Arrange the following political and economic developments in a chronological order:

(A) Shaka (peoples from Central Asia) rulers in the northwest
(B) Indo-Greek rule in the northwest
(C) Vakatakas in the Deccan
(D) Invasion of Alexander of Macedon

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. (A), (B), (C), (D)
2. (D), (B), (A), (C)
3. (B), (A), (D), (C)
4. (C), (B), (D), (A)

Verses ascribed to Kabir have been compiled in three distinct but overlapping traditions. Which among the following is not one of them?

1. Kabir Bijak
2. Kabir Granthavali
3. Adi Granth Sahib
4. Guru Granth Sahib

“I free her from here, but not from there. I have bound her firmly there, so that through the grace of Indra she will have fine sons and be fortunate in her husband's love.” From where is this excerpt of a mantra for producing ‘fine sons’ taken:

1. Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
2. Mahabharata
3. Manusmriti
4. Rigveda

When was the ‘Regulating Act’ passed by the British Parliament to regulate the activities of the East India Company?

1. 1773
2. 1774
3. 1775
4. 1776

The Khilafat Movement of 1919-1920 demanded that the jazīrat-ul-Arab must remain under Muslim sovereignty. Which region was not a part of jazīrat-ul-Arab?

1. Arabia
2. Syria
3. Afghanistan
4. Palestine

In urban centres, who represented the merchant communities during the medieval period?

1. Gramsheth
2. Kokasheth
3. Nagarsheth
4. Durgsheth

Where was the Safavid Empire located?

1. China
2. Iran
3. Turkey
4. Afghanistan

The archaeological findings of which grain are relatively rare at Harappan sites?

1. Rice
2. Wheat
3. Barley
4. Lentil

Why did the zamindars regularly fail to pay the revenue demand in the early decades after the 'Permanent Settlement'. Choose the correct statements from below:

(A) The initial demands were very high.

(B) This high demand was imposed in the 1790s, a time when the prices of agricultural produce were depressed, making it difficult for the ryots to pay their dues to the zamindar.

(C) The revenue was invariable, regardless of the harvest, and had to be paid punctually.

(D) The 'Permanent Settlement' initially limited the power of the zamindar to collect rent from the ryot and manage his zamindari.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. (A), (B) and (D) only
2. (A), (B) and (C) only
3. (A), (B), (C) and (D)
4. (B), (C) and (D) only

During the elections of 1937 in British India, the Congress came to power in ______ provinces.

1. Eight
2. Nine
3. Ten
4. Eleven

Who built Secundrah Bagh as a 'pleasure garden'?

1. Shah Mal
2. Birjis Qadr
3. Wajid Ali Shah
4. Bahadur Shah

Which of the following 'mature' Harappan sites are located in present-day India?

(A) Ganweriwala

(B) Kalibangan

(C) Banawali

(D) Rakhigarhi

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. (A), (B) and (D) only
2. (A), (B) and (C) only
3. (A), (B), (C) and (D)
4. (B), (C) and (D) only

After M.K. Gandhi's release from prison in January 1931, where did the Congress leaders meet to plan the future course of action?

1. Lucknow
2. Lahore
3. Calcutta
4. Allahabad

Which of the following statements is true about the amara-nayakas:

(A) The amara-nayakas were civil servants who were given territories to govern by the raya.

(B) The amara-nayakas collected taxes and other dues from peasants, craftspersons and traders in the area.

(C) The amara-nayakas sent tribute to the king annually and personally appeared in the royal court with gifts to express their loyalty.

(D) Kings occasionally asserted their control over the amara-nayakas by transferring them from one place to another.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. (A), (B) and (D) only
2. (A), (B) and (C) only
3. (A), (B), (C) and (D)
4. (B), (C) and (D) only

The Ain-i Akbari was completed in which regnal year of the emperor Akbar?

