GK History (Ancient - Modern History,Social Science) MCQ's




All Questions are from Year - 2018 or older

Question 361 :
A concrete outcome of the Wavell Plan was the—

  1. Indian demand for the full control of national defense
  2. Indian demand for complete control over national finance
  3. Demand for the Indianisation of the Civil Services
  4. Demand for the release of all political prisoners
  

Question 362 :
Who among the following is a nationalist historian?

  1. K. P. Jayaswal
  2. Irfan Habib
  3. Bipan Chandra
  4. D. N. Jha
  

Question 363 :
Which one of the following were included in the ‘antyaja’ category of people mentioned in the ‘Dharamshastras’?

  1. Industrialise India
  2. Bring India to the level of Western countries
  3. Promote the material prosperity of the Indians
  4. Convent India into an agrarian satellite of metropolitan capitalism
  

Question 364 :
When a man marries the sister of his death wife is called-

  1. Exogamy
  2. Endogamy
  3. Sororate
  4. Levirate
  

Question 365 :
Which historian among the following was a member of Indian Civil Services?

  1. R.C. Majumdar
  2. R. C. Dutt
  3. Irfan Habib
  4. D. N. Jha
  

Question 366 :
The remittance problems from India was initially tackled by the East India Company government through the—

  1. Development of more exports of grains from India
  2. Exports of more cotton and silk goods to Europe
  3. Development of indigo and export of opium to China
  4. Development of jute and promotion of its export to Europe
  

Question 367 :
Which one of the following was a Buddhist sect which held that constituents of phenomena were not wholly momentary, but existed forever in a latent from?

  1. Dutch
  2. English
  3. Portuguese
  4. French
  

Question 368 :
Sudas, the victor of the battle of Ten kings belogned to the tribe of the—

  1. Rigveda
  2. Yajurveda
  3. Dhammapada
  4. Mrichchhakatilcam
  

Question 369 :
Which was the revenue system introduced in Punjab by British?

  1. Mahaiwari
  2. Mirasdari
  3. Jagirdari
  4. Ryotwari
  

Question 370 :
The term Nadukul mentioned in the sangam literature—

  1. Srivaishanavism
  2. Kalamukha sect
  3. Virashaivism
  4. Jainism
  

Question 371 :
A bard am I, my father is a leech - my mother grinds corn.' this passage occurs in the—

  1. Performed rigorous penance
  2. Left house at 40 and became enlightened 20 years later
  3. Believed in non-violence
  4. None of these
  

Question 372 :
The States Reorganisation Act was passed in —

  1. 1908 A.D.
  2. 1950 A.D.
  3. 1954 A.D.
  4. 1956 A.D.
  

Question 373 :
On 3 Feb. 1928, the Simon Commission landed in—

  1. Bombay
  2. Calcutta
  3. Madras
  4. Delhi
  

Question 374 :
The celebrated author Kshemendra lived in—

  1. Bengal
  2. Kashmir
  3. Maharashtra
  4. Gujarat
  

Question 375 :
The Great Wall of China built by the Chinese rulers has the length

  1. Huien Tsang
  2. Confucius
  3. Fa Hem
  4. LaoTse
  

Question 376 :
An All India Khilafat Conference was held at _______on November 23,1919 with Gandhi as its president.

  1. Calcutta
  2. Punjab
  3. Gujarat
  4. Delhi
  

Question 377 :
So complete was the ruin that not a cat or dog was left among the buildings of the city, in its palace or its suburbs.' The above statement about the transfer of capital by Sultan Muhammad bin Tughluq was made by —

  1. Amir Khusrau
  2. Isami
  3. Ibn Batuta
  4. Ziauddin Barni
  

Question 378 :
Egyptian empire came to an end in the

  1. Never lived together
  2. Came into contact, but never lived together
  3. Came into contact, but lived in different settlements in the same area
  4. Came into contact - lived in the same settlements
  

Question 379 :
The Gita was complied by—

  1. Pulkesin I
  2. Kirtivarman I
  3. Pulkesin II
  4. Vikramaditya I
  

Question 380 :
Consider the following leaders— 1) Balwant Rai Mehta 2) J. N. Sen Gupta 3) Sardool SinghKaveshar 4) SudhakarRao Who among these were Not the Chief conveners of the All India State’s People Conference (AISPC)?-Codes:

  1. 2and3
  2. 1,2and4
  3. 1,3and4
  4. 2,3and4
  

Question 381 :
The Vedic Aryans did not worship—

  1. Megalithic
  2. Microliths
  3. Neoliths
  4. Chalcoliths
  

Question 382 :
Who among the following Sufis advocated the theory of ‘Wahdat-ul-Suahud’?

  1. The Battle of Attack
  2. The Battle of Amritsar
  3. The Battle of Balakot
  4. The Battle of Charsadda
  

Question 383 :
Which one of the following pairs is I are not correctly matched? Persons Institutions Founded

  1. Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya
  2. Shaikh Ahmad Sarhindi
  3. Shaikh Salim Chishti
  4. Maulana Abdul Hai
  

Question 384 :
According to C.A.Bayly, groups having allegience to a powerful patron is called

  1. Subaltern
  2. Subgroup
  3. Connexions
  4. Contributors
  

Question 385 :
What was the worst part of the permanent settlement of Bengal?

  1. Disintegration of the village communities
  2. Creation of absentee landlords
  3. Sub-infatuation of estates and holdings
  4. Subjection of the cultivator to untold misery
  

Question 386 :
Fourteen rock edicts of Ashoka have been unearthed at

  1. Sasaram
  2. Kandhar
  3. Girnar
  4. None of these
  

Question 387 :
University of Vikramsila enjoyed the petronage of —

  1. Landlords
  2. Money-landers
  3. Government servants
  4. Business men
  

Question 388 :
The chief ideas of worship during the Rajput age were —

  1. Rama Varma
  2. Zamorin of Calicut
  3. Martanda Varma
  4. Nanjaraj
  

Question 389 :
Mandala IX of Rigveda is dedicated to which God?

  1. Soma
  2. Agni
  3. Indra
  4. Varuna
  

Question 390 :
The Paris Commune fought for

  1. workers rights
  2. landlords rights
  3. industrialists rights
  4. people rights