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MH SET 2015: 6 September, Paper III, History

  • Date: 6 September 2015
  • Paper code: AUG-10315
  • Language: Bilingual
  • 40 pages
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                                   HISTORY
                                   Paper III

                                                     III
Time Allowed : 2½ Hours]                           [Maximum Marks : 150
Note : This paper contains Seventy Five (75) multiple choice questions. Each
       question carries Two (2) marks. Attempt All questions.
                                (75)                                  (2)




1.   Neolithic age was also called as           1.

     Neolithic revolution by :

     (A) V. Gordon Childe                             (A)

     (B) H.D. Sankalia                                (B)

     (C) J.F. Fleet                                   (C)

     (D) Mortimer Wheeler                             (D)

2.   Which of the following was not one         2.

     of the Harappan sites related to the
     maritime activities ?
                                                      (A)
     (A) Soktakoh
                                                      (B)
     (B) Desalpur
                                                      (C)
     (C) Lothal

     (D) Balakot                                      (D)


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3.   Which of the following has not             3.


     been found in the Indus Civilization


     sites ?
                                                     (A)

     (A) Wheat
                                                     (B)
     (B) Sugarcane

                                                     (C)
     (C) Barley


     (D) Maize                                       (D)


4.   Megaliths of South India are               4.

     associated with which of the


     following ages ?

                                                     (A)
     (A) Chalcolithic Age


     (B) Mesolithic Age                              (B)


     (C) Neolithic age                               (C)

     (D) Iron age                                    (D)


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5.   The territory of the Assakas             5.

     (Ashmakas) was situated on the


     bank of the river :
                                                   (A)

     (A) Krishna
                                                   (B)
     (B) Tapi

                                                   (C)
     (C) Godavari

                                                   (D)
     (D) Bhima

                                              6.
6.   Lord Gautam Buddha delivered first


     sermon at .


     (A) Gaya                                      (A)


     (B) Sarnath                                   (B)


     (C) Kushinagar                                (C)


     (D) Shravasti
                                                   (D)


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7.   Where in India do we first get
                                                7.

     inscriptions about land grants ?


     (A) Central India, Northern Deccan
                                                     (A)
         and Andhra


     (B) Eastern India, Eastern Bengal
                                                     (B)
         and Orissa

                                                     (C)
     (C) Southern India : Tamil Nadu

         and Karnataka


     (D) Kerala                                      (D)


8.   Recently in which place has broken         8.

     relief sculpture of King Ashoka been

     discovered ?
                                                     (A)

     (A) Kanaganahalli in Karnataka
                                                     (B)

     (B) Mahasthan in Uttar Pradesh
                                                     (C)
     (C) Kumraha in Bihar
                                                     (D)
     (D) Nittur in Karnataka

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9.   The ‘Kandhar’ edict of Ashoka is
                                                 9.

     written in ........................ .


     (A) Greek and Aramaic
                                                       (A)


     (B) Greek and Sanskrit                            (B)


     (C) Greek and Persian                             (C)


     (D) Greek and Hebrew                              (D)


10. Where the evidence of the settlement         10.


     of Roman traders in India has been


     discovered ?
                                                       (A)

     (A) Arikamedu
                                                       (B)

     (B) Tamralipti
                                                       (C)
     (C) Bhrigukachcha

                                                       (D)
     (D) Barbaricum


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11. The name of the poet Kalidas is        11.


    mentioned in the :


    (A) Allahabad Pillar Inscription
                                                 (A)


    (B) Aihole Inscription
                                                 (B)

    (C) Alapadu Grant
                                                 (C)

    (D) Hanumankonda Inscription
                                                 (D)

12. Who was the author of the
                                           12.
    Allahabad Pillar Inscription of


    Samudragupta ?

                                                 (A)
    (A) Kumaravallabha

                                                 (B)
    (B) Harishena


                                                 (C)
    (C) Devi Gupta


    (D) Hariputhra                               (D)



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13. Which among the following was an                      13.

    administrative unit under the

    Imperial Guptas ?

                                                                (A)
    (A) Bhukti


    (B) Mandala                                                 (B)


    (C) Rajya
                                                                (C)

    (D) Sima
                                                                (D)
14. Identify the incorrect pair amongst

    the following :                                       14.


    (A) Hemcha ndra – P a ri shi sht a -

         parvan
                                                                (A)
    (B) V i s h a k h a d a t t a – M u d r a r a -

                                                                (B)
         kshash


    (C) Ptolemy–The Peloponnesian                               (C)

         war
                                                                (D)
    (D) Megasthenes–Indica


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15. The commentator of the Ninth               15.

