CUET History Previous Year Solved Paper 2 (19 July 2022 Slot-1) - Humanities/Arts MCQ

 Select the correct information regarding the Mauryan Empire :
(A) The name of the ruler, Ashok, is not mentioned in every incriptions issued by him.
(B) Information about Chandragupta can be found in the account of Megasthenes.
(C) Most of the Ashokan inscriptions were written in the Pali language.
(D) Tax i la was the capital c ity of the Mauryan Empire.
(E) Ujjayini, Tosali and Suvarngiri were also important political centres in die empire.
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During ancient period Indian spices were transported:

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Which of the following rulers followed endogamy ?

Ekalavya, an important character in the Mahabharata, belonged to the following caste :

Rajasuya and Ashvamedha were :

One can find the conv ersation between Ajatasattu and the Buddha in __________.

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Rihla was authored by __________.

Lingayats believ e that after death, the dev otee will be united with __________ and will not return to this world.

Identify the correct feature associated with Tantric practices during eighth to eighteenth century :

Read the given information and identify the personality :
(A) He rejected sacrifices, ritual baths, im age worship and austerities.
(B) He organised his followers into a community.
(C) He advocated nirguna bhakti.
(D) He proposed a simple way to connect to the Divine through "shabad".

Select the correct information on sufism from :
(A) Sufism evolved into a well - developed movement by the eleventh century.
(B) The word silsila means the lineage of spiritual leader to whom the sufis showed loyalty.
(C) Ziyarat means pilgrimage to the grav e of the shaikh.
(D) The sufis devoutly followed all the rituals of Islam.
(E) Shaikh Nizamuddin Auliya liv ed during the rule of Gayasuddin Tuglaq.
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Temples in the past were not built __________.

The Religious literature of Lingayats is known as :

Whose name was associated with the foundation of the Vijayanagara Empire ?

During the sev enteenth century sev eral new crops from different parts of the world reached the Indian subcontinent. One of them was __________, which was introduced to India via Africa and Spain.

Arrange the following Mughal chronicles, starting from the one written at the earliest to the one written in tire last: (A) Abul Fazl works on the Akbar nama
(B) Muhammad W aris begins his chronicle in tire third decade of Shall Jahan's reign.
(C) Gulbadan Begum begins to write the Humayan Nama.
(D) Lahori composes the first two daftars of the Badshah Nama.
(E) Babur's m emoirs translated into Persian as Babur Nama.
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Select the correct information on the Mughals from below.
(A) Zahiruddin Babur hailed from Farghana in Central Asia.
(B) Nasiruddin Humayun defeated Sher Shah Suri in 1540.
(C) Jalaluddin Akbar extended the frontiers of the Mughal Empire to the Hindukush mountains.
(D) Delhi, Agra and Lahore were the different capital cities of the Mughals.
(E) Shah Alam II was the last Mughal Emperor.
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Arrange the following events in chronological order :
(A) Santhals began to come to the Rajmahal hills
(B) Permanent Settlement in Bengal
(C) East India Company acquired Diwani of Bengal
(D) Regulating Act passed by tire British Parliament
(E) Ryots in Deccan villages rebel
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Arrange the following ev ents from the one that took place first to the one that happened in the late :
(A) The British arrive in Madras.
(B) Portuguese trading companies' arrival in Panaji.
(C) French arrival in Pondicherry.
(D) Dutch trading companies' arrival in Masulipatanam
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A series of Praja Mandals were established to promote the nationalist ideas in the __________.

The Lahore session of Congress in the year 1929 was presided by __________.

Subsidiary Alliance was a system devised by __________ in 1798.

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(A) Bengali Muslims rejected Jinnah's two nation theory and later created Bangladesh in 1971-72.
(B) Muslim League demanded Pakistan in 1940.
(C) Cabinet Mission cam e to India in March 1946.
(D) "Direct Action Day" was in January 1947.
(E) In 1935, elections to the prov incial legislatures were held for the first time.
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