Practice Test: Modern India - 2 - UPSC MCQ

“It is a survivng fragment of a very wide-spread Dravidian tract which extended from Baluchistan and Sind through Rajputana and Malwa into the present day Maratha country and the Dravidian lands of the South and which also extended north and north-east in the Punjab and the Ganges valley and possibly also north-west through Afghanistan into Iran”. Who are they?

The society of Indus valley civilization was not divided into caste but into different classes. The remains unearthed at Mohanjodaro demonstrate the existence of different sections of the people.Which of the following was one of them?

I. Priest

II. Warrior

III. Traders

IV. Manual Labourers

Probably there were three methods of disposing the dead. Which one of the following was not one of them?

A seal from Harappa shows a nude female figure, turned upside down, and a plant coming out of the womb. What does it depict?

The Indus people appears to have made great progress in

I. Ceramic art

II. Plastic art

III. Seal cutter ’s art

IV. Wooden artefacts

V. Wall painting

Which of the following cities of the Indus Valley civilization were excavated after Independence?

I. Ropar

II. Desalpur

III. Surkotada

IV. Prabhas Patan

V. Alamgirpur

The Greek used the word ‘Sindon’ for which of the following items?

Match the following historians and theories of origin of the Aryans:

Which of the following tributaries of the Sindhu were on the west?

I. Suvastu (Swat)

II. Krumu (Kurum)

III. Gomati (Gomal)

IV. Susartu (Ghorband)

In the Nadi-stuti a river is mentioned between the Yamuna and Sutudri. What is that?

The Himavant, now known as Himalaya, is frequently used inI. RigvedaII. AtharvavedaII. Vajansaneyi Samhita

The battle of Ten Kings during the Rig-vedic period was a battle of the Tratsu-Bharatas against the combined forces of

I. Puru

II. Yadu

III. Tursava

IV. Anu

V. Druhya

The earliest Aryan kingdoms were founded by

I. Iksaku

II. Pramsu

III. Sudyunma

IV. Saryata

During the Rig-Vedic period the king did not maintain any regular army. But during the period of war different tribal groups formed a militia.

Who were they?

I. Vrata

II. Gana

III. Grama

IV. Sardha

Which of the following is not a ‘Sruti’ literature?

Which of the following is wrongly matched?

Which of the following is a Upaveda?

I. Ayurveda

II. Dhanurveda

III. Gandharvaveda

IV. Shilpaveda

Which one of the following is wrongly matched?

The lowest unit of political organization during the Vedic period was

What may we deduce from the use of the words ‘Parivividana’ and ‘Parivista’ during the Vedic period?

The coming of the Aryans marked a new feature since they introduced

I. New regulations of production which evolved many people in the setting up of a new type of social organization.

II. Plough agriculture made the food supply more regular and the exchange of food surplus for commodities was now a reality.

III. The y no t only s uppr esse d the is olat ed primitive groups but also swept away the older classes along with their rituals.

IV. The new social organisation made available supply of labour whose surplus was expropriated.

What is true about the religion of the Vedic period?

I. The earliest religious ideas of the Aryans were those of a primitive animism where the forces around them, which they could not control or understand, were invested with divinity and were personified as male or female Gods.

II. The central feature of Aryan religious life was sacrifice.

III. Aryans did not build any temple nor made any idols to worship their Gods. They performed their worship in the open area.

IV. Man’s attitude towards the deities was not that of surrender and devotion and the praise addressed to them was no more than poetic effusion.

In the later Vedic period we are introduced to a region known as the middle land inhabited by the

I. Kurus

II. Panchalas

III. Vasas

IV. Usinaras

Which of the following mentions both the western ocean and the eastern one suggesting thereby the Arabian Sea and the Indian ocean being known to the people of the period of its composition?

Which of the following give the evidence that there were elected kings even in the later Vedic age?

During the later-Vedic period the Bharatas of the Rigveda had lost its political strength and there place was taken by the

1. Kurus

II. Panchalas

III. Vasas

IV. Usinaras

Which of the following sources inform us that the Parisad acted as a royal council in which the members conducted a debate under the Chairmanship of Isana, each trying to prevail upon others but being careful to avoid the wrath of the President and win his favour?