1. Forty-first regnal year
2. Forty-second regnal year
3. Forty-third regnal year
4. Fifty-fourth regnal year

Match List-I with List-II:

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. (A) - (I), (B) - (II), (C) - (III), (D) - (IV)
2. (A) - (IV), (B) - (III), (C) - (II), (D) - (I)
3. (A) - (I), (B) - (II), (C) - (IV), (D) - (III)
4. (A) - (III), (B) - (IV), (C) - (I), (D) - (II)

In which year was the last Mughal ruler, Bahadur Shah II, deposed by the British and exiled to Rangoon?

1. 1791
2. 1855
3. 1870
4. 1857

The making of elaborate stone structures known as "megaliths" emerged in which part of the Indian subcontinent from the first millennium BCE?

(A) North India

(B) Central India

(C) South India

(D) East India

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. (A) and (B) only
2. (B) and (C) only
3. (C) and (D) only
4. (D) and (A) only

At the end of 1858, when the rebellion collapsed, who escaped to Nepal?

1. Nana Sahib
2. Kunwar Singh
3. Rani Lakshmi Bai
4. Birjis Qadr

Sarojini Naidu, a woman member of the Constituent Assembly, was elected from which constituency?

1. United Provinces
2. Madras
3. Bihar
4. Central Provinces

In the Mahabharata text, "You yourself did not receive the throne, although it fell to you, because of your defect. If the Pandava receives the patrimony ..., his son will surely inherit it in turn, and so will his son, and his." Who is referred to as 'you' in the excerpt?

1. Dhritarashtra
2. Pandu
3. Duryodhana
4. Yudhisthira

Arrange the following teachers of the Chisti Silsila according to their year of death chronologically:

(A) Shaikh Fariduddin Ganj-i Shakar

(B) Shaikh Nasiruddin Chiragh-i Dehli

(C) Khwaja Qutbuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki

(D) Shaikh Nizamuddin Auliya

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. (A), (B), (C), (D)
2. (A), (C), (B), (D)
3. (B), (A), (D), (C)
4. (C), (A), (D), (B)

Who did Baba Guru Nanak appoint as one of his disciples to succeed him as the preceptor (guru)?

1. Guru Arjan
2. Guru Angad
3. Guru Gobind Singh
4. Guru Tegh Bahadur

What does the term 'Piyadassi' means in the earliest inscriptions?

1. Beloved of the gods
2. Beloved of the people
3. Pleasant to behold
4. Beloved of the universe

Match List-I with List-II:

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. (A) - (I), (B) - (II), (C) - (III), (D) - (IV)
2. (A) - (III), (B) - (IV), (C) - (II), (D) - (I)
3. (A) - (I), (B) - (III), (C) - (IV), (D) - (II)
4. (A) - (III), (B) - (IV), (C) - (I), (D) - (II)

Who accompanied Augustus Cleveland, the Collector of Bhagalpur, to the Jangal Mahals in 1782, and painted a set of aquatints?

1. Joseph Noel Paton
2. Thomas Jones Barker
3. William Hodges
4. Captain Cook

According to Ibn Battuta's description of the postal system in India, what is the ‘uluq’?

1. Horse-post
2. Elephant-post
3. Bullock-post
4. Oxen-post

Who published the Essay on the Architecture of the Hindus in 1834?

1. James Fergusson
2. Alexander Cunningham
3. Ram Raja
4. Rajendra Lala Mitra

Which foreign traveller to the Vijayanagara Empire called the audience hall and the mahanavami dibba together as the "House of Victory"?

1. Nicolo de Conti
2. Abdur Razzaq
3. Afanasii Nikitin
4. Domingo Paes

Which Harappan site suggests that two different crops were grown together?

1. Cholistan
2. Banawali
3. Kalibangan
4. Dholavira

Arrange the major religious developments in a chronological order:

(A) Earliest temples
(B) Early Upanishads
(C) First stupas
(D) Vedic traditions

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. (A), (B), (C), (D)
2. (D), (B), (C), (A)
3. (B), (A), (D), (C)
4. (C), (B), (D), (A)

Match List-I with List-II:

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. (A) - (I), (B) - (II), (C) - (III), (D) - (IV)
2. (A) - (I), (B) - (III), (C) - (II), (D) - (IV)
3. (A) - (III), (B) - (I), (C) - (IV), (D) - (II)
4. (A) - (III), (B) - (IV), (C) - (I), (D) - (II)

Match List-I with List-II:

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. (A) - (III), (B) - (I), (C) - (IV), (D) - (II)
2. (A) - (I), (B) - (III), (C) - (II), (D) - (IV)
3. (A) - (I), (B) - (II), (C) - (IV), (D) - (III)
4. (A) - (III), (B) - (IV), (C) - (I), (D) - (II)

Which site has not been identified as a major city in the Indus Valley Civilisation?

