SSC CHSL History Questions and Answers

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Questions and Answers on History for SSC CHSL Exam

1. In the Bahmani period, the port of Dabhol was known as……………………
(A) Mustafabad
(B) Nasratpur
(C) Bandar Mubarak
(D) Islamabad

2. Light artillery carried on camel back was called…………………….in Mughal times.
(A) Narnal
(B) Gajal
(C) Arraba
(D) Shutrnal

3. Where is Aurangzeb’s tomb ?
(A) Delhi
(B) Agra
(C) Khuldabad
(D) Daulatabad

4. The Sufi saint Muhammad Banda Nawaz is better known as……………
(A) Baba Farid
(B) Gesudaraz
(C) Baba Palangposh
(D) Shaikh Mohammad

5. Who assumed office as the first viceroy of Portuguese territory of Goa from 1505-1509 ?
(A) Afonso d’Albuquerque
(B) Francisco de Almeida
(C) Vasco da Gama
(D) Father Stevens

6. An early Dutch traveler to India and Indonesia was…………………………
(A) Francisco Pelsaert
(B) Peter Floris
(C) Adrian van Rheede
(D) John Huyghen van Linschoten

7. The cities of Sultanpur and Bandar Mubarak are better known as………. and ……………..
(A) Madurai and Nagapattinam
(B) Dwarasamudra and Kalyani
(C) Chaul and Vengurla
(D) Warangal and Surat

8. Tavernier in the 17th century described two routes from Surat to Agra, one via……………… and the other via……………………
(A) Burhanpur and Ahmedabad
(B) Burhanpur and Sironj
(C) Merta and Kota
(D) Gwalior and Kota

9. In the 16th and 17th centuries, what feature did the ports of Gandevi, Chaul and Narsapur share ?
(A) They were all on the west coast of India
(B) They were all centres of ship building
(C) They were all under the control of the Portuguese
(D) They were all centres of Armenian merchants

10. The Takht-i-Kirmani, a gate built by descendants of a saint from Kirman, is located in………………………..
(A) Chaul
(B) Vengurla
(C) Bidar
(D) Nagpur

11. The segmentary state model was based on the study of……………. by……………..
(A) Chola state, Burton Stein
(B) Alur society, Aidan Southall
(C) Rajput lineages, Richard Fox
(D) Vijayanagar state, N. Karashima

12. The Ragamala paintings are typical of the………………… style of the 18th century.
(A) Deccan
(B) Kangra
(C) Rajput
(D) Pahari

13. Who says that ‘Plassey was a transaction in which the rich bankers of Bengal and Mir Jafar sold out the Nawab to the English ?
(A) N.K. Sinha
(B) K.M. Pannikar
(C) R.S. Sharma
(D) N.L. Chatterjee

14. The Jagat Seths were an influential ……………………. family in Bengal.
(A) Noble
(B) Banking
(C) Military
(D) Physician

15. Mir Jafar shifted his capital from Murshidabad to……………………….
(A) Monghyr
(B) Midnapur
(C) Burdwan
(D) Lakhnauti

16. Where did the British start the Dual system of Government ?
(A) Madras
(B) Bengal
(C) Bombay
(D) Pondicherry

17. Who among the following is known as the ‘liberator of Indian Press’ ?
(A) Lord William Bentinck
(B) Charles Metcalfe
(C) Lord Macaulay
(D) Lord Dalhousie

18. The Lancashire cotton textiles were first introduced in India, in…………….
(A) 1786
(B) 1815
(C) 1831
(D) 1852

19. A modern Western Painting School was established in Pune in 1798. Its student, who famously made the drawings of Ellora as he accompanied Sir Charles Malet in his artistic expedition was………………
(A) Erloo Bin Narayan
(B) Dhakji Dadaji
(C) Gangaram Tambat
(D) Vasudev Kamat

20. Witnessing the devastation of the Indian textile industries, William Bentinck remarked, ‘‘The bones of the……………………..are bleaching the plains of India’’.
(A) Cotton Traders
(B) Cotton Weavers
(C) Mill Workers
(D) Cotton Farmers

21. Tinkathiya system is associated with……………………….cultivation.
(A) Wheat
(B) Cotton
(C) Sugarcane
(D) Indigo

22. This person led a revolt against the moneylenders and the British in Ahmednagar and Nasik region. The British had declared a Prize of Rs. 5,000 to capture him.
(A) Fond Sawant
(B) Narsappa
(C) Shivkar Bapuji Talapade
(D) Raghoji Bhangre

23. Around 1840-41, this freedom fighter had conquered the fort of Badami with the help of other soldiers and hoisted the flag of the Chhatrapati of Satara on this fort.
(A) Sevaram Bhill
(B) Narsingrao Petkar
(C) Umaji Naik
(D) Lahuji Salve

24. This person belonged to the first batch of doctors that graduated from the Grant Medical College in 1850 and was a great patron of arts and theatre.
(A) Bhau Daji Lad
(B) Vishram Ramji Ghole
(C) R.G. Bhandarkar
(D) Jagannath Shankarsheth

