- Which of the following statements about Lord Ripon’s plan for Indian local self-government is/are true?
1). The district should be the maximum area served by one Committee or Local Board.
2). The Local Boards should consist of a large majority of nominated official members and be presided over by an official member as Chairman.
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
Code:
(A) 1 only
(B) 2 only
(C) Both 1 and 2
(D) Neither 1 nor 2
- Which of the following documents laid the groundwork for the European Union?
(A) Maastricht Treaty
(B) Treaty of Paris
(C) Treaty of Rome
(D) Treaty of Lisbon
- Which of the following statements about Bal Gangadhar Tilak is not accurate?
(A) He propounded the theory of the Arctic Home of the Aryans.
(B) He founded the Anti-cow killing Society.
(C) He set up the Home Rule League at Poona.
(D) He supported the age of consent Bill.
- The Triple Alliance against Tipu Sultan was founded by which of the following Governor Generals?
(A) Warren Hastings
(B) Lord Cornwallis
(C) Lord Wellesley
(D) Lord William Bentinck
- Which one of the following was not a Prarthana Samaj demand?
(A) Women’s education
(B) Widow remarriage
(C) Raising the age of marriage for boys and girls.
(D) Abolition of untouchability.
- Which of the following states was Lord Dalhousie’s first annexed under the Doctrine of Lapse?
(A) Nagpur
(B) Jhansi
(C) Sambalpur
(D) Satara
- Use the code below the lists to match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer:
List-I (Social Reformer)
- A) Iyothee Dass
- B) Jyotiba Phule
- C) John Rathinam
- D) E.V. Ramaswami Naickar
List-II (Association)
- Satyashodhak Samaj
- Dravida Kazhgam
- Self-Respect movement
- Dravida Mahajanasabha
(A) A-4; B-2; C-1; D-3
(B) A-3; B-1; C-2; D-4
(C) A-4; B-1; C-2; D-3
(D) A-3; B-2; C-1; D-4
- Which of the following scholars were Kanishka’s contemporaries?
1) Ashvaghosa
2) Nagarjuna
3) Vasumitra
4) Chanakya
(A) 1 and 2 only
(B) 3 and 4
(C) 2 and 4
(D) 1, 2 and 3
- Which of the following factors contributed to European trading businesses’ success in South India during the 17th century?
1) The presence of the Mughals in the south was not as much as in the north.
2) The Vijayanagar kingdom had been overthrown in the late 16th Century.
3) The south had many small and weak states.
(A) 1, 2 and 3
(B) 1 and 2 only
(C) 2 and 3 only
(D) 1 only
10 If the Nawab of Awadh had done the following in 1856, Awadh would not have been annexed to the British Empire.
(A) Allied with the British
(B) Not refused to introduce reforms as suggested by the British
(C) Fought against the British
(D) A natural heir
- During the first decade of the twentieth century, which of the following was the greatest immediate cause in the rise of Swadeshi and the boycott of foreign goods?
(A) Curzon’s design to curtail the sphere of local self-government.
(B) Curzon’s attempt to control the universities.
(C) Curzon’s partition of Bengal.
(D) Curzon’s plan to curb the growing popularity of the Indian national congress
- Which of South India’s four linguistic regions was unaffected by the Non-Cooperation Movement of 1922-1923?
(A) Kerala
(B) Tamil Nadu
(C) Andhra Pradesh
(D) Karnataka
- The following things are divided into two statements: Statement I and Statement II. You must carefully study these two statements and select the appropriate responses using the code provided below:
Statement I: The annexation of Awadh by Lord Dalhousie in 1856 adversely affected the financial conditions of the sepoys.
Statement II: The sepoys had to pay higher taxes on the land where their family members stayed in Awadh.
(A) Both the statements are individually true and Statement II is the correct explanation of statement I.
(B) Both the statements are individually true and Statement II is not the correct explanation of statement I.
(C) Statement-I is true and Statement II is false.
(D) Statement-I is false but Statement II is true.
- During the Khilafat movements, which of the following sets of newspapers mirrored the concerns of educated Indian Muslims?
(A) Comrade and Hamdard
(B) Comrade and Hindustan Times
(C) Zamindar and Muslim voice
(D) Comrade, Hamdard, Zamindar and Al Hilal
- Which of the following statements about Raja Rammohun Roy, a social reformer, is false?
(A) Rammohun Roy belonged to the gentry class whose power had been diminished because of the imposition of the Permanent Settlement.
(B) He studied both Vedantic Monism and Christian Unitarianism
(C) He translated the Upanishads into Bengali.
(D) His first organization was the Atmiya Sabha, founded in Calcutta in 1815.
- Which of the following best describes Marx’s perspective on history?
(A) History is a record of the wars between various people.
(B) History is a succession of the struggle between the oppressor and the oppressed classes.
(C) History is a faithful record of past events.
(D) None of the above
- The philosophy of the Russian revolutionaries was based on the theories of?
(A) Lenin and Stalin
(B) Marx and Lenin
(C) Marx and Engles
(D) Lenin and Engels
- Fashion’s mission to India was to?
(A) Learn about the administrative system of the Gupta kings.
(B) Understand the social position of women during the Gupta period.
(C) Visit the Buddhist institutions and to collect copies of Buddhist manuscripts.
(D) Get full knowledge about the condition of peasants during the period of Gupta kings.
- The British government collected money directly from farmers under which of the following assessment systems?
(A) Zamindari
(B) Ryotwari
(C) Annawari
(D) Desaiwari
- Which of the following is located on Borobudur?
(A) A huge temple of Vishnu and Shive in Java, built in the 12th Century AD.
(B) An enormous Stupa in Java, built in the 8th Century AD.
(C) A magnificent palace of a Chola Kind in Tamil Nadu.
(D) A Jain Monastery in Gujarat.
(B) 4-3-1-2
(C) 4-1-3-2
(D) 3-4-1-2