    Century A.D. Medhatithi has


    written his commentary on which


    famous text ?
                                                     (A)

    (A) Brahmasutra
                                                     (B)

    (B) Ashtadhyayi
                                                     (C)

    (C) Manusmriti
                                                     (D)
    (D) Nitisara
                                               16.
16. Foreign Notices of South India” was


    written by :

                                                     (A)
    (A) K.M. Panikkar

                                                     (B)
    (B) K.A. Nilakantha Shastri

                                                     (C)
    (C) K.K. Pillai

                                                     (D)
    (D) N. Subramaniam

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17. Which one of the following pairs of                  17.

    Kings and the works authored by

    them is correctly matched ?
                                                               (A)
    (A) Krishnadevaraya–Samaran-

         ganasutradharma                                       (B)


    (B) M a h e n d r a v a r m a n – M a t t a -              (C)

         vilasaprahasana
                                                               (D)

    (C) Bhajadeva–Manasollasa
                                                         18.
    (D) Somesvara–Amuktamalyada


18. According to Ziauddin Barani,

    where were Alauddin Khilji’s market

    regulations actually effective ?                           (A)


    (A) From Multan to Allahabad                               (B)

    (B) From Multan to Lahore
                                                               (C)

    (C) From Lahore to Agra
                                                               (D)
    (D) From Allahabad to Lakhnauti


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19. Firoz Shah Tughlaq may have               19.

    brought about the decline of the

    Delhi Sultanate because he :

    (A) Conducted a large number of
                                                    (A)
        military campaigns

                                                    (B)
    (B) Provoked peasant rebellions by

        his oppression

    (C) Spent too much money on                     (C)

        canals
                                                    (D)
    (D) Allowed the nobility to become

        a hereditary nobility

                                              20.
20. In the Telugu text of Krishnadeva-

    raya’s time, the Rayavachakamu,

    who was the Narapati ?
                                                    (A)
    (A) The Vijayanagar King
                                                    (B)

    (B) The Orissa King
                                                    (C)
    (C) The Bijapur King
                                                    (D)
    (D) The Golconda King
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21. Where in the Deccan is the tomb of         21.

    the Sufi Saint Gesudaraz ?


    (A) Bidar                                        (A)

    (B) Berar                                        (B)

    (C) Khuldabad
                                                     (C)

    (D) Gulbarga
                                                     (D)

22. Malik Amber is credited with having
                                               22.
    replaced ................... .


    (A) The Zabti system with the Ijara
                                                     (A)

          system

                                                     (B)
    (B) The Ijara system with the Zabti

          system
                                                     (C)

    (C) Afaqi revenue collectors with

          Deccani revenue collectors


    (D) Deccani nobility with Afaqi
                                                     (D)
          nobility


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23. To which ruler of the Deccan did           23. 1591
    Akbar write a letter in 1591 ?

    (A) Burhan     Nizam    Shah     of
                                                     (A)
        Ahmadnagar
                                                     (B)
    (B) Chand Bibi of Ahmadnagar

                                                     (C)
    (C) Raja Ali Khan of Khandesh

                                                     (D)
    (D) Ibrahim Adil Shah of Bijapur

24. Which is regarded as the largest           24.

    naval expedition in the Arabian Sea

    in Medieval times ?

    (A) The Turkish fleet sent to                    (A)

        besiege Diu in 1534                                1534


    (B) The Portuguese fleet that                    (B)

        blockaded Chaul in 1515                                   1515


    (C) The Portuguese fleet that                    (C)

        attacked Ormuz in the 1520’s                              1520


    (D) The Turkish fleet that attacked              (D)

        Basra in 1512                                      1512
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25. In the middle of the 17th Century         25.

    who led the Mughal forces into the

    Brahmaputra Valley ?
                                                    (A)
    (A) Asad Khan
                                                    (B)
    (B) Mir Jumla

                                                    (C)
    (C) Daud Khan Panni

                                                    (D)
    (D) Zulfiqar Khan


26. Who was the Amil in Mughal                26.


    Administrator ?                                 (A)

    (A) The Revenue Assessor
                                                    (B)

    (B) The   person    in-charge   of

        Revenue disputes
                                                    (C)
    (C) The   person    in-charge   of

        collection of Customs Duties

                                                    (D)
    (D) The Revenue Collector


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27. Altamgha grants were ............... .         27.


