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UGC NET December 2012 History — Solved Previous Year Questions

UGC NET · History — 125 previous year questions, each with the answer and an explanation.

1. Match List I (Revolutionary) with List II (Organization or event) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: B
2. Which of the following districts constituted the Northern Circars in the Madras Presidency? · Ans: C
3. The aim of the Cripps Mission was · Ans: B
4. Who wrote 'Planned Economy for India'? · Ans: B
5. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R). Select the correct answer from the codes below. · Ans: D
6. Arrange the following wars in chronological order and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
7. Arrange the following in chronological order and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: D
8. Match List I (Organization or journal) with List II (Associated person) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: C
9. Arrange the following in chronological order and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: D
10. Which law under the British regime allowed people to be imprisoned without a due trial? · Ans: A
11. The beginning of the Great Depression is related to · Ans: C
12. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R). Select the correct answer from the codes below. · Ans: B
13. Who was the first President of Fort William of Calcutta? · Ans: A
14. Match List I (Newspaper or journal) with List II (Associated person) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
15. Match List I (Leader) with List II (Congress session presided over) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: B
16. Which of the following statements about the activities of the Portuguese traders in India during the early sixteenth century is not correct? · Ans: A
17. The view that Vijayanagara exhibited 'proto-patrimonialism' was expressed by · Ans: B
18. Match List I (Foreign traveller) with List II (Ruler) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: D
19. Consider the following statements about the Jaziya tax in the Mughal period. Which of these are correct? · Ans: C
20. Arrange the following events of Akbar's reign in chronological order and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: C
21. Arrange the following Nanda kings in chronological order and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: B
22. Who among the following painters were considered by Jahangir as masters without rival in their particular spheres? Select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: B
23. Select the incorrect answer from the following statements. · Ans: D
24. Which of the following States of North-East India was or were invaded by the Mughals? Select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: C
25. Arrange the following names in chronological order and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: B
26. Match List I (Book) with List II (Author) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
27. Match List I (Dynasty) with List II (Temple) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
28. Match List I (Book) with List II (Author) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
29. Match List I (Founder of a theory) with List II (Theory of Rajput origin) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: B
30. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R). Select the correct answer from the codes below. · Ans: B
31. The Sultan Ghari was built as the mausoleum of · Ans: D
32. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R). Select the correct answer from the codes below. · Ans: D
33. Match List I (Sufi terminology) with List II (Meaning) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: C
34. Which one of the following States was not a nation state in the seventeenth century? · Ans: B
35. Excavations at the sites of places mentioned in the Mahabharata are related to which one of the following cultures? · Ans: C
36. Who separated the office of the Wali and the Amir? · Ans: D
37. Which one of the following places is not associated with a mature Harappan settlement? · Ans: D
38. The remark that the pivot of the Kingdom of Delhi rests on wheat and barley, while the Sultanate of Gujarat rests on corals and pearls, is attributed by the author of the Mirat-i-Sikandari to · Ans: B
39. Recently, at which place was a broken relief sculpture of King Ashoka discovered? · Ans: A
40. Match List I (Name of coin) with List II (Kingdom in which it circulated) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: B
41. In which Buddhist scripture have the religious practices in the contemporary period of the Buddha been mentioned? · Ans: D
42. Which of the following statements about Sultan Zainul Abidin of Kashmir is not true? · Ans: D
43. Which one of the following is not an anthology of Sangam literature? · Ans: B
44. Match List I (Foreign account) with List II (Translator or editor) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
45. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R). Select the correct answer from the codes below. · Ans: A
46. Match List I (Author) with List II (Work) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
47. In which year was the first English edition of the Arthashastra by R. Shamasastry brought out? · Ans: B
48. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: C
49. In which one of the following places is the centre of stone tool manufacture found? · Ans: C
50. Match List I (Veda) with List II (Recension) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
51. As per the source, the first President of the All India Congress Socialist Party was · Ans: D
52. Which commission was entrusted with the task of demarcating the boundary line of India and Pakistan in 1947? · Ans: B
53. The first Indian princely state to sign the Instrument of Accession to join the Indian Union was · Ans: C
54. Match List I (Historiography) with List II (Its description) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: D
55. Who among the following historians is well known for his contributions to subaltern studies? · Ans: C
56. The 'Freedom Charter' was adopted by the Congress of the People in the year · Ans: C
57. What was not the aim of the 'Suppression of Communism Act' passed by the racist regime of South Africa? · Ans: B
58. The first ever democratic elections in South Africa were won by Nelson Mandela in the year · Ans: C
59. The government headed by Nelson Mandela was known as · Ans: B
60. The Arya Samaj movement believed in · Ans: D
61. Which foreign journalist reported about the British brutality perpetrated against the peaceful Satyagrahis at the Dharasana Salt Depot during the Civil Disobedience Movement? · Ans: A
62. Who was the first President of the All India Depressed Classes Association? · Ans: D
63. The resignation by the Congress-led ministries on 1st November 1939 was celebrated by the Muslim League as · Ans: C
64. The principle that 'Paramountcy is paramount', to define the relations of the Indian States with the British Government, was declared by which Commission? · Ans: C
