanabelgola _______ was the mother of Vardhamana Mahavira. — Trisala The Monk whom Chandragupta Maurya accompanied to South India was

________. — Bhadrabahu Megasthenes was succeeded by _______ as ambassador.

— Deimachos The Saka Era was founded by _______. — Kanishka The famous Indo-Greek King who embraced Buddhism was........

— Menender Kanishka was the follower of ________. — Mahayanism The Sunga ruler Bhaga erected a monolithic ‘Garuda’ at _______.

— Besnagar Vardhamana Mahavira died at ______. — Pavapuri The city of Pataliputra was founded at the junction of the Ganges and

the _______. — Sone

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The Nanda dynasty was established by _______. — Mahapadma Alexander was trained by _______. — Aristotle Vardhamana Mahavira was born at _______. — Kundagrama Bimbisara was succeeded by _________. — Ajatasatru Alexander sent back home a portion of his army under an admiral called

...... — Nearchos _______ was another name of Pataliputra — Kusumapura The founder of the Achaemenian Empire was ________. — Cyrus The most powerful ruler of the Cheras was ______. — Senguttuvan A temple for ‘Patini devi’ was constructed by ______. — Senguttuvan During the 4th century AD the Western Satraps were conquered by

the _______ rulers. — Sassanian Sudarsana lake was reconstructed by ______. — Rudradaman I The first ruler of the Satavahanas was _______. — Simuka Satavahana rule was extended to the Coromandal Coast by ________.

— Pulumayi II Chashtana was the Satraps of ______. — Malwa Srikakulam was the capital of _______. — Andhras The ancient Chola kingdom existed in the delta of the river _______.

— Cauvery The first Persian ruler who occupied part of Indian territory was ________.

— Cyrus The fourth and the last Buddhist Council held at Kashmir was convened

by _______. — Kanishka The first image of the Buddha was carved out during the reign of _______.

— Kanishka I _______ was the personal physician of Kanishka and also the author of a

famous treatise on the Indian system of medicine. — Charaka The worship of images (of Buddha) in India began during the period

________. — Kushana The last great ruling dynasty of Magadha was ________. — Gupta Kanishka is associated with an era which is known as ________.

— Saka era The greatest conqueror among the Gupta rulers was ________.

— Samudragupta The famous Mehrauli Iron Pillar Inscription describes the conquest of

______. — Chandragupta II The Gupta king who is known in the Indian legends as Vikramaditya

was _______. — Chandragupta II The Chinese traveller Fa-hien visited India and left a detailed account of

the reign of _______. — Chandragupta II The foremost astronomer and mathematician of the Gupta period was

______. — Aryabhatta The Chinese traveller Huen Tsang, called the Prince of Pilgrims visited

India during the reign of ______. — Harsha Harshacharita the biography of Harsha, was written by _______.

— Banabhatta

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Harsha was the last great royal patron of the religion ______.— Buddhism

Two great Buddhist universities of Nalanda and Vikramshila werepatronised by the ______ rulers. — Palas

The Chahamana (or Chauhan) king who founded the city of Ajmer andmade it his capital was _______. — Ajayaraj

Kalhana’s Rajatarangini is a work on the history of ______.— Kashmir

Of the four main Chalukya dynasties of early medieval India Pulkesin II,who defeated Harsha, belonged to Chalukya dynasty of ________.

— Badami or Vatapi The capital of the Pallavas was ______. — Kanchi or Conjeevaram The foundation of the Dravidian style of architecture in South India was

laid by ______. — Pallavas The Pallava king responsible for carving the Rathas of Mahabalipuram

was ________. — Narsimhavarman The Chola king, who after successfully raiding Bengal took the title of

Gangaikonda and also founded a new capital (Gangaikonda Cholapuram)was ______. — Rajendra I

The masterpiece of Chola sculpture is the famous Nataraja or the Danc-ing Shiva image at ______. — Chidambaram

A contemporary rival dynasty of the Cholas in South India was ______.— Pandyas of Madurai

The Indian king who provided the most spirited and successful resis-tance against Mahmud of Ghazni was _______.

— Chandela king Vidyadhar The Indian ruler who, unable to bear the humiliation of his defeat at the

hands of Mahmud of Ghazni burnt himself to death was _______.— Shahi king Jayapala

The famous ruler of ancient India who is said to have been converted toJainism, towards the end of his life, is _______. — Chandragupta

The Harappan economy was primarily ________ in nature.— Urban

_______ was the first Muslim invader to enter India.— Mohammed-bin-Qasim

The best specimens of Mauryan art are represented by their _______.— Pillars

According to Strabo, the Tamil kingdom to first send emissaries to meetAugustin in Athens in 20 BC, was _______. — Pandya

The word ‘Veda’ has been derived from the root word ‘Vid’ which means_______. — Knowledge

The Kushan rule was brought to an end by _______.— The Hindu Shahi Dynasty

Ashoka has been particularly influenced by the Buddhist monk ________.— Upagupta

During Kanishka’s reign, the centre of political activity shifted fromMagadha to ______. — Purushapura (Peshawar)

Name the Sultan who resorted to the extreme step of abolishing as manyas 24 taxes. — Firoze Tughlaq

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Who had got the Konark Sun Temple constructed?— Narasimha Deva II

In which language did Krishna Deva Raya, who was also a scholar ofrepute, write the Amukta-Malyada? — Sanskrit

Sultan Mahmud’s mission of plundering several temples for their wealthincluded the famous __________ temple as well. — Somnath

Whom did Muhammad Ghori kill in the Second Battle of Tarain?— Prithviraj

Who wrote Mrichchhakatika (Clay Cart)? — Sudraka After the partition of India, the largest number of Harappan towns and

settlements have been found in the state of ______. — Gujarat The Indus Valley Civilization can be said to belong to the _________ age.

— Bronze Who among the following used to hold a religious assembly at Prayag

every five year? — Harshvardhana Gautam Buddha as a prince was known as _______. — Siddhartha Architectural developments in India manifested themselves in their full

glory during the period of the ______. — Guptas The deep, transforming effect that the Kalinga War had on Ashoka has

been described in ________ edicts. — Rock The proud title of ‘Vikramaditya’ had been assumed by _______.

— Chandragupta II _______ was the first metal to be discovered and used as tools by hu-

mans? — Copper The Upanishads are a series of books devoted to ______.

— Philosophy Which of the following temples has acquired the name of the Black

Pagoda? — Sun Temple Name the later Gupta ruler who had performed the Ashwamedha Yajna

(Horse Sacrifice) and assumed the imperial title of Maharajadhiraj?— Adityasen

With what subject does the Mitakshara deal? — Law By whom had the Stupa at Sanchi in Madhya Pradesh been built?

— Ashoka The author of Ashtadhyayai is _______. — Panini In the Rigvedic period, after the king the next most important function-

ary of the state was the _______. — Purohita The concluding portions of the Brahmanas are called the _______.

— Satpathas What does the Yajur Veda contain? — Hymns and rituals The Mahajanapada that acquired prominence to become an empire was

that of ______. — Magadha What is the present name of Dwara Samudra, the ancient capital of the

Hoysalas? — Halebid The Ajanta cave paintings mostly belong to the period of the ________.

— Guptas Who was the founder of the Sankhya School of philosophy?

— Kapila

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The archaeologist to initially discover the Mohenjodaro site of the IndusValley Civilization was _______. — Rakhal Das Banerji

The Harappan site that had a dock is ________. — Lothal The Vedic deity Indra was the god of _______.

— Rain and Thunder The institution of varna appeared in the _______ period.

— Rigvedic The only Veda to have been rendered musically is ______.

— The Sama Veda What is the first discourse that the Buddha had delivered at the Deer

Park in Sarnath called? — Dharmachakrapravartan The famous Indo-Greek king to embrace Buddhism was ______.

— Menander To whom is the introduction of Buddhism into China traditionally attrib-

uted? — Kashyapa Matanga Name the ruler whose reign was a witness to both Vardhaman Mahavira

and the Buddha preaching their respective doctrines?— Bimbisara

Where was Mahavira born? — Vaishali The original teachings of Mahavira are contained in the ________.

— Purvas Which ruler held a religious assembly at Prayag every five years?

