ExamBharo · UP PGT 2021 — History (Series A) · exambharo.com/up-pgt/previous-year-papers/up-pgt-2021-history-series-a/

Question paper · UP PGT

UP PGT 2021 — History (Series A)

17 or 18 August 2021125 questions+3.4 for a correct answer, −0 for a wrong one

Questions from the U.P. Secondary Education Services Selection Board’s paper of 17 or 18 August 2021. Each question’s answer is under it, hidden until you open it, and the full answer key is at the end. Take the paper as a timed practice test to be scored.

The official booklet is a scan with no text, so ExamBharo typed this paper from it by hand. A typing slip is possible; report one through the contact page.

The board deleted question 21 in its final answer key: shown here, with no answer, and not counted in the score.

History

1. Srimad Bhagvadgita is a part of which Parva of Mahabharata ?
- (a) Drona Parva
- (b) Bhishma Parva
- (c) Anushasan Parva
- (d) Santi Parva
Show answer
Answer: (b)
2. Mangal Pandey was the sepoy of which Regiment ?
- (a) 19th Native Infantry
- (b) 25th Native Infantry
- (c) 34th Native Infantry
- (d) 49th Native Infantry
Show answer
Answer: (c)
3. Which English traveler got the job of gemologist under Akbar ?
- (a) Ralph Fitch
- (b) William Leeds
- (c) James Story
- (d) None of the above
Show answer
Answer: (b)
4. Which of the region was the bone of contention between Vijayanagar Empire and Bahamani Kingdom ?
- (a) Shorapur Doab
- (b) Raichur Doab
- (c) Malwa Doab
- (d) Jech Doab
Show answer
Answer: (b)
5. Silver Tanka and Copper Jital coins were introduced by which of the following ruler ?
- (a) Shamsuddin Iltutmish
- (b) Ghiyasuddin Balban
- (c) Qutubuddin Aibak
- (d) Alauddin Khilji
Show answer
Answer: (a)
6. Royal prohibition was issued against ‘Sati’ by which Mughal ruler ?
- (a) Aurangzeb
- (b) Akbar
- (c) Shah Jahan
- (d) Jahangir
Show answer
Answer: (a)
7. Two departments-currency and account, were controlled by which of the following Officer ?
- (a) Samaharta
- (b) Sannidhata
- (c) Akshapataladhyaksha
- (d) Sansthadhyaksha
Show answer
Answer: (c)
8. Which one of the following chronicles covers the history from Sabuktigin to the 40th year of Akbar rule ?
- (a) Muntakhab-ut-Tawarikh
- (b) Tabakat-i-Akbari
- (c) Ain-i-Akbari
- (d) Nafais-ul-Maasir
Show answer
Answer: (a)
9. Famous drama ‘The Nawab’ was written by
- (a) Almeda
- (b) Frout
- (c) Bernier
- (d) Palsert
Show answer
Answer: (b)
10. Which of the following statement regarding the Act of 1833 is not correct ?
- (a) Trade monopolies of the company were abolished
- (b) The Governor of Bengal was made the Governor-General of India
- (c) Order to improve and eventually end slavery
- (d) The Council of Governor General and Constituent Assembly of Bombay and Madras were empowered to make laws
Show answer
Answer: (d)
11. Which Chola ruler had issued his gold and copper coins in Sri Lanka ?
- (a) Kulottunga I
- (b) Kulottunga II
- (c) Rajaraja I
- (d) Rajadiraja
Show answer
Answer: (c)
12. Who started the ‘Young Bengal Movement’ ?
- (a) Derozio
- (b) Debendranath Tagore
- (c) Duncan
- (d) David Hair
Show answer
Answer: (a)
13. Who is the intermediary God between other Gods and human being in Vedic period ?
- (a) Agni
- (b) Indra
- (c) Varun
- (d) Mitra
Show answer
Answer: (a)
14. Which of the following word was used for a wealthy person in Rigveda ?
- (a) Gopa
- (b) Gopati
- (c) Gavishti
- (d) Gomat
Show answer
Answer: (d)
15. When the Simon Commission appointed, Lord Birkenhead, the secretary of State for India was the member of which political party of England ?
