Indian History

Q.1. Malik Kafur was the lieutenant of which Delhi Sultanate ruler? (a) Muhammad Bin Tughlaq  (b) Alauddin Khilji  (c) Firoz Shah Tughlaq  (d) Jalaluddin Khilji Q.2. Which of the following Mughal emperors was a proficient Veena player? (a) Akbar (b) Jahangir (c) Shahjahan (d) Aurangzeb Q.3. Thomas Roe was sent to the court of Mughal emperor Jahangir as an official ambassador of which British monarch? (a) James I (b) King George V (c) Queen Mary (d) Queen Elizabeth  Q.4. Who of the following reigned the longest? (a) Akbar (b) Babur (c) Shah Jahan (d) Jehangir Q.5. The Mansabdari system introduced by Akbar was borrowed from where? (a) Afghanistan (b) Turkey (c) Persia (d) Mongolia Q.6. Which of following Sultans of Slave (Mamluk) dynasty was the first to issue regular currency and declare Delhi as the capital of Delhi Sultanate?  (a) Iltutmish (b) Balban (c) Aram shah (d) Nasiruddin mahmud Q.7. Which of the following rulers of Delhi Sultanate was the first to introduce th

Q.1. Which of the following Delhi Sultanate rulers had prohibited Muslim women from worshipping the graves of saints? (a) Alauddin Khilji (b) Muhammad Bin Tughlaq (c) Firoz Shah Tughlaq (d) Sikander Lodhi Q.2. Which of the following Delhi Sultanate rulers had earned the sobriquet of ‘Lakh Baksh’?  (a) Qutb-ud-din Aibak (b) Balban (c) Jalaluddin Khilji (d) Ghiasuddin Tughlaq Q.3. Zain-ul-Abidin who forbade cow slaughter in his Sultanate was a ruler of  (a) Bengal (b) Kashmir (c) Khandesh (d) Madurai Q.4. Which battle was declared by Babur a Jihad (holy war)? (a) First Battle of Panipat (b) Battle of Chanderi (c) Battle of Khanwa  (d) Battle of Ghagra Q.5. The architectural raw material most widely used in Akbar's period was_________ (a) Redstone (b) Marble (c) Brick (d) Limestone Q.6. Abdur Razzaq was sent to the court of Vijayanagar ruler Dev Raya II as an ambassador of  (a) Sultan Shah Rukh of Persia (b) Sultan Bahzad of Turkey (c) Sultan Alauddin of Iraq (d) Sultan Bahaman of Egy

  Q. 1. Which Mughal Emperor had conferred the title of 'Raja' on Ram Mohan Roy? (a) Shah Alam II  (b) Akbar II (c) Shah Jahan III  (d) Bahadur Shah Zafar Q. 2. Which organization was founded by Ram Mohan Roy and Debendranath Tagore in 1828? (a) Brahmo Sabha (b) Tattwabodhini Sabha (c) Prarthna Samaj (d) None of these Q. 3. Who had called Raja Ram Mohan Roy the Father of Modern India? (a) Gopal Krishna Gokhale (b) Mahatma Ghandhi (c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak (d) Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Q. 4.  Who was the ruler of Delhi Sultanate when Guru Nanak was born? (a) Khizr Khan (b) Mubarak Shah (c) Bahlol Lodhi  (d) Sikandar Lodhi  Q. 5. What was the capital of Mahajanapada of Anga? (a) Ujjayini (b) Champa (c) Suktimati  (d) Ayodhya Q. 6. Who is the author of Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri? (a) Muhammad Saleh  (b) Nizam-ud-din Ahmad (c) Mirza Muhammad Kazim (d) Jahangir Q. 7. Which Delhi Sultanate ruler introduced the system of auditing the accounts? (a) Muhammad bin Tughlaq  (b) Sikandar Lodhi (c) Al

Q. 1. Who planted the 'Tree of Liberty' at Srirangapatnam? (a) Tipu Sultan (b) Hyder Ali (c) Chikka Krishnaraja (d) Devraj Q. 2. Which battle put an end to the French challenge to British supremacy in India?  (a) The Battle of Plassey (b) The Battle of Buxar (c) The Battle of Wandiwash (d) The Battle of Seringapatam Q. 3. Who among the following had introduced the revenue collection method Ryotwari System in India?  (a) Thomas Munro  (b) Lord Cornwallis (c) Holt Mackenzie (d) None of these Q. 4. Where did Moplah Uprising break out in 1921?   (a) Andhra Pradesh (b) Kerala (c) Karnataka (d) Tamil Nadu Q. 5. Who among the following was/were associated with the organization “Servants of India Society”? (a) Gopal Krishna Gokhle (b) Amritlal Vithaldas Thakkar (c) Both a and b  (d) None of these Q. 6. Who has authored the book 'The Light of Asia' ? (a) Charles Wilkins (b) Sir Edwin Arnold  (c) Edwin Lester Arnold (d) None of these   Q. 7. Who among the following leaders at

