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Indian History MCQ for Competitive Exam

Iltutmish’s most important contribution to Turkish rule in India was :

1. Establishing a capital at Delhi

2. To issue coins

3. To create a dynastic rule

4. To organise the iqta system

Option 4 – To organise the iqta system

Firdausi was patronized by :

1. nia

2. Iltutmish

3. Mahmud of Ghazni

4. Mahmud of Ghuri

Option 3 – Mahmud of Ghazni

Shah Namah was written by :

1. Abul Fazal

2. Firdausi

3. Amir Khusrau

4. Salim Malik

Option 2 – Firdausi

Which Sultan banned the use of wine and intoxicants, holding of banquets etc. to prevent conspiracies among the nobles?

1. Firoz Tughlaq

2. Balban

3. Ala-ud-din Khalji

4. Muhammad-bin Tughlaq

Option 3 – Ala-ud-din Khalji

Nauroz was introduced by :

1. Mubarak Khalji

2. Ala-ud-din Khalji

3. Balban

4. Iltumish

Option 3 – Balban

Who constituated a council known as Umarai Chahlgani?

1. Balban

2. Iltumish

3. Sikandar Lodhi

4. Aram Shah

Option 2 – Iltumish

Amir Khusrau, named the ‘Parrot of India’, was a contemporary of :

1. Balban

2. Ghiyas-ud-din Tughlaq

3. Ala-ud-din Khalji

4. All the above

Option 4 – All the above

The ruling dynasty established in India at the instance of Timur was :

1. Lodi

2. Saiyid

3. Ilyas Shahi

4. Sharqi

Option 2 – Saiyid

Which Delhi Sultanate ruler was dubbed as the illustrated idealist”?

1. Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq

2. Firoz Tughlaq

3. Balban

4. Iltumish

Option 1 – Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq

The only Sultan who declared himself caliph was :

1. Ala-ud-din Khalji

2. Mubarak Shah Khalji

3. Khusrau Shah

4. Muhammad-bin

Option 2 – Mubarak Shah Khalji

The kingdom of Vijayanagar was founded by :

1. Hari Hara II

2. Vijaya Raya

3. Bukka II

4. Hari Hara and Bukka

Option 4 – Hari Hara and Bukka

Who was the great ruler of the first dynasty of Vijayanagar, who invited the famous Persian ambassador Abdur Razzaq to his court?

1. Deva Raya I

2. Deva Raya II

3. Mallikarjuna

4. Virupaksha

Option 2 – Deva Raya II

The city of Vijayanagar (now known as Hampi) was situated on the northern bank of the river :

1. Krishna

2. Kaveri

3. Tungabhadra

4. Godavari

Option 3 – Tungabhadra

The Italian traveller Nico loConti visited Vijaya nagar in the reign of :

1. Bukka II

2. Deva Raya I

3. Virupaksha

4. Hari Hara

Option 2 – Deva Raya I

The Vijayanagar king known as ‘Andhra Pita maha’, Andhra Bhoja’ and whose reign marks the Augustan Age of Telugu literature was :

1. Deva Raya I

2. Bukka II

3. Saluva Narasimha

4. Krishna Deva Raya

Option 4 – Krishna Deva Raya

The Ashtadiggajas of the court of Krishna Deva Raya were :

1. Great Ministers

2. Great scholars of Telugu literature

3. Great musicians

4. Guardians of the palace

Option 2 – Great scholars of Telugu literature

The greatest ruler of Kashmir who has also been called ‘the Akbar of Kashmir’ was

1. Shamshuddin Shah

2. Haider Shah

3. Zain-ul-Abidin

4. Sikandar Shah

Option 3 – Zain-ul-Abidin

The foundation of Mughal rule in India was laid with the :

1. First Battle of Panipat

2. Second Battle of Panipat

3. Third Battle of Tarani

4. Battle of Khanua

Option 1 – First Battle of Panipat

India’s earliest contact with Islam tame through :

1. Arab invasion of Sindh in the seventh century

2. Turkish invasions of the eleventh-twelth centuries

3. Arab merchants of Malabar coast

4. Sufi saints and Arab travellers

Option 3 – Arab merchants of Malabar coast

Which of the following Sultans of Delhi was described as lakh baksh?