— Harshavardhana According to tradition, a mighty king in India in the fourth century BC

had been raised to power by a Taxila brahmin, named ______.— Chanakya

Who had established the four Mathas or Monastic seats in the four corrnersof India? — Shankaracharya

The term used to denote a group of families in the vedic society was______. — Jana

The Svetambaras and Digambaras refer to two sects of ______.— Jainism

According to the Mimansa School of Philosophy, liberation is possiblethrough _______. — Karma

The great Hindu law giver was ______. — Manu During whose reign did Buddhism become the state religion?

— Samudragupta The fourth Buddhist council had compiled an encyclopedia of Buddhist

hilosophy, called ______. — Mahavibhasha Sutra Who had converted Kanishka to Buddhism? — Asvaghosha Buddhism was first propogated outside India in ______.

— Ceylon The language adopted for preaching in Mahayana Buddhism was

________. — Sanskrit Who is said to have both been born and shed his body on the Vaishakha

Purnima day? — The Buddha The Indus Valley Civilization was discovered in the year ______.

— 1922

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During the Gupta period, the village affairs were managed by the villageheadman with the assistance of the _______. — Vishyapati

The Sunga dynasty had made _______ the official religion of theirkingdom. — Brahmanism

Most of the Hindu colonies in South East Asia had been found duringthe reign of the _______. — Cholas

The Saka era started from the year _______. — 78AD Which Gupta ruler had led a campaign to the south, besides being an

accomplished veena player? — Samudragupta Who has been called the ‘Napoleon of India’? — Samudragupta The achievements of Samudragupta have been chronicled in the

_________ inscription. — Allahabad pillar inscription The sage who is considered to have Aryanized southern India was _______.

— Agastya The Chola ruler who had subdued the Ganges and obtained the title

‘Gangai Konda Cholan’ was _______. — Rajendra Chola I The dynasty that excelled itself as a naval power was that of the _______.

— Cholas Which Chola ruler had conquered the northern part of Sri Lanka and

made it a province of his empire? — Rajaraja Chola The ancient medical treatise, Charaka Samhita is attributed to Charaka,

who was a contemporary of ______. — Kanishka Who is credited with having built the famous Ellora Caves?

— The Rashtrakutas The Pallava kings were the makers of the rock-cut temples at _______.

— Mahabalipuram The fresco paintings of Ajanta caves illustrate the art of the _______.

— Guptas Which is the oldest Indian linguistic text? — Ashtadhyayi ________ is the oldest seat of learning. — Taxila The Shrimad Bhagvata Gita contains ______ chapters and _____ Sanskrit

slokas or couplets. — 18;700 The Ramayana narrates events believed to have taken place in the ________

Yuga or age. — Treta Which sage or scholar had recast the original single Veda into four

distinct Vedas? — Vyasa To whom did the term ‘Macedonia’s madaman’ refer? — Alexander The bronze coins of Natraja or Dancing Shiva during the Chola period

invariably depicted the deity with _______ arms. — Six The two colossal images of the Buddha at Bamiyan are an instance of the

_______ art. — Gupta The earliest surviving extant, i.e still standing, temples date from the

_______ period. — Gupta During the period of Hiuen Tsang’s visit, the city most famous for the

production of cotton cloth was _____. — Mathura Foreigners were absorbed in a large number in the Indian society during

the _________ period. — Mauryan

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The greatest Buddhist commentator of the Buddhist canonical literaturehas been _______. — Ashvaghosha

Who is referred to as the ‘Sadhu’ from the west? — St Thomas The famous vedic saying “war begins in the minds of men ....” is con-

tained in the _______. — Atharva Veda The philosophical essence, “The world is but God manifest and God is

my own soul” may be traced to the ________. — Upanishads The most commonly used coin during the Mauryan period was ______.

— Karashopana The Arab conquest of Sind in 712 AD had taken place under the leader-

ship of _______. — Mohammed-bin-Qasim The reverential title of ‘The Liberator’ had been earned by ______.

— Ashoka The king Piyadaasi referred to in some ancient Indian inscriptions has

been identified with _______. — Ashoka Who was the Greek ambassador in the court of Chandragupta Maurya?

— Megasthenes The ritualistic precepts pertaining to the hymns of the Vedas are known

as the ______. — Brahmanas The Digambaras and Shvetambaras differ primarily with regard to their

______. — Dress The largest urban centre in ancient India had been ______.

— Kannauj Ashoka’s conquest of Kalinga has been described in the minor rock edict

numbered ________. — XIII The new element of Gopurm had been encouraged in temples of south-

ern India by the _______. — Pandyas The temples known as the Seven Pagodas had been built by the ______.

— Pallavas In whcih script were the Ashokan inscription were written in North

West Frontier Province? — Kharoshti The lowest unit of Chola administration was the _____.

— Kurram Who had got constructed the gigantic Shiva Temple at Thanjavur?

— Rajaraja Chola What is the name of the preaching mudra or gesture, in which the

Buddha is depicted delivering his f irst sermon, in the GandharaSculptures? — Dhyana

In whose coins was the wheel found? — Menander In whose reign did the visit of Saint Thomas take place?

— Gondophernes In the Rigveda the term Dasas and Dasyus refers to _______.

— non-Aryans The most important craftsman in the Vedic period was the _______.

— carpenter The famous Vedic river which had long ago become extinct and now

supposed to be flowing underground in Rajasthan is ______.— Saraswati

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The word Jina from which the Jain(ism) has originated stands for _______.— conqueror (of senses)

The Sanskrit drama which describes Chandragupta Maurya’s triumphover the Nanda is ______. — Mudrarakshasa

The rulers of a dynasty of the Deccan who were supposed to be Brahmanasand staunch supporters of Brahmanism were ______.

— Satavahanas The successors of the Satavahanas in the Deccan were the ______.

— Vakatakas The painting in the Ajanta Caves shows an Indian king receiving an

embassy from the king of Persia. The king receiving the embassy hasbeen identified with ______. — Dhruva IV

The last Nanda ruler of Magadha who was overthrown by ChandraguptaMaurya with the help of Chanakya was ________. — Dhanananda

The Pallava king who adopted the epithet of Vichitrachitta or curiousminded was ________. — Mahendravarman I

The ruler of Gujarat, who formed an allianace with Egypt and Turkeyagainst the Portuguese in India, was _______.

— Mahmud (Shah I) Begarha Rana Kumbha built the famous ‘Tower of Victory’ or ‘Kirtistambha’ at

Chittoor in commemoration of his victory against ________.— Malwa

In medieval India the state derived the highest income from?— Land Revenue

The Sultan of the Sultanate of Delhi, who transferred his capital fromDelhi to Agra, was _______. — Sikandar Lodi

The oldest specimens of poetry in the Punjabi language are devotionalcompositions attributed to ______. — Baba Farid

Sufism, the liberal and mystic movement of Islam, reached India in the______ century? — 11th

The Sufi Saint, contemporary of Prithviraj Chauhan, was ______.— Khwaja Muinuddin Chisti

Different Sufi schools or orders in India were known as ______.— Silsilahs

The earliest Sufi order to arrive in India was _______. — Chisti Sankardeva was a great bhakti saint of ________. — Assam The Pandharpur Movement is associated with the Bhakti Movement of

_______. — Maharashtra The most important saint of the Bhakti Movement in Maharashtra who

was born at Satara and is said to have died in Punjab, was _______.— Namadeva

Harihara and Bukka, the founders of the empire of Vijayanagar, namedtheir dynasty as _______. — Sangama

The founder of the Bahamani Kingdom was ______.— Alauddin Hasan Bahaman Shah

The first capital of the Bahamani Kingdom was _______.— Gulbarga

The Vijayanagar and the Bahamani Kingdoms fought relentlessly through-out the period of their existence for the possession of ________.

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— Raichur Doab The city of Vijayanagar (Now known as Hampi) was situated on the

northern bank of the river ________. — Tungabhadra The greatest ruler in the history of Vijayanagar was _______.

