WBCS MAINS - 2015

History
101) Which of the following books was not written by Swami Dayanand Saraswati?
(A) Satyartha Prakash
(B) Veda Prakash
(C) Satyartha Bhumika
(D) Veda Bhashya Bhumika
102) During whose period did the European soldiers stage the so called White-Mutiny in India?
(A) Dalhousie
(B) Canning
(C) Mayo
(D) Ripon
103) Which of the following is not one of the causes responsible for the rise of money lenders in
British India?
(A) New revenue policy
(B) New legal system
(C) New educational system
(D) Commercialization of agriculture
104) Who is generally acknowledged as the pioneer of local self-Government in modern India ?
(A) Ripon
(B) Hardinge-I
(C) M.K.Gandhi
(D) Curzon
105) Who was the first to attempt decentralization of financial administration?
(A) Ripon
(B) Mayo
(C) Curzon
(D) Lytton
106) The British officer who defeated Mir. Qusim in a series of battles of 1763 was ?
(A) Major Hector Munro
(B) Major Adams
(C) Colonel Malleson
(D) Colonel Holwell
107) Who confessed the following way? We have no right to seize Sind,. Yet we shall do so and a
very big advantageous, useful, human piece of rascality it will be".
(A) Lord Auckland
(B) Lord Ellenborough
(C) Sir Charles Napier
(D) Major James Outram
108) Who was the Governor General when Sind was annexed?
(A) Lord Auckland
(B) Lord Ellenborough
(C) Lord Dalhousie
(D) Lord Hardinge-I
109) During whose reign did the post of Peshwa not only become powerful but also hereditary
(A) Rajaram
(B) Shivaji-II
(C) Sambhaji
(D) Shahu
110) Who among the following got the title of Sena Karte?
(A) Balaji Biswanath
(B) Balaji Baji Rao
(C) Rajaram
(D) Baji Rao-I
111) Which region in India provided the best quality salt petre and opium to the Europeans?
(A) Coromondal
(B) Gujrat
(C) Bihar
(D) Malabar
112) When and by whom were the Portugese driven out of Hugli in Bengal?
(A) 1625-Shaista Khan
(B) 1631-Qasim Khan
(C) 1650-Prince Murad
(D) 1666-Prince Shuja

113) What was the early capital of the Portuguese in India?

(A) Goa
(B) Cochin
(C) Culient
(D) Cannanore
114) Which one of the following Mughal emperors is credited with the composition of many Hindi
Songs?
(A) Humayun
(B) Babur
(C) Akbar
(D) Jahangir
115) Which of the following manuscripts, containing miniature paintings, reveals a sense of
realism and authenticity witnessed or experienced by the painters themselves
(A) Timur Namah
(B) Akbar Namah
(C) Jamiut-Tawarikh
(D) Tariqi-Alfi
116) The subject matter of Hamzahnamah is
(A) Architecture
(B) Painting
(C) Music
(D) Philosophy
117) The only type of Jagir which could not be transferred was (A) Khidmati Jagir
(B) Watan Jagir
(C) Milkiyat Jagir
(D) Tan Jagir
118) During the reign of which great Mughal was tobacco introduced in India?
(A) Jahangir
(B) Akbar
(C) Shahjahan
(D) Aurangzeb
119) Which of the following mosques of the Mughals is also known as the pearl-mosque?
(A) Jamia Masjid at Delhi
(B) Jamia Masjid at Fatehpuri
(C) Moti Masjid at Agra
(D) Aurangzebs personal mosque in the Red
Fort.
120) Who among the following Mughal Minister was the paymaster-general as well?
(A) Diwan
(B) Mir Bakshi
(C) Khan-i-Saman
(D) Vakil
121) Who among the following nobles of Akbar was killed by the Afghan rebels in one of the
Mughal campaigns to suppress them ?
(A) Man Singh
(B) Todar Mai
(C) Birbal
` (D) Bhagwan Das
122) Who among the following Rajputs were the first to voluntarily submit to Akbar?
(A) Hedas
(B) Sisodias
(C) Rathors
(D) Kachchhawahas
123) Who among the following Englishmen was given the title Khan by Jahangir?
(A) Thomas Roe
(B) Ralph Fitch
(C) Hawkins
(D) Newbery
124) Who was the founder of Gajapati Dynasty of Orissa?
(A) Purushottam
(B) Kapilendra
(C) Prataparudra
(D) Vidyadhara
125) Who was the founder of Sultanate of Madurai?
(A) Jalaluddin Ahsan
(B) Hussain Shah
(C) Nusrat Shah
(D) Dilwar Khan