- (a) Liberal Party
- (b) Labour Party
- (c) Conservative Party
- (d) None of these
Show answer
Answer: (c)
16. Which Delhi Sultan is called the “Aristotle” of his age due to his intellect ?
- (a) Aibak
- (b) Iltutmish
- (c) Raziya
- (d) Muhammad Tughlaq
Show answer
Answer: (d)
17. Who wrote the book ‘A Gift to Monotheists’ in Persian ?
- (a) Mahadev Govind Ranade
- (b) Abul Kalam Azad
- (c) Rajaram Mohan Roy
- (d) Syed Ahmad Khan
Show answer
Answer: (c)
18. Where was founded ‘Deva Samaj’ in 1887 A.D. ?
- (a) Bombay
- (b) Delhi
- (c) Lahore
- (d) Agra
Show answer
Answer: (c)
19. The ‘Nettiprakarana’ deals with the teachings of
- (a) Mahavir Jain
- (b) Mahatma Buddha
- (c) Lakulish
- (d) Adi Shankaracharya
Show answer
Answer: (b)
20. In whose reign ‘Masahat’ term was used for the measurement of land in the Delhi Sultanate period ?
- (a) Balban
- (b) Alauddin Khalji
- (c) Muhammad bin Tughluq
- (d) Firuz Shah Tughluq
Show answer
Answer: (b)
21. To whom Balban had nominated as his successor before his death ?
- (a) Muhammad
- (b) Fakhr-ud-din
- (c) Bughra Khan
- (d) Kaiqubad
Show answer
Answer: —
22. During Haripura Congress in 1938, Subhash Chandra Bose’s most important step was
- (a) Because in this Congress all Indian leaders declared war against British
- (b) Because Jawaharlal Nehru was selected for the future Prime Minister of India
- (c) Because Congress introduced the idea of a Planning Commission
- (d) Because people bycotted foreign goods and liquor
Show answer
Answer: (c)
23. In which rock edict Ashoka mentioned him as ‘Piyadasi Laga Magadhe’ ?
- (a) Lumbini Pillar Inscription
- (b) Bhabru edict
- (c) Kaling edict
- (d) Brahmgiri minor edict
Show answer
Answer: (b)
24. Who was leading the revolt of 1857 in Lucknow ?
- (a) Birjis Qadir
- (b) Begum Hazrat Mahal
- (c) Nana Saheb
- (d) Kunwar Singh
Show answer
Answer: (b)
25. The middle Palaeolithic stone tools were made on
- (a) Core
- (b) Flake
- (c) Blade
- (d) Copper
Show answer
Answer: (b)
26. Who was the writer of the play ‘Devi Chandraguptam’ ?
- (a) Kalidasa
- (b) Harishena
- (c) Vishakhadutta
- (d) Shudraka
Show answer
Answer: (c)
27. The earliest example in India of a Masjid (mosque) which show the growing preponderance of muslim ideas is
- (a) Atala Devi Masjid
- (b) Jannat Khan Masjid
- (c) Bara Sona Masjid
- (d) Adina Masjid
Show answer
Answer: (b)
28. Which of the following British army officers was responsible for the murder of the two sons of Bahadur Shah ?
- (a) General Havelock
- (b) General Campbell
- (c) General Hudson
- (d) Niel
Show answer
Answer: (c)
29. Which is the following place is not located in Maharashtra ?
- (a) Nevasa
- (b) Inamgaon
- (c) Daymabad
- (d) Maheshwar
Show answer
Answer: (d)
30. Raajavahee and Ulughkhani was
- (a) The name of the gardens planted by Firoz Tughlaq
- (b) The name of the cities inhabited by Firoz Tughlaq
- (c) The name of the canals built by Firoz Tughlaq
- (d) None of the above
Show answer
Answer: (c)
31. In Mauryan period the ‘Sannidhata’ Stands for
- (a) The chief custodian of the state treasury and store houses
- (b) The Commander in Chief
- (c) Salt Superintendent
- (d) A Chief Officer of Assessment and Collection
Show answer
Answer: (a)
