SSC Top 100 Important Questions from Indian History
SSC Top 100 Important Questions from Indian History
100 Important Questions from Indian History for SSC cgl
1. Which of the following Khalji rulers killed his father-in-law to sit on the throne of Delhi?
(A) Alauddin Khalji
(B) Jalaluddin Khalji
(C) Qutubuddin Aibak
(D) none of these
Correct Answer: A
2. What is the most appropriate name for the Indus Civilization?
(A) Indus Valley Civilization
(B) Harappan Civilization
(C) Indus Civilization
(D) none of these
Correct Answer: B
3. Which deity is depicted in the currency of the Indus Civilization?
(A) Proto Shiva
(B) Adi Indra
(C) Prodigy Vishnu
(D) Proto Brahma
Correct Answer: A
4. Who was the greatest king of the Pratihara dynasty?
(A) Nagabhatta
(B) Banquet
(C) Vatsaraja
(D) Dantidurga
Correct Answer: C
5. Which one of the following crops was not produced by the Harappans?
(A) Barley
(B) Wheat
(C) Rice
(D) Pulses
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6. During the reign of which ruler was the Ashtapradhan Council of Ministers?
(A) Tipu Sultan
(B) Krishna Deva Raya
(C) Shivaji
(D) Akbar
Correct Answer: C
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7. To which sect was Chaitanya Mahapurush associated?
