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UGC NET July 2018 History — Solved Previous Year Questions

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

1. Which one of the following books was not written by Thomas Paine? · Ans: B
2. At which session of the Indian Congress was the procession jointly led by the Congress President, Motilal Nehru, and the Muslim League President, Hakim Ajmal Khan? · Ans: B
3. Which one of the following newspapers was not associated with Mahatma Gandhi for communicating his ideas? · Ans: D
4. 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
5. Match List I (Social Reformer) with List II (Institution) and select the correct answer from the code given below. · Ans: D
6. 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
7. Where did the national vocalist Pandit Vishnu Digambar Paluskar establish his first Gandharva Mahavidyalaya in 1901? · Ans: D
8. Which one of the following statements regarding post-modernism is not correct? · Ans: B
9. Which province introduced irrigation canals through private companies with assured returns on their investments in the early sixties of the nineteenth century? · Ans: A
10. Who among the following is not a member of the Subaltern Studies Project in India? · Ans: D
11. Match List I (Author) with List II (Work) and select the correct answer from the code given below. · Ans: C
12. 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
13. Which historian wrote the following words? 'The definition and demarcation of ages in the history of any country are problematic issues. These have been especially so in the case of India because our historians, all Bri… · Ans: C
14. Regarding history writing by Leopold von Ranke, which one of the following is not true? · Ans: C
15. Which legislation for the first time used the term 'Scheduled Castes'? · Ans: C
16. 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
17. Which British official had written about the uncertain land conditions prevailing in northern India that 'in the landed property of the country a very extensive and melancholy revolution had been effected'? · Ans: D
18. Match List I (Author) with List II (Title of the book) and select the correct answer from the code given below. · Ans: D
19. 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
20. From among the following statements, which one is not correct? · Ans: B
21. Which one of the following Governor-Generals earned the epithet of 'Clemency'? · Ans: A
22. Whose 'open letters' on Indian economy to Lord Curzon forced the British Indian government to publish an official rebuttal and also initiate reformatory economic measures? · Ans: C
23. In nationalist iconography, whose celebrated painting of Bharat Mata or 'Mother India' (c. 1901-5) came to symbolise the new image of India? · Ans: B
24. 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
25. Match the artisans engaged in building construction activities given in List I with their modern connotations given in List II and select the correct answer from the code given below the lists. · Ans: D
26. Match List I (Nationalist women) with List II (Their activities) and select the correct answer from the code given below. · Ans: B
27. 'Of all the sovereigns of the house of Taimur, nay of all the sovereigns of Delhi, no one since Sikandar Lodi has ever been apparently so distinguished for devotion, austerity and justice as him.' In the above passage… · Ans: D
28. Which country imposed strict restrictions on the Indian immigrants from landing, carried by the ship Komagata Maru in March 1914? · Ans: D
29. Name the historians who have directly questioned the centralised character of the medieval Indian state. Select the correct answer from the code given below. · Ans: D
30. Chronologically arrange the following top-level political negotiations that took place to conciliate the Muslim League position. Select the correct answer from the code given below. · Ans: D
31. Match List I (Author) with List II (Book) and select the correct answer from the code given below the lists. · Ans: D
32. After gaining independence from the British, who reminded Jawaharlal Nehru, 'freedom comes to India, not to the Congress', urging the formulation of a cabinet that included the ablest men regardless of party affiliation? · Ans: C
33. Which one of the following was not a factor for La Bourdonnais to defy Dupleix in giving back Madras to the English East India Company? · Ans: D
34. The second Five Year Plan, which aimed at accelerating economic growth with the state assuming the leading role, was also known as: · Ans: D
35. Which of the following are the characteristics of manuscript illustrations in the Akbar-Nama? Select the correct answer from the code given below. · Ans: D
36. Which of the following painters were in Jahangir's court? Select the correct answer from the code given below. · Ans: C
37. Which of the following statements are correct? Select the correct answer from the code given below. · Ans: D
38. Although taken aback by the beauty of Kashmir and its gardens, which of the following emperors decreed in his 6th regnal year that no king should visit there unless on military or administrative business, as he believed… · Ans: C
39. Match List I (Author) with List II (Work) and select the correct answer from the code given below the lists. · Ans: A
40. Arrange the following monuments in chronological order and select the correct answer from the code given below. · Ans: C
41. Who among the following was not an eminent Orientalist? · Ans: D
42. Match List I (Jain Terms) with List II (Meaning) and select the correct answer from the code given below the lists. · Ans: A
43. Which one of the following Muslim thinkers persuaded the Ulamas in India to work for independence in cooperation with the Indian National Congress? · Ans: A
44. 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
45. Which one of the following statements regarding the ideas propagated by Jyotiba Phule is not correct? · Ans: C
46. After storming Sirhind, Banda Bahadur adopted the title of Padshah, started a new calendar and issued coins bearing the names of which Gurus? · Ans: B
47. Which of the following statements are correct about Kabir's compositions? Select the correct answer from the code given below. · Ans: D