32. Which is the following pairs is not correctly matched ?
- (a) First Karnataka war – The treaty of Paris
- (b) First Mysore war – The treaty of Madras
- (c) Second Mysore war – The treaty of Mangalore
- (d) First Sikh War – The treaty of Lahore
Show answer
Answer: (a)
33. Who had founded Amiran-i-Sada an administrative body whose members were revenue collectors and army officers ?
- (a) Muhammad-bin-Tughluq
- (b) Firuz-Shah-Tughluq
- (c) Alauddin Hasan Bahamanshah
- (d) Tajuddin Firuz Shah
Show answer
Answer: (a)
34. During the reign of Akbar, a famous structure known as Ibadat Khana was constructed at
- (a) Agra Fort
- (b) Fatehpur Sikri
- (c) Delhi
- (d) Sikandarabad
Show answer
Answer: (b)
35. At Bhimbetka from which period rock paintings were started ?
- (a) Mesolithic
- (b) Middle Palaeolithic
- (c) Chalcolithic
- (d) Neolithic
Show answer
Answer: (a)
36. Who founded ‘Tattvabodhini Sabha’ ?
- (a) Ravindranath Tagore
- (b) Keshavchandra Sen
- (c) Debendranath Tagore
- (d) Rajaram Mohan Roy
Show answer
Answer: (c)
37. Depiction of deity ‘Ahura-Mazdah’ on coins of Huvishka is related to
- (a) Indian deity
- (b) Greek deity
- (c) Egyptian deity
- (d) Zoroastrian deity
Show answer
Answer: (d)
38. In Rigveda, strip of land between two Cultivated land was called as
- (a) Goshtha
- (b) Kshetra
- (c) Khala
- (d) Khilya
Show answer
Answer: (d)
39. Who one of the following gave ‘Safety Valve Theory’ for Indian National Congress ?
- (a) Bipinchandra Pal
- (b) Lala Lajpat Rai
- (c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
- (d) Mahatma Gandhi
Show answer
Answer: (b)
40. The Mauryan centralized monarchy became a paternal deposition under Ashoka. It is clearly expressed in his which inscription ?
- (a) The Kalinga Rock edicts
- (b) Rock edict XIII
- (c) Minor Rock edict I
- (d) Pillar edict I
Show answer
Answer: (a)
41. Akbar gave 500 Bighas of land to which Sikhs Guru ?
- (a) Guru Arjun Dev
- (b) Guru Ramdas
- (c) Guru Amerdas
- (d) Guru Angad Dev
Show answer
Answer: (b)
42. Which Delhi Sultan suppressed the “Thugs” ?
- (a) Jalaluddin Khalji
- (b) Alauddin Khalji
- (c) Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq
- (d) Balban
Show answer
Answer: (a)
43. Where are the Chaitya caves of Bhoja and Karle are situated ?
- (a) Lonavala – Maharashtra
- (b) Rann of Kutch – Gujarat
- (c) Halebidu – Karnataka
- (d) Ganjam – Odisha
Show answer
Answer: (a)
44. ‘Pushkalavati’ was the capital of the State of
- (a) Kamboja
- (b) Asmaka
- (c) Gandhara
- (d) Surasena
Show answer
Answer: (c)
45. In Delhi Sultanate, ‘Mushrif-i-Mumalik’ was known as
- (a) Controller of Royal household
- (b) Head of State News Agency
- (c) Chief Justice
- (d) Accountant general
Show answer
Answer: (d)
46. ‘Deccan Agriculturists Relief Act’ was implemented in the year
- (a) 1878 A.D.
- (b) 1879 A.D.
- (c) 1880 A.D.
- (d) 1881 A.D.
Show answer
Answer: (b)
47. Which ruler of Vijayanagar Empire had sent an embassy to China ?
- (a) Harihara I
- (b) Harihara II
- (c) Bukka I
- (d) Bukka II
Show answer
Answer: (c)
48. On 9th March 1846, according to the treaty of Lahore, who was appointed the Resident of the East India Company in Lahore ?