— Krishnadeva Raya The Vijayanagar king who wrote a work ‘Amuktamalayada’ on the lines

of Kautilya’s Arthashastra, was ______. — Krishnadeva Raya Babur’s autobiography, called Tuzuk-i-Baburi or Baburnaman, which is

reckoned among “the most enthralling and romantic works in theliterature of all times“ is written in ______. — Turki

Humayun lost the Mughal Empire to Sher Shah Suri finally in the battleof _______. — Kannauj

The longest road built by Sher Shah, known as Sarak-l-Azam (currentlyknown as GT Road or Sher Shah Suri Road) ran from the Indus in theNorth-West to _______. — Sonargaon

Sher Shah’s mausoleum is at Sahasaram in Bihar but he died at _______.— Kalanjar

Hemu, whom Akbar defeated in the Second Battle of Panipat (1556), wasthe minister of _______. — Muhammad Shah Abdali

After the devastation of the city of Vijayanagar in 1565, the capital of theempire was shifted to ______. — Penukonda

The Portuguese under the leadership of Vasco da Gama in 1498 firstlanded at _____. — Calicut

The Portuguese gained a stronghold in India after defeating the Zamorinof Calicut. The word Zamorin stands for ______. — Sealord

The Portuguese naval monopoly in the Indian waters was shattered bythe _______. — Dutch

When Chittor was captured by Akbar (1558), the Rana of Mewar was_______. — Rana Udai Singh

In the Battle of Haldighati the Mughal troops were commanded by ______.— Raja Man Singh of Amber

After the fall of Chittor, the city which became the capital of Mewarwas ______. — Udaipur

Akbar’s son and successor Salim, on becoming the emperor, assumed thename of ______. — Nuruddin Muhammad Jahangir

The Mughal queen, whose name was inscribed on the coins and on allroyal farmans as well as attached to the imperial signature was ______.

— Nur Jahan The first martyrdom in Sikh history in the reign of Jahangir was of

______. — Guru Arjan An ambassador of the British King James I, who secured favourable

privileges for the East India Company from Emperor Jahangir, was ______.— Thomas Roe

Mughal painting reached its zenith during the reign of _______.— Jahangir

The son of Shah Jahan , who studied the New Testament, the writingsof the Muslim Sufis, the Vedanta philosophy, Upanishads, etc, and soughtto find a meeting point between Hinduism and Islam, was _____.

— Dara Shikoh

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Todarmal is associated with the revenue system known as _______.— Zabti or Zabt

The original name of Tansen, the greatest musician of the court of Akbar,was _____. — Ramatanu Pande

Of the so-called ‘Nine Gems of the Court of Akbar’ the one who was areputed poet of Hindi, was _______. — Abdur Rahim Khan-i-Khana

The greatest historian of the reign of Akbar, who wrote Akbar-nama andAin-i-Akbari, was _______. — Abul Fazl

Akbar granted the present site of Amritsar to the Sikh Guru _______.— Amar Das

The most important poet at the court of Mahmud of Ghazni, who wroteShahnama and is regarded as the ‘Immortal Homer of the East’ was ______.

— Firdausi During the course of his numerous invasions, Muhammad Ghori (Before

his conquest in the Second Battle of Tarain) was defeated by _________.— Chalukya king Bhima II of Gujarat and

Prithviraja Chauhan III of Ajmer Muhammad Ghori laid the foundation of the Turkish Empire in India by

defeating ________.— Prithviraj Chauhan in 2nd Battle of Tarain and

Jayachanda in the Battle of Chandawar It is said that Muhammad-bin-Bakhtiyar Khalji, one of the commanders

of Muhammad Ghori, conquered Nadia (one of the capitals of Bengal)with only 18 horsemen. The king of Bengal who then fled barefoot fromhis palace was _______. — Lakshamanasena

The Buddhist universities of Nalanda and Vikramshila in Bihar weredestroyed during the invasions of ______. — Bakhtiyar Khalji

The real founder of the Sultanate of Delhi and its first dynasty was________. — Iltutmish

The first medieval ruler to propound the divine theory of Kingship was______. — Balban

The first Sultan of Delhi to cross the Narmada and move to the southwas ________. — Alauddin Khalji

The only known ruler in the history of India to have fixed the prices ofdifferent commodities, rigidly enforced quality control and ensured easyavailability of essential commodities was ________.

— Alauddin Khalji The Sultan who completed the conquest of the South and broke the

political barriers between the North and the South was ______.— Muhammad bin Tughluq

The famous Moorish traveller Ibn Batuta, who visited India recorded hisexperiences in a book entitled Safarnama or Rehla, was appointed Qaziof Delhi by Sultan ________. — Mohammad-bin Tughluq

The Sultan of Delhi who transferred two monolithic Mauryan pillars toDelhi to beautify his capital, was ________. — Firuz Tughluq

Timur invaded India and ordered a general massacre of the people ofDelhi during the reign of _______. — Nasir-ud-din Mahmud

A ruling dynasty established in India at the instance of Timur was _______.— Saiyad

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The Akbar of Kashmir who reconstructed and rehabilitated all the templesand asked Jonaraja to continue further Kalhana’s Rajatarangini was_______. — Zain-ul-Abidin

The most decisive battle between the forces of Dara and Aurangzeb (inthe war of Succession) was fought at ________. — Samugarh

Assuming the title of Alamgir, Aurangzeb crowned himself as Emperoron July 21, 1658 at _______. — Delhi

The famous Mughal General who conquered Assam, Chittagong, etc inthe north-east was ______. — Mir Jumla

Aurangzeb, in his attempt to annex Marwar to the Mughal empire,wasinvolved in a 30-year war. During these long years the most valiantstruggle from the side of Marwar was fought by _______.

— Durgadas The Sikh Guru executed by Aurangzeb after cruel torture was _______.

— Tegh Bahadur The Mughal General,who decisively defeated Shivaji and forced him to

conclude the Treaty of Purandar, was ______.— Mirza Raja Jai Singh

The Maratha dominion of Shivaji was known as _______.— Swaraj

The Administrative Council of Shivaji was known as ________.— Ashta Pradhan

Tarabai, who conducted the affairs of the Maratha government from 1700to 1707 AD, was the widow of the Maratha King _______.

— Raja Ram The later Mughal King, popularly known as Shah-i-Bekhabar (the Heed-

less King), was ______. — Bahadur Shah Two Sayid brothers Sayid Abdullah Khan and Sayid Hussan Ali Khan

(who rose to become the king makers during the later Mughal period) mettheir downfall during the reign of _______. — Muhammad Shah

The famous Sikh leader Banda Bahadur was captured and executedduring the reign of the Mughal emperor _______. — Jahandar Shah

Which Mugal emperor was a great musician, a great patron of HindustaniMusic and was popularly known as Rangila? — Muhammad Shah

During the second decade of the 18th century numerous independentdynasties were founded in different parts of India. The dynasty foundedby Chin Qulich Khan (popularly known as Nizam-ul-mulk) in the Deccanwas known as _______. — Asafjahi

The independent kingdom of Awadh was founded by _______.— Saadat Khan

The founder of the independent state of Bengal was _______.— Murshid Quli Khan

The Jat king of Bharatpur who is known as the ‘Plato of the Jat tribe’and the ‘Jat Ulysses’ was ______. — Suraj Mal

The Peshwa’s Secretariat at Pune (Poona), the pivot of the Marathagovernment was known as ______. — Huzur Daftar

During the Anglo-French struggle in the Carnatic, the French were fi-nally defeated by the English in the battle of _______.

— Wandiwash

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The English founded Calcutta after obtaining the Zamindari of threevillages, viz Sutanuti, Kalikata and Govindpur, from the Mughal Viceroyof Bengal in 1698. The nucleus of the British settlement in Calcutta was________. — Fort William

Plassey is located near ________. — Murshidabad in West Bengal Who laid the foundation of the famous Asiatic Society of Bengal in 1784?

— William Jones The Permanent Settlement introduced by Cornwallis in Bengal is known

as ________. — Zamindari System Haidar Ali, who rose to become the de facto ruler of Mysore by 1761 was

in the service of ______. — the Wodeyar rulers of Mysore _________ was the first Indian ruler to apply the western methods to his

administration. — Tipu Sultan The capital of Tipu Sultan, where he died while fighting the fourth

Anglo-Mysore war in 1799, was _______. — Seringapatam _______ was the first to have the office of both Governor-General and

Commander-in-chief Conferred upon him. — Cornwallis The master stroke of Lord Wellesley to establish British paramountcy in

India was ______. — Subsidiary Alliance The capital of the Sikh kingdom of Ranjit Singh was ______.

— Lahore By which Act did the British Government take supreme control over the

affairs of the East India Company and its administration in India?— Government of India Act, 1858

Which of the following Governor-General in India outllawed Sati andfemale infanticide and defined the aims of education in India?

