Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

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

Tribal republic of Yaudheyas was located in:

(1) Mathura region
(2) Punjab
(3) Malwa region
(4) Shravash

Choose the incorrect statements regarding the 'Subsidiary Alliance System'.

(1) Subsidiary Alliance was the strategy of the British to acquire more territories in India.
(2) Under this system, the British would be responsible for the internal and external protection of Indian rulers.
(3) Nawabs and local rulers were allowed to keep their own army as well.
(4) Nawabs were dependent on the British Army for their protection.

Choose the correct bottom-to-top sequence of the following parts of 'Stupa' architecture.

(A) Harmika
(B) Anda
(C) Yashti
(D) Chhatri

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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

Arrange the events associated with the 'Revolt of 1857' in an ascending order.
(A) Azamgarh proclamation was made by mutineers.
(B) Sepoys in the cantonment of Meerut broke out in mutiny.
(C) Rising in Lucknow against the English.
(D) Bahadur Shah Zafar accepts nominal leadership.
(E) Sepoys mutiny in Aligarh, Etawah, Mainpuri and Etah.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
(1) (A), (B), (C), (D), (E)
(2) (B), (D), (E), (C), (A)
(3) (E), (D), (C), (B), (A)
(4) (C), (A), (B), (E), (D)

The following are the early kingdoms that came into power after the decline of Harappan cultures and before the invasions of Arabs into India. Trace their existence in asecending order: -

(A) Rule of the Shakas.
(B) Beginning of Gupta rule.
(C) Rulers of Magadha consolidate their power.
(D) Accession of Chandragupta Maurya.
(E) Kushanas rose to power.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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

Name the Mughal emperor whose wife Nadira crossed the desert of Rajasthan on a horse back as depicted in an eighteenth century painting.

(1) Babur
(2) Humayun
(3) Jahangir
(4) Shahjahan

Which of the following Buddhist text lays down detailed rules for monks and nuns ?

(1) Sutta Pitaka
(2) Vinaya Pitaka
(3) Abhidhamma Pitaka
(4) Mahavamsa

Which of the following statement is NOT true about Vijayanagara?

(1) The city of Vijayanagara was sacked in 1656.
(2) The people of Vijayanagara remembered it as Hampi, a name derived from local mother goddess, Pampadevi.
(3) Vijayanagara was the name given to both a city and an empire.
(4) Vijayanagara was founded in the fourteenth century.

Which of the following is NOT true about the 'Gandhi-Irwin Pacť ?

(1) The pact granted Dominion status to India.
(2)Civil disobedience was called off.
(3) All prisoners were released.
(4) Salt manufacture was allowed along the coast.

Consider the following statements about the depiction of massacre of Cwanpore (Kanpur) in the newspaper 'Punch':

(A) An allegorical female figure of Justice is depicted.
(B) She bears a sword and shield in her hands.
(C) Her posture is of peace and tranquility.
(D) The female figure is shown trampling sepoys under her feet.
(E) The female figure is carrying guns in her hands.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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

Where was the Ryotwari Revenue System implemented ?

(1) Bengal
(2) Punjab
(3) Bombay Deccan
(4) Sind

In which year was 'Hampi' recognised as a site of national importance?

(1) 1975
(2) 1976
(3) 1979
(4) 1977

'Jotedars' were also known as:

(A) Haoladars
(B) Zamindars
(C) Gantidars
(D) Bargadars

Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

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

Which foreign traveller called the 'audience hall' and the 'mahanavami dibba' together as the 'House of Victory'?

(1) Fernao Nuniz
(2) Abdur Razzaq
(3) Afanasii Nikitin
(4) Domingo Paes

'Prati Sarkar' was active in which period ?

(1) 1941-1944
(2) 1942-1944
(3) 1943-1946
(4) 1941-1945

Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

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

Arrange the following historical events in a chronological order.

(A) Santhal Uprising.
(B) Introduction of Permanent Settlement in Bengal.
(C) Grant of 'Diwani' Rights to the British East India Company.
(D) Fith Report on the administration of British East India Company.
(E) Deccan Riots.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

(1) (C), (D), (Α), (Ε), (Β)
(2) (B), (A), (E), (C), (D)
(3) (D), (E), (C), (A), (B)
(4) (C), (B), (D), (A), (E)

Name the leader from North-West frontier province who opposed the idea of partition.

(1) M.A. Jinnah
(2) Maulana Azad
(3) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
(4) Jawaharlal Nehru

Consider the following statements about 'Ain-i-Akbari' and choose the correct statements.

(A) The Ain is made up of five books.
(B) Ain was officially sponsored to record detailed information.
(C) The data in the Ain has not been carefully collected.
(D) Historians have detected numerous errors in totalling which are generally minor.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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

Which of the following statements are true?

(A) Mughal court chronicles were written in Persian, though the mother tongue of the Mughals was Turkish.
(B) Persian was later Indianised, and a new language, Urdu, sprang from the interaction of Persian and Hindavi.
(C) The Mughal chronicle Akbar Nama was originally written in Turkish language.
(D) It was only after the arrival of the British East India Company that Mahabharata was translated into Persian as the Razmnama.
(E)'Kitabkhana' in the Mughal period was the centre of manuscript production, scriptorum.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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

The ruins of Vijayanagara were brought to light in the seventeenth century by :

(1) John Marshall
(2) Alexander Greenlaw
(3) J.F. Fleet
(4) Colin Mackenzie

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)-(II), (B)-(I), (C)-(IV), (D)-(III)
(4) (A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(II)

The annual session of the Indian National Congress in 1929 at Lahore was significant for which of the following reason?

