Indian History Previous Year Questions (PYQ) with Answers

The Sylhet Referendum was held in early July 1947, just before Partition, to decide whether Sylhet district of Assam would stay with India or join East Bengal, which was going to Pakistan.

Madhyamika is the ancient town now called Nagari, about 13 km north of Chittorgarh in Rajasthan. The grammarian Patanjali, who lived in the time of Pushyamitra Shunga in the second century BCE, wrote in his Mahabhashya the examples "the Yavana besieged Saketa" and "the Yavana besieged Madhyamika".

The Sri Narayana Dharma Paripalana (SNDP) Yogam was founded in Kerala in 1903 to carry forward the reform ideas of Sri Narayana Guru.

Prithivimahadevi, Dharmamahadevi, Dandimahadevi and Vakulamahadevi were queens of the Bhauma-Kara dynasty of Odisha, which is known for several women ruling in their own right.

In the Sangam poems of the early Tamil region, the ploughmen who worked the land were called uzhavar. The Sangam texts describe a rural society with clear groups.

Sir William Jones, a judge of the Supreme Court at Calcutta, founded the Asiatic Society in January 1784 and served as its first president until his death in 1794.

He travelled in the late thirteenth century, decades before the Vijayanagara Empire was founded in 1336, so he could not have described it.

Devamatrika is land watered by rain and aprahata is fallow land, but pankila means muddy land, not highly fertile land.

All three statements describe Harappan bead making correctly: the stones used, the shapes made and the drills used to bore them.

The Age of Consent Bill was passed in 1891, the Arya Samaj was founded in 1875, Dayanand Saraswati died in 1883 and the Nagari Pracharini Sabha was set up in 1893.

Each of these titles praises him as a builder, painter or inventive mind, so together they point to his love of the arts.

Medieval sieges aimed to starve a city into surrender, so Vijayanagara kept fields and food inside its walls. The Persian ambassador Abdur Razzaq, who visited in the 1440s, described seven lines of fortification around the city, with fields, gardens and houses between them.

The inscription asks that a member own land and a house, but it sets the age limit at 35 to 70 years, not 30 to 60.

This fifth-century Sanskrit inscription from Mandasor in western Madhya Pradesh tells how a guild of silk weavers migrated from Lata (south Gujarat) to Dashapura and built a temple of the Sun.

The Great Bath was surrounded by rooms, and a large well in one of the rooms on its eastern side supplied the water for the tank.

In his famous Railway Minute of 1853, Governor-General Lord Dalhousie argued for a network of trunk railway lines, stressing their value for moving troops quickly.

The Luddites demanded a minimum wage and the right to form trade unions, while they opposed machinery that took away their work.

Both statements describe the 1905 Revolution in Russia correctly. On 22 January 1905 (9 January by the old Russian calendar), workers led by Father Gapon marched peacefully to the Winter Palace in St Petersburg with a petition to the Tsar.

Shortughai lay close to the Badakhshan mines of north-eastern Afghanistan, the best-known ancient source of the blue stone lapis lazuli.

Both Shvetaketu and Nachiketa are young seekers in the Upanishads whose stories show that knowledge is won by asking questions and refusing easy answers.