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Akash IAS Academy Books Objective for Students
Assertion (A): By 1750 the Maratha kingdom had become a Confederacy presided over by the Peshwa. Reason (R): The successors of Shahu depended on the will of the Peshwa. Code
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true
Option a – Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
Which of the following Mughal Emperors granted duty-free trading facilities to the English in Bengal?
(A) Akbar
(B) Jahangir
(C) Bahadur Shah
(D) Farrukh Siyar
Option d – Farrukh Siyar
Arrange the following in the chronological order of their rule. 1. Bajirao 2. Balaji Bajirao 3. Balaji Vishwanath 4. Madhavrao Select the correct answer using the code given below. Code
(A) 4, 3, 1, 2
(B) 1, 2, 3, 4
(C) 3, 1, 2, 4
(D) 2, 1, 4, 3
Option c – 3, 1, 2, 4
The ‘Modi script’ was employed in the documents of the
(A) Wodeyars
(B) Zamorins
(C) Hoysalas
(D) Marathas
Option d – Marathas
Which of the following pair (tax during Maratha rule in C.G. and its meaning) is not correctly matched?
(A) Takoli: Annual tribute from the Zamindars
(B) Sair: Tax on the sales of goods
(C) Pandari: Tax collected from non-agriculturists
(D) Tarai: Tax collected on irrigation
Option d – Tarai: Tax collected on irrigation
Assertion (A): In matters of State Shivaji was advised by a Council of Ministers. Reason (R): Each minister held an independent charge of his department. Code
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true
Option c – (A) is true, but (R) is false
The Third Battle of Panipat was fought in the year
(A) 1526 A.D.
(B) 1761 A.D.
(C) 1556 A.D.
(D) 1857 A.D.
Option b – 1761 A.D.
Who of the following Rohilla Chiefs was the confidant of Ahmad Shah Abdali?
(A) Ghulam Qadir Rohilla
(B) Najib Khan
(C) Ali Muhammad Khan
(D) Hafiz Rahmat Khan
Option b – Najib Khan
Which among the following King’s reigns Persian traveller ‘Abdul Razzaq’ came to India?
(a) Deva Raya I
(b) Krishna Deva Raya I
(c) Deva Raya II
(d) Krishna Raya II
Option c – Deva Raya II
Who gave this statement about Vijaynagar Empire during the first half of the 15th century “the circumference of the city is sixty miles, its walls are seen to be touching to mountains and enclose to the valley at their feet”?
(a) Abdul Razzaq
(b) Nuniz
(c) Ferishta
(d) Nicolo de-Conti
Option d – Nicolo de-Conti
Who among the following travellers was from Italy and visited the Vijayanagar Kingdom in the fifteenth century?
(a) Nikitin
(b) Fa-Hien
(c) Bernier
(d) Nicolo Conti
Option d – Nicolo Conti
The Sultanates of the Deccan combined in 1565, to inflict a crushing defeat on the ruler of Vijayanagar. The king of Vijayanagar at the time of this so-called battle of Talikota was
(a) Rama Raya
(b) Tirumala
(c) Venkata I
(d) Sadashiva Raya
Option d – Sadashiva Raya
The Battle of Talikota was fought between
(a) Akbar and the Sultan of Malwa.
(b) Vijayanagara and the Bahmani Kingdom
(c) Vijayanagara and combined forces of Bijapur, Ahmadnagar and Golconda.
(d) Sher Shah and Humayun.
Option c – Vijayanagara and combined forces of Bijapur, Ahmadnagar and Golconda
After the defeat at the battle of Talikota, the capital of the Vijayanagara Empire was shifted to
(a) Penu Konda
(b) Chandragiri
(c) Hampi
(d) Nagalapura
Option a – Penu Konda
Who laid the foundation of the Aravidu dynasty?
(a) Tirumala
(b) Venkata I
(c) Rama Raya
(d) Ali Adilshah
Option a – Tirumala
Who among the following was the last dynasty of the Vijayanagara Empire?
(a) Saluva dynasty
(b) Tuluva dynasty
(c) Aravidu dynasty
(d) Sangama dynasty
Option c – Aravidu dynasty
Who was Nicolo Conti?
(a) A famous painter
(b) An Italian traveller who visited Vijayanagara Empire
(c) A Portuguese traveller
(d) A Persian traveller
Option b – An Italian traveller who visited Vijayanagara Empire
The remains of the Vijayanagara Empire can be found in
(a) Bijapur
(b) Golconda
(c) Hampi
(d) Baroda
Option c – Hampi
Name the foreign traveller who visited the Vijayanagara Empire after the battle of Talikota.
(a) Abdur Razzaq
(b) Ceasar Frederick
(c) Nicolo Conti
(d) Nuniz
Option b – Ceasar Frederick
Which one of the following pairs of travellers and their nationality is not correctly matched?
(a) Ibn Battuta – Moroccan
(b) Duarte Barbosa – Portuguese
(c) Jean Baptiste Tavernier – Dutch
(d) Niccolo Manucci – Venetian
Option c – Jean Baptiste Tavernier – Dutch
Which one of the following statements regarding King Krishnadeva Raya is not correct?
