1. Hand axes are the typical tools of : (b) Neva sa

(a) Lower Palaeolithic period (c) Piklihal

(b) Middle Palaeolithic period (d) Kalibangan

(c) Mesolithic period 6. Sohan Industry is known for:

(d) ｎｾｯｬｩｴｨｩ｣＠ period (a) Microliths

2. The first Palaeolithic tool in India was (b) Bone tools

found by: (c) Pebble tools

(a) John Marshall (d) Blade tools

(b) Mortimer Wheeler 7. A dock-yard belonging to Indus

(c) Alexander Cunningham Civilization was found at :

(d) Robert Bruce Foote (a) Surkotda

3. Which communities were known as (b) Harappa

'agro-pastoral' communities ? (c) Dholavira

(a) Mesolithic Communities (d) Lethal

(b) Megalithic Communities 8. What is meant by 'intaglio' ? (c) Neolithic Communities

(a) Carving in negative relief

(d) Palaeolithic Communities (b) Seal with carvings

4. Ash mounds are associated with : (c) Seal made of stone

(a) Mesolithic sites (d) Seal with script

(b) Neolithic sites 9. Harappa was discovered by:

(c) Chalcolithic sites (a) R. D. Banerjee

(d) Megalithic sites (b) Daya Ram Sahni

5. Pit-dwelling was noticed at : (c) Charles Mason

(a) Burzahom (d) John Marshall

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10. The Indus people used weights of: (c) Astronomical treatises

(a) Round shape (d) Mathematical treatises

(b) Cubical shape 15. In vedic literature 'Purushni' meant:

(c) Rectangular shape (a) Indus river

(d) Cylindrical (b) Saraswati river

11. The epithet 'Purandhara' men are : (c) Sutlej river

(d) Ravi river (a) Builder of cities

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(b) City of palaces 16. 'Bali' in Vedic literature meant :

(a) Sacrifice (c) Resident of a city

(b) Forcible extraction (d) Destroyer of forts

(c) Fight for cattle

12. Meluhha in Mesopotamian literature (d) Tribute or offering

meant : 17. In Vedic literature 'Gavisti ' means:

(a) Gujarat region (a) Search for cows

(b) Afghanistan (b) Pastoralism

(c) Gulf region (c) Sale of cows

(d) Punjab region (d) Cow as a unit

13. The 'Pasupati' seal contains : 18. Which of the following is NOT correct?

(a) Rhino, elephant, goat, dog (a) Buddhism and Jainism did not

(b) Lion, elephant, goat, tiger attach importance to varna

(c) Rhino, buffalo, elephant, lion system.

(d) Rhino, elephant, buffalo, tiger (b) Buddha condemned accumulation

of wealth.

14. Vedic Upanishads are primarily : (c) Buddha condemned sacrifices.

(a) Religious treatises (d) Buddha condemned lending of

(b) Philosophical treatises money.

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19. Which of the following is a source of 23. Which of the following statement is

Mauryan history? WRONG?

(a) Allahabad prasasti (a) The guilds intervened in the private

(b) Vishnu purana lives of the members.

(c) Gadha saptasati (b) The guilds fixed the quality of the

(d) Brihat samhita finished products.

(c) The guilds did not control the

20. Ashoka was deputed by Bindusara to prices of finished products. ｾ＠.

suppress revolt at : (d) The guilds had their own seals and

(a) Kalinga banners.

(b) Pataliputra 24. Charaks Samhita was a :

(c) Taxila (a) Medical treatise

(d) Ujjain (b) Religious text

21. The Ashoka issued inscriptions : (c) Book on weaving

(a) Only in Brahmi (d) Military craft

(b) Brahmi, Kharoshti, Greek and

Aramaic 25. Stucco was popular medium in :

(c) Only in Brahmi and Kharoshti (a) Amaravati art

(d) Brahmi, Kharoshti, Greek and (b) Mathura art

Persian (c) Ajanta art

22. Bull capital of an Ashoka pillar was (d) Gandhara art

found at: 26. Last Kanva ruler Susarma was killed by :

(a) Lumbini (a) Srimukha

(b) Sankisa (b) Pulumavi-1

(c) Saranath (c) Gautamiputra Satakarni

(d) Rampurva (d) Satakarni-11

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27. The Satrap King Nahapana was killed 32. Nalanda university was founded by : by:

