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Madhyamik History Short Question and Answer for Students
Quick Quiz
Whose disciple was Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti?
(a) Khwaja Abdal Chisti
(b) Shah Wali Ullah
(c) Mir Dard
(d) Khwaja Usman Haruni
Option d – Khwaja Usman Haruni
The Sufi Movement originally started from: ( Madhyamik History Short Question and Answer )
(a) Persia
(b) Delhi
(c) Lahore
(d) Kabul
Option a – Persia
Among the following, who was not a proponent of the bhakti cult?
(a) Nagarjuna
(b) Tukara
(c) Tyagaraja
(d) Vallabhacharya
Option a – Nagarjuna
Which of the following Sufi saints is known as Mahboob-i-llahi?
(a) Shaikh Muin-ud-din Chishti
(b) Shaikh Nizam-ud-din Auliya
(c) Baba Farid
(d) Shaikh Nasir-ud-din Chirag-i-Dehalvi
Option b – Shaikh Nizam-ud-din Auliya
Which one of the following sequences indicates the correct chronological order? ( Madhyamik History Short Question and Answer )
(a) Shankaracharya-Ramanuja -Chaitanaya
(b) Ramanuja-Shankaracharya -Chaitanya
(c) Ramanuja-Chaitanaya -Shankaracharya
(d) Shankaracharya-Chaitanaya-Ramanuja
Option a – Shankaracharya-Ramanuja -Chaitanaya
Who among the following was regarded as ‘Zinda pir’?
(a) Babar
(b) Akbar
(c) Jahangir
(d) Aurangzeb
Option d – Aurangzeb
Bernier visited India during the reign of : ( Madhyamik History Short Question and Answer )
(a) Akbar
(b) Jahangir
(c) Shahjahan
(d) Aurangzeb
Option c – Shahjahan
A fort not associated with Shivaji is that of :
(a) Lohagarh
(b) Raigarh
(c) Torna
(d) Javli
Option a – Lohagarh
Which queen enjoyed political power along with her husband? ( Madhyamik History Short Question and Answer )
(a) Alam Ara
(b) Razia Sultan
(c) Mumtaz Mahal
(d) Nur Jahan
Option d – Nur Jahan
The revenue system during Akbar’s reign was in the hands of :
(a) Bairam Khan
(b) Man Singh
(c) Birbal
(d) Todar Mal
Option d – Todar Mal
The East India Company was founded in London during the reign of : ( Madhyamik History Short Question and Answer )
(a) Jahangir
(b) Akbar
(c) Shahjahan
(d) Aurangzeb
Option b – Akbar
Which of the following Rajput dynasties did not surrender to Akbar?
(a) Parmar
(b) Pratihara
(c) Rathore
(d) Sisodiya
Option d – Sisodiya
The Mansabdari system introduced by Akbar was borrowed from the system: ( Madhyamik History Short Question and Answer )
(a) Turkey
(b) Persia
(c) Afghanistan
(d) Mongolia
Option d – Mongolia
Which of the following is wrongly matched with his contemporary Mughal king?
(a) Rana Sanga – Babar
(b) Prithvi Raj Chauhan – Akbar
(c) Jujhar Singh – Shahjahan
(d) Jaswant Singh – Aurangzeb
Option b – Prithvi Raj Chauhan – Akbar
The capital of the Mughal Empire was shifted from Agra to Delhi by : ( Madhyamik History Short Question and Answer )
(a) Jahangir
(b) Aurangzeb
(c) Humayun
(d) Shahjahan
Option d – Shahjahan
Chand Bibi, who ceded Berar to Akbar, was the ruler of :
(a) Golconda
(b) Bahmani
(c) Bijapur
(d) Ahmednagar
Option d – Ahmednagar
In the Mughal administration, military recruitment was being looked after by : ( Madhyamik History Short Question and Answer )
(a) Diwan
(b) Wazir
(c) Bakshi
(d) Kotwal
Option c – Bakshi
The king generally considered the greatest ruler of Kashmir in the 15th century was :
(a) Yusuf Shah
(b) Zain-ul-Abidin
(c) Haider Shah
(d) Shah Mirza
Option b – Zain-ul-Abidin
The Moti Masjid in Delhi was built during the reign of : ( Madhyamik History Short Question and Answer )
(a) Humayun
(b) Shah Jahan
(c) Aurangzeb
(d) Shah Alam II
Option c – Aurangzeb
Which of the following Englishmen was honored by Jahangir with the title of ‘Khan’?
