History Solved Questions and Answers for UGC NET Exam | History MCQs Set 3

1 The earliest of the Jain Kalpasutra paintings belongs to which of the following regions ?

2 Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R).

Assertion (A) : Barani writes, ‘Sultan Muhammad Tughlaq talked as if he hated low-born people more than he hated idols, Nevertheless, I have seen him promoting Najba, the low-born son of a musician, to such an extent that he rose higher in status than many maliks, for Gujarat, Multan and Badaon were put in his charge . . . It was strange how he gave high offices and governments of extensive territories and great provinces to men of low and mean birth’.

Reason (R) : The Sultan believed in offices being open to talent. He dispensed with whatever considerations of birth had persisted in the administration and appointed low-born persons to the highest offices in the administration.

In the context of the above two statements which of the following is correct ?

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3 ‘The Sultan invoked Persian monarchical traditions and adjusted them to the Indian milieu. The books Adab us Salatin and Maasir us Salatin, which he had obtained from Baghdad for the instruction of his sons, dealt with the principles of Persian monarchy, which he was eager to imitate in all their details at Delhi.’

Identify the Sultan.

4 Which of the following Sultans ordered that Muslim women were not to come out of their houses or go to visit tombs outside the city of Delhi ?

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(a) Balban

(b) Firuz Tughlaq

(c) Bahlol Lodi

(d) Sikandar Lodi

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5 Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled Reason (R).

Assertion (A) : Balban appointed ‘Khwaja’ to important iqtas to be selected from ‘mutasarrafs’. He was a civil official and dealt with accounts and records.

Reason (R) : The appointment of such an officer by the Sultan on the recommendation of the Wazir suggests the desire on the part of the Sultan to keep an eye on the revenue division and put a check on the activities of the muqtas.

In the context of the above two statements, which of the following is correct ?

6 With regard to Akbar’s nobility, which of the following statements is not correct ?

7 Which of the following statements are correct about Kabir’s compositions ?

(a) The most revered collection of Kabir’s verses by the Kabir Panthis is the collection Bijak, contained in the Adi Granth.

(b) Kabir’s verses in the Panchvani literature composed by the Dadu-Panthis appear to be a little less authentic than the Punjab tradition.

(c) Charlotte Vaudeville argues that the corpus of Kabir in the Adi Granth is ‘free from the Kabir Panthi sectarian element’.

(d) David Lorenzen believes that all the three major collections of Kabir contain interpolations of material from other sources.

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8 Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A), and the other labelled as Reason (R).

Assertion (A) : In the medieval period the dam was as much an index of the value of copper, as the rupee was of silver. Interestingly the regional price variations attained a much greater importance in the case of copper metal than in that of gold or silver.

Reason (R) : The main supplies were from the mines of the northern and eastern slopes of the Aravalli and the Vindhyan ranges. The proximity to these could play a large part in determining the extent of differences in price among various markets.

In the context of the above two statements which of the following is correct ?

9 By an imperial farman which of the following Rajas of Amber was prohibited from using the Makrana marble in his own watan jagir ?

10 His great-grandfather had written an account of many animals, plants and people, but “had not ordered his painters to make pictures of them.”

Identify this royal great grandfather - great grandson pair.

11 Who among the following kept one section of his Library in the harem, where the ladies of the household read out books to him before he went to sleep ?

12 A Mughal emperor showed to the conservative and religious minded persons that the language is not a natural process (Zuban-i Qudrat), but it is a worldly process of learning. To prove his argument, he, through his practical experiment, kept the newly born in a completely secluded place known as Gung Mahal. Name the Mughal Emperor :

13 Which of the following are the characteristics of manuscript illustrations in Akbar-Nama ?

(a) In the Mughal paintings of Akbarnama usually two painters collaborated a single painting.

(b) The sketch and the colouring were usually done by a single painter.

(c) The collaborator used to finish portraits only.

(d) In certain paintings sketching, colouring and portraits are done by three different painters.

14 Which of the following painters were in Jahangir’s court ?

(a) Abdus Samad

(b) Abul Hasan

(c)Ustad Mansur

(d) Mir Sayyid Ali

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15 Which of the following statements are correct ?

(a) Within his own kingdom (Swarajya) Shivaji attempted to build regular administration on the model of Deccan Sultanates. The taxation within it was very light.

(b) Shivaji’s death saw a momentary eclipse of the polity he had founded, as his son Shambhaji was captured and executed by Aurangzeb.

(c) Maratha sardars enlarged their resources by a rigorous collection of Chauth, failing which they subjected the recalcitrant territory to plunder.

(d) Tarabai, the widow of Shivaji’s son, accepted the Mughal suzerainty.

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