ALL HISTORY QUESTIONS ASKED IN SSC SELECTION POST PHASE IX EXAM 2021

1.  
In which of the following years did the Government of India appoint
the Saddler University Commission to analyse the problems of the Calcutta
University?

 1917

2.  
In which of the following years did the Opium Act come into force to
regulate the cultivation of opium poppy and manufacture of opium?

 
1857

3.  
In
which of the following years did the peasant movement in Bardoli take place?

1928

4.  
In
which of the following years was the Battle of Imphal won?

  1944

5.  
In which of the following years was the Charter Act enacted by the
British Parliament for the establishment of a Law Commission for
consolidation and codification of Indian laws?

     
1833

6.  
In which of the following years was the division of Bengal carried out
by the British Viceroy, Lord Curzon?

1905

7.  
In
which of the following years was the Geological Survey of India established?

  1851

8.  
In which of the following years was the Indian Universities Act passed
during the tenure of Lord Curzon?

 1904

9.  
In
which of the following years was the Satyagraha Ashram founded by Mahatma
Gandhi?

1915

10. In which of the following years was Tipu
Sultan killed?

  1799

11. In which year did Debendranath Tagore
establish the Tattvabodhini Sabha?

  1839

12. In which year did Mahatma Gandhi make his
first major public appearance in India?

  1916

13. Khush Mahal within the walls of Warrangal
Fort, was built in which of the following dynasties?

Tughlaq

14. Lingaraja Temple dedicated to Lord Shiva,
located in Bhubaneshwar, was built during which of the following dynasties?

Somavamsi dynasty

15. Lord Buddha was born in ______.

  Lumbini, Nepal

16. Mile sur mera tumhara’ became so popular as a
National Integration Song that this line is inscribed on the Sawai Gandharva
Memorial constructed by ________ in Pune.

 Bhimsen Joshi

17. Mirzā Ḥakīm was the half-brother of which of the
following Mughal emperors?

Akbar

18. Near which of the following cities are the
Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka located?

Bhopal

19. One of the most important descriptions of the
city of Vijayanagara in the fifteenth century comes from who among the
following diplomats who visited India from Herat?

 
Abdur Razzaq Samarqandi

20. Pandit Nikhil Banerjee was an exponent of the

  sitar

21. Place Sikandara which comes under suburb of
Agra is associated with the tomb of________.

 Akbar

22. Potti Sriramulu, the Gandhian leader, died
fasting for a separate state for ______ speakers.

 Telugu

23. Shalimar (Shalamar) gardens in Lahore were
built by

  Shah Jahan

24. Starting from which of the following years did
Raja Ram Mohan Roy publish the Sambad Kaumudi?

1821

25. Starting with the southernmost, arrange the
given cities of India from south to north.

A)  Madurai

B)  Salem

C)  Kurnool

                         D) Tirupati

 ABDC

26. The ‘Bengal Gazette’ was the first:

  English
newspaper of India

27. The annexation of Awadh by Lord Dalhousie took
place in the year

  1856

28. The Ashoka Chakra Class-II was renamed as
______ in 1967.

Kirti Chakra

29. The Bibi Ka Maqbara, the burial place of
Aurangzeb’s wife, Rabia-ud-Durrani near Aurangabad city is an imitation of
which of the following monuments?

 
Taj Mahal at Agra

30. The Bihari Puraskar is one of the three
literary awards instituted by the ______ in 1991.

 
KK Birla Foundation

31. The final defeat of Mir Qasim at the hands of
British took place at the battle of _______.

  Buxar

32. The Harshacharita, a biography of
Harshavardhana, the ruler of Kannauj is composed in which language by his
court poet, Banabhatta?

 Sanskrit

33. The Iranian ruler Darius penetrated into
north-west India in ______ and annexed Punjab, west of the Indus, and Sindh.

 516 BC

34. The Kandariya Mahadeva temple, dedicated to
Shiva, was constructed in 999 CE by the king Dhangadeva of the
__________dynasty.

 Chandela

35. The Muslim League announced ______ 1946 as
‘Direct Action Day’.

 16 August

36. The tomb Chini-Ka-Rauza is located in ______.

  Agra

37. The tomb of Sher Shah Suri is located in

  Sasaram

38. The Universities of Calcutta, Bombay and
Madras were set up in ______.

  1857

39. To improve cultivation in Doab, Muhammad bin
Tughlaq set up a separate agriculture department known as

 Diwan-i-Amir-Kohi

1.  
What
was the name of the mother of Gautama Buddha?

Maya

2.  
When did the Caliph of Baghdad, Mustansir Billah, bestow on Iltutmish
the titles of ‘Sultan-i-Azam’ (Sultan the great) and ‘Nasir-Amir-al-Mommin’
(deputy of the leader of faithful)?