(a) Sir Thomas Roe
(b) Edward Terry
(c) William Hawkins
(d) None of these
Option c – William Hawkins
The number of wives of which of the following Mughal rulers ‘fell short even of the Quranic allowance of four’?
(a) Humayun
(b) Akbar
(c) Jahangir
(d) Aurangzeb
Option d – Aurangzeb
Upanishads were translated into Persian during the reign of :
(a) Aurangzeb
(b) Shah Jahan
(c) Jahangir
(d) Akbar
Option b – Shah Jahan
Who was the last Mughal emperor to sit on the peacock throne?
(a) Bahadur Shah Zafar
(b) Aurangzeb
(c) Muhammad Shah
(d) Shah Alam II
Option c – Muhammad Shah
The first Mughal emperor to issue a firman in favor of the British to open a factory at Surat was :
(a) Aurangzeb
(b) Jahangir
(c) Shahjahan
(d) Akbar
Option b – Jahangir
The bitterest war of succession under the great Mughals was fought among the sons of :
(a) Babar
(b) Jahangir
(c) Shahjahan
(d) Aurangzeb
Option c – Shahjahan
“He left behind him an enemy still unsubdued, a minor son, and a mercenary army”. This description fits :
(a) Babar
(b) Humayun
(c) Sher Shah
(d) Jahangir
Option b – Humayun
Which Mughal ruler had the ‘chain of justice’ fastened up which could be shaken by his subjects to bring their grievances to his notice?
(a) Humayun
(b) Akbar
(c) Jahangir
(d) Shahjahan
Option c – Jahangir
All of the following Rajput rulers acknowledged the Mughal sway in the second half of the 16th century, except the ruler of :
(a) Bikaner
(b) Mewar
(c) Amber
(d) Jaisalmer
Option b – Mewar
During whose reign did the Rajputs of Mewar submit to the Mughals and recognize, for the first time, the suzerainty of the empire?
(a) Akbar
(b) Jahangir
(c) Shahjahan
(d) Aurangzeb
Option b – Jahangir
During the decline of the Mughal empire, the Jats were organized into a political force by :
(a) Suraj Mal
(b) Churaman
(c) Rajaram
(d) Badan Singh
Option d – Badan Singh
During the reign of which of the following emperors was the artillery most perfect and numerous?
(a) Akbar
(b) Shahjahan
(c) Jahangir
(d) Aurangzeb
Option d – Aurangzeb
Which one of the following territories was outside the boundaries of the Mughal Empire during the reign of Akbar?
(a) Khandesh
(b) Kabul
(c) Bijapur
(d) Kashmir
Option c – Bijapur
Which of the following Mughal emperor’s tombs is outside India?
(a) Jahangir
(b) Akbar
(c) Shah Jahan
(d) Aurangzeb
Option a – Jahangir
Mughal architecture reveals a blending of :
(a) Indian and Persian styles
(b) Turkish and Persian styles
(c) Turkish and Afghan styles
(d) Timurid and Indian styles
Option a – Indian and Persian styles
The first Mughal building to have been built entirely of marble is :
(a) Akbar’s mausoleum
(b) Humayun’s tomb
(c) Itmad-ud-Daula’s tomb
(d) Taj Mahal
Option c – Itmad-ud-Daula’s tomb
‘Bibi Ka Maqbara’ is the tomb of :
(a) Nurjahan
(b) Aurangzeb’s wife
(c) Humayun’s sister
(d) Mumtaz Mahal
Option b – Aurangzeb’s wife
The Mughal painting reached its zenith during the reign of :
(a) Babur
(b) Akbar
(c) Jahangir
(d) Shahjahan
Option c – Jahangir
Nishat Garden was built by :
(a) Babar
(b) Jahangir
(c) Sher Shah
(d) Shahjahan
Option b – Jahangir
Which of the following schools of paintings developed independently during the Mughal Period?