(1) Proclamation of commitment to 'Purna Swaraj'.
(2) Constitution of Swaraj Party.
(3) Election of Subhash Chandra Bose as President.
(4) Mahatma Gandhi's proposal for 'do or die'.

'Jotedars' in Bengal were :

(1) Revenue Officers
(2) Rich Peasants
(3) Sharecroppers
(4) Village Headmen

Consider the following statements in connection with Jainism. Choose the incorrect ones.

(A) The entire world is animated.
(B) The world is transient and constantly changing.
(C) The cycle of birth and rebirth is shaped through karma.
(D) One should follow the path of moderation.
(E) Asceticism and penance are required to free oneself from cycle of karma.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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

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

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

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

Among the following, who was the minister in the court of a Kalachuri ruler ?

(1) Basavanna
(2) Prantaka I
(3) Prantaka II
(4) Sambandar

Which of the following statement is NOT true about the followers of Basavanna

(1) Basavanna's followers were known as Virashaivas or Lingayats.
(2) They practice funerary rites such as cremation.
(3) They Shiva in worship his manifestation as a linga.
(4) They ceremonially bury their dead.

Which British government act instituted censorship of press and permitted detention of Indians without trial?

(1) Regulating Act
(2) Rowlatt Act
(3) Charter Act
(4) Vernacular Act

Who among the following scholars, considered Sanchi to be a centre of 'Tree and Serpent worship' due to his ignorance?

(1) Colin Mackenzie
(2) Walter Elliot
(3) H.H. Cole
(4) James Fergusson

Name the person who said, 'Non-Cooperation became the name of an epoch in the life of India and of Gandhiji' ?

(1) C.N. Broomfield
(2) Louis Fischer
(3) Abraham Lincoln
(4) George Washington

Which of the following representation of nationalist imagination about the 'Revolt of 1857' is incorrect?

(1) The Revolt of 1857 was celebrated as the First War of Independence.
(2) The leaders of the revolt were presented as heroic figures.
(3) Rani of Jhansi was represented as a masculine figure.
(4) Shyamdhari Singh Dinkar dedicated a poem to Rani of Jhansi.

Who was the famous poet who described Delhi occupied by the British forces in 1857, in the following words: 'For two to three days every road in the city, from Kashmiri Gate to Chandni Chowk, was a battlefield'.

(1) Bahadur Shah Zafar
(2) Abul Fazl
(3) Mirza Ghalib
(4) Mir Taki Mir

Arrange the following foreign travellers according to their year of visit to India in a chronological order.

(A) Francois Bernier from France.
(B) Duarte Barbosa from Portugal.
(C) Marco Polo from Italy.
(D) Ibn Battuta from Morocco.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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

Who coined the terms 'great' and 'little' traditions to describe the cultural practices of peasant societies?

(1) R.C. Majumdar
(2) Jadunath Sarkar
(3) Robert Redfield
(4) D.D. Kosambi

According to scholars, which script was used to write the earliest inscription discovered in the Indian subcontinent?

(1) Tamil
(2) Pali
(3) Sanskrit
(4) Prakrit

Which of the following statement is NOT true about the 'Mahanavami Dibba' structure ?

(1) Rituals associated with the Mahanavami Dibba coincided with Mahanavami festival.
(2) The ministers inspected King's army and the armies of the nayakas on the Mahanavami day of the festival.
(3) The ceremonies performed were imbued with symbolic meanings of power, prestige and suzerainty of the Vijayanagara rayas.
(4) Dances, wrestling matches and processions of horses, elephants, chariots and soldiers took place.

Who was Francis Buchanan ?

(1) Governor-General
(2) Archaeologist
(3) Painter
(4) Physician

Which material was sometimes used to cover the main drainage channels in the Harappan cities?

A) Wood
B) Limestone
C) Copper sheets
D) Clay tiles

Which city of Harappan Civilisation was entirely fortified?

(1) Chanhudaro
(2) Mohenjodaro
(3) Lothal
(4) Kalibangan

The Indus Valley Civilisation is also called :

(1) Mesopotamian Culture
(2) Harappan Culture
(3) Mohenjodaro Culture
(4) Egyptian Culture

Two of the below given features of Harappan Civilisation are incorrect. Identify :

(A) It had a planned drainage system.
(B) It comprised mostly of rural settlements.
(C) The roads and streets were laid out along the grid pattern.
(D) Most settlements have a larger high section and a smaller lower section.
(E) Burials were mostly in the form of pits.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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

The most unique feature of Harappan Civilisation was the development of:

(1) Craft centres
(2) Port centres
(3) Urban centres
(4) Rural centres

According to the speaker, what would happen if minorities were kept segregated in an “air-tight compartment”?

A) They would become politically stronger
B) They would lose their effective voice in governance
C) They would gain complete independence
D) They would control the electoral system

The speaker is critical about :

(1) Minorities
(2) Joint Electorates
(3) Separate Electorates
(4) Majoritarianism

What argument is given to oppose a separate electorate?

(1) Sedition
(2) Isolation
(3) Communism
(4) Pan-Internationalism

The speaker's main concern is to :

(1) Oppose casteism
(2) Forge India into nation
(3) Oppose partition of India
(4) Obtain Social Justice

Speaker fears that separate electorate would result in :

(1) Assimilation of minorities
(2) Assured cultural rights to minorities
(3) Equal Citizenship Rights
(4) Divided loyalties