     (A) Grants of land to retired officers              (A)


          as pension


     (B) Grants of land revenue for                      (B)

          educational purposes


     (C) Grants of land for cultivation                  (C)


     (D) Cash grants to purchase seeds                   (D)

          and implements


28. Under the Mughals, into how many               28.

     categories was land divided ?


     (A) Two                                             (A)


     (B) Three                                           (B)


     (C) Four                                            (C)


     (D) Five                                            (D)


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29. The Viceroyalty of the four provinces            29.

    of the Deccan was termed ................


    in Mughal times.
                                                           (A)

    (A) Riyasat
                                                           (B)
    (B) Risalat

                                                           (C)
    (C) Ayalat

                                                           (D)
    (D) Buyutat

                                                     30.
30. Where was Mumtaz Mahal buried


    until the Taj Mahal was built ?


    (A) Aurangabad                                         (A)


    (B) Surat                                              (B)


    (C) Kandahar                                           (C)


    (D) Burhanpur
                                                           (D)



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31. What was the basis for the Dahsala
                                               31.

    system ?
                                                     (A)
    (A) Assessment after appraisal

                                                     (B)
    (B) Assessment on the basis of crop


           sharing                                   (C)


    (C) Arbitrary assessment
                                                     (D)

    (D) Assessment after measurement
                                               32.
32. An early biography of Chhatrapati


    Shivaji Maharaj was written


    by :                                             (A)


    (A) Dr. Dellon                                   (B)


    (B) Dr. John Fryer
                                                     (C)

    (C) Cosmo de Guarda
                                                     (D)
    (D) Niccolo Manucci

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33. In which Bakhar do we get                        33.
    a description of the Maratha
    Navy ?
                                                           (A)
    (A) Chitnis Bakhar

    (B) Tanjore Bakhar                                     (B)

    (C) Chitragupta Bakhar                                 (C)

    (D) Sabhasad Bakhar                                    (D)

34. Match the following and choose the               34.
    correct answer from the codes given
    below :
                                                           (a)                        (i)
    (a)   Sambhaji         (i) Tuzuk-i-Babari
                                                           (b)                        (ii)
    (b)   Krishnadevaraya (ii) Budhabhushan

                                                           (c)                        (iii)
    (c)   Someshwara-III (iii) Amuktamal-

                                 yada                      (d)                        (iv)


    (d)   Babar           (iv)    Manasollasa

Codes :                                                          (a)   (b)     (c)            (d)

          (a)     (b)     (c)       (d)                    (A) (ii)    (iii)   (i)           (iv)

    (A) (ii)      (iii)   (i)     (iv)
                                                           (B) (ii)    (iii)   (iv)          (i)
    (B) (ii)      (iii)   (iv)    (i)

                                                           (C) (iv) (iii)      (ii)          (i)
    (C) (iv)      (iii)   (ii)    (i)

    (D) (iii)     (ii)    (iv)    (i)                      (D) (iii) (ii)      (iv)          (i)



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35. Signed between Peshwa Baji Rao II                     35. 1802

      and the Marquis of Wellesley in

      1802, gave the British effective

      control over the Deccan and

      Western India :
                                                                (A)

      (A) The treaty of Bassein                                 (B)

      (B) The treaty of Purandar                                (C)

      (C) The treaty of Surat                                   (D)

      (D) The treaty of Khandesh
                                                          36.

36. The Charter Act of ..................... ended

      the East India Company’s monopoly

      of trade with India.
                                                                (A) 1813

      (A) 1813
                                                                (B) 1806
      (B) 1806
                                                                (C) 1833
      (C) 1833
                                                                (D) 1853
      (D) 1853

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37. The Young Bengal Movement was                     37.

    led by .................... advocated that

    Indian society and religion should

    be judged by the dictates of

    European rationalism’.
                                                            (A)
    (A) Radha Kant Deb
                                                            (B)
    (B) Akshay Kumar Dutt
                                                            (C)
    (C) Henry Derozio
                                                            (D)
    (D) William Jones
                                                      38.               1820
38. Who enunciated ‘Paramountcy’ as a
                                                                  (Paramountcy)
    concept in 1820, which implied the

    duty of British as “Supreme

    guardians of general tranquillity,

    law and right to maintain the legal

    succession” in the princely states ?
                                                            (A)
    (A) Lord Cornwallis
                                                            (B)
    (B) Charles Metcalfe