126) Who built the Gol-Gumbaj at Bijapur famous for the world's second largest dome and the
whispering gallery?
(A) Mahmud Gawan
(B) Yusuf Adil Shah
(C) Ismail Adil Shah
(D) Muhammed Adil Shah
127) Which Sufi Saint adopted Yogic breathing exercises and was called Sidh or perfect?
(A) Nizamuddin Auliya
(B) Farid
(C) Salim Chisti
(D) Muhammed Jilani
128) Who wrote Gitawali, Kavitawali and Vinaya Patrika?
(A) Tulsidas
(B) Surdas
(C) Chaitanya
(D) Namadeva
129) What is Asthavana
(A) Land revenue department
(B) A type of rice
(C) One third of the produce of the land
(D) House-tax
130) City of Nagalapura was built by (A) Bukka-1
(B) Deva Raya-1
(C) Krishnadevaraya
(D) Virupaksha
131) During whose reign did Vijayanagara come into conflict with Orissa for the first time?
(A) Bukka-II
(B) Devaraya-I
(C) Devaraya-II
(D) Virupaksha-II
132) Which Vijayanagara ruler sent an embassy to China?
(A) Harihara-1
(B) Krishna Deva Raya
(C) Bukka-I
(D) Saluva Narasimha
133) Every pearl in the royal crown is but the crystallized drops of blood fallen from the tearful
eyes of the poor peasant. Who made this statement?
(A) Amir Khusrau
(B) Barani
(C) Ibn-Batutah
(D) Al-Beruni
134) Who introduced the famous Persian festival of Nauroz?
(A) Alauddin Khalji
(B) Iltutmish
(C) Balban
(D) Firuz Tughlaq
135) The famous Jaina temples at Dilwara were built by?
(A) Paramaras
(B) Chandellas
(C) Solankis
(D) Chauhans
136) When were the Silkworms introduced into the Byzantine empire from China, adversely
affecting India's already declining foreign trade?
(A) 451 AD
(B) 551 AD
(C) 615 AD
(D) 351 AD
137) Kalidasa's work include
(i) Abhigyana Sakuntalam
(ii) Meghadootam
(iii) Raghuvamsa
(iv) Malavikagnimitram
(v) Ritusamhara
(vi) Kumara Sambhava
Select the answer from the codes below (A) All of them
(B) i, ii, iii and iv
(C) i, ii, iv, v and vi
(D) i, iii, iv and v

138) Which one of the following was the meeting ground for the Brahmanical and devotional
religious levels?
(A) Maths
(B) Temples
(C) Ghatikas
(D) Samas
139) With which one of the following are the later foreign immigrants like Hunas, who came after
the fall of Imperial Guptas, identified?
(A) Kshatriyas
(B) Fallen Kshatriyas
(C) Rajputs
(D) Mlechchas
140) Which of the following is the main reason for the development of towns in the Harappan
period?
(A) Development of Science and technology
(B) Development of Arts and crafts
(C) Growth of Trade and commerce
(D) Increase in Agrarian surplus
141) Subhas Chandra Bose fought the presidential elections in 1939 on the ground that
(A) He did not like the nomination of Sitaramayya
(B) He pleaded for elections instead of nominations
(C) He was opposed to Gandhiji
(D) He favoured an aggressive policy which was opposed by the Congress Leaders
142) Lord Macaulay was associated with
(A) Reforms in the army
(B) Abolition of Sati
(C) Codification of Laws
(D) Permanent settlement
143) The lower castes tried to assert themselves by borrowing and imitating customs and
manners of the upper castes. This was termed as Sanskritisation by
(A) M.K. Gandhi
(B) Bernard Cohn
(C) B.R. Ambedkar
(D) M.N. Srinivas
144) Who among the following was not a member of the Congress Socialist Party, although he
encouraged and blessed its formation?
(A) Achyuta Patwardhan
(B) Jawaharlal Nehru
(C) Jayaprakash Narayan
(D) Acharya Narendra Dev
145) The Congress president who conducted negotiations with Cripps in 1942 and Wavell at the
Simla Conference was
(A) Abul Kalam Azad
(B) Jawahar Lai Nehru
(C) J.B Kripalani
(D) C. Rajagopalachari
146) Which one of the following adumbrated principles and constitutional provisions which were
later incorporated in the Montague-Chelmsford Reforms?
(A) Nehru Report
(B) Wavell Plan
(C) Lucknow Pact
(D) Poona Pack
147) The British Government introduced the portfolio system for the first time in
(A) 1853
(B) 1858
(C) 1861
(D) 1892
148) The Whitley Commission was concerned with
(A) Labour
(B) Education
(C) Public Health
(D) Reorganisation of Civil Service
149) The Indian Association played an important role in arousing national consciousness through
the formation of the

