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History [ Question No: 1 To 20 ] :
Which of the three leaders attended the Yalta Conference (1945) ?
Who among the following participited with Gandhiji in his Chamaparan Campaign ?
Mahatma Gandhi's remark of "a post dated cheque on a Crumbling Bank" was regarding the proposals of
Pali text is associated with
Which of the following statement about Sufis is not correct ?
The assembly in Chola Kingdom that looked after the village administration in the villages occupied by farmers was called as :
The only Annual Session of the Congress over which Mahatma Gandhi presided was held at..........
Which of the following Governor Generals introduced the Laissez Faire policy of trade ?
Which two political institutions are regarded by historians as the 'backbone of the Vijayanagar Empire ?
What was katraparcha ?
The Maduravijayam is a Sanskrit source that describes ................... .
The phrase - 'Dushtanigraha-Shishtapratipalana', occurs constantly in the inscriptions of ............................. .
Which of the following pair is not correctly matched ?
The Tripartite struggle of early medieval period was associated with ............, .............. and .............. dynasties in North India.
Who among the following belongs to Protestants ?
Find which statement is not true.
Benjamin Bailey is associated with the publication of the first newspaper in Kerala called
Mahmud Gawan was the minister of
Which whom did the British make the treaty of Mandsaur ?
Which of the following is the correct sequence in which states were annexed under the Doctrine of Lapse, from the earliest to the last ?
Total number of questions : 20
Number of answered questions : 0
Number of unanswered questions : 20
History [ Question No: 1 To 20 ] :
Which of the three leaders attended the Yalta Conference (1945) ?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
The Yalta Conference was attended by Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin.
The 'Big Three', US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, met at Yalta in the Crimea in February 1945 to plan the end of the war and the post-war order, including the occupation of Germany and the founding of the United Nations.
Truman became President only after Roosevelt's death in April 1945 and attended the later Potsdam Conference instead, so the options with Truman are wrong. Woodrow Wilson was the US President of the First World War era.
Who among the following participited with Gandhiji in his Chamaparan Campaign ?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
Among the options, Gandhi's associate in Champaran was Rajendra Prasad.
In the Champaran Satyagraha of 1917 in Bihar, Gandhi was joined by local lawyers and activists, among them Rajendra Prasad, Brajkishore Prasad, Anugrah Narayan Sinha and Mazharul Haq, together with J. B. Kripalani and Mahadev Desai. Prasad's work there began his lifelong association with Gandhi.
Vallabhbhai Patel joined Gandhi in the Kheda Satyagraha of 1918 in Gujarat, Jawaharlal Nehru met Gandhi only in 1916 and took no part in Champaran, and Pattabhi Sitaramayya was a Congress leader from Andhra who was not involved.
Mahatma Gandhi's remark of "a post dated cheque on a Crumbling Bank" was regarding the proposals of
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : D
The remark was made about the Cripps Mission proposals.
In March 1942 Sir Stafford Cripps offered India dominion status after the war, a constituent assembly, and the right of provinces to stay out of the new union. Because the real offer lay in the future and the British position in the war looked weak, Gandhi called it a post-dated cheque on a crumbling bank.
The Simon Commission (1927-28) was boycotted for having no Indian member, the Cabinet Mission (1946) proposed a federal union with groupings of provinces, and the Mountbatten Plan (June 1947) provided for Partition. None of these drew this remark.
Pali text is associated with
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
Pali texts are associated with Buddhism.
The Tipitaka (Tripitaka) of Theravada Buddhism, with its three 'baskets', the Vinaya, Sutta and Abhidhamma Pitakas, is preserved in Pali, the language in which the Buddha's teachings were written down in Sri Lanka.
Hindu scriptures are in Sanskrit, the Quran in Arabic, and the Jewish scriptures in Hebrew. Jainism, which is not among the options, used Prakrit.
Which of the following statement about Sufis is not correct ?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : D
The statement that is not correct is They did not affect the numerical strength of Muslims in India.
Sufi saints and their khanqahs attracted followers from many communities, and historians credit them with drawing many people towards Islam, especially in regions such as Bengal and Punjab. So they did affect the numbers of Muslims.
The other statements are accepted: the Sufis helped Islam take Indian forms in language, music and practice, contributed to education through their centres, and fostered contact and reconciliation between Hindus and Muslims.
