MAHA SET 2015 Question Paper 2 History

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Paper II

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Time Allowed : 75 Minutes] [Maximum Marks : 100
Note : This Paper contains Fifty (50) multiple choice questions. Each question
carries Two (2) marks. Attempt All questions.
(50) (2)

1. The earliest evidence of Homo- 1.

erectus appeared in :

(A) East Africa
(A)
(B) West Africa
(B)

(C) North Africa (C)

(D) South Africa (D)

2. The lower palaeolithic stone 2.

industry of the South India was also

called as :
(A)
(A) Hyderabadi
(B)
(B) Bangalori
(C)
(C) Madrasian

(D) Trichian (D)

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3. Which of the following is one of the 3.

richest palaeolithic sites in Tamil

Nadu ?

(A) Pudukottai
(A)

(B) Madurai
(B)

(C) Tanjor
(C)

(D) Attirampakkam
(D)
4. Pieces of Ostrich eggshell have been
4.
found at which place in

Maharashtra ?

(A)
(A) Newase

(B) Patane (B)

(C) Inamgaon (C)

(D) Prakashe (D)

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5.
5. ‘Dasyu’ corresponds to ‘dahyu’ in

ancient :

(A)
(A) Japanese language

(B)
(B) Sinhali language

(C)
(C) Iranian language

(D)
(D) English language

6.
6. Which of the following Sanskrit

terms is understood to mean

architect in early medieval times ?

(A) Sutragrahi (A)

(B) Shilpakar (B)

(C) Sthapati (C)

(D) Muhandi (D)

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7. Which of the following terms is not 7.

used for battle in Rigveda ?

(A) Gojit (A)

(B) Gavishthi (B)

(C) Goshati (C)

(D) Goghna (D)

8. Which of the following literary 8.

works mentioned the expounders of

Rajashastra (theory of statecraft)

namely—Brihaspati, Bharadvaja,

Gaurasiras, Kavya, Mahendra,

Manu Prachetasa and Vishalaksha ?

(A)
(A) Mahabharata

(B)
(B) Manusmriti

(C) Mitakshara (C)

(D) Amuktamalyada (D)

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9. Which of the following ports 9.

was established during Pallava

times ?

(A)
(A) Nagapattinam

(B)
(B) Kaveripattinam

(C) Mamallapuram (C)

(D) Devanamapattinam
(D)

10. Into how many classes
10.

did Megasthenes divide Indian

society ?
(A)
(A) Four
(B)
(B) Five
(C)
(C) Six
(D)
(D) Seven

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11. Mahismati was the capital of the 11.

................... Mahajanapada.

(A) Southern Avanti (A)

(B) Northern Avanti (B)

(C) Kosala (C)

(D) Anga (D)

12. During the time of which King 12.

was the Fourth Buddhist Council

held ?
(A)

(A) Ashoka
(B)

(B) Kanishka
(C)

(C) Skandagupta
(D)
(D) Harshavardhana

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13. In which year did the Bijapur 13.

sultanate capture Goa from the

Vijayanagar Empire ?

(A) 1487 (A) 1487

(B) 1489 (B) 1489

(C) 1490 (C) 1490

(D) 1491 (D) 1491

14. Which rulers were described as 14.

“Lords of the Jewelled throne of

Karnataka ?

(A) The Chalukyas of Badami
(A)

(B) The Cholas
(B)
(C) The Rashtrakutas of

(C)
Manyakheda

(D) The Wodeyars of Mysore (D)

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15. The head of the Revenue 15.

Department during the Mughal

empire was ......................... .

(A) Diwan-i-Kul
(A)

(B) Mir Bakshi
(B)

(C) Khan-i-Saman
(C)
(D) Mushrif-i-Mumalik
(D)
16. The maximum share of the Chouth
16.
collected during the period of the

Maratha confederacy went to :

(A) Peshwa
(A)
(B) Chhatrapati
(B)
(C) Sardars
(C)
(D) Pant Sachiv
(D)

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17. The Persian translation of the 52 17. 52

Upanishads undertaken by Dara

Shukoh was entitled :

(A) Seirrul Asrar (A)

(B) Ain-i-Akbari (B)

(C) Rehla (C)

(D) Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri (D)

18. The theory of Wahdat-ash-Shuhud 18.

is associated with :

