RAS/RTS (Pre.) Examination Solved Paper

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Indian History 

(Exam Held on 23-12-2007)

Q.1.The Sikh Kingdom of Punjab was annexed by the English East India Company in ?

1. 1836
2. 1839
3. 1849
4. 1852

Q.2.The Kol Uprising of 1831 started in ?

1. Gujarat
2. Bengal
3. Rajputana
4. Chota Nagpur

Q.3.Who led the Revolt of the Bareilly troops in 1857 ?

1. Kunwar Singh
2. Bakht Khan
3. Azimullah
4. Maulvi Ahmadullah

Q.4.Who among the following leaders of the Revolt of 1857 declared himself to be the Governor of Bahadur Shah ?

1. Nana Sahib
2. Tantia Tope
3. Kunwar Singh
4. Bakht Khan

Q.5.The first Indian Factories  Act was passed in ?

1. 1881
2. 1885
3. 1891 
4. 1894

Q.6.Which of the following was not a consequence of the British Land Revenue Policy in India ?

1. Increasing impoverishment of the peasants
2. Growing peasant indebted-ness
3. The spread of landlordism
4. The ruin of artisan indus-tries

Q.7.The Archaeological Survey of India was set up during the Viceroyalty of ?

1. Lord Lytton
2. Lord Ripon
3. Lord Dufferin
4. Lord Curzon

Q.8.Who was known as "The Grand Old Man of India" ?

1. B.G. Tilak
2. G.K. Gokhale
3. Mahatma Gandhi
4. Dadabhai Naoroji

Q.9.The most important Pre-Con-gress Nationalist Organisation was ?

1. The Indian Association of Calcutta
2. Poona Sarvajanik Sabha
3. Bombay Presidency Asso-ciation
4. The Madras Mahajan Sabha

Q.10.Who among the following was a leader of Prarthana Samaj ?

1. Gopal Hari Deshmukh
2. Vasudeo Balwant Phadke
3. R.G. Bhandarkar
4. G.K. Gokhale

Q.11.All India Women's Conference was founded in ?

1. 1922
2. 1927
3. 1929 
4. 1932

Q.12.Who among the following oppo-sed the Age of Consent Bill of 1891 ?

1. Swami Dayanand
2. Rabindranath Tagore
3. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
4. Surendranath Sen

Q.13.The worst famine in India under the British rule occurred in ?

1. 1860-61
2. 1876-78
3. 1896-97
4. 1899-1900

Q.14.The first textile mill was started in Bombay in the year ?

1. 1853
2. 1855
3. 1866 
4. 1879

Q.15.Abhinava Bharat organised in 1904 was ?

1. a secret society of revolu-tionary activists
2. a newspaper advocating revolutionary activities
3. a cultural organisation
4. a trade union movement

Q.16.A newspaper Al Hilal was brought out in 1912 by ?

1. Dr. M.A. Ansari
2. Hakim Ajmal Khan
3. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
4. Maulana Muhammad Ali

Q.17.The cancellation of the partition of Bengal was announced in ?

1. 1909
2. 1911
3. 1913
4. 1916

Q.18.Who criticised Indians for having lost touch with the rest of the World ?

1. Raja Rammohan Roy
2. Sayyed Ahmad Khan
3. Vivekananda
4. Swami Dayanand

Q.19.All India Harijan Sangh was founded by ?

1. B.R. Ambedkar
2. Mahatma Gandhi
3. Jotiba Phule
4. B.M. Malabari

Q.20.Who among the following was not a leader of militant nationa-lism ?

1. Rajnarain Bose
2. V.S. Chiplunkar
3. Arbindo Ghosh
4. Sasipada Bannerjee

Q.21.Who among the following was the leader of Bihar Kisan Sabha ?

1. Sahajanand Saraswati
2. Baba Ramchandra
3. Vijay Singh Pathik
4. Shraddhanand

Q.22.Who became the Vice-President of the Viceroy's Council in the Interim Government of 1946-47 ?

1. C. Rajagopalachari
2. Dr. Rajendra Prasad
3. Jawahar Lal Nehru
4. M.A. Jinnah

Q.23.Who among the following woman social reformers was called Pandita  ?

