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Question 1History of India (ancient, medieval and modern periods, with emphasis on freedom struggle)

The Harappan site of Lothal is best known for which of the following features?

  1. Rock-cut monasteries for monks
  2. A large stadium-like assembly hall
  3. A brick dockyard linked to a river channel Correct answer.
  4. An iron-smelting furnace complex

Explanation

Lothal, located in Gujarat, contains a trapezoidal brick basin that archaeologists interpret as a dockyard connected to a former channel of the Bhogava river. Its layout and associated seals point to maritime trade with the Persian Gulf, which is why Lothal is singled out among Harappan sites.

Question 2History of India (ancient, medieval and modern periods, with emphasis on freedom struggle)

The Sanskrit treatise Arthashastra, a manual on statecraft and economy, is attributed to which author?

  1. Vishakhadatta
  2. Kautilya Correct answer.
  3. Kalidasa
  4. Banabhatta

Explanation

The Arthashastra is a Sanskrit manual on statecraft, taxation, diplomacy and war, traditionally attributed to Kautilya, also called Chanakya. He is remembered as the minister and adviser of Chandragupta Maurya, the founder of the Mauryan Empire.

Question 3History of India (ancient, medieval and modern periods, with emphasis on freedom struggle)

In which year did the Indian National Congress launch the Quit India Movement?

  1. 1930
  2. 1935
  3. 1942 Correct answer.
  4. 1940

Explanation

The Quit India Movement was launched on 8 August 1942 at the Bombay session of the Indian National Congress. Gandhi gave the slogan 'Do or Die' and demanded an orderly British withdrawal from India.

Question 4History of India (ancient, medieval and modern periods, with emphasis on freedom struggle)

Which Sultan of Delhi introduced a system of market control that fixed prices of essential commodities and appointed a special officer called the shahna-i-mandi?

  1. Iltutmish
  2. Sikandar Lodi
  3. Alauddin Khalji Correct answer.
  4. Firoz Shah Tughlaq

Explanation

Alauddin Khalji regulated the Delhi market through fixed prices for grain, cloth, horses and slaves. He appointed the shahna-i-mandi to supervise the markets and the diwan-i-riyasat to enforce these regulations.

Question 5History of India (ancient, medieval and modern periods, with emphasis on freedom struggle)

The verses of the medieval saint Kabir are most prominently collected in which of the following texts?

  1. The Ramcharitmanas
  2. The Guru Granth Sahib only
  3. The Bijak Correct answer.
  4. The Baburnama

Explanation

The Bijak is the principal collection of Kabir's verses preserved by the Kabir Panth. Kabir's compositions also appear in the Guru Granth Sahib, but the Bijak is the text most closely associated with his own tradition.

Question 6History of India (ancient, medieval and modern periods, with emphasis on freedom struggle)

During the Revolt of 1857, who led the rebel forces at Kanpur?

  1. Mangal Pandey
  2. Kunwar Singh
  3. Rani Lakshmibai
  4. Nana Saheb Correct answer.

Explanation

At Kanpur, the revolt was led by Nana Saheb with military support from Tantia Tope. Rani Lakshmibai led the uprising at Jhansi, Kunwar Singh in Bihar, and Mangal Pandey at Barrackpore.

Question 7History of India (ancient, medieval and modern periods, with emphasis on freedom struggle)

Mahatma Gandhi withdrew the Non-Cooperation Movement in February 1922 immediately after which event?

  1. Poona Pact signing
  2. Simon Commission visit
  3. Chauri Chaura incident Correct answer.
  4. Jallianwala Bagh killings

Explanation

At Chauri Chaura in February 1922 a crowd set fire to a police station, killing policemen. Gandhi, committed to non-violence, called off the Non-Cooperation Movement rather than let the struggle turn violent.