1. Iltutmish

2. Ala-ud-din Khalji

3. Balban

4. Qutb-ud-din Aibak

Option 4 – Qutb-ud-din Aibak

Which of the following paved the way for the foundation of Turkish rule in India?

1. First Battle of Tarain

2. Second Battle of Tarain

3. First Battle of Panipat

4. All the above

Option 2 – Second Battle of Tarain

The first Muslim invader of India was :

1. Muhammad Ghuri

2. Mahmud of Ghazni

3. Muhammad-bin-Qasim

4. Chengiz Khan

Option 3 – Muhammad-bin-Qasim

Ulugh Khan was more popularly known as :

1. Balban

2. Iltumish

3. Aibak

4. Yaqut Khan

Option 1 – Balban

…….. was the center of the Aligarh movement.

(a) The Deoband School

(b) The Anglo-Oriental College

(c) Pir-Fakir Majlis

(d) The Khilafat Committee

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Option b – The Anglo-Oriental College

Where was the first Madrasa set up by the British in India?

(a) Madras

(b) Bombay

(c) Aligarh

(d) Calcutta

Option d – Calcutta

The main aim of Wahhabism was

(a) to get rid of Muslim society of dogmatism.

(b) to overthrow the British.

(c) to counter Hinduism.

(d) to rejuvenate Muslim power in India.

Option d – to rejuvenate Muslim power in India

The Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College of Aligarh was founded by

(a) Md Ali Jinnah

(b) Muhammad Ali

(c) Shaukat Ali

(d) Sir Syed Ahmad Khan

Option d – Sir Syed Ahmad Khan

The Scientific Society was founded by

(a) Wilton Company

(b) Lord Cornwallis

(c) Sir Syed Ahmad Khan

(d) None of the above

Option c – Sir Syed Ahmad Khan

Who founded the ‘Seva Samiti’ in Allahabad in 1914?

(a) Hridayanath Kunzru

(b) GK Gokhale

(c) Shri Ram Bajpai

(d) TB Sapru

Option a – Hridayanath Kunzru

Who founded Arya Mahila Samaj and made the first attempt to educate widows?

(a) Ramabai

(b) Muthulakshmi Reddy

(c) Vidyasagar

(d) Sarala Devi Chaudhurani

Option a – Ramabai

Who among the following was the founder of the Young Bengal Movement?

(a) Henry Vivian Derozio

(b) David Hare

(c) Dwarkanath Tagore

(d) Prasanna Kumar Tagore

Option a – Henry Vivian Derozio

Who among the following was the founder of ‘Dev Samaj’?

(a) Vallabhbhai Patel

(b) Dadabhai Naoroji

(c) Shiv Narayan Agnihotri

(d) Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

Option c – Shiv Narayan Agnihotri

Which one of the following statements is not correct regarding the religious reforms in Western India during the 19th century?

(a) Gopal Hari Deshmukh was one of the earliest religious reformers in Western India who rationally attacked Hindu orthodoxy.

(b) Paramahamsa Mandali, whose activities spread to South India due to the efforts of the Telugu reformer Veeresalingam, agitated against idolatry and the caste system.

(c) Prarthana Samaj preached for the worship of one God and tried to free religion of caste orthodoxy and priestly domination.

(d) Gopal Ganesh Agarkar, one of the greatest rationalist thinkers of modern India, advocated for the power of human reason.

Option b – Paramahamsa Mandali, whose activities spread to South India due to the efforts of the Telugu reformer Veeresalingam, agitated against idolatry and the caste system

What was the Act III, 1872?

(a) Social Reform Act

(b) Jury Act

(c) Revenue Act

(d) Executive Act

Option a – Social Reform Act

Which of the following is/are correctly matched?