(A) Gaudiya sect
(B) Sri Sampradaya
(C) Varkari sect
(D) none of these
Correct Answer : A
8. Mahmud Begada was the famous Sultan of which state?
(A) Malwa
(B) Jaunpur
(C) Khandesh
(D) Gujarat
Correct Answer : D
9. Whose daughter was Razia Sultan?
(A) Iltutmish
(B) Malik Kafur
(C) Nasiruddin
(D) Balban
Correct Answer: A
10. Where is Golconda located?
(A) Bijapur
(B) Chennai
(C) Mysore
(D) Hyderabad
Correct Answer : D
11. Where is the Meenakshi Temple located?
(A) Madurai
(B) Kolkata
(C) Chennai
(D) none of these
Correct Answer: A
12. What was the full name of Sultan Balban of Delhi?
(A) Iltutmish Balban
(B) Jalaluddin Balban
(C) Ghiyasuddin Balban
(D) none of these
Correct Answer: C
13. On the bank of which river is Vijayanagara situated?
(A) Kaveri
(B) Tungabhadra
(C) Wanganga
(D) Krishna
Correct Answer : B
SSC Top 100 Important Questions from Indian History
14. Who was the first ruler of Vijayanagara who made a treaty with the Portuguese?
(A) Harihara
(B) Krishna Deva Raya
(C) Devaraya
(D) Bukka
Correct Answer: B
15. What was the social system of the Harappan people?
(A) Fair egalitarian
(B) caste based
(C) Character-based
(D) none of these
Correct Answer: A
16. Large baths have been found in the Indus civilization.
(A) Harappa
(B) Kalibanga
(C) Mohenjodaro
(D) Lothal
Correct Answer: C
17. Harappan civilization belonged to which era?
(A) Neolithic Age
(B) Palaeolithic Age
(C) Iron Age
(D) Bronze Age
Correct Answer: D
18. Where did the Jallianwala incident take place?
(A) Allahabad
(B) Amritsar
(C) Surat
(D) Lucknow
Correct Answer: B
SSC Top 100 Important Questions from Indian History
19. Which color was commonly used on Harappan pottery?
(A) blue green
(B) blue
(C) Pandu
(D) red
Correct Answer: D
SSC Top 100 Important Questions from Indian History
20. Adi Shankar, who later became Shankaracharya, was born in?
(A) Kashmir
(B) West Bengal
(C) Andhra Pradesh
(D) Kerala
Correct Answer: D
21. By whose teachings were the Bhakti sect spread in Maharashtra?
(A) Sant Tukaram
(B) Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
(C) Sant Dnyaneshwar
(D) none of these
Correct Answer: C
22. Under which of the following dynasty did the climax of Vijarat take place?
(A) Albury
(B) Lodi
(C) Tughlaq
(D) Khilji
Correct Answer: C
23. Who has given a detailed account of the postal system prevalent in the Sultanate period?
(A) Amir Khusro
(B) Ziauddin Barani
(C) Ibn Battuta
(D) Angel
Correct Answer: C
24. During whose reign did most Mongol invasions take place?
(A) Firoz Tughlaq
(B) Balban
(C) Alauddin Khalji
(D) none of these
Correct Answer: C
Explanation :
1. During the reign of Alauddin Khilji, Mongols attacked Delhi the most number of times.
2. First in the year 1299 and then in 1302-03. Alauddin Khilji built a new garrison town called Siri for his troops.
3. The administrative measures of Muhammad Tughlaq failed.
26. In which state is the open museum of Hampi?
(A) Karnataka
(B) Tamil Nadu
(C) Andhra Pradesh
(D) Rajasthan
Correct Answer: A
27. Which sultan wanted to start a new religion but the Ulemas objected?
(A) Balban
(B) Iltutmish
(C) Alauddin Khalji
(D) none of these
Correct Answer: C
28. The ruler of Kashmir, who is known as Akbar of Kashmir, is
(A) Hydershah
(B) Zainul Abidin
(C) Alexander Butshikan
(D) Shamsuddin Shah
Correct Answer: B
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29. Where are the remains of the great empire of Vijayanagara found?
(A) Bijapur
(B) Baroda
(C) Hampi
(D) Golconda
Correct Answer: C
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30. Who built the Charminar?
(A) Tipu Sultan
(B) Oli Qutub Shah
(C) Hyder Ali
(D) Aurangzeb
Correct Answer: B
31. The book ‘Indica’ is written by?
(A) Rakhstha
(B) Samudragupta
(C) Megasthenes
(D) Visakhadatta
Correct Answer: C
32. The first ruler who tried to convey the message to the subjects of the state through his inscriptions?
(A) Chandragupta Maurya
(B) Bindusara
(C) Ashoka
(D) Chandragupta Vikramaditya
Correct Answer: C
33. Who is known as the ‘Meera of South India’
(A) Gawri Bai
(B) Meera Bai
(C) None of these
(D) Devotee to the poetess Andal
Correct Answer: D
100 important questions from Indian history for SSC
34. On 26 December 1846, the supplementary treaty of Bhaironwal was concluded between the Sikhs and which British officer?
(A) Allen Burroughs
(B) Harding
(C) Wellesley
(D) William Bentinck
Correct Answer: B
SSC Top 100 Important Questions from Indian History
35. There are Nagara, Dravida and Vesara.
(A) The three main ethnic groups of the Indian subcontinent
(B) Three main musical houses prevalent in India
(C) Three main language classes into which the languages of India can be divided.
(D) Three main styles of Indian temple architecture
Correct Answer: D
36. During which dynasty was the ‘Vikramshila’ University established?
(A) Pala dynasty
(B) Chola dynasty
(C) Pratihara dynasty
(D) Rashtrakuta dynasty
Correct Answer: A
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37. Which one of the following dances consists of a solo dance?
(A) Kuchipudi
(B) Mohiniyattam
(C) Bharatanatyam
(D) Odyssey
Correct Answer: D
38. The Chapchar Kut festival is celebrated.
(A) Assam
(B) Mizoram
(C) Arunachal Pradesh
(D) Sikkim
Correct Answer: B
39. Which one of the following is the correct chronological order?
(A) Ramanuja-Caitanya-Sankaracharya
(B) Shankaracharya-Caitanya-Ramanuja
(C) Shankaracharya Ramanuja-Caitanya
(D) Ramanuja-Sankaracharya-Caitanya
Correct Answer: C
40. Who were the feudatories of the Guptas?
(A) Kushanas
(B) Mauryas
(C) Satavahana
(D) none of these
Correct Answer: A
41. During whose time was Buddhism clearly divided into two independent sects ‘Hinayana’ and ‘Mahayana’?
(A) Ashoka
(B) Ajatashatru
(C) Kanishk
(D) none of these
Correct Answer: C
42. Which of the following movements began in 1942?
(A) Non-Cooperation movement
(B) Khilafat movement
(C) Quit India Movement
(D) Home Rule movement
Correct Answer: C
Explanation :
The Quit India Movement, also known as the Bharat Chhodo Andolan, was a movement launched at the Bombay session of the All India Congress Committee by Mahatma Gandhi on 9 August 1942, during World War II, demanding an end to British rule in India.
