1. Which one of the following pairs is
not correct?
(A) Lower Palaeolithic : Hunting, gathering
(B) Upper Palaeolithic : Hunting, gathering
(C) Mesolithic : Hunting, gathering
(D) Neolithic : Food Production
Answer:
(C)
2. Match the List-I with List-II and
select the correct answer from the codes given below:
List – I List – II
(a) Sarai Khola (i) Haryana
(b) Tarkhanwaladera (ii)
Pakistan
(c) Kunal (iii)
Rajasthan
(d) Shikarpur (iv) Gujarat
Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (ii) (iii) (i) (iv)
(B) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(C) (ii) (iv) (iii) (i)
(D) (i) (ii) (iv) (iii)
Answer:
(A)
3. Which one of the following pairs is correct?
(A) Rock shelter : Langhnaj
(B) Microlith : Mahadaha
(C) Site associated with butchering :
Lekhakia
(D) Stone tool workshop : Isampur
Answer:
(D)
4. Match List-I with List-II and select
the correct answer from the codes given below:
List – I List – II
(a) Rigveda (i) Vajsaneye
(b) Yajurveda (ii) Shakala
(c) Samaveda (iii) Shaunaka
(d) Atharvaveda (iv) Kauthum
Codes :
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (i) (iv) (iii) (ii)
(B) (ii) (i) (iv) (iii)
(C) (i) (iii) (ii) (iv)
(D) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
Answer:
(B)
5. Match List-I with List-II and select
the correct answer from the codes given below:
List – I List – II
(a) Digha Nikaya (i) Dhammapada
(b) Khuddaka Nikaya (ii)
Mahaparinibbana sutta
(c) Vinayapitaka (iii) Kathavastu
(d) Abhidhammapitaka (iv)
Khandhaka
Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (ii) (i) (iv) (iii)
(B) (iii) (ii) (iv) (i)
(C) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(D) (iii) (iv) (ii) (i)
Answer:
(A)
6. ‘Indica’ of Megasthenes was preserved
in later Greek accounts. Which one of the following Greek travellers’ account is
not associated with ‘Indica’?
(A) Ktesius
(B) Strabo
(C) Arrian
(D) Pliny
Answer:
(A)
7. Which one of the following pairs is
not correct?
(A) Rock Edict : Sarnath
(B) Minor Rock Edict : Bahapur
(C) Pillar Edict : Rampurva
(D) Minor Pillar Edict : Sanchi
Answer:
(A)
8. Which one of the following administrative
structure in ascending order is correct?
(A) Dronamukha, Sthaniya, Samgrahana,
Karvatika
(B) Sthaniya, Karvatika, Dronamukha,
Samgrahana
(C) Sthaniya, Dronamukha, Karvatika,
Samgrahana
(D) Sthaniya, Dronamukha, Samgrahana,
Karvatika
Answer:
(C)
9. What is the correct chronological
order of the following?
(a) The Periplus of the Erythrean Sea
(b) Cosmos Indikopleustes
(c) Geography of Ptolemy
(d) Indica of Megasthenes
Choose the answer from the codes given
below:
(A) (a) (b) (c) (d)
(B) (a) (c) (d) (b)
(C) (d) (a) (c) (b)
(D) (c) (d) (a) (b)
Answer:
(C)
10. Match List-I with List-II and select
the correct answer from the codes given below:
List – I List – II
(a) Agathocles (i) Buddha
(b) Kadphises I (ii) Samkarshana
(c) Vimakadphises (iii) Atash
(d) Kanishka I (iv) Shiva
Codes :
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (ii) (i) (iv) (iii)
(B) (i) (iv) (iii) (ii)
(C) (iii) (i) (ii) (iv)
(D) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
Answer:
(A)
11. Which one of the following evidence
is not the correct evidence of Ramagupta in later period?
(A) Manasollasa of Someshwara
(B) Shankararya’s commentary on Harshcharita
(C) Majmat-ul-Tawarikh of Abul Hasan Ali
(D) Sanjan Tamrapatra of Amoghvarsha
Answer:
(A)
12. Given below are two statements, one
is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R)
Assertion (A): The majority of peasants
in the Post-Gupta Period were considered to belong to Sudra Varna.
Reason (R): A large scale incorporation
of tribes into caste system started taking place from the Post-Gupta Period.
Read the above statements and select the
correct answer from the codes given below:
Codes:
(A) Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R)
is the correct explanation of (A)
(B) (A) is correct, but (R) is false
(C) (A) is false, but (R) is correct
(D) Both (A) and (R) are false
Answer:
(A)
13. Which one of the following collection
of hymns of Alvar poetry collected by Nathmuni?
