1. How were foreign merchants referred to in Chola documents?

(A) Ayyavole  (B) Pattinam  (C) Manigramam (D) Nanadeshi

2. The first ruler of the Pala Dynasty was

(A) Devpala  (B) Dhaffnapal  (C) Gopal  (D) Tejpal 

3. The Saka Era was started by

(A) Bimbisara  (B) Ajatasatru  (C) Kanishka  (D) Menander 

4. Karshapana was a type of

(A) Metal  (B) Paper  (C) Currency  (D) Race 

5. The capital of Kanishka was

(A) Purushpura (B) Sialkot (C) Pathankot (D) Bodhgaya

6. Abdul Hamid Lahori was the author of

(A) Padshahnama  (B) Razm Namah (C) Iqbal Namah (D) Tabaqat

7. The Kushanas were originally from

(A) Greece  (B) Iran  (C) Central Asia  (D) Europe

8. Sasanka was the ruler of

(A) Kanauj  (B) Pataliputra  (C) Gaur  (D) Assam

9. The greatest Kushan ruler was

(A) Menander   (B) Gondophernes   (C) Maga    (D) Kanishka

10. Menander was a

(A) Kushan (B) Indo-Greek (C) Saka  (D) Chinese

10. Abdul Hamid Lahori was the author of

(A) Padshahnama (B) Razm Namah (C) Iqbal Namah (D) Tabaqat

11. The Qadri order of Sufis was founded by

(A) Shah Niamatullah Qadri  (B) Baba Farid  (C) Bakhtiyar Kaki (D) Shah Jalal

12. The "Boro Sona Masjid" in 61. The Arab conquest of Sindh is depicted in

(A) Akbar Namah (B) Ain i Akbari (C) Chach Namah (D) Shah Namah

13. Bengal was built by

(A) Alauddin Hussein Shah (B) Nusrat Shah (C) Shah Shuja (D) Shah Jahan

14. Sufi orders were generally known as

(A) Siayasa (B) Virasat (C) Hukumat (D) Silsilah

15. The following is a Sufi order:

(A) Namdhari (B) Kirpandhari (C) Auliya (D) None of the above

16. The "Tarikh i Firuz Shahi" was the work of

(A) Abdul Khader Badauni (B) Ziauddin Barani (C) Bhimsen Burhanpuri (D) Tansen

17. The book written by Ibn Batuta was

(A) Saleha (B) Rehala (C) Kitab ul Ibar (D) Razm Namah

18. The original name of Nurjahan was

(A) Luftunnissa (B) Khairunnisa (C) Meherunnisa (D) Raziya

16. Mukundaram was the author of

(A) Padma Puran (B) Barsha Mongal (C) Chandi Mongal (D) None of the above

17. Tabaqat i Nasiri was written by

(A) Sirajuddin (B) Minhaj us Siraj (C) Khafi Khan (D) Firuz Tughlaq

1.Which was the earliest of Turkish power in Delhi?

(A) Qila-ii Rai Pithora

(B) Siri

(C) PuranaQi1a

(D) Jahanpanah

2.How were foreign Chola documents?

(A) Manigramam

(B) Nanadesi

(C) Ayyavole

(D) Pattinam

1.What is the meaning of the word 'Sangam' in the Sangam Age ?

(A) Royal Court      (B) Assembly of Poets    (C) Assembly of religious teachers          (D) Meeting of rivers

2.Who composed the Sanskrit kavya 'Saundarananda' ?

(A) Asvaghosa           (B) Kalidasa       (C) Nagarjuna           (D) Visnu Sharma

3.Rulers of which dynasty patronised Jainism ?

(A) Chalukya               (B) Pallava       (C) Rashtrakuta           (D) Chauhan

4.What was the 'Araghatta' ?

(A) A machine to break forts  (B) An irrigation canal      (C) A device to lift water         (D) A type of cloth

5.Kamban's Ramayana in Tamil was written during the reign of

(A) Chalukya               (B) Pallavas       (C) Cholas   (D) Kakatiyas

6.The Nayanar group of saints in North India were devotees of Lord

(A) Vishnu       (B) Shiva         (C) Krishna      (D) Buddha

7.The Dilwara Temples at Mount Abu were constructed during the rule of

(A) Chalukyas      (B) Solankis           (C) Kalachuris             (D) None of the above

8.Which of the following works refer to the History of Sind and it's conquest by the Muslim ?

(A) Taj-ul-Maathir      (B) Chach Namah         (C) Lubab-ul-Abab       (D) Kitab-i-Tahqiq

9.Who was the author of 'Tabaqat-i-Nasiri'  ?

(A) Ibn Batuta       (B) Minhaj-us-Siraj            (C) Isami          (D) Ziauddin Barani

1.The spies during the Sangam age was known as

(A) Spasas      

(B) Dutas       

(C) Orrars                   

(D) Sanjayans

2.Lands during the post-Gupta period, were classified on the basis of

(A) Being cultivated and uncultivated

(B) Being irrigated and unirrigated

(C) Crops being grown on the lands

(D) All of the above 

3.The Pallava-Chola style of architecture is commonly known as.