25. Who among the following criticised the University Act of 1904. commenting that the Indian Universities had become some of the world’s most governmental institutions ?
(A) Hunter Commission
(B) Sadler Commission
(C) Radhakrishnan Commission
(D) Kothari Commission

26. ……………………..was one of the founders of the Veda Samaj which was founded in 1864.
(A) Shreedharalu Naidu
(B) Dayanand
(C) Dadoba Pandurang
(D) Mahatma Phule

27. In his work ‘‘Tafsir ul Quran— Commentaries on the Quran’’, this reformer argued that the Word of God should be interpreted through the work of God which is open for all to see.
(A) Rashid Ahmed Gangohi
(B) Syed Ahmed Khan
(C) Mahmud ul Hasan
(D) Syed Ahmed Barelvi

28. ……………………was a founder member of the ‘Goa Youth League’.
(A) Beatris de Menzes Braganza
(B) Mohan Ranade
(C) Dayanand Bandodkar
(D) Pandit Nehru

29. Within Imperialistic ideology, the ‘‘policy of assimilation’’ is based on :
(A) The idea that colonizers can be enriched when adapting to the native culture of an area
(B) The idea that local people deserved the right to maintain their native culture
(C) The idea that native populations know what is best for survival in that area
(D) The idea that local people would eventually be absorbed into the colonizers’ culture

30. What is the meaning of the title of Tilak’s book ‘Orion’ ?
(A) Name of a Constellation
(B) Aryan Invasion
(C) Vedic Sweetmeat
(D) A Vedic Deity

31. Members of the States Reorganisation Commission included a jurist, S. Fazl Ali, a Social Worker, H.N. Kunzru and a Historian…………………….
(A) Jawaharlal Nehru
(B) N.V. Gadgil
(C) K.M. Panikkar
(D) R.C. Mujumdar

32. Servants of India Society, All India Women’s Conference and the Indian History Congress were all founded in this city :
(A) Poona
(B) Bombay
(C) Calcutta
(D) Delhi

33. This anthropologist is the author of Maharashtra Sanskruti, which deals with the culture of Maharashtra :
(A) Durga Bhagwat
(B) G.S. Ghurye
(C) Irawati Karve
(D) Gunther Sontheimer

34. The task of allotting 2,50,000 refugees with cultivable land was completed by……………………. Director General of Rehabilitation by 1949.
(A) Sardar Tarlok Singh
(B) Vijayalaxmi Pandit
(C) Sardar Baldev Singh
(D) Sarojini Naidu

35. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was compared to…………………..
(A) Mazzini
(B) Bismarck
(C) Lenin
(D) Leo Tolstoy

36. Who is the author of ‘Steamboats on the Indus’ ?
(A) Clive Dewey
(B) Michael Adas
(C) John Hobson
(D) Dharampal

37. How many stages did Immanuel Wallerstein identify in his World Systems theory ?
(A) Two
(B) Three
(C) Four
(D) Five

38. In art history, ……………… is seen as being at the forefront of nationalist responses to colonial interpretations.
(A) Rajendralala Mitra
(B) JDM Beglar
(C) Ram Raz
(D) Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

39. The concept of ‘Total History’ is associated with which one of the following schools of historical writing ?
(A) Marxist School
(B) Positivist School
(C) Annales School
(D) Subaltern School

40. According to Church historiography, what is a chronicle ?
(A) A biography of a great man
(B) A biography of a saint
(C) An account of the rise of the Church
(D) A detailed account of events in a particular place and time

41. The most significant pottery associated with the Indo-Roman Trade is ……………………. .
(A) Amphorae
(B) Bowl
(C) Plate
(D) Jar

42. The Archaeological excavations at Nevasa was carried out by ………………. .
(A) A. Ghosh
(B) B. B. Lal
(C) H.D. Sankalia
(D) Debla Mitra

43. Iron implements were mostly used in which of the following culture of ancient India ?
(A) Mesolithic
(B) Neolithic
(C) Megalithic
(D) Palaeolithic

44. Which of the following excavated sites is an important medieval site of Maharashtra ?
(A) Sanjan
(B) Budhihal
(C) Daulatabad
(D) Morgaon

45. Which of the following kings used the epithet ‘Priyadarshi’ ?
(A) Rudradaman
(B) Chandragupta-II
(C) Ashoka
(D) Gautamiputra Satakarni

46. Which of the following kings was not a Kushana ruler ?
(A) Kanishka-I
(B) Vasudev-I
(C) Chashtana
(D) Huvishka-I

47. Saka Era commenced in …………………. .
(A) 78 C.E.
(B) 57 C.E.
(C) 101 C.E.
(D) 87 C.E.

48. According to Puranas how many kings of the Satavahana dynasty ruled for 460 years ?
(A) 28
(B) 30
(C) 27
(D) 39

49. Which among the following sites does not have rock-cut caves excavated during the Satavahana-Kshatrapa times ?
(A) Bhaje
(B) Pitalkhora
(C) Ellora
(D) Junnar

50. Which among the following Paramara rulers wrote a treatise on Shilpashastra entitled ‘Samarangana Sutradhara’ ?
(A) Udayaditya
(B) Bhoja
(C) Sindhuraja
(D) Lakshmadeva