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Which one of the following statements about Elephanta Island is correct?

(a) It was given its name by the British after a large elephant structure located there.

(b) It contains one large cave.

(c) It is well-known for a spectacular carving of Vishnu described in the Vishnudharmottara Purana.

(d) It is associated with the Pashupata sect.

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Which historian is famous for his research on Mughal History?

(a) Sumit Sarkar

(b) Jadunath Sarkar

(c) Sushobhan Chandra Sarkar

(d) S. Gopal

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Who deciphered the Brahmi and Kharoshthi scripts?

(a) Piyadassi

(b) Colin Mackenzie

(c) Alexander Cunningham

(d) James Prinsep

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Which of the following pairs is NOT correctly matched?

(a) Adina Masjid - Mandu

(b) Lal Darwaza Masjid - Jaunpur

(c) Dakhil Darwaza - Gaour

(d) Tin Darwaza - Ahmedabad

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Which of the following pairs is NOT correctly matched?

(a) Dhruvadas - Bhagat Namawali

(b) Nabhadas - Bhaktamal

(c) Raskhan - Rasik Priya

(d) Usman - Chitrawali

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Gujari Mahal was built by

(a) Akbar

(b) Shah Jahan

(c) Man Singh

(d) None of them

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Who among the following has not written about partition in his works?

(a) Saadat Hasan Manto

(b) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

(c) Bhisham Sahni

(d) Narendranath Mitra

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Depiction of the descent of the river Ganga from heaven in the form of relief sculpture on rock is at:

(a) Ellora

(b) Mahabalipuram

(c) Sanchi

(d) Amaravati

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The principal patrons of the Gandhara art were the:

(a) Mauryas

(b) Satavahanas

(c) Shakas and Kushanas

(d) None of the above

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Which one of the following is correctly matched?

(a) Kumrahar - Bull Capital

(b) Rampurva - Lion capital

(c) Lomas Rishi - Rock-cut cave

(d) Sarnath - Pillared hall

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Which of the following temple styles is distinguished for not having an ambulatory around its sanctum?

(a) Chalukyan

(b) Dravidian

(c) Nagara

(d) None of the above

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Which of the following Chalukyan cities was known as the city of temples?

(a) Pattadakal

(b) Badami

(c) Aihole

(d) Kanheri

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At which of the following places did Shankaracharya not establish a matha?

(a) Kanchi

(b) Kashi

(c) Puri

(d) Dwarka

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Which of the following Tamil writers of the period wrote the Ramayana which is considered a classic in Tamil literature?

(a) Pugazhendi

(b) Kamban

(c) Nambi Andar Nambi

(d) Auvaiyar

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The famous rock-cut temples at Elephanta are ascribed to:

(a) the Chalukyas

(b) the Cholas

(c) the Pallavas

(d) the Rashtrakutas

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Which one of the following is the most important feature of Bhagavatism?

(a) Stress on devotion to a personal God

(b) Stress on penance

(c) Stress on rituals

(d) Stress on knowledge

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Ajanta's legacy of paintings is visible in murals in different places in India:

(a) Bagh

(b) Badami

(c) Lupakshi

(d) all the above

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Who described Indians as "hot-tempered but honest"?

(a) Hieun Tsang

(b) Megasthenes

(c) Fa-Hien

(d) Nikitin

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Ragamala is a form of:

(a) Music

(b) Painting

(c) Poetry

(d) Architecture

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"The Western classical element resides in the style, in the treatment of the robe, and in the physiognomy of the Buddha". To which one of the following schools of Indian sculpture does the above statement relate?

(a) Mathura school

(b) Gandhara school

(c) Amaravati school

(d) Maurya school

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The Jain temples known for the finest marble carvings in India are situated at

(a) Gwalior

(b) Kiradu

(c) Modhera

(d) Dilwara

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Which one of the following statements regarding the stupa is incorrect?

(a) It has an umbrella at the top

(b) It has a sanctum sanctorum

(c) It has a circumambulatory path (pradakshinapatha)

(d) It has a fence surrounding it

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Which one of the following statements about Adi Granth Saheb is not correct?

(a) It was compiled in the first decade of the 17th century

(b) It contains verses of Kabir

(c) It contains verses generally from saints of Sagun Bhakti

(d) It contains sayings of Baba Farid

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Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?

(a) Pliny - Natural History

(b) Ptolemy - Geography

(c) Strabo - Periplus of Erythrean Sea

(d) Cosmos - Christian Topography

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Which one of the following is an example of Hindu architecture showing Islamic influence?