- (a) Sir Jone Lawrence
- (b) Sir Henry Lawrence
- (c) Colonel Sleeman
- (d) Sir Charles Napier
Show answer
Answer: (b)
49. In which order Vijayanagar Kingdom was divided ?
- (a) Mandalam, Nadu, Sthal, Gram
- (b) Mandalam, Sthal, Nadu, Gram
- (c) Nadu, Mandalam, Sthal, Gram
- (d) Mandalam, Nadu, Gram, Sthal
Show answer
Answer: (a)
50. Who of the following was supporter of freedom of Indian Press ?
- (a) Lord Wellesly
- (b) Lord Litton
- (c) Lord Hastings
- (d) Lord Adom
Show answer
Answer: (c)
51. Who one of the following Gods was not offered the sacrifices as the others ?
- (a) Indra
- (b) Rudra
- (c) Aditi
- (d) Agni
Show answer
Answer: (b)
52. In Gupta period copper coin was issued by
- (a) Chandragupta I
- (b) Samudragupta
- (c) Skandgupta
- (d) Vishnugupta
Show answer
Answer: (b)
53. Which thinker did King Ashoka send to promote Buddhism in Maharashtra ?
- (a) Mahaarakshit
- (b) Mahaadev
- (c) Mahadharm Rakshit
- (d) Sona and Uttara
Show answer
Answer: (c)
54. Who was the Official Historian of Indian National Congress ?
- (a) Jawaharlal Nehru
- (b) B. Pattabhi Sitaramaya
- (c) Dr. Rajendra Prasad
- (d) Tej Bahadur Sapru
Show answer
Answer: (b)
55. In which inscription Chola ruler Vijayalaya’s Victory of Tanjore has been mentioned ?
- (a) Udayendiram Copper Plate Inscription
- (b) Tirunedungalam Inscription
- (c) Karandai Copper Plate Inscription
- (d) Tiruvalangadu Inscription
Show answer
Answer: (b)
56. In which year Atmiya Sabha was founded ?
- (a) 1812
- (b) 1814
- (c) 1815
- (d) 1819
Show answer
Answer: (c)
57. When Indian National Congress was founded who opposed it and organized a counter movement along with Raja Shiva Prasad of Benaras ?
- (a) Nawab Abdul Latif
- (b) R. M. Sayani
- (c) Sayyid Ahmad Khan
- (d) Tyabji Badruddin
Show answer
Answer: (c)
58. Which foreigner has compared Maharaja Ranjit Singh to Nepoleon Bonaparte ?
- (a) Lepen Griffen
- (b) Victor Jacquemont
- (c) Court
- (d) None of the above
Show answer
Answer: (b)
59. Which one of the following sites is related to Neolithic period ?
- (a) Paisra
- (b) Baghor
- (c) Senuar
- (d) Sarai Nahar Rai
Show answer
Answer: (c)
60. The objective of the Cripps Mission headed by Sir Stafford Cripps was
- (a) To persuade Indian leader to support the British war efforts
- (b) To prevent the launch of Quit India Movement
- (c) To convince the Congress Ministers to withdraw the resignations
- (d) To set up a Constitution Making Body
Show answer
Answer: (a)
61. Ashokan inscriptions show that royal writ ran throughout the country except the part of
- (a) East
- (b) West
- (c) North
- (d) South
Show answer
Answer: (a)
62. When Hieun Tsang studied at the Nalanda University at that time the Vice Chancellor was
- (a) Chandrapal
- (b) Shilabhadra
- (c) Gunamati
- (d) Gyanchandra
Show answer
Answer: (b)
63. Who of the following Chola King sent an embassy to Chinese Court for promoting trade according to Chinese sources ?
- (a) Vijayalaya
- (b) Raja Raja I
- (c) Rajendra I
- (d) Kulottung I
Show answer
Answer: (d)
64. Arrange the following events in chronological order and select the correct answer from the code given below : 1. Lucknow Pact 2. Jallianwala Bagh Massacre 3. Rowlatt Act 4. Foundation of Gadar Party Codes :
- (a) 2 3 4 1
- (b) 3 2 4 1
- (c) 4 1 3 2
- (d) 4 2 3 1
Show answer
Answer: (c)
65. Ibn Batuta came in India from which of the region ?
- (a) East Africa
- (b) West Africa
- (c) North Africa
- (d) South Africa
Show answer
Answer: (c)
66. Who one of the following Mughal rulers passed an ordinance prohibiting the production, sale and public use of bhang ?
