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UGC NET December 2021 History (Shift-II) — Solved Previous Year Questions

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

1. Which of the following statements are correct? Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: B
2. Who was elected as the President of the Justice Party in 1937? · Ans: B
3. Which of the following are correct? Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: A
4. The author believed that the beholding of the divine can be manifested in all forms except one. Which is that form? · Ans: C
5. The 'beholding' of the divine is refused by which of the following? · Ans: C
6. The author favours the idea that: · Ans: B
7. Which leader proposed to Dada Saheb Phalke to start the Hindustan Cinema Film Company, which was to collaborate with some American producers in making films for export as well as for the domestic market? · Ans: B
8. The potency of God is highlighted for His capability to: · Ans: C
9. Which is/are correct out of the following? Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: C
10. The paragraph indulges in the debate concerning: · Ans: C
11. When did Alexander Cunningham find a Harappan seal? · Ans: B
12. The said statement was delivered on the occasion of: · Ans: B
13. The mentioned statement has been cited by: · Ans: B
14. The statement is not recorded in the proceedings but it was published in the: · Ans: A
15. Who made this statement? · Ans: C
16. The mentioned statement was a part of: · Ans: D
17. Consider the following statements and pick the correct ones. Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: C
18. In Bhasa's drama Daridracharudatta, the term 'Yavanika' refers to: · Ans: B
19. Arrange the following events chronologically starting from the earliest. Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: D
20. In Mathura art, the sculpture which includes kinship triads depicts whom? · Ans: B
21. Match List I with List II. Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: C
22. Which of the following Sanskrit works are considered as biographies or historical narratives of ancient Indian kings? Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: D
23. Karambha, a dish during the Rig-Vedic period, was made of: · Ans: D
24. Match List I (Events under Aurangzeb) with List II (Year). Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: A
25. Which of the following are incorrect? Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: D
26. The most defining literary features of the Sangam tradition are: Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: C
27. Guru Hargobind founded Miri and Piri: · Ans: C
28. Consider the following statements concerning artisan settlements and organisations in South India. Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: A
29. To whom did Mahatma Gandhi give the following advice: 'I have sent you messages that you should not die underground. You are reduced to a skeleton. Do come out and surrender yourself and win the prize offered for… · Ans: A
30. Which of the following are correct? Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: A
31. Match List I (Books) with List II (Authors). Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: B
32. Which text opens with a provocative opening statement, 'The historiography of Indian nationalism has for a long time been dominated by elitism'? · Ans: B
33. Which Viceroy earned the derisive epithet of 'Clemency' from his own countrymen? · Ans: A
34. Which of the following are correct? Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: D
35. Consider the following statements and pick the correct ones. Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: D
36. Arrange the following events chronologically starting from the earliest. Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: D
37. Which of the following are correct? Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: B
38. Which of the following are correct? Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: D
39. Match List I with List II. Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: D
40. Who among the following gave the theory of 'Pushtimarga'? · Ans: C
41. Consider the following statements about the horse trade in the Vijayanagara Empire. Pick the correct ones. Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: D
42. Which Indian king expanded the Hindu empire in Swarnadweep? · Ans: A
43. 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 correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: B
44. Who suggested that the prominence of female imagery, especially the female attendants who frequently flank the Bodhisattva, may reflect Tantric or Vajrayana influence? · Ans: A
45. Which is/are correct regarding the impact of British rule? Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: B
46. The Dadni system became prevalent in medieval India because: · Ans: A
47. Who among the following foreign travellers wrote that the Vijayanagara Empire had an estimated 90,000 men fit to bear arms? · Ans: D
48. Arrange the following in a chronological manner. Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: A
49. Which of the following statements are correct? Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: C
50. Consider the following statements and pick the correct ones. Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: C
51. Match List I with List II. Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: C
52. Which of the following were not the basic parts of the Mughal-Rajput alliance? Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: B