(a) Lotus Mahal, Vijayanagar

(b) Thousand pillared mandapa, Madurai

(c) The King's Audience Hall, Vijayanagar

(d) Pillared Corridor, Rameshwaram

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In the context of Colonial India, Shah Nawaz Khan, Prem Kumar Sehgal, and Gurbaksh Singh Dhillion are remembered as

(a) Leaders of Swadeshi and Boycott Movement

(b) Members of the Interim Government in 1946

(c) Members of the Drafting Committee in the Constituent Assembly

(d) Officers of the Indian National Army

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Which one of the following statements is correct?

(a) Ajanta Caves lie in the gorge of the Waghora River.

(b) Sanchi Stupa lies in the gorge of the Chambal River.

(c) Pandu-Lena Cave Shrines lie in the gorge of the Narmada River.

(d) Amaravati Stupa lies in the gorge of the Godavari river.

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With reference to India, the terms 'Halbi, Ho and Kui" pertain to

(a) dance forms of Northwest India

(b) musical instruments

(c) pre-historic cave paintings

(d) tribal languages

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At which one of the following places was a Shiva temple not constructed under the patronage of the Chola rulers?

(a) Chidambaram

(b) Thanjavur

(c) GangaikondaCholapuram

(d) Naneghat

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Domingo Paes, the medieval traveler, has described the city of

(a) Madurai

(b) Vijayanagara

(c) Arikamedu

(d) Gingee

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Which one among the following is a temple of the Vaishnavite tradition?

(a) Srirangam

(b) Chidambaram

(c) GangaikondaCholapuram

(d) Thanjavur

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At which one of the following places is the Vitthala temple located?

(a) Elephanta

(b) Chidambaram

(c) Hampi

(d) Nagarjunakonda

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The speakers of major Indian languages belong to how many language families?

(a) Two

(b) Three

(c) Four

(d) Six

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The famous Mughal painting, depicting Jahangir embracing the Safavid king Shah Abbas, was painted by which one of the following Mughal painters?

(a) Abd al-Samad

(b) Abul Hasan

(c) Dasavant

(d) Bishandas

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Which one of the following statements about the famous text of Panchatantra is correct?

(a) It is a philosophical text reflecting the debates of the time and refuting rival positions.

(b) It is a text ushering in linguistics as a formal science.

(c) It is a text discussing developments in various spheres of natural sciences.

(d) It is a text showing through illustration what should and should not be done.

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In the Gandhara School of Art, initially blue schist and green phyllite were used. When did stucco completely replace stone as the main material used by Gandhara School sculptors?

(a) 1st century CE

(b) 2nd century CE

(c) 3rd century CE

(d) 5th century CE

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What was the title of the first newspaper published by James Augustus Hickey?

(a) The Bengal Journal

(b) The Calcutta Chronicle

(c) The Madras Courier

(d) The Bengal Gazette

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Building 'Kalyaana Mandapas' was a notable feature in the temple construction in the kingdom of

(a) Chalukya

(b) Chandela

(c) Rashtrakuta

(d) Vijayanagara

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Which of the following temples is also known as Khajuraho of Vidarbha?

(a) Markandeshwar

(b) Kailash

(c) Manudevi

(d) Bhimashankar

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"Chandimangala" was composed in which one of the following languages during the 16th century CE?

(a) Sanskrit

(b) Tamil

(c) Bengali

(d) Oriya

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Who designed the Bombay Secretariat in the 1870s?

(a) H.St. Clair Wilkins

(b) Sir Cowasjee Jehangir Readymoney

(c) Purushottamdas Thakurdas

(d) Nusserwanji Tata

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The well-known painting "Bani Thani" belongs to the

(a) Bundi school

(b) Jaipur school

(c) Kangra school

(d) Kishangarh school

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Which one of the following scripts of ancient India was written from right to left?

(a) Brahmi

(b) Sharada

(c) Kharosthi

(d) Nandanagari

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Why was the Sittar poetry of Tayaumanavar famous?

(a) The writings were nationalist compositions

(b) The writings were romantic epics

(c) The writings were devotional songs

(d) The writings were protests against the caste system

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With reference to the cultural history of India, the memorizing of chronicles, dynastic histories, and Epictales was the profession of which of the following?