(A) Indian National Congress

(B) Bengal British Indian Society
(C) Indian National Conference
(D) British India Association
150) Who designed the National Flag of India, adopted by the Constituent Assembly on July, 21,
1947?
(A) Badr-ud-din-Tyabji
(B) Rabindranath Tagore
(C) Abanindranath Tagore
(D) Abul Kalam Azad
151) Which session of the Congress had 1889 Delegates?
(A) Third Session of Madras
(B) Fourth Session of Allahabad
(C) Fifth Session at Bombay
(D) Sixth Session at Calcutta
152) Who founded the Indian Reforms Association in 1870?
(A) Ram Mohan Roy
(B) Debendranath Tagore
(C) Keshab Chandra Sen
(D) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
153) Which of the following groups did not get separate electorates by the Act of 1935?
(A) Anglo-Indians
(B) Indian Christians
(C) Europeans
(D) Depressed Classes
154) Which of the following results of the Zamindari System was not an advantage to the British?
(A) Creation of political allies
(B) Minimisation of revenue administrative expenditure
(C) Permanent fixation of revenue demand
(D) Provision of financial security
155) Which of the following pairs are correctly matched?
(A) Banaras - Sir Colin Campbell
(B) Jhansi - Sir Hugh Rose
(C) Kanpur - Brigadier General Neil
(D) Lucknow - Major General Havelock
156) Indenture regulations which bound the artisans of Eastern India to sell their products
exclusively to the English company from the Late 18th Century were known as
(A) Dadni
(B) Damdupat
(C) Khatbandi
(D) Kamiya
157) Who among the following Britishers were associated with the introduction of Mahalwari
System?
(A) R.M. Bird
(B) Sir John Lawrence
(C) William Karey
(D) Sir Alexandar Cunningham
158) What is the Chronological sequence of the following happenings?
(i) August Declaration
(ii) Lucknow Pact
(iii) Jallianwalla Bagh Massacre
(iv) Khaira Satyagraha
Select the answer from the codes given below :(A) iv, ii, iii and i
(B) iii, i, ii and iv
(C) ii, iv, i and iii
(D) ii, i, iv and iii
159) Arrange the following events in chronological order
(i) Champaran Satyagraha
(ii) Launching of the Khilafat Movement
(iii) Reunion of the Congress
(iv) Nagpur session of the Congress
Choose the correct answer from the codes given below :(A) iii, i, ii and iv
(B) iii, i, iv and ii
(C) i, iii, iv and ii
(D) i, iv, iii and ii

160) Which of the following newspapers/journals was from Maharashtra?

