1>> Who was the founder of the Bahmani dynasty?

• Ala-ud-din Hasan Bahman Shah
• Muhammad Shah I
• Firoz Shah
• Ahmad Shah

2>> Which one of the following newspapers / journals was from Maharashtra?

• Kranti
• Atmasakti
• Sarathi
• Sandhya

3>> In which year the second battle of Panipath was fought?

• 1605 AD
• 1707 AD
• 1757 AD
• 1556 AD

4>> Who organized ‘The Council of Barabhais’?

• Nana Phadnavis
• Madhav Rao Narayan
• Baji Rao II
• Mahadji Scindia

5>> The centre of Portuguese power in India was:

• Cochin
• Calicut
• Bijapur
• Goa

6>> Sufism reached India in the:

• Eleventh century
• Twelfth century
• Fourteenth century
• Thirteenth century

7>> Who is the author of ‘Indica’?

• Herodotus
• Megastenes
• Strabo
• Plutrach

8>> The first National News Agency of India was:

• The Indian Review
• The Free Press of India
• The Hindustan Review
• The Associated Press of India

9>> Where is the tomb of Jahangir situated?

• Agra
• Delhi
• Lahore
• Srinagar

10>> Who was the founder of the ‘Delhi Sultanate’?

• Muhammad Ghori
• Qutubuddin Aibak
• Iltutmish
• Ghiyasuddin Balban

11>> Taxila was the famous site of:

• Early Vedic Age
• Gandhara Art
• Gupta Art
• Mauryan Art

12>> Name the Maratha leader who put forward the ideal of founding Hindu Empire before the Marathas.

• Shivaji
• Balaji Viswanath
• Baji Rao I
• Baji Rao II

13>> The Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan died in:

• 1658 AD
• 1659 AD
• 1662 AD
• 1670 AD

14>> Who was the founder President of the Indian National Congress?

• W. C. Bonnerjee
• S. N. Banerjee
• G. K. Gokhale
• A. O. Hume

15>> Alexander fought against Perus on the banks of the river:

• Indus
• Jhelum
• Ravi
• Iravati

16>> The oldest Veda is:

• Atharvaveda
• Rigveda
• Yajurveda
• Samveda

17>> Who among the following was not a member of the Congress Socialist Party?

• Achyut Patwardhan
• Jawaharlal Nehru
• Jayaprakash Narayan
• Acharya Narendra Dev

18>> The President of the Indian National Congress at the time of independence was:

• Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
• Jawaharlal Nehru
• Dr. Rajendra Prasad
• J. B. Kripalani

19>> In India, the Federal Court was constituted by an act of:

• 1891
• 1909
• 1919
• 1935

20>> Who among the following founded a national paper, a national school, and a national gymnasium in the second half of the nineteenth century?

• Jatindranath Tagore
• Rajnarayan Bose
• Nabagopal Mitra
• Satyendranath Tagore

21>> Which ruler was contemporary of both Buddha and Mahavira?

• Bimbisara
• Chandragupta
• Pradyot
• Ajatasatru

22>> Which was a major port of the Indus Valley?

• Lothal
• Kalibangan
• Chanhudaro
• Mehargarh

23>> Chandragupta Maurya was succeeded by:

• Bindusara
• Ajatasatru
• Ashoka
• Harsha

24>> What was the policy of Samudragupta in the south?

• Conquest
• Dharma vijaya
• Digvijay
• None of the above

25>> Sasanka belonged to the:

• Pal Dynasty
• Sen Dynasty
• Gauda Dynasty
• Kamrup Dynasty

26>> ‘Sulh-i-Kul’ was a policy introduced by:

• Akbar
• Aurangzeb
• Jahandar Shah
• Mohammad Shah

27>> Rana Pratap belonged to the Rajput dynasty of:

• Kachwa
• Sisodiya
• Solanki
• Paramara

28>> ‘Razmnama’ was a Persian translator of:

• Upanishad
• Ramayana
• Geeta
• Mahabharata

29>> The author of ‘Ain-i-Akbari’ was:

• Badayuni
• Abul Fazl
• Shaikh Mubarak
• Faizi

30>> The Sikh Guru executed by the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb was:

• Tegh Bahadur
• Nanak
• Govind Sing
• Arjun Dev

31>> The Satnami rebellion took place during the reign of Mughal Emperor:

• Akbar
• Jahangir
• Shah Jahan
• Aurangzeb

32>> The title ‘Raja’ was conferred on Ram Mohan Roy by the Mughal emperor:

• Jahandar Shah
• Mohammad Shah
• Akbar II
• Bahadur Shah Zafar

33>> The author of ‘Neel Darpan’ was:

• Rabindranath Tagore
• Dinabandhu Mitra
• Girish Chandra Ghosh
• Bepin Chandra Pal

34>> Dewan Velu Thampi’s rebellion against the British took place in the Indian state of:

• Awadh
• Kashmir
• Tranvancore
• Mysore

35>> Who was the founder of the Harijan Sevak Sangh?

• B. G. Tilak
• N. M. Lokhandy
• M. K. Gandhi
• B. R. Ambedkar

36>> The Younghusband Mission to Tibet was sent by which viceroy?