- (a) Humayun
- (b) Akbar
- (c) Shah Jahan
- (d) Aurangzeb
Show answer
Answer: (d)
67. The Sultan who believed in Suzerainty not sovereignty was
- (a) Iltutmish
- (b) Balban
- (c) Alauddin Khilji
- (d) Mohammad bin Tughlaq
Show answer
Answer: (c)
68. Dhamma-Chakra-Pravartan is related to which religion ?
- (a) Buddhism
- (b) Jainism
- (c) Bhagvat
- (d) Shaiva
Show answer
Answer: (a)
69. Mrs. Sarojini Naidu Participated in the Second Round Table Conference as the nominee of
- (a) Indian National Congress
- (b) Government of India
- (c) All India Muslim League
- (d) Hindu Community
Show answer
Answer: (b)
70. The Book ‘Fatwa-E-Alamgiri’ written in Aurangzeb’s time is related to
- (a) Law code
- (b) Music
- (c) Sufi theory
- (d) Singing mode
Show answer
Answer: (a)
71. Who of the following scholar had periodized Indian history for the first time in three categories as Hindu civilization, Muslim civilization and British period ?
- (a) H. H. Wilson
- (b) James Princep
- (c) James Mill
- (d) Vincent Smith
Show answer
Answer: (c)
72. In Rigveda the Sun God Surya was mentioned as the son of
- (a) Usha
- (b) Rudra
- (c) Urvashi
- (d) Dyaus
Show answer
Answer: (d)
73. On whose suggestion were the Indians kept out of the Simon Commission ?
- (a) Lord Reading
- (b) Lord Chemsford
- (c) Sir John Simon
- (d) Lord Irwin
Show answer
Answer: (d)
74. Who said ‘India is for Indians’ ?
- (a) Swami Vivekananda
- (b) Madan Mohan Malaviya
- (c) Dayananda
- (d) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Show answer
Answer: (c)
75. ‘Digambaras’ sect of Jainism was concerned with
- (a) Magadh region
- (b) Eastern India
- (c) Northern India
- (d) Southern India
Show answer
Answer: (d)
76. The First Round Table Conference was held in London at
- (a) Buckingham Palace
- (b) Savoy Palace
- (c) Winchester Palace
- (d) James Palace
Show answer
Answer: (d)
77. Which Historian described the Jagirdari crisis as the reason for the decline of the Mughal Empire ?
- (a) Muzaffar Alam
- (b) Athar Ali
- (c) Satish Chandra
- (d) Shireen Musvi
Show answer
Answer: (c)
78. Who of the following has found first neolithic tools in Uttar Pradesh ?
- (a) G. R. Sharma
- (b) Mortimer Wheeler
- (c) Robert Bruce Foote
- (d) Le Mesuries
Show answer
Answer: (d)
79. Coins of which of the following ruler has depicted the image as Roman deity and name written as ‘Roma’ ?
- (a) Kanishka I
- (b) Huvishka I
- (c) Kujul Kadphises
- (d) Azylises
Show answer
Answer: (b)
80. Who was responsible for initiating self-respect among the lower caste of South India ?
- (a) Swami Vivekanand
- (b) Narayan Guru
- (c) Kandukuri Veeresalingam
- (d) T. K. Madhavan
Show answer
Answer: (b)
81. Mahavira Jain used which language to preach his teachings ?
- (a) Prakrit
- (b) Sanskrit
- (c) Pali
- (d) Magadhi
Show answer
Answer: (a)
82. Who was the Chairman of the Partition Council for Civil Administration between India and Pakistan ?
- (a) Mohammad Ali Jinnah
- (b) Jawahar Lal Nehru
- (c) Lord Mountbatten
- (d) General Auchinleck
Show answer
Answer: (c)
83. Which one of the following sites consists late Harappa period, Malwa and Jorwe cultures ?
- (a) Lothal
- (b) Inamgaon
- (c) Diamabad
- (d) Rangpur
Show answer
Answer: (c)
84. Who was the Chairman of the first meeting of Indian National Congress, held in Bombay in 1885 A.D. ?
- (a) Sir C. Sankar Nair
- (b) Badruddin Tyabji
- (c) Vyomesh Chandra Banerjee
- (d) Dadabhai Naoroji
Show answer
Answer: (c)
85. In which medieval book the first reference of the trade posts ?
- (a) Merat-E-Sikandari
- (b) Tabkat-E-Nasiri
- (c) Taareekh-E-Firozshahi
- (d) Fatwa-E-Jahandari
Show answer
Answer: (b)
86. Which Chapter of the ‘Harshacharita’ gives a description of the various religious sects living in the forests of the Vindhyas ?
