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Uttarakhand pcs pre 2010 examination Indian History Answers | Combined State Civil/Upper Subordinate Service (Pre) Examination 2010 Indian History Answers
Uttarakhand pcs pre 2010 examination Indian History Answers | Combined State Civil/Upper Subordinate Service (Pre) Examination 2010 Indian History Answers
Below are the Answers of the Indian History Optional Paper of Uttarakhand PCS Pre 2010 Examination ( OR Uttarakhand Upper Subordinate Examination 2010 OR Uttarakhand Sammilit Rajya Civil/Pravar Adhinast Seva Prarambhik Pariksha 2010) held TODAY that is January 8 2012, at various examination centers in 13 districts of Uttarakhand, in 9:30-11:30 AM meeting.
Below are Answers to the Uttarakhand pcs pre 2010 examination Indian History in no particular order:
1) Which of the following sources indicate towards Indo-Roman Trade?
Answer: Natural History of Plini
2) Which one of the following ruler and his achievement are known only through inscription?
Answer: _____
3) "History is the mother of all Sciences" who said this?
Answer: ________
4) Who propounded the 'Principle of Gravitation' before Newton's Law?
Answer: Brahmagupta
5) The valabhi Era is identical with
Answer: Gupta Era
6) Ajanta Paintings are related with
Answer: Buddhism
7) The ancient name of Bengal was
Answer: Gauda
8) Satvahana coins were made of
Answer: Lead
9) Who among the following was the first ruler to take initiative for water resource
Answer: Chandragupta Maurya
10)The number of Mahajanpadas in the 6th Century BC was
Answer: 16
11) Alexander invaded India in the year
Answer: 326 BC
12) In which inscription Harsha is called 'parammaheshwar'?
Answer: __________
13) Which dynasty was famous for its local self Government?
Answer: _______
14) There was an administrative unit under the Cholas named 'Kurram'. What did it mean?
Answer: A District
15) Which among the following dynasties had the strongest navy?
Answer: ___________
16) Which inscription tells us that a guild of silk weavers constructed a Grand Sun temple?
Answer: Mandsaur inscription
17) Who used Greek fire 'naptha and mangonels' (manjaniq) between 712 -714 AD?
Answer: Turks
18) Who among the following is a subaltern historian?
Answer: Ranjeet Guha
19) Who may be considered the pioneer of Marxist - history writing in India?
Answer: D D Kosambi
20) Who is the author of the book entitled 'What is History'?
Answer: E H Carr
21) The biggest hoard of the Gupta gold coins is
Answer: Bayana Hoard
22) Which is the Oldest Script of India?
Answer: Brahmi
23) The term dronavapa in the post-Gupta period refers to
Answer: A measure of Land
24) Who was the author of 'Kitab - ul - Hind'?
Answer: Aberuni
25) The main feature of Indian Society during 800-1200 AD was
Answer: Feudalism
26) Which one of the following is not written by Amir Khusrau?
Answer: Tarikh e yamini written by Abu Nasr Muhammad ibn Muhammad al Jabbaru-'Utbi
27) Where did the traveler Ibn - e Batuta come from?
Answer: Morocco
28) Shahna-i Mandi Supervised
Answer: Market
29) During the Sultanate period chief of the military staff was called
Answer: Ariz - i Mamalik
30) Who was called 'Tuti - e - Hind' ?
Answer: Amir Khusrau
31) Which of the following King started Vikram Samvat?
Answer: Chandra Gupta II
32) To which ruler of the Chola dynasty are the following statements related?
1. For two years he ruled jointly with his father
2. he sent a naval expedition against the ruler of Sri Vijaya
3. He built a new capital at Gangoi Kondacholapuram.
Answer: Rajendra I
33) The Tripartite struggle was fought among
Answer: Pala - Pratihara - Rashtrakuta
34) The principle of wahadat - ul - Wajud was propounded by
Answer: Ibn - e Arabi
35) Who among the following invited Babur to invade India
Answer: Daulat Khan Lodi
36) Which sultan of Delhi ordered a ban of women that they cannot go out Delhi to pay respect at mazar?
Answer: _____________
37) The first dynasty of the Vijayanagar kingdom was
Answer: Sangam
38) The largest administrative unit in the Vijayanagar empire was
Answer: _______________
39) Baba Farid was a follower of which Sufi Order?
Answer: Chisthi Order
40) Which of the following was not born in North India?