The assembly in Chola Kingdom that looked after the village administration in the villages occupied by farmers was called as :
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
The assembly was the Ur.
In Chola villages the Ur was the general assembly of a village of non-Brahmana landholders, that is, ordinary peasant villages. The Sabha (mahasabha) was the assembly of a Brahmana village (brahmadeya), as described in the Uttaramerur inscriptions.
The Nadu was a larger unit, a grouping of villages with its own assembly of the Nattar. Cheri denotes a hamlet or quarter of a settlement, not an assembly.
The only Annual Session of the Congress over which Mahatma Gandhi presided was held at..........
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
The session was held at Belgaum.
Gandhi presided over the 39th session of the Indian National Congress at Belgaum in December 1924, the only annual session he chaired. Its main business was to reconcile the No-changers with the Swarajists of C.R. Das and Motilal Nehru, whom Gandhi allowed to contest council elections on behalf of the Congress.
The Karachi session of 1931, which passed the resolution on Fundamental Rights and Economic Policy, was presided over by Vallabhbhai Patel, and the Pune and Mumbai sessions were chaired by others.
Which of the following Governor Generals introduced the Laissez Faire policy of trade ?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : D
The key's answer is Lord Dalhousie.
Laissez-faire in trade means leaving commerce free of state restriction. Governor-General Dalhousie (1848-56) served when Britain had adopted free trade, and he is the keyed name. Cornwallis (1786-93) belongs to the Company's monopoly era, and Elphinstone was Governor of Bombay, not a Governor-General.
The Charter Acts of 1813 and 1833 are the usual landmarks of the opening of Indian trade, so Lord Hastings, in office when the 1813 Act took effect, is a possible alternative. I could not find a source that names which Governor-General introduced the policy, so the key is accepted without confirmation.
Which two political institutions are regarded by historians as the 'backbone of the Vijayanagar Empire ?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
The two institutions are the nayankara and ayagar system.
Under the nayankara system the Vijayanagara king assigned territories (amaram) to military chiefs, the nayakas, who collected revenue and maintained troops for the king. The ayagar system was the arrangement in the villages, where a set of twelve functionaries (the ayagars) served the village and were paid with tax-free land or a share of the produce. Historians treat the two together as the backbone of the empire's military and rural organisation.
The Ainnurruvar (the Five Hundred) was a merchant guild of the Chalukya-Chola period, and the temple, though important, was not a political institution of this kind.
What was katraparcha ?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
The key gives a tax on cloth.
What could and could not be confirmed: no source consulted defines katraparcha, so the answer rests on the University's key. The three other options name a tax on a metal, on paper and on looms, and the word 'katra' in the keyed answer's reading points to cloth.
None of the four was found attached to this word in the sources checked, so no option can be set aside by general knowledge. The word-based reading of 'katra' is itself unconfirmed here. Treat the answer as the key's reading.
The Maduravijayam is a Sanskrit source that describes ................... .
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
The Maduravijayam describes the expansion of the Vijayanagar kingdom into Madurai territory.
The Madhuravijayam ('The Conquest of Madurai') is a Sanskrit poem by Gangadevi, wife of the Vijayanagara prince Kumara Kampana, son of Bukka I. It celebrates his campaign of the 1360s-70s that destroyed the Madurai Sultanate and brought the Tamil country under Vijayanagara.
Malik Kafur's raid on Madurai (1311) came earlier and was the event that led to the Sultanate's founding, not the subject of the poem. Rajaraja Chola did not lead a north Indian expedition (that was Rajendra I), and the poem says nothing about trade with Indonesia.
The phrase - 'Dushtanigraha-Shishtapratipalana', occurs constantly in the inscriptions of ............................. .
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
The key's answer is The Hoysalas.
The phrase means 'punishing the wicked and protecting the good', a formula of royal duty. The key says it recurs constantly in the inscriptions of the Hoysalas.
I could not locate the phrase in the epigraphic texts I could search, so I could not check how often it appears in Chalukya, Rashtrakuta or Yadava records. The key is therefore kept, but the dynasty is accepted on the key's authority rather than on a verified count.
Which of the following pair is not correctly matched ?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : D
The wrongly matched pair is Nahapana - Bhaje Cave Inscription.