— William Bentinck The first three universities in India at Calcutta, Bombay and Madras

were established in _____. — 1857 The first railway line built in 1853 connected ________.

— Bombay with Thane When was the modern Postal System introduced in India?

— 1854 Who was the Governor-General, when the Revolt of 1857 broke out in

India? — Lord Canning The Local Self-Government institutions in India were established in

1882 by ______. — Ripon The first Viceroy of British India was ______. — Lord Canning When Mahmud Ghazni invaded Somnath, the ruler of Gujarat was ______.

— Bhima I Malik Muhammad Jayasi has written an epic, Padmavat, relating to

king Ratan Singh and his queen Padmini of _______. — Mewar Alauddin Khalji’s commander who led the campaign to South India was

_____. — Malik Kafur The medieval Indian Sultan who has been called the ‘Prince of Moneyers’

is _______. — Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq The only Sultan of Delhi to conquer Chittor, the capital of Mewar was

_______. — Alauddin Khalji

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The first known ruler to introduce canal irrigation in India was _______.— Firuz Tughluq

Two major crops introduced in India during the Mughal period were_______. — Tobacco and Maize

The medieval Indian Muslim poet, historian and musician who calledhimself ‘a parrot of India’ was ______. — Amir Khusrau

The Mughal empire reached its maximum territorial extent during thereign of _______. — Aurangzeb

The second founder of the Maratha Kingdom was ________.— Peshwa Balaji Vishwanath

The Nawab of Awadh who permanently transferred his capital fromFyzabad to Lucknow was ________. — Asaf-ud-Daula

The Brahmin minister of Shambhaji (Son and Successor of Shivaji)upon whom he invested the title of ‘Pinnacle of Poets’ was _______.

— Kavi Kalash The Voluminous compositions attributed to Guru Govind Singh (the last

Sikh Guru) are collectively known as ________.— Baichitra Natak

Sundar Vilas is the work of a famous Bhakti Saint _______.— Dadu

The only Hindu noble at the court of Akbar to accept the Din-i-llahi was_______. — Birbal

The last great royal patrons of Buddhism in India were the _______.— Palas

The Pallava ruler who built the famous Kailash temple at Kanchi and theShore temple at Mahabalipuram was ______. — Narsimhavarman II

The great religious thinker and philosopher Shankaracharya was bornin Kerala at ______. — Keladi

The original name of Balban was _______. — Baha-ud-Din Ghazni was a small principality in _______. — Afghanistan Who was the author of Kitab-ul-Hind? — Al-Beruni In 1206 AD Muhammad of Ghor was killed at _______.

— Damayak Who is known as the “Slave of a slave”? — Iltutmish Who was the first Sultan of Delhi to issue regular currency and to

declare Delhi as the capital of his empire? — Iltutmish Who among the following came to India at the instance of Sultan Mahmud

of Ghazni? — Al-Beruni Timur’s invasion has taken place during the reign of _______.

— Nasiruddin Mahmud Tughluk Which Sultan of Delhi died while playing the chaugon (Polo)?

— Qutb-ud-din Aibak Who was the author of Amuktamalyada? — Krishnadeva Raya Which monarch called himself as the second Alexander?

— Ala-ud-din Khalji The most learned medieval Muslim ruler who was well versed in various

branches of learning including astronomy, mathematics and medicinewas ______. — Muhammad-bin-Tughluq

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The largest administrative division in the Vijayanagar empire was _______.— Mandalam

The first Sultan to adopt the principle of measurement of cultivable landfor determining the land revenue was _______.

— Ala-ud-din Khalji Who was the founder of Bahmani kingdom in the Deccan?

— Hasan Gangu The rulers of the Lodi dynasty were ______. — Pure Afghan The largest standing army of the Delhi Sultanate directly paid by the

State was created by ______. — Ala-ud-din Khalji The Mongols appeared for the first time on the banks of the Indus

during the rule of _______. — Iltutmish Who founded the city of Ahmedabad? — Ahmad Shah Vijayanagar was founded on the southern bank of the river ______.

— Tungabhadra Who was the founder of Aravidu dynasty of the Vijayanagar Empire?

— Tirumala What was the capital of Bahmani Kingdom? — Gulbarga Minhaj-us-Siraj was a ________. — historian The city of Ajmer was founded by _______. — Ajayaraja Who was the patron deity of Vijayanagar? — Virupaksha What was the bone of contention between Vijayanagar and the Bahmani

Kingdoms? — Raichur Doab Who were the Yaminis? — Ghaznavids Who were called the New Muslims?

— Mongol converts to Islam Who was the founder of Srivaishnava sect? — Ramanuja What was the religion of Malik Kafur before he entered the service of

Ala-ud-din? — Hinduism To which race did Mahmud of Ghazni belong? — Afghan Under the Mughals the Governor was popularly known as ______.

— Subahdar In the Mughal period the registers of the agricultural lands were main-

tained by ______. — Qanungo Under the Mughals the jizya was collected from ______.

— Hindus Under the Mughal rule the judicial service was formed by ______.

— Kazis Under the Mughals, in urban area the judicial powers were exercised by

______. — Kotwal Under the Mughals the Commander-in-Chief of the Army was ______.

— Emperor In India artillery was first used in the battle of ______.

— Panipat in 1526 In India artillery was first used by _______. — Babur In Mansabdari system the Commnader in-Chief of the Army was _______.

— Emperor

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The main outlet for foreign trade during Akbar’s reign was the port of_______. — Surat

The Upanishads were translated into Persian by ______.— Prince Dara Shikoh

Humayun Nama was wirtten by _______.— Princess Gulbadan Begum

Prince Dara-Shikoh was the son of _______. — Shah Jahan Jama Masjid at Delhi was built by ________. — Shah Jahan _______ built by Shah Jahan is one of the unrivalled beauties of the

world. — Taj Mahal _______ was the first Mughal Emperor to acquire Koh-i- nur diamond.

— Humayun The Peacock throne was built by ________. — Shah Jahan Koh-i-noor diamond was presented to Aurangzeb by ________.

— Mir Jumla Tansen was originally in the service of ________.

— Raja of Rewa Under the Mughals, the Police duties in urban areas were entrusted to

the officers known as ________. — Kotwal During the Mughal rule, the police duties in the districts were entrusted

to the officials known as _______. — Faujdar The Adi Granth was compiled by ______. — Guru Arjan Dev Guru Arjan Dev transferred the headquarters to ______.

— Amritsar The Sikh Guru who fought in the Mughal ranks during the reign of

Aurangazeb was _______. — Tegh Bahadur Guru Govind Singh was the son of ______. — Tegh Bahadur Shivaji started his public career at the age of ________ — 19 Aurangzeb sent Mukarrab Khan against _____. — Sambaji Under the Mughal rule the Chief Minister was known as ________.

— Vakil With the help of Baghnuk (Tiger-claws) Shivaji killed ______.

— Afzalkhan During the Mughal period the main source of Imperial revenue was

_______. — Agriculture Indo-Persian style of architecture attained its supreme beauty in the

reign of ________. — Shah Jahan The Pearl Mosque was built by ________. — Shah Jahan There were ...... jewelled steps leading to the Emperor’s seat, in the

Peacock Throne. — Three The huge wealth of the Mughals fell into the hands of ...... after the

capture of Delhi in 1739. — Nadir Shah Under Shivaji’s rule ..... of the produce were to be given by the peasant to

the state. — Two fifths Guru Nanak was born at _______. — Talwandi The Apostolate of the Sikhs consisted of .....leaders. — Ten Babar was originally the ruler of _______. — Kabul

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When Babar invaded India in 1525, Humayun was the Governor of _______.— Badakhshan

Rana Sanga was the ruler of _______. — Mewar The battle between Babar and Rana Sanga was fought at ________.

— Khanwa In 1542 Akbar was born at ________. — Amarkot Humayun died in the year ______. — 1556 The original name of Sher Shah was _______. — Farid Sher Shah defeated Humayun at ________. — Chausa Sher Shah was succeeded by _______. — Islam Shah Under Sher Shah the largest administrative unit was administered by a

Chief namely _____. — Shikadar The second Battle of Panipat was fought between Hemu and ________.

— Akbar Hemu was captured and brought before Akbar by _______.