(A) Kranti
(B) Atmashakti
(C) Sarathi
(D) Sandhya
161) Who was the founder of secret society Abhinava Bharat?
(A) Naren Bhattacharji
(B) Jatin Mukherji
(C) Ganesh Savarkar
(D) Damodar Chapekar
162) All the established political parties and groups, except two, boycotted Simon commission,
which were those two?
(i) Hindu Mahasabha
(ii) Justice Party
(iii) Muslim League
(iv) Punjab Unionists
Choose the correct answer from the codes given below :(A) ii and iii
(B) i and ii
(C) iv and ii
(D) iii and iv
163) Which, of the following is correctly matched?
(A) Formation of the All India Kisan Sabha-1935
(B) Foundation of the Congress Socialist party-1934
(C) Foundation of the Forward Block-1936
(D) Foundation of the Communist Party of India-1939
164) What is the name of the newspaper published by the Indian Muslim League?
(A) Quam
(B) Inquilab
(C) Star of India
(D) Dawn
165) When was the Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) founded ?
(A) 1905
(B) 1907
(C) 1917
(D) 1927
166) Who said: 'This orderly disciplined anarchy should go, and if as a result there is complete
lawlessness I would risk it'?
(A) Jawaharlal Nehru
(B) Mahatma Gandhi
(C) Rajagopalachari
(D) Vallab Bhai Patel
167) Who said: The Muslims were fools to ask for safeguards and the Hindus were greater fools to
refuse them?
(A) Jawaharlal Nehru
(B) Abul Kalam Azad
(C) Muhammed Ali
(D) Subhas Bose
168) Who made the 'Dipawali Declaration' and when
(A) Lord Irwin in 1929
(B) Lord Linlithgow in 1940
(C) Gandhi 1930
(D) Subhas Bose in 1941
169) Who among the following capitalists served as a AICC treasurer for many years and went to
jail in 1930?
(A) G. (D) Birla
(B) Jamunalal Bajaj
(C) J.R.(D) Tata
(D) Walchand Hirachand
170. Who among the following played an important role in the signing of the Gandhi Irwin pact?
(i) Motilal Nehru
(ii) Tej Bahadur Sapru
(iii) Madanmohan Malaviya
(iv) Jayakar
(v) Chintamani
Select the correct answer from the codes given below:-

(A) i and ii
(B) ii and iv
(C) ii and iii
(D) iv and v
171) Which of the following is correctly paired?
(A) Panjbee - T. Prakasam and M. Krishna Rao (B) Bharata Mata - Ajit singh
(C) Krishna Patrika - M.G. Ranade
(D) Quarterly Journal - Lajpat Rai
172) Which of the following is correctly paired ?
(A) Antipartition and Swadeshi Movements -Lord Lansdowne
(B) Factory Act of 1891-Lord Curzon
(C) Establishment of an agricultural Research Institution at pusa - Lord Minto
(D) Rowlatt Act - Lord Chelmsford
173) Who said 'the congress movement was neither inspired by the people not devised or planned
by them?'
(A) Lala Lajpat Rai
(B) Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
(C) Lord Curzon
(D) Lord Dufferin
174) Who described Bal Gangadhar Tilak as the father of Indian unrest
(A) Valentine Chirol
(B) Disrachi
(C) Minto-II
(D) Chelmsford
175) What is the name of the Bengali monthly founded and edited by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
in 1873?
(A) Soma Prakasha
(B) Bangaduta
(C) Bangadarshana
(D) Bengalee
176) When and by whom was the Nair Service Society founded?
(A) 1905 - Narayana Guru
(B) 1910 - T.M. Nair
(C) 1914 - M. Padmanabha Pillai
(D) 1916 - K. Ramakrishna Pillai
177) Tamil journal. Kudi Arasu was founded by whom?
(A) Anna Durai
(B) P. Tyagaraja Ehetti
(C) T.M. Nair
(D) E.V. Ramaswamy Periyar
178) Which of the following were the original founders of the Theosophical society ?
(i) Madam H.P. Blavatsky
(ii) Mrs. Annie Besant
(iii) Colonel H.S. Olcott
(iv) Colonel O.P. Walburn
Choose the answer from the codes given below
(A) i and ii
(B) ii and iii
(C) i and iii
(D) iii and iv
179) Keshab Chandra Sen
(i) Adopted a radical and comprehensive scheme of social reforms.
(ii) Infused the concept of Bhakti into Brahmoism
(iii) Influenced the socio-religious reformers in Bombay and Madras
(iv) Opposed the introduction of western education in India.
Which one is correct
(A) i, ii and iii
(B) ii, iii and iv
(C) i, iii and iv
(D) All of them
180) Which one of the following has not been mentioned as 'asineva' in Ashokan inscriptions
(A) Greed and passion
(B) Cruelty and anger
(C) Pride and fury
(D) Envy and revenge

