HISTORY
Paper-II
Note : This paper contains fifty (50) objective type questions of two (2) marks each. All questions
are compulsory
September 2013 Paper II
1. Consider the following statements
about the Harappan civilization :
1 The sites are discovered both
from the urban and rural areas.
2 The inscriptions are in different
contemporary scripts.
3 The tools and metals provide the
idea of the specialised artisans.
4 The dock-yards have been found
at Lothal and Dholavira.
Which of the above statements are
correct ?
(A) 1 and 2
(B) 1 and 3
(C) 2 and 4
(D) 4 and 2
Answer:(B)
2. Which deities are not referred to in the
Rig-veda ?
(A) the gods of natural phenomena
like Indra, Agni, Varuna and
Mitra.
(B) the goddesses like Ushas and
Aditi.
(C) the semi-divine deities such as
gandharvas, apsaras and
pishachas.
(D) Ganesha and Karttikeya.
Answer:(D)
3. Which one of the following is not
contained in the Upanishads ?
(A) Avataravada
(B) Atman
(C) Brahman
(D) Maya
Answer:(A)
4. Which of the following inscriptions
makes a reference to Chandragupta
Maurya ?
(A) Kandhar inscription of Ashoka
(B) Brahmagiri inscription of
Ashoka
(C) Junagadh inscription of
Rudradaman I
(D) Maski inscription of Ashoka
Answer:(C)
5. The 5th pillar edict says that Ashoka
made some living creatures such as
parrots, fish, ants, tortoises, etc,
inviolable. After which consecration
year was it ordered ?
(A) 20th year
(B) 26th year
(C) 30th year
(D) 15th year
Answer:(B)
6. Which of the following is not true
about the sangam age ?
(A) Its historicity is debatable.
(B) The tamil commentaries of about
the 8th century AD inform us
about the three sangams.
(C) There are references to wars
between the Cholas, the Pandyas
and the Cheras in its poems.
(D) The exploits of the chiefs are not
given in its literature.
Answer:(D)
7. Which of the following does not
belong to Jainism ?
(A) Anekantavada
(B) Ganadhara
(C) Patimokkha
(D) Syadvada
Answer:(C)
8. Which of the following is the theme of
the sculptures of Gandhara art ?
(A) Presentation of bride to
Siddhartha.
(B) Gift of Jetavana Garden to the
Buddha.
(C) Buddha’s parinirvana scene.
(D) All the above.
Answer:(D)
9. Which of the following Gupta
inscriptions mentions Krishna and
Devaki ?
(A) Allahabad pillar inscription of
Samudragupta
(B) Bhitari pillar inscription of
Skandagupta
(C) Eran stone pillar inscription of
Budhagupta
(D) The Mehrauli iron pillar
inscription
Answer:(B)
10. At which of the following
Quinquennial assemblies at Prayaga
did Harsha donate almost all his
belongings ?
(A) 5th
(B) 6th
(C) 7th
(D) 8th
Answer:(B)
11. What is true about the Kushanas ?
(A) Their traces have been found in
Central Asia.
(B) They perhaps initiated the
practice of appointing two
governors simultaneously in the
same province.
(C) The Gandhara art which
developed under them not only
popularised the Buddha in the
anthropomorphic form, but also
encouraged the amalgam of
Indian and foreign arts.
(D) All the above.
Answer:(D)
12. Who has propounded the theory of the
beginning of the process of State
formation at regional and sub-regional
levels during the early mediaeval period ?
(A) Hermann Kulke
(B) R.S. Sharma
(C) B.N. Datta
(D) D.D. Kosambi
Answer:(A)
13. Which Gupta inscription records the
gift of a village in favour of a Vishnu
temple ?
(A) Allahabad pillar inscription of
Samudragupta
(B) Udayagiri cave inscription of
Chandragupta II
(C) Bilsad pillar inscription of
Kumaragupta I
(D) Bhitari pillar inscription of
Skandagupta
Answer:(D)
14. Given below are two statements, one
is labelled as Assertion (A) and the
other is labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A) : Rudradaman I
repaired the damaged
embankment of Sudarshana
lake.
Reason (R) : As a good gesture,
he neither levied any
emergency tax nor demanded
the free services of people.
In the context of the above two
statements, which one of the
following is correct ?
Codes :
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R)
is the correct explanation of (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but
(R) is not the correct
explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
Answer:(B)
15. Match the List – I with List – II and
select the correct answer from the
codes given below :
List – I List – II
(Term) (Meaning)
(a) Jajamani (i) Cultivable land
system
(b) Kakini (ii) Land measurement
(c) Kshetra (iii) Remuneration paid
in kind for services
(d) Nivartana (iv) Copper coin
Codes :
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (i) (iii) (ii) (iv)
(B) (ii) (iv) (i) (iii)
(C) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
(D) (iv) (ii) (iii) (i)
Answer:(C)
16. Tilak, a Hindu general, served the
army of :
(A) Mir Qasim
(B) Mahmud Gaznavi
(C) Mohammad Ghori
(D) Yalduz
Answer:(B)
17. The terms ‘Khut’, ‘Muqaddam’ and
‘chaudhary’ in the Sultanate period
referred to :
(A) Big Rajput chiefs
(B) Land Revenue Collectors
(C) The class of rural intermediaries
(D) Officers of the Judicial department
Answer:(C)
18. The water tax collected during Firoz
Shah Tughlaq’s reign was known as :
(A) Sondhar
(B) Haqq-i-Sharab
(C) Ghari
(D) Charai
Answer:(B)
19. Which of the following travellers has
given the graphic picture of sati
practiced in the Sultanate period ?