— Shah Qulihan Mehran Akbar’s teacher was _______. — Abdul Latif Jizya was abolished by the Mughal ruler _______. — Akbar Todar Mal hailed from ________. — Oudh Vasco-da-Gama arrived at ...... in 1498. — Calicut The Mughal Emperor who caused the murder of Guru Arjan was _________.

— Jahangir Original name of Mumtaj Mahal was _______. — Arjumand Banu Mumtaj Mahal was the daughter of _______. — Abul Hasan Prince Khurram was given the title of _______. — Shah Jahan The peacock throne was constructed by the Mughal Emperor _______.

— Shah Jahan Shah Jahan was kept in prison by Aurangzeb at ________.

— Agra The title of Mahakavi Rai was given by Shah Jahan to _______.

— Jagannath The Sikh Guru who was executed by Aurangzeb was _______.

— Guru Teg Bahadur Aurangzeb died in the year ________. — 1707 The scholar who had accompanied Mohammed of Ghazni to India was

_______. — Ibn Batuta In which town is the mausoleum of Sher Shah located?

— Sasaram Which art did Jehangir patronize in particular? — Painting The Shahnama had been written by _______. — Firdausi Who had preached “Rama and Rahim are two different names of the

same God”? — Sant Kabir During the period 1000-1026 AD, how many plundering raids did

Mohammed of Ghazni carry out in India? — 17 In which year did Mohammed of Ghazni perform the infamous plunder

of the Somnath temple? — 1026

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The Purana Qila (at Delhi) was constructed in the reign of _________.— Sher Shah

The mausoleum of Jehangir had been built by _______ at _______.— Noorjehan; Lahore

Which Mughal ruler’s reign has been described as the golden age ofmedieval art and architecture? — Shah Jahan’s

Who is the author of the famous literary work Tahqiq-i- Hind?— Alberuni

The Char Minar had been constructed by _______.— Quli Qutb Shah

Name the religious personality who exercised a great influence overShivaji. — Guru Ram Das

Whom did the Lingayats worship? — Shiva Name the famous Sufi saint whose mausoleum was erected at Fatehpur

Sikri. — Sheikh Salim Chisti Permission to the British to establish their trading centre at Surat had

been given by the Mughal emperor _______. — Jehangir Market control had been first introduced in medieval India by _______.

— Alauddin Khilji Token currency had been introduced for the first time in India by ______.

— Mohammed bin Tughluq The Mansabdari system introduced by Akbar was borrowed from the

system prevalent in _______. — Mongolia The East India Company was founded in India during the reign of ________.

— Akbar Vasco da Gama came to India in _______ and landed at _______.

— 1498; Calicut What was the capital of Shivaji’s Kingdom? — Raigarh The island of Bombay had been given to the British Prince Charles II as

dowry by the _______. — Portuguese The Dutch first established their hold in India in the year 1605 at _______.

— Masulipatanam Which Indian ruler had requested Napoleon for help in driving the

British away from India? — Tipu Sultan Amir Khusrau’s name is associated with the invention of the _______.

— Sitar Fatehpur Sikri had been founded by ________. — Akbar The Khajuraho shrines built by the Chandella rulers are dedicated to

_______. — Shiva and Parvati The Kirti Stambha or Tower of Victory at Chittor was built by ________.

— Rana Kumbha Which Mughal emperor had banned music and dancing?

— Aurangzeb The ruler of medieval India credited with the construction of the Grand

Trunk Road is ________. — Sher Shah Suri The Mughal architecture reflects a blending of the Indian and ________

styles. — Persian

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The temple of Angkor Vat is in _______. — Cambodia Which Sultan had added the Alai Darwaza to the Qutub Minar?

— Alauddin Khilji The Kailashnath Temple at Ellora was excavated at the behest of _______.

— Krishna I Who had founded the city of Agra? — Sikandar Lodi Chengiz Khan had invaded India when the throne was occupied by

_______. — Iltutmish Who had forcibly taken away India’s famous Peacock Throne and Koh-i-

noor diamond? — Nadir Shah Who is the only women historian to have written a historical account of

Mughal Period? — Gulbadan Begam Who is the author of the famous book Gita Govinda? — Jaydev The authoritative treatise on Hindu law, Mitakshara, was written by

________. — Vigneswara During whose reign did Malik Mohammed Jaisi complete the notable

work in Hindi, Padmavat? — Sher Shah The first woman ruler of India was ________. — Razia Sultan The first Mughal Garden in India had been laid out by ________.

— Babur The first Muslim ruler to conquer southern India was ______.

— Alauddin Khilji Bibi Ka Maqbara was erected by _______ at Aurangabad and is a replica of

the Taj Mahal — Aurangzeb The Sultan who had truly mixed religion with politics by calling himself

Naib-i-Khudai or ‘the deputy of God’ was ______. — Balban Who among the following had shifted the capital of the Mughal empire

from Agra to Delhi? — Shahjehan In the Mughal administration, military recruitments had been looked

after by the _______. — Bakhshi Goa had been first colonized by the _______. — Portuguese The architectural raw material generally used in Akbar’s period was

________. — Redstone Where had Qutab-ud-din Aibak got constructed the Adhai-din- ka Jhonpra

(Hut of Two-and-a-half- Days)? — Ajmer The first Sultan of Delhi who had introduced the Practice of Sijda was

________. — Balban The Mughal emperor who had died owing to a sudden fall from the

staircase was ________. — Humayun Who is the saint to have written the famous Bijak? — Sant Kabir Which literary figure of the Gupta period is referred to as the Indian

Shakespeare? — Kalidasa During whose reign had the Mongols intruded into India for the first

time? — Iltutmish In which year was the Battle of Plassey fought? — 1757 The designation ‘Amil’, during Akbar’s reign denoted a _________.

— Revenue official

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Akbar had got constructed the Buland Darwaza to commemorate hisvictory of _______. — Gujarat

Who said that the exploitative nature of British rule was ‘bleeding IndiaWhite.’? — Dadabhai Naoroji

“India for the Indians” was the political message of _______.— Dayanand

Aligarh Muslim University was founded by _______.— Syed Ahmed Khan

The Dyarchy which was introduced on 1921 in provinces was in forcetill the year _________. — 1937

Satyagraha Sabha was formed by Gandhi at _______. — Bombay Gandhi called for an all India Hartal to protest against Rowlatt Act on

6th April ...... — 1919 At Jallianwala Bagh meeting, ..... ordered the troops to open fire.

— Dyer The enquiry Committee on Jallianwala Bagh incident was headed by

— Hunter Khilafat Movement was organised by ________. — Ali Brothers Khilafat Movement was organised to protest against the injustice done to

________. — Turkey The Special Congress Session held in 1920 at Calcutta was presided

over by _______. — Lala Lajpat Rai The first Swarajist Conference was held at _______. — Allahabad When the Simon Commission visited India the Viceroy was ________.

— Lord Irwin The number of members in the Simon Commission was ______. — 7 Purna Swaraj was declared as the goal of the Congress in the Congress

session held at Lahore under the Presidentship of ________.— Jawaharala Nehru

Dandi March started on ....... 1930. — 12th March Dandi March started from ..... in 1930. — Sabarmati Ashram When Gandhi-Irwin Pact was signed, the Secretary of State for India

was ______. — Wedgwood Benn Gandhi-Irwin Pact was signed on 5th March ........ — 1931 The famous resolution on Non-Cooperation under the inspiration of Ma-

hatma Gandhi was adopted in a special session of Congress held atCalcutta in ______. — September 1920

The Swaraj Party was organised by _______.— C.R. Das and Motilal Nehru

In what session did Congress declared complete Independence (PoornaSwaraj) as its goal? — Lahore session held in 1929

When was the first Independence day unofficially celebrated before In-dependence? — On 26th January 1930

Who was the Birtish Prime Minsiter who convened the First RoundTable Conference in London? — Ramsay McDonald

Who opened the First Round Table Conference? — King George V

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‘My strongest bulwark is gone’ lamented Gandhiji on the death of ________.— Bal Gangadhar Tilak

When was the First Round Table Conference held? — 1930 In 1930 Mahatma Gandhi started the Civil Disobedience Movement from

________. — Sabarmati _______ founded the ‘All India Harijan Samaj’ in 1932

— Mahatma Gandhi To which personality Gandhiji gave the title “Deen Bandhu”.

— C.F. Andrews Who gave the slogan ‘Inquilab Zindabad’? — Bhagat Singh With whom is the slogan “Do or Die” associated?