- (a) Chapter Two
- (b) Chapter Fourth
- (c) Chapter Seventh
- (d) Chapter Eighth
Show answer
Answer: (d)
87. Who of the following were against the independent state of Maratha at the time of Shivaji ?
- (a) Patil
- (b) Deshmukh
- (c) Kulkarni
- (d) Sarsubahdar
Show answer
Answer: (b)
88. Who of the following Viceroys cancelled the partition of Bengal to placet Indian Opinion ?
- (a) Lord Curzon
- (b) Lord Chelmsford
- (c) Lord Minto
- (d) Lord Hardinge
Show answer
Answer: (d)
89. Who built the Brihadishwara temple at Gangaikondacholapuram ?
- (a) Rajadhiraja
- (b) Rajendra II
- (c) Rajaraja I
- (d) Rajendra I
Show answer
Answer: (d)
90. In support of Widow marriage, a magazine named Satya Prakash was released by
- (a) Eswarchandra Vidyasagar
- (b) Govind Ranade
- (c) Karsondas Malji
- (d) Gopal Hari Deshmukh
Show answer
Answer: (c)
91. The Guptas were able to exploit the iron ores from which of the following region ?
- (a) North Bihar
- (b) North-West India
- (c) Central India
- (d) South India
Show answer
Answer: (c)
92. Famous revolutionary Ashutosh Kuila was member of which of the revolutionary organization ?
- (a) Hindustan Republican Association
- (b) Gadar Party
- (c) Anusheelan Samiti
- (d) Vidyutwahini
Show answer
Answer: (d)
93. Who amongst the following was not associated with the ‘Rehnumai Mazdayasan Sabha’ ?
- (a) Naoroji Furdonji
- (b) S. S. Bengalee
- (c) Dadabhai Naoroji
- (d) Justice Ranade
Show answer
Answer: (d)
94. Who of the following was not Portuguese among the foreign travelers coming to India ?
- (a) Barbosa
- (b) Vascodigama
- (c) Niccolo Conti
- (d) Nunise
Show answer
Answer: (c)
95. In the battle of St. Thomey or battle of Adyar, Carnatic’s Nawab was defeated by
- (a) Nizam-ul-Mulk
- (b) La Bourdonnais
- (c) Dupleix
- (d) None of these
Show answer
Answer: (c)
96. Which of the following text has mentioned that ‘Parsvanath’ was a Kshatriya ?
- (a) Adi Purana
- (b) Kalpa Sutra
- (c) Tattvarth Sutra
- (d) Bhadrabahu Samhita
Show answer
Answer: (b)
97. Pan-Aaryan Association was established in the year :
- (a) 1905 A.D.
- (b) 1906 A.D.
- (c) 1907 A.D.
- (d) 1908 A.D.
Show answer
Answer: (b)
98. Which Rajput ruler is known as ‘Rai Pithaura’ ?
- (a) Prithviraj
- (b) Govindchand
- (c) Hariraja
- (d) Jaichand
Show answer
Answer: (a)
99. After Gandhi-Irwin Pact which one of the following events has been happened ?
- (a) First Round Table Conference
- (b) Second Round Table Conference
- (c) Lahor Congress
- (d) All India Depressed Class Association
Show answer
Answer: (b)
100. Who said in 1857 that “I have no desire left of ruling over India” ?
- (a) Queen Victoria
- (b) Lord Canning
- (c) Bahadur Shah
- (d) None of these
Show answer
Answer: (c)
101. ‘Jaggayyapeta’ architecture was related to
- (a) Jainism
- (b) Shaivism
- (c) Buddhism
- (d) Ajivikas
Show answer
Answer: (c)
102. Which metal was used in maximum quantity in making of ‘Rupyarupa’ type of coins ?
- (a) Copper
- (b) Iron
- (c) Lead
- (d) Silver
Show answer
Answer: (d)
103. What was ‘ijara’ in Mughal period ?
- (a) A system of revenue farming
- (b) A system of tax collection
- (c) A type of tax on the trade
- (d) A type of tax on the non-Muslim
Show answer
Answer: (a)
104. The Lex-Loci Act was implemented in the year
- (a) 1846 A.D.
