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Most Expected Questions For All Competitive Exams

1. Who invited Babar to invade India? –Alam Khan

2. Who attended the Second Round Table Conference as the representative of the Congress?
–Mahatma Gandhi
3. Who was the member of ‘Din-i-Ilahi’? –King Birbal
4. With whom was the last opportunity to avoid the partition of India lost? –Cabinet Mission
5. Who is known as the ‘Indian Bismark’? –Vallabh bhai Patel
6. Who named ‘Prayag Nagar’ as ‘Allahabad”? –Akbar
7. Who passed the Indian university Act? –Lord Curzon
8. By whom was Saka era founded? –Kanishka
9. Which Peshwas was popularly known as Nana-Saheb? –Balaji Baji Rao
10. Memories of Babur (Tuzk-e-Baburi) was written in which language? –Turkish
11. Who organised Ashwamedha Yajna in Gupta Period? –Samudragupta
12. Which group were related to ‘Tana Bhagat’ movement? –Orann
13. Who was thrice elected President of the Indian National Congress? –Dadabhai Naoroji
14. Who, was the Nanda ruler at the time of Alexander’s invasion? –Dhana Nanda
15. Which Chola ruler converted the Bay of Bengal into a ‘Chela lake’? –Rajendra I
16. During which reign was Kalidasa lived? –Chandragupta II
17. The Gayatri Mantra contained in the Rigveda is dedicated to which deity? –Savitri
18. Which ruler was known as Amitraghata, the ‘destroyer of foes’? –Bindusara
19. Under which sultan, Chalisa land increased considerably? –Alauddin Khilji
20. Which Mughal emperor’s tomb is outside India? –Jahangir
21. Who was the first foreigner to invade India? –Darius I
22. Which was the God of animal during the later Vedic period? –Rudra
23. From where sufi movement was started? –Persia
24. By whom was the famous ‘Kirti Stambha’ at Chittor built? –Rana Kumbha
25. Analects is sacred text of which religion? –Confucius Religion
26. Which Rajput dynasties did not surrender to Akbar? –Sisodiya
27. Which ruler at first assumed the title of ‘Hazrat-i-Ala’ and afterwards ‘Sultan’? –Sher Shah Suri
28. Who is related to Sarvodaya and Bhoodan movement? –Acharya Vinoda Bhave
29. Which Sikh Guru called himself the ‘Sachcha Badshah’? –Guru Hargobind
30. Which was capital of Raja Ranjit Singh of Punjab? –Lahore
31. High Courts in Calcutta, Mumbai and Madras were established in which year? –1861
32. What was the script used in the earliest Tamil inscriptions? –Brahmi
33. At which place did Mahatma Gandhi start his first Satyagraha in India? –Champaran
34. Who was the British PM at the time of Revolt of 1857? –Lord Palmerston
35. Who is considered to be the father of Ayurveda? –Charaka
36. Which Veda throws light on the beliefs and practices of the non-Aryans? –Atharvaveda
37. Who was called Zinda Pir (living saint) in Mughal India? –Aurangzeb