Q.1. In which year did the Deccan Riots take place? (a) 1875 (b) 1880 (c) 1885 (d) 1890 Q.2. Who was the leader of the Munda Rebellion of 1899? (a) Jaipal Singh Munda (b) Ram Dayal Munda  (c) Birsa Munda (d) Sidhu Murmu  Q.3. Who put forward the Drain of Wealth theory in his book ‘Poverty and Un-British Rule in India’? (a) Pherozeshah Mehta (b) Dadabhai Naoroji  (c) Surendranath Banerjea (d) Badruddin Tyabji Q.4. During the tenure of which Governor General were the railways introduced in India? (a) Lord Dalhousie (b) Warren Hastings (c) Lord William Bentinck  (d) Lord Cornwallis Q.5. Who was the first President of the Asiatic Society of Bengal? (a) Sir William Jones  (b) Sir John Shore  (c) Sir Charles Wilkins (d) Sir John Anstruther Q.6. Who established the Arya Samaj in 1875? (a) Dayananda Sarasvati (b) Ram Mohan Roy (c) Gopal Krishna Gokhale (d) Swami Vivekanand Q.7. In which battle was the Bengal Nawab Mir Qasim finally defeated by the English East India Company? (a) Battle of Buxa

Q. 1. Who was the leader of the Revolt of 1857 in Assam? (a) Maniram Dewan (b) Dev Kanta Baruah  (c) Lachit Barphukan (d) Kushal Konwar Q. 2. Who among the following tribal leaders was called Father of the World and regarded as an incarnation of God? (a) Birsa Munda (b) Sidhu Murmu  (c) Kanhu Murmu  (d) Nanak Bhil Q. 3. Which Indian historian had said about the Revolt of 1857: “On the whole, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that so-called First National War of Independence is neither First, nor National, nor a war of independence.” (a) Jadunath Sarkar (b) D. N. Jha (c) Ram Sharan Sharma (d) R.C. Majumadar Q. 4. Who led the Revolt of 1857 in Bihar? (a) Kunwar Singh (b) Mangal Pandey (c) Tantiya Tope (d) Nana Saheb Q. 5. Which among the following was the first to sign the Subsidiary Alliance Treaty with the British?  (a) Tanjore (b) Hyderabad  (c) Berar  (d) Awadh Q. 6. Which British Governor- General applied the policy of Subsidiary Alliance to expand the power and influence of t

  Q.1. In which city was Mahatma Gandhi assassinated on 30 January, 1948? (a) Delhi (b) Bombay (c) Kolkata (d) Allahabad Q.2. Who was the Prime Minister of Britain when India became independent?  (a) Clement Attlee (b) Winston Churchill (c) Neville Chamberlain (d) Ramsay MacDonald Q.3. In which year did Burma (Myanmar) cease to be a part of India? (a) 1924 (b) 1935 (c) 1936 (d) 1937 Q.4. How many volunteers had accompanied Mahatma Gandhi on the famed Dandi March or Salt Satyagraha starting on March 12, 1930? (a) 76 (b) 77 (c) 78 (d) 79 Q.5. Name the city where Satyagraha Sabha was formed by Gandhi in 1919 to protest against the Rowlatt Act.    (a) Bombay (b) Lahore (c) Calcutta (d) Ahmedabad Q.6. Who among the following was a source of inspiration to Gandhi? (a) Tolstoy (b) Lenin (c) Karl Marx (d) None of the above Q.7. Who among the following was the Governor-General of India during the Sepoy Mutiny, also known as Indian Mutiny by the British? (a) Lord Dalhousie (b) Lord Ellenborough

Starting as a religious (communal) movement,  Faraizi Movement in course of time became a struggle against the landlords (who were mostly Hindus) who oppressed the common people and farmers and  British colonists . Founded by  Haji Shariatullah, the movement began with a call to the Muslims to perform their obligatory duties (Fard) enjoined by Allah with a view to purging the religion of the un-Islamic rites which he considered were contrary to the teachings of the Qu’ran.  Haji Shariatullah was born in Faridpur (now in Bangladesh) in 1781.  After Haji Shariatullah’s death in 1840, the mantle of leadership was passed on to his son Muhsinuddin Ahmed, more popularly known as Dudu Miyan. Under Dudu Miyan, the movement became agrarian in character. After his death in 1862, the movement began to lose steam and ultimately died down. 

