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UGC NET December 2018 History — Solved Previous Year Questions

UGC NET · History — 100 previous year questions, each with the answer and an explanation.

  1. Match List I (Author) with List II (Book) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: B
  2. When was the National Planning Committee set up by the Indian National Congress under the chairmanship of Jawaharlal Nehru? · Ans: B
  3. Which one of the following is not a principle of the Panchsheel agreement? · Ans: B
  4. Match List I (Author) with List II (Book) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: C
  5. On which one of the following grounds did the colonial rulers deny civil liberties to the Indians? · Ans: C
  6. Which one of the following did Jawaharlal Nehru not believe in? · Ans: D
  7. According to the nationalist leadership, the wielding of India into a nation required recognition of which one of the following as a requisite? · Ans: C
  8. Which one of the following best reflects the cultural aspirations represented by the Indian National Congress? · Ans: A
  9. Which one of the following was not a principle of the policy of self-reliance adopted in independent India? · Ans: C
  10. Who stated, 'A University stands for humanism, for tolerance, for reason, for the adventure of ideas and for the search of truth'? · Ans: C
  11. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: B
  12. Which one of the following statements regarding the Imperialist approach to the Indian national movement is not correct? · Ans: D
  13. Which one of the following statements regarding peasant movements is not correctly matched? · Ans: B
  14. Match List I (Author) with List II (Work) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: B
  15. Where and when was the first session of the Indian National Congress held? · Ans: C
  16. Who among the following is not associated with the Enlightenment movement? · Ans: A
  17. Who declared, 'The only hope of India is from the masses. The upper classes are physically and morally dead'? · Ans: B
  18. Which one of the following journals was not started by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar? · Ans: A
  19. Who among the following was not associated with the Congress Socialist Party? · Ans: A
  20. Who among the following is not regarded as a pre-Marxian socialist thinker? · Ans: A
  21. Which one of the following statements regarding the revolutionaries is wrongly attributed? · Ans: A
  22. Who regards the Revolt of 1857 as the 'Source Spring of National Movement'? · Ans: A
  23. Who among the following was not involved in the Kakori Conspiracy Case? · Ans: A
  24. Against whom was the 'Maharaja Libel Case' filed by the followers of the Vallabhacharya sect in 1862-63? · Ans: A
  25. Who led the Heraka religious movement and revolt against British rule in the Naga Hills, and was called 'Rani' (Queen) by Jawaharlal Nehru? · Ans: A
  26. Which one of the following statements regarding the ideals of the Prarthana Samaj is not correct? · Ans: C
  27. Who donated 100 acres of land to Acharya Vinoba Bhave in 1951, marking the beginning of the Bhoodan movement? · Ans: A
  28. Which one of the following statements regarding tribal revolts is not correct? · Ans: A
  29. Who among the following did not influence the thought of Mahatma Gandhi? · Ans: A
  30. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: D
  31. Under which Act was the first examination for the ICS held in Allahabad? · Ans: D
  32. When Charans from a chiefdom of Rajasthan represented to a Mughal emperor and complained about atrocities perpetrated on them by their Raja, the emperor evaded the complaint by saying that he is a 'Mota Raja'. Identify … · Ans: A
  33. In medieval India there were cross-cultural interactions among people of different faiths; Mughal rulers and nobility interacted with Jadrup Gosain, a Brahmin ascetic and exponent of Vedic thought, whose knowledge of Ve… · Ans: A
  34. Arrange in chronological sequence the following Mughal rulers who ruled after Aurangzeb's death. Choose the correct answer from the code given below. · Ans: C
  35. In the Indian ships, in joining planks, which of the following techniques was used? · Ans: D
  36. The concept of watan jagir emerged at the end of Akbar's reign. Which of the following statements are correct pertaining to the watan jagir? Choose the correct answer from the code given below. · Ans: C
  37. According to Marco Polo, Indian ships normally had how many masts? · Ans: A
  38. Which of the following statements are correct in regard to the grants to women? Choose the correct answer from the code given below. · Ans: D
  39. Marco Polo, while complaining that Indian ships had only a cover spread over the cargo when loaded, was complaining about the absence of which of the following? · Ans: A
  40. When Shahjahan separated the office of karori/amil (revenue collector) and amin (assessor), what per cent of the share of the karori was fixed in Shahjahan's period? · Ans: D
  41. Marco Polo complains about the absence of iron nails. Which of the following seventeenth century travellers also complains of the absence of the use of a lathe to cut the screw grooves? · Ans: C
  42. Which one of the following statements regarding the Marxist school of Indian historiography is not correct? · Ans: D
  43. Which one of the following statements regarding James Mill and his Utilitarianism is not correct? · Ans: A
  44. Arrange the following political organizations in chronological order, on the basis of the year of establishment, and choose the correct answer from the code given below. · Ans: C
  45. Match List I (Artist) with List II (Title received) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: D
  46. Which of the following is the last example of the use of the Tughlaq batter (sloping buttress)? · Ans: B
  47. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: D
  48. Aliwal Khan was the architect of which of the following buildings? Choose the correct answer from the code given below. · Ans: A
  49. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