(a) Chandra Gupta-1 (a) Brihadratha

(b) sa·mudra Gupta (b) Kanishka

(c) Skanda Gupta (c) Gautarniputra Satakarni (d) Kumara Gupta (d) Pulumavi-1

33. Brahma Gupta was a : 28. The Gupta rulers had matrimonial alliance with : . (a) Astronomer

(a) Vakatakas (b) Mathematician

(b) Satavahanas (c) Astrologer

(c) Saka Kshatrapas (d) Chemist

(d) Abhiras 34. Rock cut caves of Gupta age are found

29. Hun invasion was repelled by: at:

(a) Chandra Gupta-1 (a) Udayagiri (b) Skanda Gupta (b) Nagarjuna hills (c) Sri Gupta (c) Barabar Hills (d) Samudra Gupta (d) Undavalli

30. The Salankayana ruler mentioned in 35. Harsha Vardhana belonged to which Allahabad inscription is : family?

(a) Mahendra (a) Pushyabhuti

(b) Ugrasena (b) Suryavamsa (c) Vishnugopa (c) Chandra vamsa (d) Hastivarman (d) Maitraka

31 . Who was the first Gupta ruler?

(a) Chandra Gupta-1 36. The most important cause of the

(b) Sri Gupta Ghaznavide invasion was :

(c) Ghatotkacha (a) Extent of Empire

(d) Samudra Gupta (b) Propagation of Islam

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(c) Economic Gains (b) Taj-ui-Maasir

(d) Power"and Prestige (c) Tabaqat-i-Nasiri

37. The statement of Lanepoole, "A mere (d) Tarikh-i-Firishta

episode in the history of India and Islam, 41. The earliest establishment of Chisti

triumph without results" refers to the '

Sufis was at :

invasion: (a) Hansi

(a) Ghaznavide (b) Nagaur

(b) Tarmashirin (c) Multan '

(c) Arab (d) Ajmer

(d) Taimurlang 42. Dilwara Temples are related to :

38. Which of the following dynasties of (a) Jains

South intervened for the first time in the

power -politics of North India ? (b) Buddhists

(a) Cholas (c) Vaishnavas

(b) Chalukyas (d) Shaivas

(c) Rashtrakutas 43. How many categories of 'Antyajya'

(d) Pandyas existed in the 11th Century as told by

AI-Beruni?

39. Chola State was called 'Segmentary (a) Four

State' by:

(a) Hermann Kulke (b) Eight

(b) Burton Stein (c) Twelve

(c) R. Champakalakshmi (d) Fourteen

(d) Neelkanth Shastri 44. The doctrine of 'Prapatti' was

40. "The foremost cause of defeat of the propounded by :

Rajputs by the Turks was their military (a) Madhavacharya

weakness" was mentioned in the (b) Basava

Persian work : (c) Nimbarka

(a) Adab-ui-Harb (d) Ramanuja

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45. The famous law book 'Daibhagh' was 49. Iltutmish obtained Manshur (a letter of

written by: . recognition) from the Caliph of Baghdad

(a) Medhatithi in:

' (b) Vigyaneshwar (a) 1227 A. D.

(b) 1228A. D. (c) Jimutvahan

(c) 1229A. D. (d) Lakshmidhar

(d) None of these

46. Who is not the contemporary historian 50. The only Muslim ruler of Indian origin of

ofMuhammad-bin-Tughlaq? Delhi Sultanat was:

(a) Amir Khusrau (a) KhizrKhan

(b) Ziauddin Barani (b) Alauddin Shah Alam

(c) Ibn Batutah (c) Nasiruddin Khusrau

(d) lsami (d) Bahlol Lodi

47. Haq-i-Sharb introduced by Sultan 51. The Chanting of God's name by

Firozshah Tughlaq was related to: Chaitanya panthis is known as :

