History Solved Questions and Answers for UGC NET Exam | History MCQs Set 4

1 Although taken aback by the beauty of Kashmir and its gardens, which of the following emperors decreed in his 6TH regnal year that no king should visit there unless on military or administrative business, as he believed that the pursuit of pleasure was inadequate reason for going to Kashmir ?

2 Arrange the following monuments in chronological order :

(a) Char Minar - Hyderabad

(b) Humayun’s Tomb - Delhi

(c) Tomb of Sher Shah Suri - Sasaram

(d) Gol Gumbaz - Bijapur

Select the correct answer from the code given below :

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

Assertion (A) : Guru Amardas followed previous practice in appointing his successor.

Reason (R) : The sucession of Guruship was conferred by him on his son-in-law Ram Das and his descendants, thereby making Guruship hereditary.

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

4 After storming Sirhind, Banda Bahadur adopted the title of Padshah, started a new calendar and issued coins bearing the names of which Gurus ?

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

Assertion (A) : Akbar was keen to extend operation of measurement and realise revenue in cash. In this regard he was uncompromising and over strict.

Reason (R) : While Akbar’s these reforms were being carried out under the guidance of Shah Mansur and Todar Mal, mutiny broke out in Bihar and Bengal.

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

6 “Of all the sovereigns of the house of Taimur, nay of all the sovereigns of Delhi no one since Sikandar Lodi has ever been apparently so distinguished for devotion, austerity and justice as him.”

In the above passage Khafi Khan is applauding the justice of which of the following Mughal emperors ?

7 Which one of the following was not a factor for La Bourdonnais to defy Dupleix in giving back Madras to the English East India Company ?

8 Which legislation for the first time used the term ‘Scheduled Castes ?

9 Which British official had written about the uncertain land conditions prevailing in northern India that, “.... in the landed property of the country a very extensive and melancholy revolution” had been affected ?

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

Assertion (A) : Some of the peasant rebellions in pre-1857 India were participated exclusively by the tribal population whose political autonomy and control over local resources were threatened by the policies of the British rule.

Reason (R) : In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the revenue reform of the company’s government had fundamentally affected and altered the Indian rural society.

In the context of these statements which of the following is correct ?

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11 Who among the following was not an eminent Orientalist ?

12 Which one of the following Muslim thinkers persuaded the Ulamas in India to work for Independence in cooperation with the Indian National Congress ?

13 Which one of the following statements regarding the ideas propagated by Jyotiba Phule is not correct ?

14 Which one of the following Governor Generals earned the epithet of ‘clemency’ ?

15 Whose ‘open letters’ on Indian economy to Lord Curzon forced the British Indian government to publish an official rebuttal and also initiate reformatory economic measures ?