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