(a) Land Tax (a) Sankirtan

(b) Grazing Tax (b) Sum iran

(c) Water Tax (c) Bhajan

(d) Mint Tax (d) Sam a

48. 'Wealth is the root cause of rebellion' 52. 'Andhrakavipitamah' in the court of

was the basic thought ofthe policies of.: Krishnadev Ray was the title ofTelugu

poet: (a) Aurangzeb

(a) Tenaliram (b) Alauddin Khilji

(b) Pingali Surana (c) Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq

(c) Mallanna (d) Sikandar Lodi

(d) Alsani Paddanna

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53. The work which reflects the tolerant and (b) GhiyasBeg

philanthropic rule of Shershah Suri is : (c) Khurram

(a) Mrigawat (d) Mahabat Khan

(b) Chandrayan 58. The Mug hal Princess RoshanAra during

(c) Padmawat the war of succession among the sons

(d) Akhrawat . of Shahjahan sided with :

54. Kabir was the disciple of: (a) Aurangzeb

(a) Ramanand (b) Dara Shikoh

(b) Malik Muhammad Jaisi (c) Shah Shuja

(c) Nasiruddin Chirag Dehlvi (d) Murad

(d) Namdev 59. "If there is paradise on Earth it is this, it

55. The Tulghuma tactics used by Babur in is this, none but this" is inscribed in :

his battles was: . (a) Diwan-i-Aam

(a) Turki (b) Jama Masjid

(b) Uzbek (c) Diwan-i-Khas

(c) Mongol (d) Rang Mahal

(d) Irani 60. Dastur-ui-Amal in Mughal revenue

56. 'Nal Damyanti' was translated into system is related to :

Persian under the rule of Akbar by : (a) Laws of Revenue

(a) Abul Fazl (b) Land Revenue

(b) Faizi (c) Tax Collectors Fee

(c) Badaoni (d) Schedule of Cash rates

(d) Ibrahim Sirhindi 61. Which is not the feature of Watan

57. The 'Do aspa seh aspa' mansab during Jagir?

the rule of Jahangir was first given to : (a) Assigned to Rajputs

(a) AsafKhan (b) Transferrable

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(c) Associated with Mansabdari 66. The Mug hal Emperor nicknamed 'Shah-

(d) Heriditary i-Bekhabar' was :

62. The famous portraiture painter visited (a) Farrukhsiyar

the court of Shah of Iran was : (b) Shah Alam-11

(a) Manohar (c) Bahadur Shah-1

(b) Abul Hasan (d) JahandarShah

(c) Ustad Mansur 67. Pune (Poona) was made the Centre of

(d) Bishandas Maratha politics by Peshwa :

63 . The wealthiest Indian merchant of the (a) Bajirao-1 ...

17th Century A. D. was: (b) Madh.avrao-1

(a) Virji Vohra (c) Balaji Bajirao

(b) JagatSeth (d) Bajirao-11

(c) Malaya Chetti 68. The prime cause of the appearance of

(d) Kasi Viraana Jagirdari crisis in the 17th-18th

64. The ruler who tried to. eradicate the Centuries was :

social abuses against women of (a) Extraordinary grants of Mansabs

Medieval Society was : (b) Corruption among Mansabdars

(a) Akbar (c) Difference betwen 'Jama' and

(b) Zainul Abidin 'Hasil'

(c) Md. Bin Tughlaq (d) Paper Jagiri

(d) Razia 69. The 'gun powder empire' theory

65. The term used for the Contract Farming regarding the decline of Mug hal Empire

in agriculture was : was given by :

(a) JorTalab (a) Muzaffar Alam

(b) ljaradari (b) AtharAii ' .

(c) Hakuk-i-Zamindari (c) lrfan Habib

(d) Dasturi (d) lqtidar Alam Khan

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70. The astronomical work Zij-i-Muhammad 74. What was the First Act passed by the

Shahi was written by : British Parliament to control the working

(a) Raja Jai Singh of English East India Company?

(b) Sawai Raja Jai Singh (a) Pitt's India Act

(c) Jai Singh II (b) Ripon's India-Act

(d) Man Singh (c) Regulating Act

71. The struggle between the Nevayats and (d) Working Act

the Wallajahs formed the basis of: 75. Who was the first Governor General of ,·

(a) The Carnatic Wars the British in India? .!o

(b) Battle of Buxar (a) Wellesley

(c) The Mysore Wars (b) Robert Clive

(d) Anglo-Maratha Wars (c) Warren Hastings

72. Which tragedy was associated with the (d) Cornwallis

British Conquest of Bengal ? 76. Who introduced the Zamindari System ?