(a) Dayananda Saraswati – Propounded the motto “Go back to the Vedas”.

(b) Lala Hansraj Disciple of – Dayananda Saraswati who set up the Dayanand Anglo Vedic College at Lahore

(c) Madan Mohan Malaviya Developed the Central Hindu School established by Mrs Annie Besant into Banaras Hindu University.

(d) All of the above

Option d – All of the above

Which of the following pairs is/are not correctly matched?

(a) Jamnalal Bajaj – Satyagraha Ashram at Wardha

(b) Dadabhai Naoroji – Bombay Association

(c) Lala Lajpat Rai – National School at Lahore

(d) Bal Gangadhar Tilak – Satya Shodhak Sabha

Option d – Bal Gangadhar Tilak – Satya Shodhak Sabha

Which of the following gave the suggestion to divide the secondary level curriculum into course A and course B?

(a) Wood’s despatch

(b) Hunter Commission

(c) Wood and Abbot Report

(d) Mudaliar Commission

Option b – Hunter Commission

Sadler Commission was related to

(a) Judicial

(b) Revenue Administration

(c) Education

(d) Police Administration

Option c – Education

When did the British Government appoint the Sadler University Commission for reforms in education?

(a) 1919

(b) 1917

(c) 1921

(d) 1896

Option b – 1917

When was the National Council of Education established?

(a) 15th August, 1903

(b) 15th August, 1904

(c) 15th August, 1905

(d) 15th August, 1906

Option d – 15th August, 1906

Who among the following transformed the traditional Ganpati festival of Maharashtra into a national festival and gave it to the political character?

(a) Ramdas

(b) Shivajee

(c) MG Ranade

(d) BG Tilak

Option d – BG Tilak

Along with Mahatma Gandhi who amongst the following Muslims did lift the bier of Bal Gangadhar Tilak?

(a) Shaukat Ali

(b) Mohammad Ali

(c) Maulana AK Azad

(d) MA Ansari

Option a – Shaukat Ali

Which one of the following leaders belonged to the Extremist Wings of Congress?

(a) Aurobindo Ghosh

(b) Dadabhai Naoroji

(c) GK Gokhle

(d) SN Banerjee

Option a – Aurobindo Ghosh

Who among the following gave a systematic critique of the moderate ham politics of India National Congress in a series of articles entitled ‘New Lamps for Old’?

(a) Aurobindo Ghosh

(b) RC Dutt

(c) Syed Ahmed Khan

(d) None of the above

Option a – Aurobindo Ghosh

Sri Aurobindo Ashram is situated in

(a) Tamil Nadu

(b) Karnataka

(c) Rameshwaram

(d) Pondicherry

Option d – Pondicherry

Who is popularly known as ‘Sher-e-Punjab’?

(a) Rajguru

(b) Bhagat Singh

(c) Lala Lajpat Rai

(d) Udham Singh

Option c – Lala Lajpat Rai

Which one among the following statements regarding Bal Gangadhar Tilak is not correct?

(a) He propounded the theory of the actual home of the Aryans.

(b) He founded the Anti-Cow-Killing Society.

(c) He set up the Home Rule League at Poona.

(d) He supported the Age of Consent Bill.

Option d – He supported the Age of Consent Bill

Which among the following was the most immediate factor for the spread of Swadeshi and the boycott of foreign goods during the first decade of the last century?

(a) Curzon’s design to curtail the sphere of local self-government.

(b) Curzon’s attempt to control the Universities.

(c) Curzon’s Partition of Bengal.

(d) Curzon’s plan to curb the growing popularity of the Indian National Congress.

Option c – Curzon’s Partition of Bengal

Which of the following movements can be said to have initiated the process of associating the workers with the wider nationalist struggle against the British?

(a) Swadeshi Movement

(b) Home Rule Movement

(c) Non-Cooperation Movement

(d) Anti-Simon Agitation

Option a – Swadeshi Movement

Which among the following is not true about the Swadeshi Movement?

