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Trends in Indian Historiography | Set 1

1. Who among the following is the author of Silent Spring?

Correct : B. rachel carlson

2. Who wrote the book Economy of Permanence?

Correct : C. j.c. kumarappa

3. In which year the Chipko Movement began?

Correct : D. 1973

4. In which year the Government of India liberalised its economy?

Correct : B. 1991

5. Project Tiger was launched in the year

Correct : A. 1973

6. According to C.A.Bayly, groups having allegience to a powerful patron is called

Correct : C. connexions

7. According to the Cambridge interpretation, the roots of politics lay in

Correct : A. localities like district, the municipality, the village.

8. Who is the author of The Emergence of Indian Nationalism: Competition and Collaboration in the Later Nineteenth Century

Correct : C. anil seal

9. Who among the following is associated with Cambrodge School of Histroiography?

Correct : C. anil seal

10. Who are the subaltern?

Correct : C. people relegated to inferior rank or status

11. In which year the firsr edited volume of subaltern studies came out?

Correct : A. 1982

12. Subaltern studies first appeared as a revision of the historical narratives of which country?

Correct : C. india

13. Who is the author of the book An Introduction to the Study of History ?

Correct : A. d.d.kosambi

14. Who is the author of The Agrarian System of Mughal India ?

Correct : A. irfan habib

15. GHG stands for

Correct : B. green house gas

16. According to Aryan Invasion Theory, where did the Aryans initially settled in India?

Correct : B. punjab

17. According to Aryans, the indegenous people of india were

Correct : B. dasas and dasyus

18. Which among the following was regarded as a form of wealth during the vedic age?

Correct : C. cattle

19. Which among the following languages is not a member of Indo­european category?

Correct : D. tamil

20. Who coined the term Hydraulic civilisations?

Correct : C. karl wittfogel

21. Which among the following is true about a Hydraulic Society?

Correct : B. societies based on large scale irrigation

22. Which historian brought out the interdisciplinary method to study ancient indian history?

Correct : B. d.d. kosambi

23. According to D.D.Kosambi, interpretation of myths is , in order to study early cultures.

Correct : C. necessary

24. Who wrote Urban Decay in India?

Correct : A. r.s.sharma

25. Who is the author of Asoka and the Decline of Mauryas ?

Correct : C. romila thapar

26. which of the following distinguish the Vedic Aryans form the Indus people?

Correct : D. use of iron

27. Mandala IX of Rigveda is dedicated to which God?

Correct : A. soma

28. When was the Asiatic Society of Bengal was formed?

Correct : D. 1761

29. Author of Harshacharita ?

Correct : C. bana bhatta

30. Who among the following is a nationalist historian?

Correct : A. k. p. jayaswal

31. Which historian among the following was a member of Indian Civil Services?

Correct : B. r. c. dutt

32. The Indus Valley Civilisation is a civilisation.

Correct : C. bronze age

33. Who is the father of Indology?

Correct : A. james mill

34. What was the nationality of max muller?

Correct : C. german

35. Who is the author of Asoka: The Buddhist Emperor of India?

Correct : C. v. a. smith

36. Feristha serves as a historian under the . a. Khiljis b. Lodis c. Mughals d. Adil Shahis. 37. who wrote the Vikramangadevacharita ?

Correct : D. atula.

37. Which Magadhan ruler is known as Amitrochates ?

Correct : B. bindusara

38. who is the author of Pritvirajavijaya?

Correct : B. jayanaka

39. Who is known as the “father of qawwali”?

Correct : D. ibn batuta.

40. Author of Gendering Caste through a feminist Lens is

Correct : B. uma chakravarti

41. The Indus people achieved maximum amount of standardization in

Correct : D. bricks

42. How many times did the term Jana occur in Rigveda?

Correct : A. 275

43. The sulva sutras deal with

Correct : C. geometry

44. The origin of Indian music can be traced into .

Correct : B. samaveda

45. Who was the Vice President of the International Commission for s History of the Scientific and cultural development set up by UNESCO ?