Located in the state of Uttar Pradesh, Kushinagar is one of the world's most sacred sites of Buddhism. Kushinagar’s claim to fame lies in being the place where Buddha breathed his last, the event known in the Buddhist tradition as paranibbana (Mahaparinirvana) which is considered to have taken place in 483 BC.  Kushinagar has an antiquity of centuries. Buddha himself declared Kushinagar as one of the four most sacred places. However, unlike Sravasti, Champa, Rajagraha, Saketa, Kausambi and Varanasi, Kusinagar was not an important city during Buddha’s time. This can be ascertained form Buddha’s disciple Ananda’s regret that his master chose to die in so small town as Kusinagar. Kusinagar was visited by the Buddha several times before his death.  Buddha’s Mahaparinirvana came at the age of eighty. After spending the last rainy season of life near the city of Vaishali, he and his followers reached the town of Pava where he took a meal at the house of his lay disciple, Cunda. Soon aft

                                             Chini-ka-Rauza  / Image Source Located in Agra in Uttar Pradesh, Chini-ka-Rauza is the mausoleum Afzal Khan Aalmi who was the diwan-I kull of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan. During Shah Jahan’s times vizir (Prime Minister) of the Mughal empire was called diwan-I kull . A learned man, Afzal Khan Aalmi was the elder brother of Amanat Khan who is known for designing the calligraphy of world renowned monument Taj Mahal.   Both of the brothers came to India from Shiraz in Iran.  Afzal Khan Aalmi died in 1639 in Lahore from where he was brought to Agra and buried in Chini-ka-Rauza. The monument is so named because of the coloured glazed tiles that adorn it. 

  Image source Located in Aurangabad, Bibi-ka-Maqbara is the mausoleum of 6th Mughal emperor Aurangzeb’s wife Dilras Banu Begum who was posthumously called Rabia-ud-Daurani. The monument was commissioned by Aurangzeb in 1660.  With its four minarets flanking a central onion-domed tomb, the monument is built on a high square platform, which is approached by a flight of steps from the three sides.  Bearing a striking resemblance to the world acclaimed Taj Mahal at Agra, Bibi Ka Maqbara is also known as the “Taj of the Deccan”. 

Today is the death anniversary of Khudiram Bose [1889-1908], a revolutionary born in the Midnapore district of West Bengal.  One of India’s earliest revolutionaries to die on the gallows on August 11, 1908, Khudiram Bose was a member of the revolutionary society  Anushilan Samiti . He along with Prufulla Chaki threw a bomb at the carriage of Kingsford, an English Judge at Muzaffarpur in Bihar. He was arrested in the Muzaffarpur Conspiracy case and sentenced to death at the young age of 18.

In 1406 one of the many battles between the Vijayanagar kingdom and the Bahmani sultanate took place. If the medieval Persian historian Ferishta is to believed, the casus belli of the fight was a fascination of Vijayanagar ruler Deva Raya I for a goldsmith’s beautiful daughter living in Mudgal in the Raichur Doab , the region between the Tungabhadra and Krishna rivers. Thanks to its being a fertile land, Raichur Doab was a bone of contention between the rulers of the Vijayanagar and the Bahmanis as none of them wanted to forsake their claim on the region.  Since the girl in question was averse to the idea of marrying Deva Raya I, this infuriated the latter who laid waste some villages in the neighbourhood of Mudgal. This antagonized the Bahmani Sultan Firuz Shah who considered the aggression as an encroachment on the Bahmani territory. In retaliation, he attacked Vijayanagar. Though the war initially went well for Vijayanagar, in the end Deva Raya I was forced to make peace with the Ba

The Tarikh-i-Alfi (History of a Thousand Years) is a historical work chronicling the first thousand years of Islamic world history. Commissioned by Mughal emperor Akbar, the chronicle was written by a board of compilers headed by a Shia theologian Mulla Ahmad of Thatta. Mulla Ahmad had written a large part of the text.  Due to the animosity between Shias and Sunnis, Mulla Ahmad was murdered in 1588 in the street of Lahore by a Sunni nobleman, Mirza Fawlad, who lured him out of his house on the pretext that the Emperor had asked for his presence in the court. Later his body was exhumed by the Sunnis and burnt by them. After the death of Mulla Ahmad, Asaf Khan Jafar Beg completed the rest of the work around 1592.   Badauni was selected by Akbar to revise the manuscript and compare it with other histories.    

Pagal Panthi was a socio-religious sect whose members were mainly drawn from the Garo and Hajong tribes living in the Mymensingh and Sherpur districts of Bangladesh. The sect started as a resistance against local zamindars and with the passage of time established itself as bulwark against the British colonial rule.  Pagal Panthi was founded by Karim Shah, a darvesh or mendicant. After his death in 1813 the reins of the movement passed on to his son Tipu Shah or Tipu Pagal who in 1825 led a band of armed followers in plundering the houses of the zamindars of Sherpur. He organized peasant rebellions. After Tipu Shah's death in 1852, though the movement lingered on, it began to lose momentum and was finally put down by the British.