History Paper for All Preliminary Test

History Paper for All Preliminary Test

Indian History Sample Paper

1. The earlist inscription in Sanskrit is found at—

(A) Sanchi

(C) Lumbini

(B) Girnar

(D) Sarnath

Ans. (B)

2. Vasco-da-Gamma, who discovered first the direct sea-route from Europe to India reached the coast of Calicut in the year—

(A) 1495A.D.

(B) 1496A.D.

(C) 1497A.D.

(D) 1498A.D.

Ans. (D)

3. The use of spinning wheel (Charkha) became common during the—

(A) 7^th century A.D.

(B) 10^th centuryA.D.

(C) 12^th centuryA.D.

(D) 14^th centuryA.D.

Ans. (D)

4. To which category can works such as ‘Jyotisha Vedanga’ and Surya prajnapti be

Assigned?

(A) Cosmology

(B) Astrology

(C) Astronomy

(D) Horoscopy

Ans. (C)

5. The term Khalisa in Mughal administration signified the—

(A) Land owned by the Emperor himself

(B) Entire Imperial Establishment

(C) Land from where revenue was collected for the imperial treasury

(D) Religious land grants

Ans. (C)

6. Which one of the following is not correct about the painters attached to the imperial establishment during the Mughal period?

(A) They did not depict the common man and his life

(B) They never showed any technological devices in their paintings

(C) They never made paintings as joint work

(D) They never made self—portraits

Ans. (D)

7. The Jam text which contains the biographies of the Tirathankaras is known as—

(A) Bhagvati Sutra

(B) Adipurana

(C) Kalpasutra

(D) Uvasagudasao

Ans. (C)

8. Prince Salim came to the throne in—

(A) 1607

(B) 1605

(C) 1611

(D) 1609

Ans. (B)

9. Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched?

(A) Krishna devaraya: Manucharita

(B) Bukka I : Vaidikamanggaparavartaka

(C) Allas anipeddanna: Amuktamalyada

(D) Gangadevi : Amarasataka

Ans. (B)

10. Which of the following statement (s) regarding the Nathpanthi movement is/are correct?

1. It was essentially confined to Western India

2. It challenged the superiority of the Brahmanas

3. It advocated Hindu-Muslim unity

Select the answer from the codes given below—

(A) l and 2

(B) l and 3

(C) 2 and 3

(D) 2 only

Ans. (C)

11. The early copper plate grants of the Pallavas are in—

(A) Sanskrit

(B) Prakrit

(C) Tamil

(D) Telugu

Ans. (C)

12. In which one of the following spheres, Akbar carrie forward the policies first initiated by Sher Shah?

(A) Measurement of land for purposes of assessing land revenue

(B) Recruitment of nobility from various sections of the society

(C) Appointment of rulers who accepted his suzerainty to high offices

(D) Withdrawal of discriminatory laws against non-Muslims

Ans. (A)

13. The nimbus formed a special feature of Mughal portraits under—

(A) Akbar

(B) Jahangir

(C) Shah Jahan

(D) Aurangzeb

Ans. (B)

14. Who among the following had observed— “The Hindus believe that there is no country like theirs, no nation like theirs, no kings like theirs, no science like theirs”?

(A) Amir Khusrau

(B) Alberuni

(C) Ziauddin Barni

(D) Firoz Tughlaq

Ans. (B)

15. Which one of the following statement is correct regarding the mode of payment of land revenue during the Mughal period?

(A) The peasants paid revenue in the form of crops

(B) The peasants paid revenue in metallic currency

(C) The peasants paid revenue in cowry

(D) There was no uniform mode of payment of revenue throughout the Mughal empire

Ans. (D)

16. An intelligent appreciation of the relative values of different trade-routes in India is contained in—

(A) Arthasastra of Kautilya

(B) Ptolemy’s Geography

(C) Indica of Megasthenese

(D) Pliny’s Natural History

Ans. (A)

17. Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched?

(A) Ulgulan : Daspalle

(B) Forest Satyagraha : Cuddapeh

(C) Khond Rebellion : Kumaun

(D) Sapha Har Movement : Birsa Munda

Ans. (B)

18. The founder of the Roshnai sect was—

(A) Abdullah Jaunpuri

(B) Baqi Billah

(C) Bayazid

(D) Shailch Nural Haq

Ans. (C)

19. The Monsoon winds, which facilated India’s trade with the Western world in the early centuries of the Christian era, are believed to have been discovered by—

(A) Hippalus

(B) Ptolemy

(C) Pliny

(D) Strabo

Ans. (A)

20. The Vijaynagara ruler, Krishnadev Raya’s work Amuktamalyada was in—

(A) Telugu

(B) Sanskrit

(C) Tamil

(D) Kannada

Ans. (A)

21. In the Mughal administration, Muhtasib was—

(A) A military officer

(B) An eccliciastical officer

(C) An officer incharge of public morals

(D) The head of the Department of correspondence

Ans. (C)

22. The three methods of land revenue assessment —batai, khet batai and long batai were

related to—

(A) Ghallabakhshi

(B) Nasaq

(C) Kankut

(D) Zabt

Ans. (A)

23. The oldest Indian linguistic text is—

(A) Mahabharata

(B) Astadhyayi

(C) Ramayana

(D) Nirukta

Ans. (D)

24. The theme of Sangam Literature is mostly—

(A) Love, Music and Philosophy

(B) Love and War

(C) Philosophy and religion

(D) Love, Religion and War

Ans. (B)

25. Which was the first book to deal with Music?

(A) Rigveda

(B) Yajurveda

(C) Samveda

(D) Atharvaveda

Ans. (C)