RAS/RTS (Pre.) Examination Solved Paper

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Indian History 

(Exam Held on 23-12-2007)

Q.1.The Sikh Kingdom of Punjab was annexed by the English East India Company in ?

1. 1836
2. 1839
3. 1849
4. 1852

Q.2.The Kol Uprising of 1831 started in ?

1. Gujarat
2. Bengal
3. Rajputana
4. Chota Nagpur

Q.3.Who led the Revolt of the Bareilly troops in 1857 ?

1. Kunwar Singh
2. Bakht Khan
3. Azimullah
4. Maulvi Ahmadullah

Q.4.Who among the following leaders of the Revolt of 1857 declared himself to be the Governor of Bahadur Shah ?

1. Nana Sahib
2. Tantia Tope
3. Kunwar Singh
4. Bakht Khan

Q.5.The first Indian Factories  Act was passed in ?

1. 1881
2. 1885
3. 1891 
4. 1894

Q.6.Which of the following was not a consequence of the British Land Revenue Policy in India ?

1. Increasing impoverishment of the peasants
2. Growing peasant indebted-ness
3. The spread of landlordism
4. The ruin of artisan indus-tries

Q.7.The Archaeological Survey of India was set up during the Viceroyalty of ?

1. Lord Lytton
2. Lord Ripon
3. Lord Dufferin
4. Lord Curzon

Q.8.Who was known as "The Grand Old Man of India" ?

1. B.G. Tilak
2. G.K. Gokhale
3. Mahatma Gandhi
4. Dadabhai Naoroji

Q.9.The most important Pre-Con-gress Nationalist Organisation was ?

1. The Indian Association of Calcutta
2. Poona Sarvajanik Sabha
3. Bombay Presidency Asso-ciation
4. The Madras Mahajan Sabha

Q.10.Who among the following was a leader of Prarthana Samaj ?

1. Gopal Hari Deshmukh
2. Vasudeo Balwant Phadke
3. R.G. Bhandarkar
4. G.K. Gokhale

Q.11.All India Women's Conference was founded in ?

1. 1922
2. 1927
3. 1929 
4. 1932

Q.12.Who among the following oppo-sed the Age of Consent Bill of 1891 ?

1. Swami Dayanand
2. Rabindranath Tagore
3. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
4. Surendranath Sen

Q.13.The worst famine in India under the British rule occurred in ?

1. 1860-61
2. 1876-78
3. 1896-97
4. 1899-1900

Q.14.The first textile mill was started in Bombay in the year ?

1. 1853
2. 1855
3. 1866 
4. 1879

Q.15.Abhinava Bharat organised in 1904 was ?

1. a secret society of revolu-tionary activists
2. a newspaper advocating revolutionary activities
3. a cultural organisation
4. a trade union movement

Q.16.A newspaper Al Hilal was brought out in 1912 by ?

1. Dr. M.A. Ansari
2. Hakim Ajmal Khan
3. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
4. Maulana Muhammad Ali

Q.17.The cancellation of the partition of Bengal was announced in ?

1. 1909
2. 1911
3. 1913
4. 1916

Q.18.Who criticised Indians for having lost touch with the rest of the World ?

1. Raja Rammohan Roy
2. Sayyed Ahmad Khan
3. Vivekananda
4. Swami Dayanand

Q.19.All India Harijan Sangh was founded by ?

1. B.R. Ambedkar
2. Mahatma Gandhi
3. Jotiba Phule
4. B.M. Malabari

Q.20.Who among the following was not a leader of militant nationa-lism ?

1. Rajnarain Bose
2. V.S. Chiplunkar
3. Arbindo Ghosh
4. Sasipada Bannerjee

Q.21.Who among the following was the leader of Bihar Kisan Sabha ?

1. Sahajanand Saraswati
2. Baba Ramchandra
3. Vijay Singh Pathik
4. Shraddhanand

Q.22.Who became the Vice-President of the Viceroy's Council in the Interim Government of 1946-47 ?

1. C. Rajagopalachari
2. Dr. Rajendra Prasad
3. Jawahar Lal Nehru
4. M.A. Jinnah

Q.23.Who among the following woman social reformers was called Pandita  ?