                                                            (C)
    (C) John Malcolm

    (D) Lord Dalhousie                                      (D)


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39. Swami Dayanand Saraswati founded
                                              39.           1875

    the    Arya     Samaj       (1875)


    in :
                                                    (A)

    (A) Surat
                                                    (B)

    (B) Amritsar
                                                    (C)

    (C) Ambala
                                                    (D)
    (D) Bombay

                                              40.
40. Poona Sarvajanic Sabha was


    reorganised form of the :

                                                    (A)
    (A) Poona Association

                                                    (B)
    (B) Poona Sabha

                                                    (C)
    (C) Poona Mandal


                                                    (D)
    (D) Vichar Munch


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41. The patriotic song ‘Bande Mataram’         41.
    was written by :

    (A) Devendranath Tagore                          (A)

    (B) Bankim Chandra Chatterji                     (B)

    (C) Keshav Chandra Sen                           (C)

    (D) Rabindranath Tagore
                                                     (D)

42. The transfer of the capital from
                                               42.
    Calcutta to Delhi took place in the

    year :
                                                     (A) 1911
    (A) 1911
                                                     (B) 1877
    (B) 1877
                                                     (C) 1930
    (C) 1930

                                                     (D) 1942
    (D) 1942
                                               43.
43. “Al   Hilal”,   a   weekly   Urdu

    Newspaper, was founded by :
                                                     (A)
    (A) Syed Ahmed Khan
                                                     (B)
    (B) Dr. M.A. Ansari
                                                     (C)
    (C) Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
                                                     (D)
    (D) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

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44. At which session of the Congress was        44.                   1916

    the Congress-League Pact signed in

    December, 1916 ?

    (A) Faizpur                                       (A)

    (B) Amritsar                                      (B)

    (C) Bombay                                        (C)

    (D) Lucknow                                       (D)

45. O’ Dwyer was killed by :                    45.

    (A) Madanlal Dhingra                              (A)

    (B) Sardar Udham Singh                            (B)

    (C) Anant Laxman Kanhere                          (C)

    (D) Khudiram Bose
                                                      (D)
46. Harish Chandra Bharatendu was a
                                                46.
    prolific writer of prose and poetry
    who made pioneering contribution
    to :                                              (A)
    (A) Bengali Literature
                                                      (B)
    (B) Hindi Literature
                                                      (C)
    (C) Assamese Literature
                                                      (D)
    (D) Gujarati Literature

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47. Given below are two statements, one           47.                       (A)

    labelled Assertion (A) and the other                      (R)

    labelled Reason (R) :
                                                              (A)
    Assertion (A) : A.O. Hume, a
                                                                                          1885
    retired British Civil Servant

    founded the Indian National
                                                                     (R)
    Congress in 1885.

    Reasoning (R) : The first session
    of the Congress was presided over

    by W.C. Bannerjee.

    In the context of the above two

    statements which one of the                         (A)         (A)           (R)
    following is correct ?                                                 (R)    (A)

    (A) Both (A) and (R) are correct and

        (R) is the true explanation of (A)              (B)         (A)           (R)

    (B) Both (A) and (R) are correct but                                   (R)    (A)

        (R) is not the true explanation

        of (A)                                          (C)         (A)

                                                              (R)
    (C) (A) is correct but (R) is wrong
                                                        (D)         (A)             (R)
    (D) Both (A) and (R) are wrong


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48. Who was known as the “Frontier                   48.


     Gandhi” ?
                                                           (A)

     (A) Syed Ahmed Khan
                                                           (B)

     (B) Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
                                                           (C)

     (C) Omar Sohani

                                                           (D)
     (D) Hasrat Mohani

                                                     49.              1943
49. .................. handed over command of


     the National Army (INA) to


     Subhash Chandra Bose in 1943.


     (A) Surendra Nath Banerjee                            (A)



     (B) Chittaranjan Das                                  (B)


     (C) Rasbehari Bose                                    (C)


     (D) Jagdish Chandra Bose
                                                           (D)

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50. Formation      of   the     interim          50.

   government took place on :

   (A) 16th August, 1946                               (A) 16    1946

   (B) 20th August, 1941
                                                       (B) 20    1941
   (C) 2nd September, 1946
                                                       (C) 2    1946
   (D) 5th September, 1946
                                                       (D) 5    1946
   Instructions (Q. Nos. 51 to 54)

   Read the following passage carefully

   and answer the questions based on

   it :

   The basic strategic perspective of the

   national movement was to wage a

   long-drawn out hegemonic struggle,

   or, in Gramscian terms, a war of

   position. By hegemonic struggle, we

   mean a struggle for the minds and
   hearts of men and women so that

   the nationalist influence would
   continuously grow among the people

   through different channels and
   through the different phases and

   stages of the national movement.