Nahapana's inscriptions are found at Nashik, Karle and Junnar, recorded by his son-in-law Ushavadata and his minister. No Nahapana inscription is associated with the Bhaje caves.
The other pairs are correct: Kharavela is known from the Hathigumpha inscription, Rudradaman from the Junagadh rock inscription, and Samudragupta from the Allahabad pillar prashasti composed by Harishena.
The Tripartite struggle of early medieval period was associated with ............, .............. and .............. dynasties in North India.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
The dynasties are the Pratihara, Rashtrakuta and Pala.
From the late eighth century, the Gurjara-Pratiharas of western India, the Palas of Bengal and the Rashtrakutas of the Deccan fought for control of Kannauj and the Ganga valley for about two centuries. This is known as the tripartite struggle.
The Pushyabhutis (Harsha's dynasty) had ended before the struggle began, and the Badami Chalukyas had been replaced by the Rashtrakutas.
Who among the following belongs to Protestants ?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
The Protestants are the British and Dutch.
England broke with the Roman Catholic Church in the 16th century and the Dutch Republic became largely Calvinist, so the British and the Dutch, the main European rivals of the Portuguese in Asia, were Protestant powers.
The Spanish, the Portuguese and the French were Roman Catholic, which rules out the other options.
Find which statement is not true.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
The statement that is not true is Siam was a French colony in the late 19th century.
Siam (Thailand) was the only country in Southeast Asia never colonised. It survived as a buffer between British Burma and Malaya and French Indochina, although it gave up territory to both powers.
The other statements are true. After the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 a direct hotline was set up between Washington and Moscow in 1963. Balkan nationalism grew as the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires declined. The Meiji Restoration of 1868 began Japan's industrialisation and Westernisation.
Benjamin Bailey is associated with the publication of the first newspaper in Kerala called
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : D
The newspaper is the Jnana Nikshepam.
Benjamin Bailey of the Church Missionary Society set up the CMS Press at Kottayam, which brought out Jnananikshepam from 1848. It is the paper the key, and many textbooks, treat as Kerala's first newspaper.
Hermann Gundert's Rajyasamacharam and Paschimodayam, both of 1847 from Thalassery, are sometimes given that title instead, but they were Gundert's, not Bailey's. West Coast Spectator was an English paper from Kozhikode (1879), and Nasrani Deepika began in 1887.
Mahmud Gawan was the minister of
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
Mahmud Gawan was the minister of the Bahmani Kingdom.
Mahmud Gawan, a Persian merchant who rose to be the chief minister (wazir) of the Bahmani sultans in the later fifteenth century, reorganised the administration and army and built the famous madrasa at Bidar. He was executed in 1481 after a court conspiracy, and the kingdom declined soon after.
Bidar was the Bahmani capital, and Berar one of its provinces, later a separate sultanate; neither was a separate kingdom he served. Vijayanagar was the Bahmanis' rival.
Which whom did the British make the treaty of Mandsaur ?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
The British made the treaty of Mandsaur with Malhar Rao Holkar.
After the Holkar army was defeated at the battle of Mahidpur in December 1817, during the Third Anglo-Maratha War, the young Malhar Rao Holkar II had to sign the Treaty of Mandsaur in January 1818. The Holkars ceded territory, accepted a subsidiary force and became a princely state under British protection.
Yashwant Rao Holkar had died in 1811, Tukoji Rao Holkar ruled in the eighteenth century, and Kashi Rao Holkar was an earlier rival claimant; none of them made the 1818 treaty.
Which of the following is the correct sequence in which states were annexed under the Doctrine of Lapse, from the earliest to the last ?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
The correct order is Satara, Sambalpur, Udaipur, Nagpur, Jhansi.
Lord Dalhousie, Governor-General from 1848 to 1856, used the Doctrine of Lapse to annex a state whose ruler died without a male heir, refusing to recognise an adopted son. The annexations followed one another almost yearly:
- Satara: 1848
- Sambalpur: 1850
- Udaipur: 1852
- Nagpur: 1853
- Jhansi: 1854
The Udaipur here is the small state in central India, not Mewar. The other options misplace Sambalpur before Satara, or put Nagpur ahead of Udaipur, so only the first sequence runs from earliest to last.
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