(a) The Bijapur School
(b) The Golconda School
(c) The Kangra School
(d) The Rajput School
Option a – The Bijapur School
Who among the following invented the power loom that revolutionized the cotton textile industry?
(a) Edmund Cartwright
(b) Samuel Crompton
(c) Richard Arkwright
(d) James Hargreaves
Option a – Edmund Cartwright
Who among the following used the term Industrial Revolution for the first time in English to describe the changes that occurred in the British industrial development between 1760 and 1820?
(a) Friedrich Engels
(b) Eric Hobsbawm
(c) Arnold Toynbee
(d) Georges Michelet
Option c – Arnold Toynbee
For his model of industrial location, Weber makes use of:
(a) Isogons
(b) Isophenes
(c) Isodapanes
(d) Isotachs
Option c – Isodapanes
Which was considered as Magna Carta of English Education in India?
(a) Macaulay’s Minute, 2nd February, 1835
(b) Resolution of 7th March, 1835
(c) Woods Dispatch on Education, 1854
(d) None of the above
Option c – Woods Dispatch on Education, 1854
Who are the earliest migrants from Europe to South America?
(a) Britishers
(b) French
(c) Portuguese
(d) Spaniards
Option d – Spaniards
The Cuban Missile Crisis and the building of the Berlin Wall were:
(a) Crises that followed the Vietnam War
(b) Crises during the Cold War
(c) Crises that led to World War I
(d) Crises during the post-Cold War
Option b – Crises during the Cold War I
Identify from the following the novel written by Charles Dickens that critiqued the adverse impact of industrialization on the poor.
(a) The Day Before America
(b) Hard Times
(c) Creating a Nation
(d) The Courtier
Option b – Hard Times
Who among the following is the author of the book, ‘The Social Contract’?
(a) Voltaire
(b) Hobbes
(c) Locke
(d) Rousseau
Option d – Rousseau
‘The water frame’ of Richard Arkwright was a device for:
(a) producing a new type of painting
(b) irrigating fields for rice cultivation
(c) producing strong threads of yarn
(d) the faster movement of steamships
Option c – producing strong threads of yarn
The ‘four great needs’ of the people as identified by the Guomindang were:
(a) clothing, food, housing, and transportation
(b) education, food, housing, and health care
(c) food, housing, education, and employment
(d) employment, housing, education, and healthcare
Option a – clothing, food, housing, and transportation
Which European Ruler Expressed the Significance of India’s Commerce?
(a) Queen Victoria
(b) Peter the Great of Russia
(c) Napoleon Bonaparte
(d) Gustav II Adolf
Option b – Peter the Great of Russia
Regarding the Reign of Terror, Identify the Incorrect Statement:
(a) The Jacobins ousted the Girondists with the help of sans-culottes
(b) The Jacobins were in league with the French clergy
(c) The arrest for anti-revolutionary activities was by law restricted to the political class
(d) The Reign of Terror concluded with the execution of Robespierre by guillotine in July 1794
Option d – The Reign of Terror concluded with the execution of Robespierre by guillotine in July 1794
In the Industrial Revolution, Who Designed the ‘Flying Shuttle Loom’?
(a) Samuel Crompton
(b) Edmund Cartwright
(c) John Kay
(d) Richard Arkwright
Option c – John Kay
Who Authored the Noteworthy Text ‘A Discourse on Political Economy’?
(a) Montesquieu
(b) Voltaire
(c) Rousseau
(d) Adam Smith
Option c – Rousseau
Where Was the American Declaration of Independence Adopted on July 4, 1776?