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38. What was Sher Shah's real name? –Farid
39. Who earned the title of a ‘Liberator’? –Ashoka
40. With whom did Alberuni come to India? –Mahmud of Ghazni
41. Who was the President of the Indian National Congress, while the Mountbatten Plan was
accepted? –J.B. Kripalani
42. Who first voiced the idea of a separate Muslim state in India? –Mohammad Iqbal
43. Who founded ‘Bharat Sevak Samaj’ (Servants of Indian Society)? –Gopal Krishna Gokhale
44. Who had the Revenue system during Akbar’s reign? –Todarmal
45. Attack on ‘chittgaon arsenal’ was done in whose leadership? –Surya Sen
46. Who is associated with Tashkent Agreement? –Lal Bahadur Shastri
47. Who advocated the policy of abolishing princely states in free India? –J.L. Nehru
48. Who was responsible for the integration of Indian Princely States? –Sardar Patel
49. In which year was the Muslim league founded? –1906
50. In which year did the Congress loose its monopoly of power in the States for the first time after
the elections? –1967
51. “Where there is no law, there is no freedom” who said this? –John Locke
52. Who was the famous Indo-Greek king who embraced Buddhism? –Menander
53. Who destroyed the group of Forty Nobles? –Balban
54. Who was the daughter of Emperor Aurangzeb? –Zebunnisa
55. Who was the first speaker of independent India? –G.V. Mavlankar
56. Where was first Madarasa set up by the British in India? –Calcutta
57. In India, where did the Dutch establish their earliest factory? –Masulipatnam
58. Who was the writer of ‘the Indian War of Independence’? –V.D.Savarkar
59. In which battle did Nadir shah defeated Muhammad Shah? –Karnal
60. By whom was the first muslim invasion of India lead? –Muhammad-binQasim
61. What is the subject matter of the Upanishads? –Religion
62. Who betrayed Siraj-ud-Daulah in the battle of Plassey in 1757? –Mir Jafar
63. A Fortgotten Empire’, written by the renowned historian Robert Sewell, is about which empire?
–Vijayanagar Empire
64. Who proposed the name 'Pakistan'? –Chaudhary Rahmat Ali
65. Who was the oldest British monarch to sit on the throne? –Elizabeth II
66. By whom was the first estimate of national income in India made? –Dadabhai Naoroji
67. Where did ‘Parallel government’ form during Quit India movement? –Baliya
68. During whose Viceroyalty, Queen Victoria was crowned with ‘Kaiser-i-Hind’ in Delhi Durbar?
–Lord Lytton
69. Late Raja Ravi Verma, was an eminent figure in which field? –Painting
70. Who stated that there was no slavery in India? –Megasthenes
71. Who was the regent of Akbar? –Bairam Khan
72. By whom was the agitation against the partition of Bengal led? –Surendranath Banerjee
73. Who was the Mughal Emperor to have lifted the Jaziya on Hindus? –Akbar
74. Who is known as ‘the father of India’s unrest’? –Bal Gangadhar Tilak

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75. Which ruler had granted Diwani to the East India company? –Shah Alam II
76. Against whom did Gandhiji started Satyagraha movement in 1919 in protest?
–Enactment of Rowlatt Act
77. Who was the first President of the Indian Trade Union Congress in 1920? –Lala Lajpat Rai
78. ‘Man-The Maker of His Own Destiny’ book was written by which person? –Swami Vivekanand
79. Who was the first governor of Portuguese in India? –De Almeida
80. During which movement was ‘Mahatma’ added before Gandhiji’s name? –Champaran
81. Who is the Father of local self government in India? –Lord Ripon
82. Who introduced Mansabdari system? –Akbar
83. By whom was the Indian Independence League set up? –Rasbihari Bose
84. On which river did Pulakesin II defeat Harshavardhana? –Narmada
85. By whom was the city of Agra founded in 1504? –Sikandar Lodhi
86. Who deciphered Adhikansh Inscriptions for the first time? –James Prinsep Salbai
87. By whom was the practice of Sati was declared illegal? –Lord William Bentick
88. Who was the Governor General when the first Anglo-Burmese was started? –Lord Amherst
89. Who was the first Indian Hindi scholar of the Mughal period? –Abdur Rahim
90. Quit India Movement started after the failure of which proposal? –Cripps' proposal
91. Who wrote the song ‘Saare Jahan Se Acha’? –Muhammad Iqbal
92. When the East India Company came into existence, By whom was England was ruled? –Tudors
93. In which session was 'PURNA SWARAJ' adopted as it's goal by INC? –Lahore Session
94. Who first started the civil services in India? –Lord Cornwallis
95. Attack on ‘chittgaon arsenal’ was done in whose leadership? –Surya Sen
96. Who is associated with Tashkent Agreement? –Lal Bahadur Shastri
97. In which year was the Muslim league founded? –1906
98. In which year did the Congress loose its monopoly of power in the
States for the first time after the elections? –1967
99. In which year Mahatma Gandhi was first arrested during ‘Satyagrah’ –1908
100. Who among the following is the first Englishman to become the president of INC? –George Yule

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