1. Gangabai
2. Ramabai
3. Sister Subbalaksmi
4. Annie Besant

Q.24.Who was the leader of No Tax Campaign of the peasants organized in 1928 ?

1. S.A. Dange
2. Baba Ramchandra
3. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
4. Subhash Chandra Bose

Q25.The Second Civil Disobedience Movement was started by Mahatma Gandhi in ?

1. 1928 
2. 1930
3. 1932 
4. 1934

Q.26.An All India Strike by Postal and Telegraph Workers started in ?

1. November, 1945
2. February, 1946
3. July, 1946
4. August, 1946

Q.27.Samhita is ?

1. Collection of hymns
2. Text on grammar
3. Text on Ayurveda
4. Forest treatises

Q.28.Which of the following state-ments is not true about Rigvedic Aryans ?

1. They lived in villages.
2. They did not know gamb-ling.
3. They practised polygamy.
4. Family was the unit of social life.

Q.29.Early Vedic society was organi-sed in ?

1. Janas
2. Jati
3. Rajanya 
4. Sabha

Q.30.Who was the author of Astadh-yayi ?

1. Patanjali
2. Panini
3. Magha
4. Visakhadatta

Q.31.Which of the following metal was not used by the people of the Indus Civilization ?

1. Iron 
2. Bronze
3. Gold
4. Silver

Q.32.Which of the following Harap-pan sites is located in Gujarat ?

1. Banawali
2. Sanghol
3. Mudiala Kalan
4. Surkotada

Q.33.The hallmark of Vedic religion and culture was ?

1. Dhyana
2. Brahmacharya
3. Puja
4. Yajna

Q.34.Under whose patronage was the Sangam literature composed ?

1. Cholas
2. Cheras
3. Pandyas
4. Chalukyas

Q.35.What is the language of the Sangam literature ?

1. Tamil
2. Pali
3. Prakrit 
4. Sanskrit

Q.36.Which of the following ideas is not associated with Buddhism ?

1. Sila
2. Prajna
3. Pitru
4. Dhyana

Q.37.The highest goal in Buddhism is ?

1. Nirvana
2. Madhyama Marga
3. Vinaya
4. Atmavad

Q.38.The Third Buddhist Council was convened at ?

1. Takshasila
2. Sarnath
3. Bodhgaya
4. Pataliputra

Q.39.Who among the following scho-lars wrote "History of Dharam Sastra"  ?

1. D.P. Chattopadhyay
2. P.V. Kane
3. A.S. Altekar
4. D.C. Sarkar

Q.40.Who among the following argued that the Aryans came from Central Asia ?

1. B.G. Tilak
2. Brandenstein
3. William Jones
4. V.A. Smith

Q.41.According to tradition, how many Sangam were held ?

1. Two
2. Three
3. Four 
4. Five

Q.42.Which of the following terms denotes a market centre ?

1. Prasada
2. Nigama
3. Grama
4. Nadi

Q.43.Which of the following denotes a land revenue term ?

1. Vivita
2. Bhaga
3. Sulka
4. Kara

Q.44.Which of the following officers according to Arthasastra was entrusted with the collection of revenue ?

1. Sitadhyaksa
2. Sansthadhyaksa
3. Samahartta
4. Sannidhata

Q.45.Megasthenes divided Indian society into ?

1. Four groups
2. Seven groups
3. Eight groups
4. Twelve groups

Q.46.The Mauryan King Bindusara faced the rebellion of the people of ?

1. Kosala
2. Nalanda
3. Kalinga
4. Takshasila

Q.47.Which sect was initially called Nirgrantha ?

1. Buddhist
2. Jaina
3. Ajivika
4. Pashupata

Q.48.Which of the following is regar-ded as the early Jaina Text ?

1. Sutra Kritang
2. Tripatika
3. Mahavastu-Avdana
4. Avdana Kalpalata

Q.49.Which of the following is a Harappan port ?

1. Alexandria
2. Lothal
3. Mahasthangarh
4. Nagapattanam

Q.50.The commonest term for peasantry in early medieval North India is ?

1. Kutumbin
2. Bhogin
3. Baddhahalika
4. Swami

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