List of top Questions asked in CUET (UG)

Saguna bhakti traditions do not include:
The rulers of Vijayanagara empire called themselves ______
Who was appointed as the first Surveyor General of India in 1815?
In which language were the Ashokan inscriptions written in Afghanistan?

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List-I (Meanings)List-II (Terms)
(A) Term used by the Sanskrit texts to designate families(I) Kula
(B) Tracing descent from father to son(II) Polygyny
(C) The practice of a man having several wives(III) Patriliny
(D) The gift of a daughter in marriage(IV) Kanyadana


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In Sanskrit texts and inscriptions, the term 'Vanik' refers to:

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List-I (Origin-Country)List-II (Thinker)
(A) Iran(I) Plato and Aristotle
(B) China(II) Mahavira and Gautama Buddha
(C) Greece(III) Zarathustra
(D) India(IV) Kong Zi


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According to which Buddhist text, Asoka distributed portions of the Buddha's relics to every important town and ordered the construction of stupas over them?

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List-I (Incident/ Characteristics)List-II (Traveller)
(A) He arrived in Ghazni as a hostage, but gradually developed a liking for this city(I) Al-Biruni
(B) He reached Sind in 1333 and was later appointed as the qazi of Delhi(II) François Bernier
(C) Physician to Prince Dara Shukoh(III) Ibn Battuta
(D) Wrote a detailed account of trade and society in South India(IV) Duarte Barbosa


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Which of the following is not true about Ibn Battuta?
Arrange the following events in a chronological order:
(A) Babur defeats Ibrahim Lodi, the Delhi Sultan, at Panipat, and becomes the first Mughal emperor
(B) Humayun is defeated by Sher Shah, in exile at the Safavid court
(C) Nadir Shah invades India and sacks Delhi
(D) The 'diwani' of Bengal was transferred to the English East India Company
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In the eighteenth-century, which of the following was not the reason for the defaults on payments by the zamindars?
What is the meaning of the term Benami?

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List-I (Leaders)List-II (Regions)
(A) Shah Mal(I) Pargana Barout in Uttar Pradesh
(B) Gonoo(II) Singhbhum in Chotanagpur
(C) Birjis Qadr(III) Awadh
(D) Kunwar Singh(IV) Arrah in Bihar


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The total time span of the Harappan Civilisation ranges:
Who deciphered 'Brahmi' and 'Kharosthi' scripts in 1838?
Identify the correct statements about the 'Inscriptions':
(A) Routine agricultural practices and events of daily life are the subject-matter of inscriptions.
(B) Record the achievements, activities or ideas of those who commissioned them.
(C) Writings are engraved on hard surfaces such as stone, metal or pottery.
(D) The earliest inscriptions were in Prakrit.
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In the seventeenth-century agrarian society, women of Rajasthan could send petitions to _______ seeking justice.
Arrange the following events in a chronological order:
(A) Santhals begin to come and settle in the Rajmahal hills
(B) Permanent Settlement in Bengal
(C) Cotton boom begins
(D) Santhal rebellion
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Arrange the following events of 1857 chronologically:
(A) Mutiny turned into a general revolt of the people
(B) Mutiny started in Meerut
(C) Delhi garrisons revolt
(D) British forces under Havelock and Outram entered the Residency in Lucknow
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Who was approached for leadership by the sepoys of Meerut who broke out in mutiny against the British in 1857?
Which movement was withdrawn by Gandhiji after a group of peasants attacked and torched a police station in the hamlet of Chauri Chaura (United Provinces)?
Arrange the following events in a chronological order:
(A) Ryots in Deccan villages rebel
(B) Slow process of agrarian expansion in the Bombay Deccan
(C) First revenue settlement in the Bombay Deccan
(D) Regulating Act passed by the British Parliament
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If you are reading the traveller's accounts, which of the following would be of Al-Biruni:
Which of the following is not true about the Lingayats?