INDIAN HISTORY 1

      1.       The statue of Gomateshwara at Sravanabelagola was built by:

a.       Chandragupta Maurya

b.      Kharvela

c.       Amoghavarsha

d.      Chamundaray

      2.       ‘Live well, as long as you live. Live well even by borrowings, for once cremated, there is no return’. The rejection of after life is an aphorism of the:

a.       Kapalika sect

b.      Sunyavada of Nagarjun

c.       Ajivikas

d.      Charvakas

      3.       Which one of the following usages was a post-Vedic development?

a.       Dharma-Artha-Kama-Moksha

b.      Brahmana-Kshatriya-Vaishya-Shudra

c.       Brahmacharya-Grihasthashrama-Vanaprastha-Sanyasa

d.      Indra-Surya-Rudra-Marut

      4.       The capital of the kingdom of Maharaja Ranjit Singh was:

a.       Amritsar

b.      Patiala

c.       Lahore

d.      Kapurthala

      5.       In the Gandhara sculptures the preaching mudra associated with the Buddha's First Sermon at Sarnath is:

a.       Abhaya

b.      Dhyana Manidha Naeyam

c.       Dharmachakra

d.      Bhumisparsa

       6.        The name of the poet Kalidas is mentioned in the:

a.       Allahabad pillar inscription

b.      Aihole inscription

c.       Alapadu grant

d.      Hanumakonda inscription

       7.        Zero was invented by:

a.       Aryabhatta

b.      Varahamihira

c.       Bhaskara I

d.      An unknown Indian

       8.       Which one of the following important trade centers of ancient India was on the trade route connecting Kalyana with Vengi?

a.       Tagara

b.      Sripura

c.       Tripuri

d.       Tamralipti

        9.       The first Indian ruler who joined the subsidiary Alliance was:

a.       The Nawab of Oudh

b.      The Nizam of Hyderabad

c.       Peshwa Baji Rao II

d.      The king of Travancore

      10.    Vidhushaka, a common character in Sanskrit drama is invariably a:

a.       Brahmana

b.      Kshatriya

c.       Vaishya

d.      Shudra

      11.   Toramana belonged to the ethnic horde of the:

a.       Scythians

b.      Hunas

c.       Yue-chis

d.      Sakas

      12.   Who among the following is said to have witnessed the reigns of eight Delhi Sultans?

a.       Ziauddin Barani

b.      Shams-i-siraj Afif

c.       Minhaj-us-siraj

d.      Amir Khusrau

      13.   The first Indian ruler to organize Haj pilgrimage at the expense of the state was:

a.       Alauddin Khilji

b.      Feroz Tughlaq

c.       Akbar

d.       Aurangzeb

       14.   Who among the following ladies wrote a historical account during the Mughal period?

a.       Gulbadan Begum

b.      Noorjahan Begum

c.       Jahanara Begum

d.      Zebun-nissah Begum

       15.   The first to start a joint stock company to trade with India were the:

a.       Portuguese

b.      Dutch

c.       French

d.      Danish

      16.   The caves and rock-cut temples at Ellora are:

a.       Buddhist

b.      Buddhist and Jain

c.       Hindu and Jain

d.      Hindu, Buddhist and Jain

      17.   The significance of the Bengal Regulation of 1793 lies in the fact that:

a.       It provided for the establishment of the Supreme court

b.      It restricted the application of English law to Englishmen only

c.       It accommodated the personal laws of Hindus and Muslims

d.      It provided for the appointment of the Indian Law Commission

       18.   The Mansabdari system introduced by Akbar was borrowed from the system followed in:

a.       Afghanistan

b.      Turkey

c.       Mongolia

d.      Persia

        19.   Which one of the following monuments has a dome which is said to be one of the largest in the world?

a.       Tomb of Sher Shah, Sasaram

b.      Jama Masjid, Delhi

c.       Tomb of Ghiyas-ud-din Tuglaq, Delhi

d.      Gol Gumbaz, Bijapur

       20.   Ashtapradhan was a Council of Ministers:

a.       In the Gupta administration

b.      In the Chola administration

c.       In the Vijaynagar administration

d.      In the Maratha administration