(a) Wagon Tragedy (a) Wellesley

(b) Amritsar Tragedy (b) Dalhousie

(c) Black hole Tragedy (c) Warren Hastings

(d) Punjab Tragedy (d) Cornwallis

73. How many Mysore battles were there 77. In which revenue settlement the ryots between the English and the Sultans of . were directly related to the Mysore?

Government ?

(a) One (a) Zamindari

(b) Two (b) Ryotwari

(c) Three (c) Mahalwari

(d) Four (d) Poligari

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78. What was the major result of indus- 83. Who started the Aligarh Movement?

trialisation in India? (a) Mirza Ahmad

(a) Ruralisation (b) M.A. Jinnah

(b) Urbanisation (c) Syed Ahmad Khan

(c) Globalisation (d) Mirza Khan

(d) Standardisation 84. Who was the founder of the Satya

79. What was the social legacy of the Sodhak Samaj ? Railways in India?

(a) (a) Harish Sharma

Removal of Untouchability

(b) Promption of Education (b) Hari Deshmukh

ｾ＠ (c) Spread of Trade (c) lswarachandra Vidyasagar

(d) Growth of Population (d) Jotiba Govind Phule

80. What was the major industry under the 85. Mention the Mug hal Padushah who led

Madras Presidency? the 1857 Revolt?

(a) Sugar (a) BahadurShahl

(b) Cotton (b) Bahadur Shah II

(c) Steel (c) Bahadur Shah Ill

(d) Iron (d) BahadurShahiV

81. What was the Magna Carta of the 86. When did the formation of Madras

English education in India ? Native Association take place ?

(a) Macaulay's Despatches (a) 1850

(b) Wood's Despatches (b) 1851 (c) Raleigh's Despatches

(c) 1852 (d) Curzon's Despatches

(d) 1853

82. Who was the morning star of Indian

Renaissance ? 87. Who presided over the first annual

(a) Swami Vivekananda session of the Indian National

(b) Ranade Congress?

(c) Raja Rammohan Roy (a) W. C. Banerjee

(d) Dayananda Saraswati (b) A. 0 . Hume

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(c) B. G. Tilak

(d) Ranade

88. What led to the beginning of the

Swadeshi Movement ?

(a) Surat Split

(b) Wagon Tragedy

(c) Partition of Bengal

(d) Outbreak of the First World War

89. Which Act of the British Parliament

introduced the communal electorates in

India?

(a) Charter Act of 1893

(b) Minto-Morley Reforms

(c) Montford Reforms

(d) Indian Councils Act of 1935

90. Which annual session of ｾｨ･＠ Indian

National Congress adopted the

resolution on Non-Co-operation

Movement?

(a) Lucknow

(b) Nagpur

(c) Hyderabad

(d) Madras

91 . Who was the Political Guru of Gandhi ?

(a) B. G. Tilak

(b) Ranade

(c) Gokhale

(d) Banerjee

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92. Who was described by Gandhi as 'The

Prince of Patriots"?

(a) Ranade

(b) B. G. Tilak

(c) Gokhale

(d) Subhas Chandra Bose

93. What led to the suspension of the Non-

Co-operation Movement ?

(a) Wagon Tragedy

(b) AmritsarTragedy

(c) Chauri Chaura Incident

(d) Malabar Rebellion of 1921

94. Gandhiji adopted the slogan of "do or di'

in the course of ___ Movement.

(a) Non-Co-operation

(b) Quit India

(c) Swadeshi

(d) Civil Disobedience

95. recommended for the

( 12)

establishement of an Interim

Government.

(a) . Gripp's Mission

. (b) Cabinet Mission

(c) 1935Act

(d) 1945Act

96. Who was the founder of Muslim

League?

(a) Sayyid Khan

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(b) Aga Khan

(c) Jinnah

(d) Mirza Khan

97. TheAndhra Jana Sangam was founded

in:

(a) 1920

(b) 1921

(c) 1922

(d) 1923

98. Who coined the slogan "lnquilab

Zindabad"?

(a) Aga Khan

(b) Muhammad Iqbal

(c) Muhammad Mirza

(d) Syed Ahmed Khan ·

99. Who gave the slogan "Jai Hind" ?

(a) Gandhiji

(b) Jawaharlal Nehru

(c) Subhas Chandra Bose

(d) V. P. Patel

100. Who was the last Viceroy of the British

in India?

