Online Question - Indian History
Q166. The Battle of Khanwa was fought between Babur and Rana Sanga in the year
(a) 1526
(b) 1527
(c) 1528
(d) 1529
Answer: (b) 1527
Q167. Which period is considered as the Golden Age of Indian history
(a) Maurya Period
(b) Gupta Period
(c) Mughal Period
(d) Nanda Period
Answer: (b) Gupta Period
Q168. Who gave the sobriquet "Nightingale of India" to Sarojini Naidu for her work as a poet
(a) Mahatma Gandhi
(b) Jawaharlal Nehru
(c) Rabindranath Tagore
(d) Swami Vivekananda
Answer: (a) Mahatma Gandhi
Q169. Which King of India is also known as “the last Hindu emperor”
(a) Hari Singh
(b) Prithviraj Chauhan
(c) Maharana Pratap
(d) Rana Sanga
Answer: (b) Prithviraj Chauhan
Q170. Which great personality had established the Visva-Bharati University
(a) Mahatma Gandhi
(b) Jawaharlal Nehru
(c) Subhas Chandra Bose
(d) Rabindranath Tagore
Answer: (d) Rabindranath Tagore
Q171. Tarikh-i-Alfi (History of the Millennium) was commissioned by
(a) Babur
(b) Akbar
(c) Jahangir
(d) Aurangzeb
Answer: (b) Akbar
Q172. Which Bahmani Sultan was called as ‘Wali’ or ‘Santa’
(a) Firoz Shah
(b) Ahmad Shah II
(c) Alauddin Humayun
(d) Ahmad Shah
Answer: (d) Ahmad Shah
Q173. Which of the following was the headquarters of a Danish Sultanate in India
(a) Tranquebar
(b) Serampore
(c) Cochin
(d) Nagapattinam
Answer: (b) Serampore
Q174. Who said the following : ‘‘I can ruin their resources by land but I cannot dry up the sea.’’
(a) Tipu Sultan
(b) Zaman Shah
(c) Haider Ali
(d) Nizam
Answer: (c) Haider Ali
Q175. Raja Ram Mohan Roy wrote the book Tuhfat-ul-Muwahhidin (Gift to Monotheists) in which language
(a) English
(b) Persian
(c) Urdu
(d) Bengali
Answer: (b) Persian
Q176. Raja Ram Mohan Roy set up the Hindu College at Calcutta in the year
(a) 1810
(b) 1812
(c) 1817
(d) 1826
Answer: (c) 1817
Q177. Who was the first to give the call for Swaraj as "India for Indians"
(a) Dayananda Saraswati
(b) Debendranath Tagore
(c) Sri Aurobindo
(d) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Answer: (a) Dayananda Saraswati
Q178. In which year, All India Home Rule League changed its name to Swarajya Sabha
(a) 1916
(b) 1921
(c) 1923
(d) 1927
Answer: (b) 1921
Q179. Which commission was formed by Indian freedom fighters in 1928 to counter the Simon Commission
(a) Gandhi Commission
(b) Nehru Commission
(c) Tilak Commission
(d) Rai Commission
Answer: (b) Nehru Commission
Q180. Which Indian freedom fighter is also known as "deshbandu"
(a) Motilal Nehru
(b) Bagha Jatin
(c) Chittaranjan Das
(d) Lala Lajpat Rai
Answer: (c) Chittaranjan Das