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(1) Which one of the following organizations Dr. B.R. Ambedkar did not establish ?
(1) The Independent Labour Party
(2) The Peasants and Worker’s Party
(3) The Scheduled Caste Federation
(4) The Republican Party
Answer: The Peasants and Worker’s Party
(2) Who started the newspaper Bande Mataram with the motto : ‘India for the Indians’ ?
(1) Surendranath Banerjea
(2) Aurobindo Ghosh
(3) Barindranath Ghosh
(4) Bipin Chandra Pal
Answer: Bipin Chandra Pal

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(3) Which social reformer was the first to write an analysis of untouchability in India, entitled Bharatiya Ashprushyatecha Prashna, in 1908 ?
(1) Mahadev Govind Ranade
(2) Sri Narayan Guru
(3) Vitthal Ramji Shinde
(4) Narayan Ganesh Chandavarkar
Answer: Vitthal Ramji Shinde
(4) Arrange the following commissions in a chronological order :

(a) Hunter Commission

(b) Sadler Commission

(c) Kothari Education Commission

(d) Raleigh Commission

Select your answer from the code given below :
(1) (a), (b), (d), (c)
(2) (b), (d), (a), (c)
(3) (d), (a), (c), (b)
(4) (a), (d), (b), (c)
Answer: (a), (d), (b), (c)
(5) In which year, Progressive Writers’ Association (PWA) was inaugurated at Lucknow ?
(1) January 1934
(2) April 1936
(3) January 1937
(4) April 1939
Answer: April 1936
(6) Which artist’s mythological and historical paintings have managed to capture the popular imagination that still survive in the country ?
(1) Abinindranath Tagore
(2) Gaganedranath Tagore
(3) Nandlal Bose
(4) Raja Ravi Verma
Answer: Raja Ravi Verma
(7) With which of the following human ancestors the Middle Palaeolithic culture is associated ?
(1) Anatomically modern humans
(2) Archaic Homo Sapiens
(3) Denisovans
(4) Homo Erectus
Answer: Anatomically modern humans
(8) Which of the following sites has yielded the oldest remains of ostrich egg beads ?
(1) Bhimbetka
(2) Chaturbhuj Nala
(3) Chirand
(4) Patne
Answer: Patne
(9) Which Harappan site excavated in the recent past has yielded the evidence of a terracotta model of plough ?
(1) Allahdino
(2) Banawali
(3) Kuntasi
(4) Rakhigarhi
Answer: Banawali
(10) At which site a seal of Persian Gulf origin has been found ?
(1) Dholavira
(2) Kalibangan
(3) Lothal
(4) Rangpur
Answer: Dholavira
(11) At which site the overlap of Harappan and P G W cultures has been found ?
(1) Atranjikhera
(2) Bhagwanpura
(3) Hastinapur
(4) Ropar
Answer: Bhagwanpura
(12) The Vedic Aryans performed the Sulagava sacrifice to placate which of the following deities ?
(1) Nirriti
(2) Pushan
(3) Rudra
(4) Varuna
Answer: Rudra
(13) The hymns of the IXTH Mandala of Rigveda Samhita are devoted to which deity ?
(1) Agni
(2) Indra
(3) Mitra
(4) Soma
Answer: Soma
(14) Who among the following had authored the ‘Vedanga Jyotisha’ ?
(1) Aryabhata
(2) Brahmagupta
(3) Lagadha
(4) Varahamihira
Answer: Lagadha
(15) Upanayana, the most important of Indian Sansakaras, finds the earliest mention in which Sanhita ?
(1) Rigveda
(2) Yajurveda
(3) Samaveda
(4) Atharvaveda
Answer: Atharvaveda

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