(A) Sirhindi (A)

(B) Isami (B)

(C) Minhaj Siraj (C)

(D) Nizamuddin Auliya (D)

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19. The historian who wrote the Futuh- 19.

us-Salatin was :

(A) Isami (A)

(B) Shamsuddin Siraj Afif
(B)

(C) Ziauddin Barani
(C)

(D) Minhaj-us-Siraj
(D)

20. The Sufi order which was
20.

popularised in India by the Mughal

Emperor Babur was :
(A)
(A) Naqshbandiya

(B)
(B) Qadiriya

(C)
(C) Suhrawardi

(D)
(D) Chishti

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21. The Gol Gumbaz, the largest dome 21.

in India, was built by the Bijapur

Sultans in the year :

(A) 1660
(A) 1660

(B) 1665
(B) 1665

(C) 1670
(C) 1670

(D) 1680
(D) 1680

22.
22. In which battle did the Deccani

Sultans defeat the Vijayanagar

ruler ? (A)

(A) The Battle of Talikota (B)

(B) The Battle of Lakkundi
(C)

(C) The Battle of Haldighati
(D)

(D) The Battle of Takkolam

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23. Among the following Bhakti saints, 23.

whose verses were incorporated in

the Guru Granth Sahib ?

(A) Eknath
(A)

(B) Namdev
(B)

(C) Tukaram
(C)

(D) Ramdas
(D)

24. The Huzur Daftar was :
24.

(A) The office of the Nyayadhisha
(A)

(B) The King’s Court at Satara
(B)

(C) The Peshwa’s Secretariat at
(C)
Pune
(D)
(D) The office of the Mamlatdar

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25. The system of subsidiary alliance 25.

was introduced by :

(A) Warren Hastings
(A)

(B) Arthur Wellesley
(B)

(C) John Malcolm
(C)

(D) Lord Dalhousie
(D)
26. Who among the following depicted
26.
Vishnubuwa Brahmachari’s

“Vedokta Dharmaprakash” as

‘Utopian Socialism’ ?

(A) S.D. Jawadekar (A)

(B) Acharya P.K. Atre (B)

(C) A.S. Altekar (C)

(D) S.G. Bhagwat (D)

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27. The famous Parliament of religion 27. 1893
(1893) was held at .................... .

(A) New York
(A)
(B) Pennsylvania
(B)
(C) Chicago
(C)
(D) New Jersey
(D)
28. Which one of the following gives the
28.
correct chronological sequence of the

events ?

(I) Royal visit of the King Emperor (I)

George V (II)

(II) Partition of Bengal (III)

(III) Simla Deputation
(IV)

(IV) Birth of Muslim League
(A) (II), (IV), (III), (I)

(A) (II), (IV), (III), (I)
(B) (III), (II), (I), (IV)
(B) (III), (II), (I), (IV)
(C) (II), (III), (IV), (I)
(C) (II), (III), (IV), (I)
(D) (IV), (II), (I), (III)
(D) (IV), (II), (I), (III)

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29. The first Railway line in India was 29.
laid in the year ....................... .

(A) 1842
(A) 1842
(B) 1853
(B) 1853
(C) 1863
(C) 1863
(D) 1873
(D) 1873
30. The First Railway in the world was

opened in England in the year 30.

................... .

(A) 1825 (A) 1825

(B) 1853 (B) 1853

(C) 1854
(C) 1854
(D) 1855
(D) 1855
31. The General Service Enlistment Act
31.
was passed under the Governor

Generalship of .................... .
(A)
(A) Lord Canning
(B)
(B) Lord Auckland
(C)
(C) Lord Ellenborough
(D)
(D) Lord Amherst
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32. Which of the following was the main 32.

basis of Dadabhai Naoroji’s

calculation of the drain ?

(A)
(A) Difference between Import and

Export (B)

(B) Difference between Revenue
(C)

Surplus
(D)
(C) Difference between Income and

Expenditure 33.

(D) Extravagant expenditure

33. Who wrote ‘Jatibhed Viveksar’ ?
(A)

(A) Dinkarrao Jawalkar
(B)

(B) Bhaskarrao Jadhav
(C)
(C) Krishnarao Bhalekar

(D)
(D) Tukaram Tatya Padval

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34. Who described Bhakti movement as 34.

“Protestant Hinduism’ ?

