The Allahabad Pillar Inscription records the exploits of which of the following rulers of ancient India?
Ashoka
Chandragupta Maurya
Samudragupta
Skandagupta
The All-India Trade Union Congress came into being in 1920 as the foremost representative of the labour movement in India. Who was the founder?
V.V. Giri
N.M. Joshi
S.N. Kunzru
Shriram Bajpai
Why were the Indians dissatisfied with the Simon Commission?
There was no Indian member in the commission
Indians never wanted the review of the working of the act of 1919
It recommended that Diarchy in the provinces should be abolished
None of the above
Whose name is associated with the Muslim communalism which helped the British
Government to follow the policy of ‘Divide and Rule’?
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
Rahimutullah Mohammed Sayani
Badradin Tyabji
None of the above
Why did Bombay and Madras fail to rise in revolt in the manner in which the northern states did in 1857?
The Ryotwari settlement had denuded them of the necessary leadership
They were at a great distance from the seat of British administration (Calcutta)
They were comparatively free from annexations, confiscations
They had more tolerant and pro-British administrators
Why did not Mongols invade India during the reign of Iltutmish?
Chengiz Khan was busy in Central Asia and had no time to invade India
Ilturmish agreed to pay annual tribute
Mongols found India unbearably hot
Iltutmish refused to give asylum to prince Jalal-ud-din of Khwarzism empire
Why was the non-cooperation movement suspended by Gandhiji so abruptly?
It turned out to be violent against the principle
There was no good response from the public
The British government suppressed the movement ruthlessly
Some difference arose between some congress leaders and Gandhiji
The Pallavas were the patrons of
Pali literature
Prakrit literature
Sanskrit literature
Tamil literature
The amta-mahamattas of the Asokan edicts who were the equivalents of the amta-palas of the Arthasastra were the super-intendents of
Commerce
Weaving
Tolls
Slaughter-houses
The ancient kingdom of Avanti had its capital at
Ujjain
Vaishali
Patliputra
Ayodhya
The early Pallava inscriptions are in
Telugu
Sanskrit
Prakrit
Tamil
The eight-fold path was propounded by
Kabirdas
Buddha
Shankaracharya
Mahavira
The empire of Ghazni began to fall to pieces under the later successors of Sultan Mahmud. Who was the last such successor?
Bahram Shah
Khusrav Shah
Khusrav Malik
Shihab-ud-din
The end of the Gupta Empire is attributed to the invasions of Huns. Who amongst the following played the part of ‘a lion to the Hun deer’ and routed them out?
Prabhakaravardhana
Harshavardhana
Rajyavardhana
Bhaskaravarman
The English East India Company laid the foundation of Ford St. George at madras during the reign of
Akbar
Aurangzeb
Jahangir
Shahjahan
The establishment of the Mughal administration, on ideas and principles different from Sultans of Delhi, was mainly the work of
Akbar
Jahangir
Shahjahan
Aurangzeb
The existence of the store houses as famine relief measure in the Mauryan period is known from
Rock edict II from Girnar
Pillar edict II
Minor edict from Sasaram
Sohgaura plate inscription
The expense of Mughal empire was the greatest in the reign of which one of the following?
Akbar
Jahangir
Shahjahan
Aurangzeb
The exploits of Samundragupta are recorded on a
Mehrauli iron pillar inscription
Allahabad iron pillar inscription
Gaya copper plate inscription
Hathi gumpha inscription
The export of slaves from India was banned by
Mohammad bin Tughlaq
Firoz Tughlaq
Ala-ud-din Khilji
Sikandar Lodi