(a) He was a great scholar of Telugu and Sanskrit.
(b) Foreign travellers Paes and Nuniz visited his court.
(c) Barbosa praised him for the great justice and equity prevailing in his empire.
(d) He wrote his magnum opus Amuktamalyada in Sanskrit.
Option d – He wrote his magnum opus Amuktamalyada in Sanskrit
Which of the following is true about Krishnadeva Raya?
(a) He was known as Andhra Bhoja.
(b) He authored the ‘Amuktamalyada’ book on polity in Telugu and also a Sanskrit drama called ‘Jambavati Kalyanam’.
(c) His court has adorned by eight celebrated poets called ‘ashtadiggajas’
(d) All of the above
Option d – All of the above
After the demise of Krishnadeva Raya who succeeded to the throne of Vijayanagara in 1529?
(a) Achyuta Deva Raya
(b) Sadasiva Raya
(c) Rama Raya
(d) Praudha Raya
Option a – Achyuta Deva Raya
The Tiruvengalanatha temple was built at Vijayanagara during the reign of
(a) Achyuta Deva Raya
(b) Vira Narasimha Raya
(c) Krishna Deva Raya
(d) Deva Raya II
Option a – Achyuta Deva Raya
The Vijayanagara Empire received its death blow at the battle of
(a) Talikota in 1565
(b) Panipat in 1661
(c) Talikota in 1665
(d) Raichur in 1510
Option a – Talikota in 1565
The ruling period of Krishnadeva Raya was the golden age of which literature?
(a) Konkani
(b) Malayalam
(c) Tamil
(d) Telugu
Option d – Telugu
Who were the ‘Ashtadiggajas’ in the court of Krishnadeva Raya?
(a) Eight Ministers
(b) Eight Telugu Poets
(c) Eight great warriors
(d) Eight advisors
Option b – Eight Telugu Poets
‘Ashtadiggajas’ were patronised by
(a) Deva Raya I
(b) Deva Raya II
(c) Vira Narasimha
(d) Krishna Deva Raya
Option d – Krishna Deva Raya
Krishnadeva Raya’s Amuktamalyada is a work on
(a) his political ideas.
(b) public administration.
(c) administration of justice and foreign affairs.
(d) All of the above
Option d – All of the above
Which member of the astadiggajas wrote ‘Pandurangamahatyam’?
(a) Tenali Ramakrishna
(b) Nandi Timmava
(c) Madayya
(d) Dhurajati
Option a – Tenali Ramakrishna
Who was given the title of Andhra Kavita-Pitamaha?
(a) Sayan
(b) Madhav
(c) Srinath
(d) Peddana
Option d – Peddana
Which plan became the platform of Indian Independence?
(A) Cripps Plan
(B) Wavell Plan
(C) Mountbatten Plan
(D) None of the above
Option c – Mountbatten Plan
The Mountbatten Plan became the basis for
(A) the Continuity of British Rule
(B) the Transfer of power
(C) the Partition of the country
(D) the Solution to communal problems
Option c – the Partition of the country
Mountbatten Plan (June 1947) provided for a referendum in which of the following province(s)?
(A) Sindh
(B) Baluchistan
(C) North-West Frontier Province
(D) All of the above
Option d – All of the above
The British Government decided and declared to leave India by June 1948 in
(A) 1946
(B) February 1947
(C) April 1947
(D) June 1947
Option b – February 1947
The British Monarch at the time of Indian Independence was
(A) George V
(B) George VI
(C) King Edward VII
(D) None of the above
Option b – George VI
Which one of the following parties was in power in the U.K. when India got independence?
(A) Conservative Party
(B) Labour Party
(C) Liberal Party
(D) Socialist Party
Option b – Labour Party
Who was the Prime Minister of England when India attained independence?
(A) Winston Churchill
(B) Clement Attlee
(C) Harold Mc Millan
(D) None of the above
Option b – Clement Attlee
Lord Mountbatten came to India as a Viceroy along with specific instructions to
(A) Balkanize the Indian sub-continent
(B) Keep India United if possible
(C) Accept Jinnah’s demand for Pakistan
(D) Persuade the Congress to accept the partition
Option b – Keep India United if possible
‘Super Rice’ was developed by
(A) M.S. Swaminathan
(B) G.S. Khush
(C) N.E. Borlaug
(D) P.K. Gupta
Option b – G.S. Khush
Which one of the following is the primary sector of India’s economy?
(A) Agriculture
(B) Industry
(C) Cooperative
(D) None of these
Option a – Agriculture
The prices at which the government purchases grains for maintaining the public distribution system and for building up buffer stock are known as
(A) Minimum Support Prices
(B) Procurement Prices
(C) Issue Prices
(D) Ceiling Price
Option a – Minimum Support Prices
Indian agriculture has the following features. 1. Dependence of agriculture on the monsoons 2. Abolition of zamindari 3. Absence of trade unions in the agricultural sector 4. The heavy pressure of population on land Which of the above is responsible for disguised unemployment in agriculture?