1. Gangabai
2. Ramabai
3. Sister Subbalaksmi
4. Annie Besant

Q.24.Who was the leader of No Tax Campaign of the peasants organized in 1928 ?

1. S.A. Dange
2. Baba Ramchandra
3. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
4. Subhash Chandra Bose

Q25.The Second Civil Disobedience Movement was started by Mahatma Gandhi in ?

1. 1928 
2. 1930
3. 1932 
4. 1934

Q.26.An All India Strike by Postal and Telegraph Workers started in ?

1. November, 1945
2. February, 1946
3. July, 1946
4. August, 1946

Q.27.Samhita is ?

1. Collection of hymns
2. Text on grammar
3. Text on Ayurveda
4. Forest treatises

Q.28.Which of the following state-ments is not true about Rigvedic Aryans ?

1. They lived in villages.
2. They did not know gamb-ling.
3. They practised polygamy.
4. Family was the unit of social life.

Q.29.Early Vedic society was organi-sed in ?

1. Janas
2. Jati
3. Rajanya 
4. Sabha

Q.30.Who was the author of Astadh-yayi ?

1. Patanjali
2. Panini
3. Magha
4. Visakhadatta

Q.31.Which of the following metal was not used by the people of the Indus Civilization ?

1. Iron 
2. Bronze
3. Gold
4. Silver

Q.32.Which of the following Harap-pan sites is located in Gujarat ?

1. Banawali
2. Sanghol
3. Mudiala Kalan
4. Surkotada

Q.33.The hallmark of Vedic religion and culture was ?

1. Dhyana
2. Brahmacharya
3. Puja
4. Yajna

Q.34.Under whose patronage was the Sangam literature composed ?

1. Cholas
2. Cheras
3. Pandyas
4. Chalukyas

Q.35.What is the language of the Sangam literature ?

1. Tamil
2. Pali
3. Prakrit 
4. Sanskrit

Q.36.Which of the following ideas is not associated with Buddhism ?

1. Sila
2. Prajna
3. Pitru
4. Dhyana

Q.37.The highest goal in Buddhism is ?

1. Nirvana
2. Madhyama Marga
3. Vinaya
4. Atmavad

Q.38.The Third Buddhist Council was convened at ?

1. Takshasila
2. Sarnath
3. Bodhgaya
4. Pataliputra

Q.39.Who among the following scho-lars wrote "History of Dharam Sastra"  ?

1. D.P. Chattopadhyay
2. P.V. Kane
3. A.S. Altekar
4. D.C. Sarkar

Q.40.Who among the following argued that the Aryans came from Central Asia ?

1. B.G. Tilak
2. Brandenstein
3. William Jones
4. V.A. Smith

Q.41.According to tradition, how many Sangam were held ?

1. Two
2. Three
3. Four 
4. Five

Q.42.Which of the following terms denotes a market centre ?

1. Prasada
2. Nigama
3. Grama
4. Nadi

Q.43.Which of the following denotes a land revenue term ?

1. Vivita
2. Bhaga
3. Sulka
4. Kara

Q.44.Which of the following officers according to Arthasastra was entrusted with the collection of revenue ?

1. Sitadhyaksa
2. Sansthadhyaksa
3. Samahartta
4. Sannidhata

Q.45.Megasthenes divided Indian society into ?

1. Four groups
2. Seven groups
3. Eight groups
4. Twelve groups

Q.46.The Mauryan King Bindusara faced the rebellion of the people of ?

1. Kosala
2. Nalanda
3. Kalinga
4. Takshasila

Q.47.Which sect was initially called Nirgrantha ?

1. Buddhist
2. Jaina
3. Ajivika
4. Pashupata

Q.48.Which of the following is regar-ded as the early Jaina Text ?

1. Sutra Kritang
2. Tripatika
3. Mahavastu-Avdana
4. Avdana Kalpalata

Q.49.Which of the following is a Harappan port ?

1. Alexandria
2. Lothal
3. Mahasthangarh
4. Nagapattanam

Q.50.The commonest term for peasantry in early medieval North India is ?

1. Kutumbin
2. Bhogin
3. Baddhahalika
4. Swami

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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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