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1. Who among the following was the saint of the Varkari Sect?
Ramdasa
Chakradhara
Nimbarka
Namadeva
2. Gita Gobinda the famous poem was written by
Jayasimha
Jayant
Jayachandra
Jayadeva
3. Who was the Governor General of India during the Sepoy Mutiny?
Lord Hardings
Lord Lytton
Lord Dalhousie
Lord Canning
4. The Sepoy Mutiny took place in the year
1757
1761
1836
1857
5. One of the Indias first freedom fighters against British is
Mahatma Gandhi
Rani Laxmi Bai
Kittur Rani Chennamma
None of these
6. The revolt of 1857 at Lucknow was led by
Nana Sahib
Rani Laxmi Bai
Tantia Tope
Begum Hazarat Mahal
7. Who of the following was the bitterest enemy of the British during the Revolt of 1857?
Nawab Liaquat Ali
Maulana Fazi-i-Haq Khairabadi
Maulavi Imadulah
Maulavi Ahmdullah Shah
8. Who among the following was NOT associated with the Revolt of 1857?
Khan Bahadur
Maharaja Ranjit Singh
Begum Hazrat Mahal
Nana Sahib
9. Mangal Pandey fired the first shot of the Revolt of 1857 at
Barrackpore
Meerut
Kanpur
Jhansi
10. Who is the author of the book The last Mughal : The fall of a dynasty, Delhi, 1857 ?
John Kirkland
Simon Digby
Thomas Wilson
William Dalrymple
11. When did Queen Victoria declared the taking over of Indian Administration under British Crown?
17 November, 1859
6 January, 1958
31 December, 1857
1 November, 1858
12. Which one of the following commissions is associated with the Army Re-organisation after the suppression of the Revolt of 1857?
Public Service Commission
Peal Commission
Hunter Commission
Simon Commission
13. Which one of the following Sultans of Delhi was refused an audience by Nizamuddin Auliya?
Mohammad-bin-Tughlaq
Ghiyassuddin Tughlaq
Alauddin Khalji
Jalaluddin Firoz Khalji
14. Who was the founder of the Sufi order in India?
Shaikh Nasiruddin Mahmud
Shaikh Nizamuddin Auliya
Khwaja Qutubuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki
Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti
15. Sheikh Nizamuddin Auliya was the disciple of
Sheikh Ahmed Sirhindi
Baba Farid
Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti
Sheikh Alauddin Sabir
16. Which one of the following term was used by the Sufis for the successor nominated by the teacher of a particular order or silsila?
Khanqah
Khalifah
Pir
Murid
17. Who of the following has opened that the original homeland of the Aryan was Arctic region?
A.C. Das
Dayanand Saraswati
Max Muller
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
18. Buddhist, Hindu and Jain Rock cut caves coexist at
Karle
Ellora
Ajanta
Elephanta
19. The custom Santhara is related to which of the following sects?
Vaishnava
Jain
Buddha
Shaiva
20. The largest number of Rigvedic hymns are devoted to
Vishnu
Rudra
Indra
Agni
21. The rivers Ganga and Yamuna are mentioned for the first time in
Atharvaveda
Chhandogya Upanishad
Satapath Brahmana
Rigveda
22. Who was the founded of Vedic culture?
Harappan
Jain
Arya
Dravid
23. The word Visamatta was used in the latter Vedic Age for
The tax collector
The trader
The priest
The king
24. Who was the author of Buddha Charita?
Vasumitra
Nagasen
Nagarjuna
Asvaghosha
25. The fourth Buddhist council was convened during the region of king?
Ajatasatru
Kalashok
Ashoka
Kaniska
26. Who was the teacher of Gautam Buddha?
Asanga
Sudharman
Alara Kalam
Gautam
27. Who was the founder of Sunyavada?
Nagarjuna
Vasumitra
Basubandhu
Asang
28. Who was the first Governor General of Bengal?
Cornwallis
William Bentick
Warren Hastings
Robert Clive
29. Who were the first Europeans to reach India for trade?
Portuguese
British
Dutch
French
30. The first definite step of provide parliamentary control over East India Company was taken by
The Regulating Act of 1773
The Pitts India Act of 1784
The Charter Act of 1813
The Charter Act of 1793
31. The English East India Company founded a permanent factory at Surat in the year
1611
1613
1621
1626
32. During the time of which Mughal Emperor did the English East India Company establish its first factory in India?
Aurangzeb
Akbar
Shahjahan
Jahangir
33. In India, among the following locations, the Dutch established their earliest factory at
Masulipattanam
Kasim Bazar
Pulicat
Cochin
34. Which one of the following was the first fort constructed by the British in India?
Fort St. Angelo
Fort St. William
Fort St. David
Fort St. George
35. One of the following rulers, who had granted Diwani to the East India Company was
Farrukhsiyar
Shujauddaula
Shah Alam I
Shah Alam II
36. Which English Governor of East India Company in India was expelled by Aurangzeb?
Aungier
Sir John Child
Sir John Gayer
Sir Nicholas Waite
37. Where are the traces of Portuguese culture found in India?
Calicut
Cochin
Cannanore
Goa
38. Who among the following Sultans of Delhi founded the city of Agra?
Alauddin Khilji
Balban
Sikandar Lodi
Muhammad Bin Tughlaq
39. Which of the following places was named as Khizrabad during the Sultanate period?
Agra
Chittor
Devagiri
Jaunpur
40. Which one of the following gives equal importance to Jnana, Karma and Bhakti as a means of liberation?
Advait Vedant
Visistadvaitvad Vedant
Mimansa
Bhagvad Gita
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