Indian History — Ancient to Modern — Practice

Question 1

The Great Bath of the Indus Valley Civilisation was found at:
(a) Harappa  (b) Mohenjo-daro  (c) Lothal  (d) Kalibangan

Accepted Answer

The Great Bath is at Mohenjo-daro. (Lothal = dockyard; Kalibangan = ploughed field; Harappa = first excavated.)

Answer: (b).

Question 2

Gautama Buddha delivered his first sermon at:
(a) Bodh Gaya  (b) Lumbini  (c) Sarnath  (d) Kushinagar

Accepted Answer

First sermon (Dharmachakra Pravartana) at Sarnath, near Varanasi.

Answer: (c). (Lumbini birth, Bodh Gaya enlightenment, Kushinagar death.)

Question 3

The Kalinga War, after which Ashoka embraced Buddhism, was fought in:
(a) 261 BCE  (b) 273 BCE  (c) 232 BCE  (d) 305 BCE

Accepted Answer

261 BCE — described in Rock Edict XIII.

Answer: (a).

Question 4

The Allahabad Pillar inscription, which records Samudragupta's conquests, was composed by:
(a) Banabhatta  (b) Harishena  (c) Kalidasa  (d) Aryabhata

Accepted Answer

Harishena, Samudragupta's court poet.

Answer: (b). (Banabhatta wrote Harshacharita for Harsha; Kalidasa adorned Chandragupta II's court.)

Question 5

Who introduced token (copper) currency in the Delhi Sultanate?
(a) Alauddin Khilji  (b) Iltutmish  (c) Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq  (d) Firoz Shah Tughlaq

Accepted Answer

Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq — the famous failed experiment (along with the Daulatabad capital transfer). Ibn Battuta visited his court.

Answer: (c).

Question 6

The Battle of Haldighati (1576) was fought between Maharana Pratap and the forces of:
(a) Babur  (b) Sher Shah Suri  (c) Akbar  (d) Aurangzeb

Accepted Answer

Akbar's army (led by Man Singh) fought Maharana Pratap of Mewar at Haldighati, 1576.

Answer: (c).

Question 7

Arrange in order: (i) Battle of Buxar (ii) Battle of Plassey (iii) Grant of Diwani of Bengal
(a) i, ii, iii  (b) ii, i, iii  (c) ii, iii, i  (d) iii, ii, i

Accepted Answer

Plassey 1757 → Buxar 1764 → Diwani 1765.

Answer: (b). Date-anchored chains answer ordering questions for free.

Question 8

The Revolt of 1857 began on 10 May at:
(a) Delhi  (b) Jhansi  (c) Meerut  (d) Kanpur

Accepted Answer

It began with the sepoys at Meerut, who then marched to Delhi and proclaimed Bahadur Shah Zafar.

Answer: (c).

Question 9

Gandhi withdrew the Non-Cooperation Movement in 1922 because of:
(a) the Jallianwala Bagh massacre  (b) the Chauri Chaura incident  (c) the Poona Pact  (d) the arrival of the Simon Commission

Accepted Answer

The Chauri Chaura violence (February 1922), where a mob burnt a police station killing 22 policemen, led Gandhi to call off the movement.

Answer: (b).

Question 10

The Purna Swaraj resolution was adopted at which session of the Indian National Congress?
(a) Bombay 1885  (b) Surat 1907  (c) Lucknow 1916  (d) Lahore 1929

Accepted Answer

Lahore 1929, presided over by Jawaharlal Nehru; 26 January 1930 was then observed as the first Independence Day — the date later chosen for the Constitution's commencement.

Answer: (d).

Question 11

Match the traveller to the ruler whose reign he visited — Megasthenes:
(a) Ashoka  (b) Chandragupta Maurya  (c) Chandragupta II  (d) Harsha

Accepted Answer

Megasthenes was Seleucus Nicator's envoy to CHANDRAGUPTA MAURYA and wrote Indica.

Answer: (b). (Fa-Hien → Chandragupta II; Hiuen Tsang → Harsha.)

Question 12

Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev were executed on:
(a) 23 March 1931  (b) 13 April 1919  (c) 8 August 1942  (d) 26 January 1930

Accepted Answer

23 March 1931 (observed as Shaheed Diwas), for the Saunders killing — itself an answer to Lala Lajpat Rai's death after the Simon Commission lathi-charge.

Answer: (a). (13 Apr 1919 = Jallianwala Bagh; 8 Aug 1942 = Quit India.)

Practice — Indian History — Ancient to Modern

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