Question 8History of India (ancient, medieval and modern periods, with emphasis on freedom struggle)

The Indian National Congress and other Indian parties decided to boycott the Simon Commission mainly because

  1. the commission recommended immediate independence
  2. the commission banned the Congress
  3. the commission had no Indian member Correct answer.
  4. the commission proposed partition of Bengal

Explanation

The Simon Commission, appointed in 1927, consisted entirely of British members, so Indians had no voice in a body reviewing constitutional progress. This exclusion united the Congress and other parties in boycotting it in 1928.

Question 9History of India (ancient, medieval and modern periods, with emphasis on freedom struggle)

The inscriptions of Ashoka were mainly written in which script and language?

  1. Kharosthi script and Pali language
  2. Brahmi script and Prakrit language Correct answer.
  3. Tamil script and Tamil language
  4. Devanagari script and Sanskrit language

Explanation

Most Ashokan edicts were inscribed in the Brahmi script and the Prakrit language, which were widely understood in the Mauryan heartland. Kharosthi was used in the northwest, while Devanagari and Tamil scripts developed much later.

Question 10History of India (ancient, medieval and modern periods, with emphasis on freedom struggle)

Which British mission of 1946 proposed a three-tier constitutional structure with provinces grouped into Sections A, B and C?

  1. Mountbatten Plan
  2. Cabinet Mission Correct answer.
  3. Wavell Plan
  4. Cripps Mission

Explanation

The Cabinet Mission of 1946, comprising Pethick-Lawrence, Stafford Cripps and A.V. Alexander, proposed a three-tier federation. It grouped the provinces into Sections A, B and C, a scheme that the Congress rejected in its original form.

Question 11History of India (ancient, medieval and modern periods, with emphasis on freedom struggle)

The ancient Buddhist monastic university of Nalanda, where the Chinese pilgrim Xuanzang studied, was located in which present-day Indian state?

  1. Gujarat
  2. Odisha
  3. Uttar Pradesh
  4. Bihar Correct answer.

Explanation

Nalanda Mahavihara lies near Rajgir in present-day Bihar and flourished from the Gupta period onward under royal patronage. The Chinese pilgrims Xuanzang and Yijing recorded its large monastic population and rigorous curriculum, which drew students from across Asia.

Question 12History of India (ancient, medieval and modern periods, with emphasis on freedom struggle)

The first session of the Indian National Congress, held in December 1885, took place in which city?

  1. Bombay Correct answer.
  2. Calcutta
  3. Madras
  4. Allahabad

Explanation

The Indian National Congress was founded at Gokuldas Tejpal Sanskrit College in Bombay, with Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee presiding over its first session. The meeting had 72 delegates and marked the beginning of organised national politics in India.

Question 13History of India (ancient, medieval and modern periods, with emphasis on freedom struggle)

The Taj Mahal at Agra was commissioned by which Mughal emperor as a mausoleum for his wife Mumtaz Mahal?

  1. Akbar
  2. Jahangir
  3. Shah Jahan Correct answer.
  4. Aurangzeb Alamgir

Explanation

Shah Jahan commissioned the Taj Mahal in 1632 after the death of Mumtaz Mahal, and the complex was completed around 1648. Its design combines Persian, Timurid and Indian architectural traditions and it remains the best-known example of Mughal funerary architecture.

Question 14History of India (ancient, medieval and modern periods, with emphasis on freedom struggle)

Which Chola ruler launched a major naval expedition against the Srivijaya empire in Southeast Asia around 1025 CE?

  1. Aditya I
  2. Rajendra I Correct answer.
  3. Kulottunga I
  4. Rajaraja I

Explanation

Rajendra I sent a naval force that attacked Srivijaya ports in Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula, and the campaign is recorded in his inscriptions. The expedition reflects the reach of Chola naval power across the Bay of Bengal and the importance of maritime trade.

Question 15History of India (ancient, medieval and modern periods, with emphasis on freedom struggle)

The Poona Pact of 1932, signed by Mahatma Gandhi and B. R. Ambedkar, provided for which arrangement?

