The period before the development of script is called______

(a)

Pre-historic

(b)

Historic

(c)

palaeolithic

(d)

Neolithic

The first Palaeolithic tools were identified in _____

(a)

1860

(b)

1863

(c)

1873

(d)

1883

______________played an important role in improving the method of cultivation.

(a)

Iron

(b)

Bronze

(c)

Copper

(d)

Brass

Read the following and pick out the wrong statement
(i) Kalabhras are referred to as Kaliyarasars
(ii) Kalabhras were Saivites
(iii) Kalabhras defeated Pallavas and Pandyas
(iv) Ikshavakus supported vedic sacrifices

(a)

(i)

(b)

(ii)

(c)

(iii)

(d)

(iv)

Ibn Battutah was a ________ traveller

(a)

Moroccan

(b)

Venetian

(c)

Portuguese

(d)

Chinese

The emblem of the Vijayanagar Kingdom was__________.

(a)

Varaha

(b)

Tiger

(c)

Fish

(d)

Bow

Pudukkottai, a small principality, was a buffer between________.

(a)

Chola and Vijayanagar Kingdoms

(b)

Chola and Pandya Kingdoms

(c)

Chera and Pandya Kingdodms

(d)

Chola and Chera Kingdoms

__________ constructed the Golkonda Fort.

(a)

Raja Krishna Dev

(b)

Sultan Kali Kutub Khan

(c)

Mohammed Gawan

(d)

Bahman Shah

__________was one of the disciples of the Bhakti saint-poet Ramananda.

(a)

Chaitanya

(b)

Ravidas

(c)

Guru Nanak

(d)

Kabir

________was known as 'the blind bard of Agra' at the court of Akbar.

(a)

Surdas

(b)

Tukaram

(c)

Ramananda

(d)

Mirabai

The fiscal administration of Akbar was largely based on the methods of ____________

(a)

Babur

(b)

Humayun

(c)

Sher Shah

(d)

Ibrahim Lodi

____________was the contemporary of Louis XIV of France.

(a)

Akbar

(b)

Jahangir

(c)

Shah Jahan

(d)

Aurangzeb

_______ was the Guru of Shivaji.

(a)

Dadaji Kondadev

(b)

Ramdas

(c)

Tukaram

(d)

Shaji Bhonsale

In the Military organization of Shivaji, the smallest unit was headed by a _____

(a)

Naik

(b)

Havildars

(c)

Bargirs

(d)

Shiledars

____________ was the British Governor-General on the eve of the Second Anglo- Maratha War.

(a)

Lord Cornwallis

(b)

Lord Wellesley

(c)

Lord Hastings

(d)

Lord Dalhousie

_________became the political headquarters for the Portuguese in India

(a)

Goa

(b)

Diu

(c)

Daman

(d)

Surat

______served as the Coromandel headquarters of the Dutch East India Company.

(a)

Karaikal

(b)

Pulicat

(c)

Masulipatnam

(d)

Madras

(i) Albuquerque was the real founder of the Portuguese Empire in India.
(ii) Albuquerque attempted to stop the practice of Sati.

(a)

(i) is correct

(b)

(ii) is wrong

(c)

Both (i) and (ii) are correct

(d)

Both (i) and (ii) are wrong

______________ was passed to regulate the Company affairs in India.

(a)

Regulating Act (1773)

(b)

The Pitt India Act (1784)

(c)

Charter Act (1813)

(d)

Charter Act (1833)

The British officer who ended the menace of Thuggee was ____________

(a)

WilliamAdam

(b)

William Sleeman

(c)

James Holland

(d)

John Nicholson

Velu Nachiyar was the daughter of Raja of_________

(a)

Sivagangai

(b)

Pudhukkotai

(c)

Ramanathapuram

(d)

Palavanatham

_________was the Governor-General of India when the great Rebellian of 1857 broke out.

(a)

Dalhonsie

(b)

Canning

(c)

Minto

(d)

James Andrew Ramsay

"The Father of Indian Renaissance" was________

(a)

Swami Vivekananda

(b)

Swami Vivekananda

(c)

Raja Rammohan Roy

(d)

Atmaram Pandurang

"Back to the Vedas" was the motto of_____________

(a)

Raja Rammohan Roy

(b)

Dayananda Saraswathi

(c)

Vivekananda

(d)

Ramakrishina Paramahamsa

_________was the adherent of Brahmo Samaj in Tamilnadu

(a)

RamalingaAdigal

(b)

Kasi Viswanatha Mudaliar

(c)

Iyotheethoss Pandithar

(d)

Pandita Ramabai