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UGC NET December 2020 History — Solved Previous Year Questions

100 previous-year questions from UGC NET December 2020 History (UGC NET) — each with the correct answer and a clear explanation. Use it as an answer key, or practise the full paper below.

Match List I (Monument) with List II (Calligrapher) and choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: A
Which among the following Persian painters of a father-son duo joined Humayun's court? · Ans: A
During Jahangir's period certain painters developed recognizable areas of expertise in Mughal painting. In this regard, which of the following statements are correct? Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: C
Digambar Biswas and Bishnu Biswas led which of the following movements in 1859-60? · Ans: C
Which of the following inscriptions suggests a time-reckoning starting from the Bharata war? · Ans: A
Which of the following officers were known for the water arrangement of their provinces? Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: D
From the following statements regarding the economic critique of colonialism, which ones are correct? Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below. · Ans: A
Which of the following historians claimed that Akbar's empire in 1592 was said to contain as many as 120 cities and 3,200 towns? · Ans: A
Chronologically arrange the following treaties, starting from the earliest. Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: C
Given below are two statements. In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below. · Ans: A
Which of the following texts allow divorce? Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: D
Which of the following Sultans in his farman used to address the amirs as Masnad-i Ali? · Ans: D
Who was the first president of the All India Trade Union Congress, founded on 31 August 1920? · Ans: A
Match List I (Mughal Ruler) with List II (Approximate Khalisa share in total jama) and choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: A
'The Sultan ordered the Maliks, Amirs, officers of the court and persons of responsibility and status not to go to each other's houses or to collect parties at banquets; there were to be no intermarriages among them unless… · Ans: B
Match List I (Tinai) with List II (Region) and choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: C
Match List I (Yakshini or Sasana devata) with List II (Association with Tirthankaras) and choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: A
Poems classified as upadesha rupaka (didactic metaphors) in Marathi bhakti poetry were known as: · Ans: A
In which of the following rulers' reigns did the bullion currency seem to have nearly entirely replaced silver coinage? · Ans: C
Which of the following pairs indicates female teachers according to ancient grammarians? · Ans: D
Which of the following statements about Chokhamela are correct? Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: D
Who played an important role in the distribution of Gautama Buddha's sarira-dhatu (relics) after his Mahaparinirvana? · Ans: B
Who wrote the dictum: 'All history is the history of ideas'? · Ans: D
Arrange the following landmark legal cases chronologically, starting from the earliest. Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: B
The first pilgrim centre for the Sikhs, symbolized by the construction of a well with 84 steps to reach the water for bathing, which became sacred for the Sikhs, was established by which Sikh Guru and at which… · Ans: B
With regard to the Mughal finance system, which of the following statements are correct? Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below. · Ans: A
Which of the following dynasties traced its origin from Asura Naraka? Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: D
Arrange the following Gurjara-Pratihara kings in chronological order. Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: D
Which of the following statements are true about colonial cities? Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below. · Ans: C
Which Sikh patriot was tried and executed by the British Government in 1940 for the murder of Sir Michael O'Dwyer, who was involved in the infamous Jallianwala Bagh massacre? · Ans: C
The earliest extant examples of the Mughal baluster columns are found solely in which of the following Mughal emperor's fortress palaces? · Ans: C
Which of the following are included among the seven limbs of the ancient Indian state? Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: C
Which of the following texts were authored by the Kashmiri poet Kshemendra? Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: B
Which female social reformer wrote the short stories Sultana's Dream (1905) and Avarodhbasini (1929), criticizing the custom of purdah among Muslims? · Ans: D
During the Saka-Satavahana period the range of interest on a fixed deposit (akshayanivi), as described in the inscription of Nasik Cave No. 10, was: · Ans: B
Which of the following Sailendra rulers are known to have had friendly relations with their contemporary Indian kings? Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: D
Arrange the following organizations chronologically by their date of establishment. Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: D
Which of the following suttas are associated with the Digha Nikaya? Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: D
From among the following statements regarding Munshi Premchand and his works, which are correct? Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: A
'At some times and places there will be no roads, docks, harbours, canals, works of irrigation, hospitals, schools, colleges, printing presses, unless the government establishes them.' The above quotation from John Stuart Mill's Political Economy refers to which… · Ans: B
Ibn Battuta informs that the Sultan had fixed Wednesday for freeing male slaves, Friday for freeing female slaves, and Saturday for marrying men slaves to female slaves. Identify the Sultan. · Ans: C
Which of the following statements regarding Gandhi's concept of Satyagraha are correct? Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below. · Ans: D
Which of the following statements regarding Balban's theory of kingship are correct? Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: D
The punishment for theft differed from Varna to Varna. Who among the following was given the highest punishment? · Ans: A
Lajahoma was a part of: · Ans: B
Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below. · Ans: B
The Jaina council at Vallabhi was presided over by: · Ans: A
Raziya's accession to the throne of Delhi was marked by which of the following features? Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: D