Answer: Guru Nanak
41) Akbar constructed Buland Darwaza to commemorate the victory over
Answer: Gujarat
42) Atala Masjid of Sharqui period is at
Answer: Jaunpur
43) Adhai Din ka jhopra was built during the period of
Answer: Qutubuddin Aibak
44) Which of the following were the two basic coins of the Sultanate period?
Answer: Jital and Tanka OR 2 and 4
45) The term ''Shaikhzada' was used during the Mughal period for
Answer: Indian Muslims of High clan
46) Nur Jahan's real name was
Answer: Mehrun-Nisa
47) The birth place of Akbar was
Answer: Amarkot
48) In how many subahs Akbar's Empire was divided?
Answer: 15
49) Akbar issued MAHZAR in the year
Answer: 1579
50) What is the unit of measurement of land in the Maratha revenue administration?
Answer: Kathi
51) In which year the Treaty of Purnadhar took place between Jaisingh and Shivaji?
Answer: 1665 AD
52) Who founded Maratha Maha Sangha (Confederacy) ?
Answer: ____________
53) Razm Nama is the Persian translation of which
Answer: Mahabharat
54) Who issued a copper coin called Dam?
Answer: Sher Shah Suri
55) Who founded the state of Hyderabad?
Answer: Chin Qilich Khan
56) By which Act the rule of East India Company ended in India?
Answer: Government Of India Act 1858 AD
57) Who was the Successor of Maharaja Ranjit Singh?
Answer: Kharak Singh
58) The term 'Inter loper' has been used for
Answer: Unauthorized trader
59) The Grand Trunk Road in its modern shape was begun by
Answer: __________
60) Which of the following Acts abolished the monopoly of the East India Company over the China trade?
Answer: Charter Act of 1813 AD
61) In which year the Permanent Settlement in Bengal was introduced?
Answer: 1793 AD
62) 'Poverty and Un-British Rule in India' was written by
Answer: Dada Bhai Nouroji
63) Which was the first European power to come to India?
Answer: The Portuguese
64) Who was the Mughal Emperor at the time of Third Battle of Panipat?
Answer: Shah Alam II
65) The policy of 'Ring Fence' is associated with
Answer: _________
66) The incident of 'Black Hole' was related to
Answer: Sirajuddaulah
67) Who among the following was not associated with the First War of Independence in 1857
Answer: Man Singh
68) Theosophical Society was founded in New York in 1875 AD by
Answer: Madam H. P. Blavatsky and Col. H. S. Olcott OR Both (a) and (b)
69) Who said, "Go back to Vedas" ?
Answer: Dayanand
70) Who was the author of 'Gulamgiri'?
Answer: Jyotiba Phule
71) With which movement was Dudu Miyan associated?
Answer: Faraizi Movement
72) British India Society was founded by
Answer: _____________
73) 'Satyarth Prakash' was written by
Answer: Dayanand
74) The Famine Commission in 1880 AD was set up by the Government of India under
Answer: Sir John Strachey
75) Who introduced the Ryotwari Settlement in Madras?
Answer: Sir Thomas Munroe
76) Who called the Revolt of 1857 a "Mutiny of the Sepoy"?
Answer: ___________
77) The President of the first All India Socialist Conference was
Answer: ___________
78) In which session Congress demanded 'Purna Swaraj'?
Answer: Lahore Session
79) In which month Quit India Movement of 1942 AD started?
Answer: August
80) All India Kisan Sabha was founded by
Answer: Swami Sahajanand Saraswati
81) Vellore Mutiny took place in the year
Answer: 1806 AD
82) Who among the following founded Home Rule League?
Answer: Annie Besant
83) What is the correct chronological order of the following events?
1. Cabinet Mission Plan
2. Bombay Plan
3. Wavell Plan
4. Mountbatten Plan
Answer: (b) 2,3,1 and 4
84) The Mohammadan Anglo-Oriental College was founded at Aligarh in
Answer: 1875 AD
85) Which is known as the 'Magna Carta' of Western Education System in India?
Answer: Wood's Dispatch 1854 AD
86) Who among the following Mughal rulers granted duty free trade to the East India Company in Bengal?
Answer: Farrukh Siyar
87) Two-Nation theory was propounded first time in March 1940 by Muslim League at
Answer: Lahore Session
88) Who among the following did not participate in the Non-Cooperation Movement?
Answer: ______________
89) Who among the following had called the Gandhi's Salt Satyagrah as 'An insurrection without arm'?
Answer: Louis Fisher
90) Which one of the following is correctly matched?
Answer : (d) A K Azad: Al Hilal
91) In which part of India, the Ghadar party planned an armed revolt on 21st February 1915 AD?
Answer: __________
92) Which of the following Freedom Fighters was not a lawyer?
Answer: Subhash Chandra Bose
93) The famous book of the Tamil Grammar, during the Sangam age was
Answer: Tolkappiyam
94) Which of the following was not a tribal assembly during the Vedic India?
Answer: Gopa
95) In which year was the Naujawan Sabha established?
Answer: 1928 AD
96) In which Round Table Conference Mahatma Gandhi participated?
Answer: Second
97) Who started the Indian Civil Services?
Answer: Lord Cornwallis
98) What is Ahat (punch mark)?
Answer: Coin
99) Cemetery 'H' is associated with
Answer: Late Harappan Culture
100) Which of the following is not included in the Vedic Literature?
Answer: ____________
101) The tallest monolithic image in ancient India was carved at which place?
Answer: ______________
102) The philosophy of the Upanishads is concerned mainly with
Answer: _____________
103) Which one of the following Indian deities is shown with six faces?
Answer: Karthikeya
104) The Sangams were
Answer: Literary Academies
105) The word 'Antyaj' was used for
Answer: None of the above
106) Sangam literature was written in
Answer: Tamil
107) The first metal used for making tools was
Answer: Copper
108) The first permanent home of Aryans in India was
Answer: ______________
109) Who founded the Sangam dynasty?
Answer: Harihara I & Bukka I
110) Temples constructed in Vesar style are found in
Answer: Dakshinapath
111) Which among the following did not patronize Jain religion?
Answer: Satvahanas
112) The Fourth Buddhist Council was held during the reign of
Answer: Kanishka
113) Who was the first Tirthankar in Jainism?
Answer: Rishabhdeva
114) Syadvada is associated with
Answer: Jain Philosophy
115) Which of the following is not included in Panchamahavartan of Jainism?
Answer: Tyaga
116) Who was the earliest grammarian of India?
Answer: Panini
117) Which one of the following aspect is not mentioned in Kautilya's Artha Shastra?
Answer: Agriculture Technique
118) Who is the most important God in the Rigvedic Pantheon?
Answer: ________________
119) The animals in Buddhist literature are called
Answer: Sukhda
120) Which game was known as 'Chaturang' in ancient India?
Answer: Chess
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NON-RELATED UPDATE 09/01/2012: Answers General Studies Uttarakhand pcs pre 2010 examination | Combined State Civil/Upper Subordinate Service (Pre) Examination 2010 General Studies Answers.
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Below are the Answers of the Indian History Optional Paper of Uttarakhand PCS Pre 2010 Examination ( OR Uttarakhand Upper Subordinate Examination 2010 OR Uttarakhand Sammilit Rajya Civil/Pravar Adhinast Seva Prarambhik Pariksha 2010) held TODAY that is January 8 2012, at various examination centers in 13 districts of Uttarakhand, in 9:30-11:30 AM meeting.
Below are Answers to the Uttarakhand pcs pre 2010 examination Indian History in no particular order:
1) Which of the following sources indicate towards Indo-Roman Trade?
Answer: Natural History of Plini
2) Which one of the following ruler and his achievement are known only through inscription?
Answer: _____
3) "History is the mother of all Sciences" who said this?
Answer: ________
4) Who propounded the 'Principle of Gravitation' before Newton's Law?
Answer: Brahmagupta
5) The valabhi Era is identical with
Answer: Gupta Era
6) Ajanta Paintings are related with
Answer: Buddhism
7) The ancient name of Bengal was
Answer: Gauda
8) Satvahana coins were made of
Answer: Lead
9) Who among the following was the first ruler to take initiative for water resource
Answer: Chandragupta Maurya
10)The number of Mahajanpadas in the 6th Century BC was
Answer: 16
11) Alexander invaded India in the year
Answer: 326 BC
12) In which inscription Harsha is called 'parammaheshwar'?
Answer: __________
13) Which dynasty was famous for its local self Government?
Answer: _______
14) There was an administrative unit under the Cholas named 'Kurram'. What did it mean?
Answer: A District
15) Which among the following dynasties had the strongest navy?
Answer: ___________
16) Which inscription tells us that a guild of silk weavers constructed a Grand Sun temple?
Answer: Mandsaur inscription
17) Who used Greek fire 'naptha and mangonels' (manjaniq) between 712 -714 AD?
Answer: Turks
18) Who among the following is a subaltern historian?
Answer: Ranjeet Guha
19) Who may be considered the pioneer of Marxist - history writing in India?
Answer: D D Kosambi
20) Who is the author of the book entitled 'What is History'?
Answer: E H Carr
21) The biggest hoard of the Gupta gold coins is
Answer: Bayana Hoard
22) Which is the Oldest Script of India?
Answer: Brahmi
23) The term dronavapa in the post-Gupta period refers to
Answer: A measure of Land
24) Who was the author of 'Kitab - ul - Hind'?
Answer: Aberuni
25) The main feature of Indian Society during 800-1200 AD was
Answer: Feudalism
26) Which one of the following is not written by Amir Khusrau?
Answer: Tarikh e yamini written by Abu Nasr Muhammad ibn Muhammad al Jabbaru-'Utbi
27) Where did the traveler Ibn - e Batuta come from?
Answer: Morocco
28) Shahna-i Mandi Supervised
Answer: Market
29) During the Sultanate period chief of the military staff was called
Answer: Ariz - i Mamalik
30) Who was called 'Tuti - e - Hind' ?
Answer: Amir Khusrau
31) Which of the following King started Vikram Samvat?
Answer: Chandra Gupta II
32) To which ruler of the Chola dynasty are the following statements related?
1. For two years he ruled jointly with his father
2. he sent a naval expedition against the ruler of Sri Vijaya
3. He built a new capital at Gangoi Kondacholapuram.
Answer: Rajendra I
33) The Tripartite struggle was fought among
Answer: Pala - Pratihara - Rashtrakuta
34) The principle of wahadat - ul - Wajud was propounded by
Answer: Ibn - e Arabi
35) Who among the following invited Babur to invade India
Answer: Daulat Khan Lodi
36) Which sultan of Delhi ordered a ban of women that they cannot go out Delhi to pay respect at mazar?
Answer: _____________
37) The first dynasty of the Vijayanagar kingdom was
Answer: Sangam
38) The largest administrative unit in the Vijayanagar empire was
Answer: _______________
39) Baba Farid was a follower of which Sufi Order?
Answer: Chisthi Order
40) Which of the following was not born in North India?
Answer: Guru Nanak
41) Akbar constructed Buland Darwaza to commemorate the victory over
Answer: Gujarat
42) Atala Masjid of Sharqui period is at
Answer: Jaunpur
43) Adhai Din ka jhopra was built during the period of
Answer: Qutubuddin Aibak
44) Which of the following were the two basic coins of the Sultanate period?
Answer: Jital and Tanka OR 2 and 4
45) The term ''Shaikhzada' was used during the Mughal period for
Answer: Indian Muslims of High clan
46) Nur Jahan's real name was
Answer: Mehrun-Nisa
47) The birth place of Akbar was
Answer: Amarkot
48) In how many subahs Akbar's Empire was divided?
Answer: 15
49) Akbar issued MAHZAR in the year
Answer: 1579
50) What is the unit of measurement of land in the Maratha revenue administration?
Answer: Kathi
51) In which year the Treaty of Purnadhar took place between Jaisingh and Shivaji?
Answer: 1665 AD
52) Who founded Maratha Maha Sangha (Confederacy) ?
Answer: ____________
53) Razm Nama is the Persian translation of which
Answer: Mahabharat
54) Who issued a copper coin called Dam?
Answer: Sher Shah Suri
55) Who founded the state of Hyderabad?
Answer: Chin Qilich Khan
56) By which Act the rule of East India Company ended in India?
Answer: Government Of India Act 1858 AD
57) Who was the Successor of Maharaja Ranjit Singh?
Answer: Kharak Singh
58) The term 'Inter loper' has been used for
Answer: Unauthorized trader
59) The Grand Trunk Road in its modern shape was begun by
Answer: __________
60) Which of the following Acts abolished the monopoly of the East India Company over the China trade?
Answer: Charter Act of 1813 AD
61) In which year the Permanent Settlement in Bengal was introduced?
Answer: 1793 AD
62) 'Poverty and Un-British Rule in India' was written by
Answer: Dada Bhai Nouroji
63) Which was the first European power to come to India?
Answer: The Portuguese
64) Who was the Mughal Emperor at the time of Third Battle of Panipat?
Answer: Shah Alam II
65) The policy of 'Ring Fence' is associated with
Answer: _________
66) The incident of 'Black Hole' was related to
Answer: Sirajuddaulah
67) Who among the following was not associated with the First War of Independence in 1857
Answer: Man Singh
68) Theosophical Society was founded in New York in 1875 AD by
Answer: Madam H. P. Blavatsky and Col. H. S. Olcott OR Both (a) and (b)
69) Who said, "Go back to Vedas" ?