(A) Pallava       

(B) Chola       

(C) Nagara       

(D) Dravida

4.The Muslim kingdom of Golconda grew up on the ruins of the old Hindu kingdom of

(A) Devagiri        

(B) Dwarsamudra       

(C) Warrangal        

(D) Kanchi

1.The centre of Sangam literature and the patrons of Sangam poets were

(A) The Cheras of Vanji            

(B) The Cholas of Uraiyur         

(C) The Pandyas of Madurai      

(D) All of the above

2.The theory of the emergence of feudalism in the post-Gupta period is disputed on the ground that

(A) all the lands donated were not secular land grants.

(B) the status of the peasants was not that of serfs.

(C) the brahmin donees did not always belong to the ruling class.

(D) All of the three above

3.The famous Uttaramerur inscription belongs to the reign of

(A) Parantaka I    (B) Parantaka II       (C) Rajaraja I          (D) Rajaraja II

4.Which style of architecture was developed by the Chalukyas of Badami ?

(A) Vesara       (B) Dravida      (C) Nagara       (D) Gopuram

1.Who was popularly known as Nana Saheb ?

(A) Baji Rao I       (B) Balaji Baji Rao             (C) Balaji Biswanath                (D) Sawai Madhav Rao

2.Which dynasty described itself as the 'Brahma-Kshatriya' ?

(A) Senas        (B) Palas         (C) Rashtrakutas       (D) Pratiharas

3.The dynasty which Harshavardhan belonged to was

(A) Varmans                (B) Maukharis              (C) Pushyamitras        (D) Pushyabhutis

4.The 96 years old man who was captured and behaded at Talikota (Bannihatti) in 1565 was

(A) Rama Raya           (B) Krishna Deva Raya            (C) Bukkal       (D) Saluva Narsimha

5.Who among the following was greatly influenced by Islam ?

(A) Namadeva             (B) Chaitanya              (C) Ramananda   (D) Ramanuja

6.Which Chalukya ruler is credited with repelling the Arab invasion of South Gujarat ?

(A) Vikramaditya I      (B) Pulakesin I        (C) Pulakesin ll    (D) Vikramaditya II

1.Haribhadra, the famous Buddhist author was at the court of -

(A) Gopala       (B) Mahipala                (C) Devapala        (D) Dharmapala

2.Who was the founder of the Chalukyas of Badami ?

(A) Vikramaditya I       (B) Pulkesin I             (C) Kirtivarman I          (D) Vijayaditya

3.Which of the following kingdoms was referred to as 'Ruhmi' by the Arab merchant Sulaiman ?

(A) Rashtrakuta           (B) Chola        (C) Pala            (D) Pratihara

4.The history of ancient Indian trade rightly begins from the —— period.

(A) Harappan               (B) Later Vedic            (C) Maurya        (D) Kushana

5.Seaborne trade between India and Rome received great impetus during the reign of Roman Emperor -

(A) Augustus              (B) Cladius      (C) Trajan        (D) Nero

6.During the post-Maurya times, elaborate vedic sacrificial rituals like the Vajapeya, Rajasuya and Aswamedha were

7.regularly performed by the rulers of

(A) North India            (B) The Deccan               (C) Both North India and Deccan            (D) Chola dynasty

8.Which school of Art flourished in the region between the lower valleys of Krishna and Godavari during 2nd Century BCE - 3rd Century CE ?

(A) Gandhara School             (B) Mathura School     (C) Nagarjuna School             (D) Amravati School

1.The famous Jaina temples at Dilwara were built by

(A) Paramaras             (B) Chandellas          (C) Solankis         (D) Chauhans

2.Which one of the following was the meeting ground for the Brahmanical and devotional religious levels ?

(A) Maths        (B) Temples    (C) Ghatikas        (D) Samas

3.Who was the Bacterian King that invaded India in about 182 BC and wrested a considerable part of the North West ?

(A) Demetrius        (B) Antigonus       (C) Philadelphus         (D) Gondophernes

4.Who was the founder of 'Gajapati Dynasty' of Orissa ?

(A) Purushottam          (B) Kapilendra         (C) Prataparudra       (D) Vidyadhara

5.City of Nagalapura was built by -

(A) Bukka - II         (B) Deva Raya- I         (C) Krishnadevaraya       (D) Virupaksha

1.Vallabhacharya was the most distinguished preacher of the

(A) Shaiva Cult       

(B) Shakti Cult   

(C) Balaram Cult      

(D) Krishna Cult

2.Janamsakhi is the biography of

(A) Guru Nanak     

(B) Guru Arjundeva         

(C) Guru Hargobind Sing              

(D) Guru Tegbahadur