  1. Partition of the province of Bengal
  2. Separate electorates for Muslim communities
  3. Reserved seats for Depressed Classes Correct answer.
  4. Complete abolition of the zamindari system

Explanation

The Poona Pact replaced separate electorates for the Depressed Classes, which Gandhi opposed, with reserved seats in joint provincial legislatures. It followed Gandhi's fast in Yerwada prison against the Communal Award announced by the British government.

Question 16History of India (ancient, medieval and modern periods, with emphasis on freedom struggle)

The Indian Home Rule League, launched in April 1916 with its headquarters at Pune, was founded by which leader?

  1. Lokamanya Tilak Correct answer.
  2. Muhammad Ali Jinnah
  3. Gopal Krishna Gokhale
  4. Annie Besant

Explanation

Lokamanya Tilak founded the Indian Home Rule League in April 1916 at Belgaum, with its headquarters at Pune, to demand self-government for Indians. Annie Besant founded a separate Home Rule League at Madras later in the same year.

Question 17History of India (ancient, medieval and modern periods, with emphasis on freedom struggle)

The Permanent Settlement of 1793, which fixed land revenue in Bengal, was introduced by which Governor-General?

  1. Warren Hastings
  2. Cornwallis Correct answer.
  3. Lord Dalhousie
  4. Lord Wellesley

Explanation

Cornwallis introduced the Permanent Settlement in 1793, making zamindars hereditary revenue collectors with a fixed demand to the Company. The system was later extended to parts of Bihar and Odisha and shaped rural society in these regions.

Question 18History of India (ancient, medieval and modern periods, with emphasis on freedom struggle)

Which Harappan site in Gujarat's Kutch district is noted for a large open ground often described as a stadium and for an elaborate water-harvesting system?

  1. Kalibangan
  2. Banawali
  3. Dholavira Correct answer.
  4. Rakhigarhi

Explanation

Dholavira, located on Khadir Bet in Kutch, has stone-built reservoirs, a citadel and a large ground interpreted as a ceremonial or assembly area. Its planned layout and water management led to its inscription as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2021.

Question 19History of India (ancient, medieval and modern periods, with emphasis on freedom struggle)

The Treaty of Bassein, signed in 1802, was concluded between Peshwa Baji Rao II and which power?

  1. The Maratha confederacy
  2. The Nizam of Hyderabad
  3. The East India Company Correct answer.
  4. The kingdom of Mysore

Explanation

The treaty brought the Peshwa under a subsidiary alliance with the East India Company, accepting British troops in his territory. It triggered the Second Anglo-Maratha War because other Maratha chiefs resisted the extension of British control.

Question 20History of India (ancient, medieval and modern periods, with emphasis on freedom struggle)

Who became the first Indian woman to preside over a session of the Indian National Congress?

  1. Sarojini Naidu Correct answer.
  2. Annie Besant
  3. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
  4. Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay

Explanation

Sarojini Naidu presided over the Indian National Congress session at Kanpur in 1925, becoming the first Indian woman to hold that office. Annie Besant had presided in 1917, but she was of British origin rather than Indian.

Question 21History of India (ancient, medieval and modern periods, with emphasis on freedom struggle)

Who founded the Maurya Empire after overthrowing the Nanda dynasty around 321 BCE?

  1. Bindusara
  2. Ashoka
  3. Chandragupta Correct answer.
  4. Samudragupta

Explanation

Chandragupta founded the Maurya Empire with the help of his mentor Chanakya, who is also called Kautilya. The Nanda ruler Dhana Nanda was defeated, and Pataliputra became the imperial capital.

Question 22History of India (ancient, medieval and modern periods, with emphasis on freedom struggle)

At which city did the Jallianwala Bagh massacre take place in April 1919?

  1. Delhi
  2. Ahmedabad
  3. Amritsar Correct answer.
  4. Lahore

Explanation

General Dyer ordered troops to fire on an unarmed gathering at Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar on 13 April 1919. The incident became a turning point in the nationalist movement and was condemned by leaders including Rabindranath Tagore.

Question 23History of India (ancient, medieval and modern periods, with emphasis on freedom struggle)

The Dandi March of 1930 was launched by Mahatma Gandhi as a protest against which colonial tax?

