1. Who among the following opined that women should be confined to the house and work on spinning wheel?

2. The Silk Letter Conspiracy was organized by

3. Read the following passage carefully and choose the correct answer of the questions that follow (Q. No. 71 to 75): Causation is a concept of such fundamental importance to historical understanding that E.H. Carr in his G.M. Trevelyan lectures (1961) declared the study of history to be the study of causes. But postmodernist thinking on the issue of historical causation is different. John Vincent would abandon the search for causes as futile and rather look for explanations. Writing in 1976, Theodore Zeldin thought of causation and chronology as the two tyrants to historians. Hayden White attacked the concept of causation as depriving people of both their freedom of action in the present and of control over the future by trapping them in an inescapable network of causation. Postmodernist theory installs interpretation in the place of empirical research into the causes of specific events. Since the notion of cause depends on sequential time, some postmodernists attack the latter too. The cause of an occurrence must obviously come before it in time. But the postmodernist historian and philosopher, Ankersmit, says 'Historical time is a recent and highly artificial invention of Western civilization,' and the writing of historical narrative based on the concept of time, he has declared, is 'building on quicksand.' The postmodernists would prefer that the idea of sequential time be abandoned in the writing of history. Richard Evans shows how the very idea of postmodern is paradoxical in that it is contrary to the assertion that there are no time periods in history. And the postmodernist statement that historical time is a thing of the past, itself uses the historical concept of time which the statement is intended to dismiss. The linear and sequential concept of time is far too powerful a principle to be dispensed with, for it is not an intellectual construct but a matter of everyday experience for people the world over. Time itself may be without boundaries, but in terms of human life it passes, and has limits.
71. What is the concept of causation by E.H. Carr?

4. Arrange the following in a chronological order, starting from the earliest:
(A) The Peripuls of the Erythraean Sea
(B) Si-you-Ki
(C) Manimekalai
(D) Suttanipata Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

5. Who made the following assessment about Haider Ali and Tipu Sultan? 'Haider was an improving monarch and exhibited few innovations, Tipu was an innovating monarch and made no improvements.'

6. Which is not correct about the features of postmodernism?

7. Match the Peasant Movement mentioned in the List–I with the leaders of these movements given in the List–II. Select the correct code given below: List–I List–II (Peasant (Leaders) Movement)
(A) Faqir (i) Swami Sahajanand Saraswati
(B) Ramosis (ii) Karm Shah
(C) Pagal (iii) Manju Shah Panthis
(D) Bihar (iv) Chittur Singh Kisan Sabha Codes: A B C D

8. In the battle of Haldighati, Rana Pratap of Mewar was defeated by the Mughal army led by

9. Who among the following officers was not a functionary under the Mauryan Administration?

10. Who was the Governor of Bengal between 1667 and 1669?

11. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Assertion (A): The Greek historian Herodotus tells us that 'India was the twentieth and most prosperous satrapy (province) of the Persian empire'. Reason (R): By the time of Alexander's invasion (327-326 B.C.) all the Persian impact on India had become non-existent. In the context of the above two statements, which one of the following is correct?

12. Match List-I with List-II: List-I Mahajanapada List-II Capital
(A) Asmaka (I) Kampilya
(B) Chedi (II) Mathura
(C) Dakshina Panchala (III) Potana
(D) Surasena (IV) Suktimati Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

13. Match List–I with List–II and select the correct answer from the code given below: List–I List–II (Event) (Person)
(A) Hindu Widow's i. Dr. Atmaram Remarriage Act
(B) Abolition of ii. Lord Slavery Dalhousie
(C) The Prarthana iii. Lord Samaj Ellenborough
(D) The Satya iv. Jyotiba Phule Shodhak Samaj Codes: A B C D

14. What is the correct chronology of the following Slave Sultans as they succeeded to the throne of Delhi Sultanate?

15. Match List-I with List-II: List-I Historians List-II Works
(A) John Villiam Kaye
(I) The Indian Munity in Perspective
(B) Edward J. Thompson (II) Eighteen Fifty-seven
(C) S.N. Sen (III) The Other Side of the Medal
(D) George Mac- Munn (IV) A History of the Sepoy War Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

16. Who of the following set up Mahila Arya Samaj to improve Women's Education?

17. Shyamji Krishna Varma set up the India House in London to work for India's freedom in the year

18. Which one of the following Puranas replaces the Buddha with Krishna in the list of the Avataras of Vishnu?

19. The depiction of deities on the reverse corresponding to the name of the rulers on the obverse is the characteristic feature of the coins of

20. The rulers of which dynasty of the Deccan have been described by the Arab writers as one of the four great sovereigns of the world?

21. In the course of Ajatasatru's war against Chetak, the ruler of Vaisali, Ajatasatru's minister Vassakara had met Buddha at which of the following places?

22. The rulers of South India constantly fought with each other, because of

23. Which one of the following pairs is correct?

24. Which one of the following inscriptions provides the earliest epigraphical evidence of Sati?

25. Which play written by Dinbandhu Mitra exposes the exploitation of plantation workers in Bengal?