181) Who was the Bacterian King that invaded India in about 182 BC and wrested a considerable
part of the North-West ?
(A) Demetrius
(B) Antigonus
(C) Philadelphus
(D) Gondophernes
182) Who among the following started the general use of stone for monuments ?
(A) Chandra Gupta Maurya
(B) Bimbisara
(C) Bindusara
(D) Asoka
183) Just as for my children, I desire that they should enjoy all happiness and prosperity both in
this world and the next. So for all men I desire the like happiness and prosperity.
This is stated in (A) Barabar Cave Inscriptions
(B) Minor Rock Edicts
(C) Tarai Pillars
(D) Kallinga Inscriptions
184) According to Rajatarangini Ashokas favourite deity was
(A) Siva
(B) Vishnu
(C) Vasudeva
(D) Buddha
185) Which of the following statement is incorrect ?
(A) Kautilya was Chandragupta's guide and mentor
(B) Chandragupta was succeeded by his son Bindusara
(C) Chandragupta was known to the Greeks as Amitroehates, the destroyer of foes
(D) Chandragupta is said to have died of slow starvation in south India
186) Which of the following sources describe the Mauryas as belonging to the Sudra Varna ?
(A) Puranas
(B) Jatakas
(C) Purvas
(D) European Clasical Writers
187) Which one of the following sources states that Srinagar was built by Asoka?
(A) Kalahanas Rajatarangini
(B) Divyavandana
(C) Taranatha's History of Tibet
(D) Mahavamsa
188) Who among the following was not a Greek Ambassador staying at the Mauryan Court ?
(A) Megasthenes
(B) Diodorus
(C) Deimachus
(D) Dionisius
189) Kontakasodhanas of the Mauryan period were
(A) Royal treasuries
(B) Civil courts
(C) Criminal courts
(D) Police stations
190) The hereditary soldiers of the Mauryan period were known as
(A) Bhritakas
(B) Maula
(C) Vardhaki
(D) Atavivala
191) Which of the following Rig Vedic Gods is said to be the upholder of the Rita or Cosmic Order?
(A) Indra
(B) Agni
(C) Varuna
(D) Soma
192) Which one of the following tribal assemblies has normally involved in the election of the
tribal chief?
(A) Samiti
(B) Sabha
(C) Gora
(D) Vidata

193) House burials are reported from :

(A) Gufral in Kashmir
(B) Ghaligal - in the northeast
(C) Uleri in Almora
(D) Balathal in Rajasthan
194) Which of the following were the main items of export of the Indus people?
(i) Gold and Silver
(ii) Cotton goods
(iii) Terracottas
(iv) Seals
(v) Pottery
Select the answer from the codes below (A) ii, iii and v
(B) i, iii and iv
(C) i, ii, iv and v
(D) All of them
195) Who among the following archeologists has been claiming that he was successfully
deciphered the Indus script, though others have not accepted the claim?
(A) MEM Wheeler
(B) Gordon Childe
(C) K.M. Srivastava
(D) S.R. Rao
196) According to the latest excavations, Manda is the _____________site of the Indus civilization
?
(A) Northernmost
(B) Southernmost
(C) Easternmost
(D) Westernmost
197) Which one of the following types of Harappan pottery is said to be the earliest example of its
kind in the world ?
(A) Polychrome
(B) Glazed
(C) Perforated
(D) Knobbed
198) The Harappan bricks were mainly
(A) Sawn with the help of a saw-like instrument
(B) Made in an open mould
(C) Hand-made
(D) Cut with the help of a chisel
199) Where do we find the three phases, viz. Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic Cultures in
sequence?
(A) Belan valley
(B) Krishna Valley
(C) Godavari Valley
(D) Kashmir Valley
200) Which of the following is not a principal tool of the Early Stone Age?
(A) Scrapper
(B) Hand axe
(C) Cleaver
(D) Chopper