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UGC NET June 2012 History — Solved Previous Year Questions

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

1. Which one is correctly matched? · Ans: C
2. Match List I (Book) with List II (Author) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
3. Which of the following is the correct chronological order of the Viceroys? · Ans: A
4. Arrange the following into sequential order and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
5. Match List I (Author) with List II (Work) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
6. Match List I (Act or event) with List II (Year) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: D
7. Chronologically arrange the following schools of historical thought as they emerged at different points of time. · Ans: C
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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
11. Match List I (Work) with List II (Author) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: B
12. Which one of the following collections of Alvar poetry was compiled by Nathamuni? · Ans: C
13. Arrange the following events in chronological order. · Ans: A
14. Arrange the following in chronological order. · Ans: B
15. 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
16. 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
17. Match List I (Book) with List II (Author) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: D
18. Consider the following Mughal emperors of the eighteenth century. Which sequence represents the correct chronological order? · Ans: C
19. In which year did Robert Clive accept the Diwani of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa from the Mughal ruler? · Ans: B
20. The Treaty of Bassein (1802) was signed between · Ans: A
21. 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
22. The Home Rule Movement started by Annie Besant aimed at · Ans: C
23. Who described the Mughal imperial harem as the 'Pavilion of Chastity'? · Ans: A
24. Arrange the following factories of the East India Company in chronological order of their establishment. · Ans: B
25. In the Mughal system of administration, the Mir Bakhshi was · Ans: D
26. Who was the first woman President of the Indian National Congress? · Ans: B
27. Which of the following social reforms was not introduced by Akbar? · Ans: C
28. Who wrote 'Poverty and Un-British Rule in India'? · Ans: A
29. Which of the following statements is true? · Ans: B
30. August 8, 1942 is important in Indian history for · Ans: D
31. Identify the dynasty to which Queen Rudramadevi belonged. · Ans: C
32. Match List I (Ruler) with List II (Capital) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: D
33. In which one of the following ancient literary works is a separate section on painting found? · Ans: B
34. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched? · Ans: C
35. Which one of the following was the revenue officer of the Chola dynasty? · Ans: C
36. Match List I (Site) with List II (Region) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
37. Which of the following statements are not correct? Select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: B
38. Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched? · Ans: D
39. Match List I (Sufi saint) with List II (Place) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: C
40. Match List I (Veda) with List II (Recension) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: B
41. Who termed the dominion of Sultan Muhammad bin Tughlaq as 'Hind and Sind'? · Ans: C
42. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
43. Which of the following measures did Mahmud Gawan adopt to curb the power of the Bahmani nobles? Select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: B
44. The Indica of Megasthenes was preserved in later Greek accounts. Which one of the following Greek writers' accounts is not associated with the Indica? · Ans: A
45. Arrange the following in correct chronological order. · Ans: A
46. Which one of the following pairs (Ashokan edict and site) is not correctly matched? · Ans: A
47. In which one of the following options is the administrative structure arranged from the largest to the smallest unit correctly (per the Arthashastra)? · Ans: C
48. What is the correct chronological order of the following? Choose the answer from the codes given below. · Ans: C
49. Match List I (Ruler) with List II (Deity on coins) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
50. Which one of the following is not a correct piece of later evidence for Ramagupta? · Ans: A
51. Who among the following wrote that the cause-effect relationship is an obstacle for history? · Ans: D
52. Who said that narrative history writing based on the concept of time is like constructing a building on a weak foundation? · Ans: A
53. Which one of the following Congress leaders did not preside over any session of the Indian National Congress? · Ans: C
54. The first Swadeshi dacoity or robbery was organised in the year 1906 in · Ans: B
55. Who was called the 'Morning Star' of the Reformation? · Ans: D
56. Who is credited with first popularising the term 'Cold War' in a public speech? · Ans: B
57. The 'Pure Blood Aryan theory' is related to · Ans: D
58. Which one of the following works was not authored by Leopold von Ranke? · Ans: A
59. What is the concept of causation according to E.H. Carr? · Ans: A
60. What do postmodernists think about historical causation? · Ans: D
61. Which is not the concept of time among the postmodernists? · Ans: D
62. Which one of the following Mughal painters was a caricaturist? · Ans: C
63. Select the correct chronological sequence of the following movements from the codes given below. · Ans: A
64. Select the correct chronological sequence of the following Acts passed, from the codes given below. · Ans: D
65. 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
66. Which one of the following centres was not a Dutch commercial establishment in India? · Ans: C
67. Name the English officer who obtained Madras on lease in 1639 from the ruler of Chandragiri. · Ans: B
68. Match List I (War) with List II (Treaty) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: D