(a) ClementAtlee

(b) Mountbatten

(c) Raja Gopalachari

(d) Rajendra Prasad

101. Point out the Chairman of the State

Reorganisation Commission ?

(a) Justice Muhammad Ali

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(b) Justice Mohan Kumar

(c) Justice Syed FaziAii

(d) V. P. Menon

102. Who presided over the Indian

Constituent Assembly?

( 13)

(a) Dr. B. R. Ambedkar

(b) Dr. Rajendra Prasad

(c) Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru

(d) V. P. Patel

103. Who was the first Chairman of the

Planning Commission ?

(a) Dr. B. R. Ambedkar

. (b) Dr. Rajendra Prasad

(c) Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru

(d) V. P. Patel

104. Which amendment of the Constitution

of India was calculated to initiate

agricultural reforms through the abolition

of the ｾ｡ｭｩｮ､｡ｲｩ＠ System ?

(a) First

(b) Second

(c) Third

(d) Fourth

105. Who was India's first Chairperson of the

Non-alignment Movement?

(a) Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru

(b) Mrs. Indira Gandhi

(c) I. K. Gujral

(d) La I Bahadur Shastri

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106. The number of rock edicts issued by

Ashoka in Kalinga in Place of Rock

Edict No. XI, XII and XIII are __ _

(a) 03

(b) 04

(c) 05

(d) 02

107. Who among the following scholars

discovered the Hathigumpha Inscription

of Kharavela ?

(a) R. D. Banerjee

(b) James Prinsep

(c) Andrew Stirling

(d) K. P. Jayaswal

108. The nomenclature used in the

Hathigumpha Inscription for caves is

(a) Beriya

(b) Lena

(c) Lehaharaka

(d) Gumpha

109. Who among the following was the

Sailodvaba ruler during the time of

Sasanka's invasion of Odisha ?

(a) Madhyamaraja I

(b) Madhavaraja II

(c) Dharmaraja II

(d) Charamparaja

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110. Name the Ganga ruler of Odisha who ' .

confronted the Muslim invaders from

Bengal for the first time :

(a) Chodagangadeva

(b) Ananga bhimadeva Ill

(c) Raja raja Ill

(d) Narasimhadeva I

111. Which of the following works describe

Purushottamadeva as a "Bhoginin-

andana"?

(a) Kataka Rajavamsavali

(b) Kaifiyat of Jagannatham

(c) Bamanda Rajavamsavali

(d) Saraswati Vilasam

112. The number of tiers into which the

Jagamohana of Konark temple is

arranged:

(a) Two

(b) Three

(c) Four

(d) Five

113. Who among the following was not a

follower of Sri Chaitanya ?

(a) Prataprudradeva

(b) Balaram Das

(c) Upendra Bhanja

(d) Yasovanta Das

114. Who among the following was a Paik

rebel from Kujanga ?

(a) Krushna Chandra Singh

(b) Buxi Jagabandhu Vidyadhar

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(c) Narayan Paramguru

(d) Samananda Rai

115. Jarasingha of Patna State provided shelter to which of these leaders ?

(a) Dora Bisoyi

(b) Chakra Bisoyi

(c) Surendra Sai

(d) Jayi Rajguru

116. Who among the following leaders pleaded first for the merger of Utkala Sammilani with Indian National Congress in 1919?

(a) Nilakantha Das

(b) Gopabandhu Das

(c) Madhusudan Das

(d) Raja Sree Ramchandra Bhanjdeo

117. Who was the Revenue Minister in the first Congress Ministry formed in 1937 'under the Prime Ministership of Sri Biswanath Das ?

(a) Nilakantha Das

(b) Bodharam Dube

(c) Nityananda Kanungo

(d) Harekrushna Mahatab

118. Which was the first Princely State of Odisha to be merged with Indian Union?

(a) Ranpur

(b) Talcher

(c) Gangpur

(d) Nilgir

119. Total number of Odia delegates who participated in the Nagpur Session of Indian National Congress which took the historic decision of launching Non-Cooperation Movement :

(a) 05

(b) 15

(c) 25

(d) 35

120. Who among the following was a Congress Socialist ?

(a) Malati Chaudhury

(b) Godavarish Mishra

(c) Nilakantha Das

(d) Harekrushna Mahatab

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