Indian History Test for Civil Services Exams.

Indian History Test for Civil Services Exams.

History Model Test Paper

1. “The stress of Personal Misery and the sense of humiliation caused by the inglorious condition of his people deeply affected his sensitive soul”

Who wrote so about Hazrat?

(A) Abu Talib

(B) Dr. Ishwari Prasad

(C) Dr. Tarachand

(D) Dr. V. A. Smith

Ans. (D)

2. Abul fazal justifies the realisation of revenues by Akbar as it was the—

(A) Remuneration of sovereignty

(B) Divine right of the king

(C) Cost of maintain the army for the Protection of borders

(D) Hereditary Proprietary right of the king

Ans. (A)

3. Who wrote “It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the so called first national war of independence of 1857, is neither first, nor national, nor a war of Independence ?“

(A) R. C. Mazumdar

(B) Ashok Mehta

(C) L. E. R. Reese

(D) Sir John Seeley

Ans. (A)

4. Who wrote,”Calcutta is the centre from which the congress party is manipulated throughout the whole of Bengal and indeed the whole of India.”

(A) Curzon

(B) Risley

(C) Nehru

(D) A. O. Hume

Ans. (A)

5. Sultan Alauddin Khilji claimed land revenue on —

(A) One-fourth of produce

(B) Two-thirds of produce

(C) One-half of the produce

(D) Two-fifths of the produce

Ans. (C)

6. “Some people don’t like painting. Such people I dont like. For me, it seems painting is way of seeing God.” Whose words are these?

(A) Akbar

(B) Jahangir

(C) Humayun

(D) Shahjahan

Ans. (D)

7. Who among the following national leaders commented regarding the activities of the congress under the Moderates that “It was at best an opportunist movement. It opened opportunities for Treacheries and hypocrities. It enabled same people to trade in the

name of patriotism.”

(A) S. N. Banerjee

(B) Lala Lajpat Rai

(C) Aurobindo Ghosh

(D) Mrs. Annie Besant

Ans. (B)

8. Yahia Sirhindi, the author of Tarikh-eMubarak Shahi lived during the period of—

(A) Lodis

(B) Sayyids

(C) Tughlaqs

(D) Khiljis

Ans. (B)

9. “When he attained kingship, he was quite independent of the rule and orders of the Shariat.” Ziauddin Barni,iliade the above statement regarding—

(A) Iltutmish

(B) Alauddin Khilji

(C) Mubarak Khilji

(D) Muhammad Tughlaq

Ans. (B)

10. The Tomb of Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq is marked by—

(A) A bulbons dome

(B) Sloping walls

(C) The absence of marble

(D) High towers

Ans. (B)

11. Firoz Tughlaq may be said to have brought about the decline of the Delhi Sultanate because he—

(A) Conducted a very large number of military campaigns

(B) Spent too much money on canals

(C) Allowed nobility to become hereditary

(D) Provoked peasant rebellions by his oppression

Ans. (C)

12. Which of the following is incorrect?

(A) Ramanuja believed that Brahma is saguna

(B) Ramanuja believed that Salvation can be achieved by means of Bhakti

(C) Ramanuja believed that the world is an illusion

(D) Ramanuja believed that a Shiva retains its identity even after a moksha

Ans. (C)

13. Consider the following statements:

Alberuni’s Kitab-ul-Hind is—

1. A sympathetic study of Indian civilisation

2. Mainly a political history of India

3. Critical of Mahmud Ghaznavi’s plundering raids of India

4. Mainly a study of India’s cultural, social and intellectual history

Which of the above statement (s) is/are correct?

(A) 1,3 and 4

(C) 2 and 3

(B) l and 4

(D) 4 alone

Ans. (A)

14. Who among the following historians does not give information on Alauddin Khilji’s price control measures?

(A) Ziauddin Barani

(B) Ibn Batuta

(C) Minhaj Siraj

(D) Amir Khusrau

Ans. (B)

15. Who was Athanasius Nikitin?

(A) He was an Italian traveller

(B) He was a Russian traveller

(C) He was a Portuguese traveller

(D) He was an EnglisWmerchant

Ans. (B)

16. The Muslim conqueror who continued to issue coins with the figure of a Hindu goddess was—

(A) Qutubuddin Aibak

(B) Babur

(C) Mohammad Ghori

(D) Mahmud Ghaznavi

Ans. (C)

17. The paragana was headed by the.—

(A) Patwari

(B) Amil

(C) Muqtl

(D) Khuts

Ans. (B)

18. The Vijaynagar Empire came into existence in the year—

(A) 1333

(B) 1326

(C) 1336

(D) 1400

Ans. (C)

19. The Delhi Sultan who imposed uniform rate of land tax on all, fron3 the smallest cultivator to the rural intermediaries was—

(A) Balban

(B) Alauddin IUiilji

(C) Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq

(D) Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq

Ans. (B)

20. During the reign of which one of the following kings of Husain Shahi dynasty did Silcandar Lodi attack Bengal?

(A) Firoz Shah

(B) Nusrat Shah

(C) Alauddin Husain Shah

(D) Mahmud Shah

Ans. (C)

21. Who among the following Sultans of Delhi favoured rotation of crops?

(A) Balban

(B) AlauddinKhilji

(C) Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq

(D) PirozShahTughlaq

Ans. (C)

22. Who was Dalucha?

(A) An Arab mercenary

(B) A Mughal Governor

(C) A Mangol leader

(D) A Hindu Governor

Ans. (C)

23. Rana Sanga was defeated by Babur in 1527 in the battle of—

(A) Khanwah

(B) Panipat I

(C) Haldighati

(D) Panipat II

Ans. (A)

24. Alauddin Khilji levied land revenue on the basis of—

(A) Crop Sharing

(B) Arbitrary assessment

(C) Measurement

(D) A fixed money tribute

Ans. (C)

25. The first battle of Panipat was fought between—

(A) Akbar and Rana Pratap

(B) Babur and Rana Sanga

(C) Babar and ibrahim Lodi

(D) Akbar and Ibrahim Lodi

Ans. (C)