  1. Land revenue
  2. Cotton excise duty
  3. Income tax
  4. Salt tax Correct answer.

Explanation

Gandhi marched from Sabarmati Ashram to Dandi to make salt and defy the British monopoly on its manufacture and sale. The march began the Civil Disobedience Movement.

Question 24History of India (ancient, medieval and modern periods, with emphasis on freedom struggle)

Under the Government of India Act 1919, dyarchy was introduced in which sphere?

  1. Central legislature
  2. Provincial government Correct answer.
  3. Administration of princely states
  4. Federal judiciary

Explanation

Dyarchy divided provincial subjects into transferred subjects, run by Indian ministers responsible to the legislature, and reserved subjects, run by the governor. It was introduced at the provincial level, not at the Centre.

Question 25History of India (ancient, medieval and modern periods, with emphasis on freedom struggle)

The Lucknow Pact of 1916 was an agreement between the Indian National Congress and which political organisation?

  1. Muslim League Correct answer.
  2. Justice Party
  3. Hindu Mahasabha
  4. Sikh League

Explanation

The Lucknow Pact was concluded between the Congress and the All-India Muslim League in December 1916. It accepted separate electorates for Muslims and marked a period of Congress-League cooperation.

Question 26History of India (ancient, medieval and modern periods, with emphasis on freedom struggle)

Who founded the Servants of India Society in 1905 to train dedicated public workers?

  1. Tilak
  2. Naoroji
  3. Gokhale Correct answer.
  4. Lajpat Rai

Explanation

Gopal Krishna Gokhale founded the Servants of India Society in Pune in 1905. It trained members to work for social reform and political education through constitutional means.

Question 27History of India (ancient, medieval and modern periods, with emphasis on freedom struggle)

The Champaran Satyagraha of 1917 was launched by Gandhi on behalf of which group?

  1. Textile mill workers
  2. Bardoli peasants
  3. Salt producers
  4. Indigo cultivators Correct answer.

Explanation

In Champaran, Bihar, Gandhi investigated the grievances of peasants forced to grow indigo on part of their land for European planters. His intervention led to an inquiry and reforms in the tinkathia system.

Question 28History of India (ancient, medieval and modern periods, with emphasis on freedom struggle)

Which revolutionary was hanged by the British in March 1931 together with Rajguru and Sukhdev?

  1. Ram Prasad Bismil
  2. Bhagat Singh Correct answer.
  3. Chandrashekhar Azad
  4. Subhas Chandra Bose

Explanation

Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev were executed in Lahore on 23 March 1931 for their involvement in the Saunders murder case. Bhagat Singh had also been associated with the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association.

Question 29History of India (ancient, medieval and modern periods, with emphasis on freedom struggle)

Arikamedu, an excavated site yielding Roman amphorae and Arretine ware, is located near which present-day city?

  1. Kochi
  2. Chennai
  3. Visakhapatnam
  4. Puducherry Correct answer.

Explanation

Arikamedu lies near Puducherry on the Coromandel coast and was an important port in Indo-Roman trade. Excavations by Mortimer Wheeler found Roman pottery and other evidence of contact with the Mediterranean world.

Question 30History of India (ancient, medieval and modern periods, with emphasis on freedom struggle)

The farman of 1717 that granted the English East India Company exemption from customs duties in Bengal was issued by which Mughal emperor?

  1. Muhammad Shah
  2. Bahadur Shah I
  3. Aurangzeb
  4. Farrukhsiyar Correct answer.

Explanation

Emperor Farrukhsiyar issued the farman in 1717 after an embassy led by John Surman. The privilege was widely used by the Company and later became a source of conflict with Bengal's nawabs.

Question 31History of India (ancient, medieval and modern periods, with emphasis on freedom struggle)

The Harappan site of Lothal, where excavators uncovered a brick-lined basin with inlet and outlet channels interpreted as a dockyard, lies in which present-day Indian state?

