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Indian History Mixed Quiz: Set 25

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  • 20 minutes
  • Difficulty: Medium
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Set 25 of the Indian History mixed quiz has 20 multiple-choice questions from 10 different topics of the subject: Harsha and the South Indian Kingdoms, Subhas Chandra Bose and the INA, Delhi Sultanate and more. 11 of them were asked in real previous-year papers. A topic quiz checks one chapter; this set revises the whole subject at once, the way an exam paper does, where the next question can come from any chapter. Every question carries an explanation of why the correct option is right and why the others are wrong. Keep to the timer, read the explanations at the end, and go back to the notes of any topic where you slipped.

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20 questions with answers and explanations

Q1.Indian HistoryEasy

Harshavardhana shifted his capital from Thanesar to which city?

  1. A.Pataliputra
  2. B.Kannauj
  3. C.Ujjain
  4. D.Prayag
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Correct answer: B. Kannauj

Harsha inherited Thanesar in modern Haryana from the Pushyabhuti family. When his sister Rajyashri's husband Grahavarman, the Maukhari king of Kannauj, was killed, Harsha united the two realms and moved his seat to Kannauj on the Ganga, which then became the symbol of paramountcy in northern India for the next…

Q4.Indian HistoryAsked in: CTET · 21st Dec 2021Medium

Which of the following reasons would you give to discuss the decline of Indian iron and steel metallurgy under colonial India? A. Iron and steel was imported from England. B. New forest laws prohibited people from entering reserved forests to collect wood.

  1. A.Only A
  2. B.Only B
  3. C.Both A and B
  4. D.Neither A nor B
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Correct answer: C. Both A and B

India's village iron smelters were ruined by two pressures at once. Cheap iron and steel made in British factories was brought into India in large quantities from the middle of the nineteenth century, and local smiths could not match its price, so demand for their metal fell away.

Q8.Indian HistoryAsked in: SSC CGL · 24 Aug 2021, Shift 2Medium

Who founded Vikramshila University and revived Nalanda University?

  1. A.Gopala
  2. B.Vasudeva
  3. C.Shri Gupta
  4. D.Dharampala
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Correct answer: D. Dharampala

Dharmapala, the second and greatest ruler of the Pala dynasty of Bengal and Bihar, founded the Vikramshila monastery and university in the late eighth century in what is now Bhagalpur district of Bihar, and he also restored and supported the older university at Nalanda.

Q20.Indian HistoryHard

The Futuhat-i-Firozshahi, an account of a Sultan's own reign and policies, was written by which of the following?

  1. A.Ziauddin Barani
  2. B.Amir Khusrau
  3. C.Firoz Shah Tughlaq
  4. D.Minhaj-us-Siraj
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Correct answer: C. Firoz Shah Tughlaq

The Futuhat-i-Firozshahi is an autobiographical record in which Firoz Shah Tughlaq, who ruled from 1351 to 1388, set down his own works and orders, including his canals, his charitable department the Diwan-i-Khairat, his hospital and his religious policy.

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