(a) Shramana

(b) Parivraajaka

(c) Agrahaarika

(d) Maagadha

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Which twelfth-century Sanskrit scholar was first responsible for the compilation of 'Nibandhas' or digests of epic and Puranic texts?

(a) Harsha

(b) Govindachandra

(c) Lakshmidhara

(d) Kalidas

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Bikaner school, Jaipur school, Marwar school, Mewar school are all schools of?

(a) Miniature paintings

(b) Rajput paintings

(c) Madhubani paintings

(d) Cave paintings

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'Razmnama' was a Persian translation of:

(a) Upanishad

(b) Ramayana

(c) Geeta

(d) Mahabharata

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Which one of the following is not true about the Barabar hill caves?

(a) There are in all four caves on the Barabar hill

(b) Inscriptions of Ashoka are found on the walls of three caves

(c) These inscriptions inform us about the dedication of these caves to the Ajivikas

(d) These inscriptions date back to the 6th century BC.

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Which one of the following places was not the center of learning during the early medieval period?

(a) Nalanda

(b) Vikramshila

(c) Taxila

(d) Uddantapur

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The Horse-Shoe arch was first introduced in the:

(a) Tomb of Iltutmish

(b) Tomb of Ghiyas-ud-din Tughlaq

(c) Alai Darwazah

(d) Quwwat-ul-Islam Mosque

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The famous classical singer, Bhimsen Joshi is related to

(A) Banaras Gharana

(B) Kirana Gharana

(C) Lucknow Gharana

(D) Rampur Gharana

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'Odissi' dance belongs to

(A) Kerala

(B) Andhra Pradesh

(C) Orissa

(D) Tamil Nadu

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The first writer to use Urdu as the medium of poetic expression was

(A) Amir Khusrau

(B) Mirza Ghalib

(C) Bahadur Shah Zafar

(D) Faiz

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Radha Govind Sangeet Sar' a renowned classical music compositor is the creation of

(A) Devarshi Bhatt Brajpal

(B) Sawai Pratap Singh

(C) Hiranand Vyas

(D) Chatur Lal Sen

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The brothers Umakant and Ramakant Gundecha are

(A) Dhrupad vocalists

(B) Kathak dancers

(C) Sarod maestros

(D) Table players

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The author of the 'Raga Kallpadrum' is

(A) Radhakrishnan

(B) Krishnanand Vyas

(C) Rana Hammir

(D) Maharana Kumbha

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The 'Raga' which is sung early in the morning is

(A) Todi

(B) Darbari

(C) Bhopali

(D) Bhimpalasi

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Pandit Bhimsen Joshi is related to

(A) Astrology

(B) Politics

(C) Environment

(D) Music

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Where is the 'Rath Yatra' festival held?

(A) Konark

(B) Puri

(C) Dwarka

(D) Haridwar

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Which of the following is not correctly matched?

(A) Madhumita: Odissi dancer

(B) Indira Chakravarty: Nutritional scientist

(C) Meeta Bhatia: Jurist

(D) Sadhvi Sadhana: Homemaker doctor

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Alla Rakha, the famous instrumental ist, is related to

(A) Violin

(B) Pakhawaj

(C) Tabla

(D) Sitar recital

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Which of the following is not correctly matched?

(A) Debu Chaudhuri : Sitar

(B) Amjad Ali Khan : Sarod

(C) Panna Lal Ghosh Tabla

(D) Yahudi Menuhin : Violin

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Which one of the following pairs of composers in different languages and their works on the Mahabharata theme is correctly matched?

(A) Sarladasa : Bengali

(B) Kasirama : Oriya

(C) Tikkana : Marathi

(D) Pampa : Kannada

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The Chitragupta Swami Temple considered to be the only temple of Chitragupta is situated in

(A) Kanchi

(B) Mathura

(C) Puri

(D) Ujjain

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Name the place where the Thyagaraja festival is regularly celebrated in honor of composer Sri Thyagaraja.

(A) Adyar

(B) Thanjavur

(C) Mamallapuram

(D) Udipi

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Sufi Kalam' a type of devotional music, is characteristic of

(A) Gujarat

(B) Kashmir

(C) Rajasthan

(D) None of these

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According to the Mimamsa system of philosophy, liberation is possible by means of

(A) Gyan

(B) Bhakti

(C) Yoga

(D) Karma

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Jagar' is a form of God worship ritual prevalent in

(A) Madhya Pradesh

(B) Uttarakhand

(C) Haryana

(D) Assam

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