Indian History - MCQs with answers - Part III
1. Which Indian king did the ancient Greeks refer to as Sandrocottas?a) Ashoka
b) Chanakya
c) Chandragupta Maurya
d) Alexander the Great
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: c) Chandragupta Maurya
He became well known in the Hellenistic world for conquering Alexander the Great's easternmost satrapies, and for defeating the most powerful of Alexander's successors, Seleucus I Nicator, in battle.
a) Ashoka
b) Chandragupta Maurya
c) Huvishka
d) Kanishka
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: d) Kanishka
Kanishka's reputation in Buddhist tradition is based mainly that he convened the 4th Buddhist Council in Kashmir, where it split into the Mahayana and Hinyana sects.
a) Ashoka
b) Chandragupta Maurya
c) Harsha
d) Pulakesi II
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: c) Harsha
Harshavardhana was an Indian emperor who ruled northern India from 606 to 647 from his capital Kanauj.
a) Chandragupta I
b) Samudragupta
c) Chandragupta II
d) Kumaragupta I
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: b) Samudragupta
Samudragupta is the father of Gupta monetary system. He started minting different types of coins.
a) Mahadevi Varma
b) Amrita Pritam
c) Meera
d) Subhadra Kumari Chauhan
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: a) Mahadevi Varma
Mahadevi Varma is widely regarded as the "modern Meera".
a) Akbar
b) Aurangzeb
c) Jahangir
d) Shah Jahan
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: d) Shah Jahan
The Padshahnama is a genre of works written as the official visual history of Mughal Emperor, Shah Jahan’s reign. Most significant work of this genre was written by Abdul Hamid Lahori in two volumes.
a) Amer fort
b) Chittorgarh fort
c) Jaisalmer fort
d) Nahargarh fort
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: c) Jaisalmer fort
Jaisalmer Fort is one of the largest fortifications in the world. It is situated in the city of Jaisalmer, in the Indian state of Rajasthan. It is a World Heritage Site.
a) 1524
b) 1727
c) 1854
d) 1901
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: b) 1727
Jaipur is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Rajasthan in Northern India. It was founded on 18 November 1727 by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II, the ruler of Amber, after whom the city is named.
a) 1524
b) 1727
c) 1854
d) 1901
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: a) 1524
Under the title of Viceroy, he was appointed as the Governor of India.
a) Ashok Kumar Sen
b) B. R. Ambedkar
c) Shanti Bhushan
d) Arun Jaitley
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: b) B. R. Ambedkar
Ambedkar was invited by the new Congress-led government to serve as the nation's first Law Minister upon India's Transfer of Power by British Government to leaders of High Cast on 15 August 1947.
a) Aruna Asaf Ali
b) Indira Gandhi
c) Jayaprakash Narayan
d) Morarji Desai
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: c) Jayaprakash Narayan
His biography, Jayaprakash, was written by Ramavriksha Benipuri.
a) Alice Bailey
b) Annie Besant
c) Sarojini Naidu
d) Madan Mohan Malaviya
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: b) Annie Besant
In 1908, Annie Besant became the President of Theosophical Society.
a) Hindu epics
b) Hindu Puranas
c) Philosophical treatises representing Hindu intellect
d) Vedas
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: d) Vedas
The Upanishads are a collection of texts in the Vedic Sanskrit language which contain the earliest emergence of some of the central religious concepts of Hinduism.
