UPPCS-2010

ANSWER SHEET

HISTORY

SNO QUESTION ANS

The credit of the discovery of the first

1 Palaeolith in India which opened the field of B
prehistoric studies in the country, goes to
Which of the following is the most common
2 D
motif of the Indus seals ?
Which of the following Harappan sites are
3 located in Haryana ? .. 1. Banavali .... C
Indicate your answer from the code below :
Which of the following animals have been
4 mentioned in the Rigveda ? .. 1. Cow .... D
Indicate your answer from the code below:
In the Rigveda the first hymn of a Mandala
5 D
is often addressed to :
Ajatsatru has been described in the
6 ?
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad as the ruler of
King Asvapati of the Upanisadic age was the
7 A
ruler of
Which one among the following
8 Tirthankaras was, according to the C
Svetamber tradition a lady ?
Which among the following was the first
9 empire to stretch from sea to sea-from the B
Bay of Bengal to the Arabian Sea ?
In which of the following inscriptions Asoka
10 C
declared some concessions in taxes ?
Assertion (A) : Life scences of Gautam
Buddha are represented in the Sanchi art.
11 C
.... Reason (R) : Sanchi was intimately
connected with the life of Gautam Buddha.
Which of the following book is a Persia
12 rendering of an Arabi work on the history of B
Ara conquest of Sindh by Mohd. B. Qasim ?
Assertion (A) : Yajna Satakarni introduced
the motif of ship on his coins. .... Reason
13 A
(R) : Satavahana Kingdom had brisk
maritime trade with distant countries.
 Assertion (A) : Like Buddha, a Jain
Tirthankara is depicted on some Kushan
14 D
coins. .... Reason (R) : Mathura was a great
centre of Jainism during the Kushan period.
Who among the following Gupta King
15 ascended the throne in the year 56 of B
Gupta era ?
Who among the following Gupta Kings had
16 C
another name Devagupta ?
Which one of the following was the biggest
17 B
hoard of Gupta coins ?
Who among the following rulers of Later
18 Gupta dynasty was a contemporary of C
Harsa ?
The title of Srivallabha was the characeristic
19 B
of

20 Harsa assumed the title D

Assertion (A) : Hiuen Tsany spent about

two years in Kashmir in the pursuit of
21 Buddhist texts. .... Reason (R) : Kashmir A
was a renowned centre of Buddhist learning
at that time.
The Temple of Angokar Wat in Cambodia
22 D
was dedicated to
Who among the following is known to have
23 regulated the course of Vitasta in Kashmir D
by his engineering operations ?
Who among the following founded a
24 teaching-institution called Saraswati C
Mandira at Ajmer ?

25 In which regnal year Asoka visite Lumbini ? C

Who is the propounder of the theory that

26 the Rigvedic Aryans and the Harappans ?
might have been the same people ?
The dockyard at Lothal was well connected
27 B
with the river

What is Kalyan Mitra in Buddhist

28 ?
philosophy ?

How many of the sixteen Mahajanapadas

29 ?
were situated in the Ganga valley ?
From which of the following regions the
30 remains of Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and C
Neolithic cultures have been found in a
 sequence ?

