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Indian History

Description: GK Indian History Test - General Knowledge History Practice and Preparation Test for UPSC, B.Ed and M.Ed and Bank PO Exams
Number of Questions: 25
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Harappa is famous as

  1. a commercial centre of classical India

  2. an Urban centre of the Indus Valley civilisation

  3. a Vedic town of great religious significance

  4. the capital of an Indian kingdom of classical times


Correct Option: B

By the first century A.D. the new form of Buddhism was known as

  1. Mahayana

  2. Hinayana

  3. Vajrayana

  4. Sahajyana


Correct Option: A

After the victory of Kalinga, Ashoka

  1. embrassed Buddhist religion

  2. renounced the policy of war and victory

  3. started the policy of Dhammaghasa

  4. all the above


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Correct Answer: All the above

The Gandhara School of Sculpture

  1. was a blend of Indian and Greek styles

  2. was a blend of Indian and Persian styles

  3. was purely Indian in origin

  4. was a blend of Indian and South-East Asian styles


Correct Option: A

Akbar's religious policy was characterised by

  1. tolerance towards all religions

  2. an indifference to religion

  3. an illiberal attitude towards religious communities

  4. belief in secularism


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Correct Answer: tolerance towards all religions

1857 is famous in Indian history as

  1. the first Indian War of Independence

  2. a year of unusual prosperity

  3. the starting point of industrialisation in the country

  4. the culminating point of the Bengal renaissance


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Correct Answer: the first Indian war of independence

Who was the ruler of Delhi when Ibn Battuta visited India?

  1. Ibrahim Lodhi

  2. Muhammad Ghori

  3. Muhammad bin Tughlaq

  4. Raziya Sultan


Correct Option: C

Which one of the following Acts brought about the abolition of the rule of East India Company?

  1. Act of 1793

  2. Act of 1813

  3. Act of 1833

  4. Act of 1858


Correct Option: D

The demand for a separate State of Pakistan was made on the basis of 'two nation' theory at the Lahore Session of All Indian Muslim League that was held in

  1. 1907

  2. 1937

  3. 1928

  4. 1940


Correct Option: D

Which one of the following Sikh Gurus organised the Sikhs as soldiers to fight against the Mughal Army?

  1. Guru Nanak

  2. Guru Arjun Dev

  3. Guru Angada

  4. Guru Govind Singh


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Correct Answer: Guru Gobind Singh

The first President of the All India Muslim League was

  1. Nawab Viqar-ul-Mulk

  2. Nawab Mohsin-ul-Mulk

  3. Hakim Ajmal Khan

  4. Aga Khan


Correct Option: A

On August 6, 1945, the first atom bomb was dropped at

  1. Hiroshima

  2. Tokyo

  3. Nagasaki

  4. Yakohama


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Correct Answer: Hiroshima

Which one of the following was the pioneer of the 'Age of Discovery', who sailed down the Southern Coast of Africa as far as the Cape of Good Hope?

  1. Vasco-de-Gama

  2. Bartholomew Diaz

  3. Christopher Colombus

  4. Magellan


Correct Option: A

Beethoven was born in

  1. Germany

  2. Italy

  3. France

  4. Denmark


Correct Option: A

Three men who led the Allies in World War II were

  1. Nehru, Chiang Kai Sheik and Mussolini

  2. Franco, Eden and Molotov

  3. Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt

  4. Attlee, Eisenhower and De Gaulle


Correct Option: C

The community farm established by Mahatma Gandhi near Johnnesburg in 1910 was called

  1. Gandhi Ashram

  2. Sevagram

  3. Phoenix Settlement

  4. Tolstoy Farm


Correct Option: C

The famous philosopher Confucius was from

  1. Japan

  2. Thailand

  3. Tibet

  4. China


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Correct Answer: China

Indus Valley Civilization was famous for

  1. urban life

  2. city planning

  3. pottery

  4. copper work


Correct Option: A

The President of Pakistan who signed the Tashkent Agreement after the Indo-Pak War of 1965 was

  1. Ayub Khan

  2. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  3. Mujibur Rahman

  4. Yahya Khan


Correct Option: A

Who among the following became a 'Buddhist'?

  1. Manander

  2. Herodotus

  3. Antiochus

  4. Megasthenes


Correct Option: A

Which of the following was a rural civilization?

  1. Indus Valley

  2. Chinese

  3. Aryan

  4. Greek


Correct Option: C

The earliest literature in India was written in

  1. Sanskrit

  2. Magadhi

  3. Tamil

  4. Pali


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Correct Answer: Sanskrit

Aryans were

  1. food gatherers

  2. agriculturists

  3. hunters

  4. sculptures


Correct Option: B

Parsis are followers of

  1. Buddhism

  2. Zoroastrianism

  3. Islam

  4. Christianity


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Correct Answer: Zoroastrianism

In whose reign Fahien visited India?

  1. Mauryas

  2. Guptas

  3. Shungas

  4. Satvahanas


Correct Option: B
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