SSC CGL Previous Year Questions: History - 3 - SSC CGL MCQ

Vikramshila was established by king Dharampala (783 to 820) in response to a supposed decline in the quality of scholarship at Nalanda.

Clement Attlee was the Prime Minister of England when India got Indpendence.

The Pallava Dynasty had their capital at Kancheepuram. It is an important pilgrim center for Hindu devotees and an important center of Tamil and Sanskrit studies.

Ghiyas Ud din Balban was the ninth Sultan of Mamluk dynasty of Delhi and He adopted Persian custom and manners in court.

Klemens Von Metternick Convened the ‘Congress of Vienna’ 1815.

Buland Darwaza or the “Gate of Magnificance”, was built in 1601 A. D. by Akbar to commemorate his victory over Gujarat. It is the main enterance to the place at Fatehpur Sikri.

The Jataka tales are a volumnous body of literature native to India concerning the previous births of Gautam Buddha, in both Human and Animal form.

Lothal is a port town of Indus Valley Civilization where trade once flowes hed with other ancient civilizations

Krishnadevaraya was the ruler of Vijayanagra dynasty. Who reigned from 1509–1529.

Aitareya Brahmana of the Rig veda has the details of the coronation ceremony.

Shamse Siraj Atif–Tarikn–e–Firozshahi

The original name of Mahabharata is ' JAI SAMHITA'. It was naratted by Sage Ved Vyasa and written by Lord Ganesha. Originally, it had only 8,800 slokas. Later more slokas were added to it. Now, Mahabharata has 100,100 slokas.

Lieutenant-General Sir Eyre Coote's victory at the Battle of Wandiwash is considered a decisive turning point in the struggle for control in India between Britain and France.

Judicial administration is related to sadr-us-sadr.

Allahabad Pillar Inscription (PrayagPrashasti) was issued by Samudragupta and was composed by Harisena. It lists achievements of Samudragupta

Afanasy Nikitin was a Russian merchant of Tver and one of the first Europeans to travel to and document his visit to India. He described his trip in a narrative known as "The Journey Beyond Three Seas". Whereas Samarkand is a city in south-eastern Uzbekistan and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Central Asia.

The Lucknow Pact is an agreement between the Indian National Congress (INC) and the All India Muslim League reached at a joint session of both the parties held at Lucknow in 1916.

The Gandhi Irwin Pact was a political agreement signed by Mahatma Gandhi and the then Viceroy of India, Lord Irwin on 5 March 1931 before the second Round Table Conference in London.

The Vedic Literature was composed between 2500 B.C. and 500B.C. The term Vedic literature means the four Vedas in their Samhita and the allied literature based on or derived from the Vedas. We classify the Vedic literature into the following categories: The four Vedas (the Rig, Sama, Yajur and Atharva) and their Samhitas, the Brahmanas attached to each Samhita, the Aranyakas, the Upanishads.

Clement Attlee was the prime minister of Britain at the time of Freedom of India from British control. India got freedom by the act of "The Indian Independence Act 1947" which partitioned British India into the two new independent dominions of India and Pakistan

The first attack of Babur in India was on Bajaur in 1519 with 2000 horsemen. It was followed by capture of Bhira on Jhelum River in Punjab. Gun Powder was used for the first time during his expedition to Bajaur. His fifth and final expedition was in November 1525 which ended in 1526 with victory at Delhi.

Bangladesh has become the first country in the world to receive funds from United Nations for its fast growing Solar Home Systems.

In indian architecture surkhi was introduced by Sultanate Sultans.

The Battle of Talikota (26 January 1565), a watershed battle fought between the Vijayanagara Empire and the Deccan sultanates, resulted in a defeat of Vijayanagara, and ended in greatly weakening one of the greatest Indian Empires originating from Southern India before the Maratha Empire.

The mansabdari system was of Central Asian origin and it was first introduced by Babur in North India. But it was Akbar who institutionalized it in Mughal military set up and civil administration.

Cabinet Mission was composed of three Cabinet Ministers of England Sir Pethick Lawrence, Secretary of State for India, Sir Stafford Cripps, President of the Board of Trade;

Alexander, the First Lord of the Admiralty. The mission arrived on March 24, 1946. The objective of this mission was to Devise a machinery to draw up the constitution of Independent India. Make arrangements for interim Government. Thus the mission was like a declaration of India's independence.

Sarvodaya is a Sanskrit term meaning 'universal uplift' or 'progress of all'. The term was used by Mahatma Gandhi as the title of his 1908 translation of John Ruskin's tract on political economy, Unto This Last, and Gandhi came to use the term for the ideal of his own political philosophy.

Prabhakar Vardhana was the first king of the Vardhana dynasty with his capital at Thaneswar. His son Harshavardhana was ruled North India from 606 to 647 CE. At the height of Harsha's power, his Empire covered much of North and Northwestern India, extended East till Kamarupa, and South until Narmada River. Harshavardhana moved his capital from Thanesar to Kannauj.

The collective term given by the Jainas to their Sacred literature is called Agamas written in Prakrit.

Doctrine of Passive Resistance is authored by Aurobindo Ghosh. It is based on a series of articles by Aurobindo Ghosh which were published in April 1907 in the journal Bande Matram. The articles were written when the Bengal was burning with indignation after its partition October 16, 1905 by Viceroy Curzon. The main theme of the articles is the methods and ideology which could be adopted in face of oppression and injustice as perpetrated by the contemporary British rule in India.