1. Which Governor General is remembered for the annulment of the partition of Bengal?
a) Lord Hardinge
b) Willium Bentick
c) Warren Hastings
d) Lord Curzon
2. Which Delhi Sultan levied the irrigation tax on the farmers for the first time ?
a) Abu Bakr Shah
b) Nasir ud din Muhammad Shah III
c) Sultan Firoz Tuglaq
d) Nusrat Shah
3. The writer of Rajatarangini is :
a) Banbhata
b) Kalhana
c) Abul Fazal
d) Tulsi Das
4. Who first applied the name India to the region watered by the Sindhu ?
a) British
b) Portuguese
c) Dutch
d) Achaemenid Persians
5. The Puranas define the term Bharatavarsha as the country marked by seven main chains of mountains viz.:
a) Mahendra, Malaya, Sabhya, Suktimat, Riksha, Vindhya and Pariyatra
b) Mahendra, Malaya, Nashukha, Suktimat, Riksha, Vindhya and Pariyatra
c) Mahendra, Malaya, Sabhya, Suktimat, Amalya, Vindhya and Pariyatra
d) Mahendra, Haruna, Sabhya, Suktimat, Riksha, Vindhya and Pariyatra
6. The eastern most outpost of Indus Valley Civilization (Akangirpur) was excavated by :
a) J. Joshi
b) B.B lai
c) Y. D. Sharma
d) S.R. Rao
7. Who founded Ramkrishna Mission in 1896?
a) Ram Kisna Paramhans
b) Swami Vivekananda
c) Ravibindra Nath Tagore
d) Devendra Nath Tagore
8. The Ryatwari Settlement was primarily introduced by the British Government in ?
a) Calcutta
b) Jhansi
c) Awadh
d) Madras and Bombay
9. Akbarnama and Ain-e-Akbari have been written by :
a) Abul Fazal
b) Akber
c) Rahim
d) Niggar Khan
10. Dadra and Nagar Haveli was liberated from Portuguese rule in :
a) 1935
b) 1947
c) 1950
d) 1954