List of top History Questions asked in CUET (UG)

Match List-I with List-II:

List-I		List-II
A	Megaliths	(I)	Decipherment of Brahmi and Kharoshti
B	James Princep	(II)	Emerged in first millennium BCE
C	Piyadassi	(III)	Means pleasant to behold
D	Epigraphy	(IV)	Study of inscriptions

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Match List-I with List-II:

List-I		List-II
A	Quit India Movement	(I)	1931
B	Gandhi-Irwin Pact	(II)	1930
C	Civil Disobedience Movement	(III)	1928
D	Bardoli Peasant Movement	(IV)	1942

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Which of the following statements are correct?
(A) Biography of a saint or a religious leader is called Hagiography
(B) Biography of a saint or a religious leader is called Topography
(C) Hagiographies inform us about the beliefs of the followers of a particular tradition
(D) Nobody recorded the histories of saints and religious leaders
(E) Written sources do not help us in knowing history
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Who is the author of Akbar Nama?

Hastinapur is in which modern district?

Who said separate electorates was a “poison that has entered the body politic of the country” during the Constituent Assembly debates?

Which leader demanded justice for women, not reserved seats or separate electorates?

Nayanars were devotees of which God?

Match List-I with List-II:

List-I		List-II
A	Palaeography	(I)	Language used in earliest Inscriptions
B	Prakrit	(II)	Oligarchic State
C	Vajji	(III)	Styles of writing
D	Ashmaka	(IV)	A mahajanpada located in southernmost part of India

During the Salt Satyagraha, who persuaded Gandhiji not to restrict the protests to men alone?

Who among the following was associated with the critical edition of the Mahabharata?

Jagannath temple is located at:

Match List-I with List-II:

List-I		List-II
A	The Lucknow Pact	(I)	Film on Partition
B	Garm Hawa	(II)	1915
C	The Hindu Mahasabha	(III)	1906
D	The Muslim League	(IV)	1916

Match List-I with List-II:

List-I		List-II
A	Marco Polo	(I)	Sixteenth Century
B	Seydi Ali Reis	(II)	Fourteenth Century
C	Peter Mundy	(III)	Thirteenth Century
D	Ibn Battuta	(IV)	Seventeenth Century

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_____ was sent from Britain to India to try and forge a compromise with Gandhiji and Indian National Congress.

Which traveller described the hilly zone as impenetrable and dangerous in 19$^{th}$-century Bengal?

The Constitution of India, which came into effect on 26th January 1950, has the distinction of being ________ the in the world.

The mutinous Sepoys arrived at the gates of the Red Fort early in the morning on_________.

Match List-I with List-II:

List-I		List-II
A	Kula	(I)	A work on Sanskrit grammar
B	Ashtadhyayi	(II)	Families
C	Vamsha	(III)	A work on medicine in Sanskrit
D	Charaka Samhitas	(IV)	Lineage

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The Mughal imperial administrative apparatus was effectively dependent on ________.

Name the symbol of the freedom movement that could make the poor earn supplementary income and make them self-reliant.

The Governor General who introduced Enfield rifles using greased cartridges was_________:

“Relief of Lucknow” was painted by:

During 1857, talukdars and peasants carried out intense and long-lasting resistance in__________.

The protests in Punjab became particularly intense after the institution of which act?