(A) Mahatma Jyotirao Phule (A)

(B) Lokhitawadi Gopal Hari
(B)

Deshmukh
(C)

(C) R.G. Bhandarkar
(D)
(D) Justice M.G. Ranade
35.
35. Who among the following historians

argued that social trajectory of

Indian history is tribe-peasants-

caste ?

(A)
(A) Dharmanand Kosambi

(B)
(B) Damodar D. Kosambi

(C)
(C) A.S. Altekar

(D)
(D) K.P. Jayaswal

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36. Which of the following organisations 36.

ushered its motto “Educate, Agitate

and Organise” ?

(A) Bahishkrit Hitakarini Sabha

(A)
(B) Independent Labour Party

(C) Depressed Classes Association (B)

(D) Republican Party of India (C)

37. What is “Apartheid’ ?
(D)

(A) A system of segregation and
37.
discrimination on the basis of

race (A)

(B) System of European caste

hierarchy
(B)

(C) Religious segregation
(C)
(D) Segregation on the basis of

(D)
culture

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38. The Commonwealth of Nations is
38.

related to .................... .

(A)
(A) The Latin American countries

(B)
(B) The former British Empire

(C) Association of European (C)

Community
(D)

(D) Membership of United Nations
39.
39. What is Confucianism ?

(A)
(A) A theory of politics

(B) A theory of economics (B)

(C) A system of education (C)

(D) A philosophy of morality and
(D)

ethics

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40. Who among the following is not 40.

associated with early socialism ?

(A) Robert Owen (A)

(B) Emile Durkheim (B)

(C) Charles Fourier (C)

(D) Henri de Saint-Simon (D)

41. The Ninety-Five Theses were 41.

related to :

(A) Jeremy Bentham (A)

(B) James Mill (B)

(C) Martin Luther (C)

(D) Herbert Spencer (D)

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42. Match the following authors and
42.
their works and choose the correct

codes given below :

(a) J.A. Hobson (i) Accumulation (a) (i)

of Capital

(b) Rosa Luxembourg (ii) Imperialism :
(b) (ii)
a Study

(c) V.I. Lenin (iii) I m p e ri a l i s m (c) (iii)

and the World

Economy

(d) (iv)
(d) Nikolai Bukharin (iv) Impe rialism,

the highest

stage of capi-

talism

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

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

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

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

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43. Who coined the slogan ‘the right
43.

to work’ in the Nineteenth

century ?
(A)

(A) Joseph Mazzini
(B)
(B) Louis Blanc

(C)
(C) T.H. Green

(D)
(D) Karl Marx

44.
44. Which historian argued that caste

is an innovation of the colonial

mind ?

(A) Nicholas Dirks (A)

(B) Ranajit Guha (B)

(C) Dipesh Chakravarti (C)

(D) B.D. Chattopadhyay (D)

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45. What do you mean by Historicism ? 45.

(A) To believe that there is no (A)

causality in history

(B) To believe that there are
(B)
inclusive, demonstrable and

determining patterns in the

process of historical change

(C)
(C) To believe in the intervention

of God in history

(D) To believe in fatalism (D)

46. Annale’s Historiography originated 46.

in which country ?

(A) France (A)

(B) Britain (B)

(C) America (C)

(D)
(D) Germany

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47. According to Edward Said, what is
47.

the defining feature of orientalism ?

(A) Western imperialism
(A)

(B) Eastern reaction to western
(B)
domination

(C) East-west as ontological divide

(D) South-North as epistemological (C)

divide
(D)

48. Among the following historians, who
48.
employed structural-linguistics to

unravel colonial documents ?

(A) Ranajit Guha
(A)

(B) David Hardiman
(B)

(C) Rosalind O’ Hanlon
(C)

(D) David Washbrook (D)

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49.
49. Which historian explained Maratha

politics through ‘Fitna Theory’ ?

(A) Stewart Gordon
(A)
(B) André Wink
(B)

(C) Hiroyuki Kotani
(C)

(D) A.R. Kulkarni
(D)

50. According to historian V.K. Rajwade
50.

what is ‘Maharashtra Dharma’ ?

(A) Valiant Hinduism (A)

(B) Valiant Maratha Dharma (B)

(C) Ideology of Varkari Sect (C)

(D) Ideology of Bhakti Cult (D)

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