List of top Ancient Indian History Culture And Arch Questions asked in Common University Entrance Test

Identify the correct statements:
(A) In 1921, D.R. Sahani excavated Harappa.
(B) In 1921, Marshall excavated Mohenjodaro.
(C) In 1931, Marshall excavated Mohenjodaro.
(D) In 1940, Vats excavated Harappa.
Match List-I with List-II:
List-I List-II 
(A) The Pandya Kingdom(I) Y. Subbarayalu
(B) Peasant State and Society in Medieval South India(II) T.V. Mahalingam
(C) South Indian Polity(III) Burton Stein
(D) Political Geography of the Chola Country(IV) K.A. Nilakanta Sastri
Who was the chief deity of ancient Tamils?
Identify the correctly paired structures and their locations:
(A) Ajivika Hall, Nagarjuni Hills (Bihar)
(B) Ajivika Hall, Nagarjuni Hill (Maharashtra)
(C) Karle Caves, Western Ghats
(D) Rani Gumpha, Odisha
Identify the correct statements:
(A) Gupta kings assumed imperial titles such as Maharajadhiraja.
(B) They also connected themselves with the gods through epithets such as Parama-daivata (the foremost worshipper of the gods)
(C) The Allahabad Prashasti describes Samudragupta as a common man.
(D) Some historians suggested that the Gupta kings claimed divine status.
Important aspects of Harappan trade were:
(A) Two-wheeled carts were an important mode of transport.
(B) Several routes of trade and commerce connected the various parts of the Harappan culture zone.
(C) The Khetri deposits of Rajasthan were not an important source of copper.
(D) The use of horses seems to have been very minimal.
Match List-I with List-II:
List-I List-II 
(A) Vikramorvashiya(I) Bharavi
(B) Kavyalankara(II) Kalidasa
(C) Kiratarjuniya(III) Dandin
(D) Kavyadarsha(IV) Bhamaha
The later Vedic texts and the PGW Culture relate to the mid Ganga valley, whereas the Rigveda primarily pertains to:
The guardians of the sacrificial horse in the Ashvamedha were drawn from the:
Arrange the following in chronological order:
(A) The British succeeded in transferring many of Indian coins to private and public collections in Britain.
(B) The earliest coins contain a few symbols.
(C) The Indo-Greek coins were found around Afghanistan.
(D) The post-Gupta coins depict decline of trade and commerce.
Arrange the following in chronological order:
(A) Accession of Chandragupta Maurya
(B) Hathigumpha inscription
(C) The Gupta inscription from Allahabad
(D) Mushika Vamsha by Atula
What are true about Mesolithic rock paintings in India? (A) The first rock paintings in India were discovered by A.C.L. Carlleyle. (B) The Bhimbetka paintings have not been studied by V.S. Wakankar. (C) At most Mesolithic rock art sites, animals dominate the scenes. (D) No snakes are depicted in Indian Mesolithic rock paintings.
In the south around the sixth century AD, the non-Brahman villages were called:
The first palaeolithic tool discovered by Robert Bruce Foote at Pallavaram near Madras was:
Which of the following ages or eras form the Cenozoic or the age of the mammals?
The three-age system – the idea that there was an age of stone tools, followed by one dominated by those of bronze and then of iron – was put forward by:
Arrange the following in correct chronological sequence:
(A) Discovery of the monsoon
(B) Final composition of the Sangam literature
(C) The beginning of the megalithic culture
(D) The Cholas re-emerge as an important power
.Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Arrange the following Pandya rulers of Madurai in correct chronological sequence
(A) Rajasimha I
(B) Arikesari
(C) Kadungon
(D) Ranadhira
Arrange the following in correct chronological sequence:
(A) Mature Harappan culture
(B) Use of rice in Lothal
(C) Earliest agricultural settlements in Baluchistan
(D) Pre-Harappan settlements in Cholistan (Pakistan)
The term ’classical Sanskrit’ refers to the language. Its rules were codified by:
Which one of the following is not authored by Bhasa?
The Jaina Puranas are hagiographies of the Jaina saints known as tirthankaras. The Shvetam-baras call them:
The Jatakas (stories of the previous births of the Buddha) are one of the 15 books of:
Within the Vedic corpus as a whole, which of the following are considered the oldest?
The 18th and 19th centuries were dominated by the writings of European scholars, usually referred to as the Orientalists or Indologists, although they often described themselves as: