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HISTORY
Paper III

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Time Allowed : 2½ Hours] [Maximum Marks : 150
Note : This paper contains Seventy Five (75) multiple choice questions. Each
question carries Two (2) marks. Attempt All questions.
(75) (2)

1. Neolithic age was also called as 1.

Neolithic revolution by :

(A) V. Gordon Childe (A)

(B) H.D. Sankalia (B)

(C) J.F. Fleet (C)

(D) Mortimer Wheeler (D)

2. Which of the following was not one 2.

of the Harappan sites related to the
maritime activities ?
(A)
(A) Soktakoh
(B)
(B) Desalpur
(C)
(C) Lothal

(D) Balakot (D)

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3. Which of the following has not 3.

been found in the Indus Civilization

sites ?
(A)

(A) Wheat
(B)
(B) Sugarcane

(C)
(C) Barley

(D) Maize (D)

4. Megaliths of South India are 4.

associated with which of the

following ages ?

(A)
(A) Chalcolithic Age

(B) Mesolithic Age (B)

(C) Neolithic age (C)

(D) Iron age (D)

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5. The territory of the Assakas 5.

(Ashmakas) was situated on the

bank of the river :
(A)

(A) Krishna
(B)
(B) Tapi

(C)
(C) Godavari

(D)
(D) Bhima

6.
6. Lord Gautam Buddha delivered first

sermon at .

(A) Gaya (A)

(B) Sarnath (B)

(C) Kushinagar (C)

(D) Shravasti
(D)

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7. Where in India do we first get
7.

inscriptions about land grants ?

(A) Central India, Northern Deccan
(A)
and Andhra

(B) Eastern India, Eastern Bengal
(B)
and Orissa

(C)
(C) Southern India : Tamil Nadu

and Karnataka

(D) Kerala (D)

8. Recently in which place has broken 8.

relief sculpture of King Ashoka been

discovered ?
(A)

(A) Kanaganahalli in Karnataka
(B)

(B) Mahasthan in Uttar Pradesh
(C)
(C) Kumraha in Bihar
(D)
(D) Nittur in Karnataka

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9. The ‘Kandhar’ edict of Ashoka is
9.

written in ........................ .

(A) Greek and Aramaic
(A)

(B) Greek and Sanskrit (B)

(C) Greek and Persian (C)

(D) Greek and Hebrew (D)

10. Where the evidence of the settlement 10.

of Roman traders in India has been

discovered ?
(A)

(A) Arikamedu
(B)

(B) Tamralipti
(C)
(C) Bhrigukachcha

(D)
(D) Barbaricum

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11. The name of the poet Kalidas is 11.

mentioned in the :

(A) Allahabad Pillar Inscription
(A)

(B) Aihole Inscription
(B)

(C) Alapadu Grant
(C)

(D) Hanumankonda Inscription
(D)

12. Who was the author of the
12.
Allahabad Pillar Inscription of

Samudragupta ?

(A)
(A) Kumaravallabha

(B)
(B) Harishena

(C)
(C) Devi Gupta

(D) Hariputhra (D)

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13. Which among the following was an 13.

administrative unit under the

Imperial Guptas ?

(A)
(A) Bhukti

(B) Mandala (B)

(C) Rajya
(C)

(D) Sima
(D)
14. Identify the incorrect pair amongst

the following : 14.

(A) Hemcha ndra – P a ri shi sht a -

parvan
(A)
(B) V i s h a k h a d a t t a – M u d r a r a -

(B)
kshash

(C) Ptolemy–The Peloponnesian (C)

war
(D)
(D) Megasthenes–Indica

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15. The commentator of the Ninth 15.

Century A.D. Medhatithi has

written his commentary on which

famous text ?
(A)

(A) Brahmasutra
(B)

(B) Ashtadhyayi
(C)

(C) Manusmriti
(D)
(D) Nitisara
16.
16. Foreign Notices of South India” was

written by :

(A)
(A) K.M. Panikkar

(B)
(B) K.A. Nilakantha Shastri

(C)
(C) K.K. Pillai

(D)
(D) N. Subramaniam

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17. Which one of the following pairs of 17.