69. Which one of the following provisions was not part of the Subsidiary Alliance? · Ans: D
70. Name the Governor General who adopted a policy of the Europeanisation of the bureaucracy and the exclusion of Indians from higher posts. · Ans: B
71. What position did Nelson Mandela occupy in the African National Congress at the time of his release from jail after 26 years in 1990? · Ans: B
72. 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
73. What was the Marshall Plan? · Ans: C
74. The Curzon-Kitchener Controversy of 1904 to 1905 is related to · Ans: B
75. A concrete outcome of the Wavell Plan was the · Ans: D
76. Match List I (Act) with List II (Year) and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
77. Which one of the following committees was appointed by the UPSC in 1974 to go into the issue of recruitment and selection methods? · Ans: B
78. Name the ruler who was deposed in 1875 on charges of 'gross misrule'. · Ans: D
79. Who among the following explicitly states that 'History bases all its conclusions on rational evidence'? · Ans: B
80. The first English evening daily newspaper from Madras was · Ans: A
81. The words 'Forget not that the lower classes, the ignorant, the poor, the illiterate, the cobbler, the sweeper are thy flesh and blood, thy brothers' are related to · Ans: D
82. The statement 'The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was not one movement, it was many' was made by · Ans: C
83. Consider the following statements about the organization of the Mughal ruling class during the seventeenth century and select the correct answer. · Ans: D
84. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: B
85. Shah Jahan fought the Battle of Kartarpur against · Ans: A
86. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the code given below. · Ans: C
87. When were the nine cusped arches used for the first time in Muslim architecture in India? · Ans: D
88. Who commented on the rule of the First Afghan empire in India that 'there was an opportunity to establish in India the constitutional monarchy, but the dissensions among the Afghan nobles let the opportunity pass away'? · Ans: C
89. Which one of the following statements is not correct about Alauddin Khalji? · Ans: A
90. Match List I (Ancient city) with List II (Modern representative) and select the correct answer using the code given below. · Ans: A
91. The title of 'Mujaddid' was conferred by contemporary historians on which Mughal emperor? · Ans: C
92. Who among the following assumed the title 'Dharmamaharaja', justified by the performance of numerous Vedic sacrifices including the Asvamedha? · Ans: D
93. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the code given below. · Ans: D
94. The seat of the third Sangam of Tamil poets was located at · Ans: B
95. Match List I (Sufi order) with List II (Associated person) and select the correct answer using the code given below. · Ans: B
96. Which one of the following Indian rulers donated five villages to a vihara built at Nalanda by the Sailendra king Sri Balaputra? · Ans: C
97. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given below. · Ans: A
98. The rulers of which dynasty of the Deccan have been described by Arab writers as the four great sovereigns of the world? · Ans: D
99. What new stylistic feature is found in the Tomb of Khan-i-Jahan Telangani built at Delhi under the Sultans of Delhi? · Ans: D
100. Which one of the following (author and work) is not correctly matched? · Ans: C
101. Which styles of Sultanate painting paved the way for the foundation of the Mughal style of painting? · Ans: A
102. 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
103. Consider the following statements about Babur's Memoirs and point out the incorrect one. · Ans: C
104. 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
105. Tulsidas was the author of which book? · Ans: D
106. Who among the following is considered the founder of the Varkari sect? · Ans: C
107. Which one of the following Sangam poets mentioned the hoarded wealth of the rulers of the Nanda dynasty? · Ans: B
108. The Diwan-i-Khalsa was responsible for looking after · Ans: C
109. Match List I (Officer) with List II (Department) and select the correct answer using the code given below. · Ans: C
110. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the code given below. · Ans: A
111. Match List I (Ruler) with List II (Associated person) and select the correct answer using the code given below. · Ans: A
112. A special feature of the period between 200 BCE and 300 CE is the increase in external trade. Which of the following factors did not assist in this increase? · Ans: A
113. Match List I (Ancient monument) with List II (Characteristic feature) and select the correct answer using the code given below. · Ans: A
114. Which one of the following (ruler and figure shown on his coins) is not correctly matched? · Ans: A
115. Match List I (Archaeological site) with List II (Identification) and select the correct answer using the code given below. · Ans: A
116. Which proto-historic site has yielded the evidence of threads of raw silk? · Ans: D
117. Arrange the following Indologists in chronological order and select the correct answer using the code given below. · Ans: C
118. Match List I (Initiator or writer) with List II (Journal or book) and select the correct answer using the code given below. · Ans: A
119. Match List I (Vedic river) with List II (Present counterpart) and select the correct answer using the code given below. · Ans: A
120. The Boghaz Koi inscription from Asia Minor refers to which of the following Vedic deities? · Ans: C
121. To which tribe did King Sudasa, described in the Rigveda as having defeated ten kings, belong? · Ans: C
122. 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
123. The first reference to the 'Turkan-i-Chihalgani' has been made in · Ans: B
124. Who made the statement 'Bhagavapi Khatrio Ahampi Khatrio' (Bhagavan Buddha was a Kshatriya, I too am a Kshatriya)? · Ans: C
125. Which Mongol general besieged Delhi during the reign of Alauddin Khalji? · Ans: C

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