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| 1. | Mahad Satyagraha was led by: | |||||||||||||||||||
Your Answer: Option (Not Answered) Correct Answer: Option B Explanation: Mahad Satyagraha was a Satyagraha led by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar on 20 March 1927 to allow untouchables to use water in a public tank in Mahad (currently in Raigad district), Maharashtra, India. |
| 2. | Which of the following statements is incorrect about the Poona Pact? | |||||||||||||||||||
Your Answer: Option (Not Answered) Correct Answer: Option A Explanation: First statement is incorrect because Poona Pact was an agreement between Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. B R. Ambedkar |
| 3. | The Treaty of Seringapatam is associated with which of the following wars? | |||||||||||||||||||
Your Answer: Option (Not Answered) Correct Answer: Option B Explanation: The Treaty of Seringapatam was signed on 18 March 1792 at the end of the Third Anglo-Mysore War. Its signatories included Lord Cornwallis on behalf of the British East India Company, representatives of the Nizam of Hyderabad and the Maratha Empire, and Tipu Sultan, the ruler of Mysore. |
| 4. | Which of the following rulers died in the Kalinjar Fort situated in the Baghelkhand region of central India? | |||||||||||||||||||
Your Answer: Option (Not Answered) Correct Answer: Option B Explanation: Kalinjar Fort is situated in the Baghelkhand region of central India. It is the place where Sher Shah Suri met his death in 1545. |
| 5. | Which of the following rulers earned the title of Purvapaschima Samudradhishavara? | |||||||||||||||||||
Your Answer: Option (Not Answered) Correct Answer: Option C Explanation: Harihara-I of Vijayanagara Kingdom gained control over most of the area south of the Tungabhadra River and earned the title of Purvapaschima Samudradhishavara (“master of the eastern and western seas”). |
| 6. | Kamal-ud-Din Abd-ur-Razzaq ibn Ishaq Samarqandi, a Persian Islamic Scholar, visited which Indian city during early 1440s? | |||||||||||||||||||
Your Answer: Option (Not Answered) Correct Answer: Option B Explanation: Calicut is a metropolitan city in the state of Kerala in southern India on the Malabar Coast. Kamal-ud-Din Abd-ur-Razzaq ibn Ishaq Samarqandi visited Calicut in early 1440s. He wrote a narrative of what he saw in Calicut which is valuable as information on Calicut’s society and culture. |
| 7. | The Nitisara of Kamandaka, also known as the Kamandakiya-Nitisara, was composed during the period of: | |||||||||||||||||||
Your Answer: Option (Not Answered) Correct Answer: Option B Explanation: The Nitisara of Kamandaka, also known as the Kamandakiya-Nitisara, was composed during the period of Gupta Dynasty. It was based on Kautilya’s Arthashastra |
| 8. | The Neolithic sites Kuchai and Golbai Sasan are located in which Indian state? | |||||||||||||||||||
Your Answer: Option (Not Answered) Correct Answer: Option C Explanation: The Neolithic sites in Odisha include Kuchai in Mayurbhanj district, and the recently excavated site of Golbai Sasan on the banks of Mandakini River. |
| 9. | At which of the following Harappan sites, terracotta female figures were discovered? | |||||||||||||||||||
Your Answer: Option (Not Answered) Correct Answer: Option A Explanation: Mohenjo-daro is an archaeological site in the province of Sindh, Pakistan. Built around 2500 BCE, it was one of the largest settlements of the ancient Indus Valley civilization. Various discoveries at Mohenjo-daro include- Great Bath (the biggest bath ghat), Great granary, Bronze dancing girl, Bearded man, terracotta toys, Bull seal, Pashupati seal, three cylindrical seals of the Mesopotamian type, a piece of woven cloth. |