  1. Haryana
  2. Gujarat Correct answer.
  3. Rajasthan
  4. Punjab

Explanation

Lothal is located near the Gulf of Khambhat in Gujarat, and its basin, warehouse and bead-making workshop led excavators to identify it as a tidal dockyard serving Harappan maritime trade. A Persian Gulf seal found at the site supports the interpretation of overseas exchange. The settlement is one of the best-preserved port towns of the civilisation.

Question 32History of India (ancient, medieval and modern periods, with emphasis on freedom struggle)

At the Battle of Plassey in June 1757, the troops of the English East India Company under Robert Clive defeated the army of which Nawab of Bengal?

  1. Alivardi Khan
  2. Murshid Quli Khan
  3. Mir Qasim
  4. Siraj-ud-Daulah Correct answer.

Explanation

Siraj-ud-Daulah, the young Nawab who had attacked Calcutta the previous year, was defeated at Plassey in Nadia district after Mir Jafar and Rai Durlabh deserted him. The victory allowed the Company to control Bengal's revenue through a puppet Nawab and marked the beginning of its territorial power in eastern India.

Question 33History of India (ancient, medieval and modern periods, with emphasis on freedom struggle)

The partition of Bengal announced in 1905, which provoked the Swadeshi and Boycott movement, was carried out during the viceroyalty of which person?

  1. Lord Minto
  2. Lord Ripon
  3. Lord Curzon Correct answer.
  4. Lord Hardinge

Explanation

Lord Curzon announced the partition in July 1905 and it took effect on 16 October 1905, creating the new province of Eastern Bengal and Assam. The agitation that followed produced the Swadeshi and boycott campaigns and was a turning point in nationalist politics. The partition was annulled in 1911.

Question 34History of India (ancient, medieval and modern periods, with emphasis on freedom struggle)

The Fourth Buddhist Council is traditionally said to have been held at Kundalvana in Kashmir under the patronage of which ruler?

  1. Ashoka
  2. Harshavardhana
  3. Kanishka Correct answer.
  4. Menander

Explanation

Tradition associates the Fourth Buddhist Council with Kanishka, whose reign saw the compilation of Sarvastivadin commentaries in Kashmir and the growing use of Sanskrit in Buddhist scholarship. The council is dated variously by different traditions, but the Kushana king is consistently named as its patron.

Question 35History of India (ancient, medieval and modern periods, with emphasis on freedom struggle)

Which Chinese pilgrim travelled through India in the early fifth century, during the reign of Chandragupta II, and left an account describing its monasteries and administration?

  1. Xuanzang
  2. Faxian Correct answer.
  3. Yi Jing
  4. Song Yun

Explanation

Faxian (Fa-Hien) left China around 399 CE and returned by sea in 414 CE, recording Buddhist sites, monastic life and the orderly administration he observed under Chandragupta II. His travel record is a key source for Gupta-period social and religious history. Later pilgrims came in the sixth and seventh centuries.

Question 36History of India (ancient, medieval and modern periods, with emphasis on freedom struggle)

Muhammad bin Tughlaq's token currency experiment of the late 1320s involved issuing coins of which metal to circulate at the value of silver tankas?

  1. Lead
  2. Gold
  3. Copper Correct answer.
  4. Iron

Explanation

The Sultan issued copper and brass tokens intended to pass at the value of silver coins, but widespread forging by people with access to the same metals defeated the scheme. The experiment was withdrawn and the treasury redeemed tokens in silver. Ibn Battuta, who was in Delhi at the time, describes the confusion it caused.

Question 37History of India (ancient, medieval and modern periods, with emphasis on freedom struggle)

The silver coin called the rupiya, from which the modern rupee takes its name, was standardised during the rule of which sixteenth-century ruler?

  1. Ibrahim Lodi
  2. Akbar
  3. Sher Shah Suri Correct answer.
  4. Muhammad bin Tughlaq

Explanation

Sher Shah Suri's currency reforms standardised a silver rupiya of roughly 178 grains and a copper dam, with fixed exchange rates between them. The name and weight system survived into Mughal and later British coinage, giving the modern rupee its name. Akbar later refined the mint system but did not originate the rupiya.