43. Under whose leadership was the all-India Muslim League set up ?
(A) Faisal Khan
(B) Mohmmed Ali Jinnha
(C) Sayyid Ahmed Khan
(D) None of these
Correct Answer: C
44. Who among the following rulers had stamped the figure of Goddess Lakshmi on his coins and had his name inscribed in Nagari Characters?
(A) Muhammad Bin Tughlaq
(B) Iltutmish
(C) Muhammad Ghazni
(D) Muhammad Ghori
Correct Answer: D
45. Rajatarangini, a book that generally recorded the heritage of Kashmir in the 12th Century, was written by:
(A) Lalitapida
(B) Kashyapa
(C) Pravaragupta
(D) Kalhana
Correct Answer: D
46. Alexander the Great invaded India during the rule of?
(A) Ajatshatru
(B) Bimbisara
(C) Mahapadma Nanda
(D) Dhana Nanda
Correct Answer: D
47. In which year, Ashoka invaded Kalinga?
(A) 238 BC
(B) 275 BC
(C) 261 BC
(D) 235 BC
Correct Answer:C
100 important questions from Indian history for SSC CGL
48. Who among the following defeated Muhammad Ghori near Mount Abu?
(A) Bhimdev Solanki – I
(B) Bhimdev Solanki – III
(C) Bhimdev Solanki – II
(D) Vijaya Dav
Correct Answer:C
49. Who was the founder of Nanda dynasty?
(A) Dhanananda
(B) Nandivardhan
(C) Mahapadmananda
(D) Shishunaga
Correct Answer: C
50. Who was the British political agent in Kota at the time of revolt in October 1867?
(A) Richard
(B) Major burton
(C) Pathic lorence
(D) George Lawrence
Correct Answer: B
Explanation :
The political agent of Kota was Major Burton, who reached Kota in October 1857 after quelling the rebellion of Neemuch. On 15 October 1857, a rebellion started in Kota under the leadership of Jaidayal, Mehrab Khan, and Hardayal.
51. whose time Malik Muhammad Jayasi composed ‘Padmavat’?
(A) Akbar
(B) Shah Jahan
(C) Aurangzeb
(D) Sher Shah
Correct Answer: D
100 important questions from Indian history for SSC CGL
52. Who defeated Humayun in the battle of Chausa?
(A) Shivaji
(B) Maharana Pratap
(C) Sher Shah
(D) none of these
Correct Answer: C
53. In which city is Humayun’s tomb?
(A) Delhi
(B) Kabul
(C) Agra
(D) none of these
Correct Answer: A
54. The real name of Mumtaz Mahal?
(A) Arjumand Banu Begum
(B) Roshan Ara
(C) Ladli Begum
(D) none of these
Correct Answer: A
55. The Faizi lived in the court of which of the following?
(A) Dara Shikoh
(B) Bahadur Shah
(C) Akbar
(D) Humayun
Correct Answer: C
56. In which year the Communist Party of India came into existence?
(A) 1912
(B) 1915
(C) 1918
(D) 1925
Correct Answer: D
100 important questions from Indian history for SSC CGL
57. She was the first Muslim woman ruler of India.
(A) Noorjahan
(B) Mirza Altunia
(C) Maham Anga
(D) Razia Sultana
Correct Answer: D
Explanation :
Sultan Raziyyat-Ud-Dunya Wa Ud-Din, popularly known as Razia Sultana, was a ruler of the Delhi Sultanate in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent. She was the first female Muslim ruler of the subcontinent and the only female Muslim ruler of Delhi.
58. Who was the emperor of China at the time of Harshavardhana?
(A) Tejong
(B) Wu Zetian
(C) Ruizong
(D) Gwanjong
Correct Answer: A
59. Which king defeated Harshavardhana?
(A) Pulicator II
(B) Narasimhavarman I
(C) Mahendravarman
(D) Vishnuvardhana
Correct Answer: A
60. Where did the second Jain council take place?
(A) Vallabhi
(B) Vaishali
(C) Pataliputra
(D) Rajgriha
Correct Answer: A