Kings and the works authored by

them is correctly matched ?
(A)
(A) Krishnadevaraya–Samaran-

ganasutradharma (B)

(B) M a h e n d r a v a r m a n – M a t t a - (C)

vilasaprahasana
(D)

(C) Bhajadeva–Manasollasa
18.
(D) Somesvara–Amuktamalyada

18. According to Ziauddin Barani,

where were Alauddin Khilji’s market

regulations actually effective ? (A)

(A) From Multan to Allahabad (B)

(B) From Multan to Lahore
(C)

(C) From Lahore to Agra
(D)
(D) From Allahabad to Lakhnauti

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19. Firoz Shah Tughlaq may have 19.

brought about the decline of the

Delhi Sultanate because he :

(A) Conducted a large number of
(A)
military campaigns

(B)
(B) Provoked peasant rebellions by

his oppression

(C) Spent too much money on (C)

canals
(D)
(D) Allowed the nobility to become

a hereditary nobility

20.
20. In the Telugu text of Krishnadeva-

raya’s time, the Rayavachakamu,

who was the Narapati ?
(A)
(A) The Vijayanagar King
(B)

(B) The Orissa King
(C)
(C) The Bijapur King
(D)
(D) The Golconda King
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21. Where in the Deccan is the tomb of 21.

the Sufi Saint Gesudaraz ?

(A) Bidar (A)

(B) Berar (B)

(C) Khuldabad
(C)

(D) Gulbarga
(D)

22. Malik Amber is credited with having
22.
replaced ................... .

(A) The Zabti system with the Ijara
(A)

system

(B)
(B) The Ijara system with the Zabti

system
(C)

(C) Afaqi revenue collectors with

Deccani revenue collectors

(D) Deccani nobility with Afaqi
(D)
nobility

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23. To which ruler of the Deccan did 23. 1591
Akbar write a letter in 1591 ?

(A) Burhan Nizam Shah of
(A)
Ahmadnagar
(B)
(B) Chand Bibi of Ahmadnagar

(C)
(C) Raja Ali Khan of Khandesh

(D)
(D) Ibrahim Adil Shah of Bijapur

24. Which is regarded as the largest 24.

naval expedition in the Arabian Sea

in Medieval times ?

(A) The Turkish fleet sent to (A)

besiege Diu in 1534 1534

(B) The Portuguese fleet that (B)

blockaded Chaul in 1515 1515

(C) The Portuguese fleet that (C)

attacked Ormuz in the 1520’s 1520

(D) The Turkish fleet that attacked (D)

Basra in 1512 1512
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25. In the middle of the 17th Century 25.

who led the Mughal forces into the

Brahmaputra Valley ?
(A)
(A) Asad Khan
(B)
(B) Mir Jumla

(C)
(C) Daud Khan Panni

(D)
(D) Zulfiqar Khan

26. Who was the Amil in Mughal 26.

Administrator ? (A)

(A) The Revenue Assessor
(B)

(B) The person in-charge of

Revenue disputes
(C)
(C) The person in-charge of

collection of Customs Duties

(D)
(D) The Revenue Collector

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27. Altamgha grants were ............... . 27.

(A) Grants of land to retired officers (A)

as pension

(B) Grants of land revenue for (B)

educational purposes

(C) Grants of land for cultivation (C)

(D) Cash grants to purchase seeds (D)

and implements

28. Under the Mughals, into how many 28.

categories was land divided ?

(A) Two (A)

(B) Three (B)

(C) Four (C)

(D) Five (D)

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29. The Viceroyalty of the four provinces 29.

of the Deccan was termed ................

in Mughal times.
(A)

(A) Riyasat
(B)
(B) Risalat

(C)
(C) Ayalat

(D)
(D) Buyutat

30.
30. Where was Mumtaz Mahal buried

until the Taj Mahal was built ?

(A) Aurangabad (A)

(B) Surat (B)

(C) Kandahar (C)

(D) Burhanpur
(D)

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31. What was the basis for the Dahsala
31.

system ?
(A)
(A) Assessment after appraisal

(B)
(B) Assessment on the basis of crop

sharing (C)

(C) Arbitrary assessment
(D)

(D) Assessment after measurement
32.
32. An early biography of Chhatrapati

Shivaji Maharaj was written

by : (A)

(A) Dr. Dellon (B)

(B) Dr. John Fryer
(C)

(C) Cosmo de Guarda
(D)
(D) Niccolo Manucci

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33. In which Bakhar do we get 33.
a description of the Maratha
Navy ?
(A)
(A) Chitnis Bakhar