Answer: Dayanand
70) Who was the author of 'Gulamgiri'?
Answer: Jyotiba Phule
71) With which movement was Dudu Miyan associated?
Answer: Faraizi Movement
72) British India Society was founded by
Answer: _____________
73) 'Satyarth Prakash' was written by
Answer: Dayanand
74) The Famine Commission in 1880 AD was set up by the Government of India under
Answer: Sir John Strachey
75) Who introduced the Ryotwari Settlement in Madras?
Answer: Sir Thomas Munroe
76) Who called the Revolt of 1857 a "Mutiny of the Sepoy"?
Answer: ___________
77) The President of the first All India Socialist Conference was
Answer: ___________
78) In which session Congress demanded 'Purna Swaraj'?
Answer: Lahore Session
79) In which month Quit India Movement of 1942 AD started?
Answer: August
80) All India Kisan Sabha was founded by
Answer: Swami Sahajanand Saraswati
81) Vellore Mutiny took place in the year
Answer: 1806 AD
82) Who among the following founded Home Rule League?
Answer: Annie Besant
83) What is the correct chronological order of the following events?
1. Cabinet Mission Plan
2. Bombay Plan
3. Wavell Plan
4. Mountbatten Plan
Answer: (b) 2,3,1 and 4
84) The Mohammadan Anglo-Oriental College was founded at Aligarh in
Answer: 1875 AD
85) Which is known as the 'Magna Carta' of Western Education System in India?
Answer: Wood's Dispatch 1854 AD
86) Who among the following Mughal rulers granted duty free trade to the East India Company in Bengal?
Answer: Farrukh Siyar
87) Two-Nation theory was propounded first time in March 1940 by Muslim League at
Answer: Lahore Session
88) Who among the following did not participate in the Non-Cooperation Movement?
Answer: ______________
89) Who among the following had called the Gandhi's Salt Satyagrah as 'An insurrection without arm'?
Answer: Louis Fisher
90) Which one of the following is correctly matched?
Answer : (d) A K Azad: Al Hilal
91) In which part of India, the Ghadar party planned an armed revolt on 21st February 1915 AD?
Answer: __________
92) Which of the following Freedom Fighters was not a lawyer?
Answer: Subhash Chandra Bose
93) The famous book of the Tamil Grammar, during the Sangam age was
Answer: Tolkappiyam
94) Which of the following was not a tribal assembly during the Vedic India?
Answer: Gopa
95) In which year was the Naujawan Sabha established?
Answer: 1928 AD
96) In which Round Table Conference Mahatma Gandhi participated?
Answer: Second
97) Who started the Indian Civil Services?
Answer: Lord Cornwallis
98) What is Ahat (punch mark)?
Answer: Coin
99) Cemetery 'H' is associated with
Answer: Late Harappan Culture
100) Which of the following is not included in the Vedic Literature?
Answer: ____________
101) The tallest monolithic image in ancient India was carved at which place?
Answer: ______________
102) The philosophy of the Upanishads is concerned mainly with
Answer: _____________
103) Which one of the following Indian deities is shown with six faces?
Answer: Karthikeya
104) The Sangams were
Answer: Literary Academies
105) The word 'Antyaj' was used for
Answer: None of the above
106) Sangam literature was written in
Answer: Tamil
107) The first metal used for making tools was
Answer: Copper
108) The first permanent home of Aryans in India was
Answer: ______________
109) Who founded the Sangam dynasty?
Answer: Harihara I & Bukka I
110) Temples constructed in Vesar style are found in
Answer: Dakshinapath
111) Which among the following did not patronize Jain religion?
Answer: Satvahanas
112) The Fourth Buddhist Council was held during the reign of
Answer: Kanishka
113) Who was the first Tirthankar in Jainism?
Answer: Rishabhdeva
114) Syadvada is associated with
Answer: Jain Philosophy
115) Which of the following is not included in Panchamahavartan of Jainism?
Answer: Tyaga
116) Who was the earliest grammarian of India?
Answer: Panini
117) Which one of the following aspect is not mentioned in Kautilya's Artha Shastra?
Answer: Agriculture Technique
118) Who is the most important God in the Rigvedic Pantheon?
Answer: ________________
119) The animals in Buddhist literature are called
Answer: Sukhda
120) Which game was known as 'Chaturang' in ancient India?
Answer: Chess
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NON-RELATED UPDATE 09/01/2012: Answers General Studies Uttarakhand pcs pre 2010 examination | Combined State Civil/Upper Subordinate Service (Pre) Examination 2010 General Studies Answers.
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