mosr important history questions for PSC/SSC part 2

26 The statement, “We have crippled over enemy without making our friends too formidable”, is associated with
(a) Fourth Anglo-Mysore War
(b) Third Anglo-Mysore War
(c) Second Angle-Mysore War
(d) First Anglo-Mysore War

27 Who among the following historians has remarked that the government of Bengal during the period 1765 AD to 1772 AD was a Robber State?
(a) K. M. Panikkar
(b) G.W. Forest
(c) Lord Macaulay
(d) Nand Lal Chatterjee

28 . Who among the following authored the book entitled “The Precepts of Jesus, the Guide to Peace and Happiness”?
(a) Ram Mohan Roy
(b) Michael Madhusudan Dutt
(c) Thomas Babington Macaulay
(d) William Carey

29 Who among the following had said, “God intended me to look upon all religions with one eye, that is why he took away the light from the other”?
(a) Maharaja Dalip Singh
(b) Maharaja Sher Singh
(c) Maharaja Ranjeet Singh
(d) None of the above


30. Mahatma  Gandhi  compared  Pherozeshah  Mehta  with  the Himalayas, Tilak with the Ocean and Gokhale with
(a)     the Sky
(b)     the Ganges
(c)     the Gangotri
(d)     the Mansarovar Lake

31.  The Jat king of Bharatpur who  is known as  the  'Plato of  the Jat  tribe' and  the  'Jat Ulysses' was
(a)     Churaman
(b)     Gokula
(c)      Badan Singh
(d)      Suraj Mal

32. Who is the propounder of the theory that the Rigvedic Aryans and the Harappans might have been the same people?
(a) R.S. Sharma (b) Romila Thapar
(c) B.B. Lal (d) H.D. Sankalia

33 The  king was  freed  from  his  people  and  they  from  their  king. On whose  death  did Badauni comment thus?
(a)     Balban
(b)     Alauddin Khalji
(c)      Muhammand-bin-Tughluq
(d)      Firuz Shah Tughluq

34 Who had preached "Rama and Rahim are two different names of the same God"?
(a)     Chaitanya
(b)     Sant Kabir
(c)      Ramanuja
(d)      Ramananda

35 Who identified the name Sandrocottus as Chandragupta Maurya?
(a) Megasthenes (b) Justin 
(c) V.A. Smith (d) William Jones

36 Who among the following said that Chandragupta Maurya overran and subdued the whole of India with an army of six lakhs?
(a) Justin (b) Strabo
(c) Plutarch (d) Deimachus

37 In which of the following inscriptions, Ashoka made his famous declaration “All men are my children” ?
(a) Minor Rock Edict of Ahrawra
(b) Pillar Edict VII
(c) Lumbini Pillar Edict
(d) Separate Kalinga Rock Edict I 

38 The Greek envoy Heliodorus of the Besnagar inscription was sent by the Indo-Greek ruler
(a) Demetrius (b) Menander
(c) Antialcidas (d) Agathocles

39 Who said, “Rome is being drained of its treasure by trading with India” ?
(a) Pliny (b) Arrian
(c) Plutarch (d) Tiberins

40 Which of the following inscriptions of the time of Kanishka indicates that his empire was extended up to Champa in the east?
(a) Sarnath inscription
(b) Saheth-maheth inscription
(c) Rabatak inscription 
(d) None of the above

41 The success of Muizzudin Muhammad Ghori in India was the consummation of a process which extended over the whole of 12th Century”. By whom this observation has been made ?
(A)A.B.M. Habibullah (B) Satish Chandra (C) Irfan Habib (D) A.K. Nizami

42 Which period of Indian history has been designated by Romila Thapar as ‘Threshold Times’?
(A) BCE 200-300 CE (B) CE 300-CE 600 (C) CE 300-CE 800 (D) CE 600-CE 1300

43 Who considered the Harappan crafts ‘technically the peer of the rest’ among products of the Bronze Age?
(A) Gordon childe (B) Shereen Ratnagar (C) R.S. Bisht (D) Asco Parpola

44 Who tells us that ‘India’(i.e. Indus Valley) was the 20th and most prosperous satrapy (province) of the Persian empire ?
(A) Herodotus (B) Megasthenese (C) FaHien (D) Yijing

45 Name the historians who have rejected the idea of a marriage alliance between Chandragupta Maurya and Seleucus
(A) Vincent Smith (B) H.C. Roychoudhury
(C) H P. Shastri (D) B.N. Mukherjee and Romila Thapar

.46  Who described the Quit India movement (1942) as “by far the most serious rebellion since 1857”?
(A) Viceroy Lord Linlithow (B) Franklin Roosevelt
(C) Chiang Kai Shek (D) Winston Churchill

47 Name the European who worked ardently for the Indian national movement and criticized the British rule by saying: “The British empire is rotten to the core, corrupt in every direction, and tyrannical and mean”:
(A) Sister Nivedita (B)A.O. Hume
(C) William Wedderbum (D) Mrs. Annie Besant

48 Who observed: “The Congress (INC) is in reality a civil war without arms”?
(A) Lord Dufferin (B) Sir SyedAhmed Khan (C) M.Ali Jinnah (D) Lord Curzon


49 Who raised patriotism to the pedestal of mother worship and said: “I know my country as my mother. I adore her. I worship her” ?
(A) Swami Vivekananda (B) Bankim Chandra Chatteijee
(C)Aurobindo Ghosh (D) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

50 In 1940 January, in his letter to C.F.Andrews, who was described by Gandhiji as “my son”—but. a
“spoilt child of the family” ?
(A) Jawaharlal Nehru (B) Minoo Masani
(C) MuhammadAli Jinnah (D) Subhas Chandra Bose