Question 38History of India (ancient, medieval and modern periods, with emphasis on freedom struggle)

The Bardoli Satyagraha of 1928, a no-tax campaign against a steep increase in land revenue, was led by which leader, who gained the title 'Sardar' through it?

  1. Vallabhbhai Patel Correct answer.
  2. Rajendra Prasad
  3. Jawaharlal Nehru
  4. C. Rajagopalachari

Explanation

Vallabhbhai Patel organised the refusal to pay the enhanced land revenue in Bardoli taluka of Surat district, and the women of Bardoli are said to have given him the title Sardar. The Broomfield Committee later reduced the enhancement, and the campaign became a model of disciplined local satyagraha.

Question 39History of India (ancient, medieval and modern periods, with emphasis on freedom struggle)

The Battle of Talikota in 1565 destroyed the supremacy of which empire, defeated by a coalition of the Deccan Sultanates?

  1. Maratha Empire
  2. Kakatiya kingdom
  3. Vijayanagara Empire Correct answer.
  4. Bahmani Sultanate

Explanation

At Talikota, also called Rakshasa-Tangadi, an alliance of Bijapur, Ahmadnagar, Golconda and Bidar defeated Vijayanagara under Rama Raya, whose death was followed by the plundering of Hampi. The empire continued in a reduced form from Penukonda but never recovered its former authority. The defeat reshaped the balance of power in the Deccan.

Question 40History of India (ancient, medieval and modern periods, with emphasis on freedom struggle)

In 1942 a British mission proposed dominion status for India after the war and a constituent assembly elected by provincial legislatures, with provinces free to stay out; both the Congress and the Muslim League rejected it. By what name is this mission known?

  1. Cabinet Mission
  2. Rowlatt Committee
  3. Cripps Mission Correct answer.
  4. Simon Commission

Explanation

The Cripps Mission, led by Sir Stafford Cripps in March 1942, offered dominion status after the war and a constitution framed by an elected assembly, with a provision allowing provinces to remain outside the union. The Congress objected to the non-representative character of the arrangements and the League to the absence of a clear Pakistan commitment. Its failure was followed by the Quit India Movement.

Question 41History of India (ancient, medieval and modern periods, with emphasis on freedom struggle)

The Great Stupa at Sanchi, whose original brick structure is traditionally attributed to Emperor Ashoka, is located in which present-day Indian state?

  1. Maharashtra
  2. Bihar
  3. Madhya Pradesh Correct answer.
  4. Uttar Pradesh

Explanation

Sanchi lies in Raisen district of Madhya Pradesh. The original brick stupa there is traditionally ascribed to Emperor Ashoka, who also erected a pillar with an inscription at the site. Later additions include the carved gateways and the stone casing of the Great Stupa.

Question 42History of India (ancient, medieval and modern periods, with emphasis on freedom struggle)

The Sangam anthologies, including the Tolkappiyam and Ettuthogai, were composed in which language?

  1. Pali
  2. Tamil Correct answer.
  3. Sanskrit
  4. Prakrit

Explanation

The Sangam corpus was composed in Tamil in ancient Tamilakam between roughly 300 BCE and 300 CE. It includes the Tolkappiyam, a grammar, and anthologies of poems such as Ettuthogai and Pattuppattu.

Question 43History of India (ancient, medieval and modern periods, with emphasis on freedom struggle)

The English East India Company received its first royal charter from which English monarch in 1600?

  1. Henry VIII
  2. Charles II
  3. James I
  4. Elizabeth I Correct answer.

Explanation

Elizabeth I granted the charter to the English East India Company on 31 December 1600. It gave the company a monopoly on English trade with the East Indies and permission to establish factories.

Question 44History of India (ancient, medieval and modern periods, with emphasis on freedom struggle)

Which ancient Indian mathematician-astronomer authored the Aryabhatiya and argued that the apparent motion of the stars is caused by the earth's rotation?