(B) Tanjore Bakhar (B)

(C) Chitragupta Bakhar (C)

(D) Sabhasad Bakhar (D)

34. Match the following and choose the 34.
correct answer from the codes given
below :
(a) (i)
(a) Sambhaji (i) Tuzuk-i-Babari
(b) (ii)
(b) Krishnadevaraya (ii) Budhabhushan

(c) (iii)
(c) Someshwara-III (iii) Amuktamal-

yada (d) (iv)

(d) Babar (iv) Manasollasa

Codes : (a) (b) (c) (d)

(a) (b) (c) (d) (A) (ii) (iii) (i) (iv)

(A) (ii) (iii) (i) (iv)
(B) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)
(B) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)

(C) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
(C) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)

(D) (iii) (ii) (iv) (i) (D) (iii) (ii) (iv) (i)

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35. Signed between Peshwa Baji Rao II 35. 1802

and the Marquis of Wellesley in

1802, gave the British effective

control over the Deccan and

Western India :
(A)

(A) The treaty of Bassein (B)

(B) The treaty of Purandar (C)

(C) The treaty of Surat (D)

(D) The treaty of Khandesh
36.

36. The Charter Act of ..................... ended

the East India Company’s monopoly

of trade with India.
(A) 1813

(A) 1813
(B) 1806
(B) 1806
(C) 1833
(C) 1833
(D) 1853
(D) 1853

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37. The Young Bengal Movement was 37.

led by .................... advocated that

Indian society and religion should

be judged by the dictates of

European rationalism’.
(A)
(A) Radha Kant Deb
(B)
(B) Akshay Kumar Dutt
(C)
(C) Henry Derozio
(D)
(D) William Jones
38. 1820
38. Who enunciated ‘Paramountcy’ as a
(Paramountcy)
concept in 1820, which implied the

duty of British as “Supreme

guardians of general tranquillity,

law and right to maintain the legal

succession” in the princely states ?
(A)
(A) Lord Cornwallis
(B)
(B) Charles Metcalfe

(C)
(C) John Malcolm

(D) Lord Dalhousie (D)

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39. Swami Dayanand Saraswati founded
39. 1875

the Arya Samaj (1875)

in :
(A)

(A) Surat
(B)

(B) Amritsar
(C)

(C) Ambala
(D)
(D) Bombay

40.
40. Poona Sarvajanic Sabha was

reorganised form of the :

(A)
(A) Poona Association

(B)
(B) Poona Sabha

(C)
(C) Poona Mandal

(D)
(D) Vichar Munch

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41. The patriotic song ‘Bande Mataram’ 41.
was written by :

(A) Devendranath Tagore (A)

(B) Bankim Chandra Chatterji (B)

(C) Keshav Chandra Sen (C)

(D) Rabindranath Tagore
(D)

42. The transfer of the capital from
42.
Calcutta to Delhi took place in the

year :
(A) 1911
(A) 1911
(B) 1877
(B) 1877
(C) 1930
(C) 1930

(D) 1942
(D) 1942
43.
43. “Al Hilal”, a weekly Urdu

Newspaper, was founded by :
(A)
(A) Syed Ahmed Khan
(B)
(B) Dr. M.A. Ansari
(C)
(C) Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
(D)
(D) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

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44. At which session of the Congress was 44. 1916

the Congress-League Pact signed in

December, 1916 ?

(A) Faizpur (A)

(B) Amritsar (B)

(C) Bombay (C)

(D) Lucknow (D)

45. O’ Dwyer was killed by : 45.

(A) Madanlal Dhingra (A)

(B) Sardar Udham Singh (B)

(C) Anant Laxman Kanhere (C)

(D) Khudiram Bose
(D)
46. Harish Chandra Bharatendu was a
46.
prolific writer of prose and poetry
who made pioneering contribution
to : (A)
(A) Bengali Literature
(B)
(B) Hindi Literature
(C)
(C) Assamese Literature
(D)
(D) Gujarati Literature

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47. Given below are two statements, one 47. (A)

labelled Assertion (A) and the other (R)

labelled Reason (R) :
(A)
Assertion (A) : A.O. Hume, a
1885
retired British Civil Servant

founded the Indian National
(R)
Congress in 1885.

