GK History 3

1. What did Ramanuja preach?

a) Satya
b) Ahimsa
c) Gyana
d) Bhakti

2. Who among the Governor Generals of India is called the ‘Maker of Modern India’?

a) Cornwallis
b) Warren Hastings
c) Lord Ripon
d) Lord Dalhousie

3. From where did Gandhiji develop the technique of Satyagraha?

a) South Africa
b) Chauri Chaura
c)Bardoli
d) Sabarmati

4. Who organized the ‘Khudai Khidmatgars’?

a) Abdul Ghaffar Khan
b) Abul Kalam Azad
c) Maulana Mohammad Ali
d) Sir Sayyid Ahmed Khan

5. Who among the following estimated Indian National Income and criticized the constant drain of wealth from India to England?

a) Gandhiji
b) Gokhale
c) Dadabhai Naoroji
d) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

6. Who introduced the principle of the ‘Doctrine of Lapse’?

a) Clive
b) Cornwallis
c) Warren Hastings
d) Dalhousie

7. Which of the following Vedic sacrifices was a royal consecration ceremony?

a) Agnishtoma
b) Rajasuya
c) Vajapeya
d) Asvamedha

8. Which of the following dynasties was ruling at the time of the invasion of Alexander?

a) Nandas
b) Mauryas
c) Guptas
d) Sungas

9. In which one of the following do we come across a detailed account of the municipal administration of the Mauryas?

a) Arthashastra
b) Indica
b) Mudrarakshasa
d) Mauryan inscriptions

10. The Moplah rebellion broke out in

b) Uttarakhand
b) Chauri Chaura
c) Malabar
d) Telengana

11. To which period does the Mehrauli Pillar inscription belong?

a) Mauryas
b) Sungas
c) Kushanas
d) Guptas

12. Which of the following works deals with the history of Kashmir?

a) Gaudavaha
b) Harshacharita
c) Arthashastra
d) Rajatarangini

13. Who built the famous Moti Masjid in the Red Fort?

a) Sher Shah
b) Shahjahan
c) Aurangzeb
d) Akbar

14. During whose reign did Delhi become the capital of Hindustan for the first time?

a) Iltumish
b) Raziya
c) Balban
d) Qutub-ud-din Aibak

15. Which one of the following was one of the effects of the Sepoy Mutiny (1857)?

a) Reorganization of the East India company
b) Establishment of princely states
c) abolition of East India company
d) none of these

Answers

1. Bhakti
2. Lord Dalhousie
3. South Africa
4. Abdul Ghaffar Khan
5. Dadabhai Naoroji
6. Dalhousie
7. Rajasuya
8. Nandas
9. Indica
10. Malabar
11. Guptas
12. Rajatarangini
13. Shahjahan
14. Iltumish
15. abolition of East India company