  50. 'This emperor urged the locals and other officials not to injure the travellers and merchants, and not to lay their hands on the property of the merchants if any one of them should die by accident and without… · Ans: A
  51. Who said the following in the context of defining his relationship with his foster-community? 'Between me and Aziz is a river of milk that I cannot cross.' · Ans: C
  52. Rafiuddin Shirazi, who came from Persia, writes that he saw a youth of twenty years leaning on a favourite and guessed that he must be the king, but the people performed no courtesies to him; the king himself… · Ans: A
  53. Match the revenue terms given in List I with those of modern connotations given in List II and choose the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: C
  54. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
  55. There was a conflict between Emperor Shah Jahan and Guru Hargobind over the hunting issue, which led to a series of military clashes. The Sikh forces were led by a Pathan named: · Ans: C
  56. 'One camel goes for a penny (dang), but who has a penny?' In the above statement Ziauddin Barani is referring to the state of affairs of which of the following Sultans' reign? · Ans: A
  57. During whose period were two new positions, titled Pant Pratinidhi and Hukumat Panha, added to the 'Ashtapradhan Mandal'? · Ans: B
  58. 'In those days entertainments were common. During the days of the pilgrimages and on the last Wednesday of the month of Safar, it was difficult to find accommodation in the public enclosures or by the side of the… · Ans: B
  59. Which among the following painters at Akbar's court was the son of a palanquin bearer (kahar)? · Ans: A
  60. When this Sultan changed his clothes and beddings, they were sold and the money obtained was given away as dowry to orphan girls. Identify this Lodi Sultan. · Ans: B
  61. The dominant themes of the Kangra school of paintings were: Choose the correct answer from the code given below. · Ans: A
  62. Which of the following statements are correct? Choose the correct answer from the code given below. · Ans: D
  63. The spiritual successors of Shaikh Bayazid were known by different names in different regions. In this regard, which of the following is not correctly matched? · Ans: D
  64. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: C
  65. Maulana Kabir had been the Sultan's tutor but had gone away to Herat to seek knowledge. The Sultan recalled him and made him Shaikh-ul-Islam. Identify this Sultan of Kashmir who honoured his tutor. · Ans: D
  66. Who among the following is the oldest commentator of the Rigveda? · Ans: C
  67. An inscription of 1121 A.D. refers to a medical school teaching the Charaka Samhita and the Ashtanga-Hridaya of Vagbhata at: · Ans: B
  68. The earliest painting at Ajanta is found in: · Ans: B
  69. Who among the following rulers restored the Somanatha temple of Gujarat after its destruction by Mahmud Khalji? · Ans: D
  70. Which of the following pairs (Dakshinapatha Rulers of the early Gupta age and their Kingdoms) is not correctly matched? · Ans: C
  71. Abhinavagupta was a famous acharya of which of the following schools? · Ans: A
  72. An inscription of the time of Kumaragupta mentions the year 493 of the Malava era. Which of the following is its corresponding year? · Ans: B
  73. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
  74. Which of the following works gives a glimpse of an ancient Indian court? · Ans: B
  75. Paramartha stayed in China over twenty years and translated 70 Buddhist texts into Chinese there. He was from: · Ans: D
  76. Which of the following pairs of Rulers and their Titles is not correctly matched? · Ans: D
  77. Which of the following pairs of Authors and their works is not correctly matched? · Ans: A
  78. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched? · Ans: A
  79. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: C
  80. Which of the following pairs of Founders and Capital Cities is not correctly matched? · Ans: D
  81. Match List I (Writer) with List II (Patron King) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
  82. Which one of the following pairs (Work and Author) is not correctly matched? · Ans: D
  83. Who among the following poets called himself Kalikala-Valmiki? · Ans: D
  84. A Kushan devakula, where statues of royal persons were kept, has been found at: · Ans: C
  85. Which of the following represent inland markets in the Dakshinapatha, as mentioned by the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea? · Ans: D
  86. Which of the following Mesolithic sites have exposed burials with skeletons? Choose the correct answer from the code given below. · Ans: D
  87. Which of the following Harappan sites yielded camel bones? · Ans: A
  88. The location of the Vedic river Sarasvati is indicated by its mention in the Nadistuti-Sukta of the Rigveda between: · Ans: B
  89. The account of the Great Flood, in which a divine Fish is described as rescuing Manu, occurs in the: · Ans: C
  90. Which of the following temples of north India has a Sikhara of the Dravidian type? · Ans: D
  91. The Itihasa-Purana has been mentioned as the Fifth Veda in the: · Ans: A
  92. Which of the following Orissan temples are pancharatha? Choose the correct answer from the code given below. · Ans: D
  93. Which Upanishad describes the philosophical dialogue between Yajnavalkya and Maitreyi? · Ans: A
  94. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: B
  95. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: B
  96. Kumaradevi, a queen of Govindachandra Gahadavala, constructed a Buddhist Vihara at: · Ans: C
  97. In Shravasti, Makkhali Gosala usually stayed at the workshop of the lady Halahala, who belonged to the community of: · Ans: A
  98. The 'Kathina ceremony' of the Buddhist samgha was related to the: · Ans: A
  99. Which of the following regions was ruled by two kings with a council of elders during the time of Alexander's invasion of India? · Ans: B
  100. Asoka's contemporary, the foreign king Turamaya, was the ruler of: · Ans: B

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