(a) It had a wider popular appeal than any other political agitation that preceded it.

(b) It enlisted the support of the Muslim masses.

(c) It had an economic character.

(d) The Swadeshi Movement was supported by a section of the radical press in England.

Option d – The Swadeshi Movement was supported by a section of the radical press in England

The British Journalist HW Nevison was associated with

(a) Non-Cooperation Movement

(b) Civil Disobedience Movement

(c) Swadeshi Movement

(d) Quit India Movement

Option c – Swadeshi Movement

Among the various forms of struggle thrown up by the Swadeshi Movement, which one of the following met with the greatest visible success at the practical and popular level?

(a) The boycott of foreign goods.

(b) Public meetings and processions against the British rule.

(c) Picketing of shops selling liquor and foreign goods.

(d) Arrest of the political workers on a large scale.

Option a – The boycott of foreign goods

Bengal Revolutionaries were largely inspired by which revolutionary movements of Great Britain?

(a) Scottish

(b) Irish

(c) Welsh

(d) None of these

Option b – Irish

What was the Carlyle Circular and when was it issued in colonial India?

(a) A decree to prevent political gatherings during the World War I.

(b) A regulation to introduce English education in schools after 1857.

(c) A decree to restrict the use of arms by Indian citizens of colonial India from 1919 onwards.

(d) A decree to prevent nationalist protests amongst students in educational institutions during the Partition of Bengal.

Option d – A decree to prevent nationalist protests amongst students in educational institutions during the Partition of Bengal

Who was known as the ‘Sher-i-Bangal’?

(a) Fazlul Haque

(b) Haji Muhammad Mohsin

(c) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

(d) Nawab Salimullah

Option a – Fazlul Haque

Who was the editor of the nationalist newspaper ‘Sandhya’?

(a) Satish Chandra Mukhopadhyaya

(b) Bramhabandhab Upadhyay

(c) Sisir Kumar Ghosh

(d) Bhupendranath Datta

Option b – Bramhabandhab Upadhyay

Pakistan Resolution was taken on

(a) 16th August, 1946

(b) 26th January, 1935

(c) 14th April, 1942

(d) 23rd March, 1940

Option d – 23rd March, 1940

Who among the following freedom fighters did not belong to revolutionary (militant) nationalism?

(a) Veena Das

(b) Santi & Suniti

(c) Matangini Hazra

(d) Kalpana Datta

Option c – Matangini Hazra

Which animal was part of the symbol of Netaji’s INA Flag?

(a) Lion

(b) Elephant

(c) Tiger

(d) Rhino

Option c – Tiger

Who was the hero of the Rampa Rebellion of 1922-24?

(a) Tanguturi Prakasam Pantulu

(b) Tiruppa Kumaran

(c) Puli Thevan

(d) Alluri Sitha Rama Raju

Option d – Alluri Sitha Rama Raju

Which was the first incident of a British official’s assassination after the revolt of 1857?

(a) Assassination of British official W.C. Rand by Chapekar Brothers

(b) Assassination of British police officer John Saunders by Bhagat Singh and ShivramRajguru

(c) Assassination of William Hutt Curzon Wyllie by Madan Lal Dhingra

(d) Assassination of British police officer Jackson by AnantLaxmanKanhere

Option a – Assassination of British official W.C. Rand by Chapekar Brothers

With reference to 8th August 1942 in Indian History, which one of the following statements is correct?

(a) The Quit India Resolution was adopted by AICC

(b) The Viceroy’s Executive Council was expanded to include more Indians.

(c) The Congress ministries resigned in seven provinces.

(d) Cripps proposed an Indian Union with full Dominion Status once the Second World War was over.

Option a – The Quit India Resolution was adopted by AICC

Which among the following is associated with “Songs from Prison”, a translation of ancient Indian religious lyrics in English?

(a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

(b) Jawaharlal Nehru

(c) Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

(d) Sarojini Naidu

Option c – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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