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   The movement alternated between

   phases of extra-legal or law-breaking

   mass movements and phases of

   functioning within the four walls of

   the law. But both phases were

   geared to expanding the influence

   of the national movement among the

   people. The basic strategy of the

   national movement was, moreover,

   not a strategy of gradual reform. It

   was a strategy of active struggle with

   the objective of wresting power from

   the colonial rulers.

51. Who offered the term ‘war of                 51.

   position’ ?
                                                       (A)

   (A) Mahatma Gandhi
                                                       (B)
   (B) Antonio Gramsci
                                                       (C)
   (C) Jawaharlal Nehru

                                                       (D)
   (D) Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
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52. What do you understand by                   52.
    hegemonic struggle ?

    (A) Struggle for social emancipation
                                                      (A)
    (B) Struggle for wresting power
                                                      (B)
        from colonial rulers

    (C) Struggle of minds and hearts
                                                      (C)
        leading to growth of nationalist

        influence on people

    (D) Struggle for equality                         (D)


53. Which two basic phases alternated           53.

    in national movement ?

    (A) Extra-legal and law abiding
                                                      (A)

    (B) War of position and hegemonic
                                                      (B)
        struggle

    (C) Active struggle and gradual

        reforms
                                                      (C)

    (D) Civil Disobedience and Non-
                                                      (D)
        cooperation


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54. Which of the following was not the                54.

    strategy of the national movement ?

                                                            (A)
    (A) to wags hegemonic struggle

                                                            (B)
    (B) to carry war of position
                                                            (C)
    (C) strategy of gradual reforms
                                                            (D)

    (D) strategy of active struggle to


         gain power from colonial rulers


55. Ranajit Guha’s “Prose of Counter-                 55.


    Insurgency” is regarded as a classic


    statement of the ....................... .


    (A) Annales school                                      (A)


    (B) Marxist school                                      (B)


    (C) Subaltern school                                    (C)


    (D) Post-modernist school                               (D)


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56. Who was the author of the ‘Positive              56.

    Philosophy’ ?

    (A) Auguste Comte                                      (A)

    (B) Samuel Taylor Coleridge                            (B)

    (C) Edmund Burke                                       (C)

    (D) Joseph De Maistive                                 (D)

57. “Language of the Gods in the World               57.

    of Men” was written by :

    (A) Sheldon Pollock                                    (A)

    (B) Romila Thapar                                      (B)

    (C) Irfan Habib                                        (C)

    (D) Nicholas Dirks                                     (D)

58. The first comprehensive study of                 58.

    Indian architecture from a colonial

    perspective              was   undertaken
                                                           (A)
    by ................. .

    (A) James Fergusson                                    (B)

    (B) James Prinsep
                                                           (C)
    (C) William Jones
                                                           (D)
    (D) Colin Mackenzie

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59. Match the following and choose the                  59.

    correct answer from the codes given
    below :                                                   (a)                 (i)


    (a)   D.D. Kosambi (i) Subaltern School                   (b)                 (ii)


    (b)   Judith Brown (ii) Marxist School                    (c)                 (iii)


    (c)   Gautam Bhadra (iii) Nationalist School              (d)                 (iv)

    (d)   K.P. Jayaswal (iv) Cambridge School

    Codes :                                                         (a)   (b)    (c)      (d)

          (a)   (b)     (c)     ( d)                          (A) (i)     (ii)   (iii)    (iv)

    (A) (i)     (ii)    (iii)   (iv)                          (B) (ii)    (iv)   (i)      (iii)

    (B) (ii)    (iv)    (i)     (iii)                         (C) (iii)   (ii)   (i)      (iv)

    (C) (iii)   (ii)    (i)     (iv)
                                                              (D) (ii)    (iv)   (iii)    (i)
    (D) (ii)    (iv)    (iii)   (i)
                                                        60.
60. Who argued that caste worked as a

    system of extra-economic coercion ?
                                                              (A)
    (A) James Mill
                                                              (B)
    (B) James Grant Duff
                                                              (C)
    (C) R.S. Sharma

                                                              (D)
    (D) Karl Marx

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61. According to V.K. Rajwade, what           61.

    was the ideological crux of the

    Maratha State ?
                                                    (A)
    (A) Hindu Dharma
                                                    (B)
    (B) Maharashtra Dharma
                                                    (C)
    (C) Jati Dharma

                                                    (D)
    (D) Modernity

62. Which of the following is not part        62.

    of external criticism ?

