WBCS MAIN EXAM

HISTORY
Paper - III
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1. Nawab Alivardi Khan was the grandfather of

(A) Shuja ud Daulah

(B) Siraj ud Daulah

(C) Sarfaraz Khan

(D) Mir Qasim

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2. The Hindoo Patriot was edited by

(A) Manmohon Ghosh

(B) Harish Chandra Mookherjee

(C) Debendranath Tagore

(D) Acharya Binoba Bhave

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3. The Permanent Settlement was passed in

the year
(A) 1803

(B) 1813

(C) 1793

(D) 1834
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4. The market control regulations were

introduced by
(A) Alauddin Khilji

(B) Balban

(C) Babur

(D) Sikander Lodi

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5. The greatest Kushan ruler was

(A) Menander

(B) Gondophernes

(C) Maga

(D) Kanishka
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6. The Battle of Buxar took place in the year

(A) 1765

(B) 1764

(C) 1795

(D) 1800
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7. The capital of Kanishka was

(A) Purushpura

(B) Sialkot

(C) Pathankot

(D) Bodhgaya
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8. The twenty third Tirthankara was

(A) Parshvanath

(B) Vardhaman Mahavira

(C) Gautam Buddha

(D) Ajatasatru
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9. The Non-cooperation Movement was

launched in
(A) 1930

(B) 1931

(C) 1920

(D) 1923
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10. The Chinese pilgrim Fa Hien had visited

India during the reign of
(A) Chandragupta II Vikramaditya

(B) Bimbisara

(C) Harshavardhan

(D) Kharvela
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11. Tabaqat i Nasiri was written by

(A) Sirajuddin

(B) Minhaj us Siraj

(C) Khafi Khan

(D) Firuz Tughlaq

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12. Bimbisara was from the

(A) Gupta Dynasty

(B) Haryanka Dynasty

(C) Maurya Dynasty

(D) Khilji Dynasty

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13. The Battle of Hydaspes was fought between

(A) Bimbisara and Ajatasatru

(B) Bimbisara and Porus

(C) Porus and Alexander

(D) None of the above

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14. The oldest Veda was

(A) Rig Veda

(B) Sam Veda

(C) Atharva Veda

(D) Avesta
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15. The first ruler of the Maurya Dynasty was

(A) Chandra Gupta Maurya

(B) Bimbisara

(C) Kanishka

(D) Megasthanes
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16. The Tarikh i Firuz Shahi was the work of

(A) Abdul Khader Badauni

(B) Ziauddin Barani

(C) Bhimsen Burhanpuri

(D) Tansen
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17. The Central Asian theory of the home of

the Aryans was propounded by
(A) Friedrich Max Muller

(B) Nirad Chaudhary

(C) Rakhaldas Banerjee

(D) Risley
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18. The Maurya Emperor who propounded the

concept of Dhamma had been
(A) Chandragupta

(B) Bindusara

(C) Ashoka

(D) None of the above

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19. Gautam Buddha was from the following

clans:
(A) Vajji

(B) Sakya

(C) Kushan

(D) Saka
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20. The capital from Delhi to Daulatabad was

shifted by
(A) Alauddin Khilji

(B) Bakjtiyar Khilji

(C) Muhammad Bin Tughlaq

(D) Akbar
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21. Who was afflicted by Deccan Ulcer ?

(A) Akbar

(B) Babur

(C) Aurangzeb

(D) None of the above

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22. Sasanka was the ruler of

(A) Kanauj

(B) Pataliputra

(C) Gaur

(D) Assam
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23. Where was the figure of the dancing girl

to be found ?
(A) Indus valley

(B) Araku valley

(C) Kashmir valley

(D) Nubra valley

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24. The Gandhi-Irwin Pact was concluded in

(A) 1930

(B) 1931

(C) 1932

(D) 1933
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25. Who did Mahatma Gandhi describe as his

Political Guru ?
(A) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

(B) Gopal Kishna Gokhale

(C) Ananda Mohan Bose

(D) Rajnarain Bose

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26. The Chauri Chaura incident took place in

(A) 1922

(B) 1923

(C) 1924

(D) 1925
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27. Anandamath was written by

(A) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

(B) Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay

(C) Sarat Chandra Bose

(D) Dwijendralal Roy

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28. The Tamralipta Jatiyo Sarkar was set up in

(A) Bankura

(B) Birbhum

(C) Malda

(D) Medinipur
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29. The Tattwabodhini Patrika was founded by

(A) Raja Rammohan Roy

(B) Pandit Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar

(C) Debendranth Tagore

(D) Keshob Sen

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30. Akbar was born at

(A) Pathankot

(B) Sialkot

(C) Amarkot

(D) Nagarkot
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31. Menandar was a

(A) Kushan

(B) Indo-Greek

(C) Saka

(D) Chinese
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32. The ‘Boro Sona Masjid’ in Bengal was built by