48. Which of the following pairs of writers and works is not correctly matched? · Ans: B
49. Match the earliest reference of various techniques given in List I with that of its source given in List II and select the correct answer from the code given below. · Ans: D
50. 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
51. 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
52. During the medieval period the rate of discount on cash-payments made against a Hundi was known as: · Ans: A
53. Which of the following is not the work of Amir Khusrau? · Ans: B
54. Who among the following Sultans of Kashmir commissioned Mullah Ahmad to translate the Mahabharata into Persian? · Ans: C
55. The earliest of the Jain Kalpasutra paintings belong to which of the following regions? · Ans: B
56. 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
57. Which of the following Sultans ordered that Muslim women were not to come out of their houses or go to visit tombs outside the city of Delhi? Select the correct answer from the code given below. · Ans: B
58. 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
59. With regard to Akbar's nobility, which of the following statements is not correct? · Ans: C
60. Match List I (Temple) with List II (Builder Queen) and select the correct answer from the code given below the lists. · Ans: A
61. Match List I (Jain texts) with List II (Writers) and select the correct answer from the code given below the lists. · Ans: D
62. Which of the following are correct in respect of the Golaki-matha? Select the correct answer from the code given below. · Ans: D
63. By an imperial farman, which of the following Rajas of Amber was prohibited from using the Makrana marble in his own watan jagir? · Ans: C
64. The Ghatiyantra was used in early medieval India for: · Ans: B
65. Which of the following pairs (Traveller and Native country) is not correctly matched? · Ans: D
66. 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
67. 'His great-grandfather had written an account of many animals, plants and people, but had not ordered his painters to make pictures of them.' Identify this royal great grandfather - great grandson pair. · Ans: A
68. What is not correct about the Arab traveller Istakhari? · Ans: A
69. Who among the following kept one section of his library in the harem, where the ladies of the household read out books to him before he went to sleep? · Ans: C
70. Which of the following statements are correct? Select the correct answer from the code given below. · Ans: C
71. A Mughal emperor showed to conservative and religious-minded persons that language is not a natural process (Zuban-i Qudrat) but a worldly process of learning. To prove his argument he kept the newly born in a completel… · Ans: B
72. Evidence of water tax is provided by the inscriptions of the: · Ans: D
73. Who among the following was the first to explain that the rotation of the earth on its axis accounts for the daily rising and setting of the sun? · Ans: A
74. Which of the following Janas are mentioned in the Rigveda? Select the correct answer from the code given below. · Ans: D
75. Who among the following were great Tamil Saiva saints? Choose the answer using the code given below. · Ans: A
76. Which of the following statements is wrong in respect of the Rashtrakutas? · Ans: C
77. Under the Cholas, land-revenue was collected through the: · Ans: B
78. 'The Sultan invoked Persian monarchical traditions and adjusted them to the Indian milieu. The books Adab us Salatin and Maasir us Salatin, which he had obtained from Baghdad for the instruction of his sons, dealt with … · Ans: B
79. Arrange the following kings of Kashmir in chronological order and select the correct answer from the code given below. · Ans: C
80. Arrange the following in the chronological order in which they were written and select the correct code. · Ans: C
81. A new tendency towards specialization of officers is illustrated by such titles as Latasandhivigrahika in the records of the: · Ans: A
82. Which among the following Samskaras were pre-natal? Select the correct answer from the code given below. · Ans: C
83. Arrange the following rulers in chronological order and select the correct answer from the code given below. · Ans: D
84. Which of the following Dharmasutras describes a sea voyage as a degrading act? · Ans: B
85. Buddha was symbolically represented in Sunga art by which of the following? Select the correct answer from the code given below. · Ans: D
86. Which of the following is not mentioned in the Satavahana inscriptions while specifying the exemptions granted to the donees of land-gifts? · Ans: D
87. Who among the following depicted Siva on their coins? Select the correct answer from the code given below. · Ans: D
88. Match List I (Place of the Inscription) with List II (Issuer of the Inscription) and select the correct answer from the code given below. · Ans: C
89. 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
90. Following are the names of the land-measures in Bengal of the Gupta and post-Gupta periods. Choose the answer indicating their order from the highest to the lowest using the code given below. · Ans: A
91. Which of the following objects are known from the Copper-hoard sites? Select the correct answer from the code given below. · Ans: D
92. Which of the following archaeological sites provide evidence of the awareness and technical skill of the Harappans for water resource management? Select the correct answer from the code given below. · Ans: A
93. The important official next to the king during the Vedic age was the: · Ans: B
94. Which of the following pairs (Upanishadic King and Kingdom) is not correctly matched? · Ans: A
95. The main dispute between the Digambara and the Shvetambara sects was due to the emphasis on the following: · Ans: A
96. Which one of the following pairs (Asokan Pillar and Animal on the Capital) is not correctly matched? · Ans: A
97. 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
98. Match List I (Thinker) with List II (Definition of History) and select the correct answer from the code given below. · Ans: D
99. Which of the following (Author and Title of the book) is wrongly matched? · Ans: D
100. Which of the following pre-historic sites is known for the mass production of microliths? · Ans: A

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