Who, amongst the following national leaders of India, preached through his paper Kesari, his new ideals of self-help and national revival among the masses?
G.K.Gokhale
B.G. Tilak
M.G. Ranada
N.M. Joshi
Who was the last Mughal emperor to sit on the peacock throne?
Jahandar Shah
Bahadur Shah Zafar
Shah Alam I
Mohammad Shah
The city of Amritsar was founded by Guru Ram Das, the fourth Sikh Guru, in
1477 AD
1577 AD
1677 AD
None of the above
The city of Harappa was located along the river
Indus
Sutlej
Ravi
Ghaggar-Hakra
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III,IV,VI
IV,VI
IV,V
III,V
The Commercial Objective of the Portuguese in India was to
Capture territories on the western coast
Capture trade of textiles and spices
Oust Arabs and the Persians from India’s maritime trade
Capture trade of pepper and other superior spices
The common feature between Shivaji and Baji Rao I that ensured their successes in battles was
Hindu Padpadshahi
Support from Hindu Rajas
Guerrilla warfare
Organized and trained army
The communal award declared in 1932 by Ramsay Macdonald provided a separate electorate for the
Muslims
Depressed classes
Sikhs
Anglo-Indians
The concrete shape and setting to the communal theory was given when the All India Muslim League was set up in the year
1906
1904
1924
1910
The confederates against Sultan in the Third Mysore War included
The Nizam, the Nawab of Carnatic and the English
The Marathas, the English and the Nawab of Carnatic
The English, the Maratha and the Nizam
The Raja of Travancore, the Marathas and the English
The conflict between the Mughals and the Marathas began during the reign of
Akbar
Jahangir
Shahjahan
aurangzeb
The Congress leader who made a systematic study of land revenue system in India and submitted several petitions to Lord Curzon suggesting reforms was
Ferozeshah Mehta
R.C. Dutt
Dadabhai Naroji
G.K. Gokhale
The congress session which declared complete independence for India as it objective was held at
Bombay
Lucknow
Calcutta
Lahore
The Council of the Secretary of State for India was abolished by
Council Act, 1892
Government of India Act, 1909
Government of India Act, 1919
Government of India Act, 1935
The court language of the Great Mughals was…
Arabic
Persian
Urdu
Turki
The creation of the institution of organized ‘Civil Services’ in India was primarily the work of
Curzon
Cornwallis
Dalhousie
Wellesley
The crops cultivated by the Harappans included
Wheat, barley and mustard
Barley, groundnut and rice
Wheat, rice and sugarcane
Wheat, cotton and sugarcane
The crystallization of the avatara concept and the worship of the incarnations of Vishnu were features of Bhagavatism during the
Early Vedic period
later Vedic period
Mauryan period
Gupta period
The culmination of the traditional opposition to British rule came with Revolt of 1857 which started from
Allahabad
Poona
Calcutta
Meerut