1. Rakhigarhi
2. Dholavira
3. Ganweriwala
4. Kalibangan

Match List-I with List-II:

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. (A) - (I), (B) - (III), (C) - (III), (D) - (IV)
2. (A) - (I), (B) - (III), (C) - (II), (D) - (IV)
3. (A) - (I), (B) - (II), (C) - (IV), (D) - (III)
4. (A) - (IV), (B) - (III), (C) - (II), (D) - (I)

Arrange the following rights/powers as mentioned in the Constitution of India in an ascending manner of the ‘Articles’:

(A) Rights to equality
(B) Cultural and educational rights
(C) Rights to freedom of religion
(D) Powers of the Centre to take over state administration

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. (A), (B), (C), (D)
2. (A), (C), (B), (D)
3. (B), (A), (D), (C)
4. (C), (B), (D), (A)

According to Ibn Battuta’s account of Delhi, inside which darwaza of Delhi there was a grain market?

1. Budaun darwaza
2. Mandwi darwaza
3. Gul darwaza
4. Buland darwaza

What were the rayas of the Vijayanagar Empire called:

1. Gajapati
2. Ashvapati
3. Narapati
4. Singhpati

Arrange the following major political events in a chronological manner:

(A) Second Round Table Conference
(B) Gandhi–Irwin Pact
(C) "Purna Swaraj" accepted as Congress goal
(D) Dandi March

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. (A), (B), (C), (D)
2. (C), (D), (B), (A)
3. (B), (A), (D), (C)
4. (C), (B), (D), (A)

Arrange the following Viceroys of British India in a chronological order:

(A) Lord Mountbatten
(B) Lord Wavell
(C) Lord Linlithgow
(D) Lord Irwin

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1. (A), (B), (C), (D)
2. (D), (C), (B), (A)
3. (B), (A), (D), (C)
4. (C), (B), (D), (A)

Which script was used in the northwest inscriptions?

1. Aramaic
2. Greek
3. Prakrit
4. Kharosthi

Most Asokan inscriptions were in which script?

1. Greek
2. Aramaic
3. Pali
4. Brahmi

Identify the time period of Indo-Greek kings:

1. Second–First Centuries BCE
2. Third–Second Centuries BCE
3. Second–Third Centuries BCE
4. Fourth–Third Centuries BCE

Most scripts used to write modern Indian languages are derived from _______.

1. Brahmi
2. Devanagari
3. Kharosthi
4. Roman

Asoka was the grandson of which ruler of Magadha?

1. Bimbisara
2. Ajatasattu
3. Mahapadma Nanda
4. Chandragupta Maurya

Which ruler had a mosque constructed within the compound of the dargah of Khwaja Muinuddin?

1. Muhammad bin Tughlaq
2. Ghiyasuddin Khalji
3. Akbar
4. Shah Jahan

Who funded the earliest construction to house the tomb of Khwaja Muinuddin?

1. Muhammad bin Tughlaq
2. Ghiyasuddin Khalji of Malwa
3. Feroz Tughlaq
4. Ibrahim Lodhi

Whose dargah is popularly known as "Gharib Nawaz"?

1. Khwaja Qutbuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki
2. Khwaja Muinuddin
3. Shaikh Nizamuddin Auliya
4. Shaikh Nasiruddin Chiragh-i Dehli

In Sufism, the *shaikh* was revered as *wali*. What does the term *'wali'* mean?

1. Friend of People
2. Friend of Holy Spirits
3. Friend of God
4. Friend of Disciples

Who among the following was *not* be-shari'a?

1. Madaris
2. Qalandars
3. Haidaris
4. Qazis