General Studies: Practice Paper Based on Indian History for UPSC, SSC, Postal Exams

General Studies Practice Paper Based on Indian History

1) Who renovated Sudarshan Lake without Forced Labour ?

1. Chandragupta Maurya
2. Bindhusar
3. Ashoka
4. Rudradaman-1

2) Who of the following took the passing of resolution on partition in the meeting of the Congress Committee (1947) as a "Surrender of Nationalism in favour of Communal-ism" ?

1. Dr. Kitchlew
2. Purushottam Das Tandon
3. Jawaharlal Nehru
4. G.B. Pant

3) To whom Aurangzeb bestowed upon the title of " Sahibat-uz-Zamani" ?

1. Shasta Khan
2. Amin Khan
3. Jahan Ara
4. Roshan Ara

4) What was the boundary between the Delhi Sultan and Mongols during the period of Alauddin Khilji after 1306 A.D ?

1. Beas
2. Ravi
3. Indus
4. Sutlaj

5) Which Sufi Saint was called " Mahbub-i-Ilahi" ?

1. Khwaja Monuddin Chisti
2. Baba Farid
3. Qutubuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki
4. Sheikh Nizamuddin Auliya

6) Whose disciple was Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti ?

1. Khawaja Abdal Chisti
2. Shah Wali Ullah
3. Mir Dard
4. Khwaja Usman Haruni

7) The Lieutenant Governor of Bengal at the time of Partition of Bengal was ?

1. Sir Andrews Fraser
2. H.H. Risley
3. Brodrick
4. A.t. Arundel

8) The British Journalist H.W. Nevinson was associated with :

1. Non-Co-Operation Movement
2. Civil Disobedience Movement
3. Swadeshi Movement
4. Quit India Movement

9) Akbarnama was completed by Abul Fazl in ?

1. 7 Years
2. 8 Years
3. 9 Years
4. 10 Years

10) The last session of Indian National Congress attended by Bal Gangadhar Tilak was 

1. Calcutta Session, 1906
2. Surat Session, 1907
3. Calcutta Session, 1917
4. Amritsar Session, 1919

11) In which of his following books did Mahatma Gandhi call British Parliament as sterile and prostitute ?

1. Sarvodaya or Universal Dawn
2. An Autobiography or The Story of my Experiments with Truth
3. Hind Swaraj
4. The Story of Satyagrahi

12) The task of drafting Congress Inquiry Committee report on Jallianwala Bagh Massacre was entrusted to :

1. Jawaharlal Nehru
2. Mahatma Gandhi
3. C.R. Das
4. Fazlul Haq

13) Along with Mahatma Gandhi who amongst the following Muslims did lift the bier of Bal Gangadhar Tilak ?

1. Shaukat Ali
2. Mohammad Ali
3. Maulana A.K. Azad
4. M.A. Ansari

14) The first editor of the Journal " Indian Opinion " was :

1. M.K. Gandhi
2. Albert West
3. Mahadev Desai
4. Mansukhlal Nazar

15) In which of the following sessions of Indian National Congress, the word "Swaraj" was uttered from  the Congress platform for the first time ?

1. Banaras Session, 1905
2. Calcutta Session, 1906
3. Surat Session, 1907
4. None of these

16) The book " The Man Who Divided India " was written by 

1. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
2. Dr. Rajendra Prasad
3. Rafiq Zakaria
4. Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre

17) Who among the following took Mahatma Gandhi's gain in the Gandhi-Irwin pact as "Consolation Prizes" ?

1. S.C. Bose
2. Alan Campbell Johnson
3. B.G. Horniman
4. Sarojini Naidu

18) Which of the following is Not correctly matched ?

1. Bhagat Singh : The Indian Sociologist
2. Sachindranath Sanyal : Bandi Jivan
3. Lala Ramsaran Das : The Dreamland
4. Bhagawati Charan Vohra : Philosophy of Bomb

19) The Indian Independence Bill received the Royal Assent on :

1. 18 July, 1947
2. 19 July, 1947
3. 20 July, 1947
4. 21 July, 1947

20) Who of the following had regarded the Karachi Session of Indian National Congress (1931) as the " Pinnacle of Mahatma Gandhi's popularity and prestige" ?

1. S.C. Bose
2. Pattabhi Sitaramayya
3. Sardar Vallabhbhau Patel
4. Sardar Kishan Singh

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