(A) Ibn Battuta
(B) Duarate Barbosa
(C) Abdur Razzaq
(D) A. Nikitin
Answer:(A)
20. Given below are two statements, one
labelled as Assertion (A) and the
other labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A) : Alauddin Khilji
decreed that the entire revenue
collection from Khalisa in the
Doab as well as from Delhi
should be in kind.
Reason (R) : Alauddin wanted a
large amount of grain reserve
for Delhi for contingents as
well as for price fixation.
In the context of the above two
statements, which one of the
following codes is correct ?
Codes :
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R)
is the correct explanation of (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but
(R) is not the correct
explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
Answer:(D)
21. In respect of the reign of Sikandar
Lodi which one of the following
observations is correct ?
(A) Sikandar’s love for justice was
remarkable and he provided
speedy and impartial justice.
(B) He persecuted the Hindus
because of his religious
intolerance.
(C) Sikandar made Agra his second
capital.
(D) All of the above.
Answer:(A,C)
22. Given below are two statements, one
labelled as Assertion (A) and the
other labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A) : The process of
urbanisation during the
sultanate period led to social
mobility among craftsmen in
the urban centres.
Reason (R) : The artisans and
craftsmen considered low caste
in the Hindu social system,
could now live even in the
vicinity of the ruling elite.
In the context of the above two
statements, which one of the
following is correct ?
Codes :
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R)
is the correct explanation of (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but
(R) is not the correct
explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
Answer:(A)
23. ‘Khair ul Majalis’ a sufi malfuzat, is
dedicated to which sufi saint ?
(A) Qutbuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki
(B) Nasiruddin Mahmud Chirag-i-
Dilli
(C) Muhammad Gesu Daraz
(D) Baba Hayat Qalandar
Answer:(B)
24. The du-aspa sih-aspa was introduced
into the Mughal mansabdari system by
(A) Babur
(B) Akbar
(C) Jahangir
(D) Shah Jahan
Answer:(C)
25. The use of tobacco came to northern
India during the reign of Akbar and it
was popularly used. Seeing its
menance, it was banned by :
(A) Emperor Akbar
(B) Emperor Jahangir
(C) Emperor Shah Jahan
(D) Emperor Aurangzeb
Answer:(B)
26. Which of the following is not correctly
matched ?
(A) Marco Polo - Portuguese
(B) Pietro Della Valle - Italian
(C) William Hawkins - English
(D) Francois Bernier - French
Answer:(A)
27. Which one of the following terms
denotes money changers ?
(A) Ijardars
(B) Patels
(C) Sarrafs
(D) Wajhdars
Answer:(C)
28. Which of the Mughal emperors
disapproved of old women taking
young husbands and said that “this
goes against all modesty” ?
(A) Babur
(B) Akbar
(C) Jahangir
(D) Aurangzeb
Answer:(B)
29. In which of his works, prince Dara
Shikoh compares Islamic sufi concepts
with the Hindu philosophical outlook ?
(A) Sakinat-ul Auliya
(B) Qawaid-i-Sultanate-i-Shah Jahan
(C) Majma-ul- Bahrain
(D) Shahnama-i-Munawwar Kalam
Answer:(C)
30. In the context of the conquest of
Gujarat and Malwa by the Marathas,
which one of the following statements
is correct ?
(A) The Maratha claim of chauth
and sardeshmukhi was
formalized in Gujarat and
Malwa.
(B) Subsequently the Maratha claim
for chauth and sardeshmukhi
was substituted by a demand for
the cessation of territory.
(C) The provinces were divided into
spheres of influence among the
Maratha Sardars.
(D) All of the above.
Answer:(D)
31. The French East India Company was
formed for trading with India under the
patronage of :
(A) Louis XIII
(B) Louis XIV
(C) Louis XV
(D) Louis XVI
Answer:(B)
32. Who made the following statement
after the battle of plassy ?
“Britain must secure the prosperity of
India’s people before seeking any gain
itself. Britain’s right to rule India, so its
leaders argued, could be made
legitimate, but only through just
governance.”
(A) Warren Hastings
(B) Edmund Burke
(C) Robert Clive
(D) Cornwallis
Answer:(B)
33. Brahmo Samaj has not adopted one of
the following as the part of social
reform :
(A) Spread of modern education
(B) Infallibility of the vedas
(C) Opposition to idolatery
(D) Rational ethics
Answer:(B)
34. In 1837, Lord Auckland sent
Alexander Burnes as an English
Ambassador to :
(A) Baluchistan
(B) Sindh
(C) Kabul
(D) Kandhar
Answer:(C)
35. The censorship of the Press Act was
passed in
(A) 1773
(B) 1774
(C) 1793
(D) 1799
Answer:(D)
36. One of the following organisations was
not associated with National
Education Movement in the early
twentieth century.