— Mahatma Gandhi The Bardoli Satyagraha was led by ______. — Vallabhbhai Patel The sole representative of the Congress in the Second Round Table

Conference was ______. — Mahatma Gandhi The Permanent settlement introduced by Cornwallis is in Bengal is

known as ________. — Zamindari System The capital of Tipu Sultan, where he died while fighting the Fourth

Anglo-Mysore war in 1799, was _______. — Seringapatam The Nawab of Awadh who permanently transferred his capital from

Faizabad to Lucknow was _______. — Asaf-ud-daula The Revolt of 1857 in Awadh and Lucknow was led by _______.

— Begum Hazrat Mahal Queen Victoria’s famous proclamation, transferring authority from the,

East India Company to the Crown, was made from _________.— Allahabad

Govind Dhondu Pant, popularly known as Nanasaheb, and one of theprincipal leaders of the Revolt of 1857, was the adopted heir and successor of ________. — Peshwa Baji Rao II

One of the best known tribal rebellions in Bihar, known as Ulgulan(meaning Great Tumult), was launched by the Mundas under the leadership of ________. — Birsa Munda

The earliest nationalist to commit political dacoities (a feature of thelater revolutionary movements) was ______.

— Vasudev Balwant Phadke The main exponent of the theory of Drain of Wealth was _________.

— Dadabhai Naoroji A 19th century social reformer who is regarded as the bridge between

the past and the future is ________. — Raja Ram Mohan Roy This social reformer most ardently worked for the removal of untouch-

ability and uplift the depressed classes before Gandhiji came on thescene ________. — Jyotiba Phule

The social reformer of Maharashtra, who became famous by his penname lokhitwadi was ________. — Gopal Hari Deshmukh

Who played Socrates to the first generation of the English educated youngmen of Bengal? — Henry Vivian Derozio

The immediate forerunner of the Indian National Congress was ________.— Indian National Conference

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At the Calcutta session of the INC held in 1906 the flag of Swaraj forIndia was unfurled by _______. — Dadabhai Naoroji

The first weekly paper published by the INC (in 1889) was _______.— India

Who said: “The Congress is tottering to its fall and one of my greatestambitions while in India is to assist it to a peaceful demise”.

— Lord Curzon The programme of Swadeshi and Boycott against the partition of Bengal

was visualised by ________. — Aurobindo Ghose The INC for the first time passed the resolutions on Swaraj, Boycott and

National Education at its annual session held at ________.— Calcutta (1906)

The immediate cause of split in the INC at its Surat Session was ________.— election of the President of the INC

The All India Muslim League was founded in December 1906 at ________.— Dacca

India Home Rule Society, founded in London in February 1905, was oneof the earliest revolutionary societies set up outside India. This societywas founded by _______. — Shyamji Krishana Verma

Who is regarded as ‘the Mother of the Indian Revolution’?— Madam Bhikaji Cama

Madam Bhikaji Cama unfolded the National Flag of India in 1907 at______. — International Socialist Congress Stuttgart

The Ghadar Party was founded (November 1913) at San Francisco USAby _______. — Lala Har Dayal

The first truly revolutionary organisation in Bengal was ________.— Abhinava Bharata

The main brain behind hurling a bomb at Lord Hardinge, while he wasmaking his state entry into Delhi was ________.

— Ras Behari Bose The idea of starting a Home Rule League in 1915 was first propounded

by _______. — B.G. Tilak Mrs Annie Besant became the first woman President of the INC in

_______. — 1917 The Congressmen who wanted to contest the elections under the Act of

1919 and enter the legislature, formed a party (1923) called ________.— Swarajya Party

The Hindustan Republican Association, subsequently styled as theHindustan Socialist Republican Association of Army (HSRA) was foundedin 1924 by _______. — Sachindra Sanyal

To avenge the brutal lathi charge on Lala Lajpat Rai (October 30, 1928),which was believed to have caused his death subsequently, who mur-dered Saunders, the Asstt. Superintendent of Police, Lahore?

— Chandra Shekhar Azad The revolutionary who was an accused in Lahore Conspiracy Case and

who died in Jail After 64 days fast was ______. — Jatin Das Who threw two bombs on the floor of the Central Assembly in New Delhi

on April 8, 1929? — Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt

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At midnight on December 31, 1929 who unfurled the tricolour flag onIndian independence on the banks of the Ravi at Lahore?

— Jawaharlal Nehru The Golden Jubilee of the Indian National Congress (1885- 1935) fell in

1935, which was observed during the session held at _______.— Faizpur

The most important feature of the Government of India Act of 1935 was_______. — Bicameral Legislature

As a result of the elections held in early 1937 under the Act of 1935 theCongress formed ministries in _____ provinces — 7

At the historic Tripuri Session of the Congress (March 1939) SubhasBose defeated Mahatma Gandhi’s official candidate for the Presidentshipof the Congress. Who was Gandhiji’s nominee?

— Pattabhi Sitaramayya On account of his differences with Gandhiji, Subhas Bose resigned the

presidentship of the Congress (April 1939) and organised a new partycalled _______. — Forward Block

The day (December 22, 1939) the Congress Ministries resigned in theProvinces the, Muslim League observed ______. — Deliverance Day

The memebrs of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan’s Red Shirt Movement wereknown as _______. — Khuda-i-Khidamatgar (Servants of God)

The first definite and forceful expression of the concept of a separatehomeland for the Muslims came from (or the father of the idea ofPakistan was) _______. — Sir Mohammad Iqbal

The Muslim League demanded creation of Pakistan (Pakistan Resolu-tion) in its session held on March 24, 1940 at _________.

— Lahore Azad Hind Fauz or the Indian National Army (INA) was founded by

________. — Capt. Mohan Singh Subhas Bose established the Provisional Government of Free India at

_______. — Singapore Kasturba Gandhi died in detention (in 1944) at ______.

— Aga Khan Palace The Working Committee of the Congress passed the Quit India

resolution on _______. — July 14, 1942 The famous ‘Ratings Mutiny’ (Revolt of a section of Indian soldiers serv-

ing in the Royal Indian Navy) in Bombay in February 1946 was calmeddown largely by the effrots of ________. — Vallabhbhai Patel

The Muslim League withdrew its acceptance of the Cabinet MissionPlan and decided to resort to Direct Action Day on ________.

— August 16, 1946 On the Direct Action Day unprecedented bloodshed took place (as a

result of Hindu-Muslim riots) in ______. — Calcutta The interim Government which took office on September 2, 1946 was

headed by _______. — Jawaharlal Nehru After the elections to the Constituent Assembly were held in July 1946,

the Constituent Assembly met for the first time in New Delhi on _______.— December 9, 1946

British Prime Minister Attlee made the historic announcement of theend of British rule in India (and transfer of power to responsible Indian

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hands by a date not later than June1948) on — February 20, 1947 India was partitioned as a consequence of the formula contained in _______.

— June 3 plan or Mountbatten Plan The Servants of India Society was founded in 1905 by ________.

— Gopal Krishna Gokhale Mahatma Gandhi compared Pherozeshah Mehta with the Himalayas, Tilak

with the Ocean and Gokhale with ________. — the Ganges Who did Mahatma Gandhi recognise as his political Guru?

— Gopal Krishna Gokhale The first Congress and nationalist leader to face repeated imprisonment

was ________. — B.G. Tilak Where did Mahatma Gandhi first apply his technique of Satyagraha?

— South Africa Who is the author of Vande Mataram?

— Bankim Chandra Chatterjee Who composed the song “Sare Jahan Se Achha Hindostan Hamara”?

— Mohammed Iqbal Who has the distinction of having authored the National anthems of

two countries of the world? — Rabindranath Tagore Who contemptuously referred to Mahatma Gandhi as a half naked fakir?

