List of top History Questions

Which ‘Article’ gave the Centre the powers to take over a state administration on the recommendation of the Governor?
Name the leader who defended the rights of the state and felt that reallocation of power was necessary to strengthen not only the states but also the centre.
Who wrote “Khoob ladi mardani woh to Jhansi wali rani thi”?
Arrange these events related to the Revolt of 1857 in a chronological order.
(A) Mutiny started in Meerut.
(B) Shah Mal killed in battle.
(C) Rani Jhansi killed in battle.
(D) Subsidiary Alliance introduced by Wellesley in Awadh.
(E) British suffer defeat in the Battle of Chinhat.
Arrange these events chronologically.
(A) Transfer of capital from Calcutta to Delhi.
(B) Cornwallis Code enacted.
(C) First screening of a film at Watson’s Hotel, Bombay.
(D) First Spinning and Weaving Mill in Bombay.
(E) Asiatic Society founded by Sir William Jones.
A large majority of the sepoys of the Bengal Army were recruited from Awadh and _______.
Who among the following painted ``Relief of Lucknow''?
The kingdom annexed by the British in 1856 on the pretext of misgovernance was ________.
Before the Railway Age, the collection centre for cotton from the Deccan was _______.
Francis Buchanan-Hamilton was a ________.
The painting in which Shah Jahan is shown as honouring Prince Aurangzeb at Agra before his wedding is painted by ___
When Permanent Settlement was imposed, who was the Raja of Burdwan?
A 'sahukar' was someone who acted as both a ________.
Identify the law according to which if payment did not come in by sunset of the specified date, the zamindari was liable to be auctioned.
Read the statements in the context of the Vijayanagara Empire and choose the correct state ments:
(A) Rulers often encouraged temple building as a means of associating themselves with the divine.
(B) Temples functioned only as a religious centre and were never a center of economy and polity.
(C) Kings prepared and maintained temples to win the support and recognition of their power, wealth and piety.
(D) Temples never functioned as a centre of learning.
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Identify the wrong pair from the following options:
Match List - I with List - II:
List - IList - II
(A) Appar(I) Tevaram
(B) Malfuzat(II) Tamil Veda
(C) Tazkiras(III) Uttered conversation of Sufis
(D) Nalayira Divyaprabandham(IV) Women devotee of Shiva

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One of the major anthologies of composition by the Alvars was:
Match List - I with List - II:
List - IList - II
(A) Jagannatha(I) A devotee of Shiva
(B) Manikkavachakar(II) Anthologies of Alvars
(C) Nalayira Divyaprabandham(III) A form of Vishnu
(D) Karaikkal Ammaiyar(IV) Woman devotee of Shiva

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Match List - I with List - II:
List - IList - II
(A) Peter Mundy(I) France
(B) Ibn Battuta(II) England
(C) Francois Bernier(III) Spain
(D) Antonio Monserrate(IV) Morocco

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Arrange the following textual traditions in a chronological order:
(A) Charaka and Sushruta Samhitas
(B) Natyashastra of Bharata
(C) Manusmriti
(D) Sanskrit plays of Kalidasa
(E) Ashtadhyayi of Panini
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Arrange the landmarks in the discovery and conservation of the Vijayanagara Empire in a chro nological order:
(A) Colin Mackenzie’s Visit
(B) Alexander Greenlaw takes first detailed photographs
(C) Conservation begins under John Marshall
(D) J.F. Fleet begins documenting inscriptions
(E) Hampi declared as a world heritage site by UNESCO
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