(A) Bhagabat Chatuspadi of
Satischandra Mukherjee
(B) The Saraswat Ayatan of
Brahma Bandopadhyay
(C) Santiniketan Ashram of
Rabindranath Tagore
(D) Anushilan Samiti of Barindra
Kumar Ghosh
Answer:(D)
37. Given below are two statements, one
is labelled as Assertion (A) and the
other labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A) : British
contemplated different
strategies in India. At no time
was the British vision of India
ever informed by a single
coherent set of ideas.
Reason (R) : Despite an enduring
commitment to the production
of knowledge about India, the
British made little effort at any
time to construct a consistent
ideology for their imperial
enterprise.
Read the above statements and select
the correct answer from the codes
given below :
Codes :
(A) (A) is correct, but (R) is false.
(B) (A) is incorrect, but (R) is
correct.
(C) Both are correct and (R) is the
correct explanation of (A).
(D) Both are correct and (R) is not
the correct explanation of (A).
Answer:(C)
38. Who became the trend-setter of
Modern Telugu literature ?
(A) Rao Bahadur Veeresa Lingam
Pentulu
(B) Nanduri Venkata Subbarao
(C) Kokkanda Venkataratnam
Pentulu
(D) Garimella Satyanarayana
Answer:(A)
39. On which post Dadabhai Naoroji was
appointed in the Baroda State ?
(A) Treasurer
(B) Minister
(C) Dewan
(D) Collector
Answer:(C)
40. Mrs. Annie Besant leader of the
Theosophical Society of India was
(A) An English Lady
(B) An American Lady
(C) A European Lady
(D) An Irish Lady
Answer:(D)
41. The Preservation of Ancient
Monuments Act was passed during the
time of
(A) Lord Curzon
(B) Elgin II
(C) Lord Lytton
(D) Lord Ripon
Answer:(A)
42. Match the List – I the annual sessions
of Indian National Congress with
List – II its President in that session :
List – I List – II
(a) Lucknow (i) Hakim Ajmal
Session of 1916 Khan
(b) Delhi Session of (ii) C.R. Das
1918
(c) Ahmedabad (iii)Madan Mohan
Session of 1920 Malaviya
(d) Gaya Session of (iv) Ambika Charan
1922 Mazumdar
Codes :
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (iv) (iii) (i) (ii)
(B) (iii) (i) (ii) (iv)
(C) (i) (ii) (iv) (iii)
(D) (ii) (iv) (iii) (i)
Answer:(A)
43. Given below are two statements, one
labelled as Assertion (A) and the
other labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A) : Montagu-Chelmsford
reforms in 1919 totally
disregarded the Lucknow pact.
Reason (R) : The defeat of
Turkey created the spectre of
‘Islam in danger’ and started
Khilafat movement to mobilise
mass support for muslim
leadership.
Read the above statements and select
the correct answers from the codes
given below :
Codes :
(A) (A) is correct, but (R) is false.
(B) (A) is incorrect, but (R) is
correct.
(C) Both are correct and (R) is the
correct explanation of (A).
(D) Both are correct and (R) is not the
correct explanation of (A).
Answer:(A)
44. In which year Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev
and Rajguru were hanged ?
(A) 1929 (B) 1930
(C) 1931 (D) 1935
Answer:(C)
45. Feeling of bias is increasing in the
historians of the present day because of
(A) increasing communalism in
writing
(B) narrow interpretations of datas
(C) regionalism and prejudices in
writing
(D) all the above are correct
Answer:(D)
46. Who among the following stated that
“Bad history is not harmless history. It
is dangerous. The sentences typed on
apparently innocuous keyboards may
be sentences of death” ?
(A) E.H. Carr
(B) Eric Hobsbawm
(C) R.G. Collingwood
(D) Marc Bloch
Answer:(B)
47. Who among the following observed
that “the subject matter of history is
not a general fact, such as revolution,
custom or a culture, nor is it a
particular fact such as a war or a great
personality, but it is thought.” ?
(A) E.H. Carr
(B) R.G. Collingwood
(C) Lord Acton
(D) Ernest Bernheim
Answer:(B)
48. Who among the following does not
belong to the school of subaltern
historiography ?
(A) Ranjit Guha
(B) David Arnold
(C) Bipin Chandra
(D) Gyan Pandey
Answer:(C)
49. The only country which welcomed
India’s status as a member of nuclear
club in 1974 was :
(A) Germany
(B) France
(C) Canada
(D) UK
Answer:(B)
50. Which of the following characteristics
of commonwealth is not correct ?
(A) The commonwealth is neither a
federation nor a confederation.
(B) The voluntary character of the
commonwealth is proved by the
right of the nations to secede.
(C) It has a recognised constitutional
organisation.
(D) There is no central authority and
division of power among the
members.
Answer:(C)
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