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Q1. Who among the following was the first Bhakti saint to use ‘Hindi’ for the propagation of his message?
- (A) Dadu
- (B) Kabir
- (C) Ramananda
- (D) Tulsidas
The Correct answer is (C) Ramananda
Q2. ‘Bhakt Tukaram’ was a contemporary of which Mughal emperor?
- (A) Babur
- (B) Akbar
- (C) Jahangir
- (D) Aurangzeb
The Correct answer is (C) Jahangir
Q3. Who wrote this lines ” Pothi Padh Padh Jag Mua, Pndit Bhaya Na Koye, Dhai Akhar Prem Ka, Padhe So Pandit Hoye”?
- (A) Kabir
- (B) Raidas
- (C) Guru Nanak
- (D) Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
The Correct answer is (A) Kabir
Q4. How many ‘Alvars and Nayanars’ are there according to tradition?
- (A) 12 and 63
- (B) 12 and 53
- (C) 23 and 63
- (D) 23 and 53
The Correct answer is (A) 12 and 63
Q5. The Shrine of ‘Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia’ is situated at ?
- (A) Aligarh
- (B) Roorkee
- (C) Delhi
- (D) Ajmer
The Correct answer is (C) Delhi
Q6. Who was the founder of ‘Sufi Order’ in India?
- (A) Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti
- (B) Khwaja Qutubuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki
- (C) Shaikh Nizamuddin Auliya
- (D) Shaikh Nasiruddin Mahmud
The Correct answer is (A) Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti
Q6. Which one of the following term was used by the Sufis for the successor nominated by the teacher of a particular order or ‘Silsila’?
- (A) Pir
- (B) Murid
- (C) Khalifah
- (D) Khanqah
The Correct answer is (C) Khalifah
Q7. Which Sufi Saint’s ‘dargah’ is at Ajmer?
- (A) Shaikh Nizamuddin Auliya
- (B) Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti
- (C) Khwaja Salim Chisti
- (D) Khwaja Qutubuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki
The Correct answer is (B) Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti
Q8. What were the “Khaquah” in the Medieval India?
- (A) Sufi Shrine
- (B) State granary
- (C) Provincial Treasury
- (D) Wayside resting place for traders
The Correct answer is (A) Sufi Shrine
Q9. Which one of the following Sultans of Delhi was refused an audience by Nizamuddin Auliya?
- (A) Jalaluddin Firoz Khalji
- (B) Alauddin Khalji
- (C) Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq
- (D) Mohammad -bin- Tughlaq
The Correct answer is (A) Jalaluddin Firoz Khalji
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Q10. The ‘Chistiya Sufi Order’ was established in India by -?
- (A) Khwaja Badruddin
- (B) Khwaja Moinuddin
- (C) Sheikh Ahmed Sirhindi
- (D) Shaikh Bahauddin Zakariya
The Correct answer is (B) Khwaja Moinuddin
Q11. Amir Khusrau played a pioneer role in the development of -?
- (A) Khari Boli
- (B) Awadhi
- (C) Bhojpuri
- (D) Maithili
The Correct answer is (A) Khari Boli
Q12. Amir Khusrau was born at -?
- (A) Patti
- (B) Patiala
- (C) Patiali
- (D) Patli
The Correct answer is (C) Patiali
Q13. ‘Sheikh Nizamuddin Auliya‘ was the disciple of -?
- (A) Sheikh Alauddin Sabir
- (B) Sheikh Ahmed Sirhindi
- (C) Baba Farid
- (D) Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti
The Correct answer is (C) Baba Farid
Q14. The Sufi Saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti came to Rajasthan during the reign of -?
- (A) Maharana Pratap
- (B) Rana Sanga
- (C) Rana Kumbha
- (D) Prithviraj Chauhan
The Correct answer is (D) Prithviraj Chauhan
Q15. Who was known as “Tuti- e- Hindustan or The Parrot of India”?
