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Q.1. C 
Q.2. D
Q.3. (All the four options of the question are not correct.)Khan Bahadur Khan, the successor of the former ruler (Nawab) of Rohilkhand, led the Revolt of the Bareilly troops in 1857.
Q.4.(All the four options of the question are not correct.)Khan Bahadur Khan of Bareilly, declared himself to be the Governor (Nazim) of Bahadur Shah.Nana Sahib declared himself as Peshwa, Kunwar Singh was a Zamindar of Bihar, Tantia Tope was the army-chief of Nana Sahib and Bakht Khan was the army-chief of Bahadur Shah.
Q.5. A
Q.6. D 
Q.7. D
Q.8. D
Q.9. A
Q.10. C
Q.11. B The All India Women's Con-ference (AIWC), one of the oldest voluntary organization in the country was founded in 1927 by Margaret Cousins, an Irish Lady, who had made India her home. AIWC original concern was women’s education but grad-ually it took up various social and economic issues concerning women, such as Purdah, Child Marriage, Traf-ficking, Women’s Property Right etc.
Today, AIWC has over 1,00,000 members in 500 branches all over country. It is recognized as a premier organization working for Women’s Development and Empowerment.
Q.12. C 
Q.13. B 
Q.14. A 
Q.15. A
Q.16. C The Al-Hilal was a news-paper established by Indian leader Maulana Abul Kalam Azad and used as a medium for criticism of the British Raj in India. The newspaper also espoused the cause of the Indian independence movement and exhorted Indian Muslims to join the movement. The newspaper was shut down under the Press Act of 1914.
Q.17. B 
Q.18. C 
Q.19. B 
Q.20. A 
Q.21. A
Q.22. C 
Q.23. B 
Q.24. C 
Q.25. C 
Q.26. B
Q.27. A 
Q.28. B 
Q.29. A
Q.30. B Panini was an ancient Indian grammarian from Gandhara. He is known for his Sanskrit gram-mar, particularly for his formula-tion of the 3,959 rules of Sanskrit morphology in the grammar known as Ashtadhyayi, the foundational text of the gram-matical branch of the vedanga, the auxiliary scholarly discipline of vedic religion. The Ashtadh-yayi is the earliest known gram-mar of Sanskrit, and the earliest known work on descriptive ling-uistics, generative linguistics, and together with the work of his immediate predecessors stands at the beginning of the history of linguistics itself.
Q.31. A
Q.32. D Surkotada is an archaeolo-gical site located in India. It is famous for horse remains dated to ca. 2008 BCE. The site at Surkotada is located 160 km north east of Bhuj, in the District of Kutch, Gujarat.
Q.33. D 
Q.34. C 
Q.35. A 
Q.36. C 
Q.37. A
Q.38. D The third Buddhist Council was convenced in about 250 BCE at Asokarama in Patilputra, under the patronage of Emperor Asoka. The reason for convening the third Buddhist Council is reported to have been to red the sangha of corruption and bogus monks who held heretical views. It was presided over by the Elder Moggaliutta Tissa and one thou-sand monks participated in the Council.
Q.39. B History of Dharmasastra, with subtitle Ancient and Medieval Religious and Civil Law in India, is a monumental five-volume work consisting of around 6,500 pages, and was written by Dr. Pandurang Vaman Kane, an indologist. The first volume of the work was published in 1930 and the last one in 1962. The work is considered as Dr. Kane’s Magnum opus in English.
Q.40. B 
Q.41. D 
Q.42. B 
Q.43. B 
Q.44. C
Q.45. B 
Q.46. D 
Q.47. B 
Q.48. A 
Q.49. B
Q.50. A 
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