(A) Periyapuranam
(B) Tirumurai
(C) Nalayira Divya Prabandhan
(D) Tiruttondal Tiruvantati
Answer:
(C)
14. Identify the dynasty to which Queen Rudramadevi
belonged towww.netugc.in
(A) Chalukyas of Badami
(B) Pandyas of Madurai
(C) Kakatiyas of Warrangal
(D) Eastern Chalukyas of Vengi
Answer:
(C)
15. Match List-I with List-II and select
the correct answer from the codes given below:
List – I List – II
(a) Kirtivarman (i) Vatapi
(b) Simhavishnu (ii) Tanjaur
(c) Dantivarman (iii) Kanchipuram
(d) Vijayalaya (iv)
Manyekheta
Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
(B) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)
(C) (iii) (i) (ii) (iv)
(D) (i) (iii) (iv) (ii)
Answer:
(D)
16. In which one of the following ancient
literary works a separate section of painting is found?
(A) Panchasiddhantika
(B) Vishnudharmottara Purana
(C) Panchatantra
(D) Natyashastra
Answer:
(B)
17. Which one of the following was the revenue
officer of the Chola dynasty?
(A) Aulnayak
(B) Sherundaram
(C) Varitppottagakka
(D) Perumakkal
Answer:
(C)
18. Which of the following statements
are not correct?
(i) After Balban’s death his son Bughra
Khan assumed sovereignty in Lakhnauti
(ii) Alauddin Khalji extended his authority
to Bengal
(iii) Ghiyasuddin Tughluq made Bengal
part of the Delhi sultanate in 1324
(iv) Firuz Shah Tughluq invaded Bengal
twice during the reign of Shamsuddin Iliyas Shah. Select the correct answer
from the codes given below:
Codes :
(A) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(B) (ii) (iv)
(C) (ii) (iii)
(D) (iii) (iv)
Answer:
(B)
19. Match List-I with List-II and select
the correct answer from the codes given below:
List – I List
– II
(a) Shaikh Moinuddin Chishti (i)
Delhi
(b) Shaikh Bahauddin Zakariya (ii) Ajodhan
(c) Shaikh Farid-ud-din Masud Ganj-i- Shakar (iii) Multan
(d) Shaikh Nizamuddin Auliya (iv) Ajmer
Codes :
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (iii) (iv) (ii) (i)
(B) (iii) (ii) (iv) (i)
(C) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
(D) (iv) (ii) (iii) (i)
Answer:
(C)
20. Who termed the dominion of Sultan Muhammad
Tughlaq as ‘Hind and Sind’?
(A) Ziyauddin Barani
(B) Abdal Malik Isami
(C) Ibn Battuta
(D) Yahia-bin Ahmad Sirhindi
Answer:
(C)
21. What measures were adopted by Mahmud
Gawan to curb the power of the Bahmani Nobles?
(i) He reduced the size of their estate
(ii) He increased the amount of land classified
as royal domain
(iii) He forbade governors from controlling
more than a single fort
(iv) He enhanced the rate of land revenue
demand.
Select the correct answer from the codes
given below:
Codes:
(A) (i) (iv) (iii)
(B) (i) (ii) (iii)
(C) (iii) (iv) (ii)
(D) (i) (iii) (iv)
Answer:
(B)
22. Arrange the following in correct chronological
order:
(i) Chaitanya (ii) Eknath
(iii) Surdas (iv) Tulsidas
Codes :
(A) (ii) (i) (iii) (iv)
(B) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(C) (i) (ii) (iv) (iii)
(D) (i) (iii) (ii) (iv)
Answer:
(A)
23. Given below are two statements, one labelled
Assertion (A) and other labelled Reason (R).
Assertion (A): In military terms Firuz
Shah Tughluq’s reign was undistinguished
Reason (R): He could not subjugate the
ruler of Nagarkot In the context of the above two statements, which one of the
following is correct?
Codes:
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is
the correct explanation of (A)
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R)
is not the correct explanation of (A)
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true
Answer:
(C)
24. Who described the Mughal imperial Harem
as the ‘Pavilion of chartity’?
(A) Nizamuddin Ahmad
(B) Abul Fazl
(C) Gulbadan Begum
(D) Abdul Hamid Lahori
Answer:
(A)
25. In the Mughal System of administration,
Mir Bakshi was
(A) Commandar-in-chief of the Mughal
army
(B) Incharge of the imperial mint
(C) Minister-in-charge of Treasury
(D) Paymaster General
Answer:
(D)
26. Which of the following social
reforms was not introduced by Akbar?
(A) Legalization of widows remarriage
(B) Registration of marriage
(C) Total ban on the practice of sati
(D) The age of circumcision was raised
to twelve
Answer:
(C)
27. Which of the following statements is
true?