Reasoning (R) : The first session

of the Congress was presided over

by W.C. Bannerjee.

In the context of the above two

statements which one of the (A) (A) (R)
following is correct ? (R) (A)

(A) Both (A) and (R) are correct and

(R) is the true explanation of (A) (B) (A) (R)

(B) Both (A) and (R) are correct but (R) (A)

(R) is not the true explanation

of (A) (C) (A)

(R)
(C) (A) is correct but (R) is wrong
(D) (A) (R)
(D) Both (A) and (R) are wrong

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48. Who was known as the “Frontier 48.

Gandhi” ?
(A)

(A) Syed Ahmed Khan
(B)

(B) Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
(C)

(C) Omar Sohani

(D)
(D) Hasrat Mohani

49. 1943
49. .................. handed over command of

the National Army (INA) to

Subhash Chandra Bose in 1943.

(A) Surendra Nath Banerjee (A)

(B) Chittaranjan Das (B)

(C) Rasbehari Bose (C)

(D) Jagdish Chandra Bose
(D)

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50. Formation of the interim 50.

government took place on :

(A) 16th August, 1946 (A) 16 1946

(B) 20th August, 1941
(B) 20 1941
(C) 2nd September, 1946
(C) 2 1946
(D) 5th September, 1946
(D) 5 1946
Instructions (Q. Nos. 51 to 54)

Read the following passage carefully

and answer the questions based on

it :

The basic strategic perspective of the

national movement was to wage a

long-drawn out hegemonic struggle,

or, in Gramscian terms, a war of

position. By hegemonic struggle, we

mean a struggle for the minds and
hearts of men and women so that

the nationalist influence would
continuously grow among the people

through different channels and
through the different phases and

stages of the national movement.

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The movement alternated between

phases of extra-legal or law-breaking

mass movements and phases of

functioning within the four walls of

the law. But both phases were

geared to expanding the influence

of the national movement among the

people. The basic strategy of the

national movement was, moreover,

not a strategy of gradual reform. It

was a strategy of active struggle with

the objective of wresting power from

the colonial rulers.

51. Who offered the term ‘war of 51.

position’ ?
(A)

(A) Mahatma Gandhi
(B)
(B) Antonio Gramsci
(C)
(C) Jawaharlal Nehru

(D)
(D) Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
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52. What do you understand by 52.
hegemonic struggle ?

(A) Struggle for social emancipation
(A)
(B) Struggle for wresting power
(B)
from colonial rulers

(C) Struggle of minds and hearts
(C)
leading to growth of nationalist

influence on people

(D) Struggle for equality (D)

53. Which two basic phases alternated 53.

in national movement ?

(A) Extra-legal and law abiding
(A)

(B) War of position and hegemonic
(B)
struggle

(C) Active struggle and gradual

reforms
(C)

(D) Civil Disobedience and Non-
(D)
cooperation

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54. Which of the following was not the 54.

strategy of the national movement ?

(A)
(A) to wags hegemonic struggle

(B)
(B) to carry war of position
(C)
(C) strategy of gradual reforms
(D)

(D) strategy of active struggle to

gain power from colonial rulers

55. Ranajit Guha’s “Prose of Counter- 55.

Insurgency” is regarded as a classic

statement of the ....................... .

(A) Annales school (A)

(B) Marxist school (B)

(C) Subaltern school (C)

(D) Post-modernist school (D)

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56. Who was the author of the ‘Positive 56.

Philosophy’ ?

(A) Auguste Comte (A)

(B) Samuel Taylor Coleridge (B)

(C) Edmund Burke (C)

(D) Joseph De Maistive (D)

57. “Language of the Gods in the World 57.

of Men” was written by :

(A) Sheldon Pollock (A)

(B) Romila Thapar (B)

(C) Irfan Habib (C)

(D) Nicholas Dirks (D)

58. The first comprehensive study of 58.

Indian architecture from a colonial

perspective was undertaken
(A)
by ................. .

