History Questions and Answers – Set 1

History Questions and Answers – Set 1

1. Which Tomar ruler is credited to have established Delhi? ➟ Anangpal
2. Who was called Zinda Pir (living saint) in Mughal India? ➟ Aurangzeb
3. Whose tomb is ‘Biwi Ka Maqbara’? ➟ Aurangzeb’s wife
4. The ruler which was not invited to join the confederacy to fight against Vijaynagar
   in the battle of Talikota? ➟ Berar
5. What was the script used in the earliest Tamil inscriptions? ➟ Brahmi
6. Which ports handled the north Indian trade during the Gupta period? ➟ Tamralipto
7. At which one place did Mahatma Gandhi first start his Satyagraha in India? ➟ Champaran
8. During which reign was Kalidasa lived? ➟ Chandragupta II
9. Who was the Sultan of Delhi who is reputed to have built the biggest network
   of canals in India? ➟ Feroze Shan Tughlaq
10. In the Vedic society, which was the term used to denote a group of families? ➟ Jana
11. Bhakt Tukaram was a contemporary of which Mughal emperor? ➟ Jahangir
12. Which region of India was ruled by Sultan Zainul Abidin? ➟ Kashmir
13. Near the banks of which river excavations have brought to light that Indus Valley
    Civilization percolated to far south? ➟ Krishna
14. Which Rashtrakuta ruler established a victory pillar in Rameshwaram? ➟ Krishna III
15. Who com-merited that Cripps Mission was a postdated cheque on a crashing
    bank? ➟ Mahatma Gandhi
16. Who was the last of the 24th Jain Tirthankaras? ➟ Mahavira
17. Who was the last ruler of the Tughlaq dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate? ➟ Nasir-ud-din-Mahmud
18. In which nomad man started settling? ➟ Neolithic Age
19. Sirajuddaulah was defeated by Lord Clive in which battle? ➟ Plassey
20. Which ‘Englishmen was fellow of Gandhiji in South Africa? ➟ Henry Solomon Leon Polak
21. Which Rajputa king defeated Muhammad Ghori for the first time? ➟ Prithviraj III
22. During India’s Freedom Struggle, which led to the first ‘All India Hartal’? ➟ “Protest against Rowlatt Act”
23. In ancient India, at where was the earliest capital of Magadha kingdom? ➟ Rajgriha
24. Which site, where Ashokan pillars exist, has the bull capital? ➟ Rampurva
25. “The best and bravest of the military leader of the rebels” about whom was this
    said by Sir Hugh Rose? ➟ Rani of Jhansi
26. Rigveda is divided into 10 books. Which books are the oldest? ➟ Second and seventh
27. Who was the Afghan ruler of India whose administrative system was emulated
    by the British? ➟ Sher Shah Suri
28. By whom was Shuddhi movement (conversion of non-Hindus to Hinduism)
    started? ➟ Swami Dayanand Saraswati
29. Which school of paintings developed independently during the Mughal Period? ➟ The Bijapur School
30. Who organised a Maratha confederacy against the English leading to the Third
    Anglo Maratha War? ➟ The Peshwa