53. Match List I with List II. Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: D
54. The Age of Consent Act, 1891, raised the age for the consummation of marriage for women to: · Ans: D
55. 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 correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: A
56. Consider the following statements concerning transportation in Mughal India. Pick the correct ones. Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: B
57. Match List I (Events) with List II (Year). Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: D
58. At which sites can the overlap between the Late Harappan and Ochre Coloured Pottery phase be traced? · Ans: D
59. Which of the following places are famous for generating knowledge through philosophical debates during the 12th to 16th centuries? Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: B
60. To address which problem was the Karori experiment undertaken by Akbar? · Ans: D
61. Which of the following are correct? Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: B
62. The Indian Councils Amendment of 1892 was also known as: · Ans: C
63. How many village functionaries were linked to the Ayagar grants under the Vijayanagara empire? · Ans: A
64. Who replaced Pethick Lawrence as the Secretary of State for India in April 1947? · Ans: B
65. Consider the following statements and pick the correct ones. Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: D
66. Who hoisted the flag at the Gowalia Tank Maidan, Bombay, on 9th August 1942 during the Quit India Movement? · Ans: A
67. Arrange the following in a chronological manner. Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: B
68. Who were the agents of the Lumiere brothers who first exhibited film clips on the cinematograph in Bombay in 1896? · Ans: B
69. Consider the following statements related to the revenue officials in the village system under the Mughals. Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: C
70. Match List I (Events) with List II (Year). Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: A
71. Pick the correct sequence of the following historical Masnavis in relation to the reign of the respective Delhi Sultans. Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: C
72. In the Aihole inscription, the writer Ravikirti compared himself with: · Ans: A
73. Which among the following Mughal painters drew the portrait of the Shah of Persia? · Ans: A
74. Which among the following is celebrated as the fifth Veda in Tamil and also remains the twelfth book in the Saiva canon? · Ans: D
75. Given below are two statements. In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: A
76. Which one of the following Sanskrit dramas gives details of Chandragupta Maurya? · Ans: B
77. Hastyayurveda, which deals with the diagnosis and treatment of the major diseases of elephants, was written by: · Ans: C
78. In 1850, the new Enfield rifle replaced which old gun? · Ans: A
79. Match List I with List II. Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: A
80. Given below are two statements. In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below. · Ans: A
81. According to K.V. Krishna Iyer, the fair of Mamankam ended with the conquest of Kozhikode by which power? · Ans: B
82. Which one of the following saints was a follower of the Vaishnava tradition? · Ans: B
83. Bina Das, a woman revolutionary who fired a bullet at Sir Stanley Jackson, the Governor of Bengal, at Calcutta University's convocation, belonged to which college? · Ans: B
84. Arrange the following in a chronological order. Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: C
85. Under whose leadership was the Public Service Commission appointed, which recommended the raising of the maximum age for the examination? · Ans: B
86. Who took up the issue of cow protection in 1871? · Ans: B
87. Who among the following rued the destruction of Kashmir under Sikandar? · Ans: C
88. A painted pot from which site of the Harappan civilization depicts a tree holding a fish and a fox-like animal below, reflecting the story of 'The Clever Fox' narrated in the Panchatantra? · Ans: D
89. Daojali Hading, a Neolithic site, is located in which area? · Ans: A
90. Consider the following statements and pick the correct ones. Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: A
91. Arrange the following events chronologically starting from the earliest. Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: B
92. Pick the right sequence as per chronological order in terms of the visit of the following foreign travellers to India. Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: D
93. The play 'Devichandragupta' by Vishakhadatta was found in a manuscript of Bhoja's Shringara-Prakasha, and some part of this play was found in a manuscript of which writer? · Ans: C
94. Who among the following first referred to the Chaudhuris (as Jautari) as the headmen of non-Muslim revenue payers? · Ans: A
95. Consider the following statements and pick the correct answer. Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: B
96. Arrange the following in a chronological manner. Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: C
97. 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
98. Match List I (Books) with List II (Authors). Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: A
99. 'Neminath', the 22nd Tirthankara, was associated with: · Ans: C
100. Consider the following statements about village communities and pick the correct ones. Choose the correct answer from the options given below. · Ans: A

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