- (b) 1848 A.D.
- (c) 1850 A.D.
- (d) 1852 A.D.
Show answer
Answer: (c)
105. Who was the head of a sect called the ‘Nigrantha’ ?
- (a) Buddha
- (b) Lakulish
- (c) Mahavira
- (d) Shankaracharya
Show answer
Answer: (c)
106. After the coronation, Shivaji’s early campaigns were against whom ?
- (a) The Bijapur Administration
- (b) The Mughal Emperor
- (c) The ruler of Ahmadnagar
- (d) The kingdom of Golconda
Show answer
Answer: (a)
107. Who one of the following rulers of Khilji dynasty made ‘Kilokhari’ as his Capital ?
- (a) Alauddhin Khilji
- (b) Jalal-ud-din Firuz
- (c) Qutb-ud-din Mubarak Shah
- (d) Khusro Khan
Show answer
Answer: (b)
108. Who is the writer of ‘A Week with Gandhi’ ?
- (a) Annie Besant
- (b) Louis Fisher
- (c) Devdas Gandhi
- (d) Rajendra Prasad
Show answer
Answer: (b)
109. From which of the following place capital forming with four lions has been discovered ?
- (a) Lauriya Araraj
- (b) Sanchi
- (c) Rampurwa
- (d) Basada-Bakhira
Show answer
Answer: (b)
110. In Rigveda, ‘Nishkagriva’ was a type of
- (a) Land tax
- (b) Dress
- (c) Ornament
- (d) Food
Show answer
Answer: (c)
111. Vijayanagar Kingdom was established in which Delhi Sultan’s reign ?
- (a) Firuz Tughlaq
- (b) Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq
- (c) Muhammad Tughlaq
- (d) Alauddin Khalji
Show answer
Answer: (c)
112.
- (a) 1 Nov. 1913
- (b) 1 Dec. 1913
- (c) 1 Nov. 1914
- (d) 21 Feb. 1915
Show answer
Answer: (a)
113. Which politician has Stated “I have read the lession of politics at the feet of Surendra Nath Banerjee” ?
- (a) Subhas Chandra Bose
- (b) Mohammad Ali Jinnah
- (c) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
- (d) Dr. M. A. Ansari
Show answer
Answer: (b)
114. Book ‘Rehla’ provides the major events of Muhammad-bin-Tughluq written in which of the language ?
- (a) Arabic
- (b) Turkish
- (c) Persian
- (d) Urdu
Show answer
Answer: (a)
115. Who of the following ruler issued coins of ‘Ilahi’ type ?
- (a) Sher Shah Suri
- (b) Humayun
- (c) Akbar
- (d) Babur
Show answer
Answer: (c)
116. At the time of Mahatma Gandhi’s murder which newspaper wrote that — “He was a Mahatma among politician and a politician among Mahatmas” ?
- (a) Pioneer
- (b) Harijan
- (c) Manchester Guardian
- (d) The Statesman
Show answer
Answer: (c)
117. Who was deputed to escort Hieun Tsang to the frontier when he was back to his country ?
- (a) Udhita
- (b) Vajraditya
- (c) Shri Vekkadeva
- (d) Bhimadeva
Show answer
Answer: (a)
118. Who one of the following Viceroys of India had decided to play the game of ‘Divide and Rule’ ?
- (a) Lord Curzon
- (b) Lord Minto
- (c) Lord Reading
- (d) Lord Chelmsford
Show answer
Answer: (b)
119. Who started the paper ‘Sambad-Kaumudi’ in 1821 ?
- (a) Rajaram Mohan Roy
- (b) R. G. Bhandarkar
- (c) M. G. Ranade
- (d) Keshavchandra Sen
Show answer
Answer: (a)
120. Who one of the following officers was concerned with ‘Karkhanas’ in Mughal period ?
- (a) Sadr
- (b) Diwan
- (c) Subedar
- (d) Diwan-i-Buyutat
Show answer
Answer: (d)