  1. Varahamihira
  2. Aryabhata Correct answer.
  3. Brahmagupta
  4. Bhaskara I

Explanation

Aryabhata composed the Aryabhatiya in 499 CE and stated that the earth rotates on its axis, making the stars appear to move westward. His work also covered eclipses and mathematical astronomy.

Question 45History of India (ancient, medieval and modern periods, with emphasis on freedom struggle)

Alauddin Khalji's market regulations, which fixed prices of essential commodities and controlled the supply of grain in Delhi, were enforced mainly through which official?

  1. the diwan-i-wizarat
  2. the barid
  3. the qazi
  4. the shahna-i-mandi Correct answer.

Explanation

Alauddin Khalji appointed the shahna-i-mandi to supervise Delhi's markets and enforce fixed prices. Government granaries stored grain to prevent hoarding and keep supplies steady.

Question 46History of India (ancient, medieval and modern periods, with emphasis on freedom struggle)

Guru Ram Das, the fourth Sikh Guru, is traditionally credited with founding which city, which later became a major Sikh pilgrimage centre?

  1. Patna Sahib
  2. Nanded
  3. Anandpur Sahib
  4. Amritsar Correct answer.

Explanation

Guru Ram Das founded the town of Ramdaspur, which grew into Amritsar. The Harmandir Sahib, or Golden Temple, was later built at the sacred pool there.

Question 47History of India (ancient, medieval and modern periods, with emphasis on freedom struggle)

Mahatma Gandhi withdrew the Non-Cooperation Movement in February 1922 after an incident at which place, where a crowd set fire to a police station and killed constables?

  1. Kheda in Gujarat
  2. Bardoli in Gujarat
  3. Champaran in Bihar
  4. Chauri Chaura Correct answer.

Explanation

At Chauri Chaura in Gorakhpur district, United Provinces, a crowd attacked and burned a police station in February 1922. Gandhi withdrew the Non-Cooperation Movement because he insisted on non-violence.

Question 48History of India (ancient, medieval and modern periods, with emphasis on freedom struggle)

Krishnadevaraya, the Vijayanagara emperor, authored which Telugu work, a treatise on statecraft and devotion presented as a conversation between Vishnu and a nayika?

  1. Amuktamalyada Correct answer.
  2. Manucharitram
  3. Basava Purana
  4. Kavitrayam

Explanation

Krishnadevaraya wrote the Amuktamalyada in Telugu, a work on kingship and devotion to Vishnu. The other titles belong to different Telugu literary traditions or authors.

Question 49History of India (ancient, medieval and modern periods, with emphasis on freedom struggle)

The Cabinet Mission of 1946 rejected the demand for a separate sovereign state of Pakistan and instead proposed which arrangement for independent India?

  1. a three-tier federal union Correct answer.
  2. a unitary constitution with a strong centre
  3. a dominion status under the British Crown
  4. a confederation of autonomous princely states

Explanation

The Cabinet Mission of 1946 proposed a three-tier federal structure with a union centre, groups of provinces, and autonomous provinces. It rejected Jinnah's demand for a separate sovereign Pakistan.

Question 50History of India (ancient, medieval and modern periods, with emphasis on freedom struggle)

The Poona Pact of September 1932, reached between Gandhi and Ambedkar after Gandhi's fast against the Communal Award, changed the representation of the Depressed Classes in which way?

  1. It replaced separate electorates with reserved seats in joint electorates for the Depressed Classes. Correct answer.
  2. It abolished all reserved seats for the Depressed Classes and restored the earlier system of nomination.
  3. It kept separate electorates but cut the number of reserved seats for the Depressed Classes by half.
  4. It extended separate electorates to women, labour and the Depressed Classes in all provincial legislatures.

Explanation

The Communal Award of 1932 had granted the Depressed Classes separate electorates. Gandhi opposed this as divisive and fasted, and the Poona Pact that followed retained joint electorates while reserving a larger number of provincial seats for the Depressed Classes. Separate electorates were therefore surrendered, not the principle of reserved representation.