(A) James Fergusson (B)

(B) James Prinsep
(C)
(C) William Jones
(D)
(D) Colin Mackenzie

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59. Match the following and choose the 59.

correct answer from the codes given
below : (a) (i)

(a) D.D. Kosambi (i) Subaltern School (b) (ii)

(b) Judith Brown (ii) Marxist School (c) (iii)

(c) Gautam Bhadra (iii) Nationalist School (d) (iv)

(d) K.P. Jayaswal (iv) Cambridge School

Codes : (a) (b) (c) (d)

(a) (b) (c) ( d) (A) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)

(A) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) (B) (ii) (iv) (i) (iii)

(B) (ii) (iv) (i) (iii) (C) (iii) (ii) (i) (iv)

(C) (iii) (ii) (i) (iv)
(D) (ii) (iv) (iii) (i)
(D) (ii) (iv) (iii) (i)
60.
60. Who argued that caste worked as a

system of extra-economic coercion ?
(A)
(A) James Mill
(B)
(B) James Grant Duff
(C)
(C) R.S. Sharma

(D)
(D) Karl Marx

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61. According to V.K. Rajwade, what 61.

was the ideological crux of the

Maratha State ?
(A)
(A) Hindu Dharma
(B)
(B) Maharashtra Dharma
(C)
(C) Jati Dharma

(D)
(D) Modernity

62. Which of the following is not part 62.

of external criticism ?

(A) Establishing the author of a

text
(A)
(B) Establishing the date of a

text (B)

(C) Establishing the space of a

text (C)

(D) Establishing the real meaning
(D)
of a text

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63. According to V.K. Rajwade, why 63.

were the Marathas defeated in the

Battle of Panipat ?
(A)
(A) Caste Jealousy

(B)
(B) Disunity

(C) Weak leadership of Sadashivrao (C)

Bhau
(D)

(D) Misdeeds of Govind Pant

Bundela and Malharrao Holkar

64.
64. Who among the following historians

depicted the social transition from

lineage to state ?
(A)

(A) D.D. Kosambi
(B)
(B) B.D. Chattopadhyay
(C)
(C) Romila Thapar

(D)
(D) R.S. Sharma

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65. Who among the following is not a 65.

historian of Maratha history ?

(A) A.R. Kulkarni (A)

(B) Jadunath Sarkar (B)

(C) V.V. Joshi (C)

(D) Sumit Sarkar (D)

66. The author of the “History of the 66.

Peloponesian War” was :

(A) Thucydides (A)

(B) Herodotus (B)

(C) Tacitus (C)

(D) Virgil (D)

67. ‘The Decline and Fall of the Roman 67.

Empire’ was written by :

(A) Edward Gibbon (A)

(B) Oliver Goldsmith (B)

(C) Carl Becker (C)

(D) David Moris (D)

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68. ‘The History of the Indian Ocean’ 68.

was written by :

(A) Taussaint (A)

(B) Charles Friedman (B)

(C) F.C. Danvers (C)

(D) Alfonso Correa (D)

69. Who wrote the famous treatise “The 69.

Rights of Man” ?

(A)
(A) Thomas Hobbes

(B)
(B) Jeremy Bentham

(C)
(C) Thomas Paine

(D)
(D) John Locke

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70. During the Great Depression, the 70.

New York Stock Exchange crashed

on ......................., the day known as

‘Black Tuesday’.

(A) 19th October, 1929 (A) 19 1929

(B) 29th October, 1929 (B) 29 1929

(C) 9th October, 1929 (C) 9 1929

(D) 10th October, 1929 (D) 10 1929

71. The term ‘Dollar Diplomacy’ is 71.

related to :

(A) Economic Aid (A)

(B) Parliamentary Consultation (B)

(C) International Arbitration (C)

(D) Expensive Agricultural Method (D)

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72. The International Conference for 72.

the limitation of naval armaments

after the First World War held at :

(A) Yalta
(A)

(B) Vladivostok
(B)
(C) Nagasaki

(C)
(D) Washington

(D)
73. Sir Joseph Needham is associated

with the study of : 73.

(A) Science and Civilization in

China (A)

(B) Astronomy in Europe
(B)

(C) Botanical Exploration
(C)

(D) Geographical Exploration
(D)

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74. In which of the following literary 74.

works is the role of the individual

in shaping the great events of

history found ?
(A)
(A) War and Peace

(B)
(B) Great Expectation

(C)
(C) Crime and Punishment

(D) Tales of Mystery and (D)

Imagination 75.

75. ‘The Prince’ was authored by .......... .
(A)

(A) Niccolo Machiavelli
(B)

(B) Francisco
(C)
(C) Leonardo da-Vinci

(D)
(D) Vicco

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