(A) Only 1
(B) Only 1 and 2
(C) Only 1, 2, and 3
(D) Only 4
Option d – Only 4
India disguised unemployment is found in
(A) Agricultural Sector
(B) Industrial Sector
(C) Service Sector
(D) Trade Sector
Option a – Agricultural Sector
(A) Commercial Banks
(B) Micro Finance Institution
(C) Regional Rural Banks
(D) Co-operative Banks
Option a – Commercial Banks
Which among the following is providing the least institutional credit to agriculture and allied activities in recent years?
(A) Commercial Banks
(B) Foreign Private Banks
(C) Co-operative Banks
(D) Regional Rural Banks
Option b – Foreign Private Banks
Yellow Revolution is concerned with the production of
(A) Food grains
(B) Fish
(C) Oil seeds
(D) Milk
Option c – Oil seeds
The term ‘Evergreen Revolution’ has been used for increasing agricultural production in India by
(A) Norman Borlaug
(B) M.S. Swaminathan
(C) Raj Krishna
(D) R.K.V. Rao
Option b – M.S. Swaminathan
The Rolling Plan’ for backward countries was suggested by
(A) G. Myrdal
(B) W.A. Lewis
(C) R. Nurkse
(D) A. Samuelson
Option a – G. Myrdal
Consider the following statements about the ‘Rolling plan’ it is 1. A plan for a single year. 2. A plan that is determined for 3, 4, or 5 years. 3. Reviewed every year according to the necessities of the economy. 4. A pre-requisite plan for 10, 15, or 20 years of these. Choose the correct answer from the codes given below. Code
(A) Only 1 and 2
(B) Only 1 and 3
(C) Only 2 and 3
(D) 1, 2, 3 and 4
Option d – 1, 2, 3 and 4
The core slogan of the Seventh Plan was
(A) Food, work, and productivity
(B) Free education for all children
(C) a Five percent growth rate of national income
(D) a Community development program
Which one of the following Five Year Plans recognized human development as the core of all development efforts?
(A) The Third Five-Year Plan
(B) The Fifth Five-Year Plan
(C) The Sixth Five-Year Plan
(D) The Eighth Five-Year Plan
Option d – The Eighth Five-Year Plan
Which Five-Year Plan operated in India from April 1992 to March 1997?
(A) Sixth Plan
(B) Seventh Plan
(C) Eighth Plan
(D) Rolling Plan
Option c – Eighth Plan
Which Five-Year Plan in India gave emphasis on cooperative Federalism?
(A) Ninth Five-Year Plan
(B) Tenth Five-Year Plan
(C) Eleventh Five-Year Plan
(D) Twelfth Five-Year Plan
Option a – Ninth Five-Year Plan
The Five Year Plan that terminated one year before the scheduled period is
(A) Second Five-Year Plan
(B) Third Five-Year Plan
(C) Fourth Five-Year Plan
(D) Fifth Five-Year Plan
Option d – Fifth Five-Year Plan
In which one of the years ‘Rolling Plan’ was in operation in India?
(A) 1968-69
(B) 1978-79
(C) 1988-89
(D) 1990-91
Option b – 1978-79
The Plan Holiday refers to the period
(A) 1955-68
(B) 1965-68
(C) 1966-69
(D) 1978-80
Option c – 1966-69
Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh of Jaipur had not built the observatory at
(A) Ujjain
(B) Varanasi
(C) Mathura
(D) Allahabad
Option d – Allahabad
Where constructed observatories by Maharaja Jai Singh-II? 1. Delhi 2. Jaipur 3. Ujjain 4. Varanasi Code
(A) Only 1 and 2
(B) Only 1 and 3
(C) Only 2 and 3
(D) 1, 2, 3 and 4
Option d – 1, 2, 3 and 4
Who was the last Mughal emperor of India?
(A) Aurangzeb
(B) Bahadur Shah Zafar
(C) Shah Alam
(D) Shah Jahan
Option b – Bahadur Shah Zafar
Which one of the following statements is not correct about Bahadur Shah Zafar?
(A) He was an emperor without an empire
(B) Ibrahim Zauq and Asad Ullah Khan Ghalib were his poetry teachers
(C) Hasan Askari was his spiritual guide
(D) He received less than one lakh rupees as a pension from the East India Company
Option d – He received less than one lakh rupees as a pension from the East India Company
Who among the following was the first Nawab of Awadh?
(A) Asaf-ud-Daula
(B) Saadat Khan
(C) Shuja-ud-Daula
(D) Safdarjung
Option b – Saadat Khan
Who among the following was the founder of the independent Kingdom of Hyderabad?
(A) Qamaruddin Khan
(B) Muhammad Amir Khan
(C) Asad Khan
(D) Chin Qilich Khan
Option d – Chin Qilich Khan
Among the following who had constructed an astronomical observatory popularly known as Jantar-Mantar at Delhi?
(A) Akbar
(B) Shah Jahan
(C) Suraj Mal
(D) Jai Singh II
Option d – Jai Singh II
(A) Darbar Jaswant Singh of Jodhpur
(B) Raja Bharmal of Amber
(C) Swai Jai Singh of Jaipur
(D) Maharana Amar Singh of Udaipur
Option c – Swai Jai Singh of Jaipur
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