(A) In Mughal India, cultivation of indigo
was confined to the provinces of Delhi and Agra
(B) Madad-i-Maash grants were made
hereditary by Aurangzeb
(C) Altamgha Jagirs were made transferable
by Jahangir
(D) Kashmir was brought under the zabti
system of land revenue assessment.
Answer:
(B)
28. Match List-I with List-II and select
the correct answer from the codes given below:
List – I List – II
(a) Maasir-i- Jahangiri (i) Motmid Khan
(b) Iqbalnama-i- Jahangiri (ii) Saqi Mustaid Khan
(c) Maasir-i- Alamgiri (iii) Khwaza Kamgar Ghairat
Khan
(d) Futuhat-i- Alamgiri (iv) Isardas Nagar
Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (i) (iii) (ii) (iv)
(B) (iii) (i) (ii) (iv)
(C) (ii) (iii) (i) (iv)
(D) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
Answer:
(B)
29. Arrange the following events in chronological
order:
(i) Mughal occupation of Balkh
(ii) Introduction of the system of month
proportion
(iii) Extinction of Nizamshahi
(iv) Treaty of the Mughals with Bijapur
and Golkunda
(A) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)
(B) (iii) (ii) (i) (iv)
(C) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
(D) (ii) (iv) (i) (iii)
Answer:
(A)
30. Arrange the following in
chronological order:
(i) Prince Akbar’s flight to the Deccan
(ii) Conquest of Golkunda by Aurangzeb
(iii) Capture of Chitagong by Shaista Khan
(iv) The institution of Khalsa by Guru
Gobind Singh Select the correct answer from the codes given below:
Codes:
(A) (i) (iii) (ii) (iv)
(B) (iii) (i) (ii) (iv)
(C) (ii) (iv) (iii) (i)
(D) (i) (iii) (iv) (ii)
Answer:
(B)
31. Given below are two statements, one
is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R):
Assertion (A): The English East India Company
eliminated their Portuguese and Dutch trade rivals by the end of the Seventeenth
century.
Reason (R): The English traders sold goods
of superior quality at cheaper rates.
Read the above statements and select the
correct answer from the codes given below:
Codes:
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true, and (R)
is the correct explanation of (A)www.netugc.in
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is
not the correct explanation of (A)
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true
Answer:
(C)
32. Given below are two statements, one
is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R):
Assertion (A): The number of Rajput Mansabdars
declined in the Mughal nobility during the second half of Aurangzeb’s reign.
Reason (R): Aurangzeb assigned large
number of Jagirs to nobles from the Deccan.
Read the above statements and select the
correct answer from the codes given below:
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is
the correct explanation of (A)
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R)
is not the correct explanation of (A)
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true
Answer:
(B)
33. Match List-I with List-II and select
the correct answer from the codes given below:
List – I (Book) List – II
(Author)
(a) Indian Painting under the Mughals (i) Ashok kumar Das
(b) Architecture of Mughal India (ii) Moti Chandra
(c) The Technique of Mughal Painting (iii) Percy Brown
(d) Mughal Painting during Jahangir’s Time (iv) Catherine B. Asher
Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (ii) (i) (iii) (iv)
(B) (iii) (ii) (iv) (i)
(C) (iv) (ii) (i) (iii)
(D) (iii) (iv) (ii) (i)
Answer:
(D)
34. Consider the names of the following Mughal
Emperors of the Eighteenth century:
(i) Alamgir II
(ii) Ahmad Shah
(iii) Jahandar Shah
(iv) Muhammad Shah
Which among the following sequences represents
the correct chronological order?
(A) (ii) (i) (iii) (iv)
(B) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(C) (iii) (iv) (ii) (i)
(D) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
Answer:
(C)
35. Given below are two statements, one
is labelled as Assertion (A) and other is labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A): The 1857 Mutiny was suppressed
by the British
Reason (R): Except for a few like Rani
of Jhansi, a very few Indian rulers participated in the mutiny.
Read the above statements and select the
correct answer from the codes given below
Codes:
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is
the correct explanation of (A)
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R)
is not the correct explanation of (A)
(C) Both (A) and (R) are false
(D) (A) is true, but (R) is false
Answer:
(A)
36. Given below are two statements, one labelled
as Assertion (A) and other labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A): Dr. Annie Besant organised
the Home Rule Movement against the British Rule.
Reason (R): She wanted to organize all
sections of Indian people on the basis of a single political slogan above
religious consideration Read the above statements and select the correct answer
from the codes given below
Codes:
(A) (A) is correct, but (R) is not
correct
(B) (A) is not correct, but (R) is
correct
(C) (A) and (R) both are not correct
(D) (A) is correct and (R) is the correct
explanation of (A)
Answer: (D)
37. In which year did Robert Clive accepted
the Diwani of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa from the Mughal ruler.