(A) Alauddin Hussein Shah

(B) Nusrat Shah

(C) Shah Shuja

(D) Shah jahan

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33. Sir Thomas Roe had visited the court of

(A) Akbar

(B) Shah Jahan

(C) Jahangir

(D) Babur
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34. The Arab conquest of Sindh is depicted in

(A) Akbar Namah

(B) Ain i Akbari

(C) Chach Namah

(D) Shah Namah

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35. Sufi order were generally known as

(A) Siyasa

(B) Virasat

(C) Hukumat

(D) Silsilah
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36. The Buddha gave his first sermon at

(A) Gaya

(B) Sarnath

(C) Peshawar

(D) Karnataka
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37. Mukundaram was the author of

(A) Padma Puran

(B) Barsha Mongal

(C) Chandi Mongal

(D) None of the above

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38. The autobiography of Babur was known as

(A) Chach Namah

(B) Firdaus Namah

(C) Babur Namah

(D) Shah Namah

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39. What was importance of Lothal ?

(A) Port

(B) Granary

(C) Zoo

(D) Market
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40. Arthashastra was written by

(A) Chandragupta

(B) Bimbisara

(C) Kautilya

(D) None of the above

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41. Who was known as ‘Lakh Baksh’ ?

(A) Balban

(B) Qutubuddin Aibak

(C) Bahlol Lodi

(D) Ibrahim Lodi

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42. Shah Jahan had built the Taj Mahal in

memory of
(A) Arjumand Bano Begum

(B) Anarkali

(C) Jahanara

(D) Rowshanara
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43. The Gupta Era starts from the reign of

(A) Chandragupta I

(B) Samudragupta

(C) Kumargupta

(D) Budhagupta
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44. The First Battle of Panipat took place in

(A) 1520

(B) 1530

(C) 1525

(D) 1526
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45. The Milinda Panho was a

(A) Scripture

(B) Book on Philosophical discussion

(C) Artefact

(D) Cinema
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46. The book written by Ibn Batuta was

(A) Saleha

(B) Rehala

(C) Kitab ul Ibar

(D) Razm Namah

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47. The Congress Socialist Party was founded

in the year
(A) 1935

(B) 1934

(C) 1936

(D) 1937
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48. Mohenjodaro and Harappa belong to

(A) Egyptian civilization

(B) Sumerian civilization

(C) Mesopotamian civilization

(D) Indus valley civilization

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49. The Battle of Plassey was fought in

(A) 1756

(B) 1757

(C) 1780

(D) 1790
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50. The ‘Alai Darwaza’ was constructed by

(A) Alauddin Khilji

(B) Muhammad Bin Tughlaq

(C) Sikander Lodi

(D) Ibrahim Lodi

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51. The original name of Nurjahan was

(A) Luftunnissa

(B) Khairunnisa

(C) Meherunnisa

(D) Raziya
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52. The author of Harshacharit was

(A) Nagarjuna

(B) Banabhatta

(C) Aryabhatta

(D) Varahamihir
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53. The Govt. of India Act was passed in

(A) 1946

(B) 1938

(C) 1935

(D) 1936
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54. The land revenue system under Akbar was

systematized by
(A) Raja Beharimal

(B) Raja Todarmal

(C) Raja Chunnumal

(D) Birbal
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55. Who was known as ‘Beloved of the Gods’ ?

(A) Kalashoka

(B) Bimbisara

(C) Ajatasatru

(D) Ashoka
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56. The Allahabad Pillar Inscription dates back

to the
(A) Maurya period

(B) Gupta period

(C) Kushan period

(D) Saka period

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57. Delhi Sultanate was established in India in

(A) 1205 AD

(B) 1215 AD

(C) 1206 AD

(D) 1207 AD
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58. The court customs of Sijda and Paibos

were introduced by
(A) Qutubuddin Aibak

(B) Alauddin Khalji

(C) Ghiyassudin Balban

(D) Ibrahim Lodi

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59. The Vijayanagar State was founded by

(A) Harihara and Bukka

(B) Chenna and Pedanna

(C) Tiruvalluvar

(D) Malik Ambar

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60. Akbar defeated Hemu in the

(A) First Battle of Panipat

(B) Third Battle of Panipat

(C) Second Battle of Panipat

(D) Battle of Haldighati

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61. Who was known as ‘the Akbar of Kashmir’ ?

(A) Sikander Shah

(B) Zain ul Abedin

(C) Akbar

(D) Muhammad Shah

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62. ‘Sare Jahan Se Accha’ was written by

(A) Sir Syed Ahmad Khan

(B) Nawab Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah

(C) Muhammad Iqbal

(D) Abdul Latif

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63. Who was known as the ‘Indian Napoleon’ ?