- (A) Amir Khusrau
- (B) Roy Vanmal
- (C) Malik Mohammad Jayasi
- (D) Purandar Khan
The Correct answer is (A) Amir Khusrau
Q16. Which Sufi saint was called “Mehbub-i- Ilahi”?
- (A) Khwaja Moinuddin
- (B) Baba Farid
- (C) Khwaja Qutubuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki
- (D) Sheikh Nizamuddin Auliya
The Correct answer is (D) Sheikh Nizamuddin Auliya
Q17. Who was the first ‘Portuguese Viceroy’ in India?
- (A) Diaz
- (B) Vasco da Gama
- (C) Francisco de Almeida
- (D) Albuquerque
The Correct answer is (C) Francisco de Almeida
Q18. Who one of the following rulers had granted ‘Diwani’ to the East India Company was -?
- (A) Farrukhsiyar
- (B) Shah Alam 1
- (C) Shah Alam 2
- (D) Shujauddaula
The Correct answer is (C) Shah Alam 2
Q19. Which of the British Officials defeated Portuguese at ‘Sowlley’ ?
- (A) William Hawkins
- (B) Thomas Best
- (C) Thomas Roe
- (D) Josiah Child
The Correct answer is (B) Thomas Best
Q20. Among the following factories in Bengal, the one established by the Portuguese was -?
- (A) Kasim Bazar
- (B) Chinsura
- (C) Hoogly
- (D) Srirampur
The Correct answer is (C) Hoogly
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Q21. Who were the first Europeans to set up ‘Sea Trade’ centers in India?
- (A) The English
- (B) The French
- (C) The Portuguese
- (D) The Dutch
The Correct answer is (C) The Portuguese
Q22. Which English Governor of East India Company in India was expelled by Aurangzeb?
- (A) Aungier
- (B) Sir John Child
- (C) Sir John Gayer
- (D) Sir Nicholas Waite
The Correct answer is (B) Sir John Child
Q23. Who among the following European Travellers was the physician of prince ‘Dara Shikoh’ ?
- (A) Nicolao Manucci
- (B) Francois Bernier
- (C) Jean- Baptiste Tavernier
- (D) Jean de Thevenot
The Correct answer is (B) Francois Bernier
Q24. The poet king who wrote verses in praise of Krishna under the name of Nagari Das was -?
- (A) Raja Ummed Singh
- (B) Raja Ram Singh
- (C) Raja Chhatrasal
- (D) Raja Savant Singh
The Correct answer is (D) Raja Savant Singh
Q25. To which school of painting ‘Bani Thani’ was related ?
- (A) Bundi School
- (B) Kishangarh School
- (C) Chawand School
- (D) Jaipur School
The Correct answer is (B) Kishangarh School
Q26. Which of the following led English company in the ‘Battle of Plassey’ (1757)?
- (A) Lord Dalhousi
- (B) Captain Hodson
- (C) Waren Hastings
- (D) Robert Clive
The Correct answer is (D) Robert Clive
Q27. Who was the Nawab of Bengal during ‘Battle of Plassey’ (1757)
- (A) Mir Jafar
- (B) Mir Qasim
- (C) Siraj- Ud- Duala
- (D) Murshid Kuli Kha
The Correct answer is (C) Siraj- Ud- Duala
Q28. Who betrayed Siraj-Ud-Daula in the ‘Battle of Plassey’ in 1757?
- (A) Hyder Ali
- (B) Mir Qasim
- (C) Mir Jafar
- (D) Nawab of Oudh
The Correct answer is (C) Mir Jafar
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Q29. What was the first cotton mill in India established ?
- (A) Surat
- (B) Mumbai
- (C) Ahmedabad
- (D) Coimbatore
The Correct answer is (B) Mumbai
Q30. Where was the first iron and steel industry of India established ?
- (A) Bhadravati
- (B) Burnpur
- (C) Jamshedpur
- (D) Bhilai
The Correct answer is (C) Jamshedpur
Q31. The “Hali” system concerned -?
- (A) Bonded Labour
- (B) Untouchability
- (C) Exploitation of peasants
- (D) Illiteracy
The Correct answer is (A) Bonded Labour