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Indian History Objective Questions for Competitive Exams

1. The statue of Gomateshwara at Sravanabelagola was built by—

Chandragupta Maurya
Kharvela
Amoghavarsha
Chamundaraya

Ans : (D)

2. ‘Live well, as long as you live. Live well even by borrowings, for once cremated, there is no return’. The rejection of after life is an aphorism of the—

Kapalika sect
Sunyavada of Nagarjun
Ajivikas
Charvakas

Ans : (D)

3. Which one of the following usages was a post-Vedic development ?

Dharma-Artha-Kama-Moksha
Brahmana-Kshatriya-Vaishya-Shudra
Brahmacharya-Grihasthashrama-Vanaprastha-Sanyasa
Indra-Surya-Rudra-Marut

Ans : (C)

4. The capital of the kingdom of Maharaja Ranjit Singh was—

Amritsar
Patiala
Lahore
Kapurthala

Ans : (C)

5. In the Gandhara sculptures the preaching mudra associated with the Buddha's First Sermon at Sarnath is—

Abhaya
Dhyana
Dharmachakra
Bhumisparsa

Ans : (C)

6. The name of the poet Kalidas is mentioned in the—

Allahabad pillar inscription
Aihole inscription
Alapadu grant
Hanumakonda inscription

Ans : (B)

7. Zero was invented by—

Aryabhatta
Varahamihira
Bhaskara I
An unknown Indian

Ans : (D)

8. Which one of the following important trade centres of ancient India was on the trade route connecting Kalyana with Vengi ?

Tagara
Sripura
Tripuri
Tamralipti

Ans : (A)

9. The first Indian ruler who joined the subsidiary Alliance was—

The Nawab of Oudh
The Nizam of Hyderabad
Peshwa Baji Rao II
The king of Travancore

Ans : (B)

10. Vidhushaka, a common character in Sanskrit drama is invariably a—

Brahmana
Kshatriya
Vaishya
Shudra

Ans : (A)

11. Toramana belonged to the ethnic horde of the—

Scythians
Hunas
Yue-chis
Sakas

Ans : (B)

12. Who among the following is said to have witnessed the reigns of eight Delhi Sultans ?

Ziauddin Barani
Shams-i-siraj Afif
Minhaj-us-siraj
Amir Khusrau

Ans : (D)

13. The first Indian ruler to organize Haj pilgrimage at the expense of the state was—

Alauddin Khilji
Feroz Tughlaq
Akbar
Aurangzeb

Ans : (C)

14. Who among the following ladies wrote a historical account during the Mughal period ?

Gulbadan Begum
Noorjahan Begum
Jahanara Begum
Zebun-nissah Begum

Ans : (A)

15. The first to start a joint stock company to trade with India were the—

Portuguese
Dutch
French
Danish

Ans : (B)

16. The caves and rock-cut temples at Ellora are—

Buddhist
Buddhist and Jain
Hindu and Jain
Hindu, Buddhist and Jain

Ans : (D)

17. The significance of the Bengal Regulation of 1793 lies in the fact that—

It provided for the establishment of the Supreme court
It restricted the application of English law to Englishmen only
It accommodated the personal laws of Hindus and Muslims
It provided for the appointment of the Indian Law Commission

Ans : (C)

18. The Mansabdari system introduced by Akbar was borrowed from the system followed in—

Afghanistan
Turkey
Mongolia
Persia

Ans : (C)

19. Which one of the following monuments has a dome which is said to be one of the largest in the world ?

Tomb of Sher Shah, Sasaram
Jama Masjid, Delhi
Tomb of Ghiyas-ud-din Tuglaq, Delhi
Gol Gumbaz, Bijapur

Ans : (D)

20. Ashtapradhan was a Council of Ministers—

In the Gupta administration
In the Chola administration
In the Vijaynagar administration
In the Maratha administration

Ans : (D)

21. The concept of Anuvrata was advocated by—

Mahayana Buddhism
Hinayana Buddhism
Jainism
The Lokayata School

Ans : (C)

22. Which one of the following territories was not affected by the revolt of 1857 ?

Jhansi
Jagdishpur
Lucknow
Chittor

Ans : (D)

23. Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched ?

Battle of Buxar— Mir Jafar Vs Clive
Battle of Wandiwash—French Vs East India Company
Battle of Chelianwala—Dalhousie Vs Marathas
Battle of Kharda—Nizam Vs East India Company

Ans : (B)

24. The word ‘Hindu’ as reference to the people of Hind (India) was first used by—

The Greeks
The Romans
The Chinese
The Arabs

Ans : (A)

25. Hughly was used as a base for piracy in the Bay of Bengal by—

The Portuguese
The French
The Danish
The British

Ans : (A)