 1229 AD

3.  
When
was the Majority Act, which defines the age of the majority of Indian
citizens, passed?

  1875

4.  
Where did the Tebhaga Movement, an indigenous peasant agitation, take
place between 1946 and 1947?

 Bengal

5.  
Where
is the ‘Ahom Raja’s Palace’ located?

Assam

6.  
Where
is the Kailasa Temple, a single stone monument located?

  Maharashtra

7.  
Where
was the Second Buddhist Council held in c.383 BCE?

  Vaishali

8.  
Which
of the following archaeological sites is located in Uttar Pradesh?

  Koldihwa

9.  
Which
of the following dynasties ruled from Thaneshwar?

 
Pushyabhuti

10. Which of the following festival falls on the
first day of the Malayali month of Medam, which occurs on either April 14 or
15 on the Gregorian calendar?

 Vishu

11. Which of the following forts is located in
Karnataka which was built by Sultan Alla-Ud Din Bahman?

Bidar Fort

12. Which of the following forts is located in
Rajasthan?

Mehrangarh Fort

13. Which of the following French travellers, who
wrote accounts of what he saw, frequently comparing India with the situation
in Europe, was closely associated with the Mughal court, as a physician to
Prince Dara Shukoh?

 François Bernier

14. Which of the following Harappan sites is located
in Afghanistan?

  Shortughai

15. Which of the following Harappan sites is NOT
located in the present-day Pakistan?

  Kalibangan

16. Which of the following Indus valley
civilisation towns was almost exclusively devoted to craft production,
including bead-making, shell-cutting, metal-working, seal-making and
weight-making?

 
Chanhudaro

17. Which of the following is known as Tipu
Sultan’s Summer Palace?

Daria Daulat Bagh

18. Which of the following monuments is NOT
located in Fatehpur-Sikri?

  Garib Nawaz Dargah

19. Which of the following monuments is NOT
located in the state of Tamil Nadu?

  Gol Gumbaz

20. Which of the following monuments is similar in
structure to the Taj Mahal?

  Humayun’s Tomb

21. Which of the following revolutionary freedom
fighters was assassinated by Abdul Rashid?

Swami Shraddhanand

22. Which of the following rivers would you
associate primarily with the Harappan civilisation?

  Indus

23. Which of the following villages is related to
the ‘Bhoodan Movement’ initiated by Vinoba Bhave?

 Pochampally

24. Who addressed the Congress as President in
1887 thus – “This Congress is composed of the representatives, not of
any one class or community of India, but of all the different communities of
India”?

 
Badruddin Tyabji

25. Who among the following is NOT a Bharat Ratna
awardee?

  Mahatma
Gandhi

26. Who among the following is the author of the
book ‘An Era of Darkness : The British Empire in India’?

 Shashi Tharoor

27. Who among the following scholar translated
Patanjali’s work on grammar into Arabic?

Al-Biruni

28. Who among the following scholars was ordered
by Sultan Muhammad bin Tughlaq in 1342 to proceed to China as his envoy to
the Mongol ruler?

Ibn Battuta

29. Who among the following succeeded Dantidurga
of the Rashtrakuta Kingdom?

  Krishna I

30. Who among the following took part in India’s
freedom struggle from the North-East?

 Rani Gaidinliu

31. Who among the following was a noted painter?

  Abanindranath Tagore

32. Who among the following was given the title of
‘Khan-e-Khana’ by Akbar?

 Mirza Abdul Rahim Khan

33. Who among the following was NOT from the
Mauryan Dynasty?

  Kharavela

34. Who among the following was the first Mughal
emperor to enforce Sharia law in India?

 Aurangzeb

35. Who led a Salt March from Trichinopoly to
Vedaranyam on Tanjore coast in Tamil Nadu in support of the Civil Disobedience
Movement?

 Chakravarti Rajagopalachari

36. Who started a workmanship’s club and newspaper
Bharat Shramjeevi?

  Sasipada Banerji

37. Who was the Governor General of Bengal when
the Permanent Settlement was introduced there in 1793?

 Charles Cornwallis

38. Who was the Viceroy of India at the time of
the Dandi March initiated by Gandhiji?

  Lord Irwin

39. Who was the Viceroy of India at the time of
the Kakori Train Robbery?

  Lord Reading

40. With reference to the literary creations of
ancient India, which of the following pairs is correct?

 Mudrarakshasa – Vishakhadatta