121. In Mughal period who one of the following rulers started ‘Check and Balance’ policy in administration ?
- (a) Babur
- (b) Shah Jahan
- (c) Akbar
- (d) Jahangir
Show answer
Answer: (c)
122. After escaping from the prison Rajyashri, sister of Harshavardhan entered in which of the region ?
- (a) Satpura forest
- (b) Panchavati forest
- (c) Vindhyan forest
- (d) Ganga plain
Show answer
Answer: (c)
123. Abdur-Razzaq, an envoy from Persia, visited Vijayanagar in the Court of which ruler ?
- (a) Devaraya I
- (b) Devaraya II
- (c) Harihara II
- (d) Krishnadevaraya
Show answer
Answer: (b)
124. In Rigveda, ‘Dhanya-Krit’ is used for
- (a) Winnower
- (b) Potter
- (c) Maker of Jewels
- (d) Smith
Show answer
Answer: (a)
125. Who was the first Delhi Sultan to be conferred upon the title of ‘Nasir-amir-ul-mominin’ by the Khalifa ?
- (a) Qutubuddin Aibak
- (b) Balban
- (c) Iltutmish
- (d) Raziya
Show answer
Answer: (c)

Show answers

Answer key

Answer key from the U.P. Secondary Education Services Selection Board’s official answer key for this sitting. “—” means the key gave none: the question was deleted.

History

Q 1: (b)
Q 2: (c)
Q 3: (b)
Q 4: (b)
Q 5: (a)
Q 6: (a)
Q 7: (c)
Q 8: (a)
Q 9: (b)
Q 10: (d)
Q 11: (c)
Q 12: (a)
Q 13: (a)
Q 14: (d)
Q 15: (c)
Q 16: (d)
Q 17: (c)
Q 18: (c)
Q 19: (b)
Q 20: (b)
Q 21: —
Q 22: (c)
Q 23: (b)
Q 24: (b)
Q 25: (b)
Q 26: (c)
Q 27: (b)
Q 28: (c)
Q 29: (d)
Q 30: (c)
Q 31: (a)
Q 32: (a)
Q 33: (a)
Q 34: (b)
Q 35: (a)
Q 36: (c)
Q 37: (d)
Q 38: (d)
Q 39: (b)
Q 40: (a)
Q 41: (b)
Q 42: (a)
Q 43: (a)
Q 44: (c)
Q 45: (d)
Q 46: (b)
Q 47: (c)
Q 48: (b)
Q 49: (a)
Q 50: (c)
Q 51: (b)
Q 52: (b)
Q 53: (c)
Q 54: (b)
Q 55: (b)
Q 56: (c)
Q 57: (c)
Q 58: (b)
Q 59: (c)
Q 60: (a)
Q 61: (a)
Q 62: (b)
Q 63: (d)
Q 64: (c)
Q 65: (c)
Q 66: (d)
Q 67: (c)
Q 68: (a)
Q 69: (b)
Q 70: (a)
Q 71: (c)
Q 72: (d)
Q 73: (d)
Q 74: (c)
Q 75: (d)
Q 76: (d)
Q 77: (c)
Q 78: (d)
Q 79: (b)
Q 80: (b)
Q 81: (a)
Q 82: (c)
Q 83: (c)
Q 84: (c)
Q 85: (b)
Q 86: (d)
Q 87: (b)
Q 88: (d)
Q 89: (d)
Q 90: (c)
Q 91: (c)
Q 92: (d)
Q 93: (d)
Q 94: (c)
Q 95: (c)
Q 96: (b)
Q 97: (b)
Q 98: (a)
Q 99: (b)
Q 100: (c)
Q 101: (c)
Q 102: (d)
Q 103: (a)
Q 104: (c)
Q 105: (c)
Q 106: (a)
Q 107: (b)
Q 108: (b)
Q 109: (b)
Q 110: (c)
Q 111: (c)
Q 112: (a)
Q 113: (b)
Q 114: (a)
Q 115: (c)
Q 116: (c)
Q 117: (a)
Q 118: (b)
Q 119: (a)
Q 120: (d)
Q 121: (c)
Q 122: (c)
Q 123: (b)
Q 124: (a)
Q 125: (c)