Name the Sultan who, because of his generosity, was also known as lakh bakhsh. · Ans: A
After the Gwalior campaign in 1232, a commemorative coin was struck to mark the victory. Whose name was inscribed on the coin along with that of Iltutmish? · Ans: D
Which of the following chalcolithic sites is located in Rajasthan? · Ans: D
Which of the following statements are correct about the linguistic reorganization of Indian states? Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: D
Chronologically arrange the following farmans/memoranda issued by Mughal emperors and nobles. Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: C
Apararka, the famous commentator of the Yajnavalkya Smriti, was the king of: · Ans: C
Arrange the following archaeological cultures of India in chronological order, starting from the earliest. Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: D
Arrange Akbar's following victories in chronological order, starting from the earliest. Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: A
Arrange the sequence of the following parts of Orissan temples, starting from the bottom to the top. Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: D
Arrange chronologically the following queens who played an important role in the administration and culture of ancient Kashmir, as mentioned by Kalhana. Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: C
Which of the following statements is/are correct? Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: D
'Our general policy is to avoid entanglement in power politics and not to join any group of powers as against any other group. The two leading groups today are the Russian bloc and the Anglo-American bloc. We must… · Ans: A
Regarding Sher Shah Suri, which of the following statements are correct? Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below. · Ans: D
The royal orders issued by the Rashtrakuta kings and recorded by their secretaries were known as: · Ans: C
Which one of the following statements is not correct? · Ans: C
Which of the following Sanskrit intellectuals of the seventeenth century had relations with the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan? Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below. · Ans: C
Which of the following statements are correct about the balutedars of the Deccan? Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: D
Regarding Maratha relations with Nizam-ul-Mulk, which of the following statements are correct? Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below. · Ans: A
Which of the following combinations of Indian revolutionaries abroad and their newspaper are not correct? Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below. · Ans: D
Match List I (Books) with List II (Contents) and choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: C
Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below. · Ans: C
Match List I (Sikh Guru) with List II (Sub-caste) and choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: D
Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below. · Ans: A
Match List I (Author) with List II (Books) and choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: B
Match List I (Authors) with List II (Books) and choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: D
Arrange Muhammad bin Tughlaq's projects in chronological order. Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: C
Match List I (Authors) with List II (Dharmashastras) and choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: B
Who was the first elected president of the All India Depressed Classes Association, formed in 1926? · Ans: B
In the Bayana Hoard, coins of which Gupta ruler have been found in the highest number? · Ans: C
Given below are two statements. In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: A
Who among the following travellers visited a 'Hospital of Birds' at Cambay in 1623-24, where he saw some lame, sick and mateless birds and some tiny orphan mice, kept by a venerable old man who fed them milk… · Ans: C
In which of the following texts are the Sabha and the Samiti mentioned as the two daughters of a Vedic deity? · Ans: C
Ishvarakrishna was: · Ans: C
Match List I (Author) with List II (Book) and choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: A
Which one of the following statements is true about the stand of the Communist Party of India during the India-China war of 1962? · Ans: A
Which of the following cave temples of Ellora are related to the Brahmanical religion? Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: C
On 27 December 1891, which socio-religious reform movement met for its first general gathering in Qadiyan, Punjab? · Ans: B
Who among the following kings mentioned in the Rajatarangini personally went to a leather worker (charmakara) with a request to get a small piece of land of his cottage needed for the construction of the temple of Tribhuvanasvami? · Ans: B
Which one of the following statements is not true? · Ans: D
Who founded the autonomous kingdom of Hyderabad in 1724? · Ans: B
Which of the following statements regarding interpretation in historical writing are correct? Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below. · Ans: C
He took keen interest in debates, and when Srinatha defeated his court poet Dindima in a disputation, he honoured the former with the title of Kavi Sarvabhauma and 'bathed him in gold coins'. Identify this Vijayanagar ruler. · Ans: B
The most popular themes of ancient Indian dramas are based on the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, courtly love and folk tales. Which of the following dramas, considered to be written by Bhasa, has taken its plot from the Ramayana? · Ans: A
The Indian philosopher Vedanta Desika wrote a Sandesa Kavya (a form of lyric poem) named: · Ans: C
Which of the following historical works are authored by Bilhana? Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: D
Which of the following pairs of Brahmanas and Vedic Samhitas is not correctly matched? · Ans: C
The seventh Mandala of the Rigveda is ascribed to the family of: · Ans: C
Which among the following were parallel but not alternative streams of agitation? Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: B
Which one of the following was a non-Congress movement? · Ans: C
Which kind of individuals were not associated with the Indian national movement? · Ans: A
Which one of the following Satyagraha movements was not a part of the Indian National Congress programme? · Ans: C
In which year did women participate in the proceedings of the Indian National Congress? · Ans: B

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