• Ripon
• Lytton
• Mayo
• Curzon

37>> The first session of the Indian National Congress in 1885 was held in the city of:

• Calcutta
• Bombay
• Madras
• Allahabad

37>> The nationalist organization ‘Poona Sarvajanik Sabha’ was established in the year:

• 1870
• 1885
• 1890
• 1900

39>> The custom of ‘Sati’ was banned through legislation in the year:

• 1795
• 1800
• 1829
• 1858

40>> The leader of Munda Rebellion (Ulgulan) was:

• Sidho
• Birsa
• Bapat
• Korra Malya

41>> Which Mughal emperor wrote his own autobiography?

• Babur
• Akbar
• Shah Jahan
• Aurangzeb

42>> Which historian is famous for his research on Mughal History?

• Sumit Sarkar
• Jadunath Sarkar
• Sushobhan Chandra Sarkar
• S. Gopal

43>> The Delhi Sultan who transferred the capital from Delhi to Daulatabad (Devagiri) was:

• Qutbuddin Aibak
• Iltutmish
• Muhammad-bin Tughlaq
• Firoz Shah Tughlaq

44>> The Chinese traveller Hiuen Tsang came to India during the reign of:

• Samudragupta
• Ashoka
• Harsavardhan
• Kulotunga I

45>> The Mauryan ruler who used the name ‘Piyadasi’ in his official declaration was:

• Bimbisara
• Ashoka
• Chandragupta Maurya
• Brihaddrata

46>> The author of ‘Kadambari’ was:

• Kshemendra
• Kalhana
• Bhababhuti
• Banabhatta

47>> The famous physician during Buddha’s time was:

• Kautilya
• Nachiketa
• Charaka
• Jivaka

48>> Which of the following is a Harappan site located in Rajasthan?

• Mohenjo Daro
• Suktagen Dor
• Kalibangan
• Lothal

49>> Which Magadha ruler was known as ‘Seniya’?

• Bimbisara
• Ajatashatru
• Mahapadma Nanda
• Chandragupta Maurya

50>> ‘Ashtadiggajas’ were patronized by:

• Deva Raya I
• Deva Raya II
• Vira Narasimha
• Krishna Deva Raya

51>> The author of Kadambari was—

• Khemendra
• Kalhana
• Bhababhuti
• Banabhatta

52>> Which was the ancient port of Indus Civilization?

• Harappa
• Lothal
• Dholavira
• Surkotada

53>> Who is called a traditional modernizer?

• Iswarchandra Vidyasagar
• Swami Vivekananda
• Rammohan Roy
• B. G. Tilak

54>> Which of the following was a Buddhist genealogical text?

• Suttapitaka
• Vinayapitaka
• Abhidhammapitaka
• Dipavansa

55>> Simon Commission was appointed for—

• Indian Constitutional Reforms
• Administrative Reforms
• Educational Reforms
• Jail Code Reforms

56>> Partition of Bengal was withdrawn in—

• 1905
• 1906
• 1911
• 1909

57>> In which year the capital of India was shifted from Calcutta to Delhi?

• 1905
• 1911
• 1931
• 1947

58>> Which among the following sultans of the Slave dynasty was not a slave?

• Qutb-ud-din Aibak
• Iltutmish
• Raziya
• Balban

59>> During whose rule was the Zabt system of revenue settlement introduced?

• Ala-ud-din Khilji
• Sher Shah
• Akbar
• Shah Jahan

60>> Which English Governor General of India was murdered by a convict in the Andaman Islands?

• Clive
• Ripon
• Mayo
• Northbrook

61>> Identify the Mughal painter not mentioned by Abul Fazl:

• Farooq
• Mushkin
• Mansur
• Mukund

62>> Between whom and when was the Treaty of Bassein signed?

• Peshwa Baji Rao II and the English, 1802
• Tipu Sultan and the English, 1784
• Marathas and Ahmed Shah Abdali, 1761
• Ranjit Singh and the English, 1809

63>> When was the Hindu Widow Remarriage Act passed?

• 1856
• 1817
• 1838
• 1867

64>> Which language was replaced by English as the official language for the Government of India in 1835?

• Arabic
• Persian
• Turkish
• Urdu

65>> Who was known as the Liberator of the Press?

• Bentinck
• Macaulay
• Hastings
• Metcalfe

66>> Who wrote the autobiography “One Life is not Enough”?

• Sanjay Baru
• Arjun Singh
• Brajesh Mishra
• K. Natwar Singh

67>> Who introduced the system of Civil Services?

• Lord Harding
• William Bentinck
• Warren Hastings
• Lord Dalhousie

68>> Who was referred to by Lord Mountbatten as the “one man frontier army”?

• Abdul Ghaffar Khan
• Subhas C. Bose
• Sarat Bose
• M. K. Gandhi

69>> When the Muslim League was established?

• 1901
• 1906
• 1910
• 1915

70>> Who was the defence lawyer of the INA trials of 1946?

• Jawaharlal Nehru
• Bhulabhai Desai
• Tejbahadur Sapru
• All of the above

71>> Name one book written by Swami Vivekananda:

• Kathamrita
• Kathamala
• Baratman Bharat
• A Nation in Making

72>> Who introduced the railway and telegraphs in India?

•  Dalhousie
• Canning
•  Harding
•  Ripon

73>> The First Maratha War took place during the tenure of:

• Warren Hasting
• William Bentinck
• Marquess Cornwallis
• Charles Canning

74>> Who was the founder of Indian Association?

• W. C. Bonerjee
• Surendra Nath Banerjee
• Lala Lajpath Rai
• Dadabhai Naoraji

75>> Tattwabodhini Sabha was founded by:

• Debendranath Tagore
• Svinath Sastri
• Kashab Chandra Sen
• Raja Rammohan Roy