— Winston Churchill The British Governor General and Viceroy who served for the longest

period in India was ______. — Lord Linlithgow In December 1885, when the Indian National Congress was founded,

AO Hume acted as its ______. — General Secretary The first Indian to be elected as a member of the British House of

Commons was ______. — Dadabhai Naoroji The song Jan-Gana-Mana composed by Rabindranath Tagore was first

published in January 1912 under the title of _______.— Bharat Vidhata

The actual name of Dayanand Saraswati, the founder of the Arya Samajwas _______. — Mula Shankar

The President of the Constituent Assembly was ______.— Dr Rajendra Prasad

The slogan of ‘Bande Matram’ was first adopted during the _______Movements. — Swadeshi

The first elected Indian President of the Legislative Assembly was _______.— V.J. Patel

The youngest President of the Indian National Congress, who held thatoffice at the age of 35, was _______. — Abul Kalam Azad

The first Indian to contest an election to the British House of Commonswas ______. — Womesh Chandra Bannerjee

The momentous decision to transfer the capital from Calcutta to Delhi, toannul the partition of Bengal and to abolish Indian indentured labourwere taken during the Viceroyalty of Lord ______. — Hardinge

The Headquarters of the Ramakrishna Math and Mission established byVivekananda in 1898 are at ______. — Belur

Who is regarded as the father and founder of the Indian National

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Congress? — A.O. Hume Who was associated with the publication of a large number of weeklies

and dailies such as Hindustan, Indian Union, Leader, Maryada, Kissan,Abhudaya etc? — Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi

Who declared that he would talk of religion only when he succeeded inremoving poverty and misery from the country, for religion could notappease hunger? — Swami Vivekananda

The most famous woman disciple of Vivekananda was _______.— Sister Nivedita

‘The Times of India’ which celebrated its 150th anniversary in 1988,was first published in 1838 as ______. — Bombay Times

Chandrashekhar Azad was ________ of the Hindustan SocialistRepublican Army. — Commander-in-Chief

The English, who twice served as President of the Indian NationalCongress was _______. — Mrs Annie Besant

When the Congress Ministries were formed in the provinces inJune1937, the Viceroy of India was ______. — Lord Linlithgow

‘A day of deliverance and thanks giving’, was celebrated in 1939 by_______. — Muslim League

August Offer 1940 was made by the Viceroy _______. — Linlithgow When the August Offer 1940 was offered to India the Prime Minister of

England was ________. — Churchill The word Pakistan was coined by _______. — Rahmat Ali The Muslim League passed a resolution demanding the partition of India

in the ..... session held in 1940. — Lahore The Cripps Offer was regarded as a ‘post dated cheque’ by _______.

— Gandhi The Cripps Mission visited India in the year ______. — 1942 As per ‘August Offer 1940’ the Constitution of India would be drawn by

______. — Indians The Charter for the establishment of the East India Company was granted

by ______. — Queen Elizabeth I The East India Company was established in the year _______.

— 1600 AD The first Governor-General of Bengal was ______.

— Warren Hastings The Regulating Act was passed in the year ______. — 1773 According to the Regulating Act, Directors were to be elected for a period

of _______. — 4 years As per the Regulating Act, a Governor-General and four Councillors were

appointed for _______. — Bengal The term of office fixed by Regulating Act for Governor General was

________. — 5 years As per the Regulating Act a Supreme Court was established in _______.

— Bengal Shuja-ud-daula was the Nawab of ______. — Oudh Shuja-ud-daula wanted to acquire the territory of ______.

— Rohillas

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Rohillas were of ...... origin. — Afghan The Rohillas helped the Afghan invaders in 1761 in the battle of _______.

— Panipat The English established their first factory in Bengal in 1651 at.....

— Hugli In the Battle of Buxar the English army was commanded by ________.

— Major Munro The Battle of Buxar was fought between the combined armies (or the

Nawab of Oudh, the Mughal Emperor and Mir Kasim) and the _______.— English

‘Confessions of a Thug’ was written by ______. — Meadows Taylor The Indian Civil Service Act was passed during the Viceroyalty of _______.

— Canning The first Indian to enter the Indian Civil Service was _______.

— Satyendra Nath Tagore The Mayo College was started at _______. — Ajmer The capital of British India was transferred from Calcutta to Delhi in the

year _______. — 1911 The Non-Cooperation Movement under Gandhi was in full swing during

the Viceroyalty of _______. — Reading A resolution declaring ‘Purna Swaraj’ was passed in the Congress

Session held at ________. — Lahore The Indian National Congress was founded in the year ________.

— 1885 In the Interim Government formed in 1946, the Minister for Education

was ________. — Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Tilak called him the ‘Diamond of India’ the Jewel of Maharashtra and

the Prince of Workers’. Who is referred in these words? — Gokhale Motilal presided over the Congress Session of 1919 held at _________.

— Amritsar Swarajist Party was organised by _______. — Motilal Nehru The Rowlatt Act was passed in the year ______. — 1919 The National Liberal Federation was founded by _______.

— S.N. Banerjee The Shivaji Festival was inaugurated in 1895 by ______. — Tilak The Sepoy Mutiny broke out on May 10, 1857 at ______. — Meerut The Viceroy who wanted to train Indians in the art of self-government

was ________. — Ripon Lokamanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak hailed from _______. — Maharashtra Tilak was sentenced and transported to ________. — Malaya ‘Anthology of the Bomb’ was written by _______. — Bipin Chandra Pal The author of ‘A Nation in the Making‘ was _______. — S.N. Banerjee The office of the Secretary of State for India was created by the Act of

_______. — 1858 The Governor-General was given power to issue ordinances by the act of

_______. — 1861

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Communal Representation was for the first time given in the interest ofMuslims by _______. — The Indian Council Act of 1909

During the Second World War Churchill replaced ...... as Prime Ministerof England. — Chamberlain

Jinnah gave his opposition to Wavell’s Plan in the Conference held at_______. — Simla

The Cabinet Mission which arrived Delhi in 1946 was headed by ________.— Lord Petrick Lawrence

Who played an important role in bringing all the States in the Indepen-dent India into the country’s unity? — Sardar Patel

_______ was primarily responsible for making India a secular State.— Jawaharlal Nehru

Tashkent Agreement was signed between India and ________.— Pakistan

Tashkent Agreement was signed between India and Pakistan in the year_______. — 1966

Wavell Plan was announced in the year _______. — 1945 As per Wavell’s Plan the external affairs would be under the charge of

_______. — An Indian Member of the Executive Council The Simla Conference which was convened as per Wavell’s Plan ended

in failure because of the stiff opposition of _______. — Jinnah The first strategically placed factory that the Britishers had fortified was

at _______. — Madras To whom is the statement “Cowardice and ahimsa do not go together any

more than water and fire” attributed? — M.K. Gandhi The Indian National Congress had been formed with the knowledge

and approval of Lord _______. — Dufferin Lord ______ is regarded to have been the father of local self-government

in India. — Ripon The famous Quit India Resolution was passed on ______.

— August 8, 1942 Who had formulated and perfected the use of the subsidiary alliance

system? — Lord Wellesley In which year was the Indian Home Rule Society founded? — 1905 Who had founded the Indian Home Rule Society?

— Shyamji Krishna Verma The strategy of ‘divide and rule’ had been actually practised by ________.

— Lord Minto With whom was the seven-year rule of ‘missions, omissions and

commissions’ associated? — Lord Curzon Who was the moving spirit behind the oganization of the Ghadar Party?

— Lala Hardayal What was the name of the Sabha started by Debendranath Tagore?

— Tattvabodhini Sabha The doctrine of lapse had been put to much use by _______.

— Lord Dalhousie Who had passed the Vernacular Press Act into law? — Lord Lytton

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Lord Lytton had lowered the age limit for Indians for the ICS from 21years to ______. — 19 years

Vivian Derozio had been associated with the _____ movement.— Young Bengal

The first Indian national leader who began building, organizing andpromoting the freedom struggle was ________.

— Dadabhai Naoroji The United East India Company refers to the company in India formed

by the _______. — Dutch When did the Cripps Mission, which had practically repeated the

August Offer 1940 visit India? — 1942 A letter to the Mughal emperor Jehangir from King James I had been

presented by _______. — Captain Hawkins The non-cooperation movement had been launched by Gandhi in the

year _______. — 1920 Who was the first Indian civil servant? — S.N. Banerjee The decisive battle of the third Carnatic War was waged between the

French and the British at _______. — Wandiwash The Nehru Report of 1928 with proposals for constitutional reforms had

been prepared by _______. — Motilal Nehru In which year was the All India Muslim League founded?

— 1906 The Civil Disobedience Movement had been led in the North-West

Frontier Province (NWFP) by _______.— Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

Name the Mughal emperor occupying the throne of Delhi when therevolt of 1857 took place ________. — Bahadur Shah

Who had scrapped the partition of Bengal? — Lord Hardinge The founder-president of India Idependence League was _______.