65. The Governor General who visited Allahabad to review the working of the Mahalwari land revenue system was · Ans: A
66. The land revenue demand under the Ryotwari in Madras was finally fixed to fifty percent of the rental and the settlement was made for thirty years in the year · Ans: C
67. The policy of tariff holiday was practised by the British during · Ans: C
68. The worrisome aspect of the drain of wealth in the late nineteenth century, according to Dadabhai Naoroji, was · Ans: B
69. The Scheme of Local Finance was introduced by · Ans: B
70. The anti-apartheid movement in South Africa was led by · Ans: B
71. The first factory legislation to improve the working conditions of labour was passed in · Ans: B
72. Find the statement below which is not correct. · Ans: D
73. Match List I (Leader) with List II (Identity) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: C
74. In the context of the cultural and ideological framework of the Mughal State, which one of the following statements is not correct? · Ans: C
75. Match List I (Peasant body) with List II (Leader) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
76. Which one of the following statements regarding Abul Fazl's Akbarnama is not true? · Ans: D
77. Which Gandhian movement has been called a 'Spontaneous Revolution'? · Ans: D
78. What was the title of the British Museum Baburnama manuscript translated into English by Mrs. A.S. Beveridge? · Ans: D
79. The inspirational leader behind the founding of the All India Women's Conference was · Ans: B
80. The 'Black Hole' event was sensationalized by whom? · Ans: C
81. Name the first Indian selected to the Indian Civil Service. · Ans: D
82. The confederates against Tipu Sultan in the Third Anglo-Mysore War included · Ans: C
83. Which princely state was not annexed under the Doctrine of Lapse in spite of not having a natural heir? · Ans: B
84. Legislative powers were restored back to the provinces in the Act of · Ans: C
85. The policy announcement regarding the 'progressive realization of responsible government in India as an integral part of the British Empire' was made by · Ans: B
86. Babur assumed the title of 'Ghazi' after the · Ans: B
87. Who among the following commented for the first time that Kabir tried to undermine the common people's pessimism in his Bhakti? · Ans: D
88. Match List I (Patron) with List II (Monument) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: D
89. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R). Select the correct answer from the codes below. · Ans: A
90. Some Jaina Mahavidyas are sculptured with a snake mount. Which of the following? Select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: D
91. Why was the 'Double Dome' used in Indo-Islamic architecture? · Ans: B
92. What is the main contribution of 'Tasawwuf' (Sufism) in India? · Ans: B
93. What was the 'Shahrukhi' coin in circulation during the Muslim period? · Ans: B
94. Who among the following systematised the land revenue department through measures such as Qabuliyat and Patta? · Ans: B
95. Which one of the following is not a characteristic of Mughal painting? · Ans: B
96. Who among the following, by using 'Psycho-History', proved that Muhammad bin Tughlaq was not 'mad' as was first commented by Elphinstone? · Ans: C
97. The term Abwab refers to · Ans: D
98. What is the correct chronological sequence of the following Sufi saints? Select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
99. Which sequence represents the correct chronological order of the foundation of the following cities of Delhi? Select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: D
100. What is not to be considered as a nature of Pre-Mughal Persian historiography? · Ans: C
101. Cannon and muskets in warfare in India were introduced by · Ans: C
102. Find the correct sequence of the rate of land revenue (as a share of produce) under Alauddin Khalji, Firoz Tughlaq, Akbar and Aurangzeb respectively. · Ans: A
103. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: B
104. Which one of the following historical works of Amir Khusrau is in prose? · Ans: D
105. Harappan sites have provided a unique plan of settlement comprising a Citadel, Middle Town and Lower Town. Which of the following has provided this plan? Select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: D
106. Fragments of the Devi-Chandragupta, a lost drama written by Vishakhadatta, are preserved in which of the following? Select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: C
107. The carving of the Naga-Shakha on door-jambs is a characteristic feature of which of the following regional styles of temple architecture? Select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: B
108. Which one of the following planetary deities is sculptured as an anthropomorphic snake deity? · Ans: C
109. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R). Select the correct answer from the codes below. · Ans: B
110. Match List I (Clan) with List II (Place) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: B
111. Arrange the following Pali canonical texts in chronological order and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: C
112. The following were the leaders of the Ajivika sect. Select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: C
113. The stone portrait of Ashoka with his name inscribed on it has been found from the stupa remains of which one of the following sites? · Ans: D
114. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R). Select the correct answer from the codes below. · Ans: C
115. The Dasaratha Jataka is found sculptured in the stupa remains of which of the following South Indian sites? Select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: C
116. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R). Select the correct answer from the codes below. · Ans: B
117. Match List I (Ruler) with List II (Associated officer) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: C
118. Coins of Bhagilaya have been found from which of the following? Select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: C
119. Which one of the following is a Neolithic site in the Vindhyan region? · Ans: A
120. Shell inscriptions have been discovered from the remains of stupas at which of the following sites? Select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: B
121. By which of the following names is the river Saraswati known in Pakistan? Select your answer from the codes given below. · Ans: D
122. The Battle of Ten Kings was fought on the bank of which one of the following rivers? · Ans: C
123. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R). Select the correct answer from the codes below. · Ans: B
124. The story of the migration of Videgha Mathava to the east, accompanied by his priest Gotama Rahugana, is mentioned in which of the following? · Ans: C
125. Match List I (Buddhist Council) with List II (Place where held) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: B

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