Correct : A. r. c. majumdar

46. Which one of the following vedic tribal assemblies involved in the selection of the tribal chief?

Correct : B. samiti

47. The Rig, yajur, sama vedas are together known as

Correct : D. tri veda

48. Which of the Vedas is partly in verse and partly in prose?

Correct : C. yajur

49. Whose work is Shudras in Ancient India ?

Correct : B. r. s. sharma

50. Which of the following regions were not known to even the later vedic people?

Correct : A. the kaveri delta

51. Which of the following falls into the category of quasi­histroy?

Correct : D. all the above

52. The 'logographers” are associated with

Correct : C. greek historiography

53. Who called Heradotus the father of history?

Correct : A. cicero

54. Author of The early History of Deccan

Correct : C. neelakants sastri

55. Aryans cleared the forests in the initial stages using

Correct : C. fire

56. Who is the founder of the Nanda dynasty?

Correct : B. mahapadma nanda

57. “Abundance of source material and absence of histories “ is told about

Correct : A. ancient indian history

58. Who is the author of Mrichakatika

Correct : B. sudraka

59. Thervada is a branch associated with

Correct : C. buddhism

60. Which sect of Bhudhism flourished in Ceylon?

Correct : A. mahayana

61. Which of the following languages were patronised by the jainas to preach their doctrines?

Correct : A. prakrit

62. The place were Bhudha was enlightened

Correct : C. gaya

63. One of the most important kings who followed Buddhism

Correct : B. ashoka

64. Lumbini the place at which Bhudha was born is located in

Correct : A. nepal.

65. .The earliest of the Vedas

Correct : A. rig veda

66. The Tripitakas are written in the language of

Correct : C. pali

67. The Mahabharata war was fought on the plains of …......

Correct : C. kurushetra

68. The word Veda derived from the word

Correct : A. ved

69. The Ramayana was composed by the great saint

Correct : D. valmik

70. The 23rd Thrithankara was

Correct : B. mahavira

71. Who among the following was not an eminent Orientalist?

Correct : A. dr bhahudaji

72. Who Coined the term Hydraulic Society

Correct : B. karl august wittfogel

73. Who among the following Scholar declared that “Sapt Sindhava” region was the home land of Aryans

Correct : A. dr a. c. das

74. Genealogy, mythology,and historical narratives are the three main constituents of …................tradition

Correct : A. ithihasa­purana

75. How many puranas are there?

Correct : B. 18

76. Which Purana contains the information about the Sathavahanas

Correct : C. matsya pura

77. Historical writings of vamsa charitas were started in which century ?

Correct : A. seventh century

78. Harsha Charita is written by which writer

Correct : B. bana

79. …......is considerd as the first historcal chronicle of Kerala

Correct : D. mushakavamsa kavya

80. Mushakavamsa kavya deals with the dynastic history of the rulers of which region?

Correct : C. kolathunadu

81. Rajatarangini is the Chronicle on the kings of …......

Correct : A. kashmir

82. 'only a poet can bring the past with eye of this mind by divine institution ' who statement is this

Correct : C. kalhana

83. Ziauddin Barani served as an adviser to Sultan

Correct : D. muhammad bin thuglaq

84. Fatwa ­i ­ Jahandari is written in which language ?

Correct : C. persian

85. Abul Fazl was a historian in the court of

Correct : B. mughals

86. The book Akbar­nama was written by

Correct : A. abul fazal

87. Ain­I­Akbari is the ….......... part of Akbar­nama

Correct : C. third

88. Which author translated Bhagawad Gita from Sanskrit to Persian ?

Correct : C. dara shikoh

89. Taikh ­i­Ferishta was written as per the instruction of which ruler ?

Correct : B. muhammad bin tuglaq

90. Romila Thaper was the student of …........

Correct : A. basham

91. Which group of scholars described the Indian post as oriental despotism ?

Correct : A. indian

92. Which among the following is not a work of Romila Thaper?

Correct : A. past and prejudice

93. Mushakavamsa Kavya was written in

Correct : B. 11th centur

94. Who among the following have written the medieval legendary and historical chronicle of the north­western subcontinent ,Rajatarangini ?

Correct : B. kalhana

95. In which of the following years the Asiatic Society of Bengal was established

Correct : B. 1784

96. Who among the following historians does not belong to the Marxist School of thought

Correct : B. r . c majumdar