(a) Washington Conference
(b) San Francisco Conference
(c) Second Continental Congress
(d) First Continental Congress
Option c – Second Continental Congress
Head of the Government Overthrown by Bolsheviks in the 1917 Revolution:
(a) Alexander Kerensky
(b) Prince Lvov
(c) Grand Duke Sergei
(d) Tsar Nicholas II
Option a – Alexander Kerensky
The First Traders in Africa Leading to European Colonization:
(a) French
(b) Spanish
(c) Portuguese
(d) Dutch
Option c – Portuguese
The mausoleum of Rabia-ul Durrani was built at
(a) Lahore
(b) Delhi
(c) Aurangabad
(d) Gulbarga
Option c – Aurangabad
After Feroz Tughluq of the Delhi Sultanate, the Mughal ruler who paid attention to the supply of water from canals was
(a) Humayun
(b) Akbar
(c) Jahangir
(d) Shah Jahan
Option b – Akbar
The total number of Mughal subas in 1605 was
(a) 12
(b) 15
(c) 17
(d) 19
Option b – 15
Which one of the following Mughal officers was not associated with religious affairs?
(a) Sadr
(b) Mufti
(c) Muhtasib
(d) Mustaufi
Option d – Mustaufi
Who among the following defined a sovereign or sovereignty as farr-i izadi in contrast to the concept of zil al-Allah?
(a) Badauni
(b) Shaikh Ahmad Sirhindi
(c) Shihabuddin Suhrawardi
(d) Shaikh Abdul Haq Muhaddis
Option c – Shihabuddin Suhrawardi
Who among the following was sent to Persia by Jahangir to draw portraits of Shah Abbas for the Mughal album?
(a) Mansur
(b) Bichitr
(c) Bishan Das
(d) Basawan
Option c – Bishan Das
Who among the following Jat leaders looted Akbar’s tomb?
(a) Gokla
(b) Churaman
(c) Raja Ram
(d) Ram Chehra
Option c – Raja Ram
Out of the battles fought between contemporary rulers and Babur, which among the following resulted in the firm establishment of Babur’s rule in North India?
(a) First Battle of Panipat
(b) Battle of Khanua
(c) Battle of Ghaghra
(d) Second Battle of Panipat
Option b – Battle of Khanua
Which one of the following trading centers was not used as a seaport by the Mughals?
(a) Lahari Bandar
(b) Thatta
(c) Cambay
(d) Surat
Option b – Thatta
Which of the following sets of newspapers reflected the concerns of educated Indian Muslims during the Khilafat Movement?
(a) Comrade and Hamdard
(b) Comrade and Hindustan Times
(c) Zamindar and Muslim Voice
(d) Comrade, Hamdard, Zamindar and Al Hilal
Option d – Comrade, Hamdard, Zamindar and Al Hilal
The main reason for the failure of the INA was :
(a) sabotage by some disgruntled elements
(b) the death of Subhash Chandra Bose in an air crash
(c) staunch opposition of the Congress
(d) the collapse of Japanese forces in the war
Option d – the collapse of Japanese forces in the war
The failure of the Wavell Plan was mainly because :
(a) of lack of support from the British Government
(b) the Congress and Muslims could not reach an agreement
(c) the League was adamant over getting Pakistan
(d) All of the above
Option b – the Congress and Muslims could not reach an agreement
After the 1945-46 elections, the Congress did not form a ministry in :
(a) Punjab
(b) Assam
(c) Bengal
(d) N.W.F.P.
Option c – Bengal
The growth of socialist ideas in India in the 1930s owes mainly to:
(a) the propaganda by Soviet Russia
(b) the proliferation of Marxist ideas among the labor classes due to Communist propaganda
(c) complete disenchantment with the British government
(d) the remarkable economic progress of the Soviets amidst worldwide depression
Option d – the remarkable economic progress of the Soviets amidst worldwide depression
The Meerut Conspiracy case was basically intended to curb the communists in India. Among those who defended the accused were:
(a) Jawaharlal Nehru
(b) M.C. Chagla
(c) M.A. Ansari
(d) All of these
Option d – All of these
During the freedom struggle, who established The Deccan Educational Society’?
(a) B.G. Tilak
(b) Dadabhai Naoroji
(c) G.K. Gokhale
(d) M.G. Ranade
Option d – M.G. Ranade
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