Which one of the fourt 'Noble Truths' of

31 Buddhism explains the theory of 'Pratitya B
Sumutpada' ?

32 Pataliputra was founded by C

33 In which Indian State Inamgam is located ? C

Which of the following early Harappan sites

34 A
has been the evidence of fortification ?

To whom of his following disciples did

35 A
Buddha preach his last sermon ?
Who among the following said that
36 Chandragupta Maurya overran and subdued C
the whole of India with an army of six lacs ?
At which one of the sites, the cultivation of
37 wheat and barley is noticed first from A
Neolithic level ?
Who among the following Rashtrakut rulers
38 B
adopted Sallekhana ?
From which of the following places
39 archaeological remains of a Roman Colony D
have been discovered ?
Who among the following was the Governor
40 A
of Surashtra during the reign of Asoka ?
Which one of the following places has been
41 referred by Arab travellers as the House of A
Gold ?
What was the nationality of Macro Polo who
42 visited India in the last decade of 13th C
century ?
Most authoritative account of Malik Kafur's
43 A
Deccan campaign is given by
The Srivijaya ruler, who completed the
construction of the Buddhist Vihar started
44 C
by his father of Nagapattan during the reign
of Rajaraja I, was
Which one of the following Chola rulers had
45 persecuted Ramanuja and ousted him from A
his kingdom ?
Timur was so impressed by the buildings of
Delhi, that he carried a number of
46 C
architects, masons and craftsman along
with him, to build similar buildings at his
 capital in

Which one of the following is not correctly

47 B
matched ? .. (a) Madana Varma-Chandel
Which of the following Sufi text was written
48 at Lahore during the first half of the ?
Eleventh century ?
Which one of the following Sultans had
49 D
close contact with the Jain scholars ?

The difference between 'gaz-i-Sikandari'

50 A
and 'gaz-i-Ilahi' was
Who among the following historians had
51 accompanied Alauddin Khalji in his Deccan C
campaign ?

52 Nizamuddin Junaidi was vazier of C

Amir Khusrau wrote his famous masanavi

53 A
'Ashiqa' on the order of

Who among the following Sufis has called

54 D
India a 'paradise on earth' ?
Which one of the following pairs is correctly
55 D
matched : .. (a) Alberuni-Tajul Maasir
Important aspect of the Turkish conquest of
56 North India was the Urban revolution." Who B
made this statement ?
What was the share of the State in the
57 agricultural production in the land revenue D
system of Shivaji ?
Who among the following Maratha officer
58 B
looked after the revenue department ?
Which one of the following is an octagonal
59 D
tomb ?

Which one of the following has written that

60 C
Baber died of poisoning ?
Which one of the following painters was
61 D
appointed Diwan of Multan by Akbar ?

Which one of the following is correctly

62 C
matched ? .. (A) Barbek-Accounts
What was the duty of 'Gurunawis' or
63 A
'Chitnis' under the 'Astta Pradhan' system ?
 Which two of the following foreign travellers
came during the reign of Krishna Deva Raya
64 and were Portuguese ? .... 1. Nicolo Conti .. ?
Find the correct answer from the code given
below :
Which one of the following is not true about
65 B
the Mughal Mansabdari system ?
Which one of the following was the choice
66 of Prime Minister Mir Khalifa as Babar's B
successor instead of Humayun ?
Which one of the following was the first
67 ruler of Vijaynagar to have employed D
Turkish bowmen ?
As a Subedar of Deccan, for his second
term, whose assistance did Aurangzeb take
68 A
in implementing Todarmal's revenue
reforms in this region ?
The leaders of Mahdawi movement in India
69 namely Shaikh Abdullah Niyazi and Shaikh ?
Alai were presented during the reign of
The term 'Amaram' in the Vijaynagar
70 B
Empire stood for
What was the rank of Mansab granted to Bir
71 Singh Deo Bundela on Jahangir's accession ?
?
Which of the following two sons were sent
by Khurram to Jahangir's Court in
72 A
accordance with the terms of surrender
after his revolt ?
Which one of the following is the correct
73 ?
definition of the term 'vajeh' ?
Read the following events connected with
Akbar's reign and find the correct
74 B
chronological order of the events from the
code given below : .... 1. Uzbeg rebellion
Match List-I with List-II and select the
correct answer by using the codes given
75 B
below the lists. List-I (A) Feb. 1658 .... List-
II 1. Battle of Dharmat
The land which was kept reserved for the
76 ?
assignment of land revenue was known as

Which one of the following was the founder

77 B
of Solanki dynasty of Gujarat ?

78 Which sects of Sufis adopted Yoga ? C

Which one of the following Mughal Generals

79 B
was not sent by Shahjahan against the
 Bundelas ?

Who among the following emperors had the

80 highest number of Deccani amirs in his D
army ?
In the beginning the motive of British East
81 B
India Company was
Who of the following was not amongst the
82 members of Governor General's Council D
named in the Regulating Act, 1773 ?
Which of the following European wars flared
83 B
up the First Carnatic Wars in India ?