(A) Kumargupta

(B) Skandagupta

(C) Samudragupta

(D) Yasodharman
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64. The Theory of Radical Humanism was put

forth by

(A) Subhas Chandra Bose

(B) M. N. Roy

(C) Karl Marx

(D) Nehru
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65. The term ‘Sakari’ was used for

(A) Chandragupta II Vikramaditya

(B) Samudragupta

(C) Kumargupta

(D) Skandagupta
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66. The Kushanas were originally from

(A) Greece

(B) Iran

(C) Central Asia

(D) Europe
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67. The following is a Sufi order:

(A) Namdhari

(B) Kirpandhari

(C) Auliya

(D) None of the above

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68. Bal Gnagadhar Tilak was the editor of

(A) Hindoo Patriot

(B) Hind Swaraj

(C) Kesari

(D) Anandamath
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69. Abul Fazl was the court poet of

(A) Babur

(B) Akbar

(C) Shah Jahan

(D) Jahangir
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70. The first woman ruler of the Delhi

Sultanate was
(A) Rabeya

(B) Rokeya

(C) Raziya

(D) Zubeida
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71. Sati daha Bill was passed in the year

(A) 1830

(B) 1829

(C) 1831

(D) 1832
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72. The book Indika was written by

(A) Fa Hien

(B) Hiuen Tsang

(C) Megasthanes

(D) Asvaghosa
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73. The following was a Mahajanapada:

(A) Magadha

(B) Saurashtra

(C) Pragjyotishpur

(D) Sialkot
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74. The Qadri order of Sufis was founded by

(A) Shah Niamatullah Qadri

(B) Baba Farid

(C) Bakhtiyar Kaki

(D) Shah Jalal

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75. The Eight-Fold path in Buddhism is known as

(A) Dharmachakrapravartan

(B) Ashtangik Marg

(C) Nirukta

(D) Vimukta
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76. The Jallianwallah Bagh massacre occurred in

(A) 1920

(B) 1919

(C) 1921

(D) 1922
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77. The First Battle of Tarain took place in

(A) 1191 AD

(B) 1176 AD

(C) 1105 AD

(D) 1155 AD
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78. The firman of 1717 was issued by

(A) Farrukhsiyar

(B) Jahangir

(C) Aurangzeb

(D) Jahandar Shah

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79. Abdul Hamid Lahori was the author of

(A) Padshahnama

(B) Razm Namah

(C) Iqbal Namah

(D) Tabaqat
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80. Neel Darpan was written in the context of

(A) Sepoy Mutiny

(B) Deccan Riots

(C) Indigo Revolt

(D) Ramosi Rebellion

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81. The ‘Three Jewels’ are to be found in

(A) Vaishnavism

(B) Buddhism

(C) Judaism

(D) Jainism
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82. The last Buddhist Council was held at

(A) Sarnath

(B) Kundalvan

(C) Saket

(D) Ceylon
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83. The Saka Era was started by

(A) Bimbisara

(B) Ajatasatru

(C) Kanishka

(D) Menander
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84. The All India Muslim League was founded in

(A) 1904

(B) 1905

(C) 1906

(D) 1907
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85. The last ruler of the Maurya Dynasty was

(A) Ajatasatru

(B) Bimbisara

(C) Brihadratha

(D) Kakavarna
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86. The Indian National Congress was founded by

(A) David Hume

(B) Allan Octavian Hume

(C) William Wedderburn

(D) Henry Cotton

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87. Zabti was

(A) Currency

(B) Trade

(C) Customs

(D) Land Revenue System

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88. Tamralipta was a

(A) River

(B) Canal

(C) Port

(D) Fort
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89. Hind Swaraj was written by

(A) Mahatma Gandhi

(B) Pandit Nehru

(C) Rabindranath Tagore

(D) Tilak
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90. The Sadak-i-Azam was constructed by

(A) Akbar

(B) Bahadur Shah

(C) Babur

(D) Sher Shah

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91. The Indian Association was established in

the year
(A) 1875

(B) 1876

(C) 1880

(D) 1885
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92. Raja Rammohan Roy was the founder of

(A) Bahujan Sabha

(B) Brahmo Sabha

(C) Jatiyo Sabha

(D) Lok Sabha

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93. The Vedas were

(A) Sacred Book of the Aryans

(B) Genealogical History

(C) Artefacts

(D) Language
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94. Karshapana was a type of

(A) Metal

(B) Paper

(C) Currency

(D) Race
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95. The Garuda Pillar at Besangar was

endowed by
(A) Heliodorus

(B) Megasthanes

(C) Bimbisara

(D) Ajatasatru
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96. The capital of the Magadhan Empire under

Bimbisara was
(A) Girnar

(B) Girivraja

(C) Gauda

(D) Gujarat
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97. The Hindu College was founded in the year

(A) 1818

(B) 1816

(C) 1817

(D) 1819
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98. The first Partition of Bengal took place in

(A) 1910

(B) 1911

(C) 1905

(D) 1906
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99. The first ruler of the Pala Dynasty was

(A) Devpala

(B) Dharmapala

(C) Gopal

(D) Tejpal
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100. The Surat Split in the Congress Party

happened in
(A) 1906

(B) 1907

(C) 1908

(D) 1908
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