GK History MCQ's




All Questions are from Year - 2018 or older

Question 331 :
‘Bijak’ was written by —

  1. ASaxnriti
  2. An Upnishada
  3. A treatise on Political Science
  4. A Mahakavya
  

Question 332 :
Of the four events mentioned below, which one was chronologically the last to take place?

  1. Seven hundred followers
  2. Seventy-five hundred followers
  3. Seventy-five followers
  4. Seventy-five thousands followers
  

Question 333 :
Place in correct sequence— (1) Yajnavalkya (2) Manusmriti (3) Mitakshara

  1. Menandra
  2. Mogaliputta tissa
  3. Sanghmitra
  4. None of these
  

Question 334 :
In which year the firsr edited volume of subaltern studies came out?

  1. 1982
  2. 1987
  3. 1996
  4. 2001
  

Question 335 :
Which sufl saint’s dargah is at Ajmer?

  1. Salim Chishti
  2. Muinudclin Chishti
  3. Baba Farid
  4. Hazrat Nizamuddin
  

Question 336 :
The Whitely Commission was concerned with—

  1. Labour
  2. Education
  3. Public health
  4. Reorganization of civil service
  

Question 337 :
When did Aurangzeb took the title of ‘Alamgir’ ?

  1. 1658
  2. 1659
  3. 1660
  4. 1661
  

Question 338 :
Which one of the following events helped Gandhi who had returned from South Africa in 1915 more directly to emerge as the undisputed leader of the Indian National Congress?

  1. Edwin Montagu’s announcement on 20 August, 1917 in the House of Commons that the policy of the British Government would be the gradual development of self governing institutions with a view to the progressive realization of responsible government in India
  2. Annie Besant became almost overnight a pro-Raj supporter after Montagu’s promise of responsible government in India
  3. B. G. Tilak departed for England in September 1918 to fight a libel suit against Velentine Cherol
  4. The British Raj passed the Rowlett Act on 18 March, 1919 to suppress the revolutionary movements against it
  

Question 339 :
Cultural past is the work of …........

  1. F. F Armesto
  2. D D Kosambi
  3. Romila Thapar
  4. None of these
  

Question 340 :
Cuneiform script was shaped

  1. Dadu
  2. Guru Nanak
  3. Chaitanya
  4. Kabir
  

Question 341 :
Which one of the following statements is correct?

  1. The Permanent Settlement of Bengal, concluded in 1793 by Cornwallis, provided proprietary rights in the soil to class of aristocratic Zamindars
  2. The Zamindars emerged from the Permanent Settlement operations in a weaker position
  3. Thomas Munro developed a system of settlement under which the government did not deal directly with the individual peasant cultivator ‘
  4. The land policy and settlements did not lead to structural changes in control over land aid in the relations among classes associated with land-cultivation
  

Question 342 :
Who is the Champion of secularism?

  1. Jinnah
  2. Nehru
  3. Savarkar
  4. Thilak
  

Question 343 :
Which one of the following kings controlled the famous silk-route of Central Asia?

  1. Mohanjodaro
  2. Harappa
  3. Kalibangan
  4. Bhrigukaccha
  

Question 344 :
During the later half of the nineteenth century, the Indian intelligentsia started protesting against the policies of the colonial rule by various means. Which one of the following was not a part of that protest?

  1. 1, 3, 2, 4
  2. 2, 1, 4, 3
  3. 3, 4, 1, 2
  4. 3, 1, 4, 2
  

Question 345 :
Perhaps the worst famine in Indian history till 1880 occurred in—

  1. 1860-61
  2. 1876-78
  3. 1865-66
  4. 1868-70
  

Question 346 :
Harrappan people had known to use of—

  1. Akbar
  2. Jahangir
  3. Shah-Jahana
  4. Aurangazb
  

Question 347 :
This site was granted to French East India Company in 1674 by Shaista Khan, a governor under the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb. During the seven year’s war (1756-63) this town was captured (1757) by the John, company but later (1763) restored to the French. Recaptured by the English in 1778 after the out break of the American war of Independence (1776-84) it was restored to the French by the Treaty of Paris (1785). Wrested again by the British in 1793, on the outbreak of the revolutionary wars in Europe, it was finally restored to the French in 1815 and remained part of their overseas empire until its transfer to the Indian republic in 1951.'The reference here is to—

  1. Pondicherry
  2. Karaikkal
  3. Chandernagore
  4. Mahe
  

Question 348 :
The author of ‘Poverty and Un- British Rule in India’ is?

  1. Lala Lajpat Rai
  2. Dadabhai Naoroji
  3. Surendra Nath Banerjee
  4. R. C. Dutt
  

Question 349 :
It is stated that the incidents of Barrack pore were repeated at other plaThe place which remained unperturbed was—

  1. Lack of industries
  2. Exported food grains a lot
  3. First world war
  4. Exported the cotton and wool
  

Question 350 :
Under whom did Tulsidas write Ramcharitmanasa—

  1. Vedvyas
  2. Krishna Vasudev
  3. Valmiki
  4. Vatsyayan
  

Question 351 :
. Pandyas were centred in?

  1. Madurai
  2. Tanjore
  3. Andhra Pradesh
  4. Kaveripattan
  

Question 352 :
The President of the Indian National Congress at the time of Indian Independence was

  1. Lord Wavell
  2. Stafford Cripps
  3. Lord Mountbatten
  4. Cyril Radcliffe
  

Question 353 :
The historical site wherein and early inscription referring to the five heroes of the Vrishnis is found is —

  1. Is a reference to a Velir chief
  2. Means memorial stone
  3. Was a tax on nadus
  4. Was an item of export in Indo-Roman
  

Question 354 :
The subject matter of Tol Kappiyam is —

  1. Qutubuddin Aibak
  2. Tajuddin Yajdij
  3. Muhammad Bakhtiyar Khilji
  4. Tughrill Khan
  

Question 355 :
Shakuntalum was written by

  1. Akkad
  2. Agashe
  3. Ur
  4. Lagash
  

Question 356 :
Indicate the correct chronological order in which the following reformers undertook their missions. 1) Visveswara 2)Ramanuja 3) Chaitanya 4)Kabir

  1. Land owners
  2. Jagirdars
  3. Labourers
  4. Revenue plunders
  

Question 357 :
Which of the following is Correct?

  1. The permanent zamindari settlement of Lord Cornwallis vested the ownership of land in the zamindars
  2. The permanent zamindari settlement of Lord Cornwallis vested the ownership of land in the individual pents
  3. The permanent zamindari settlement of Lord Cornwallis vested the ownership of land in the villages communities
  4. The permanent zamindari settlement of Lord Cornwallis vested the ownership of land in the state
  

Question 358 :
Chandragupta figures prominently in a work of—

  1. Simhala
  2. Avanti
  3. Gandhara
  4. Magadha
  

Question 359 :
only a poet can bring the past with eye of this mind by divine institution ' who statement is this

  1. Bana
  2. Jayanga
  3. Kalhana
  4. Athula
  

Question 360 :
Fragmentation of land may not lead to-

  1. Less yielding
  2. Poverty
  3. Higher production
  4. Growth of indebtedness