Who signe the Treaty of Pune on the 13th

84 D
June, 1817 ?
Which one of the following statements is
85 ?
not correct about Tipu Sultan ?
After his defeat in the Battle of Plassey
Siraj-ud-daula fled from the battlefield.
86 ?
Which one of the following carriers he used
?
Which one of the following poets had said
87 the Battle of Plassey was 'A Night of Eternal ?
Gloom' ?
State the sector/sectors where highest
88 amount of British capital was invested in B
India.
In which of the following Sessions of the
89 Indian National Congress the resolution of D
Swadeshi was adopted ?
In which of the following Sessions of Indian
90 National Congress "drain thoery" was D
formally accepted ?
Who of the following had said about the
utility of Railway in British India "Railway
91 D
had to utility for British India, it is like
ornamenting the others's wife" ?
Which of the following was not amongst the
92 D
merits of the permanent settlement ?
Who of the following had produce for the
93 first time statistical estimate of average per ?
capita income of India ?
Kamiauti' system prevalent in Bihar and
94 ?
Orissa meant
The 'Filtration Theory' in educational policy
95 B
of India was propagated by
 Arrange the correct chronological order the
revolt against the British and find the
96 A
correct answer from the code given below :
... (A) Ascetic Revolt-1855-56
Rahnumai Mazdayasan Samaj' is associated
97 B
with

98 The Journal 'Bengal Gazette' was A

In which of the following years the

99 D
Vernacular Press Act was passed ?
Which one of the following Governor
Generals was conversant with Arabic,
100 ?
Persian and Bengali languages besides
English ?
Who said, Bentinck infused into oriented
101 ?
despotism the spirit of British freedom." ?
Which one of the following was the
inspiration behind the young Bengal
102 D
Movement in the first half of the 19th
century ?
In which of the following year Enfield Rifle
103 D
was introduced in India ?
Where did Mangal Pandey for the first time
learn from a Laskhar that cartridges to be
104 B
used in Enfield Rifle were greased from the
fat of cow and pork ?
Which one of the following policies was
105 adopted by the British towards native D
States after the revolt of 1857 ?
Which one of the following was not the
106 D
consequence of the revolt of 1857 ?
Asbab-i-Baghawai-i-Hind was the first book
by an Indian and in an Indian languages on
107 A
the causes of the revolt of 1857. It was
written by
Which one of the following is not a
108 D
movement led by Mahatama Gandhi ?
Which one of the following had presided
109 over the Surat Session of Indian National A
Congress, 1907 ?
Which one of the following statement about
110 D
Subhas Chandra Bose is not correct ?
Which one of the following is correctly
111 matched ? .. (A) Shyamji Krishna Verma : A
Indian Home Rule Society
 Tuhafat-ul-Muwahidin', a tract written by
112 A
Ram Mohan Roy is
Which one of the following commandments
was not prescribed by Mahatma Gandhi in
113 D
his message to the people during the Quit
India Movement before his arrest ?
On which of the following fleet the naval
114 D
revolt of 1946 was started ?
Which one of the following Acts had
115 introduced the separate electorate for C
Muslims ?
Match List-I with List-II and select the
correct answer by using the codes given
116 below the lists. List-I (Persons) (A) Baba A
Ram Singh .... List-II (Movements) 1. Satya
Mahima Dharma
On 23 January, 1948 who said about
Subhas Chandra Bose, "We should emulate
him ............ Subhash was a great patriot.
117 ?
He laid down his life for the country. He had
no use for Parochialism or caste distinction.
He treated all alike" ?
Which one of the following statements is
118 D
not correct about Shyamji Krishna Verma ?

How many countries participated in the first

119 D
NAM submit held in Belgrade ?
Under which Five Year Plan was the
120 Community Development Programme D
launched ?