(A) 1761
(B) 1765
(C) 1778
(D) 1781
Answer: (B)
38. The Treaty of Bassien (1802) was signed
between:
(A) the English and Peshwa Baji Rao II
(B) the English and Tipu Sultan
(C) the English and Holkar
(D) the English and Gaikwad
Answer: (A)
39. The Home Rule Movement started by Annie
Besant aimed at:
(A) boycotting foreign goods
(B) educating the Indian Masses
(C) attaining self-rule for India
(D) agitating against the British Monopoly
in administration
Answer: (C)
40. Which of the following is the
correct chronological order of the English East India Company factories
established in India?
(i) Surat
(ii) Masulipatnam
(iii) Hugli
(iv) Balasore
Codes :
(A) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(B) (ii) (i) (iv) (iii)
(C) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
(D) (iv) (iii) (i) (ii)
Answer: (B)
41. Who was the first woman President of
the Indian National Congress?
(A) Sarojini Naidu
(B) Annie Besant
(C) Sucheta Kripalani
(D) Madam Cama
Answer: (B)
42. Who wrote Poverty and Un-British Rule
in India?
(A) Dadabhai Naoroji
(B) R. C. Dutt
(C) Charles Wood
(D) M. N. Roy
Answer: (A)
43. August 8, 1942 is important in
Indian History for
(A) Formation of Indian National Army by
Subhash Chandra Bose at Singapore
(B) Cripp’s Proposals for Dominion status
(C) Non-co-operation Movement launched
by Mahatma Gandhi
(D) Quit India Movement launched by
Mahatma Gandhi
Answer: (D)
44. Which is correctly matched:
(A) “Do or Die” – Jawaharlal Nehru
(B) “Swaraj is my birth right” – Mahatma
Gandhi
(C) “Give me blood, I will give you freedom
– Subhash Chandra Bose
(D) “Independence through nonviolence must
be our aim”
Answer: (C)
45. Match List-I with List-II and select
the correct answer from the codes given below
List – I List
– II
(a) Freedom at Midnight (i)
Collins and Lapierre
(b) The Story of the Integration of
Indian States (ii) C. P. Ramaswami Iyar
(c) Travancore Dewan (iii)
V. P. Menon
(d) Secretary of State (iv)
Pethick- Lawrence
Codes :www.netugc.in
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (i) (iii) (ii) (iv)
(B) (iii) (ii) (i) (iv)
(C) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
(D) (ii) (iv) (iii) (i)
Answer: (A)
46. Which of the following is the
correct chronological order of the Viceroys?
(i) North Brook
(ii) Minto
(iii) Linlithgow
(iv) Mayo
Codes :
(A) (iv) (i) (ii) (iii)
(B) (ii) (iii) (i) (iv)
(C) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(D) (iii) (iv) (ii) (i)
Answer: (A)
47. Arrange the following into
sequential order and select correct answer from the codes given below:
(i) St. Thomae war
(ii) The Pindari war
(iii) Buxar war
(iv) War of Chandurthi
Codes :
(A) (i) (iv) (iii) (ii)
(B) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
(C) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(D) (iv) (ii) (iii) (i)
Answer: (A)
48. Match List-I with List-II and select
the correct answer from the codes given below
List – I List
– II
(a) Col. Tod (i)
Memoir of Central India
(b) John Malcolm (ii) Annals
and Antiquities of Rajasthan
(c) C. R. Wilson (iii)
Historical Sketches of South India
(d) M. Wilks (iv)
Early Annals of the English in Bengal
Codes :
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (ii) (i) (iv) (iii)
(B) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)
(C) (i) (iv) (iii) (ii)
(D) (iii) (i) (ii) (iv)
Answer: (A)
49. Match List-I with List-II and select
the correct answer from the codes given below
List – I List – II
(a) Punjab Tenancy Act (i) 1883
(b) The Ilbert Bill (ii) 1868
(c) Hunter Commission (iii) 1921
(d) Chamber of Princes (iv) 1882
Codes:
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (ii) (iii) (i) (iv)
(B) (i) (ii) (iv) (iii)
(C) (iv) (ii) (iii) (i)
(D) (ii) (i) (iv) (iii)
Answer: (D)
50. Chronologically arrange the
following schools of historical thought as emerged at different points of time
(i) Enlightenment Historiography
(ii) Church Historiography
(iii) Annals Historiography
(iv) Subaltern Historiography
Select the correct answer from the codes
given below:
Codes:
(A) (i) (iii) (iv) (ii)
(B) (ii) (iii) (i) (iv)
(C) (ii) (i) (iii) (iv)
(D) (i) (ii) (iv) (iii)
Answer: (C)