— Rash Behari Bose In which year was the partition of Bengal scrapped? — 1911 Who had founded the Deccan Educational Society?

— Mahadeva Govind Ranade Champaran, the site of Gandhi’s first experiment in Satyagraha, is

located in the state of _______. — Bihar The Prarthana Samaj had been established by ______.

— Keshab Chandra Sen The Arya Samaj Movement had been started by _______.

— Swami Dayanand Madame H.P. Blavatsky had laid the foundation of the Theosophical

Society in the year ________. — 1875 The reformer from Maharashtra popularly known as ‘Lokhitavadi’ (For

the well of others) was _______. — Gopal Hari Deshmukh Who was the first leader to preside over the INC? — W.C. Banerji Lord Cornwallis had introduced the _________ land tenure system.

— Zamindari ‘Al Hilal’ was a newspaper launched for propagating nationalism by

________. — Abul Kalam Azad

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The Asiatic Society had been established in Calcutta by _______.— Sir William Jones

The Shuddhi Movement, involving the conversion of non-Hindus toHinduism, was started by ______. — Swami Dayanand Saraswati

Who was the first to raise the slogan ‘Inquilab zindabad’?— Bhagat Singh

From which year did the Muslim League start demanding a separatenation for the Muslims _______. — 1940

Who had propounded the theory of economic drain of India duringBritish imperialism? — Dadabhai Naoroji

Upon whom was the title ‘Punjab Kesari’ conferred?— Lala Lajpat Rai

Who had observed that “Political freedom is the lifebreath of a nation”?— Sri Aurobindo Ghose

Who had strongly advocated the policy of abolishing princely states infree India? — J.L. Nehru

Who among the following had authored the book, ‘At the Feet of MahatmaGandhi’? — Rajendra Prasad

The socialist group in the INC during the 1930s had been led by _______.— Subhash Chandra Bose

The first Indian who was elected to the leadership of the CommunistInternational was _______. — M.N. Roy

The first Bengali Drama, written to highlight the brutality of the Britishindigo planters, was _______. — Neel Darpan

The Constituent Assembly was formed on the recommendations of the________. — Cabinet Mission Plan

Rani Laxmi Bai died fighting the British in the Battle of ________.— Gwalior

Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose had proclaimed the formation of the Provi-sional Government of Independent India (Azad Hind) in 1943 in _______.

— Singapore Who among the following was impeached in the UK for his actions in

India? — Lord Hastings Ram Prasad Bismil had been associated with the _________ case.

— Kokori bomb The inaugural issue of Bombay Darpan, a Marathi weekly, was pub-

lished on November 12, 1832 started by a publisher-reformer named_______. — Bal Shastri

Gandhi had been provoked into crusading for the lot of the Asians inSouth Africa by the British law called the _______ Act.

— Asiatic Registration The first session of Indian National Congress was held in _______.

— Bombay What was the name of the English weekly edited by Mahatma Gandhi?

— Young India The first national leader to decry the salt tax in the Indian legislature

was _______. — G.K. Gokhale

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The Indian National Congress had adopted the famous Poorna Swaraj(Complete Indepencence ) resolution at its session held at _______.

— Lahore In which year was the title of Governor General changed to that of the

Viceroy? — 1858 The name of the periodical published by Gandhi during his stay in

South Africa was ______. — Indian Opinion The revolutionary leader who had organized an attack on the armoury of

Chittagong was ______. — Surya Sen The Government of India Act of 1935 had divided India into ______

provinces. — 11 The system of civil services had been introduced into India by _______.

— Lord Bentinck Whom had Gandhi named as Mira Behn? — Madeline Slade The process of the introduction of education in English had been

initiated in India by Lord ______. — Macaulay The first interim government during the British rule in India was

formed in _______. — September, 1946 The first vernacular paper, Samachar Darpan, was published during

the tenure of _______. — Lord Hastings Gandhi had given out the stirring call of ‘Do or Die’ during the _______

Movement. — Quit India In which year was Burma separated from India? — 1937 Who had observed that “Good government was never a good substitute for

self government“? — Swami Dayananda Hindu-Muslim unity had been particularly reflected in the _______

Movement — Khilafat The leader who quit politics, retired to Pondicherry and set up an ashram

there, was _______. — Bhikaji Cama Gandhi gave the call to reject all foreign goods during the ____________

Movement. — Swadeshi Lord Mountbatten had replaced Lord _______ as the viceroy of India in

1947. — Wavell Who has been called the ‘Heroine’ of the 1942 Quit India Movement?

— Aruna Asaf Ali In Bengal, the East India Company’s headquarters were located at _______.

— Fort william Who was the first to use the term ‘Adivasi’ to refer to the tribal people?

— Thakkar Bappa Who was the Congress President at the time when India become free?

— J.B. Kripalani In the absence of Gandhi, the Quit India Movement had been led by

_______. — Aruna Asaf Ali Who had founded the first women’s university in India?

— Dhondo Keshav Karve Who had given out the political message of ‘India for the Indians’?

— Dayananda Saraswati

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The Bhoodan Movement had been started by ______.— Vinoba Bhave

During the Dandi March the song ‘Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram ...’ hadbeen sung by the renowned musician _________.

— Digambar Vishnu Paluskar Who had stated with regard to the formation and raison d’etre of the

Indian National Congress, “A safety valve for the escape of great andgrowing forces generated by our own action was urgently needed”?

— A.O. Hume The Communal Award, which was subsequently changed following

Gandhi’s fast unto death in a jail at Poona, had been given by _______.— Ramsay Mcdonald

Who had become the first Governor-General of India after independence?— Lord Mountbatten

What had the Sir Charles Wood Despatch of 1854 primarily dealt with?— Educational reforms

Who was the founder of the Servants of India Society?— Gopal Krishna Gokhale.

‘India Wins Freedom’ is the autobiography of _______.— Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

Who wrote ‘Sare Jahan Se Acha, Hindustan Hamara’?— Mohammad Iqbal

Who composed ‘Vande Mataram’? — Bankim Chandra Chatterjee. Was the Constituent Assembly of India a sovereign body, when it was

first convened? — No Who was the first person to address M.K. Gandhi as the Mahatma?

— Rabindranath Tagore. Name the trio referred to as Lal, Bal and Pal, during the freedom move-

ment.— Lala Lajpat Rai, Bal Gangadhar Tilak

& Bipin Chandra Pal. Who was the Chairman of the Drafting Committee of the Constituent

Assembly of India? — Dr. B.R. Ambedkar What was the date on which the Constituent Assembly of India was

converted into the Provisional Parliament of India?— January 26, 1950

In which year was January 26 observed as Swaraj Day for the first time?— 1930

The three hanged for participation in ‘Lahore conspiracy’ (1931)— Bhagat Singh, Sukh Dev, Shivram Rajguru

Shivaji’s mother: — Jijabai The founder of ‘Servants of India Society’? — GK Gokhale Gandhiji’s last fast ended on ______ — Jan 18, 1948 The Indian leader born in Cuttack on Jan 23, 1897

— Subhas Chandra Bose Where was ‘Jana Gana Mana’, India’s National Anthem, first sung

(Dec 27, 1911) — Calcutta When was the title Viceroy introduced in India? — In 1858

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Tipu Sultan’s father — Hyder Ali The Mughal emperor whose rule ended with the ‘Sepoy Mutniy’

— Bahadur Shah II Who established the Central Hindu College in Varanasi in 1898?

— Mrs Annie Besant In 1868, the Islands that were handed over by Denmark to the British

free of charge — Nicobar Gandhiji was born in 1869 at Porbandar. What about Kasturba?

— In 1869, at Porbandar Rani Lakshmi of Jhansi’s original name — Manikarnika Bihar and Orissa were separated from _______ in 1912.

— Bengal The first woman Congress President? — Annie Besant Where did Gautama Buddha gave his first sermon? — At Sarnath Give the years of Nehru Report and Simon Commission Report:

— 1928 and 1930 The first viceroy of India: — Lord Charles Canning In 1931, the capital of India shifted from _______ to New Delhi.

— Old Delhi Who is known as Deenabandhu? — CF Andrews The present name of Birla House, where Gandhiji was shot dead:

— Gandhi Sadan Who was Raja Todarmal? — Emperor Akbar’s financial adviser. Gandhiji spent 2080 days in Indian prisons. Where was his last con

finement? — Aga Khan Palace, Pune