    (A) Establishing the author of a

        text
                                                    (A)
    (B) Establishing the date of a

        text                                        (B)

    (C) Establishing the space of a

        text                                        (C)


    (D) Establishing the real meaning
                                                    (D)
        of a text


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63. According to V.K. Rajwade, why             63.

    were the Marathas defeated in the

    Battle of Panipat ?
                                                     (A)
    (A) Caste Jealousy

                                                     (B)
    (B) Disunity


    (C) Weak leadership of Sadashivrao               (C)

        Bhau
                                                     (D)

    (D) Misdeeds of Govind Pant

        Bundela and Malharrao Holkar

                                               64.
64. Who among the following historians

    depicted the social transition from

    lineage to state ?
                                                     (A)

    (A) D.D. Kosambi
                                                     (B)
    (B) B.D. Chattopadhyay
                                                     (C)
    (C) Romila Thapar

                                                     (D)
    (D) R.S. Sharma

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65. Who among the following is not a          65.

    historian of Maratha history ?

    (A) A.R. Kulkarni                               (A)

    (B) Jadunath Sarkar                             (B)

    (C) V.V. Joshi                                  (C)

    (D) Sumit Sarkar                                (D)

66. The author of the “History of the         66.

    Peloponesian War” was :

    (A) Thucydides                                  (A)

    (B) Herodotus                                   (B)

    (C) Tacitus                                     (C)

    (D) Virgil                                      (D)

67. ‘The Decline and Fall of the Roman        67.

    Empire’ was written by :

    (A) Edward Gibbon                               (A)


    (B) Oliver Goldsmith                            (B)


    (C) Carl Becker                                 (C)


    (D) David Moris                                 (D)


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68. ‘The History of the Indian Ocean’         68.


    was written by :



    (A) Taussaint                                   (A)



    (B) Charles Friedman                            (B)



    (C) F.C. Danvers                                (C)



    (D) Alfonso Correa                              (D)



69. Who wrote the famous treatise “The        69.


    Rights of Man” ?


                                                    (A)
    (A) Thomas Hobbes


                                                    (B)
    (B) Jeremy Bentham


                                                    (C)
    (C) Thomas Paine


                                                    (D)
    (D) John Locke


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70. During the Great Depression, the                    70.

    New York Stock Exchange crashed


    on ......................., the day known as


    ‘Black Tuesday’.


    (A) 19th October, 1929                                    (A) 19    1929


    (B) 29th October, 1929                                    (B) 29    1929


    (C) 9th October, 1929                                     (C) 9    1929


    (D) 10th October, 1929                                    (D) 10    1929


71. The term ‘Dollar Diplomacy’ is                      71.

    related to :


    (A) Economic Aid                                          (A)


    (B) Parliamentary Consultation                            (B)


    (C) International Arbitration                             (C)


    (D) Expensive Agricultural Method                         (D)


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72. The International Conference for           72.

    the limitation of naval armaments


    after the First World War held at :


    (A) Yalta
                                                     (A)

    (B) Vladivostok
                                                     (B)
    (C) Nagasaki

                                                     (C)
    (D) Washington

                                                     (D)
73. Sir Joseph Needham is associated


    with the study of :                        73.


    (A) Science and Civilization in

        China                                        (A)


    (B) Astronomy in Europe
                                                     (B)

    (C) Botanical Exploration
                                                     (C)

    (D) Geographical Exploration
                                                     (D)

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74. In which of the following literary               74.

     works is the role of the individual


     in shaping the great events of


     history found ?
                                                           (A)
     (A) War and Peace

                                                           (B)
     (B) Great Expectation

                                                           (C)
     (C) Crime and Punishment


     (D) Tales      of    Mystery       and                (D)


          Imagination                                75.


75. ‘The Prince’ was authored by .......... .
                                                           (A)

     (A) Niccolo Machiavelli
                                                           (B)

     (B) Francisco
                                                           (C)
     (C) Leonardo da-Vinci

                                                           (D)
     (D) Vicco

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Source: Savitribai Phule Pune University. Question paper published by Savitribai Phule Pune University.