FAQs (Indian History)

1. Who was the first Governor-General of Bengal?
2. The Battle of Wandiwash (1760) was fought between whom?
3. Who granted the permission to establish the French factory at Masulipatnam?
4. The trade monopoly of East India company was ended by which Act?
5. Sir Thomas Roe visited the court, of which Mughal emperor?
6. In which year was Harappan Civilisation discovered?
7. Water Management System of Harappan times hasbeen unearthed at?
8. Which animal was not represented on the seals and terracotta art of the Indus Valley Civilisation?
9. Which Governor General is associated with Doctrine of Lapse?
10. Which place was the capital city of Tipu Sultan?
11. Patanjali is known for the compilation of which book?
12. Which Veda contains an account of magical charms and spells?
13. In ancient India, the earliest capital of Magadh kingdom was at
14. A Buddhist council during the reign of Ashoka was held at
15. Where did Lord Buddha breathed his last?
16. Who founded the independentSultanate of Bengal?
17. Who is also known as Nigantha Natoputra?
18. Chinese traveller Hiuen-Tsang studied, at which university?
19. Under which system of assessment, the Britishers collected revenue directly from the farmers?
20. Who started the Public works Department in India (1848)?
21. Who gave the theory of economic drain in his book, ''Poverty and the Un British Rule in India''?
22. Megasthenes was an ambassador, of which Greek king?
23. The division of Mauryan society in 7 classes is particularly mentioned, in which book?
24. Who was the first Mauryan ruler to conquer Deccan?
25. Who was first to decipher the Brahmi script of Ashoka?
26. Charakawas the famous court physician of which king?
27. The first President of All India Trade Union Congress was
28. The first Governor General and Viceroy of British India was
29. Which Chinese general defeated Kanishka?
30. Who was the founder of pattini cult related to worship of Kannagi?
31. The silver coins of Gupta period were Known as
32. The second session of INC was presided over by
33. Whowas the firstMuslimPresident of INC?
34. Who was the first Indian to become member of the British Parliament?
35. Which period marks the beginning of Indian temple architecture?
36. Which extremist leader dominated the Lucknow Pact in December, 1916?
37. The Prayag Prasasti/Allahabad Pillar Inscriptionisassociated,withwhich ruler?
38. The rock-cut temples of Mahabalipuram were built under the patronage of king?
39. Two great religious conferences were held by Harshavardhan at
40. The subject matter of Ajanta painting pertains to to religion
41. In which movement did Gandhiji made the first use of Hunger Strike?
42. From where did Acharya Vinoba Bhave start the individual Satyagraha in 1940?
43. Use of whitemarble, long legs and slender frames-were the characteristic features of which ancient art forms of India.
44. First major inscription in classical sanskrit is that of
45. Who attended the Congress of Oppressed Nationalist at Brussels in 1927, on behalf of the Indian National Congress?
46. Who was the last British Viceroy of India?
47. Who was the President of Indian National Congress, when the Mountabatten Plan was accepted?
48. The final arrangements for Indian independence was worked out by which plan?
49. Who constructed the Jagannath temple at Puri?
50. Who advocated on behalf of IndianNational Army in 1946 in the Red Fort trials?
51. Alberuni visited India,withwhichmusliminvader?
52. For which movement did Gandhiji give the slogan,'Do or Die'?
53. The khilji Sultans of Delhi were, of which tribe?
54. Whowas theGovernorGeneral of India during the launch of Civil Disobedience Movement?
55. Qutub Minar was completed, by which Sultan?
56. Who Presided over the All India Khilafat Conference at Delhi(1919)?
57. In the sultanate period, the highest rural authority for land revenue was
58. Which Committee was appointed by the British Government to investigate in Jallianwala Bagh massacre?
59. The city of Jaunpurwas founded in thememory of
60. The congress in Travancore launched a Civil Disobedience Movement against, which Dewan of Travancore state?
61. Who was the Chairman of Joint Parliamentary Committee (1935), that led to the framing of the Act of 1935?
62. Which Congress President negotiated with both Cripps Mission and Lord Wavell?
63. Who constructed the monumental Rayagopurams in front of temples at Hampi and Tirupati?
64. 'A Forgotten Empire,' written by the historian Robert Sewell refers to which empire?
65. Tulsidas composed his 'Ramcharitamanasa' in the reign of
66. Which Maratha Peshwa followed the ideal of 'Hindu pada-Pashahi'?
67. The Laxman Erawas started in AD1119, bywhich dynasty?
68. Mahaballipuram was established by the
69. The Balkan Plan for fragmentation of India was framed by
70. Who organised the Chittagong Armoury raid?
71. The leader of Bardoli Satyagrah(1928) was
72. Yahya bin Ahmed Sirhindi, the author of 'Tarikh -i-Mubaraqshahi', lived in the period of which dynasty?
73. In the Delhi Sultanate, an administrative unit called Pargana was headed by
74. Which muslim ruler was hailed as the Jagadguru by his subjects because of his belief in secularism?
75. Where is the Vijaya Vithala temple, having its 56 carved pillars emitting musical notes located?
76. Who was the founder of Sufi order in India?

Answers:

1.Warren Hastings
2. English and French
3. Abdulla Qutub Shah
4. Charter Act of 1833
5. Jahangir
6. 1921
7. Dholavira
8. Cow
9. Lord Dalhousie
10. Srirangapattanam
11. Yoga Sutra
12. Atharava Veda
13. Rajgir (Girivaraja)
14. Pataliputra
15. Kushinagar
16. Murshid Quli khan
17. Vardhman Mahavira
18. Nalanda
19. Ryotwari
20. Lord Dalhousie
21. Dada Bhai Naoroji
22. Seleucus Nikator 23. Indica of Megasthenes
24. Bindusara
25. James Princep
26. Kanishka
27. Lala Lajpat Rai
28. Lord Canning
29. Pen chao
30. Sengattivan
31. Rupyaka
32. Surendranath Banerjee
33. Badar-ud- din Tayabji
34. Dadabhai Naoroji
35. Gupta period
36. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
37. Samudragupta
38. Pandya Kings
39. Kannauj and Prayag
40. Buddhism
41. Ahmedabad Strike, 1918
42. Pavnar in Maharashtra
43. Amravati School of Art
44. Rudradaman
45. Jawaharlal Nehru
46. Lord Mountbatten
47. JB Kripalani
48. Cabinet Mission Plan
49. Anant Varman
50. Bhulabhai Desai
51. Mahmud Ghaznavi
52. Quit India Movement
53. Turks
54. Lord Irwin
55. Iltutmish
56. MK Gandhi
57. Choudhary
58. Hunter Commission
59. Mohammad-bin Tughlaq
60. CP Rama Swami Aiyer
61. Lord Linlithgow
62. Abul Kalam Azad
63. Krishna Deva Raya
64. Vijayanagara Empire
65. Akbar
66. Baji Rao I
67. Senas
68. Pallavas
69. Lord Mountbatten
70. Surya Sen
71. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
72. Sayyid
73. Amil
74. Ibrahim Adil Shah-II
75. Hampi
76. Khwaja Muin-ud-din Chisti